The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-02-07

close their reply and nope you Will
give their letters a place in your
Thanking you for an early atten-
ton, l remain,
A well wisher of the Home,
B. F. Brown.
Jan. 26, 1918.
ona b Psla grow9 Man If M Gats
20 inst. to hand. have been hop.
the Christian Home was thing of
the past, and was surprised on read
ing your letter. l have been asso-
ciated with the management OF the
home for more than 80 years; have e
years. ] am now a very. old man
f88 years) and If l should die to-
morrow, or any other day have
not money enough to give, me a
dec decent NJ burial Gnnaa h5 ste hss 6ean s "
home. If he has ever had a dollar
for his services to or for the. home,
/ never heard of it, though he has
had good law. practice, he is far
from, being g rich man. You can
see BY the Home paper who the
vestigate them you will find them
men of the highest character. The
charge that we are keeping board
ers for the purpose of making money
for ourselves is too silly to merit
any reply, other than to say that we
ever it amounts to is charged up
against their salary. IN SO far as
the charge is concerned, alleging
that we report more children than
we have, will simply say that. the
number fluctuates, some times
more and some times less, and SO we
report general average. Don't
you think it little strange that a
body of men and women consisting
of lawyers and doctors and bankers
and merchants of the very highest
type of christian character, has not
been able to detect fraud and deceit
and dishonesty in the management
close touch with the work from its
beginning, and yet those good chris
tianS ladies could and did discover it
in few hours time. We have had
this kind of thing to contend with
from the very beginning. Mr.. Lem
Baptist minister, and father of H.
R. Lemen, our present manager;
Mr.. Lemen was subjected to all
kinds of lies and false reports to the
effect that he was boarding up fabu-
lous sums of money for himself.
These reports were reported by by !, PEG 60
s When Mr.. Lemen diedr about fifteen
years ago, the county commissioners
took 1t upon themselves to admins
ter on his estate, accordingW they
went over to list his property. They
found all told $4,000, including
him by his friends. Not one dollar
in cash to pay funeral expense.
After this his death, his. shameful
traducers came round and wanted to
apologize and ask the forgiveness of
his son for the shameful lies that
father. Now If these good christian
ladies who discovered SO much in
so short time, will kindly give me
the names. of the persons who are
getting rich by fraud and deception
out of the charities OF their patrons.
annual meeting Which viii soon con-
vene and II there is any truth in the
them out. If we find they are not
true we will then be in a position to
expose the fraud and deception OF
ports. The founder had a few
thousand dollars saved up Of his own
when he first started the Home and
put every dollar in the christian
home property and had all the prop
erty decided in manner that it can
never revert to his heirs or to any
one else; No claim can eyer we a run
: neither can it ever be mortgaged
for any purpose. It is to be held in
perpetuity as an orphans home.
The property as it now stands is
estimated to be worth $3.50, 900: 90:
Do you suppose that we could deed
dren and other inmates and defray
all other costs incident to such an
institution and get very rich on OF
the weekly contributions made by
the patrons of the Home? Don't it
look absurd? 1t is not only absurd
good christian women are simply
mistaken. The Home is always open
for inspection by responsible parties.
/ think see very clearly why those
good women took offense at the
Christian orphans home in Council
Bluffs and are using all their in.
fluence to destroy its usefulness. OF
course. they can hurt little but not
much Hope that they are too hon
orable and true to try to in1ure the
helpless little ones at. the Home.
And now dear madam in conclu-
sion I want to thank you again for
your kind letter and the newspaper
Clipping. dAy vi tA0
turns up please write me again.
The Home paper of date Jan. 31st,
is very interesting, don't fail to read
it. Yours sincerely,
j. C. POntus.
ITO s. 2Sth St., Omaha, Neb.
Editor of Leon Reporter:Du During
the past week 1t has come to my
knowledge that certain parties have
z made accusations against the Chris