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mills and were out of work. Although they may have had more savings at the beginning, once their savings were exhausted they were exhausted and they didn't have anything. They didn't have anything left and were desperate.

When this work relief project began, people who had never yet stood on the bread lines began turning up to apply for it. They could work and when they realized that the government was going to offer work to people who wanted to work at $15.00 a week - that was the relief wage that was set up and no matter what you did that was what you got - they showed up for work. That wage was probably very sensible. It was put in the paper. Nobody had any doubts about it, no matter what he had earned $60.00 a week or $100.00 a week. Work was to be available to those who needed it at $15.00 a week. It would be any kind of work. The idea that you could have work that would be appropriate for people who, let's say, had been editors, or salesmen, or musicians, hadn't then dawned on anybody, At the beginning, whatever was available in the way of manual labor was handed out.

As this project began to increases, Hopkins and his advisers realized that there was an enormous waste. These skilled people could do things that sadly needed to be done where they would use their abilities and talents to much better advantage. I remember one case where on of Hopkins's