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people did you say were hurt? Where were they?” That was just to divert you. It didn't matter where they were hurt. The thing that was important was that there was an explosion and anybody who was there might have been hurt. His questions were genuine, but he was interested in the story. It was like, “Mama, tell me a story.” He wasn't technical at all about these matters. He wanted the story in it.

Then after I was through with it, I would say, “Now, see here, I've told you about explosion hazards where there is dust. We've got to do something about it. I want to know if you'll support me....”

Then he'd say he would and I would have to make a public report to the legislative committee, or put out a trial balloon in the newspaper. We would decide how to do it and he would always support me.

From all that I learned never to tell him anything without three whacks at it, otherwise he would forget it. Telling it to him that way he would remember it when other people spoke to him about the matter. He would tell them the same story that I'd told him. He'd tell it to them six months later, or a year later. He could really retain it and I always laid that to the fact that I gave it the three rubs.

It's a trick I learned in speech-making. The human