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the basic ways of getting money into circulation and stimulating a great variety of industries, as well as giving work at regular wages directly on the location. It is always under- stood that in public works the work given on the location is less in amount then the work which is provided by the stimulation of a varsity of industries which have to supply the materials which go to the location where the public works is to be carried out. But in the discussions of “what shall we do about the poorer kind of people,” as Garner called them, there was a general assent that there had to be some form of relief.

As I said, Lewis Douglas proposed, and I think there were other members of the cabinet who thought it would be a good idea, that we should consider and develop a program of relief in kind. Hopkins was not in the cabinet and I'm not sure when this discussion took place whether Hopkins had yet been appointed, but at least he was going to be appointed. So it fell to my lot to explain why relief in kind was inefficient, Awkward and so slow that the people would die of hunger before we got it done. It fell to my lot to defend the intelligence and selectiveness of the unemployed persons and their wives who were in need. They could buy to better advantage for themselves, because they would buy what they needed. It might be that they wouldn't all want grapefruit