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were very difficult, because so many of the women really didn't know how to do anything. They had been employed and earning wages as scrubwomen, or some of that lowest kind of intermittent work. When they were out of work they were really out of work. They had never had what you could call an important trade. A part of the work of the WPA was to develop into a program to take those women and teach them how to do something. Even if it was only scrubbing, they could learn how to do superior scrubbing. So then they could be employed not only slopping around in railroad stations, but in private houses that wanted to be well-cleaned.

For the training of these women other WPA workers were brought in. These were other people also on relief who were corralled and set to work in training some of these very low- grade workers. They were to train them how to keep clean themselves, how to make themselves presentable, how to sow, how to make their own clothes, how to cook. It was extraordinary, when they got down into this low, dead level, how many women they found who really didn't know how to do anything, didn't know how to do even what we think are the rudimentary necessities of a human being's life.

So the WPA was to that group a terrific elevation. It listed them up out of just dumb driven cattle and made them into people who knew how to make their own clothes, how to