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and couldn't do better. Actually, she couldn't make good. The number of widows who lost all that they had was very high. We had no way of advising the widow, or persuading her, except across the hearing table, not to do it. We had no way of really estimating how she could make out, where she would go and so forth.

This “After-Care” Service seemed to me to be just the answer. It proved to be. I started with two very superior social workers. They were splendid. I only had two. A small appropriation was all I asked for. One of them had been a medical student and wasn't quite through with her medical education. She had been a social worker before she started on a medical education. She had to break her medical education to earn some more money. She would have from two to three years before she could go back. She had an understanding of some of the medical problems and had been a social worker.

Then I had Mrs. Ann Goericke, who had been a social worker in Westchester County.

I started with them. We never grew very large and I never wanted it to grow very large. I remember that William C. Archer, who was then the Director of the Bureau of Workmen's Compensation, was aghast at the idea. He





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