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Miss Jay and I - got rid of the cockroaches in that office. Not only were they in the desk, but this little dressing room, which I had suggested that he change the soap and the towels in, was also infested with cockroaches, So we had to go at that. We had to go at every place really. We were at the bottom of a depression and I didn't think it was good manners to ask to have the place thoroughly painted, which would have been a help, although it doesn't destroy cockroaches. So we just got rid of them by good housekeeping around our office. I said, “If there are cockroaches here, there must be some in other parts of this building, “which proved to be the case.

Of course, Callus's desk in the outer office was just alive with them. He always brought his lunch in a paper bag. He kept it in a drawer of his desk and, of course, that was a fine lure for the cockroaches, I felt sorry about that, because Callus was a colored man and at that time it was very difficult for the colored people to find any restaurants in that neighborhood where they could go to get their lunch. I didn't know what he would do if he didn't pat his lunch in the office. So I had Miss Jay buy him one of those workman's tin lunch boxes where the food could be kept inside a tight tin box. I told him he'd have to clean out his desk and would have to keep the crumbs and everything that had to