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Show "HOBOED" TO GET POINTERS DavlJ McCalib, Texas Veteran, Makes "Blind Baggage" Trip to Aid Ex-Servlce Men. JoWcss and penniless, hundreds of ex-service men In the West are "riding the rods" from place to place In search of employment. employ-ment. WJiile others talked about doing something for t h 6 m , David McCalib, young wa veteran of Dallas, Tex., made a long trip as a "hobo" to get first-hand Informs Infor-ms don about the men to devise means of helping them that would be acceptable to all. "I rodo the bllnilj and side-door pull-mans pull-mans for 800 mtlea over the M. K. & T., Sante Fe and 'Texas and Pacific railroads," McCalib reported to the American Legion authorities of Texas handling the unemployment problem. "I noted three outstanding things In the six-day trip. First, the real, old-time old-time hobo of the back door variety has almost disappeared. Second, there were a large numbr of young men who were too y-ovfig to have entered the army. The .-naJcMty of the men riding the rods were ot 'his class. Third, there was a comparatively small number of ex-service met; on the rods. They were noticeably u-itralued In the ways of hoboing." |