Look at what's printed on
it--mostly advertisements and bunk." And again we walked for a bit.
"By the way," said the ex-centre-rush, "before he got through, I saw
that aura, or whatever you call it. I guess I'm getting nutty, too!"
XXXVI
The first thing I did on Sunday morning was to pick up the "Western
City Times," to see what it had done to Carpenter. I found that he
had achieved the front page, triple column, with streamer head all
the way across the page:
PROPHET IN TOWN, HEALS SICK, RAVES AT RICH AMERICA IS MOBLAND,
ALLEGED IN RED RIOT OF TALK
There followed a half page story about Carpenter's strenuous day in
Western City, beginning with a "Bolshevik stump speech" to a mob of
striking tailors. It appears that the prophet had gone to the Hebrew
quarter of the city, and finding a woman railing at a butcher
because of "alleged extortion," had begun a speech, inciting a mob,
so that the police reserves had to be called out, and a riot was
narrowly averted. From there the prophet had gone to the Labor
Temple, announcing himself to the reporters as "fresh from God,"
with a message to "Mobland," his name for what he prophesied America
would be under his rule.
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