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in Persia and the Panama Canal without knowing that you've got to work with crooks.” It was from him that I borrowed this phrase that I use so often, “The work of the world is done by just common people the way God made them.” He said, “The art of administration is to learn how to use these peoples. Of course, they're crooks. A certain proportion of the population has got larceny in its heart, has got crooked ideas, or at least are weak. A large part of the population is kind of brutal by nature and is down on what isn't just like themselves. But we've got to use these people. When you've got crocks working for you and you've got to have them because there's nobody else, you'd better have them right up close. Put them right in your own office. I've always done that. I always have the man I suspect right in my own office. Then I'll know he can't get away with anything. I don't put him off somewhere where I don't see him and don't hear about him. I keep him right in my own office, where I see him, see the result of what he does, and where I can perhaps teach him something about another attitude toward life. This man is smart. He'll do what I tell him to do. I guarantee it.”

Anyhow, he put this man in that position. He really made him over. He's a high officer of the Immigration Service today. He's the most reliable there and I think





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