The records also are examined by a parole committee of three members which meets weekly and recommends certain paroles to be acted upon by the Board of Welfare. A representative of the parole committee visits the “holdovers” at five o’clock each morning, talks with each prisoner, and makes out record cards which are taken into the municipal court by this same representative, who, sitting beside the judge, is frequently asked for information when prisoners are brought in, his record often deciding the sentence imposed. Forty-six per cent. of the commitments for 1910 were paroled--or 1,660 persons--of whom 150 were returned to custody. Nine parole officers confirm the records by weekly visits to the homes or places of employment, and a woman friendly visitor looks after the needs of prisoners’ families during their imprisonment and also during the prisoner’s parole. From non-support paroled men $8,346.21 was collected and paid over to the dependent families. During the past winter it occurred to me that the city needed an inspector of the unemployed, a policeman without a club, who should go every day among the homeless men in the lodging houses, saloons and on the street and talk with them, directing them to pay jobs if possible, or if not, directing them to the municipal quarries in the parks, which were operated to provide work to the unemployed, for 150 to 340 men a day earning meal and lodging tickets there at the usual rate paid for rock cracking. Or if the man was found to be making no effort to find work, after several days this officer, being familiar with the facts, could arrest for vagrancy. This idea was suggested to a police commissioner and an inspector of the unemployed was appointed. In addition to the above duties, he goes into municipal court each day, appearing as an advocate of many homeless men, a class so often unjustly accused and arrested on circumstantial evidence. His desk is in the employment office which is financed by the Board of Welfare, but is managed by and is in the Helping Hand Institute (a private charity which the Board of Welfare uses as a municipal lodging house for meals and lodging for all dependent cases.) The seven hundred men per day who lodge there are practically under the eye of this inspector of the unemployed, and the deterrent effect for the misdemeanant is evident. Among other classes of misdemeanants that Kansas City is reaching is the lodging house keeper, his misdeeds being brought to light by the housing inspection now in progress. The endorsement of the Charities Bureau, or rather the lack of its endorsement, is eliminating the unwise free soup charities and the soliciting frauds--these are of course among the very harmful offenders because of the shiftlessness which they promote. At the suggestion of this Bureau the police have stopped the practice of women soliciting money in saloons.