Out to buy ice for his mother in Brownsville yesterday, J. Leon Lazarowitz, hobo king of yester year, stopped at a pay station to flash to the Jewish Daily Bulletin news that the Secretary of State had written him acknowledging a letter he had dispatched to the White House on March 27 asking President Roosevelt to “aid the members of the Hebrew faith in Germany.”
“They wrote me,” said the Hobo King, “that ‘appropriate attention had been given the contents there of.’ Wow!”
Lazarowitz, who hoboed (not “bummed”) around for years, has now settled down. He works in his father’s ladies’ dress factory.
Spring weather and flowers in bloom, he said, cannot make him forego his conviction about keeping off the road. There is also a girl in the picture somewhere, he hinted.
“A rolling stone, you know, gathers no–” Lazarowitz began.
At this moment the telephone company asked for another nickel.
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