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whole article, the headline very often sticks in their minds as having been the point of the story and that's what they quote later. As a matter of fact, the rules of a good newspaper office are that the headline shall reveal the point of the story, and nothing else.

However, as far as this story was concerned, the body of the story in one newspaper was that Miss Perkins had said that this strike was legal. I hadn't said any such thing. I had merely raised the question. “Who knows?” I shouldn't have dons that. That was unwise. I recognize that it was unwise from the point of view of myself-protection. It didn't have any bearing on the strike, but it had great bearing on my relationships with the world from that time on, because it was years before anybody could remember me as anything but the woman who said that sit-down strikes were all right - “She says they're fine.” I've heard it said in my presence that I approved of the sit-down strikes and thought they were good. You can keep on using adjectives if you start to talk. From just saying that you didn't know whether they were legal or not, you then get written down two days later as having said that they were perfectly wonderful, fine and ought to be encouraged. So it is. That's the hazard of public life. That was one of the reasons why I learned to be less and less talkative.