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So I knew about cockroaches, but I had never seen anything like the one in the Department of Labor. I said to Callus,” For heaven's sake, Clean this desk out. Get some disinfectant. What kind have you got?”

“Well, ma'am, I ain't got any.”

“Have you got soap and water?”

“Yes.”

“Go get it. There's a grocery store over there. Go over to the grocery store (which I could see from my window) and buy at least some ammonia or something and clean out this desk.”

So he did. He pulled out the middle drawer of the desk and there were more cockroaches. The place was alive with them. Maybe I'm exaggerating. There weren't more than eight or ten all told that came popping out at us that afternoon. Anyway, I said to Miss Jay, “For heaven's sakes see if there's any Jo Roach Paste in Washington. We'll have to do this job ourselves. It's obvious that this is a deep- seated situation and it's not going to respond to one old colored man's flopping around with a rag. There's got to be drastic treatment.”

I don't remember whether she got JO Roach Paste, but she got something. The next time she went to New York she brought back a supply of JO Roach Paste and we ourselves -