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CLUBLAND VANDALS PROBLEM

By Vaughan Jones

London.

the Reverend 'James Butterworth, the Methodist minister who dedicated his life to serving youth, experience brought disappointment.

Thirty-two years ngo, with six boys and one room, he started a club de- signed to offer poor boys and girls something better than playing in London's Hooly sidestreets.

Sited in Walworth, a tough,

slurmy district, he worked unceasingly on this Youll venture, calling it Clubland,

Clubland grew great and be- come famous. With its theabie, Hymnasium, lounge, cercation Jooms, baths and other premise, eventually Cost £100,000. And its facilities rivalled. Thiry of the West End's best clutis for the privileged,

Royalty visited st. Amongst the famous who sub-ribed to it was Bob Hope, who donutes

£11,000.

GOOD FELLOWSHIP

Boys and girly found a good fellowship and solic camtuor! there which they hok neve. enjoyed elsewher They them

selves were guarantors of Ty spotlessness of this great home where no doors.

Tud teks

Mi Butterworth became friend and adviser to countless

is boys would 112 111- troduce into their own fulare

homes the comforts they ex-

perienced there, he used to say. Two years ago, things began go wrong. Zoot-suited youths of

to

the #ZI slashing. cosh-boy type began to slash chairs, smash windows, break up furniture, tear out plumbing fixtures.

Culprits were

hard to deleef.

Fellow club members Tenred to

give them

aping teenage

aways

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The

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SATURDAY, MARCH 13, 1954.

BILLY CRAVA

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"GREATER

LONDON

CRUSADE

HOT GOSPEL

STRAIGHT FROM U.J.A.

"'Ush! Cyril-it's people like you that make work hard for Mr. Graham."

London Express Bervion

THE GREAT EVANGELIST

IS

"CONVERTED"

By Les Armour

For this is a CONVERT. DD Billy Grahama Billy up and Graham polished turned around especially for British consumption.

THOUSAND would sound! like a wild- voices, a grand piano, eyed fanatic, 20 splash of spol. lights.... Hollywood-

cinccameras grind gn encouraged softly, flash bulbs crack, the their "gangster" buy friends la

che des master of ceremonies steps back, and the Rev. Dr Wil- Graham Butterfield liam Franklin could stand it no longes He let comes on stage. the

the public know story of vandalion. But, though Billy Graham in

their "during

truction campaign continued.

week

lives

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desappointed, be did out at a weighs 154 pounds, stands and in the coach and not, in despair of Youth.

True to his idenis, the blames 6 ft. 2 in. in his stockinged feet. He wears a subdued only the Individual perpetrators but associates their holigans dark blue gabardine suit, « with the two-year gulf in the quiet grey tie, and a nylon

caused by the

National shirt Hi

it white that Service call-up of the eighteen-sparkles under the lights. year-olds.

He speaks with a soft ac- hardly American, cer- tainly at the kind you Aileen and sixteen leave seed would expect from a simple

Ho

SEMI-VACUUM

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In the United States he is n social phenomenon of major im- portance. He has drawn 8,000,- 000 people from coast to coast

five years-fivợ

years in which he

has

from risen obscurity to a guaranteed front page spot in every newspaper

Int

television show

in the country. His newspaper column is probably read by 4,000,000 every day; his weekly ne "ly as many.

is watched by At a single me ting, more than 75,000 have crowded to hear Alm, more than 1,000 have come forward to be "saved.”

BACKERS

He urges his congregation to think of God "in the shop, the tube, 35, on the tram, on

the American way "In the store, on the streetcar. on the subway, and in the bus."

He raises his voice only oc- casionlly. Most of the time he speaks slowly. When the time

IS $15,000 a your salary is the faithful to H puid by a shadowy group of comes to call come forward and be "saved," backers described only дз he urges them to be calm, to "businessmen."

samu SOUTCU. Su does the think hard, and to walk slowly, his TV show comes from

Emotion bursts out only when £5,000 It takes to circularise he is reading from the out his list of the newly converted sized, soft-backed Bible with every week. Every night thousands of "BILLY GRAHAM" engraved on the cover. Then his delivery mustly middle-aged women

reaches a staccato crescendo, and teen-aged girls - file

London's Into

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with prospects of a couple of farm boy from North Caro- unsættard years before them.

Employers are unwilling to line. give them permanent work, but the lads due to Britain's labour!

shortage can always plek up) men, women and children - well-paid temporary jobs.

So, with semi-vacuum their lives and money in Incir pockets, they turn their energies

destruction.

to

The

Harringay The peak passes quickly and of England young Arean to hear what he has he returns to a tone which would

du credit to a Bank

fellows of eighteen and over to say. Every night between clerk.

who formerly

suppressed 200 and 400 of them come

Incipient signs of vandalism in forward to be "unved.” the club are now themselves in

the Forces, he says.

An additional moral to the stary, however,

He talks of sin. He speaks

of the devil as though he

has been put a personal acquaint- ONE

forward by welfare workers and were psychologists.

ance. But he does not men-

They assert that, when ation hell. There is no fire Welfare State provides much and demands little, some of the and little brimstone in this youth it secks to help lost, Billy Graham.

fact, their constructive instincts. And these boys prefer to destroy

rather than create.

" By comparison, many Church of Scotland minister

man.

SHOWMAN

thing is certain-Bllly

Grahom is a master show-

His assessment of an audience is swift and sure. Billy Graham In Harringay and Billy Graham in a Los Angeles tent meeting

two different people.

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All in all, it lakes £700,000 a year to run his organisation. And that does not include the cost of crusades.

Billy Graham at Kai Tak, when he passed through in December, 1952.

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born in Jack Geller he often paced four miles on that the platform while cannonading "original sin."

At The On his crusades, he collects his "message,”

Satan he regards as a well- only enough for the travelling

In London he not only talks known and constant companion. Hammond Organ expenses of his 31-man The rost goes to the sponsoring ever leaves the microphone.

team. seftly and slowly but he hardly churches.

But the background doesn't Until 1952 he collected money answer the question on every- during crusades to pay his staff one's lips: But too many people got the idea that Bully was out to make money. He stopped.

What is he up to?

Admit that he works like

It is not likely that he's out slave and that he doesn't want to make another Billy Sunday to get rich.

fortune. Is he still Just a crackpot?

From the welter of "messages"

But he doesn't insist that his followers belleve everything he believes,

It they profer the modified doctrine acceptable to Unitarians

or Church of England liberals, that is fine with him-to long us they BELIEVE and so long_na they DO SOMETHING ABOUT.

CONVERSIONS

Between crusades he and his wife, Ruth, and their three small chlidren live quietly in an un- pretentious home at Monreat, delivered from the platform. TN five years, he has converted North

Carolina, a tiny town books, newspaper columns, and near Asheville. It is comfort- statements for the record, this abic and it is book-lined, but it much emerges: displays nothing lavish...

And he really is a farm boy.

He milked cows until he was

17. A year later, he went to

HELL-BOUND

300,000.- Just över 59 percent. of them already belonged to same. Church but nooded their faith "revived" -

He has followed their pro- gress with regular checks, put them in touch with local

a to convert them all over again.

DILLY Graham thinks the clergymen, and even gone back an evangelist's tent meeting to world is hell-bound at please his parents. He went back every night for a month. ferocious pace. Then he was converted.

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He thinks most of them will ERE is the sad story British and, in 1948, two grind- salaries in instalments "not ex-

ceeding one-quarter of fres, salary,"

He points to the rising divorce stick. The rest will have had Among the explosions,

what Baly Bunday used to chil tho But the most spectacular sands of defaulting Israeli

and chaos, bombardments

After that he tried theological rate, to the millions of unhappy on spiritual baths lost aspect of "Operation Tax Col-

Later

homes that don't'quité bronk up, undergo Jewish community rather ratepayers-now

to date has been the school but gave it up.

to the crime as a lay preacher that mankind seems bent on British churches have given him rate,, to the fact. And clergymen from 1,000 ing "Operation Tax Collec- the habit of paying for services lection"

frequently

by uniformed "muni- he started con- swoops,

on bicycle with

7,000,000-strong tion" at the bidding of Aspicuous by their absence.. cipal collectors,"

working out its own destruction, their backing. Baptist Convention with their 10- Southern no-nonsense gentleman call-

Most of the new immigrants owners behind

he went back to He notes that people would shilling annual licence pay- Eventually, ed Mr Jacob Schreibaum. who have swollen its numbers

college, graduated in anthro- in recent years-Oriental Jews ments. Jacob Schrelbaum has been from

backward Every now and then, the pology (Wheaton College, class rather go to the movies than go Maybe he IS just a glib crank. And remote

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to put the attraction of the empty pews failed to subscribe over the ler's concentration comps have who can only produce an old

movies in the church, and to squarely: years, and, specifically, £190,- simply never acquired the habit licence (or none at all) have

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It is an odd circumstanoo that while Israelis

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WARNING

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their machines confiscated unti

SUCCESS

read the Bible,

they trot along to the TownQUCCÈSS came alowly. It was Hai lo "balt them out." And trombone player Guy Bar those who will not or cannot

rows and gospot singer George He does not care what do- pay are ordered to add their Beverly Shea who put him in nomination the converted join, Mr Schreihaum has ordered machines to the growing pile the big time. Both are still

so long as they join one....... Hé normally, and dutifully pay up two confiscation teams," ca out in the roadway and told:

does not want to found a new in the muntelpal cause, the corted by armed police, to "It is impounded and will be with him.

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sact or to keep the faithful at community in Jerusalem seem seize "tho. most expensive, publicly auctioned

Success came in the tents of tent meetings. His crusades are take out to have a pathological

article" In the homes of those week unless

|Los Angeles-the rich "saw always run by local clergymen, of doing, so

owing more than £100, with licence for it."

It is small wonder that the gust, trait" where hot gospollers and her travels only on Invita There are reasons for this the threat: "Pay up now, or wo

has Almos Semple McPherson and tion, later A dally collection of rates

Billy

Bunday mado - forțunes state of affairs, of course; will auction this

from, 21,000 to

overwhipping the sinful into orgies among them, the fact that since

Schreibaum has to be tough. If BA

dislike

a

He has warned others. that he bod, slaca." Mew then hoof remorati N

the 1920' erumiem, sad, aloof has given the power to deduct and brooding on its windswept arrears from bank accounts, hilltop har had more thart 1 and has also sent out hundreds

power.

coserved share of blood-and- of notices to the, offéet ́tlet, emtinléjpal;: service

Hei mentalist

ottom funda-

He never Want to their ex- He doses't believe in evolution,

N. Palestina the rate monity" is not "forth," are to be kept worklist-and, if tremes. But he was known for He balleyemi that every word in

Youngcording, he will order employ municipal employees are to get his machine- und delivery, his the ani

booming ybice, and the fact that started Jewish terrorist war against, the arm to deduer it from meallly any wagastihe

flat roun Chanda Eve,

There is no final answer,

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