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of tents, which are meant to relieve the people of disaster temporarily. But the Red cross experience is that as soon as that immediate emergency has passed they get a better result by distributing cash relief rather than relief in kind.

Also there was plenty of information that it's very deteriorating to the morale and personnel of a community to continue cash relief without some work. It's humiliating and it does actually deteriorate the morale. So I kept urging away at work relief.

Hopkins, of course, already had plans of work relief. work relief had been carried on in New York State, and I think in some other states. Made work wasn't a new idea. It might have been a new idea at the Congressional level in Washington, but it wasn't a new idea in operation among relief workers. They all felt that well- planned work, which gave men wages at a reasonable amount, was the answer. It maintained self- respect and kept the ordinary occupations and things going. Of course, everybody admitted that it was hard to find the right kind of work. Up until that point we had not been faced with this enormous number of people to be provided with work relief, but it had been handled on a state basis.

At any rate, Lewis Douglas dropped the idea of relief