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because however peculiar he may have been, he was, first of all, a competent statistician. He knew what I was talking about when I said what I needed to know. I wanted him to tell me how this employment service had set up the figures by which Doak had deluded Mr. Hoover. I wanted to understand it so that I wouldn't get caught in that kind of a trap myself. Boris was able to explain it to me. I knew the way in which the State of New York made up its figures on unemployment. We contributed our figures to the federal government's bureau and I wanted to know just how the federal government used the figures in the various states, how they weighted them, and so forth. That I could get from him. I wanted to know about the cost of living figures. I wanted to know how, into her words, they did every thing that they did. I wanted to know where the gaps were and why they didn't have information about this and about that. I wanted to know why the bulletins they published were so full of quotes from ancient book and ancient articles. Didn't we have any current information?

Any how Boris was very helpful. He told me the whys on most things. Many of the whys were purely personal inadequacies. They did not have an adequately trained staff. There were a great many people in the Bureau of Labor Statistics who were incompetent. They had had some very