Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-06-08
For Sunday Reading
Au Sorts of Opinion,
Helping Non Master rhem..lv,

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Most Of the men who are down
and out" can be saved if they are
helped right; but they are not fools,
and you must not act like a fool BY
treating them as foois-if You want to
help them. This was a lesson learned
by ex-Wall street plunger after lie
had scared almost to the heights of
dizzy finance and then~feli to the gut
ter OF complete failure" When An
dress S. Floyd picked himself up after
his fall, he didn't try Wall street again,
but started In to help some Of the men
he had found in the gutter to help
themselves. His work, which is car
ried on in Union, " j., where he has
established the Self master Colony"
is much like that of RolIo H. Mcbride.
who. after a failure and recovery of
similar kind. started the Parting of
the Ways Home" in Chicago. Their
work IS described by Henry Carter in
the December Worlds Work Floyd
always thinks and taikszof his charges
as fellows" which, says the writer,
lis an important thing to note" The
farm where the regenerative work goes
on was provided by a millionaire, Mr..
c. H. Ingersoll one Of F1oyd's typical
cases was boy whom he found in q
free lodging house in New York. The
boy had served a term in the Elmira
reformatory. and just three days before
his time was to expire, shortened by
year for perfect behavior. he was
overtaken by the prison madness" He
gripped the bars that shut him in and
shook them like mad; he screamed and
yelled. Other prisoners Joined In, and
soon the corridor was in an uproar.
AS consequence the year was added,
not taken off. And when finally free
dom came, the boy was soured and
ready to become an enemy OF society.
He found no Job awaiting him, and af-
ter much privation, was ready to Join
the criminal classes when Floyd found
him. The writer here takes up the
tale:
Floyd said to the boy. when he had
heard his story of despair in the lodg-
ing house: Now, tell you: I've got
little place out in the country over In
Jersey where there are a lot Of US fell
lows who've been UP against 1t. If you
won't say anything to the boys about
having been in stir" Til be glad to
have you come over and stay with us
until you get your nerve back and ind
Job to go to. Understand me: II you
come over there you've got to forget all
about the bad luck you had in the past
Want to Gomez
THE boy came sulienly shambling
thru the woods to the door Of the home
two days later. 4
HE was tough" says Floyd, he was
a real tough one
"So tough and skeptical was he that
it was week before he decided to
accept the Self-master Colony for what
1t protested to be-a place where you
were az good as the next fellow. no
matter what your past record-so Long
as you worked. When he saw that the
head of the colony desired to make.
not a saint or an object lesson out Of
him. but a man. the boy began to stiff
fen his spine and hold up his head
For this was what his scared young
soul was hungering for-the chance to
be = man Charity he would not ac-
cent because Of the iron that had been
driven into his heart, but help from
one fellow to another-that and that
only could reach home to him.
ut took long time for this one to
thaw OUT says Floyd, but after that
he began to grow and grow right
80 the end Of two months the boy
came to Floyd and said: I haent
ought to stay here any longer You're
crowded to the limit here. and there
are lots Of fellows outside who ought
to get in here and be put on their.
feet. I'm all right now. can 90 out
and get q Job. I'll be getting out and
giving some other fellow q chance to
come m ~ :
All right said Floyd. Look upon
this ~ your home. Come back hero at
night until you find your Job.
Then the boy went out to night for
L place Il, Ahs world. He 'kAds his nerve
back boiyt