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...mail came the enclosed clipping, sent by my mother-in-law, Mrs. Alex Vreatt of Wrangell, Alaska. This clipping from The Alaskan of Petersburg, Alaska is especially of interest if you turn over the title page. There you will note that it is published by the Alaska Native Brotherhood Publishing Co. The Alaska Native Brotherhood is an organization of native Alaskan Indians. Evidently your magazine and articles are read not only over the entire world but by Alaskan Indians as well...
...Argentine Republic has awakened from sleep. ... A rude awakening was necessary for the nation to recover its lofty ideals. . . . The inflexible purpose of [my] government is the upholding of reciprocal international interests, the traditional friendship with all other countries in the world, and brotherhood with the nations in America...
James Eads How was a stubborn idealist. He believed in the "actual, practical brotherhood of man." His family was rich. His grandfather was James Buchanan Eads, builder of the first bridge across the Mississippi at St. Louis, builder of the Mississippi jetties just below New Orleans. His father was James Flintham How, vice president and general manager of the Wabash Railroad. Young How entered Meadville Theological School, Unitarian institution at Meadville, Pa. Fellow students termed him eccentric, "crazy," because he gave the poor his allowance, his possessions, everything but meagre necessities. He made his room a hermit-like cell...
...ridiculed him, exaggerated his wealth, called him the "millionaire hobo." But his mother approved. When she died she willed him a half-million dollars, half in a trust, half to spend on his idealism. He spent all his money on his tramps. He financed the organization of the International Brotherhood Welfare Association, hobo "union." He founded some 60 hobo colleges, several lodging houses. Bums attended meetings and classes for the food he dispensed, ridiculed him for his gullibility. He knew of the sneers, the contempt, but persevered undaunted with his benevolence...
...Unitarian Church (whence William Howard Taft was buried). After the services the body was to be cremated and sent on to the family home at St. Louis. Only one tramp, and he but a nominal one, was there-Harry W. Johannes Jr. of Baltimore, representing the idealistic International Brotherhood Welfare Association. He would not enter the church, remained outdoors, distributing copies of The Hobo News. The only funeral eulogy was a phrase from Matthew:-"I was an hungered and ye gave me meat; I was thirsty and ye gave me drink"-spoken by the minister of All Souls...