The McGregor Mission was decidedly inadequate for the vast army of homeless workers in Detroit at that time. Here, also, men were seeking every available place to sleep and many, for doing so, were thrust into jail. The most noticeable feature of the incompleteness of this institution was the lack of a department for women. One of the most startling examples of maladjustment in Detroit was the Michigan Free Employment Bureau, located in an old decaying building, with window lights broken out of both door and window-sash. The floor being much below the level of the ground, each comer carried in the snow and filth, which soon melted into an icy slush. Think of it! Two hundred homeless men, willing to work for a mere pittance, for an existence, crowded into a congested room--which did not hold nearly all of the applicants--many of them with broken shoes and sockless feet standing in ice water for hours while they waited and hoped! As a contrast to this object lesson, let me relate another. The following Sunday afternoon I mingled with an audience of two thousand people listening to a religious agitator who declared he _must_ raise four thousand dollars at once for a Mission,--a Mission which after a service of song and prayer let starving, homeless men freeze to death on the street! In thirty minutes he raised thirty-five hundred dollars. On another afternoon a man, with pathetic words and appealing pictures, was soliciting money for the lepers in India. To my question, "Are not these unfortunates subjects of the British Crown, and being so are there no appropriations made for their care by the English government?" the speaker answered, "Yes; but so little, it is very inefficient." It was then brought to his mind that Great Britain had recently spent several million pounds to crown a king and that this being the case, was it not rather inconsistent of them to ask people of other nations to help care for their sick? To which the gentleman could only reply by suggesting a harmony of opinion! One of Detroit's daily papers misquoted me by saying: "I found scores of mental defectives among the homeless workers roaming the streets of Detroit." Only two actually came under my notice who could properly be classed as mentally unbalanced. But after all I had seen, I fell to wondering if there were not a slight degree of mental deficiency in the minds of those who contribute to visionary institutions--which may perhaps have their good qualities--and to foreign lands, while at our very door, day after day, we hear the cry of the suffering, toiling American citizens who need our gifts. * * * * *