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on the upsurge - the Bull Moose, the Mitchel administration, and so on. But still it was our duty to do it. I can only think about politics in the terms that I've seen them, and I have seen such enormous influence of persons in their action, reaction and interaction on each other in bringing conviction that something ought to be done that I can never believe in these “forces” - economic, political or anything else. I think that fifty people with a determination to do something right can start forces that have their strength largely because of the moral appeal of what it is that they're recommending.

I recognize that with modern publicity what it is, you have to go at it from that angle. A fire with 147 people killed is small potatoes compared to some of the big sensational stories you get in the newspapers today. You have to go at it in a different way.

This was also at the very beginning of the strong woman's suffrage movement, so that the females, including Mary Dreier, myself and a few others who chose to speak, also got attention that they wouldn't have gotten five years earlier. The social work movement was at its very peak. It was before it had become so professionalized. We were all amateurs. We were doing professional jobs, but we hadn't