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advantaged to do something about that, he understood.”

“Oh,” said she, “I didn't realize that.”

I would have thought that that was the great thing. That, of course, was the basis of the Bull Moose movement - the social philosophy that was vaguely emerging in Theodore Roosevelt. That was why all the young people of my generation thought he was wonderful. The girls had no political life at all. Something that was true with regard to the general support for Theodore Roosevelt was your admiration for Theodore Roosevelt.

When he was President he was always recommending books to the people. He recommended The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, which was the story of the horrors of life in the stockyards area - poverty, filth, disorder, lack of opportunity, wages, hours, salary, sanitation, housing, everything.

I know that my impulses did not spring from a belief, and I have never espoused this belief, that women are the best part of creation and that if only they had their heads all would be well. I've always known - certainly since I thought about it at all - that the women of a period and of an area hold in general the same ideas and the same concepts that are in common circulation. Upper class women, being relieved to a certain extent of the necessity of scrambling