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Show I "HOBO" POWER MAY HELP WIN THE WAR John A. Gray of New York Suggests Conserving Human Energy Now Going to Waste. CIirCAGO, Sept. 15. The conservation conserva-tion of the "hobo" power of the United States with an annual registration registra-tion was advocated today b)' John A. Gray of New York, speaking at the op- ening session of the fifteenth annual convention of the International Lyceum association. "There are millions of hoboes in the country," he declared, "thousands of whom are of the draft age and would profit from military training. Round them up each year, train those who are fit and put the others at work in various va-rious institutions." Other speakers were Henry P. Davison, Da-vison, chairman of the American Red Cross council, and George Creel, chairman chair-man of the bureau of public information. |