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the
then you'd better
reel, the picture
any more. For Hobo
the “bird’ that he nu
First of all, it is note
that no one ¢ an tell for sure just how
the word “h There
one theory
boy.” long
the country ite all m
farm workers, Another
is from the “Ho! Boy
the early
himself, wh
ulary all of
the name to
self a bo Be it
has bécoms lass
oes
for
isn't
interesting to
ited
it
_ in
to designat gratory
says ti
call
cted
and simply
known
one syll
calls him alyo
that he
and, according to his «
words used to descr
SyNONYMOous,
the
worker; the tramp, a
worker; and the bum, a
nonworker
It is doubtful if the public would
make that fine distinction, but wonld
be inclined to lump them all together
the name
that was brought
first railroad and
consciouy
three
not
definition, hobo
migra
as one class under
of hoboes, a elass
into being by the
that until the last few venrs was ever
increa jut now "Weary Wil
lie” type, as depicted on the
ville stage and in th
almost extinct. He was a
dividuallist, responsible to no
to imself and hi
places and see thin
generic
the
vaude
strips, |
strong
e comic
but
8 inward urge to “go
The
one
hobo
il Brotherhood We
He has organ
tryin andardize his
He is seeking a definite status in the
modern of things He holds
conventions, such as the one pictured
He goes to “college” and, like
carries sm “diplomas.” In addi
tion to being organized and standard
ized, he is becoming motorized.
For the advent of the cheap car has
taken him off the freight trains. There
has developed a new type of hobo, di-
vided into three fam
ities gypeying about the country in
“tin lizzies” ; young hoboes who have
their own ears and travel alone: and
the “hitch-hiker who haunts the
paved roads and main highways, in-
stead of the railroads, and who
“bums” rides from passing motorists,
Perhaps no better illustration of the
contrast between the hobo, old and new
style, can be shown than a compari
son between “A-No, 1,” a famous hobo
of the old days, and James Eads How,
founder of the hobo college idea and
perhaps the best-known hobo of the
the Internution: fare
association.
g to st
ized and is
“profession.”
order
above,
not,
as
also
clegses : "whole
International Floto
This meet.
For 30 vears
Leon Rie
arved
or
rode on
had travele
iles for the
During the course
famous ho
later became
London
ag typical
this most
who
Jack
dw
in terms of
the
rest
{place wl and hoboes
gregated)
varied
{hoboes who
place), “bindle
ker In the
who
were sure to
“fore-and
walked from
stiffs” (a mi
find a collection of
afters”
pla ce to
gratory
the word
“skinned
did any other men
he had the chance),
nary
ers
wor f
sense o
fruit,”
fpuds, or
rac
mmed
mules,”
whenever
"gay ts" (ordi
tramps and “stake men” (work
with some money) There,
would be certath to be be
(the
1} whe listened eagerly ae
f the brotherhood, the
“perfesh” of i
told of their experiences in
that were “jake” (not "hostile
bo), where he could “batter
steth” (main
light pieces” and be sure
(feed) from na
(woman) when he battered
door.” Then, tod, there
reminiscences of “decking”
“neddler” (local freight)
“jerk” (branch line); or an
orange special” (fruit car) in
crimpy” (bad) weather, of being
“pulled” (discovered) by a “shack”
and forced to "hit the grit” (walk),
dodging as he left the train, no doubt,
a” “dewdrop” (stong) hurled by the
“shack” or “econ.” Or there might be
tales of adventures in the big
where they had to “carry the banner
(walk the street) all night or take in
the “Jesus screamers” (religious sal
{00
gOme "stew
the prof
bums" tenderfoot oR
the elite
0 “romets,
owed -in-the-gi
stiffs.”
towns
to n
{heg) an
street) for
the “main
of gettin “scoff”
“hay bag”
the back
would be
(riding) a
on a
oe
g some
w“
cities
'
streets) in order to ges a “flop”
to sleep).
All of this talk would pass around
the campfires In the “jungle” as the
“stiffs” sipped their steaming “Java”
(coffee) made In one of the tin cans
(place
students’
tud
of
classes,
ber of
forerunner of
the atus of
new st
rganizati
in 1947,
offer to the mayor. If
were given to them
would keep the he
from begging at back doors and
of mischief, The mayor agreed
taurants supplied left
the hoboes spent a quiet w
There was held firet hobo
tion
into being.
schoolhouse
shelter they
over food
ter there
the Conve
and the organization
he International
rhoodd Welfare association, in
which J. Eads How Is a leading tight,
which holds conventions from time to
time in various parts of the country
at which economie problems are
and the purpose of which, In
the words of How, are to “educate,
organize, abolish poverty and squalor
and unemployment everywhere,” They
have "advance agents” on the road
who carry the gospel of the organiza
tion throughout the country and or
ganize “locals,” For the hobo, 1028
model, is no longer the picturesque in
dividual, He is fast becoming a
standardized member of an organiza
tion,
So now have
Brothe
they
dis
cussed
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Bazaars
wl
Strédts in the bazaar districts
Aslatie cities are only 8 to 10 feet
wide. The larger shops are 8 by 10
and the smaller ones 6 by 6 feet,
with one side giving directly on the
street, In each bazaar there Is a
khan for every 10 or 12 shops, These
khans are two stories high with an
open court In the center and rooms on
the four sides, all opening into the
of
court. A door leads from
court into the street,
Gach buzanr has a coffee shop.
which Is a large open place, covered
partly by a roof, where are a number
of wooden settees ranged In rows, Any
visitor who sits down le first given a
cupful of Turkish coffee and then a
narghile or native pipe filled with
Shriza tobacco. The charge for cofice
and the «ise of the pipe is 2 cents
Here merchants gather Jo discuss
the open
Giant Turtles
There are numerous types of ocean
turtles. The largest type, which has
ne commercial value-~the trunk tue
tle or leatherback-—weighs several
hundred pounds and attains a length
of 6 or 7 feet, An official record on
file at the National Smithsonian Insti:
tution describes a specimen found nt
the American *Museurn of Natural
History, which was caught off the
coast of Connecticut and was gix feet
long and weighed 715 pounds,
a aa wae
Pitching
Babe Ruth
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To Faditor:
This is
tion about
you
informa
pliyer that
just a few items of
ball
hive nevi
will tell
paragraph
Ituth, but
of him bein
pear a
hand pitcher
Well, 1 day
lot
bores you to
VO
8 wide
a whole
Sox
York
tle more
Yankee's
the bencl
from old
City 50 1 though
boren
ting
but 1
he
(‘ome here
and tl firet ball wns
into Mr. McCurdy's
was a ball and then
right over the
strike and the next
located, but
“Ore
went
pext
took
another
one
hasn't yet been
geen it was over
ng
right ®*enter.
way to
inst
arette sign in
Another
ting home runs off of
to pitch when it's turn
The most useless ghing in the world
when this guy's up there to bat is
the opposeing catcher, because if you
ean threw a ball past Mr, Ruth why
it don't make no difference if it's
ecatched or not, where as if try
and throw gne over the plate it won't
never get as far as the catcher,
Once a guy came here with
Rt. lodis Browns and struck
be out three times in one after
noon, and if he is smart he will let
that zo down into posterity, and the
next time they tell him it's his turn
to pitch ve, the N. Y. club hs will
say hie has got a sore arm.
(& by the Bell 8yndicate, Ine)
ston hilt
make him {
you 2 to refuse
his
you
the
the
Regular Crowd
Professor Plckering
late Richard Harding Davis ook
through a marvelous microscope to
prove that there is always some or
ganigm down to the most minute atom
of life,
When it came time to go the noted
author snid:
“Professor Pickering, when | enme
in 1 thought I was an individual; |
leave, knowing myself to be a com
once let the
munity."—Los Angeles “Times
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Not Shed by Weepers
Ere
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other SDOCIes,
over 1340,
tree in 100240 n addition
(XK i¥¥) hoard 1 10.0000,
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were
Yesterday 1 fell { an 18
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killed yourself.
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second step 1 dropped
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.
1
it wax only from the
Signs Point That Way
“oh love with Miss Young
blood”
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alongside the picture
wDetroit News,
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he's her photo hung
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