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were attached to their particular job, such as promoting one of the Children's Bureau projects, or one of the Women's Bureau projects, or because they were not quite good enough to get in any other place and they took this as a resting place. There was no energy, I assure you, anywhere. It seemed to me that my first duty was going to be to put a stick of dynamite under most of it and get them stirring about something. It was really quite startling to met to find that there could be so much lethargy in a permanently organized department.

I analyzed all this, and White agreed with me. We decided this condition existed because the whole effort of the Department and the Department heads had been in the immigration field. They paid no attention what ever to anything else. No Secretary had ever given any, even the slightest, attention to any thing but immigration. Their annual reports wills how that. The proportion of the budget that went to the Bureau to Immigration was enormous. I was about to say two-thirds, and I think it was two-thirds of the budget. Two-thirds of all the money we had was spent on the Immigration Service and one-thirds was spent on everything else in the Department of Labor. There was very small total appropriation anyway - $13,000,000, I think, all told. About $3,000,000 was spent on the