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PONTETOBNE HEP | TOWANDERINGBOYS - Washington Social and Civic| "Agencies Seek to Place ‘fl‘hem in Homes Again. An’ attempt to return to their own Bomes or place in foster homes the homeless boys who wander into Wash- | ington will be made by local social| agencies, civic groups and the police | department, according to plans formu- lated in conferences here the past week. Active in the movement will be the Boys' Emergency Committee, the Transient Boy Department of the Trav- elers’ Aid Society, the Children’s Div sion of the Board of Public Welfare | and co-ordinated organizations, which | will attempt to locate the parents of | vagrant youths and return the boys to | them, or find homes for the wanderers | in their adopted cities. | Pledging the support of the Wash- ingten police, Maj. Ernest W. Brown told a conference in his office yester- & | y men and I see hordes of home- less youngsters pouring into Washing- | “ ton every week. Many people do rmt‘ realize what that means. We hate to -€ arrest these boys, but uniess something is done to stop their wandering, we are going to find ourselves swamped with a mass of youthful criminals who wiil threaten the safety of the whole com- munity. ;. Nation-wide efforts are being made to effect similar rehabilitation and re- | allocation of boys who have roamed from their homes. NAVY SEES INJUSTICE | IN WCARL'S RULINGS Expense Account Decisions May | Be Law Perfect, but Move for ? » Allowance Goes On. By the Associated Press. { Two differences over that fecund| source of arguments. expenss accounts, | have reached Congress for settlement.| Controller General McCarl disal-| lowed Navy Department requests for| an item of $66.45 to Capt. George W. | Steele, former attache at Paris, and| one of $235.40 to Lieut. Col. Russel B.| Putnam of the Marines. | “The controller general may Jave the | fetter of the law on his sice, but the Navy feels the facts show justice is with the claimants. Here are the cir-| cumstances, as detailed in proposed | bills for payment of the amounts sent | to the House. | Steele advanced Lieut. Felix L.| Johnson money to get to the Asiatic Fleet in Oriental waters back in 1928. | Johnson, the bill details, had to sail on | & boat of foreign registry. There was| some sort of a provision about that,| but Capt. Steele didn't know it. So, he is, in the opinion of the Navy, en- | titled to his money spent for a good | cause. There was another rule that allow- ances for ‘“repeated travel” must be given only in the event two round trips are made. Lieut. Col. Russell B. Putnam ran afoul of that in 1931 when he was ordered to go from San Diego to San Prancisco. He went to and fro and back again, but the manner of his veling did not get him in the “round trip” category and the $235 never has been paid. CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. TODAY. Debate, Philodemic Society of George- | town University, “That the United States Should Grant Immediate Inde- ndence to the Philippines,” Gaston 11, 8:15 pm. Dance, Vohliner Ladies’ Relief So- elety, Jewish Community Center, 8 p.m. Breakfast, Holy Name Society, May- Slower Hotel, 9 a. Meeting. Unitec Lodge of Theoso- phists, Hill Building, 8 p.m. Meeting, Washington Roerich Society, Bears, Roebuck Art Gallery, 8:30 pm.; Eliot Clark, speaker. | Meeting, liberation group, Y. W.C. A, | 8 p.m.; James A. Edgerton, speaker. ) TOMORROW. Luncheon, Alpha Chi Rho Club, La | Fayette Hotel, 12:30 p.m. Luncheon, Alpha Delta Phi, Univer sity Club, 12:30 p.m. Luncheon, Typothetae of Washington, | Raleigh Hotel, 12:15 p.m. Luncheon, Acme Club, Raleigh Hotel, | 12:20 pm. | Luncheon, TIzaak Walton League, | Raleigh Hotel, 12:15 pm. SSENGER_SEDAN, 1° nileage. 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J Delfoll & Co, '12th and G | sta. INVALID ROLLING CHATRS. FOR RENT OF | e; complete line of new and used chairs: | sizes, styles and adjustments: reduced prices. Also folding_chairs. wood or metal. | UNITED STATES STORAGE CO., 418 10t St. N.W., Met._843. APPLES, SWEET CIDER| Rockville Fruit Farm. Prive to Rockville, Md., Then One Mile Out_Potomac Rd. FRUIT CAKEF [ s. Burgdor’s old-fashioned h .é'z' cake_ for sale at unxbun}?’?"t‘l‘:::.‘ #tore and Magruder. Inc., 1Sth and M sts., g7 deivered direct from iy home at $1] Ibs. $4.75. Tel. Capital Heigh 1 persons who | straightforward friendliness he made |ized charity, so does he turn against 7 | communities large and small are fail- Civic leaders interested in the rehabilitation of homeless boys are seen here in conference with Maj. Ernest W. Brown. superintendent of metronolitan police. Left to right, they are: Seated—Mrs. Margaret Ford, director of the Wash- ington Travelers’ Aid; Mrs. Owen J. Roberts, wife of Associate Justice Roberts of the Supreme Court; Mrs. Harlan Fiske Stone, wife of Associate Justice Stone. Standing, left to right—Miss A. Patricia Morss, chief of the children’s division of the Board of Public Welfare; Lieut. Rhoda Milliken, director of the Woman'’s Bureau of the Police Department; New- bold Noyes, associate editor of The Star; Miss Edna Lenox, director of the transient boy department, Travelers’ Aid; Mrs. John J. O'Cogner, chairman of the District of Columbia Emergency Boys' Committee, and Maj. Brown.—Star Staff Photo. WANDERING YOUTH BECONES PROBLEM Many Fine Types Found Among Aimless Young Travelers. (Continued From.First Page.) time as one of his fellows, I have sought | his story from the inside. I have heard the most intimate details of his per- sonal history. I have read his diary and his love letters. I have tried out his mentality and stirred his deeper emotions. Figures Impossible. ‘Whenever I approached him with me his confidant. I conclude that whatever hitch-hiking may once have been—pastime, art, or just a nuisance— it has become in the great majority of cases now & mode of life. By virtue of such existence, often compulsory be- cause of economic conditions, the young | male is marking time. ‘The bewildered boy or young man shuttles rapidly about over the conti- | nent in untellable numbers. I would not attempt actual figures. My route from the Atlantic to the Pacific could be but a thin thread through the tap- estry of American hitch-travel, for there are almost as many routes as there are travelers. From that statement those who will may compile statistics. The welfare or community bureau cannot accurately gauge this traffic from its own records, as there is reason to believe such or- ganizations are in contact with as low as 10 per cent of these wandering young men. Anything smacking of “welfare” is anathema to a surprising number of the transients—in part because they are far from willing to be considered public charges, national nuisances, or some sort of fallen creatures wWho must be “saved.” A welfare bureau is the last port of call, even in the worst of storms. The sccial worker is one of the last persons in the world to whom the more sophisticated young fellows will tell the truth—indeed, in many in- stances the social worker no longer expects to hear the truth. Scoffs at the “Bums.” The Salvation Army, the Young Men'’s Christian Association, the Ameri- can Legion (in a few instances), the mission, the community shelter, or other such institutions, provide food and shelter for many boys, it is true, but the boy individually is rarely en- couraged to remain longer than the prescribed one night. Even as this youth distrusts organ- the professional tramp or hobo. Pic- | turesque though the hobo may be, per- haps in the young man’s eyes he rep- resents the menace of this marking | time. At any rate the roaming Ameri- can boy is even more modern than the | bright red filling staticn. He scoffs at | the “bum.” | The term “hitch-hiking” in connec- | tion with these boys is incorrectly used, |as but for rare instances the process is now all hitching and no hiking. | Hitch-traveling is the more accurate. | The older term applied chiefly to a combination progress along the motor | highway; the newer includes hitching | inertia by repeated refusals of work. to passenger and freight trains—a | | practice more common in the Western |social-minded. half of the United States, where set- tlements are far apart and motor high- ways less frequented by vehicles offer- ing through passage. The age of the transient youth ranges from 14 to 23. Personal stories | I shall give will show a tendency toward the median 19 years, likewise | toward the median educational line of |two years in high school. | Few Are Illiterates. | It is only infrequently that the| tlliterate boy or wyouth of low-grade | intelligence is on the road. He has| | neither the stamina nor the wit to|yet won over the sturdy young man. travel far and endlessly. He is the| - | more apt to lodge permanently with an | long ago have succumbed. He is no part institution. It is significant that on my transcontinental trip I encountered | only two illiterates, and one of these, a | pop-eyed boy of 16 in the camps about the Texarkana Railroad yards, was the | authority of authorities on freight train | movements throughout the Southwest. The bewildered young traveler, in| the main, is of excellent physique. — | ccurageous and enterprising. Time and time again he represents superior men- | tality. He has had grade school or high school education—som a year or so of colleg>. He is. or speedily becomes, the sophisticate. He has been much maligned as a “menace” or as “non-aggressive,” when exactly the op- posite is true. ‘Transient or stay-at- home, the American boy remains an asset. From the transient ranks will come some of the brilliant minds of the future. Due entirely to economic conditions, es lnf to absorb young manhood; they are falling to provide scope for energetic activities and high ambitions. The odd jobs a high school boy may do have simply disappeared. He cannot earn a living, let alone scheoling. Parents, all | too frequently, can no longer be of | assistance. ‘There remains the education of travel. There remains a mode of life which is a weird combination of Huckleberry Finn and battle front existence. ~ This is a moment-to- moment struggle fcr food and shelter, a struggle which, while not devold of acute physical and mental suffering, is ukufiu not devoid of instruction and thrills. Traffic Snarler HOLDS JOB UNTIL POLICE- MAN INTERFERES. GEORGIE ROSS, Aged 4, with a big whistle played havoc with traffic in busy section of San Diego, Calif. He started out to help direct the stream of motor cars, but frequent toots from the whistle caused brakes to squeak and tied up traffic. He finally ‘was spotted by a real policeman, taken to the station and later cailed for by an irate parent. —A. P. Photo. family where budgets are being Te-|oc peatedly reduced, where bickerings en- sue, and where boyish pride is rampant or activity necessary. Or, again, the family elders, while actually in finan- cial comfort. may be without under- standing of the enterprising son. Many boys hitch-traveling today could return home to the warm welcome of the prodigal were it not for boyish pride, thoughtlessly injured. I have encountered many drifting youths who are true orphans. Some seem without ties whatsoever, and these show early maturity. Still others come from families broken up by divorce or separation by mutual agreement. Fam- ily life has gone awry. Family ties have been loosened, if not withdrawn. The spirit of adventure, the ac tion of knowledge, pride, ambition, broken family ties, due often to eco- nomic stringency—such are some of the forces responsible for the transient | American boy of today. And he is, al- most entirely, of purely American stock. In every case these forces have been made doubly or trebly effective by low rlmitly finance and the lack of employ- ment. Personal histories I shall relate in this series of dispatches will show at least minor evidence of an all but in- tellectual movement of youth away from its moorings of family or community. This in itself does not constitute a new movement. It is greater, however, through virtue of lagging employment. Is Still Social-Minded. | ‘The young man does not wish to be | considered a “problem”—except as there | is before him and the country the prob- | lem of adequate work. He has worked. | He is willing to work. If for the moment he does not seek work it is because he | has heen hammered down to momentary | He remains co-operative. He is still He recognizes, for instance, the duties the railroad puts upon the *“special agent” who frequently shovels the hordes of non-paying passengers from the freight trains. He recognizes the obligations assumed by the police. He is surprisingly peaceful and generally honest. This accounts, in general, for his all but genial relationship with the railroad agent and the city police. The young hitch-traveler undoubtedly is a nuisance to many communities. He | is not yet a menace. The itinerant, moment-to-moment life \has its pitfalls of idleness and vice, but these have not Were he a lesser individual he would of any already-defined political or so- cial movement. He constitutes a quest- ing movement of his own. Deep within him he has hopes—chiefly of eventual employment. Likewise, he has cultural aspirations. As his own storles will show he has amazing potentialities. | This fellow is of bright personality, | by virtue of which he manages to travel surprising distances without monetary | payment. He will be the recipient of only direct charity. He can tolerate no | middlemen, who to him are the “wasters” | of organized giving. From One Boy’s Diary. “I don't know where I will sleep tonight, but I hope it wont be no jall. I have had pretty good luck so far in managing to keeg‘ out of the hands of the law, although I don’t see why they should bother me. I don't do anything that I shoulden, and all I ask is just enough to get by on. I don't try to cause them or any body any troubel. I have never asked for any money, not a cent, aithough I have gone two days without food.” Thus writes one 19-year-old in his | diary. Come from West Virginia, he is sojourning in the sun at Long Beach, Calif. His story and his diary will be | mentioned again. ‘There is no secret process by which I came into possession of diaries, love letters, details of so intimate a nature. Willlam Woodin, James Cash Penney, Owen D. Young, Gene Tunney and others have taught me that almost all men, approached with friendly ques- Causes of the Migration. | It takes no wild reach of imagination | to see potential hitch-traveling sons of school age in any average American 4 tioning or argument, can be led to talk of themselves. ‘Why should not & lonely boy, hi for companionship and understan quite without an ax to grind? Fre- uently I did not even question. I simply listened, smiled and out poured the whole story. Accepting me as one of his number, the young man told me the story he wouldn't tell the social worker. I could in many cases check for accuracy. In the end, I believe I have come close to the heart of the perplexing youth movement—which means close to the soul of the young hitch-traveler. He is highly individual. I visited with him many months, during my own un- employment, in Eastern cities. I learned his language. Long before my trans- continental journey I had given him my admiration. Of good stuff, he now has my sympathy. I shall violate no c:.mfldence in telling his personalized story. Accepted as One of Boys. Traveling leisurely in a small motor car from New York City to St. Louis —by way of Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and Louisville—I responded to the pointing thumb of the young wayfarer and took now ome, now two, into the seat beside me. We talked. At the next city or town perhaps I dumped out my passenger, and as soon as possible picked up another. Thus for days to the Mississippi. At St. Louls I.left the motor high- ways and the motor hitch-traveler. Friends had insisted I carry a weapon, I did no such thing, for going armed would imply a distrust of this Ameri- can itinersnt that I did not feel. My baggage now consisted of a pencil and a miniature camera. Through the railroad yards of St. Louis, East St. Louis, and Du Po, I, I went. Now I road a switch engine or a “cut” freight. I thawed out in a switchman’s shack, or plowed through sleet and snow. Always I had com- pany. And so on, through Texarkana, Fort Worth, and to El Paso, sometimes by freight and again making up time by paid passenger fare. From the Rio Grande I rode the freights through the desert to Tucson, to Yuma, and to Angeles. Any of my own exploits in riding the refrigerator cars of the Southwestern railroads will be told simply because they furnish the de- tails of the life into which I was ac- cepted. The stories I shall present do not | come from carefully selected subjects; they spring from chance encounters. Men, and even women and children, are hitching their way about the country. Fully 75 per cent of the transients, however, are young men. (Tomorrow: The Homeless Boy in New York City.) (Copyright, 1932, by North American News- paper Allisnce, Inc.) UNIVERSITY MAY ADD NEW SCHOOL IN D. C. Columbia Professor Favors Courses for Graduate Students in Na- tional Capital. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 10.—Estab- lishment of an extra-mural teaching center in Washington, D. C., and the organization of a new school affording | academic recognition to part-time adult | students are urged by Prof. James Egbert, extension director of Columbia University, in his _annual report to President Nicholas Murray Butler. “As soon as the financial situation Wwill justify such action,” he says in the Teport made public tonight. “I shall Tecommend to the Administration Board the establishing of courses in government, mainly for graduate stu- dents in the city of Washington. “These courses are intended to give students an opportunity to carry on thelr studies in close proximity to the Capitol. As this city is the seat of the Federal Government and the loca- tion of the Congressional Library and | many important institutions, residence for a period of study in that city would be of inestimable value to both students and instructors.” He recommends “the organization of an_institution for the part-time stu- dent which through a formal system may furnish a path, no matter how long or devious, to a degree either in the institution itself or through other schools of the university.” Columbia University, the professor continues “should establish such a new member of its academic following the excellent example of the University of California, Cleveland College of West- ern Reserve, and the University Col- lege of St. Louis.” He reported the Executive Committee of the University Council has appointed a special committee to study the question. About 1,500,000 documents are stamped in government offices in Lon- don every day. LONG-TIME BONDS HELD BUDGET AID Senator Byrnes Would Lift $400,000,000 Out of Cur- rent Expenses. BY J. A. O'LEARY. The lifting of approximately $400,- 000,000 of permanent improvement projects out of the current expenses of the Government and financing them through bonds over a period of years was advocated yesterday by Senator Byrnes of South Carolina as a major step toward balancing the Federal budget. As one of the Democratic members ol the special Senate Economy Cem- mittee, Senater Byrnes will be in the thick of the bi balancing activ- itles at this nd he has a bill ready for consideration to carry out his plan of long-time financing of permanent projects. Byrnes said the object of the bill is to have the Federal Government fol- low the practice of most business cor- porations of capitalizing such projects rather than meet them out of current expenses. Few concerns, he said, at- tempt to do permanent work out of cus rent expenditures. Held Lessening of Deficit. ‘While the measure contemplates a permanent improvement construction fund of not to exceed $500,000,000 at any one time, he said its immediate effect on the Treasury would be to take nearer to $400,000,000 out of the list of current expenses. If that could be done, he said, it would lessen the deficit to that extent and make un- necessary additicnal taxation. “If a beer bill should raise $250,000,- 000,” he continued, “and reductions of Government expenditures should result in anything approximating $500,000 - 000, we would have more than a bil- lion dollars.” The same general idea of funding | public improvements so as to spread the cost over a long period was dis- cussed to some extent by Senate mem- bers at the last session while they were grappling with the budget-balancing problem. Senator Byrnes said yesterday that if the steps he outlined could be taken, “and thereby present a balanced | budget, it would be possible for tihe Treasury to sell long-time bonds and g2t rid of short-time obligations, and result in banks having more capital for industry instead of investing in Government short-time obligations.” Segregation of Work. ‘The classes of work that would be | segregated from current requirements |and handled tbrough the permanent improvement fund under the Byrnes bill, are: Federal highway construction; river and harbor works heretofore or here- after authorized; the construction of public buildings of every description, | and the building of dams and reservoirs | and other works incident to flood con- | trol and reclamation. | . The Secretary of the Treasury would be authorized under this plan to borrow | from time to time such sums as may be necessary for the permanent im- provement fund, not to exceed $500, 000,000 in any one year. or to refund any obligations previously issued, and to issue bonds therefor, to be known as permanent improvement bonds. ‘There would be set up in the Treasury a special sinking fund for the retire- ment of the bonds issued. For each fiscal year, beginning with 1934, until all bonds issued under the act are re- tired, there would be appropriated to- ward the sinking fund (1), an amount equal to 215 per cent of the total ex- penditures made out of the permanent improvement construction fund, on or after the date of the enactment of the Jaw and on or before the last day of the is made, plus (2) the interest which would have been payable during the fiscal year for which the appropriation is made on the bonds issued under this act purchased, redeemed, cr paid out of the sinking fund during such year or previous years. At the last session of Congress Sen: tor Vandenberg, Republican of Michi- gan, gave considerable thought to the question of funding the cost of perma- nent improvements. At that time, he pointed out that some cities had been encouraged 'to go too far in incurring indebtedness during the past decade be- cauce of the ease with which they could fund their public improvements and spread the cost into future years. Vandenberg cited this as a possible danger that might grow up in the Fed- eral Government and as one factor to be weighed. The position he tcok at the last session was that, in the present tax emergency, the funding idea was en- titled to serious study in providing for certain projects which would have to be proceeded with at this time. Senator Ccpeland, Democrat of New York, also discutsed at the last session the proposal to segregate permanent im- | provements and finance them separately. CHINESE BANDITS' CAPTIVE HERE WRITE U. S. ARMY HISTORY pt. Thomas ). Betts Es-| caped While Battle Was Raging. Ca Talented Linguist Now in War College on Special Detail. | Capt. Thomas J. Betts of Chevy| ichnse. Md., talented young linguist of |the War Department, who figured in- iternationally several years ago in a| |sensational escape from Chinese | bandits, is to devote the remainder of | his detail in Washington to compiling | and writing Army history. Previously assigned to research duties | which brought him closely into_con- | tact with the chief of staff, Capt. Betts, 37-year-old college graduate, has been transferred to the historical section of the War College. Besides being one of the few Army officers adept in the Chinese language. Capt. Betts also is familiar with French, Spanish and Italian. | A giant man, standing 6 feet 4 inches | in his stockings, Capt. Betts is as un- assuming as he is big. When finally cornered by a reporter at the War Department, he reluctantly told of the incident in China which was reported to the State Department by legation offictals. Tells Story Briefly. In one sentence, Capt. Betts dis- missed the subject. “One day while taking a walk I was captured by bandits and when this band was sud- denly attacked by government troops, T escaped by the simple method of run- ning away as fast as I could.” He would say no more, but news- paper files of May 21, 1926, furnished more information. Capt. Betts, who was at that time assigned by the Army to the Ameri- can legation to study the Chinese lan- guage, was taken captive in North Yunnan province, one of the most re- mote parts of China. He was making a journey from French Indo-China to the Yangtze, across one of the districts least traveled by foreigners. Bands of robbers roamed the whole region. Captive for Two Days. Outside the town of Lajtowpo, Capt. Betts suddenly encountered one of these bands and was taken captive, the gen- eral practice being to hold such cap- tives for ransom. He had been held captive two days when, as he related, the pandits ran afowl of a body of government troops. During the skirmish, Capt. Betts made his escape in the best method open to him. Due to inaccessability of the outlying | province, his escape occurred before :he legation was aware of his cap- ure. | Capt. Betts is a native of Maryland | and was graduated from the Univer- | sity of Virginia in 1916 with high| honors. From the Officers’ Reserve Corps he entered the Army at the out. break of the World War and has bees in it ever since. HUNT HAS HAPPY CLIMAX | Sportsman, Returning Empty- Handed, Bags Pheasant in Garage. Scuyler W. Post ‘of Waterloo, N. Y., returned downcast from a pheasant |\ hunteguflng which no pheasant had ap- | peared. | " He had spent all day in the woods. | _Entering his home grounds, he saw a ! plump male pheasant step across his | | yard and enter the garage. | RAIL LEADERS SEE PRESIDENT-ELECT Executives of Three Big Sys- tems Call at Hyde Park Home. By the Associated Press. ‘; HYDE PARK, N. Y., December 10.— | Mixing national affatrs with State prob- lems, Gov. 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C. Motors, 1 to 75 horsepower. Apply on Premises AMERICAN WRECKING CO. Tel. Lincoln 6750-J conversation, respond to an approa Home Cooked Foods | Dinners, daily....$1.00; Solid platinum wit brilliant cut DIAMOND Watches —— Handsome watches enhanced bg fine, brilliant cut diamonds witl all-platinum cases of new design. Such a gift will thrill anyone. You will find many styles in our stocks. Watch illustrated is of solid platinum with 26 $75 fine cut diamonds. 17-jewel movement. . . ... i el DIAMOND Wedding Bands—— Beautiful Wedding Bands of all- platinum, set with pure white dia- monds in the most modern styled mountings. You will find our assort- ment most complete and modegat.ely priced. Band lllustrated $25 Other Wedding Bands price from $18 to $250 DIAMOND Ber Pins Very beautiful Diamond Pins make a delightful gift for the lady and in our large stock you will easily find one which will please the most particular person. Priced from $8 to $500 At Christmas time folks come to A. 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