Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1921-01-25
Chief Of Blue law Agitators Gets
Thrill As Professional Reformer;
Declares Work Highly Enjoyable
HE GRAND THEATER

II by DrlDlnS our DeSt pldN NSlS' pu'
what if you could be pitcher and
fan" in the same game? That is
my privilege. for after promoting. a
good bill in congress for months or
years | get in the gallery to see the
final fight on the floor with
greater joy than any fan" ever
knew when his own nine won the
pennant. "A good time is one that
don't go off with the having" and
the joy of winning good law
goes on forever. 1t has been my
fortune to be lin at the death" as
hunters say, in every great battle
: for moral legislation, save two,
since 1882, when national moral
legislation began in the anti-po-
lygamy law.
Thrills in Reforming.
! Some fellows get their supreme
pleasures in flaming" prize fights,
and in movie thrills, and joy rid
| ing, but how tame that is COM
pared to my joy in knocking out
Fitzsmmons ad Jeffries and Will
lard by helping to secure govern
mental acts that barred FitZsim-
mons from his arena at st. Paul
and drove Jeffries from San Fran
cisco to Reno, and kept the Will
| lard-Johnson films from entering
4 this country.
/ No man ever got so much real
fun in winning stakes at a horse
race as l did in beating BOSS
Quay in the legislature at Harris
burg in his plan to legalize race
! gambling.
Slipping Over Amendments.
Generals thrill with delight when
by strategic flank movements they
win a battle, butNnever victor was
happier in these bloody battles
! than when, again and again as a
Christian lobbyist" at the doors
of congress. | could not carry a bin
ithat was sidetracked far down the
calendar, but got it on some bill as
a amendment - which I call the
reformcr's side door, In that way
we won the first anti-canteen
b tlhiANllbllltilN5 lOl iiiliill-
grants, the law of Christ on di-
vorce, and war prohibition.
In defeats also | claim a place
among the sports, since the su-
preme test of a good sport" is to
take defeat without a crouch, in
which the impuritans, thinking
they include all the sports, prove
/ that they haven't any In May
! flower year, fighting the pugilists
in New York and Massachusetts in
their effort to legaliZe knockouts
| was knocked out twice myself.
and instead of the defeated mans
consolation share of the winnings
it cost me $4,000 TO be licked, but
came up smiling both times, and
am putting in more money and eff
fort to arouse aud equip the preach
ers meeting in thirty-nine state
. capitals where the fight on legal
izing pugilism is momentarily eX-
pected.
Pleasures of Authorship.
The joy of electing laws that will
go on forever - not one of my
eighteen has been set aside by the
courts is hardly greater i'm my
case than the joy Of writing There
is no financial inducement to write
serious books. Every one Of my
forty-two has gone beyond the first
edition, and Successful Men Of
Today has had circulation Of
$4,000, but there is no money i'm
it." That makes no difference to
the man with "A message any more
than the pay conditions the picture
of a true artist who paints for self
expression and for public service.
Every truly professional man puts
first the performance Of the serv-
ice he can render and salary is sec
ondary.
1t has been one Of the special
Jobs of authorship to me that !
have been a pioneer in most of my
book ventures. In these cases there
is the thrill of blazing a new trail
My first book. Through the Eye
TO the Heart" was our book. for
in authorship my wife has been a
Fomrade from the first. We start
ed as book partners. and when the
time came to divide the profits ]
took her into the firm. 1t was the
first book on plain blackboard
work for Sunday schools. So our