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he'll give it to us. There are plenty of things that ought to be done, such as an extension of activities, that need money. A recommendation from the Moreland Act Commissioner will have great weight - more weight than I alone recommending it to you. A Moreland Act Commissioner's report is to the Governor and the Legislature.”

I don't remember any other reasons why I asked for this appointment, except that so many things were going hooey while Hamilton was commissioner that I thought it might be better. The Moreland Act Commissioner would also be a good advisor. For instance, Jerry O'Connor, who had been the Moreland Act Commissioner in 1919 when I first joined the Industrial Commission, had been a very great help to me when I was a new member and to others, in giving one an idea of how one could legally take a new point of view, whether one had to be bound by the precedent of previous decisions by the then existing commission on the interpretation of the law and on application of the workmen's compensation law, and things like that. He had been a very great help, and I felt that it was one of the most profitable things we had ever had. I was, therefore, prejudiced in favor of this method.

I remember suggesting to the Governor that we have a Moreland Act Commissioner. At first he thought no, and