that the Rescue officer be more highly specialized than the slum
worker. During the past few years the percentage of successful cases of
reform brought about by the Army Rescue Homes has reached as high as 80
or 85%, according to the Army's statistics. They, however, are unable to
keep in touch with all the girls sent out, and hence this percentage
would not be final, but even allowing 25% off for failures not known to
the Army, it is doubtful if there is any other reform agency along this
line which is as successful as is this force of trained rescue
workers.[89] In the United States this force works in conjunction with
twenty-two Rescue Homes scattered throughout the States. These homes are
especially fitted for the work, some having been built for the purpose.
There are work rooms for the girls, where they can do sewing and laundry
work. There is a reading room and sitting room, dining room, and
different dormitories and sleeping apartments. Then special facilities
are provided for the care of babies in the way of proper nurseries.

There are two ways in which these girls come under the influence of the
Homes and Rescue workers: either the girls come voluntarily to the
Homes, expressing their desire to leave this form of life for a better
one, or they are brought to the Home by the direct influence and touch
of the Rescue officer. These Rescue officers make regular tours through
the districts where the girls are to be found. They watch their
opportunities, and whenever they think it wise, they speak to the girls
personally. When this is not possible, they make an advance by way of
literature. One method is to open up a conversation by means of a little
card, upon which is printed the address of the Rescue Home, and the
offer of help to any girl who is in trouble of any sort. Some of the
officers tell us that they get to know the faces of the girls through
their regular tours, and whenever a new girl comes they are able to
recognize her at once, both by her features and her actions. In this
way there have been some instances of real prevention without the need
of any curative means whatever; instances where young girls have been
rescued from the very brink of their evil fate. One way of reaching the
girls is visitation and nursing when they are sick. Another way is
through the police courts. In some of the latter a woman Army officer is
in regular attendance, and the judge frequently hands certain cases over
to her c