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goes to a meeting like this has got very bad judgment at best. I want to tell you what has alarmed me. I find that she is practically in charge and is doing most of the work, though there is a person over her, on the figures we handle for the Army and the Draft Board. We collate them with our figures for employment and industrial opportunities so that the Army can figure, and we assist in the figuring, what the need will be month by month for industrial employees. The Army can then organize its demands upon the Draft Boards for men to call. That is just exactly the kind of information that is militarily very valuable to anybody who should get hold of it. I can sit here now and tell you, though I won't because I won't tell anybody, how many men will be under arms and ready to go into battle on the first of next December. That, of course, is the kind of thing that would be nice to know if you were a military commander on the other side.”

Well, I was, of course, slightly startled. I hadn't realized that she was in any such place as that, and neither had Hinrichs. One of his principal assistants was in charge of that whole operation and he had three or four people working on it. But she





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