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quote me, please, and not yourself,” or “I'm not saying that, but I will say this and you can take it exactly as I say it.” Then you say, “Some employers in some states have employed under-age children.” Well, they don't use that. There's nothing striking about that. That's no news. Everybody knows that. But “Perkins says that employers are hard- hearted and employ babies,” is news.

After a while you finally got so that you just didn't bother to chastise them for mis-quoting. I wish I had. I've always wished that I had corrected, immediately by letters to the editor, every misstatement that was made. I thought it was a right thing to do, but the people who were always giving me advice on public relations said, “Never do that. It just keeps the story alive two days instead of one day. It will be soon forgotten,” It's soon forgotten, but it's in the rag copy of the New York Time, we'll say, or it's in the Oshkosh Daily Herald. There it is. Somebody making a little research to write a magazine article picks it up and so it goes in a magazine article. Somebody ten years later writing a book finds it in a magazine, Time, Newsweek, or something or other, and he quotes it By this time it's become a fact and you can't deny it. I can give lots of