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an administrator - you had to do everything.

I had to be the lobbyist too. The Consumers' League had a state organization and these were very well placed people and favorably known people all over the state who were members of it in Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, Utica, Albany, as well as New York City. They were people of standing of their communities so that when you went up there you weren't representing an unknown organization. It wasn't generally known to the politicians, but members of the Consumers' League from Buffalo or Syracuse or Utica would write a letter to her senator or her assemblyman to say that you were coming, her organization was interested in this bill, and would Mr. So-and-so kindly give you an interview so that you could explain to him and so on.

Of course the members of the committee often went up to Albany with me and in many cases we all went together. Of course, I as the secretary, stayed there, but board members went up to appear in support of a bill. They would sit in the background - there'd be eight, ten, twenty or thirty as the case might be - and when I rose to make the principal speech in favor of the bill, I would introduce Mr. So-and-so, Mrs. So-and-so and so on, tell where they came from and that they supported the bill. Often one or two of them would rise and say something. It just depended.