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Well, yes, he realized that you couldn't take sick people up there because they couldn't do the work.

I said. “You know, an awful lot of these unemployed people have heart trouble, varicose veins and everything else. Just because they're unemployed mean the they're natural born lumbermen.”

He just thought of all the unemployed, not just of the young men. The young men were my idea later. This was just to get men off the breadlines. You rarely had boys on the breadlines. That was rare. The people that went on the breadlines were largely the regulars, what the trade calls the hobos, the people who were always on breadlines, who were intermittent workers, worked when there was work, tramped a good deal. They were perfectly good people and needed help and bread. There was no question about that. They needed a program, but were not quite adequate for this particular thing.

It was very complicated. I said, “How are you going to recruit? If you're going to pay them money, how are you going to get them?”

He said, “Use your employment service.”

I said, “Mr. President, we haven't got an employment service. Don't you remember? I told you only last week that there isn't any employment service. What calls itself that