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and recognize the case that was bound to be a Caesarian if the mother was to live, we were pleased. That's all we were thinking of. All this psychology stuff is very recent, although there was a book we used to give to those who were literate by one Dr. Slemons, I think, called The Prospective Mother, which told the prospective mother not to be scared among other things. It was good, but it was a little too scientific for any but the well educated. That used to be in the libraries of all the clinics.

I was still working at that valiantly. By this time my husband was better and had gone to Washington for a combination of treatment and doing some things. I came down to spend a weekend in early January, 1919. Al Smith had just become Governor. I had, of course, taken an active part in the Smith campaign of 1918. I was not anything like as active as I was in later campaigns, but I had taken part. I had made a number of speeches, particularly up-state. I helped somewhat with the organizing.

Charles Whitman had been Governor just before. It was during the last weeks of Al Smith's campaign that I introduced Mrs. Belle Moskowitz to him. She was a Republican - always had been a Republican. During the early days of the Committee on Safety, shortly after the Triangle Fire, her husband, Charles Israels, she was a very fine architect and had been