Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1902 — A Great and Worthy Work. [ARTICLE]

A Great and Worthy Work.

We take pleasure in submitting to our readers a statement of the American Home-Finding Assooia-tion,-incorporated. As i‘s name indicates, it is an organization for seouring home, less classes. 1. It provides good family homes for, abused and neglected children, with continuous oversight and care. 2. It plaoes mother and child in the same home, thus keeping them together. 3. It furnishes employment and home influence for big' bojs and girls, aud for graduates from industrial schools. 4. It helps paroled and exprisoners to home-life with employment.

5. It transplants families and adults from congested centers in the cities to farm lifef eithfer as helpers, tenants or renters. „ The association, since its organization, September 3, 1897, has plaoed at the rate of one person per week day, and has helped as many more specially needy cases in various ways. This method for oaring for the homeless commends itself as The" most natural, helpful, practical aud economical. Then, too, it not only relieves the sad condition of these helpless classes, but contributes largely to the betterment of society in the prevention of misery and crime. The association is national. It is interdenominational in its s'oope, State lines do not break up the work, and entirely free from sectarian, political or race bias, and depends on the free-will offerings of philanthropic people everywhere. The report covering the four years’ work of the. association shows such splendid sucoess as is evidenced by the following statistics: Children placed 460 Youths placed . .77 101 Prisoners placed 63 Adults placed 97 Mother and child placed (148 each). .296 Children replaced 50 Grand total 3,067 Whoever will open his home, or find a home for one of these, or report the oase of a child or other person needing the oare of the association, oan do so by writing to the Amerioan Home-Finding Association or to George K. Hoover, general superintendent, 167 Dearborn street, suite 712, Chicago, 111.