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on the long distance telephone to state committees that were asking for more money but couldn't account for what they'd done with the last $10,000 they'd got, except in vague ways. I remember her expostulating, “But you really must not just spend money carelessly. Don't buy advertising if you don't know that it's going to do some good. Don't buy advertising in every paper. You've only got a little money to spend and there isn't any more. Be sure that you know how you're spending it. Have a meeting. It's more important to have a meeting where there are people who are not Democrats than it is to go around the state speaking to Democratic committees. Don't waste your breath, don't waste your gasoline, don't waste your railroad fare on things like that.” I remember hearing her lay down the law to these other women who had had a small appropriation made and who had been persuaded to spend it foolishly without any result. That, of course, is one of the great hazards in political campaigning. You haven't got time to make a program. You have to give the money to people who sometimes don't know how to spend it. Most of them haven't any venal conceptions of running away with it, but they don't know how to spend it to get an effect. So they hire a hall, hire a band, put an advertisement in the paper and they think it will be done. The only people who can get up a meeting are the Democrats, so