me of R. or resembling him had been seen in their city. No
further clue to his whereabouts could be secured.

Months later R. applied to the Jewish Charities of Louisville for
transportation to New York, making an entirely false statement about
his family.

This statement was telegraphed to the Bureau and no time was lost in
securing a warrant. Louisville was notified by wire to arrest, but
again a telegram came: "Adolph R. left city. Learned from
Cigarmakers' Union headquarters he went to Cincinnati. Wire Joe
Rapp, 1316 Walnut Street, Cincinnati Union Headquarters. Man said he
was going to Cincinnati or Indianapolis. Man joined union Richmond,
Va., November 19, 1911, and reports to union in all cities." The
Desertion Bureau immediately telegraphed to Cincinnati and
Indianapolis. The United Jewish Charities of Cincinnati working
together with the labor union lost little time in effecting his
arrest.

Many theories about family desertion have suffered a change in recent
years. One of these relates to the "collusive desertion." Social workers
in training used formerly to be taught that the first place to look for
the deserter was around the corner, where he could slip back into the
house and partake of charitable bounty or, at the very least, keep close
watch of his family and return if any serious danger threatened them.
Although the collusive desertion seems to have been a frequent happening
in the past, there is almost unanimous testimony from case workers at
the present time that it is not common. "I don't come across an instance
once a year," said one case worker.

Another, after searching her memory, recalled what seemed to her one
instance of real collusion. A woman, pregnant and seeming to be in
great destitution, applied to a family social work society in a
small city for help. Careful search did not discover the man's
whereabouts--he seemed to have disappeared without leaving a trace,
and his wife professed ignorance. Some two weeks after this the
visitor, calling late, met a man on the stairs who proved to be the
missing husband. Times were hard and he was out of a job, so he had
taken to the attic of their house, and had kept so strictly
_incommunicado_ that not only the society but the neighbors had been
deceived.

Out of twenty or more case workers in different cities whose experience
was sought on t