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...Atlantic City, N. J., Headmaster Frank Ely Gaebelein of Stony Brook (L. I.) School for Boys told a Methodist Protestant conference that little more than 25% of 49,000,000 U. S. young people have ever been in a church. Recent questionnaires, he said, showed that 16,000 of 55,000 school children had never heard of the Ten Commandments; only 2,000 of 18,000 students could name four biblical prophets, only 6,000 the four gospels, only 8,000 any three of Christ's disciples. Headmaster Gaebelein's remedy: "Revive the family altar and the reading...
...obtained at registration, give the numerical representation of the various sects as follows: Baptist 157 Buddhist 4 Catholic 747 Christian Church 42 Christian Science 108 Congregational 410 Disciples of Christ 4 Dutch Reform 8 Episcopalians 469 Ethical Culture 2 Greek Orthodox 13 Jewish 827 Jewish Reformed 11 Lutheran 87 Methodist and Methodist Episcopal 258 Mormon 24 Mohammedan 3 Presbyterian 456 Protestant 226 Quaker (Friends)28 Unitarian...
...eleven years since then Southern teams have played in the Rose Bowl six times. Southern Methodist, Alabama, Tulane and Georgia Tech, colleges which the East and Midwest had previously looked on with disdain, turned out teams good enough to be invited to play the West's best. Today, football in the South still differs from football in other sections of the country. It is frequently played under a hot sun, while spectators sit in shirt sleeves eating ice cream, and players go onto the field barelegged, but the quality of Southern football wins respect from coast to coast...
...therefore on the unit banker side. Elected second vice president last week was Robert March Hanes, president of Wachovia Bank & Trust Co., Winston-Salem, N. C. A 47-year-old graduate of the University of North Carolina, he comes of a socially prominent family, is a Democrat and a Methodist, saw active service in the War. He was chosen for his important heirship-apparent largely because he is a fine example of the important, but independent, banker...
Publicist Miller, 49, whose grandfather operated a station of the underground railway in Canal Winchester. Ohio, before the Civil War, is a Lincoln Republican, a Methodist, a Son of the American Revolution. He has been in the business of peddling propaganda almost since he could walk. His first work as a boy was selling newspapers. He taught school for a year after graduation from Ohio State University but dropped that to write advertising copy for a Columbus department store. Working as a reporter for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, he asked for the assignment to cover education, within a year shifted...