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was not the head of a number of other large, organized bodies of women. They couldn't see why the Mayor had picked her. He picked her because he said he thought she wasn't tied up with any one organization, but knew all the aspects of social agencies and so forth.

she went ahead and picked a committee and she picked a very good committee, it was a woman's committee. I can't remember whether I was on it or not. I think I was on it. At least I was certainly called into conference when it began to meet. We met and met. Finally the idea evolved, and to some extent I know that I contributed to it, that what we needed to do was not pick out only the woman leaders of various social groups in the community, but we needed to pick out women leaders who, in the activities in which we had to engage, had some experience. Red Cross Home Service, for instance, was just coming into the city. The group of people who had done family service work under the Charity Organization society knew more about how to cooperate with that kind of activity of the Red Cross than did the President of the General Federation of Women's Clubs. We wanted to get these technical people in and began adding them. I remember Miss Mary Richmond was added to the committee and then others were. Mrs. Florence Kelley, who knew the industrial pattern, was added.