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say - “Glory be to God. You don't mean it. I never thought I would live to see the day when someone that we had trained and whom we knew knew industrial conditions, cared about women, cared to have things right would have the chance to be the administrative officer.”

I said, “Well, you know, Mrs. Kelley, there are going to be an awful lot of mistakes made. I'm going to make some of them. That's always true. There will be a lot of things that I know and you know ought to be done that I won't be able to do. Will I just get ruined? Will I get hit over the head by the reformers for that?”

“Not if you make an honest try,” said she. At any rate she said it was all right.

Within a day or two it was announced.





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