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BILLY POURS HOT SHOT INTO UNBELIEVERS
Darwin Theory Torn Into Shreds by the Evangelist
By WINNIE FREEMAN.
1f there was anything left of the
Darwinian theory after Billy Sunday
finished preaching Tuesday night, it
was only a few scattered particles
that hadn’t become disintegrated when
Billy hurled them against the walls
of the Tabernacle during the 60 min
utes that he spoke.
e took the principles of that the
ory one by one and he plucked them
to pieces one by one, and when he
was through there wasn't enough of
Mr. Darwin's argument left to send
home on a postage stamp. Not in the
Tabernacle, at any rate.
Billy told us where Cain got his
wife, and he tc!d us why God made
woman out of one nf the ribs of man
instead of out oi the dust, and he
cited science to prove that the im
maculate conception wouldn't have
been at all impossible even without
the Holy Ghost. Thousands.of people
are‘in hell, he said, because they
couldn’t figure out any reasonable an
swer to these three propositions. And
he endeavored to enlighten the people
present.
He told where Cain got his wife all
right. He got her from his father-in
law in the land of Nod. And he alsa
gave statistics to show that if Cain
hadn’t been keen about his wife he
might have had his choice of some
5,563 other buxom lassies, which was
half of the population at the time of
Cain's venture on the matrimonial
mea.
He said God made woman out of
one of the ribs of man for the same
reason that the woman who was mak
ing a sandwich didn’t bake a new
loaf of bread every time she wanted
to make a sandwich—because it was
easier to cut off of the loaf she had
already ma‘de.
And reverting to the subject of
Cain, he declared that some sinners
aren’t half as worried about where
that gentleman of Biblical fame got
his wife as they are about where some
of their neighbors got theirs.
Cain Was a German.
“And, besides, if there's any re
flection on Caln, remember he’s your
friend and not mine,” he sald. “I
haven't any more use for Cain than
I have for the Kalser. Anything that
has a German name I'm agin. I'm
ot going to eat any more hot dogs,
because they smell too much like Ber
lin.
“It's not the inconsistencies of God,
but the inconsistencies of a lot of peo
ple that think the Bible’s inconsist
ent that's keeping them out of heaven.
There's only one consistent guide for
any human life, and that’s the Bible,
and {f you don't live according to its
dictates when the opportunity’'s of
fered to you it's because you're a
slacker and a coward.”
¢ “I throw it in your teeth,” he hurled
at the audience. “The reason a lot of
you people won't accept the word of
God is because you're slackers and
cowards. You're afraid—afraid it will
nake of you decent men and women,
and you're afraid to try to be decent.
Billy’s sermon was preached espe
ciallv to skeptics, and if they didn’t
have all the dark places cleared away
for them it wasn’'t his fault. He
picked out every conceivable alleged
inconsistency in the Bible, brushed it
away with descriptive phrases, and
backed his arguments up with cold,
onvincing science.
“I've studied astronomy,” he said,
‘but I've never found there anything
about the Star of Bethlehem. I've
studied mineralogy, but T've never
found anything there about the Rock
of Ages, and I've studied biology, but
I've never found anything there about
the body of Jesus Christ.”
Soul Savés Men.
And Bllly explained another thing.
Ee explained why It is that « man
will go to Heaven when he's dead,
pnd a dog or an elephant or a horse
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et rief Thanksgiving
perhaps will only be dead. A dog and
a horse and an elephant have memory
and they have will power, and judg
ment and imagination. Billy allows
them all these things. But what they
haven’'t got, and what it takes to geu
a man or women into Heavert or hell
is soul. Soul, Billy says, consists of
the three prime faculties, faith, moral
and conscience.
“And there's no quadruped on God’s
green earth that has these qualities,”
he sajd. “And you can teil me man
came from a, monkey, but if he had
he'd have enough monkey left in him
now to graft a monkey bone, and it
can’'t be done. You've got to graft
human to human.”
“And conscience is no guide,” he
declared, “unless regenerated by faith
in Jesus Christ. It was a guide, but
It went down in the wreck when Adam
and Eve ate of the forbidden fruit.
And the only rule of faith and prac
tice by which to regulate your life is
the Word of God.” :
Then Bllly came around to t;e
question of immertality, and it didn’t
take him long to make himself plain
on that subject.
“You don’t see me,”” he explained;
“you only see the house in which T
live. And I don’t see you. I only see
the house in which you live. You're
a tenant at will—at God's will. And
when God says ‘move on,’ take it from
me, you'll hike.”
When he’d finished preaching Billy
felt like he'd said all there was to say.
He admitted it when he prayed.
Preached Until Exhausted.
“Say, Jesus,” and that was the first
intimation the audience had that the
sermon was ended. “Say, Jesus, 1
don’t see why the members of the ex
ecutive committee, Dr. Flinn, and Mr.
Outlaw, and Mr. Orr, and all of them
don't comeé to me and say, ‘Billy,
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you've said all there is to say. You
may go now and rest’ I don't see
how I can say any more. I might
expatiate, and touch up a few points
here and there, and illuminate, but
)after I've finished, and when my
jclothes are wet with perspiration, and
I am physically exhausted, I'll always
reach the same point I've reached to
‘night."
i He turned and faced the choir, ana
continued:
i “Come up here on the platform,
‘Holy Ghost. Come up here and go
out among these people, and help
‘them to walk down and give their
‘hearts to God.”
~ Billy opened his eyes, and stood
silent, expectant. :
Nobody came,
“You can't make me believe that
there isn’t somebody bere that doesn't
‘want to do God’'s will,” he pleaded. “1
don’t believe there's a city in the
United States where 8,000 people could
be gathered together and none of
them want to forsake sin and follow
Christ.” :
And that from Billy brought them
forth—that and “Almost Persuaded,”
softly sung by Rody and the choir.
About 175 persons came from various
parts of the audience to shake the
hand of the evangelist.
Billy made an especial appeal to the
delegations present, the Baraca-Phil
athea City Union, the United States
Tire Company, the Round Table Club,
the Ford Motor Company, the At
lantic Steel Company, McClure’s Ten-
Cent Store,, the Norris Candy Com
pany, the Southern Warechouse Furni
ture Men's Association and the L. W.
Rogers Company. And he got a few
recruits for Christ out of each of
them. §
Tuesday night was officially “hotel
mends!’. night, but it probably might
better have been “Philathea-Baraca™
ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER. 28, 1917
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! Billy of the Glad Hand! Or Billy of
the Valiant Grip! Is there any reader
who doesn’t guess who this is?
It used to be, in days of old, thaten
tire families were named in memory
of some doughty deed, brave or wick
ed, kindly or impressive.
Also they were named, so we have
‘read, after their varied professions,
trades, or sometimes tralts.
} You either went to war magnificent
‘ly or toiled industriously.
| No one ever has gone to the trouble
to work out what their names were
lbefore they changed them or how and
why they got their first ones.
It has never been established why,
in the morning of Nfe, the first lady
of the land should be called Eve, and
the first gentleman a name easily
amenable to swearing.
Certainly Billy Sunday might have
got his surname from the fact that his
family tree felt, from the roots -up,
that the better the day the better the
deed. A little moral slogan which our
friend seems to have changed into
“the better the deed, the better the
[day."
' However this may be, on his coat
‘of-arms might be traced, on a fleld
!argent (he needs this stuff for his
ilabm’s in the Lord's vineyards), a
glad hand, outstretched firmly, yet in
all friendliness, toward the whole
world, and maybe tucked away in one
‘corner, might be a nice, friendly smile.
} Disliking higher mathematics for
ithe usual reason that people dislike
things—because they are'too much for
lmo. from calculus to Euclid-——the writ
er should hesitate to tell you just how
!many hands have shaken Sunday’'s In
the past two decades.
‘ For ten months of the year, twice a
'day, three times on Sunday, that gen
}tleman has been shook, literally, by
from ope to five thousand people a
‘day—moré than any President or
servant of public life ever has.
The hands of Billy Sunday have,
averaging ten months of the year,
been eagerly clasped by some millions
of people,
In the ten months are 300 days.
Over I,soo—often over 2,ooo—people
at each performance insist on shaking
hands with him.
At 3,000 per day, which is putting it
low, you have, in ten months, 900,000
people. g
And even ten years of thls would
make 9,000,000 people with whom this
soul-gatherer has clasped hands.
For good measure we'll just throw
in the first ten years of {t, without
counting, so that you'll see we are far
from exaggerating—rather the con
trary.
But—those days are over!
Billy Sunday lets no man shake
hands with him any more.
He beats 'em to.it.
He shakes hands with them.
e
night, because for every hotel or trav
eling man attending there were about
ten or twentv members of the Baraca-
Philathea Union.
There was a large crowd present—
about as large as any that has attend
ed one of the weekly meetings.
Billy, Jr., who spent Tuesday here
with his parents, was seated on the
platform with Ma Sunday, and after
the meeting was Introduced to the
scores of friends the Sundays have
made in Atlanta. Ma explained to
everybody that while Billy would like
to claim voting age, he was in reality
only 16, and everybody agreed with
her that he was such a fine-looking
boy he might easjly pass for 21.
Billy took a crimp out of the people
in Atlanta who have been criticizing
him, saying that he shocks and alarms
them.
“Why, I could no more astonish and
alarm some men and women in At
lanta by my remarks than I could
make a skunk smell sweet by pouring
perfume on it,” he said. And he add
ed:
“I think you've got some of the
finest people in Atlanta I ever met.
But I think you've got also some of
the meanest, lowest-down, liquor
drinking, hog-jowled old hypocrites
I've ever come across.” !
Shri Hear |
riners to He \
Sunday’s Sermon |
.
Wednesday Night %
2 T will be “Shriners’ Night” at ¢
§ l the Tabernacle Wednesday
night. Several hundred
Shriners, wearing their fez, will
be in special reservations and the |
Yaarab Chanters will sing. 0
Bily Sunday will preach at the 2 |
o'clock service on “Fishers of |
Men.” His subject for the 7:30 p. {
gm. meeting will be “Solomon.” ?
Meetings Wednesday in connec- !
tion with the Billy Sunday cam
paign: ¢
Noonday meetings for men, di
rection of Dr. Isaac Ward, Conti
nental Gin Company, Georgia
Railway and Power Company,
Fulton County plant, Southern
Railway (South shops), Atlanta
Joint Terminals and Dowman-Do
zier Manufacturing Company. §
Boys’ and girls’ meetings, direc- <
tion Miss Alice Miriam Gamlin,
St. John's Methodist Church, 24
East Georgia avenue, 2:15 p. m.
Fulton High School girls’ meet
ing, direction Miss Florence Kin
ney, First Christian Church, 2:15
p. m. . : g
Bible Study classes, directnon)
Miss Grace Saxe, Tabernacle, 3 p. ¢
m., Decatur 8 p. m. é
Business women's noonday |
meeting, direction Miss Francué
Miller, Y. W. C. A,, Peachtree Ar- |
cade, 11 a. m. to 2 p. m.
Noonday meeting for women
workers, direction Mrs. William
Asher, Gate City Cotton Mills,
East Point, 11 a. m. to 2 p. m.
. .
Cartersville To' Be Represented
in Sam Jones Tabernacle
When Sunday Speaks.
They're planning’ a great reception
for Billy Sunday up Cartersville way.
The noted evangelist and hF party
will visit the home town of'the re
nowned Sam Jones next. Monday,
making the trip from Atlanta by au
tomobile over the Dixie Highway.
Thirteen towns, in addition to Car
tersville, wil] be represented in the
great throng of approximately 25,000
persons who plan to hear Billy talk
in the old Sam Jones Tabernacle. Or
dinarily, the Tabernacle isn't open
except in the summer months, but
with Billy Sunday in town Carters
ville wil] put on its holiday attire and
make the visit of the evangelist and
his party one of the big stunts of the
year.
A big committee will meet the Sun
day revivalists when they get to Car
tersville. The visitors will be taken
at once to the Sam Jones Tabernacle
and there Billy will be formally in
troduced to the citizens of Carters
ville and of Dalton, Rockmart,” Ce
dartown, Chatsworth, Kingston,
Adairsville, Emerson, Acworth, Mari
etta, Calhoun, Rome Canton and
Stilesboro, all of which have an
nounced their intention of being rep
resented at the big gathering.
Following the address, which is
scheduled for 10:30 a. m., Billy and his
party will be guests of Mrs. Sam
Jones, widow of the revivalist, at an
“old-fashioned Southern dinner” in
the Jones home. A batch of promi
nent citizens for miles around have
been asked to meet Billy at the Jones
home. Among the latter will be Mrs.
W. H. Felton, who taught Sam Jones
at school, and Mrs. Corra Harris, tne
noted author.
The Sundayites will leave Carters
ville for Rome, where they will spend
the night as the guests of Miss Mar
tha Berry, head of Miss Berry's
School. Tuesday morning Billy will
talk to the students of the school, and
then the party will leave for Atlanta,
arriving in time for the regular Tues
day afternoon service at the Taber
nacle.
Mrs. George Sunday
Goes to Washington
Mrs. George M. Sunday left At
lanta Wednesday for Washington. She
will be gone several days. George is
now in Washington conferring with
officials of the War Department con
cerning a commission in the United
States army.
Billy Sunday, Jr., second son of the
noted evangelist, also left Atlanta
Wednesday following a short visit to
his parents. He will return to the
Blair School aty Blairstown, N. J.,
where he is a stl!glent.
ILLY SUNDAY preached Wed-
B nesday afternoon at the Tab
ernacle on “Follow Me and 1
Will Malke You Fishers of Men.” The
Sermon in full follows :
Mark, first chapter and the
16th verse: “Follow Me and I
Will Make You Fishers of Men.”
“Jesus did not say follow Me
and I will make you feeders of
sheep. In many churches nine
tenths of the expended energy is
in feeding the sheep, Fifty
weeks in the year are spent
preaching to sheep in the church
and two weeks to the people put
side,
Some one says, “The sheep
need to be fed, don’t they ?”
Surely, but the hest way to feed
the ninety-and-nine is to forget
them and go out after the one
that is lost.
The chureh that spends all of
its time conserving its doctrine
2nd memtership may become an
evangelical church, but not an
evangzelistic church. The church
that is simply evangelical is the
church on ice—the church that
is evangelistic is the church on
fire.
A church couldn’t be evangelis
tic without being evangelistical,
but a church could be evangelical
without being evangelistic.
There are thousands of church
members who seem to think the
preacher’s sole duty is to pro
vide them with predigested relig
ious food. which from Sunday to
Sunday they may be able .o bolt,
being themselves relieved of the
process of mastication and di
gestion. That's the reason so
many who take this attitnde to
ward the ministry die of fa¥y de
generation of the soul.
Jesus did not sav “Follow Me
and T will make you feeders of
goats,” and yet certain men seem
under the delusien that the one
great task of religion is to take
the gnat, to feed and cultivate it
that he will ultimately become
sheep in the master's sock. You
can not convert a goat into g
sheep by any process of diet or
culture.
No Cookie Route.
The thousand and one make
shifts the people now use in the
place of atonement are well and
good in their place. but their
place is not here. You can not
bathe anybody into the Kingdom
of God. You can not give peo
ple a cracker, a cookie, a plate
of soun and cup of coffee and wet
them into the Kingdom. You
can not change thelr heart by
changing their sanitation.
I have no quarrel with social
service, education or the institu
tional metheds in which the mod
ern church engages, provided such
work is not put in the place of
the real work of the kingdom, that
of saving souls.
If T have to yank down my
standard because you let these
things interfere with vour belief
in the atonement, we'll fight right
there. If I have to yank down
my methods of preaching to
please some old chap with his
collar buttoned in the back of his
neck, then I'll stop. I'll go out
and sweep the streets for a living
before I'll do that. .
I have never been in sympathy
with a Y. M. C. A. with a billiard
reom. " I'm for the Y. M. C. A,
and think it's one of the best in
stitutions on the face of the earth.
but I'm against the billlard room.
I consider a billiard room or a
pool room the second cousin of
the saloon. I'm for the gyrana
siums and the libraries and the
swimming pools, but I'm against
the billiard and pool games.
It is an entirely good Chris
tian thing to give the down-and
outer a bath, a bed and a job—
it is an entirely Christian thing
to establish and maintain schools
and universities, but the road in
to the Kingdom of God is not
by the bathtub, the university,
the gymnasium or social service,
but by the blood-red road of the
cross of Christ. .
Someone says human nature is
radically good, that the power to
uplift and ability to rise to the
highest excellence is independent
of any external force—something
inherent within us. The Bible
declares that humna nature is
radicaly bad, and that the pow
er to uplift is purely external.
Man has not the power to sup
press vice except as he develops
virtue. That power is not in any
man or woman or system. It is
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T HE best way to feed the nine
ty-and-nine is to forget
them and go out after the one
that is lost. . ‘
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THE church that is simply %
evangelical is the church on
ice—the evangelistic church is
the church on fire.
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THOUSANDS of church mem
bers seem to think a preach
er's duty is merely to provide
them with predigested religion.
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; T HAT'S the kind of people
who frequently die of fatty
degeneration of the soul.
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TH ERE is no “cookie routé” to
| the Kingdom of Heaven.
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‘ THE United States leads the
} world in crime, divorce and
{ the social evil.
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‘ THE world is not dying for want
of knowledge, but for want
of Christ.
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IF | see you taking the wrong
path, I'll fight with you before
I'll stand and see you take it.
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M AN has not the power to sup
press vice, except as he de
velops virtue.
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not in Harvard, Yale, Princeton,
Milton, Baker, Shakespeare or
Emerson, but by the blood-red
road of Calvary.
Remedy For World’'s Woes.
On comes the statesman. He
sdys the remedy for the world's
misery and woe {s to change
conditions by wise universal sys-!
tem of govgrnment. He assumes
that vice flows from Ignorance
and economic conditions; that
virtue is the offspring of know- -
ledge and plenty. It i{s in the
power of constitution and laws to
restrain and protect, but not to
change man’s nature. The law
can punish for breaking the law,
but the gospel of Jesus Christ
steps in and takes out of the
heart that which made you break
the laws, and puts into the heart
that which makes a man Kkeep
the laws. The gospel of Jesus
Christ is the remedy for -the
world’s woes.
All Governments have failed.
Take the fraternal government of
Jewish days—it failed. Take the
Roman Government—it failed.
These countries did not fail be
cause they had any aprticular
form of Government, but because
they were without the right kind
of religion. The Gospel of Jesus
Christ is the hope of the world
of today. So you can understand
why I've got to fight with you
when 1 see you're taking the
wrong path. Are we any better
than Russia and Turkey? Some
times I think that we lead the
whole world, and I am always
proud that I was born in Ameri
ca. But it makes my heart ache
when I think the United States
leads the world in crime, divorce
and social evils.
The scolar says the remedy
for the world’s vice is a universal
system of education. He assumes
that people are made purer in
proportion as they are made wise,
Did the children of Israel wander
40 years in the wilderness because
of intellectual error?
Knowledge didn't save Solo
mon, Bacon. Poe or Byron.
Are people going to hell be
cause they don't know? Are they
becoming drunkards because
they don't know? Are people
libertines because they don’t know
better? The question we must
solve is not one of intellect, but
of morals. The world is not dying
for want of knowledge, but for
want of Christ.
The twentieth century has wit
nessed two apparently contradic
tory facts: The decline of the
| church and the growth of relig
. ious hunger in the masses. The
| world during the nineteenth and
' early twentieth centuries passed
through a period of questioning
and doubts, during which every
thing in heaven and earth was
put into a crucible and melted
down into constituent elements.
' Moorings Lost.
During that period many lay
men and preachers lost their
moorings. The definite challeng-
Ing note was lost out_of the life
of the ministry. The preacher to
day is ofttimes a human intero
gation point, preaching to empty
pews. The hurrying, busy crowd
in the street is saying to the
preacher and the church “When
you have something deflnite to
say about the issues of life, heav
en, hell and salvation, we will
listen; till then we have no time
for you.”
1 believe we are on the eve of a
great national revival. The mis
sion of the church is to carry the
gospel of Christ to the world.
The whole movement toward
mothers’ pension, anti-child labor
. laws ahd the like have been
started by the Church of Jesus
Christ.
For every reform started by an
’ agnostic, 999 have been started
by the church.
\ If a man won't do God’s il he
will be stripped of his power.
The Lord is with thee tg save.
What do you want, you éols?
1
Billy Sunday has figured = thag
about 200,000 persons have heard him
preach at the Tabernacle since hé
started his Atlanta campaign.
There are some Christians assoex;
ated with Atlanta churches who
haven’t yet darkened this Taber
nacle, and I've been here four weeks,”.
is what Billy told his afternoon audis
ence at the Tabernacle Wednesday::
}The building was less than onesthird
filled and most of those in the audi=
eénce were women. There were :&
batch of children, too, and frequent- .
ly Billy stopped in the middle of ‘his
sermon to caution mothers not “te
let theit children play in the: saw
dust aisles. T
Once, when a woman who came in
late for the meeting, was making
her way toward the platform, Billy
shouted to the usher near the door"
through which she entered: s ¥
' “Don’t let anybody come dowj*
here while il'm preaching; not even
the mayor of the city!”
The 200,000 persons who have heard
Eilly haven’t left as much money be=
hind them in the Tabernacle, Billy
declared, as a circus would take out
of Atlanta in two days. M
Billy was apparently very muech
peeved Wednesday afternoon. He de
clared the revival is lagging and that
the one big weakness of the Atlanta
campaign is the lack of personaj
work. i
. “There’s nobody to lift :1‘ flnger.fi'
| shouted Billy, “to urge a man qr wo<
[man to come to Christ. You expecf
ime to do all' the preaching and gef
‘down and plead with men and women
to accept Christianity while you sité
‘around and wistfully look on.” i
' What the revival needs just nowy
EBilly emphasized, is more prayerg:” =
- Billy declared an angel couldn’t.,
~ spend a week in Atlanta with the _.:
‘ “so-called church people” an(g'et:“
| back again to Heaven without o
first having to fumigate its wings, 45
3 He rapped those who “keep booze
in their homes” and referred to them
as “saloon keepers.” He pleaded for
a revival in literature and declared
that if all the objectionable bhooks
now stacked up in the private i~
braries of Atlanta were taken out a!?d
burned, there wouldn't be enough:
paper left in some of the homes to
“bang your hair or kindle a flre."%_‘\f
Billy, in his opening prayer,
thanked God ‘“for 30 cent cottorr"”i;%fl
for Georgia’'s prosperity. He déelai'{
ed Atlanta shouldn’t let a day ge by
without praying for the success mf'
the Allies. He insisted that “we are
not saving enough food, but are gape
mandizing while our soldiers qu&
need of food.” He urged that Afws
lantans eat one potato instead of twe,
that they eat less sugar and megt
and that they stand behind the na-'
tional government in its conserva-s
tion plans so that the food so neces
sary for the successfal prosecution of =
the war might be saved and sent to !
“our allies across the seas.” o
Billy predicted that “unless wé get
busy right now and save more food
stuffs, we will be on rations inside
of a year.” He prayed for defeat of
“that horde of Huns, who have outs
raged women and Kkilled children in
their Godless warfare” and he closed
with this: &
“Listen, Jesus: We pray that you
draw your sword and jab it right
through that bunch of cut-throats™ =
George Brewster conducted the song
service before Billy’s arrival. AL~
Peterson, custodian of the Tabernielg:;,.i
was at the piano. «%
ALASKAN FOOD CHIEF.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 28.—Herberg
Hoover today named Judge Royal ¥
Gunnison, of Juneau, Federal Food"
Administrator of Alaska. Judndhit“g
nison is head of the Juneau food com="
mittee, which has undertaken a: eami<"
paign to sign up all familles of thé™
Territory as members of the Food
Administration. B T A