Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-10-23
HYSTER|AH HITS
WALES AS HARD
W|NTERLOOM
Religious Epidemic Is
Example of Feelings
Of Iron Districts.
Thousands Of Converts
Made as Fear ofHell Is
Preached to Them.

London, Oct. ga strange. al
most hysterical religious enthusiasm is
rising il the Welsh villages. In the
towns of the Aber valley. in Swansea
and other parts of South Wales, crowds
in churches and on street corners are
praying, singing and shouting Halle
lujah," hundreds of converts have al
ready been baptized and their number
mounts daily.
Wales is seldom long without a re
vivaI movement, which spreads rapidly
and mysteriously until it affects whole
communities, and the present move
ment promises to equal the widest
manifestations of the past.
Nightly services are held in the stone
chapels of the Abertric and S~engpenydd
mining district near Cardiff. Even
the little children are not unaffected.
If you ask your direction Of one, the
answer will be followed by a soft
spoken hallelujah. On street corners
knots Of miners give rapt attention to
speakers who promise them eternal
torment if they do not repent.
Pastor Jones, one of the leaders of
the revival. exercises a control over
his subjects that is extraordinary as
that of some eyangelists in the south.
The fervent shouting Of his listeners
can be heard at O distance from his
church. Old men and women, youths
and children sway r~hythmically as if
hypnotized by his half chanted descrip-
ton of hell's tortures. you can
laugh youself into hell" he tells these
somber people, but you cant laugh
yourself OUT
Converts Also Preach
The converts preach in the streets
Of the miracle, and women publicly
pray for the sins of sons and hus-
bands.
One of the obvious reasons for the
precedented poverty the winter is
OF Eddwvale pronounced as If the
wv were a short "a'l, is hardly typ
ical, but it is an extreme instance of
conditions prevailing in one of Bri-
tain's basic industries.
Because the employers and the
workers have not been able to agree
on a mining price list, the steel works
and the mines of the valley have been
shut down and 10000. the entire popu-
lation. are without income.
Cyrus Davies, chairman of the dis
trict council, declares that the valley
is facing the blacklist period in it's
troubled history. We are he added.
Sin such distriss that it looks as if we
will have to feed not only the children
but their fathers and grownup brothers,
as well. Warehouses; are full and of
ficials declare that many Eddwvale peo-
pie are without food, bedclothes or
COAL
On rainy days school attendance is
haived because so many children have
no shoes. Hungry and ragged children
may be seen digging in refuse heaps.
Children Without Care
A local school teacher tells how one
of her smallest boy pupils came to
school in a ragged Overcoat, g~rotesquely
too large for him. When she asked
him to warm himself at the fire and
remove the coat. the little fellow burst
into tears. She found hat had he
obeyed her he would have been all but
naked.
London was amazed to learn how
reckiess1y Americans speculated in Ger
marks and there was considerable
press comment. but none so mordant
that Of the Dublin correspondent of
the Morning Post. He points out that
the Free State n raise any more
than half Of the 5000, 00O, 900 necessary
running the ''care-free state during
the current year and proposes that the
deficit will be greater mex yea He
sees n way out Of the difficulty-to
hurry up and print a sufficient quantity
of Irish paper money and then send
Desmond Fitzgerald to the United
to persuade the Irish Americans
to speculate in it
But the suggestion, he admits. has
so far received the attention it
deserves.