BOYS MAKE BIRD HOUSES 



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Phoebe or Robin Sheli'-. 



remember that when we increased our 

 number from the original five to seventy- 

 five we took our place in the costly 

 movement of Institutionalism, and that 

 we are in the press of a day whose 

 watchwords are equipment and elh- 

 ciency. So in counting the cost wc must 

 consider our dues to this larger account. 

 It will not be out of place to say here in 

 privacy of our annual meeting that a 

 certain representative of the German 

 Judiciary sent here to \dsit American 

 institutions, when asked by a resident 

 of Hull House what had most im [pressed 

 him, replied without reservation "Allen- 

 dale." 



A short time ago a Japanese student 

 of sociology said that his visit to Allen- 

 dale had crystallized his idea of what he 

 wanted to do on his return to his native 

 country. The letters of ap]3rcciation 

 from an English delegate to the Prison 

 Reform Congress, and those of some 

 Russian social worker, who were our 

 guests, suggest that our work together 

 for the individual boy is yet not without 

 bearing upon the great question of 



child welfare. However, Allendale's 

 chief concern must always be the 

 individual boy. We are willing to work 

 in this slow, costly way because it seems 

 to us the only way to work, and because 

 the redemption of society can only 

 come through the redemption of its 

 units. The Alumni speech of one of the 

 sc\'enty is somewhat illuminating and 

 perhaps of more value than the words 

 of any onlooker. He had come to us 

 >'cars ago, a rollicking young Irishman, 

 and on returning to the city to High 

 vSchool, the only op])ortunity for a 

 living that presented itself was to take 

 charge of the dormitory of a working 

 boys' home. "Some of the boys were 

 men," he said, "and most of them older 

 than I was. They were the roughs and 

 toughs of Chicago, Ijut my Allendale 

 cx])cricnce stood by me; I saw that the 

 difference between those fellows and 

 myself was my training." 



M.^RTiN House. 

 St. .■\rmand Model. Twenty Room'? 



