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like Auburn, New York. It was not on the beaten path to anywhere. The man who lived there was a veteran and a nice fellow. He lived there and he though the could have an office in Auburn as well as anywhere else. Of course, customers were almost zero, but that didn't matter at that time.

The President said, “All right.”

I hadn't selected anybody to be at the head of it because we wanted to get the Wagner-Peyser Act through first so that we could have a growing concern.

Then I told him what I proposed to do about the Bureau of Labor Statistics. I proposed to ask, and I wanted his consent to this because the Chief of the Bureau of Labor Statistics is a Presidential appointee - was then, still is - and has to be confirmed by the Senate, therefor it was in his power to give it to any old hack he wanted to, that this bureau be made a first-class one and as good as the New York State Bureau of Labor Statistics was. It ought to be the leader in the country and greatly expanded and improved. I proposed to get a list of recommendations from the American Statistical Society and ask them to recommend ten or twelve men whom they believed to be competent. They had a committee on labor statistics. I would ask them to recommend not only a number of men who would be available, but to recommend,