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that have been sent out about me, I have received a sheaf of letters from people I never heard of. Some of them are almost illiterate. Some of them are obviously written carefully on good paper on a typewriter by people with organized minds who are in the habit of thinking very clearly and doing a logical study. All of them have plans for something that should be done. They all have the same purpose, though they approach it in different ways. Some of the things that we've canvassed they don't know about, but they have the idea of preventing unemployment and preventing the disasters due to it, whether from a business point of view, or from a working man's point of view, or from the general society.”

He said, “Well, I guess it's all right to go ahead and explore these things and to promote the relations between the states and the central government. That's a good idea. Perhaps you could get them to put out some good labor legislation. Certainly we've got to think in terms of preventing unemployment, as well as relieving it.”

I said, “What do you think of this idea of Felix's of trying to move right ahead on government purchases, setting up a standard which will include wages and hours in government purchases?”

He said, “Well, that's ingenious and I think it would be a good idea. How far would it go?”