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I HE devil," says Elder Michaux, "is a mighty smart schemer."
I can't guarantee an accurate estimate of the devil's smartness. Biit it is safe to make one guess. There is one man who can outfox him. That man is Elder Solomon Light foot Michaux who has chased the Devil all over the Columbia network.
This is not slinging mud. The Elder would be the first to admit — and probably has — that it takes a
smart man to outfox the devil. Nor am I trying to confirm certain widespread and rather sinister rumors that are buzzing around Washington, D. C.
Every place you go in Washington you hear these rumors because the Elder is a much talked about man. For every person who will tell you about his home for the unemployed there will be ten who will tell you that he pays no rent for these houses. Someone mentions the good work he does but twenty will tell you of his
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The choir sings "Happy Am I" and Elder Michaux starts chasing the devil all over the network. And woe be unto those who don't toe the mark
two dazzling foreign cars which he says were given him by friends, but which other people say were bought with the money of the barefoot and weary.
"Do you think Jesus would ride in cars as good as those?" he was asked.
"No," said the Elder promptly, "Jesus would ride in a chariot through the air." .
He has recently edited a paper called "Happy News," self-styled "An Amazing Contribution to Recovery and to Employment," but in it one can find no indication of any concrete assistance to the unemployed. But it does offer work to one thousand men who sell the four page sheet of newsprint at ten cents per copy. For this they receive food and clothes.
Hundreds of people were baptized last year in the Potomac with great ballyhoo but there were open whispers that salvation cost the immersed ones three dollars and fifty cents per head. Salvation becomes expensive.