BEGGARS ELECT A LEADER
A corfference of beggars, which was attchded by hundrcds of delegatcs from all over Poland, has just .takcn place at Olwoek, ncar Warsaw. The congross was called to consider the problcm of ' begging in tbo health resorts. and jjarticularly in the health resorts ncar Waxsaw. These plaecs are always flooded by beggars, whb pester the visitors and make their life a burden. All methods'of . fightirg the beggars having failcd, the hotol owners dceided to offer the proceeds of- a- iaxwhich they proposed to levy op/ every yi-iitoi". The beggars, however xefnsed
at the eongress to acccpt the offer, insisting that the "old and noble tradition" of begging should be continued, An outstanding featuro of the eongress was the election of a "leader," named Jojne Arbus. Arbus boasts of coming from "a family of beggars," as hie fhther, grandfathcr- and greatgrandfather wero all beggars, and all his eiglit children make a nice living by tollowing the same trade. Oue oi' Arbus 's sons, who tried to "emanfeipate" himself and bccomc a morchant was drivcn from. lijs father 's home for this . unfortuna'tc lupsc into ; ordina'rv' ^taudarc'is. - - - • '
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 137, 26 June 1937, Page 11
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