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AUGUST 18th, 1921. f 1.50 PRR YXAB IN ADVANCE. Fighting the Devil in Modern Babylon John D. D. la ■ Afrt a, im, «i •* Mwn University, Mum, °~r*4*i **• Ifthmu Baptist Thaol "wUl, ^—toTflla: tha Unl <** Oratory. Sine* antartag'the ministry, Dr. StnMon has bald fear notable paato rataa, the flrat that ot the T"on<1 Baptlat rlmreh, Chicago; tka ••wwl that of tha Inunanual-Heventh church, Baltimore; tha thM that af tha First Baptlat churefc, Norfolk. Va., •nd his ppMcnt one, tha world-famous Calvary Baptist church, on F«fth Avenue, N«>w York He Is tha author of «everal hook* and ha> been a fre qtient contributor to mnrazhia* JUe cently he had the metropolis of tha CTnltad State# stirred to bitter reaent mknt by his investigations and as posure* of evil conditions thara. Naw York is • modern Babylon! Indeed, tha anelant city of that name waa small in comparison with this •nighty metropolis of today. The Hanging Gardens ,of anelant Babylon would dwindle Into insignificance be side Woo I worth Building, the Equit able Building or the Metropolitan Tower! % Naw York is now the greatest city upon earth. It Is well called "The Me tropolis of Mankind." There are more than 7.000,000 people within 20 miles of yew York's City Hall. This is near If as many as there are in all of nnada. This is as many as there are tn half a doxen western of southern states rolled into one. Nor Is that all. If you extend your line to tOO miles and inscribe a circle around New York's City Hall, you will take in 20.000,000 people, bi other words, aboftt one-fifth of tha entire population of the Republic is directly Influenced by this frtsLiaaihiiif ma* t re polls of today. " And what a mixed multitude it is. More than »0 different tongues are spoken in 'New, York every day, and 28 new»Wr. published in foreign languages, forty Are par cant of th» entire population is foreign born, and more than 80 per rent is either foreign born or children of foreign-born parents. There are ■or, Italians In New York than in Roma; there are more Germans than in any eity of the world except Berlin •nd Hamburg; there are Russishs «oofh in New York to constitute a city as large as St Louis. ,nd there •re twice as many Jews as ever lived In Jerusalem at one time. The large* Jewish podilation aver assembled up on earth nines, the exodus from Egypt to now congested in New York City •hoot one la four of the population be^ longing to that interesting ami-we r*c# w^m N'*r°city ,n th* world, and It Is also the lsrgest Irish «lty In the world. There are 200,000 more Irishmen in New York than thera are in Dublin. I »m giving these facta about the population in order that my readers whiVnd'"U,nd th,t *VCry proMpm which we confront in New York is af fectad by these conditions. We have m«ny foreign citlea within the conflnea f ** rrft<'r c«tT- There never has J>een anything on earth like it before There have been great cities, and there has been some mixture of population. »mt "ever Wore upon the surface of the globe have there been brought together so many large gnmp* of pen. £! Jv f races of on thU^Ml y "* UP ontlrl 1"°* °f (ri"°Und whi<-h to^t£r .^*n£!itan IiUnd' j"Bm'd together and piled up on top of each other, at some points, flfty „torie, .TJ1* "Plendor and strength VtHZZ°hu^°'t rata»Mfh»bto. ™ of tills area is ..ti *?"" " M*h •" M0,000,000. 000 This b more than the entire ?! JfnJrM W0Pth mt tk" "me of tha ffiWST*' in th* dty' of necessity, Is dona on a huge scale. For example, tan mall carrier, are busy •JI the time each day handling the m.n for on. of oar big office building, •lone; and ft requires IS.OOO tons of <*•1 evenr night to light the 12.000r the rit"' Illuminate the homes and office,, and "i«ka Broadway gleam with the splen dor of the noonday and sparkle with tfctradtaal glow of tin rainbow ■*W eetrepolle and out of It every U hours And the traction Iloea of thi mataty tfiOtflOO paapla avary U hoar*. This la twto m many aa art carried bjr all the steam rallroada of tha entire United Stataa to a day, and oor country, aa wa know, haa the greateat railroad system upon earth Think of itl A ad think what a rushing, huatllng hiva of huauntty tho wodaru : matropolla la. N Thera ara 1,500 hotala la tha city and It poat ofllcee. Four tranaianta ar-' rive every second. A passenger train eowaa into tha city avary S3 second*, and a ship rlaara tha harbor every 42 minute*. There la a real aatata trans I action every 25 minute*. In normal timea, a new building la erected avary hour, a Arc oceura avary SO minute*, nnd awry day more than A00 people mnva to New York to live. A wedding take* place every II minute*, a funeral every 14 minutaa—ao It la evident that tlw wedding* atill have the funeral* he**, though by a very narrow margin -and every ft minute* a new haby i* horn to fare the problem* and tempta tion*, aa well aa tha opportunities and privilege*, which the marvelous me tropolis offers. I wa* speaking, *ome time *inca. In the South, giving some of these facta ibout New York, and at tha close of the i'!Hre*a, a southerner came for ward and said to me: "I want you to tell me how all of those millions of folk, piled up so close together, get enough water to drink and food to oat." Having lived so long myself in the South, with its prodigality in tha eulinary depart® it, I knew what was in his mind. And o I explained to him, in regard to the water, that a subter triwiean stream of pure water, flowing morn thai a hundred mile* throagh mighty conduit*, provide* the city jdtfwatecuwtly wbfcfcjrQuld furn ish every human bring In the world with more than a quart a day. There la not quite ao much other liquid re freshment in New York as there uaad to be before the Eighteenth Amend ment went Into effect—though there la still a great deal of that—but we do have plenty of the flneat water. And a* for the food, I explained to this southern friend that it requires train loads of provisions to feed New York for a tingle week. Not 2M carloads, but 2M train loada. In other words, a solid freight train reaching from New York to Philadelphia, load ed with proviaiona, I* needed to feed these 7,000,000 people for seven days. To give Just an idea at thia point I ran mention the one itom of milk. More than 2,000 tons of milk are brought into New York by the milk trains every day. There are 2,272, ■'.02 quarts, or an average of about 18 ounces for each resident of the city. It can be seen from these facta how vitally important an orderly society and adequate and regular transporta tion are in New York, and how dan gerous is the tying up of trains and ferries. During the labor disorders and the strikaa laat winter, there were time* when there was a real menace from lack of food. If the strikes had gone on a little longer, doubtless I would have had to face the problem of where to get food for my children ind the other members of my family. Now, no thoughful mind can fail to «ee that religion and the church of Christ have enormous interests at! stake in the light of the tremendous fscts which I have given about^New York City. New York does profound ly influence all of America and the world. If we could see this city a truly Christian city, instead of a pag and city, as it is now, it would send out tides of righteous influence through out the length and breadth of Amer ica and to the four quarters of the earth. New York Is the greatest mission ary field upon the face of the globe today. The moral and religious needs of the people sre pathetic, and the facta are staggering. One thing is everlasting true: wa must either Americanise and Chris tianise New York, or New York will speedly Europeanlaa and paganise us! Already the breaking down of the American Sabbath, the decay of old fashioned home Idaata, the weaken In g of the family life throagh divorce and marital Infidelity, tha inroad* of ra tionalism in religion, an apf^IHng worldlineaa within tha chwehea and the red flood of radicaliaa and anar : chy ara menacing tha very foundations of our Anglo-Saxon Ufa. Of theae tssankig ssOHona, only thir ty par eart arc aanasitsi with any Jawtah, Catholic or NMwt Think of that, my Nadav, -Jtd tot tha Import of that tr—aidnaa faat aink horn* la ta your haart Only thirty out of aaah hundrad of thla groat pathetic maaa who gtva aay raoaf Itloa to Oo4 hi any form. If Jaaua walked thaaa .treat. .gain la tha flaah, Hla haart would hraak taara would flow aa Ha beheld thaaa multitude*, literally "Ilka ahaay with out a ihaphard." At ararr opportunity, I auk my eo rellgloniata hare: What are wa, Hla foltowora, going to do about It all? Shut up our rhutvhea during tha four nummer month*, aa many do T Low ar tha flag? Continue through our ■kaptical aamlnarit-K to pot animated rjueation marka in tha palptta instead of trua propheti of God? P*each a thouaand foollah fada Inataad of the glorlona goapal of Jaaua Chrlat T What are wa going to do about ItT After having lived In many parta of our country, and aa tha reeult of careful obaervatlon and meditation, l| give it aa tha pmfound conviction or my heart and mind that New York la the greataat religtoua problem of tha wo*ld today. In a very reaj *enaa,' Na?.' York net* the pace, and what *he doaa la copied and followed right down the line. Only laat aummer, on two different trlpa I ma<le. I heard! the silly, *en*uou* *onga from Broad-' way being iiung. The flrat trip waaj down into the mountain*—a Ittla! hamlet In North Carolina. Then 11 jumped all the *vav up to Canada, and' heard thoae name » r» being rattled' on the piano and lung by the young people in a Canadian home. Ye*, what are we going to do a bom. it? For, believe me. my reader, wa have got to do *omethlng about It! listen! In the Time* Square of New York then* are'lOO block*. Starting «t 28th ntiwt on the south and running to 4«th street on the north. atartlng with Park avenue on the rut and running to Eighth avenue on the west, there are just 100 *<n>an>*. Within thta territory there ar* two Jewiah syna gouges, four Catholic churches and IS Protestant churches. Theae churchea have a combined seating rapacity of lfi,400 An inveatigation wu made a ahort time ago aa to attendance, and on Sunday evening*. with very advan tageoua weather rondltiona, there were only 1.817 persons in attendance hy actual count in all the churchea of the entire diatrict. What ia the matter? In thia same diatrict there are 46 theater* and 10 moving picture houae*. with a combined seating cap acity of 78.027. On ihe Sunday night when there were only 1,817 peraona In all the church**, there muat have Keen aa many aa 7^,000 in the theatera and moviea, for the attendance each week at theae placea is now estimated to he a million men, women and child ren. and the Sabbath haa come to o* the moat popular recreation day of the week. On Sunday evening, rain or shine, long linea of people can be seen before the bo* officea of the New York theatera and movie houses, wait ing for an opportunity to pay fancy price* to ret inaide and listen to allly jokes and look at lewd women, with their gaudy tight* and their painted rheeks. Once more, what are we going to do about it, we Christiana?—we peo ple who have named the name of Jeaua and who claim to be the "salt" of so ciety ? One thing ia certainly true: 'f we continue much longer in the re ligious linea along which we hare moved in thia city in recent year*. Protestantism will undoubtedly come to the end of ita course. There are 107 fewer Protestant churchea on Manhattan Island today than there wore 10 years ago. The end, ther fore. ia in sight, unless radical and revolutionary changea are effected. I give theae fact not only to aho* what a tremendous city New York la,' hut also to impress upon all minds the startling difference today between those who seek "nleasure." even on; S-.ndajr, md those who seek the highe: inings of life. I do not mean to aay that New York is the worst city on earth. It ia not.: In many respects it is one of the hee\' of the big cities of the world. And New York Is worse than other centers of population only because of the mix ed population and the greater dot ret of congestion to which I hare already referred. And again I repeat that the characteristic of New York ^r* pre*-! ent also in greater or leas degree everywhere else today. There ar* leaaons, therefore, that we all need to! learn, and there ar* troths that every ( patriotic, Ood - fearing American should now frankly take to heart. If T mm aaked. tonnquantl). what Is the matter with New Yort, I will n ply by myin* tfca mum tfcfaf that to tlw Matter with all American: we an on a Joy ride whan we ought to ba at • prayer ami lug I Oar people ara monay md aad pleasure erased. Wa do not raaltee (ha aotom giandaur of tfca tlmaa In wbtofc wa ttra. Listen! Wa ara (till in tfca shadow of tha most awfnl war that wir wasted tfca world. Tan millions of tfca youth of tha rasa—10,000,000 (tear to*—tha picked flowar of humanity ara M. Thay fall out of tha air, thay aank down Into tfca aaa, thay warn blown to Mte by hombe of haillah powor, and thay wara atabbad and abet aad raawd and harked into mince mast Thair poor bodiaa *rr rotting Id tfca «arth and under tha aaa, and It woo Id require mora than a year for thair ghostly form* t» marrh pact a given point If thay coald once mora walk tii« earth. And now, da an aftermath of war, half of tha race la standing In tha nhadow of starvation, anarchv and dlsaaaa. Now, in tha face of all th|a, what ara wa doing In thi* favored and proeperoua land* W* are indulging in iiueh orgy of extravagance and aoft living and self-pleaaing aa our paople have never dreamed before! The love of luxury, whi< h spella alwaya aocial decay, ha* rripped many, and the aim and object of a multitude of llvea te day Ilea no higher than tha pitiful and paltry purpoae to make monay, by fah mean* or foul, and then to apand It In the aearch for lilly pleaauraa and sel flah eaae. Yea we are on a Joy ride when wa ought to be at a prayer meeting; and if we do not atop aoon, Cod Almighty will atop aa; and when the hand of Heaven ia stretched out to atay a prodigal race. It fall* heavily and ■psres not. May we take our warn ing and profit by the example of the paat, and turn back to Ood and righ teouiineaa before It la too lata! SAYS N. C. TOBACCO CROP IMPROVING Government Forecast For July Said State'* Crop Larger Than Forecasted in June Washington, Aug.10.—The tobacco crop in Kentucky and Tennessee suf fered most from sdverse conditions during June, white in North Carotin* and other Southern states the crap showed improvement, the department of agriculture's monthly report shows. There was • loss of 43,000,000 pounds in the prospective production for ths country as forecast on August 1 conditions, as compared with the forecast of a month ago, the total be ing 889,000,000 pounds. Kentucky's crop of 87,000,000 pounds in prospective production during July, and Tennessee lost 3,000,000 pounds, while North Csrolins's crop improved, to the extent of 12.000,000 pounds, and there were- slight increases In other Southern tobacco-producing states. PUBLIC SCHOOLS TO RUN FULL TERM Those Counties Which Havel .Cut Valuation Must Get i Money From Somewhere Raleigh, Aug. 10.—Public schools in North Carolina are going to be kept' open for the six full months as is pro vided for In the constitution, and coun ties are going to foot the bill without' difficulty. Failure of the counties to levy suf ficient revenue to run the schools for the full period would have meant prosecutions by the state superintend-1 ent. Following reductions in property raluationji earlier in the year fear was expressed aa to whether the schools could be financed or not. Superintend- i ent Brooks reminded the counties that the constitution called for six months schools and as heed of the department of education he intends to see that pro visions of the law are enforced. Taxation is still puxtling in some counties, but assurance ia given the educators here that the schools will be kept going without serious discom-j flture to anybody. California Narcotic Law Santa Barbara, Cal.—Bight persons were arrested on a charge of selling liquor as a result of a raid in the town of Lompoc conducted by the city mar thai I, chief of police of 8anta Maria, and 1< deputies. A woman and her son were sentenced to 90 days in Jell and fined 1900 on ths first charge, andfSOO on the seoond charge, and on* other man received ths same sentence. Sev eral others also r»ceiv*d heavy sen tences. Under the new nareotic law, which went into effect thraought th* state of California on A««vet 1, Jail ■snfee** sf frees six month* far th* Ant offense to Are years tor * saeoad THIS SUMMER DNYEST IN THX TWIN CITY IN A CHEAT MANY YEANS Cardan* Have Biw Ciflili Failure* mmd Crop* N—r br An IhfaiJ Winaton-Salam Sentinel. TIm ptMMt inmnir haa btm tfca itrjrMt In niagr years In tkli Jn» dtat* section, H la stated. Tkm ha* not bam enough rain *o s**k ?h* ground an inch deep alnca early In May, and consequently tha gardens In th* city and In sections doe* around Kara bornrd up. Baeauaa of the failura of early cardan*, m*" paopla In tha dty derided afl< r the shower a few days ago that they would nlant for late vegetable*. The shower* reused the need to g*rml and now the small plant*, such a* heana, tomato**, etc., are dying for the want of moisture. What older people term a "settled ratn" has not vialted this **ct!on since Inat winter. The only rain since ••nrly In the spring haa pom* In light shower*. Thia dty haa not ex perienced such a thing a* a whole day'* rain thia luramer. The raising of vegetable* In Win-' aton-Salem and part of the surround-: ing country, haa Seen almoat Jmpos alhle thia aummer, and now It looks I ihe a* If late gardens will not he suc cessful On tha higher places It is' almost impoaible to strike moisture by digging. There have been some good rains' around tha city. For Inrtanc* In the section around Mineral Springs, to the north, th* crops look fair!/ well because of several good rains that did not reach th* dty. There haa alao been a fain/ good season ... j the Clemmon* section, and In a few instances the rain has reached tha western limits of the dty and stop ped there. There have also been some good rains in the Kcrneravitle section. nr » ** _ .a _ _a_ ... H . « i a «1 JS> «■ » n «*•"!« • W"I"CI » *- I W\-aBVVT that already this, month there have been four day* that the thermometer registered over 90, It having reached 99 on one of theae day*. The rainfall for the month to date haa only been about a quarter of an inch. Purine July the rain fall wan two and one-half inches and during June it wai only one inch. There were 19 days in July and 17 In June on which. the thermometer registered over M. The hotteat day In July waa M and in, June it waa 99. Indications late Sunday afternoon pointed to a rood rain in the city, aa a dark cloud apparently waa mortal* in this direction from the aouthweat, but juat aa the rain came in light it seemed aa if the cloud suddenly stop ped and remained at a standstill. Someone has suggested that In a <frr season the clouds are not attracted to the city because of the hot and crow*, ed conditions, or rather because most of the earth Is covered with buildings. Someone also said that in a dry spell the streams draw the clouds, which haa apparently been the case thl» summer, as many of the clouds have formed and passed up or down the Yadkin river. The people of Winston Salem are thankful that the country around haa been visited with rain, which has re sulted in fairly good craps of farm products and late vegetables. A Who very few things to eat have been pro duced in the city this summer, there is not a dearth of produce, aa would have been the case If the dry weather had been general. Rev. G. E. Pott, who recently re turned from a motor trip to Pennsyl vania, reports weather conditions In many sections as being similar to those in and around Winston-Salem. For instance in the community he was visiting th£re h.td been very little rain this summer, while close around the saason haa been very favorable. All along the road, he said, he found con ditions as to rain about the same. One day he drove most of the time thru rain, while at other times the roads were so dry and dusty that motoring was very an pleasant. Conditions as reported by Mr. I\>tt exist all over North Carolina, accord ing to statements from various ma- < munitiea. The western part of the < atate haa bean favored with a hatter i season than the east, hot in ne part have the rains been general sinee last 1 winter. i Commercial aviation has hsws so important in Franca that there is pub lished a monthly timetable at air ser vices operating to France and a Wad countries, |iviu§ lucn uiionuuin m the titoe departure sad arrival, type of plane jm)**•*. reatea, weight of *«*■«*»« H»n Aurfiia Dul . By Hal Walker to tha Canto* killed in Franc* an Mac ksaagiit to the Unltad Stataa, and It Is aaHmatod that all tha 48,000 bod lee which haw baa* asked for by parenta or lalrthai wUl k*n baan brought to tha home land with all tha honor doa mat wha r>n Chair Uvea la thatr oouatry^ ml by tha and of tha eonlni Otobar. Tha work In Franea kl under tha dirattioa of Colonal Harry F. Rather*, Wtad Stataa Arm v. and at preaert there aw t'-n unit* in tha flald axhumltif tha bodlaa from tha varioua ctnaeteriM aad ■ending than to porta of emharitatlM, Cherbourg and Ant warp, undar ■> Hi lary guard. When thay aW« at tha port of ambarkatlon, tha flag-driped coffins art- undar eonatont watch of a ifuard of honor imtU thay ara placed aboard thr tranaport which la to hoar them to the United Stataa. The taak of bringing thaaa bodlaa home la a mammoth one. Each una mu*t ba identiAed when It la diainter ri-d, tha Anal Identification being mada by means of the teeth chart which la filed with ovary officer and man whan he enter* tha aarvlce. This teeth chart Identification make* the identity of the body abaolute and the examination la made by a commiaaionad officer «f ♦he army and an anatomlat when tha disinterment la mada. Than the body U plaead in a new caaket and la ready for forwarding. Up to the preaent time 14,644 bodies have been brought to the United Stataa. At the prraent writing there »» 3.124 bodies in the field ready for forwarding to ports of embarkation, and at the porta there are 4.036 bodlaa awaiting transports to bring them to the United State*. From these flgnrea It will be seen that practically half th« bodies which are to be brought ara already on their way. Moat of tha unaller cemeteries have been gone through and the bodies reqqeated re moved. Work is aboot to begtn In tha big reAeteri« *, and at Romangna •lone, the great Argonne cemetery, ft la estimated that tha work of disinter ment will take five full months. There la at preaent to Franea a eom nission which will choose the four permanent fields of honor hi which Tearly 30,000 bodies will remain permanently in the soil of the land where thay gave their livea. With the concentration of tha bodlaa »eforr Memorial Day, 1922, the taak if decoration and services will be much simplified aa nearly all the bod lea by that time will be in tha fonr permanent flelda of honor. In tha re moval of the bodies from the scattered remeteriea, which ia now going on, Colonel Ret hers pays a high tribute to the French, both military aad civilian, for their tact and touching sympathy ■town members of the service who are txhuming the bodlaa. On many oc casions the French have held special •ervieea aa tha last bodies ware sent iway. The work of diainterring the bodiM in Franc* will be finished shortly after the same work ill England and Italy, rhe bodies in Great Britain will all be roncentrated, about 700 in number, at Brook wood just outside London, which ■rill be the permanent field of honor in Sreat Britain. The bodies now in Italy, less than a hundred, are being dis interred this summer, some will be lent to relatives, who wish them, in :he United States, and the others will ke placed permanently in one of the fields of France. In the task of disinterment as fat is possible the work is in the hands of nen who served In the army in France ind every respect is therefore paid to :he bodies of their "baddies" which hey prepare for their last long Joor >ey. Raleigh's Pool Has Boob Pomp, ed Dry Raleigh, Aug. 9—The work of drain - ng Cemetery Lake, the state of Nortlf Carolina's old rock quarry hi East laleigh, was virtually completed to lay without disclosing any "evidence >f crime." lite state buildings and rmunds committee authorised the vork began a week ago because of telief thai stolen automobiles had bean luhmerged.
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