The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-27
Says That Organization is Ac- conp|ishing Work Not Under
 taken by Any Other People
SUGGEST THAT COLONY
 SHOULD BE ORGANIZED
Thinks Many Persons in Birmingham Could Be Placed On Small Farms and Their Condi-
 tion Improved.

Judge Feagin believes that colonization plan under the supervision of the Saliva ton army would result in saving many men, women and children in Birmingham from living an almost useless and ire qaently questionable life.
 [ In discussing such a plan he says that some of Birminghams brainy and big hearted men might get together and se- cure some land in Alabama and create a colony with that object in view. In dis cussing the matter yesterday. Judge Fea- gin said:
 'The Salvation army in Birmingham and throughout the lands where they have planted their banners, are doing a great work for the uplift of humanity. These people reach that state of society in cities which the churches as now established and conducted fail to attract or come in touch with. There are obvious reasons for this. Some of our strongest ministers see ths and deplore the fact.
 General Booth the organizer of the Salvation army, when he first began preaching, realized this fact. He set to work to remedy the evil, and as his work increased he began enlarging his plans for betterlng the conditions of the slum ele- ments in London and other great cities. His work has grown apace, his methods win the hearts of all persons who give them serious consideration and witness their helpful influence upon communi- ties. Ills people have done a great work in Birmingham in feeding the hungry and
 1oft undone before an army post was estab- lished here. Rarely now a man or woman reports voluntary to our city jail for food or for shelter from the cold or storms. They find more inviting quarters, freed from the vicious criminals, at the army home. Besides a cheap, clean bed and warm rooms, work Is offered in their wood Or coal yard by which the honest, struggling laborer, out of job, can earn his support until he can find suitable steady employment.
 Many toilng men often loose their jobs by sickness and otherwise, and have no one except the Salvation army to give them a helping hand to save them from want and Restitution.
 Thus a laboring man, when misfortune overtakes him. is saved from despair and beggary by timely assistance
 "The officers of the Salvation Army are remarkable readers of human nature. ] Their long experience gives them ready insight into character, and a few ques- tions put to an applicant for help soon reveals the fact if he be a dead beat, hobo or tramp or one worthy of consid- eraton
 "Their Rescue Home,' established in Birmingham has saved many erring girls, and saved the city from the expense of sending such to Memphis and other cities. "The Salvation Army Is doing a great work in providing homes for the home less, lands for the landless man, and a man for the manless land. It would be great blessing for the struggling poor in this city, who are unable to withstand the temptations to a wayward life should some philanthropic persons give plan- | tation of 1000 or 1900 acres of lands in one of our counties to be divided into small five-acre farms, settled and colon [ ized by such people under the supervision of the Salvantion Army.
 "I notice from the newspaper accounts that recently some rich men in London | gave SO0,0O0 to General Booth to purchase lands in England for the purpose of colon izng the unemployed on them. Not as paupers, but purchasers with long time, easy payments for lands and homes ready for occupancy and cultivation.
 Thus it is that many of the sons of Ireland are returning to the land of their birth to buy homes and live on their na- tive heath under the liberal land laws re- gently extended by the English govern ment to those long oppressed people. The annual payments are said not to exceed reasonable rents
 "So General Booth proposes not only 10 make the idle lands of England bloom as the rose, but to give heart and hope, provide house and home of five acres of land to Englands struggling poor who have lost out in the slums of her cities.
 If Birmingham's well to do citizens could put their heads and purses together and provide the lands on long time pay ments the Salvation Army with its ex- perienced workers in managing its land colonies could make 1t a success and save many men, women and children in our cities from a questionable life"