Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 263, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1915 — J. BLAINE GWIN TRAINED IN WORK [ARTICLE]

J. BLAINE GWIN TRAINED IN WORK

El Paso Herald Tells' of Rensselaer Boy Who Is to Be Head of Associated Charities. The Republican contained a brief mention several days ago of the fact that J. Blaine Gwin, of Paterson, N. J., son of J. C. Gwin and wife, of this city, had been chosen superintendent of the Associated Charities work at El Paso, Tex. He will arrive here about the middle of November and remain over night with his parents, going then to El Paso to take up his work. The El Paso Herald gives the following account of his work and tells how he was chosen from a large field of applicants. The article follows: J. B. Gwin, of Paterson, N. J., will arrive in El Paso about Nov. 16th or Dec. 1, to enter upon his duties as superintendent or executive secretary of the Association Charities.

(Mr. Gwin is highly recommended by the Russell Sage Foundation as a trained and experienced executive in social service. He has been engaged in this work for five years in Paterson, a city of nearly 200,000 population, where there is a big industrial class and especially a very large population of foreigners of all races and nationalities. It is believed that his Paterson experience will be particularly valuable to him in taking hold of the work here. The finance and executive committees of the Association Charities fully realizing the prime importance of having a trained executive in charge of the central bureau, have busied themselves earnestly for several weeks in trying to locate just the right man for this place. There have been a number of applicants, and the field has been well canvassed, with the result that the committees feel well pleased with the choice that has been made. The new secretar yis a brother of Perry Gwin, of El Paso, is a graduate of the university of Indiana and is a native of Rensselaer, Ind., where his father is engaged in the wholesale and retail lumber business. As Blaine Gwin, the new Associated Charities official, made a splendid record as a football player while in college and was also a brilliant student in economics, social science and other courses in social service. He was a fraternity man while in school. After his graduation, Mr. Gwin, dressed as a trapip and with a month’s growth of beard on his face, lived with tramps and. in the tenements of Paterson and made a study of living conditions there at first hand. He afterward wrote a series of articles for t ehPaterson papers on his experiences, the papers printing his picture in his costume as a tramp. Mr. Gwin is a young man, but has made a national reputation with the results he has obtained in the Paterson field.