A dispatch from Newark, N.J., says: Harry W. Butz, draftsman and itinerant evangelist, who walked from Newark to Cincinnati and return to determine what a penniless Christian way-farer might expect from his fellow man, announced his findings a few days ago, and asserted that man’s inhumanity to man had not changed much from the days of the good Samaritan.
On the trip, which was concluded Thursday, he said he was given a lift by one of every 30 automobiles accosted. He was held up once in every 118 miles, but one-third of the hold-up men gave up their own funds to him when they learned his mission.
Clergymen, church offices, business and professional men and social agencies refused assistance 20 times to the one time such help was accorded. And he was offered six drinks of whiskey to one of coffee.
His itinerary included Philadelphia, Wilmington, Del., Baltimore, Washington, Cumberland, Pittsburg, Wheeling and Dayton, returning by way of Chillicothe and Washington Court House, Ohio, Parkersburg, W. Va., Cumberland, Baltimore and Philadelphia.
Twelve different bootleggers offered him employment, and he met 437 working men who said they were driving to tramping for lack of work.
From the front page of The Zebulon Record, Friday, July 24, 1925
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