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the outgoing administration. I'm sure Mr. Doak won't come, (meaning to indicate that I didn't expect him) and it would be a pleasure to me if you would come.” He said he would.

Then they got the payroll clerk. The payroll clerk was a funny kind of a flibberty-gibbet sort of a man. I said to him. “You know everybody's name, I suppose.”

He said, “Well, I ought to. I go over their checks every two weeks, but I don't know whether I know the faces that go with the names.”

I found there wasn't anybody in the department who did know who was who. Actually when we began to have this little reception, and we stood in the ballroom of the Mayflower, and they began to come in, and the payroll man presented them, he couldn't introduce more than half a dozen. I knew more people than he did. He didn't even know people whom I had met at conferences who were high enough up in the scale of affairs of the Department of Labor that I should meet them at conferences, Like Mr. Husband. I think that the man didn't even know Mr. Husband when he came in. He was a total loss. I realized that I was getting nothing. I merely took each person by the hand and said, “I'm glad to see you, Do tell me your name and where you work.” Out of that I got them to say, “I'm Mary Jones and I work in the public employment office.” I couldn't get any further than that, but I associated