In re Brener

HOUGH, District Judge.

What is meant by the “personal equation” mentioned in the referee’s report is clearly shown by reading Brener’s speech toward the close of his examination on application for discharge. Even as read, it shows a man intelligent, yet illiterate, of great business aptitude, yet ignorant of some elementary conditions of all successful business, bold enough to pay pressing creditors for the sake of maintaining an appearance of credit, yet not brave enough to bow his neck to the inevitable in the interest of creditors who were not harassing him. The tale excites some sympathy,…