The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-06-20
READERS OF BIBLE
DOLLAR A MILLION
TRACT SOCIETY PAYS FOR
VERSES PRINTED IN PAPERS
THROUGHOUT U. S.

=. CINCINNATI, O.--At an expense
OF 81 Tor every 100000 readers the
Back to the Bible bureau Of Cincinnati
IS getting one verse Of scripture daily
printed in about 900 American news
papers and magazines. Its total daily
scripture readers are estimated at ~
900. 900 now, two years after the Ou-
reau's Inauguration.
readers daily is. announced, with flve
veal. program to make II effective.
The bureaus idea Is that daily read
ing Of one bible verse makes Tor good
citizenship, and that the best pulpit
through which to reach all persons IS
the daily press. The organization IS
.n6nseetarian, ifs daily verses going to
publications OF all faiths, Tree OF charge,
and not only to newspapers but to
trade Journals, and TO society and Ia
Dor publications.
How the idea started and its rapid
growth is, described by George w.
HartzelL Dayton, Ohio, manufactur-
er, an advisory member OF the bureau.
Thes chairman is James n. Gamble, OF
the. Proctor and. Gamble Company.
Bureau Two Years Old.
The bureau was inaugurated two
years, ago by Addison Y. Reid, OF Gin
cinnati, who is now its secretary. He
had been conducting a propaganda Tor
prohibition, sending daily contribu-
tons to a number OF newspapers, and
paying for their publication. With the
adoption OF the prohibition amend
ment Mr. Reid stopped that work, but
decided to try a campaign of biblical
verse.
At first he paid Tor the publication
OF daily bible verses just the same as
he had paid for the propaganda. The
verses went to only few newspapers.
After about six months paid publica-
tiens other newspapers, becoming in
tetested, and discovering that Mr..
Reid was furnishing the scriptural
quotations, asked him to supply them
also, offering to make publication
without charge. Thereupon Mr.. Reid
stopped paying for insertion OF the
verses, and the present bureau was in
augurated.
Mr.. Hartzell said that IN these two
years the bureau has expended $4,000,
ali of it for printing and postage, as
there are no other expenses, all the
work being voluntarily done by a
group of Cincinnati residents. The re-
spouse to the bureaus letter offering
the scriptures has been uniformly from
all sections of the country, Mr.. Hart
zell stated The daily papers now pub
fishing include forty-six in Canada,
and publications in Hawaii, the Philip
pnes and Korea.
Many papers have been putting the
daily verse at the head Of the editorial
column, but not all.
"a large Ohio daily" said Mr.. Hart
zell, lis running the verse completely
across its daily comic page. When |
asked the editor why he chose that
position, he replied:
"-'Why,9 don't you want it in the
most conspicuous place.?
This editor added laughing, per
haps the readers OF the comics need,
1.-THE, editor of Bellngham, Wash,
paper made personal investigation to
discover whether subscribers really
read these daily verses. He reported
that he found that thousands actually
read them.
"The verses are selected by Mr..
Reid, who before having them mailed,
submits them to committee of min
isters and church officials for APPROX
al" i..u
Mr.. Hartzell said that the bureau is
now engaged in raising fund of $780,,
900, the amount it is estimated the
work Of extending the publication to
d 100000 daily circulation will cost
in the next five years.