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<1 T h e Charleston G azette, Sunday, Septem ber 1 9 , 1 9 3 7 . The Charleston Gazette Independent Democratic Newspaper <Established 188?) Published every day by The Daily Gazette Company ol The Capita) City ol West Virginia Subscription Kates—By Mail Daily and Sunday—One Month .................. $ Daily and Sunday—Three Months ...................... Daily and Sunday—One Year ................. Outside ol West Virginia—Pei Month ............. » Daily Daily Paily Daily and and and and 60 1.80 7.20 .75 Carrier Rates ........................ $ 20 Sunday—One Week Sunday—Three Month* ..................... 2.60 Sunday—Six Mouths ........................ 5.20 Sunday—Oue Year ........................ 10.40 J Member ol The Associated Press * The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication ol ah news dispatches credited to it and local news contained herein. " National Advertising Representatives, Geo. B. David Co.. 110 East 42nd. Street, New York. 1900 Wrigley Building, Chicago 26-161 All Telephones 26-161 Entered at the Postoffice at Charleston. W. Va.. as second-class mail matter “First in West Virginia” ~ Sunday Morning, September 19, 1937 A T hou ght For T od ay A m a n m a y n o t t e w o n a b u t t o n a s e a s ily a w o m a n , b u t h e ca n s a y w h a t h e th i n k s 'u s u a lly w it h o u t l o s in g h is s e l f - c o n tr o l . P e n e lo p e P e r r iff. — ^Author of The Federal Reserve - Some little time ago, we read a statement, possibly an Interview with Senator Carter Glass Virginia, in which he, in fact, supported our Secollection of w hat occurred in the year 1913, when the Federal Reserve Act was, In the first year of the administration of Woodrow Wilson, being discussed before committees, in the news papers, and in both branches of the congress. ~ In th a t statem ent Senator Glass said, or admitted, th a t he took a committee of bankers jo President Wilson to urge the position that $ie money law should contain a provision that the Federal Reserve Board should have repre sentation from the bankers. President Wilson called Mr. Glass’ attention to the situation with reference to the Interstate Commerce Commission. He asked the then congressman, now Senator, Glass, did he think it right to give the transportation companies representa tion on the Interstate Commerce Commission? Senator Glass says th at this opened his eyes and he saw th a t the president was right and ge, Glass, was wrong. ~ At th a t time, Senator Robert L. Owen, of the state of Oklahoma, was chairman of the committee on banking and currency. He was 41ways right on th at feature of the Federal Reserve system. He insisted th at there would fie as much reason for giving representation to the transportation companies on the Inter state Commerce Commission as there would be fbr giving the banks representation on the Federal Reserve Board. The discussion of the facts relating to the whole matter, arising out of the knowledge that the Federal Reserve Act was the result of the Pujo Investigation, that Mr. Untermyer was the counsel for the Pujo committee, and the equally known fact that the position of Senator Owen was set forth in a magazine editorial, and the further fact that upon all appropriate occasions, Senator Owen became a defender of the federal reserve sys tem. On December 19, 1913 when the house bill was before the senate, Senator Owen moved to substitute his bill, as he had finally worked it cut in the senate, for the house bill, which was done by a vote of 54 to 34. Senator Owen’s well known plans, his public utterances, and his theory of banking and finance were seen in the bill as finally signed by the president. On the day th a t the president signed the bill, De cember 23, 1913, the president wrote to Sena tor Owen, and from that letter we quote: "The whole country owes you a debt of gratitude and admiration. It has been a pleas ure to have been associated with you in so great a piece of constructive legislation.’’ A gold pen with which the president signed the bill was also presented to Senator Owen. In addition to this, a copy of the bill on vellum, signed by the president, and containing the -signatures of the officers of the United States senate and of the house of representatives, and also a full set of the first Federal Reserve notes were presented to Senator Owen. One who had anything like intimate knowledge with the proceedings of congress a t that time must know th at it would be about as difficult to strip Lindbergh of the honor of having made the first solo flight across the Atlantic as to strip Senator Robert L. Owen of the honor of having been the power house behind the fed eral reserve system. The opposition to the president’s sugges tion for an admittedly constitutional reform in the judicial branch of the government struck a point a t which reason and precedent were so palpably against the opposition th a t some thing was necessary to support the weakening debate. Someone conceived the idea of mak ing the kicking democrats do the talking and building up a witness against President Roose velt in the person of Senator Glass, and there fore it became a habit in the senate to hear those Democrats who were taking the side of Hoover, Knox and Hamilton, refer to Senator Glass as the author of the federal reserve sys tem. That was never true and was not true when asserted In the senate and in the house. By the drift of circumstances, Senator Glass be came the mentor, the eppigrammatist of the kickers. We have no desire to take from the oldeit senator any of the honor due to his ability, to his talking on one side of his mouth and face, The Daily Washington Merry-Go-Round Same Old Ilunk Brighter Side By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen (A u th o r s o f ”W a s h in g to n M e r r y - G o - R o u n d ” a n d “M o r e M e rry -G o -R o u n d ”) . By Damou K any on We join heartily in welcoming the American Legion, which opens it’s nineteenth annual convention a:.d reunion in New York City to morrow. We hope and trust that a good time is had by alL Anywhere . om 250,000 to 500,000 delegates, and- what comes with them, are expected, and it is esti mated that they will spend up wards of $25,000,000 while in the big city. This is very nice news, indeed. We can all use a little fresh money here in Gotham. • It is announced in the public prints that a picked group of 800 American Legion men has been formed to counsel Legion members “in the moments of exuberance that may be expected during the five days of the convention.” Will O ffe r A dvice It is slated that the men who constitute the group “will in no sense perform the duties or assume the attitude of the military police of the vVorld war days,” but they will be on duty in night clubs and similar places of Entertainment in cooperation with the management and “will offer suggestions to such Legion members as seem to be in need of a suggestion or two.” It sounded like a good idea until we investigated the personnel of the group. We find that the mem bers have been selected from every state because of their reputations in their communities, and because they are acquainted with New York City, but wre doubt that they will prove entirely adequate as an ad vice committee under all the condi tions that may arise “in moments of exuberance.” We think the group should in clude men like Mr. Alphonse Weskit Weill, Mr. Samuel McQuade, Mr. Antonio Martello, Mr. William Johnston, Mr. Thomas McArdle, and Mr. Jonathan Attell. These gentle men are professional matchmakers in the great city of New York. M ore in T h eir L ine It is their pecular function to pair off, on terms of fairness, and equality, and with due considera tion to weight, height, experience, style, and even age, the disciples of Thesus, more familiarly known as pugilists. They have a profound knowledge of who ought to lick whom. It is a business, and a life study w'ith them. They are loyal American citizens, and some of them probably Amer ican Legionnaires themselves, and we have no doubt they would glad ly give ther time to the Legion group during the period of the con vention to prevent the lads “in mo ments of exuberance” from making bad matches, especially around the night clubs and similar places of entertainment, where bad matches for strangers abound. For instance, suppose Mr. Antonio Martello came upon a middle-aged M c In ty re D ay ay .Da^1 I] ^topped on upper Broadway the othipr evening to hear a man nam ed O'Brien, self-styled King of the Hcboes, spread his gospel from a stepladder. He had the gift of gab anii held the crowd. Hoboes resent being called tramps. They take a pride in the significance of the na- •>e hobo, whatever it .may an. .her days any fellow whd >ok to Uhe open road was just a tra np. Jim Tully once chided me for re ferring to him as a hobo. He insisted and then introduced “a speaker among speakers, a great thinker, a student and philosopher,” and an other hobo took the stand. These two fellows, whose object may have been just to entertain and pick up a few nickles, undertook to make it clear they had nothing in common with the usual run of soap box gospelers. Their, ideas were solely those of the true hobo. Somehow, all of us are a bit at tracted by the life of the hobo. The b o th h e .a n d .Tack D e rrm se v w o r e hohrvoc in mobilized. Yet in the final analysis, the hoboes are like the Greenwich Villagers. They delight us immeas urably up to a certain point, and then we begin walking back. The speakers pointed out the wis dom of simple food—plain pota toes, tomatoes, cabbages and the like. They laid most of our ills to the chemicals in fancy food. They said we suffer from a “stomach” philosophy. We live in fear of not getting enough to eat. We are bur- WASHINGTON. — The member of the supreme court most disap pointed over the Ku Klux Klan revelations about Hugo Black prob ably is Justice Cardozo. According to his friends, the jus tice had been looking forward ea gerly to the day when Black took his seat on the bench, because he knew that the vitriolic tongue of the Alabama ex-senator at last would be a match for the acid dis position of Justice McReynolds of Tennessee. Ever since Justice Cardozo joined the supreme court he has been subjected to insults from McReynolds. The Ten nessean began by opposing Cardozo’s appointment before it was made. Then while .Car dozo was taking the oath of office, McReynolds ostenta tiously read a newspaper. For a long time after that he did not even speak. Cardozo, who has led a most cloistered life and is one of the shyest men in public office, has shrunk from the unconcealed antipathy of McReynolds. In the privacy of his own study, Cardozo can write caustic, even sarcastic opinions. But he flinches from knock-downdrag-out debate. Therefore, he was looking for ward to the day when the razortongued Black would take his seat on the bench. Black has a quick southern temper, is one of the greatest cross-examiners the sen ate has seen since the days of Tom Walsh, and it wfas certain that he would delight in verbal bouts with his reactionary colleagues. Now, however, his hand has been weakened and he may not be so aggressive. Furthermore Justice Cardozo, although too much of a gentleman to say so, may not be enthusiastic about having as his champion one who once joined with the avowed persecutors of Jews and Catholics. Cotton Curb Secretary Henry Wallace has a long-range plan up his sleeve to put U. S. cotton growers back into the world markets which they lost as a result of AAA crop-curbing. He will announce the important re versal of policy in a speech at Memphis, Tenn. In revealing his change of tune on the desirability of exports, Wallace will make it clear, how ever, that the administration has no intention of abandoning its de mand that congress enact a pro duction control bill. It still wants this legislation as much as ever. Wliat Wallace proposes is to modify the control of cotton surpluses enough to allow the United States to get back Into the export business. He wants power to regulate output, but will use that power onlv to Reserve system. He insisted th a t there would be as much reason for giving representation to the transportation companies on the Inter state Commerce Commission as there would be for giving the banks representation on the Federal Reserve Board. The discussion of the Federal Reserve Act was so general, the hear ings and the proceedings of the various confer ences were so well known, th a t anyone with general knowledge of the proceedings in con gress will recall th at this bill was being dis cussed by bankers’ associations, and by many other civic and finance organizations and bodies. ' Senator Owen was then recognized as one of the best authorities in the country upon banking, finance, and currency. While the Democratic conferences in the senate were go ing on, he was invited to address the bankers’ association at Chicago. While he was enroute to Chicago, the bankers passed a resolution condemning the Federal Reserve Act and call ing upon congress to defeat it. 1 When Senator Owen arose a t the bankers’ rpeeting, he said th at he would assume that the bankers present were familiar with the Sill, but th at he had several copies of it with him and would be glad to furnish any of the members with the printed copy. Thereupon several of the members spoke up and said that they had not seen the bill, and Senator Owen thereupon said: “Am I to understand that none of you have copies of the bill, nor have read it?” Receiving an affirmative answer, he made some spicy remarks as to the unique situation \ of a great bankers’ association having passed a resolution condemning a bill which they had not seen nor read. Thereupon the discussion proceeded with the knowledge of the country that the bankers had condemned, without even average information of the details of the bill, a measure in which the president, the congress, and the country generally, were deeply inter ested. In other words, Senator Owen became the target of the active opposition to the bill There was probably no one in the United States better able to meet the criticism of the phil osophy of the bill or the details of Its workings. Very recently, the Democrats of the senate vho became the spokesmen for the Republican opposition to the president’s suggestion th at the Judiciary system of the nation needed re form, have made Senator Glass their hero. To peak a little more plainly, they built up a strong witness, as they thought, reasoning that t man who was in the house under the Wilson administration would be, as a senator, a strong vitness against the court proposal of the presilent. Senator Glass wrote a book on the sub let, and in 1027 Samuel Untermyer wrote to : nator Owen calling attention to the claims icinT made that Mr. Glass was really the auii r jf the Federal Reserve Act. This is now clearly seen to be a concerted lavement to build up the witness, Glass, for « • in the debate on the court question. We ive seen the letter of Mr. Untermyer, the nswer of Senator Owen, and the group of w e orut of circumstances, Senator Glass be came the mentor, the eppigrammatist of the kickers. We have no desire to take from the oldest senator any of the honor due to his ability, to his talking on one side of his mouth and face, nor his wit, nor his cutting side remarks. While we despise his apostasy, and have never heard nor read of a passable reason for it, and while we pity his isolation from those who have fought with him for a high standard of party faith under the leadership of Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt, we feel resentment a t his willingness to strike with the Republican weapons a t his party and its leaders after its major battles have been won signally and in glory, and be benefitted by it. It was a pathetically transparent move to attempt to use Senator Glass as one of the leading witnesses for the case against the president’s court reform plan. In order to build him up to heroic size his admirers and sponsors went back 24 years and falsely claimed that he was the author of the Federal Reserve Act. The plain truth is th a t at th a t time Mr. Glass was not in the senate but in the house. And in justice to history and the record he was only one member of congress when Mr. Wilson tried to get the complete control of the nation’s finances out of the hands of a group of big international bankers. It is too bad that Mr. Glass has allowed the enemies of the court plan to point to him as the author of the Federal Reserve Act for in ail honesty he was no such thing. The author and sponsor of th a t bill was former Senator Robert L. Owen. siuup uiuuig uie period ol the con vention to prevent the lads "in mo ments of exuberance" from making bad matches, especially around the night clubs and similar places of entertainment, where bad matches for strangers abound. For instance, suppose Mr. Antonio Martello came upon a middle-aged gentleman in "a moment of exuber(Please Torn to Page 13 Part 2) The Readers’ Forum anu held the crowd. Hoboes resent being called tramps. They take a pride in the significance of the nat -e hobo, whatever it may an. Viesudays any fellow whek >ok to Uhe open Toad was just a tra np. Jim Tully once chided me for re ferring to him as a hobo. He insisted both he #and Jack Dempsey were what are known as “road kids.” Well, anyway, O’Brien rambled on Bewildered Editors Comment On Charles Town Bank Embezzlement, Praise Deposit Insurance Editor Gazette: Where do we go from here? There are a few things, about the genus homo, that if kept in mind, would Apparently bewildered by the half-million dollar help most of us think more clearly. embezzlement in the Charles Town bank, editors of Man is not by Nature the noble as the state divided their comment last week between piring creature who is constantly criticism of the system that permitted the unusually striving to reach the star he has large defalcation, and praise for the Federal De hitched his wagon to. Most of us posit Insurance corporation which already has know nothing about astronomy, per moved to make good all the deposits up to $5,000. sonally, to put us far ahead of the The Raleigh Register and* the Morgantown Post early cave man. What we do know were the most caustic in their criticism. is that there is a very great deal of recorded knowledge available to “Despite all the billions of dollars we have been us if we become interested enough reading about for the past few years,” the Register to look it up.* Most of us never do. said, “a half-million dollars still is beyond the com Man’s progress is more negative prehension of most of us. But we always think of than positive. He learned to use banks in terms of big money and just concluded fire because he was cold and un that maybe the Charles Town bank had so much comfortable. He has since that time, that it took a long time to discover the loss of a from time to time, turned the world half-million dollars ” upside down and inside out trying The Morgantown paper first pointed out that the to get away from what was uncom bank had been examined regularly by the state fortable and distasteful to him. So banking department and the Federal Deposit In ciety en masse only adapts itself to surance corporation, and then said: the new and proven betterments in life as it becomes discontented and “Now, even if the examiners for the state oankdissatisfied with the status quo. ing department and the Federal Deposit Insuarnce We were all taught in school that corporation, didn’t detect this wholesale embezzle the more convolutions in the brain’s ment, what were the directors and officers and surface, the more brain power. In other employes of the bank doing from February other words, the more wrinkles in to August that they didn’t discover what was hap the? brain the more we study to pening? solve life’s wrinkles. While I do not “We aren’t asking these questions for the pur care to dispute the physiological pose of reflecting upon anybody, but simply be truth of that teaching I wish to cause we don’t understand. Doesn’t the board of di point out that the wrinkles in our rectors of a bank have any means of determining collective stomachs during the few what is happening if half its deposits afe being worst years of the depression have stolen right under the directors’ noses? Don’t the 'We hesitate to add our humble mite about been much more effective. officers of a bank, quite independent of any exami In 1930 there were but few the Constitution of our great country after the nation by the state or the F. D. I. C., take any among the exploited and dispos deluge of words th a t have drenched the coun sessed mass of our population who precautions of their own to see that the resources entrusted to their care are being protected? try during the past week. But to us the gran still valued their citizenship enough “And here’s-something else: Charles Town is a to pay poll tax for the privilege of deur and the marvel of the Constitution is its kidding themselves at the ballot small town. Everybody knows everybody else. Is it possible that in a town of that size a man could box. There was in their minds and simplicity—the secret of its long rule over our steal and dispose of $500,000 or more in six or seven hearts no real feeling that they country is due to the fact th a t our fathers were participating in a government months without anybody else in the town knowing about it? If that is possible in Charles Town, it is of, for, and by the people. realized th a t the government is most secure itfost of us have only a grumbling in a class all to itself. We don’t believe it could hap when it is most free. Our Constitution can interest pen in many other towns of that size. We wonder in government. Most of the if Charles Town, since it got the hoss races, has lost change so little yet so much. people, who are referred to as wagt , • Starting as a limited republican form of workers, domestic servants, farm some of its characteristic perspective and neighbortenant farmers, share crop-" -Jy; inquisitiveness.” government, under the Constitution, we have hands, pers, and the other multitude of After Banking Commissioner Ward had explained been gradually changing over into a vast, rep farmers, small home owners and the method used by the acting cashier in the al resentative democracy. The effect of that business men; who would have been leged theft, the Post replied: “Our curiosity instead of being satisfied by the change is nothing short of a revolution yet It much better off if they could have traded the deed and the tax bill to explanation of the banking commissioner, is only has been accomplished under the Constitution. their property for the mortgage whetted into greater keeness, and we suspect we Our social and economic status—whether you against it; found themselves in the are not much different'from the average reader realize it or not—has ALREADY been changed early thirties either liquidated or in who has been shocked by the disclosure that em process of being liquidated. bezzlement of this magnitude was possible under under the Constitution and in any other coun theThese folks had lost hope to such our present system of bank operation and inspec try that would certainly have been the oc tion.” (Please Turn to Page 13 Part 2) casion of a bloody revolution. The Morgantown Dominion-News looked at the Once, vital change under the Constitution case from another angle, saying. “In the old days, back when big bankers and big failed and resort to arms had to be taken. This Intercepted Message business were running the country through their marked the passing of slavery in our land. It mouthpiece. Herbert Hoover, the closing of such a Sept. 18, 1937. is possible that even in that dire case a remedy i Dear Fellows: bank in a small town would have wrecked the com might have been found by democratic methods munity. Don’t forget that a location “Many communities, large and small, suffered within the framework of the Constitution. But fight cost us a new post office when Hoover, in the usual do-nothing Republican building several years ago. in the Dred Scott decision the supreme court manner, allowed banks to crash in all parts of Yours, exceeded its powers shamefully and outrage the country. ously, blocked the way to compromise and “Today, however, the story is a different one. paved the way to a bitter civil war. That was The federal government insures all deposits up to $5,000, and within a short time practically all those not the fault of the Constitution, which still Cong. Joe L. Smith, who had money in the Jefferson county institution Postmaster Julius Singleton, stands unimpaired as our guide and guarantee will be paid off in full. Charleston, W. Va. of a free, democratic form of government. ••Bi* ritv hmkf'rc v.*».*« '*-♦ S The Constitution meu we oegin wanting oacK. duction control bill. It still wants The speakers pointed out the wis this legislation as much as ever. dom of simple food—plain pota What Wallace proposes is to toes, tomatoes, cabbages and the modify the control of cotton like. They laid most of our ills to surpluses enough to allow the the chemicals in fancy food. They United States to get back into said we suffer from a “stomach” the export business. He wants philosophy. We Jive in fear of not power to regulate output, but getting enough to e a t We are bur will use that power only to dened by the money idea. Faith, and avoid s u c h price-swamping yields as this year's 16,000,000 (Please Turn to Page 9, Part 2) bale crop. In actual operation, the pro gram would be a variation of the old “domestic allotment plan.” Farmers would be paid a subsidy by the government for holding down acreage; and the domestic price would be permitted to follow world mar ket levels so that U. S. cotton could compete with foreign production. eral deposit insurance plan, mainly, we suppose, At present the artificial mainte because it costs them something and directly bene nance of high domestic prices fits the small depositors. through government loans acts as “Charles Town will appreciate this federal in a bar to exports. surance law now, although it is likely that only a Significant Hint Few caught its significance, but few persons in the little Jefferson county town realized their money was protected by 9 govern the tip-off to Wallace’s new policy ment that stands up for the little felow, even if was his vigorous insistence that government cotton loans be held big boys oppose such actions.” The Putnam Democrat looked at the case from down to nine cents a pound. The congressional bloc first the same viewpoint. It said: “It is one of the very, very few bank closings to cried for 12-cent loans and then occur in West Virginia since the advent of the came down to 10 cents. Wallace Roosevelt administration. Prior to that time, failures fought on, succeeded in holding loans down to nine cents. He took were epidemic. stand for the express purpose “The Charles Town failure Is different than the thisopening the way for a reentry failures that preceded the banking holiday ordered of of U. S. cotton into world markets by President Roosevelt the day he took office in on a large scale. that it resulted from crookedness from within, Another significant straw in whereas the collapses prior to March 4, 1933, were the wind was the resignation of due in the main to ‘runs’ of frantic and frightened Cully Cobb as southern regdepositors who had lost confidence in banks and ional AAA director and the re preferred the security of the mattresses and other turn of Oscar Johnston to th© hide-away places for their deposits. There is an agriculture department as as other point of difference. Depositors caught in sistant to Wallace. Cobb is a die-hard believer bank crashes in the pre-Roosevelt era had very lit in drastic crop control and high tle of their money returned to them. In the failure government loans. Johnston, of the Charles Town bank, they will have every manager of one of the largest dollar returned to them, up to $5,000 of their de cotton plantations in the south posits. and head cf the government “ ‘I have determined to place the institution in cotton pool, once held similar liquidation and I have asked the federal deposit views, but last year decided insurance corporation to discharge its responsibil this was a mistaken policy and ity,' says Banking Commissioner Ward. began urging a return to ex “What does that mean? It simply means that the port production. closed bank is a member of the FDIC, with its Johnston Policy deposits insured by Uncle Sam. Therefore, every Able and persuasive, the Missisdepositor will get back dollar for dollar, up to sippian is highly regarded by Wal- / $5,000, and he knows now what he will recover lace and has been his chief cotton from the wreckage. He further knows that it won’t adviser. be six months, or a year or any indefinite period When Johnston began advocating before his money is returned. The affairs of the his revised export theory, it waif bank will be promptly examined, the adjustments (Please Turn to Page 9, Part 2)m figured and the depositor will have his money with in a very short time. “In other days and under different circumstances, a West Virginia bank failure for more than a half million dollars would have stirred depositors in their funds, even though the particular bank they this and other states to looking to the security of patronized was thoroughly sound, capably and By Arthur “Bugs” Bae ’honestly managed. That’s what did happen at the depth of the depression. Public hysteria and panicky runs of frightened depositors were not checked un til all banks were closed on the order of the presi dent, their affairs examined and the people reas sured. W’e never thought “Today there is not a ripple of excitement any reach the spot where where. Patrons of banks know positively that they est tribunal in the are protected in their deposits against everything establish a low watei and anything up to $5,000, and that figure is high Well, time marches c enough to include the great mass of people who do stops once in a while business with banks. little jig. “For this happy situation, we have President Roosevelt to thank. Upon his recommendation, con It’s doing a tap da gress provided insurance for deposits, thereby put W’e don't know how ting the banks on a more secure footing and re will work out. for storing public confidence in their operations. It is C-nnon said it one of the most far-reaching and beneficial reforms the New Deal has provided to hasten economic re Maybe it would covery.” idea to increase the ^ The West Virginia News at Ronccvertc inferred judges and put the s that horse racing had a part in the alleged em n y o n e s in the back- O P E N bezzlement by the acting cashier. “Is it mere coincidence that this happened in a It is not enough fo^NINGS small town where the most ambitious race track serve your nation. \ gambling enterprise under state auspices was esa ls o t a k e a g o o d o ic tn * « — ■■■■■■». may have been just to entertain and pick up a few nickles, undertook to make it clear they had nothing in common with the usual run of soap box gospelers. Their . ideas were solely those of the true hobo. Somehow, all of us are a bit at tracted by the life of the hobo. The hoboes in the army nearly convert ed a large number to forsake the grind for the roving life when de- Baering DownOn The New$q j • •« j )
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