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Forms to be Filled out for Each Interview
FORM A
Circumstances of Interview
Now York
FOLKLORE
NEW YORK
STATE
BOrnan Partner lanl Levitt
NAME OF WORKER
657 M. 144th Stroot 557 licit 144th Street
ADDRESS
Jim 14th. 1959
DATE
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SUBJECT
0061114 PRINT 110NXY MUMS
1. Date and time of interview
Bryant Park
2. Place of interview
Analiyainui
3. Name and address of informant
4. Name and address of person, if any, who ;:ut you in
touch with informant.
5. Name and address of pt.rson, if any, aocom-)aning you
6. Description of r -)or, house, surroundins, etc.
(Use as many additional sheets as necessary, for any of the forms,
each bearing the proper heading and the number to -which the material
refers.)
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STATE New York
7,22E OF TOD,KER Herne= PilIrtalLOW
ADDRESS 557 4. 144th Street
June 14th, 1939
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SUBJECT
Saul Levitt
567 4. 144th Street
WE OUGHTA PRINT MONEY OURSELVES
FOLF,LOE
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You can't steal my shirt. I always got two shirts. If one gets
dirty I give the other one away to same guy, but I won't let you steal
it. The Lord is my shepherd I shall not went. I want a suit of clothes,
not a shirt. Will some millionaire with Jesus in his heart be kind mouth
to give me a suit of clothes? I'd like t. take this here bum off= the
streets. ahat I oughta do is not allow the l'ederal Leserve to print money.
We ought& Jrint it ourselves. That's the only my we're gonna get any.
The Mayor says: Please don't give the hungry man on the street any money.
Call a policeman and he'll tell the man where to get something to eat.
Al]. right, so they call a policeman. vhat happens? He don't ask if Pa
hungry. Ba asks: flow tall are you? How muoh do you weigh? Hell, I
went to eat. An old man came to me crying the other day, take him to the
Station House. The captain is out. So we go to the home relief. They
tell us to go out and beg, steal, anytlinr. If you know how to start a
revolution., they'll pay your rent. Don't take me seriously, if nobody
was on relief the damn middle olassod be an relief. I'm gonna send a
telegram to the Mayor and tell him there ain't no bumm on the Bowery,
all the bums are on Park Avenue and Central Park iieet• The real bums,
if you want to know, are in Coney Island, no admission, no dues.
That's where they belone, if you're gonna stop the revolution by feed-
int; the bums, don't do it, no air, let em starve. The sooner we omn
print money the better.