The Monroe journal. [volume] (Monroe, N.C.) 189?-1965, 1921-05-03
A PEARSON" Hay BIZ The
NEXT MAYOR OF WINSTON
Frank stevens. Here Sunday. SAYS
Rev. Tom 4. Unison Has Gocsi
Chance to Win the Election.
II CERTAINLY A STRANGE GUY


II CERTAINLY A STRANGE GUY
Parson' Tom p. Unison. who ae-
.eused Max Gardner OF "sproUtins an
gelic pin-feathers" in the last fuber-
Material campaign. may be the next
mayor OF Winston-Salem. tie states
largest city. according to Mr.. Frank
Stevens. son of Hon. II. l.. Stevens.
who was here sunday. Unison is q
Methodist preacher. pastor OF the
Grace Street Methodist church. one Of
iRe leading charges o. that denomiRa-
ton IN this state
Oi him. Tom Cost, writing in sun
days Greensboro News. says:
The parsOn hasn't found il easier
g proceed against the Conservatism
81 the college OF bishops than DE- has
discovered il to max Roadway against
the hourbonism of hu mess Once.
twice. PERHAPS a dCZeU times for all
h knows, h. has been reported 10 his
bishop Times more d. II that he has
heard il said that his presiding elder
Mi -ht be cl'led for the dogma Jimi-
souian But the Rev Mr.. Unison no
more worries about his presiding e.
der's troubles than Mark Twain agon-
ICED over Mrs. Twain's relatives in the
War Between the States. OF the cen
sorShip of his thought. the Rev M.
Unison worries none at all.
Thinks Dancing just Simple.
Everybody remembers how about
four years ago he delivered himself
when an effort was made TO fiji
preachment to its environment. The
preacher was holding revival in
Lexington. What he was attempting
TO revive was the failing sense OF
proportion in his own flock. A spokes-
man for big business sent him word
that if the parson undertook TO preach
against dancing and card playing.
pastimes rather pleasant to both wife
and husband. the hall could not be
used. for the manager of that great
business did not intend to have him
self and wife held up to ridicule and
scorn among the people who lived
there.
"Parson Unison may have preach
ed against both dancing and the pa
pers. but il isn't his habit. He does
Mt think dancing is sinful, but sim
pie. He laughs at people whose in
tellects run TO their feet He would
Mt waste an hour at cards so long as
there is Bouck White, Materlinck.
I Upton Sinclair Woodrow Wilson, Ly-
man Abbott. Shakespeare. or the BIZ
bic handy, Dancing TO him is silly;
card PLAYING an embeZzlement OF
time. But when that Lexington man
told him he mustn't proclaim against
highly priced indoor sport, P3rson
Unison shot him TINS: And before ]
twill allow any man to censor the g0s-
pei | preach, tadpoles viii be cariyius
umbrellas and hell will be sh,ppiaa
ice TO Labrador
SO there is a sort of censorship OF
hi gospel in this campaign. II is the
tjdiug3 that he has preached which is
causing much of his trouble over
here. Grace church isn't a st. ,Pctcra
cathedral. but it is a place whore a
preacher has been talking democracy.
Parson Unison admits that the Tiff
raft come TO hear him. He says he
is riffraff himself and over here il Is
fine to belong. Winston-Salem Is
industry and industry never has
learned to think we'll of Jimisons.
They disturb business. 'inflame the
public and 'dissatisfy happy people.
So the campaign of Mr. Unison isn't
pleasing the business interests.
A Strange Guy II Unison.
"A strange guy is this man Jimi-
son anyway. Has anybody heard that
the other day he went to a Methodist
meeting, real orthodox Methodist
conclave, and there introduced a res
olution indorslng the policy of the
state in education? OF course, the
meeting was christian education
rally. and there was Rev. Tom p. jim
ison cumming the works. praising the
system which by application the meet
ing was to condemn. And he was
there willing to find anybody on the
proposition that state education is
any less christian than denomina-
tional instruction. or that sectarian
schooling is any less secular than the
states.
$50 here is Unison at adds with
the ruling elders of the church, at
variance with the ruling thought in
business. at fearful odds with the po-
litical leaders of the commemorative
metropolis. Yet the common peopel
hear him gladly. And for one who
believes in the primitive ministry of
the poor, for the poor, and by the
poor. he is amazingly restrained in
his utterances. He does not sec why
bishops will illuminate against a social
gospel. why the church dotes so much
more on the captains of industry who
give TO il than 1t does on the privates
of poverty whose supply of glory hal
lelujahs Is always limited. But jim
ison doesn't get mad about it. He
appears to be something of philos-
opher. He doubts whether the church
will reform itself in time to get the
blessing that comes 10 the poor in
spirit, but Unison is disposed to
wait on the slow freight rather than
to pitch out and walk TO the next sta
ton. He isn't so terribly irregular
after all"
When the Roof Fell In.