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So the Mitchel administration came quickly to the conception that they must do something for the unemployed. You had to solve the problem. That was a very exciting and very educative period for me and for all of us, because we dealt with the unemployment en masse and at first hand.

Henry Bruere and Paul Kennedy got the idea that you had to put these people under cover somewhere. Many of the unemployed were really James Eads How's boys. Eads How died only a few years ago. He came from a very distinguished American family on both sides and he became a real hobo. There's a difference between a hobo and a tramp, and he became a conscientious hobo. He was a well educated man - Harvard, Princeton or something like that. He wasn't an IWW member, but had a rival organization.

Eads How for years - he was then a middle-aged man - had organized the hoboes and tramps. They had a code. They had an idea. They had a pattern of life. They stood by each other. They were all one band of brothers. They would always stand by each other. They made little fires in the street and would cook in a tin can over it. They would make Mulligatawney, which is just a little of everything put together and cooked in a tin can. They slept in doorways and such places. They wouldn't go to municipal lodging houses. It was a principle. Why? First they made you take off your clothes and that was