Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-21

didn't find any sympathy. The mans snsakng
eyes suddenly found q way. He handed the
$40 back to the woman, and turned to the
officials with quickly -tmpr0vised explanation.
ct was making purchase from her he
said she sells the stun
$50 MrS. Smith went to prison, but white
she was there another blue-calicOed figure, busy
with the laundry and sweeping and busting Of
the penal institution, listened to her sorry tale
one night.
ibid you eyer hear o. Daddy WiIliamsSH
she asked. He helps every one. He takes men
when their prison sentences are up and gets
them started again. Sometimes they get out
sooner and are paroled to him. Maybe he'll
help q woman"
And he did see that the true evidence was
collected and she came home. But he didn't
stop there. He saw that she was cured of her
dreadful habit first
The other three cases? I'm sorry I can't
ten them. but let me talk about my men and
boys :. /. 5000 Of them, and nearly every one
did dne. They always pay back their money.
You see, when money Is loaned BY the Sam 8.
Williams Voucher Club they sign q statement
promising TO pay it hack some day. We have
no witnesses We trust their word Of honor.
"And this plan seldom fails. It never has gone
wrong once in the case Of q man parOled TO us,
which speaks well for the men who want 70
come back But when I give It from my
poeketbook well, that's different. I dmt
remember it at all"
THE beginning Of the career that has q.
tended for . half century started because q
little boy didn't want to go to an orphans home.
HIs father had been killed IN the Civil war,
and his mother was working. but he was going
10 an Orphanaee with the children Of oSher
soldiers. he had heard about orphans homes
and he didn't like the stories
So Mttle Samuel Williams ram away in 1865
when he was years old Even then he was
little proud that he was the grandson of Gen.
Samuel st. Clair Williams OF Civil War fame.
II got place cabin boy ON o boat on
the Mississippi River" he explained 81 did
dark, brown waters, bat I never went home.
finally drifted into . mining camp and lived
the rough and tumble life"
He saw human nature In the rough and
decided that it was pretty good, only IL was
tough not having any one to care shout him.
Sometimes when the music drifted from the
saloons and men swore haEshly and blood ran
he wished some one would give q fellow q
chance.
IT broke my arm. but never had It set" his
voice, which ID calm and mellow now, continued.
There wasn't anybody 70 care. The home still
sticks out. And have an inaenture in my
head where was wounded, but since nobody
else cared, neither did L And then one night
/ went to q revival meeting which was being
held I'M . tent. WAS going to make it, But
I didn't It made q man out Of me. The
people were singing hymn and reformed.
So stopped sleeping In dry goods boxes end
barns and became q mission worker"
Williams worked in the Union StOckyards in
Chicago and 1t was there that he became inter-
eSted in ex-prisoners As he watched the men
apply for jobs, only to be turned down to walk
the streets again !. :. tired, discouraged, un-
happy, starving, ready to steal his idea
came to him.
CT SAW why they 60 back TO JAIL" he said.
They weren't given fighting chance 10
make good. They were given blanks to flll out
when they asked for work, and . careful record
OF their past was demanded. They had to frR.
nish reference and they could stin hear thQ
grating Of heavy iron doors clanltng behtnd
them watched. and then went To the exae-
utfVei onices OF Swift d CO. and asked Mr.. Swift
to employ some Of them ON my respOnsibE1iey.