Len Small is Sunday Convert

Famous Politician and Former State Treasurer Well Known in Belvidere is One of Three Thousand in Kankakee Church People Rejoice at His Conversion. Kankakee, Ill., Feb. 20. There is rejoicing In Kankakee over 3,000 sinners repentant, the harvest to date of Evangelist "Billy" Sunday, and the most prominent of the stray lambs gathered In is ex-State Treasurer Len Small. Len, who is known to every man woman, and child in Kankakee coun ty, is regarded In this neighborhood as the biggest politician in the state and likely to be a candidate for gov ernor one of these days. His conversion occurred last Strn day night. The famous politician, who had gone to Just four meetings. marched bravely to the mourners' bench. He was accompanied by his wife and his son, Leslie, and there wasn't one person in the great tabernacle, where over 6,000 people were congregated, who didn't feel like shouting "hallelujah." Politics His Worst "Sin," Not that Len needed converting much, in the belief of his fellow townsmen. He had always led a strictly moral life. He had been good to the poor. He had contributed largely to the churches. Nobody ever went to him with a legitimate plea for assistance that he didn't go down into his pocket and send him away rejoicing. He never had smoked or drank or swore. The worst thing you could say against him was that he had been a professional politician and a "boss," and had been successful at It. ' Since he broke Into politics twenty years ago, Len has held something like a hundred offices, and when he hasn't been, landing them himself he's been passing them around.among, his mends, uerore ne was state treas urer he was state senator, a trustee of the Kankakee Insane hospital, and so on. But to return to the story. Sunday Praised by Small. "I simply felt It was the right thing to do," said Len. ."I had been to four meetings and I was greatly Impressed with the earnest talk of Mr. Sunday. He's' a grand young man. .' His heart Is all gold. So when he asked those who wished to get salvation to come forward I did jo. ; "It was simple enough. My wife went with me, and my son, Leslie. I have been to church, but. never regularly since I went to a Congregational Sunday school when I was nine years Old." '. -,V V . A good many of Len Small's political friends went to the altar with him. Among them were J. Bert Miller, the state's attorney made so by