Part 4 — CHAPTER XVII. MISSIONS AND WELFARE AGENCIES
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62. “Visit to Bible Rescue Mission,” Nels Anderson’s experience, spring, 1922.
63. Salvation Army Revival, Sherman O. Cooper.
64. Case of “X” at the Bible Rescue Mission, bears public testimony to former badness.
65. Ex-bum and wife deserter, graduate foreign university, steady man now.
66. Mission worker, “saved” twenty years ago, was alcoholic and a failure, in business now.
67. German, Madison Street bum, came into mission to get warm, got religion, left old life.
68. Ex-drunkard, often thrown out of mission, finally got converted and is a new man.
69. Young man, mission “stiff,” easily converted, became a “backslider” next day.
71. Wife deserter, mission hanger-on, clean, erect, active but avoids work.
99. Letter by Bill Quirke to Hobo News on missions in Los Angeles. He assails missions.
118. Ex-soldier in Legion headquarters, trying to get job on strength of army experience.
143. Study of Missions and Mission Characters, L. G. Brown, 1923.
156. A Study of Missions, H. D. Wolf, August, 1922.
APPENDIX A. SUMMARY OF FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
128. Unpublished materials by Nels Anderson, covering his study of 400 tramps, 230 typewritten pages.
144. Study of 110 Runaway Boys in Chicago Detention Home, F. C. Frey and B. W. Bridgman, 1922.
148. “Outline of Program for the Prevention and Treatment of Vagrancy,” prepared by the Committee on Relief of the Chicago Council of Social Agencies, and submitted to the Executive Committee of the Council, June 13, 1918.
154. Responses to requests for information on the homeless man problem from social agencies in the larger American cities.