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he would take that. However, that wasn't what interested him. He wouldn't read a report all through. You'd have to mark it up for him and he'd read the parts you marked. Having written it, you had to be careful so that it could be read piecemeal.

He needed always a great deal of illustrative material - not necessarily graphs or charts, though sometimes a chart would be useful. When I say illustrative material, I mean that if you made a technical argument, you had to say, “For instance, in a factory manufacturing clothing, as contrasted to a textile factory ....” The “for instance,” the example of what happened was very important.

There was a series of scalping accidents in textile factories in Rhode Island and Massachusetts. They happened to come three or four within three or four months. Of course, I hastily had our records combed over to see if we'd had any and we hadn't. Although our law was imperfectly enforced, we had a requirement, since 1914 or '15, that there must be guards at the fly-wheels and on all these underneath treadle parts, so that even if a girl got down on her hands and knees and reached in to get a spool or something that had dropped, she wouldn't get her hair caught in a moving machine, which was how those accidents had happened. They don't happen to the parts that are up above board. It's when people come