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...Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court took a significant and courageous step last week in striking down four ancient laws of the Common-wealth--specifically statutes making it a crime to be a vagrant, a tramp, a vagabond, or a suspicious person abroad in the nighttime and unable to give a satisfactory account of himself. They were laws not often enforced, but it was precisely their erratic and necessarily arbitrary application that made them dangerous...
...Commonwealth. In declaring the "abroad in the nighttime" statute unconstitutional, Associate Justice John V. Spalding '20, author of the opinion, wrote that "Suspicion, which is an inadequate ground for arrest is no more satisfactory as a basis for punishment." Similarly Spalding noted that "The use of the vagabond charge rather than a charge of theft or attempted theft suggests an absence of probable cause and the consequent evasion of traditional constitutional safeguards that results when suspicion, which admits of no predictable boundaries, is the basis for arrest and punishment...
...vagabond who is wrapping at your door is standing in the clothes you once wore...
Song of the Grasshopper was a fable that pitted the steady workers of this world against a charming drone. Naturally the drone wins. Alfred Drake played the role in his customary vagabond troubadour style, sans songs. Grasshopper was adapted from the Spanish, and the original play may just possibly have possessed something more dramatic than tedium recollected in tranquillity...
...DRIFTER. Director Alex Matter and Photographer Steve Winsten make the ordinary something to celebrate in this fragile film about a young vagabond...