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Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-11-28 | Page 29 | Hoboes Work Here-and like It

Type issue
Date 1926-11-28
Paper Salt Lake Telegram
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
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Publisher Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
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Article Title Hoboes Work Here-and like It
Type article
Date 1926-11-28
Paper Salt Lake Telegram
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
Page 29
OCR Text o i i HOBOES WORK HERE HERE AND AND LIKE IT I Io o e ll J y f s 4 r k I 2 I 4 t c Atthe House of t the e Second Chance hoboes making rugs and tan inset set Mr and Mrs Floyd I By JAMES HASWELL N NEA EA Service Writer UNION N. N J. J Nov 27 For eighteen years Andress Floyd has been mending broken men He gave up a law la practice to ex exp experiment ex- ex p on humanity here i in a pleasant spacious farmhouse set in ten acres of ot field and woodland His patients are the Mie bums the hoboes the aimless drifting vagabonds vagabonds vagabonds vaga vaga- bonds who haunt the roadsides and city slums Their work worl makes males the place practically self Foyd's Floyd's job is from front this warped broken misused human Junk to toc c construct honest square four-square men who will go back and win their own way Floyd has had nearly boys in his Se Self Master Colony during these years cases whose lives have been separate separate sep sep- arate rate and distinct tragedies Mrs 1 Floyd admits romantically that a woman was the cause df f the wreck in most every case And often a woman is the big help in tion PSYCHOLOGY PLAYS A PART Today Floyds Floyd's reddish hair hall is nearly white and his straight rig rig- ure has grown portly He hasn't won fame except in flop houses and lockups where men sometimes talk of ot straightening up But hes he's Wad had fun from his job and learned things about humanity which might aught surprise a recording angel The secret of remaking a inan man says Floyd is to convince him hint he can do something I If a man asks me What will II 1 be paid for working 11 here ere Floyd flod explains we dont don't take him If he thinks his work Is worth money he be still can make his own own wa way We Ve take meri merl who hav haven't t i t gumption gumption gump gump- I tion lion left for at who are glad to i work vork just for food and shelter We Ve Wedo Wedo I Ido do pay them of ot course coarse That's part huart of building up their self self- respect That's all there Is to Floyds Floyd's big idea letting Idea letting a man do what lu lib can The colony makes a living from Crom its farm printing pr press ss Its carpenter shop shop shop-a a dozen varied ac ac- ac tI vi ties We Ve found Cound says sas FloYd that we have to furnish tasks the men can see they are are accomplishing Farming Farm farming arm ing lag for fol some doesn't work The Theman Theman Theman man planting seeds in the spring has no idea of reaping in the fall But that same man can see for himself himself him him- self that he lie is making a R. rug that will sell for money often money often he actually actually actually ac ac- ac- ac sells it himself Colorful characters ha have hae e thronged this House of the Second Chance There have been lawyers millionaire millionaire millionaire million million- aire sons innumerable college colleg mell prodigals of all kinds Books Dooks' Dooks have been written there and one successful successful successful suc suc- pia play I We Ve nearly alwa always s 's have an ac actor actor actor ac- ac tor smiles Mrs Floyd Flod and they nearly insist on sleeping days and staying awake nights GETTING DOWN TO CASES There is Kimball for fOl Instance Until he was 50 he lived on Income Then the money failed an and he found Cound he didn't know how to work He had traveled all over the world and lived all his life in society but society but one day he drifted here herc forlorn and penniless Several weeks later Floyd came across him early one morning sitting sitting sit sit- sitting ting on the doorstep of a candy shop in the village The widow who the store gave me change for 50 50 cents by mistake last night I had only given given en her a quarter Kimball explained ex ex- i I took it but now Im I'm waiting until she opens up her store to give It back So now Kimball today is Mrs Irs Floyds Floyd's messenger an and chief factotum fac fac- There was the boy who posed for fora a collar ad Nearly everyone has seen his face lace Crowds recognized him in the city streets Girls followed followed followed fol fol- fol- fol lowed him Hundreds Hundreds' stared when he appeared on the beaches He vas was as too handsome says Mrs Floyd It went to his head But we couldn't cure him He al always always always al- al ways thought people were staring at him and hed he'd stop an and 1 pose when he heard a noise CURE LIES IN WORK There was the incorrigible son of ot ofa ofa a famous millionaire who announced announced announced an an- one night hed he'd taken poi poI- son We Ve never nevel knew whether he did or not recalls Mrs Floyd but pumping him out at the hospital apparently made him a different man mn Today he supports his wife wife wife- a thing his family considers mirac mirac- ulous One college man built and equipped a house for Cor the colony by telling the story of his reformation i In fn n letters to manufacturers The donations that resulted ranged from Crom bathtubs to building blocks and the house today Is In the group erected I Iby c by members of the colony olony to shel shelter shelter ter tel their increasing numbers If we could start over again declares Mrs Floyd FIod wed wed set set mento men mento mento to houses for or themselves By Byth tho time a man has actually constructed a shelter for himself nom no matter V. how simple hes he's b cured it J N I S. S J- J t I g j A
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