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and little fires going, making their mulligatawny. I had seen all these things. I had seen queues of 200 men waiting for one job in small towns. I had been into people's houses when there wasn't anything to eat. I knew that the tensions were terrible. I had been in the Rochester-Buffalo area when they first began to give out relief. It was terrible.

I knew how badly I felt when I saw anything that was remotely ostentatious, how ill it made me, how sick at heart I felt that anybody should buy herself a fine new dress, go somewhere, swish around in taffeta petticoats and a handsome fur. It just made me sick. There were a still people in New York or Chicago who didn't seem to be sensitive to that feeling and who didn't mind, but I was awfully conscious of it.

That was why I was so reluctant to be associated with any show. Also I was Secretary of Labor. That was different than other people. Working people had to look to me, and only to me, to solve their problems. There wasn't anybody else in the government who was going to bother about them, or whose duty it was to bother about them. I just couldn't think that they would think it was inspiring, to say the least, to think about the Secretary of Labor having a gay time, going around here and there.