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abandoned those gradually and did not provide for new buildings because the birth rate was falling. The school planning in a big city watches the birth rate figures very carefully, because that will tell them how many people they've got to provide for five years later, how many seats they've got to have at every grade level, even up to the high school level. Then, of course, they got caught by the enormous spurt in the birth rate when the war begin.

So there had been a kind of an assumption that the population was going to decline a little. There was lots of talk about how we were then leveling off. The Technocrats had a lot of talk about that. They felt they could therefore divide up the work.

Very early in the study or this Black Bill I began to realize that slack had gotten a good many of the labor leaders to say they were for his bill. They hadn't thought it out much. My ideas of the labor leaders' brains and great concern about the legislation took a tumble in the first months that I was in Washington for many reasons, and this was one of them. They hadn't given any real thought to it, and yet they had said to Black that they would endorse this bill and were back of it. I said to one of them, “Why?”

They said, “Well, it's the only thing. Nobody's