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who thought these good projects up.

The whole relief program went, I thought, extremely well. I've never been among those who thought it was a flop or a failure. I think it was a magnificent piece of work. There are thousands of good citizens, holding good jobs, and earning great money today, who in the years 1933, '4 and '5 were on work relief and held themselves together by that kind of a project.

It very soon became apparent, what had not been apparent at the time the relief bill was passed, that there were many more than so -called laboring people in need of relief. The average person thought of unemployment as putting people who worked in factories, mills, mines, stores, on transportation projects, etc. out of work. Because the middle class people when they get poor are likely to have more respectable looking clothes left over, and because they have had credit at groceries, and even with their landlords, and so don't get kicked out on the street with nothing to eat at the very beginning. Although they're completely out of work, we hadn't realized that there was a great body of people who had earned their living in all kinds of professional, semi-professional, and business operations who were in just as dire a need as were the men who had worked in the steel