Evening Star Newspaper, June 28, 1936, Page 9

GIDEONS PRESENT 2 J00BIBLESHERE Books to Be Placed in Ho- tels—Gifts Made at White House. ‘With the Bibles presented to Presl- dent Roosevelt and Mrs. Roosevelt yesterday, and left for the White House guest rooms, the Gideons cal- culate that more than 1,300,000 copies of the “Good Book” have been placed “where Christian travelers away from home can have the comforting word of the Lord close at hand.” The presentation, one of the fea- tures of the National Capital Gideon rally here yesterday and today, was made by Samuel A. Fulton, the na- tional chaplain, who has served six terms as national president. Like the other members of the organization, he is a successful business man, head- ing & manufacturing concern in Mil- waukee, Wis. The distribution of 1,300,000 Bibles in hotel rooms throughout the world, in Fulton's opinion, is a pretty big oak to come from the acorn of in- spiration implanted at a meeting of the Gideon cabinet 28 years ago. The society was organized in July, 1899, but not until nine years later was the work by which the Gideons are best known begun. Idea of Two Men. “As I recall, two men are really responsible for the idea of distribut- ing the Bibles as a practical way of carrying out the purpose of our or- ganization, personal evangelism among traveling men,” Fulton explained. “One of our members, Nathan Den- nett, a leather merchant of Boston, had been on a business trip to Eng- land, and there became acquainted with the custom of the Commercial Travelers' Christian Association of England, Ireland and Scotland of plac- ing a Bible in the lobby of hotels. “‘He brought back the idea and with the late William C. Crissinger of Chi- cago, a trustee in that year, 1908, presented the resolution which set our goal at the placing of a Bible in every hotel room -in the United Btates and Canada. “That same year, 5,774 Bibles were distributed, but the next year we dis- tributed more than 33,000, and in two years, 1925 and 1926, we placed more than 100,000 each year. The need now is largely for replacements, and during the past few years, we have distributed between 40,000 to 50,000 & year. Work Has Spread. ‘The work has spread far beyond the United States and Canada, as was originally intended, and travelers in hotels in Sweden, Germany, China, Japan, India, Ceylon, Java, Korea, Egypt, Palestine and Centgal and South America, will find the familiar Bible with its brief inscription, “Placed in this room by The Gideons.” The average cost of distribution throughout the world is about $1 each. That the Bibles fill a genuine need, the Gideons have ample evidence. Hotel managers not infrequently re- ceive calls from guests complaining that.there is no Bible in their room. One is immediately sent up. Prequently guests, who have become interested and “borrow” the Bibles to take with them on their journey, return them with apolggies for havipg removed them from their intended place. “Not long ago,” Fulton pointed out, “I received a letter from a man in Oregon, who had borrowed a Bible from an Eastern hotel during a busi- ness trip. He asked if he could keep it ‘a little longer’ until he had fin- ished it. We can't afford to distribute Bibles to the public at large, but we told him not to return it when he was through.” Will Présent 2,000 Bibles. To replace Bibles lost, strayed or "borrowed,” the Gideons this afternoon will present to the Washington Hotel Men's Association 2,000 Bibles for dis- tribution to rooms in 47 local hotels. Secretary of Commerce Roper will speak at the ceremony, which will be | held this afternoon at 3 o'clock in the Willard Hotel. Edward W. Martin, president of the association. will accept the gift on behalf of the hotel men. Dr. Robert W. Howard, president of the District Camp of the Gideons, is in charge of Sea Claims $40,000 Home A 25-room home, which cost $40,000, finally collapsed after having been battered by the Atlantic breakers at Gallalee, arrangements. Ira T. Champion is District secretary-treasurer. Minis: ters of the city were guests at a din- ner in the Washington Hotel last night and members of the organization will fill the pulpits of many ehurches throughout the city at the regular morning services today. ‘The Gideon Association was the re- sult of an accidental meeting of 8. E. Hill of Beloit, Wis., and John H. Nich- olson of Janesville, Wis., in a hotel room at Boscobel, Wis., in the Autumn of 1898. Meeting again the following May in Beaver Dam, Wis, they de- vided to form an organization of Chris- tian commercial travelers for mutual recognition and united service for the Master and called a meeting at Janes- ville, July 1, 1899. Nicholson and Hill met in the Y. M. C. A. with W. J. | Knight, and formed the organization, which at the suggestion of Knight, was called The Gideons. Testiniog Toy Railway in North Wales, known as the Faery Line, has just celebrated its centena: COOL COM THE. SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, N. J., for 10 years. PALESTINE YIELDS GATE OF MEGIDDO King Solomon Built Barrier for Stronghold of Arma- geddon. BY the Associated Press. CHICAGO, June 27.—The anclent | | gate that King Solomon built for the | | city of Megiddo—the stronghold M‘ | # Armageddon battlefield for 2,500 years | —has been uncovered in Palestine. | Its discovery was announced today | | by the Oriental Institute of the Uni- | versity of Chicago. The gateway to the Biblical metro- | | polis was cleared by archeologists of | the institute, who previously had found the stables where Solomon kept the blooded horses he bought from the Egyptians and sold to the Hittites. A ramp leading up to the gate was paved with lime. It appeared to have "been laid 1100 years before Christ. FORT at Your Fingertips through e v A ar‘mér' > ~An%f 1328-30 New York Ave. Now Priced for the Average Family! Brings scientific cooling within everybody’s reach .. . Cools, cleang de-humidifies and circulates the air. Plugs in like a radio . . . No instal- lation necessary. Easy to move. HAM, Pres. ECTRICAL NAtional 6800 CAMPLETTS TRIES TEUTONIC GAMES 23 German Boys Instruct Y. M. C. A. Groups—Play Pitcherless Base Ball. Base ball minus a pitcher and hand | ball played with a soccer ball are topsy-turvy sports that have taken Camp Letts by storm since the arrival there of 23 sport-loving Germar! boys, | sent to America on a good will mission.. The German boys, with faltering English gained by two years of study in German schools, are teaching the | Washington boys at the Y. M. C. A. Rhode River Camp all about Teu- tonic games, while the Americans reciprocate with demonstrations of all-American sports, according to J.| C. Ingram, camp director. ‘The pitcherless base ball of the German youths, who range from .15 to 18 years, is played with a regulation base ball bat, but instead of waiting for a ball to be thrown at him by | 8 hurler, the German batter tosses the ball with his left hand and hits | it with the bat in his right hand. The players circle the bases when they make a home run, much as in| the American game—but elimination of the pitcher also makes superfluous —Wide World Photo. {FORMER MANAGER D. C, - JUNE 28, 1936—PART. ONE. ball. It is played with a bell about | the size and shape bf a soccer ball, | which is thrown, butted with the head or shoulders or struck with the hands by team members endeavring to de- posit it in a 10-foot ‘“basket” at the end of the field. The German hand ball is a rough and tumble game with plenty of fast action for the spectators as well as the players, The American boys have evidenced heen interest in the new sport, which may become a permanent part of the camp athletic program. The German youths will remain in camp until next Friday, completing 8 two-week vacation arranged under the world friendship program of the International Committee of the Y. M. C. A. It is planned next year to send a delegation of American boys to Ger- many for a similar visit at a German camp. AT LORTON IS DEAD Heart Failure Is Fatal to J. E. C. Bischoff—Cleared in Re- formatory Probe. | J. E. C. Bischoff, who resigned two years ago as business manager for, the District Reformatory at Lorton, Va., died yesterday in Michigan, ac-| cording to word received by officials of the Board of Public Welfare. Death | was said to be due to heart failure. Bischoff, highly rated as a man- s A8 ment had gone because of the no-| i toriety he had received. Bischoff was | i Caukts Unemploy:d.i the divorced husband of Vivian Gor-| CANTON. China (#).—According!to don, a figure in New York night life, | Bovernment statistics, there are 2,565.- who was mysteriously slain several | 813 men and women without work'in years ago. T i Fnativer ob Bouth Garos 14 leading cities of China. Canton lina and came to the District service | DN€ads the list, with 630,230; Shanghat in August of 1928. He left here in|hes 610710, Peiping 500,935 and March of 1934. K Nanking 161476, — May Wed Commoners. Nickel Deposits Worked. 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