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pay envelopes with this better wage for a better day's work would have money to spend. They would spend it on merchandise. I used the example, which I've already discussed, of their actually cleaning out the local stores in these southern towns on the Saturday night when they got their first pay envelopes. I described that to our friends in Brooklyn and said that, for instance, it was like this. That if the people going to work in the textile or other industries in the South now got a pay envelope, and in that pay envelope they found money that could be spent for the things they needed, the people from that area in the South would buy the shoes manufactured in Brooklyn, which, God knows, they needed, as they needed anything else.

That's what I said. I just used it as an example to show how the Brooklyn boot and shoe industry would be stimulated by the demand made upon it by persons who worked in another industry in a remote part of the country. So Brooklyn boots and shoes would begin to be made again and people in Brooklyn would get jobs in the boot and shoe factory. Some bright newspaper person trying to boil things down picked this up and said, “Perkins says shoeless South will buy shoes under NRA,” or something like that. I didn't think it was anything, except that when I saw it in the paper the next day I thought it was a poor line that he'd