Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-31
PUT JOB[ESS ON
FARM, He SAYS.
Municipal Expert Declares That
Is Only Solution of Cities
Big Problem.
Especial to the Evening stnr.I


SUMMIT, March 31.-The farm
colony for the homeless unemployed
men and institutions for inebriates
will be the only solution of the mo-
mentous problem of caring for these
classes, in the opinion of Charles
Barnes, special investigator OF the
Joint Application Bureau, of New
York, and social secretary of the
Municipal Lodging House. of the
metropolis.
! Mr. Barnes, who addressed an audi
ence in the Free Public Library last
night said that in his Investigations
of the homeless men in New York,
covering q period OF more than a
year, and made for the Russell Sage
| Foundation, he learned that an eXag-
gerated idea of the number of home
/ less and unemployed men in New
York prevails throughout the coun-
! try
! $4,000 Men without Work.
There are 10 lodging houses in
! Manhattan in which with the mis-
sions and the municipal lodging house
there have been housed nightly
during the winter about $4,000 men.
| Mr. Barnes described the system fol-
lowed in the lodging houses, the
municipal home and the missions IN
the admittance and provisions MADE
for the homeless man.
Missions Are Harmful.
While he admitted that the mis-
sions had and are accomplishing
some good results in the uplifht OF
the unfortunate men he declared that
as a whole they do more harm tnah
oood. He explained that each OF the
missions has q different band OF re-
lieion which they urge when the
mems minds are not religiously bent.
and when they are more in need OF
physical treatment.
He had found in his investigation,
the speaker declared, that in many
Of the missions the spirit of brotherly
love is exemplified to greater de-
gree than in any institution where
the homeless or downfallen are taken
in. hut in sending these classes out
half fed, suffering physically ana I'M
able to work they add to the problem.
Again." said Mr.. Burns, the mis-
sion FOUNDERS" as a class STAND out
as an inducement to those who may
be able to earn a decent livel hood
To refrain from work since they see
that they will at least be partially
fed and cared for at the mission
without working.
Politics In Lodging Houses.
'1ne 1nunlClDd1 lONB MS hON1N
he made a wonderful institution IL II
IL were not conducted as a political
adjunct" he said 1.-THE home is kept
clean and sanitary, but the eXarnlna-
| ton physically of the patrons Dy the
houshe physicians is necessarily eX-
| tremely perfunctory. because on many
nights as many of 900 men pass before
the physicians between the hours OF
] 6 and II o'clock.
Have Faculties of Children
In his belief more than one-haf of
the homeless and patrons of the
cheap lodging houses, cheap saloons
and missions are but children men
tally and require the aid of strong
minded men so that they may be
guided into self-control and the spirit
+ of self-dependence instilled in them,
/ Mr.. Barnes declared The practise
/ OF sending these men to labor in
prison stoneyards the speaker de-
creed and declared "you might as
well send them straight to the devil
/ Much contagion.
Under present conditions he had
/ found the patrons of the lodging
/ houses to be eleven times more tubu-
I cular than those in other institutions,
/ said Mr.. Barnes, these places being
! the greatest source of the spreading
of contagious diseases to be found.
With such conditions prevailing, the
! victims are not only a constant
menace TO society. but constantly ag-
gravate the condition Of the unem-
/ ployed.
/ Self Master Colony.
/ Mr.. and Mrs Andrew Floyd, who
conduct the Self Master Colony in
/ Union, told of their work and what
/ has been accomplished In the upift
/ of men at their institution. The
| method followed there is that which
Mr.. Barnes suggested for New York,
4 open-air life, various vacations for
/ the residents of the colony, cleanli-
ness, wholesome food a comfortable
home and sincere fellowship.
There are at present fifty men at
the Self Masters colony. The place
is self-supporting and Mr. and Mrs.
Floyd cited many cases where men
have left the institution and are now
Irospering.
Ernest Dressed North presided at
the meeting.
FINE, ALL RIGHT.
f,NKregra s,ni,pr a1if ", Tomb ,,nxyr f.a n