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Show UNIQUE INSTITUTION TO HELP THE FALLEN j flX AITIHF35 S TLOT11 Opi:--t-.. .-."in'" I MS SMtJ-v -3tt&'P MuJtM.-wavw as mim en m ssrwiWi is i ewn i -jswal The Self Master Coloiiv. Welcome!" Pet in whitewashed stones on the side of a sloping lawn between Klir.a betb and Hnrmgfield, N. J-. thia aim pie aign invites one hack into the fra grant woods, where tbirtv men, who have sounded the depths of despair, are mak ing s heroic effort to forget the past and get a fresh grip on self respect. Upward of a thotissnd derelicts have t made the same battle In the last four i years, the length of time thia unique plan for human betterraeot baa been in 1 existence. Just how manv have been permanently permanent-ly benefited bv the course is not known, because Mr. and Mn. Andreas S. Flovd. originators of, the plan and the guiding spirits of the colony, 'cannot 'can-not be induced to tell. When the query is put to them they simply srmle and aav that enough men have been put back' on the straight path tp make the work worth while, but the friends of thia couple will tell you that at least two hundred of that thousand ara respectable re-spectable members of some community and that the othera have left the place the better for their experience and with the parting assurance that they are welcome wel-come to try again if temptation, overpowers over-powers them. |