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juice, which the government could buy in large quantities from the depressed citrus fruit growers. I remember saying that they were all experienced housewives and that they would spend what little there was to spend to the best advantage for the feeding of their families. At any rate, it was the best you could do. Public distribution of food and public distribution of clothing was humiliating and also it was often an unnecessary expense, because even quite poor people didn't always need shoes. They had some shoes left over from better days. If you were making a public distribution, they would go and get some just in case they might need them, but the four dollars that the shoes were worth they could spend to admirable advantage on some medicine for little Johnny who needed it for some particular disease or other, and would do it if they had the cash in hand.

So I recommended that we stop thinking at all about relief in kind. We had plenty of information from the Red cross even about disaster relief, where the Red cross does and has to distribute goods and relief in kind, because there aren't any goods. People have been washed out of their homes by a flood and they haven't any blankets, any clothes, any food. There isn't any in the community for them to buy. The Red Cross keeps on hand always great warehouses full of blankets, full of canned food, full of army cots and full