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an exceptionally intelligent man, and an exceptionally high-minded person too, with, I thought, a very good American point of view. Looking at him, talking with him, finding out about him, one realized that he was not a self-made man. He'd come of a well-to-do family, had been well-educated, as his father had been before him, and his grandfather before him. They had always had some money. But they were the sort of people who, in the parlance of New England, don't put on airs. They lived comfortably, but didn't throw wealth around ostentatiously. They had a sort of cultivated attitude toward life. He was a very interesting and good man.

He and his family were old residents of the Akron area. They set the tone. Even though new people had come in, that kind of person sort of set the tone of what social life should be like in Akron. It was a great surprise to them to see these men whom they had known all their lives and felt on good terms with sitting down with their arms firmaly folded, That was the gesture they took to make it clear they wouldn't work.

They finally, of course, like all other sit-downers came to the point where they had relief. They had to go home and take a bath. Their wives brought food and hoisted it up to them, but still they needed some relif.