[20] Rudolph Pintner and H. A. Toops, “Mental Tests of Unemployed Men,” Journal of Applied Psychology, I (1917), 325-41; II (1918), 15-25.
[21] “Unemployment and Feeble-mindedness,” Journal of Delinquency, II (1917), 59-73.
[22] Herman M. Adler, “Unemployment and Personality—A Study of Psychopathic Cases,” Mental Hygiene, I (January, 1917), 16-24.
[23] R. E. Park and H. A. Miller, Old World Traits Transplanted, p. 27.
[24] Rexford Tugwell, “The Gypsy Strain,” Pacific Review, pp. 177-78.
CHAPTER VI
THE HOBO AND THE TRAMP
The term “homeless man” was used by Mrs. Alice W. Solenberger in her study of 1,000 cases in Chicago to include all types of unattached men, tramps, hobos, bums, and the other nameless varieties of the “go-abouts.”
Almost all “tramps” are “homeless men” but by no means are all homeless men tramps. The homeless man may be an able-bodied workman without a family; he may be a runaway boy, a consumptive temporarily stranded on his way to a health resort, an irresponsible, feeble-minded, or insane man, but unless he is also a professional wanderer he is not a “tramp.”[25]
There is no better term at hand than “homeless men” by which the men who inhabit Hobohemia may be characterized. Dr. Ben L. Reitman, who has himself traveled as a tramp, in the sense in which he uses the word, has defined the three principal types of the hobo. He says: