The New York herald., 1922-03-26

.STRATON'S TORNADO
HERE FOR CLEANUP
DR.. J. Frank Norris Says New
York Is Author of
Iniquity.
BUT NOT WORST PLACE
Like a Sunday School Com
pared to Colony at
Holly wood.
But NOT WORST PLACE

The Rev. DR.. }. Frank Norris, billed
as the Texas Tornado" blew into town
yesterday by the way of Boston and an
nounced a weeks revival at the Calvary
Baptist Church, where the Rev. John
Roach Straton rresides. in the hope OF
saving the metropolis from utter ami
hilation, which he declares is its ap-
parent fate
New York isn't really any wickeder
than other cities. but ii sets the style
| in iniquty, therefore we ought to begin
house celaning right now. is his idea.
The tornado epithet doesn't altogether
appeal to this big Texan, who modestly
admits to having cleaned up Fort
Worth pretty well morally. He ex-
planned
I'm a mere zephyr. but / am feared.
I've come TO your city to see just how
bad 1t is, in fact to compare 1t with Los
| Angeles and San Francisco. which to
my mind are the worst places in the
| world. Goodness sakes, New York seems
10 be a Sunday school compared with
those Pacific coast towns. l was there
two months. in Los Angeles / mean. and
| | learned all about the wickedness OF
the motion picture colony.
"One actor is as bad as another The
reason we don't know 1t is that one
gets found out. Why. they have a swim
| ming pool in Los Angeles for mixed
stitch on. Public sentiment to-day is so
low we are no longer shocked at such
| things.
The worst sin OF New York isn't its
dives or it's stage or its soul desecra ton
or its political corruption. but il is it's
very low public sentiment What 1t
needs is the voice Of Jonah crying
out that 1t shall be overthrown and
the voice OF a John the Baptist calling
all to repentance"
What happens in New York to-day
is done in Fort Worth and the rest
of the country tomorrow" said the
Texas Tornado reproachfully He ad-
mltted that they jazz in Fort Worth
and added. Decent people consider that
only lunatics and monkeys engage in
jazzing. | have $50 teachers and off,
GERS in my Sunday school and not one
of them dances. If they did they would
be put out
His Sunday school Is the largest in
the world. with $500 members The
church of which he is pastor has 5,400
members. The Sunday school gains an
average of 1000 members year out
of population of 100000. 1t takes
five buildings to house the Sunday
school classes
The Texas Tornado fought the city
fathers. editors. bankers and doctors Of
Fort Worth. finally converting most Of
them. They burned his church and his
house during the battle. He closed up
the poolrooms and the race tracks of
Texas and has been hot on the trail
of the bootlcggers. Apropos of prohib-
tion. he said it had come to stay. but
that we had a generation OF topcrs that
had got to die out.
His first sermon will be preached this
morning. The subject is "A Holy Ghost
Revival" In the evening he will preach
on The Judgment Day" Tuesday
night the subject is How New York
will De destroyed in one hour when
Jesus Christ Comes; Wednesday,
what will become of the Jews?"
Thursday. The Prophesied fight in the
Bible between Labor and Capital" and
Friday, THE Resurrection. and will we
know each other?"