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with slow fever. When I got over that I decided that I would move to higher ground. There was a man down there who recomrnen.cied Little Rook and so I moved here. I have been nere forty-‘nine years. That is quite a few days.

	“I belong to the Presbyterian Chtirch and have been a member of that church for fifty-‘five years. I have. never gotten out publicly, but I even do my little prei~.ching round in the house here.

	“When I caine to Little Rock, I came in a very dull season. There wasn‘t even a hoa8e to be rentei. It was in the winter. I had to rent a room at “Jones“ hail on Ninth and. Gaines streets arid paid one dollar a day for it. I stayed there about a month. Finally there was a vacant hou.se over on Nineteenth street and Common and I moved there. Then. I commenced to look for work and I walked the town over daily. No results whatever. Finally I struck a little job with the contractor here digging ditches,. grubbing stumps, grad-. Ing streets and so forth. I worked with him for three years and finally I got a job with the street car company, as laborer in the Parks. I worked at that job two years. Finally I got a job as track laborer. I worked there a year. Then I was promoted to track foreman. I held that seven years.

-	“I quit that then and went to the railroads. I helped to build the Choc-. taw Oklahoma andGuif hallway. When the road was completed, I made the first trip ove r it as Porter. I remained t here till August 9 ‚ 1928, During that time I was operated on for prostatitis and. doctors rendered me unfit for work, totally disabled; so that is my condition today.

	“I think the fixture looks bright. I think conditions will get better. I believe that all that is necessary for betterment is cooperation.

	“I believe the younger generation -.-. the way it looks -.-. is pretty bad. I think we haven‘t d~ie anything like as much as we could do in teachthg the youngsters. We need to give them an idea of things. They don‘t know.