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NOVEL TRAINING SCHOOL DEVOTED TO HOBOES, BUMS Construct Honest Citizens From Warped, Broken Human Junk. Du XEA Service UNION, N. J.. Oct. 25.—For eighteen years Andress Floyd has been mending broken men. He gave up a law practice to experiment on humanity here in a pleasant, spacious farmhouse set in ten acres of field and woodland. His patients are the bums, the hoboes, the aimless, drifting vagabonds who haunt the roadsides and city slums. Their work makes the place practically self-supporting. Floyd’s job is from this warped, broken, misused human junk to construct honest, four-square men who will go back and win their own way. Floyd has had nearly 20,000 “boys” in his "Self Master Colony" during these years; 20,000 "cases” whose lives have been 20,000 separate and distant tragediga.- Mrs. Floyd admits, romantically, that a woman was the cause of the wreck in most every case. And often a woman is the big help in rehabilitation. Psychology Plays a Part Today, Floyd’s reddish hair is nearly white and his straight figure has grown portly. He hasn’t won fame, except in flop houses and lock-ups where men sometimes talk of straightening up. But he's had fun from his job and learned things about humanity which might surprise a recording angel. The secret of remaking a man, says Floyd, is to convince him he can do something, "If a man asks me ‘What will I be paid?’ for working here,” Floyd explains, "we don’t take him. If he thinks his work is worth money he still can make his own way. "We take men who haven't gumption left for that, who are glad to work Just for food and shelter. We do pay them, of course. That’s part of building up their self-respect.” That’s all there is to Floyd’s big Idea—letting a man do what he can. The colony makes a living from its farm, its printing press, its carpenter shop—a dozen varied activities. "We found, says Floyd, “that we have to furnish tasks -the men can see they are accomplishing. Farming, for some, doesn’t work. The man planting seeds in the spring has no idea of reaping in the fall. But that same man can see for himself that he is making a rug that will sell for money—often he actually sells it himself.” Colorful characters have thronged this House of the Second Chance. There have'been lawyers, millionaire

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til he was 60 he lived on income. Then the money failed, and he found he didn't know how to work. He had traveled all over the world, and lived all Ills life in society—but one day he drifted liere—forlorn and penniless. Several weeks later Floyd came across him early one morning sitting on the doorstep of a candy shop in the village. "The widow who keeps stojf gave me change for 50 cents by mistake last night. I had only given her a quarter," Kimball explained. "I took It, but now I'm waiting until she opens up her Btore to give It back.". So now Kimball today is Mrs. FToyd’s messenger an 1 chief factotum. There was the boy who posed for a collar ad. Nearly everyone has seen his face. Crowds recognized him in the city streets. Girls followed him. Hundreds stared when he appeared on the beaches. “He was too handsome,” says Mrs. Floyd. "It went to his head. But we couldn't cure him. He always thought people were staring at him, and he'd stop and pose when he heard a noise." Cure Lies In Work There was the incorrigible son of a famous millionaire, who announced one night he'd taken poisos. "We never knew whether he did or not," replied Mrs. F’loyd. "but pumping him out at the hospital apparently made him a different man. Today he supports his wife—a thing Ills •family considers miraculous." One college man built and equipped a house for the colony by telling the story of his reformation in letters to iru nufacturers. The dona-

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