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reasons that made me say that. That wasn't a prepared part of my address. My prepared address never has any illustrations in it. This was just an illustration that popped into my mind to make it clear to the people in Brooklyn that I was talking to. I searched my own mind to try to discover what had made me say that. It was, of course, because for many years I had been receiving appeals to send second-hand shoes and half-worn shoes to missions and schools in the South, where they would say that their children and parishioners didn't have shoes to wear. They couldn't go to church or school because they didn't have shoes, or they found it hard to do these things. So I suppose that it was that subconscious fact that I had sent shoes - half-worn and outgrown children's shoes - for years to these places that had appealed for them. That made it pop into my mind - if they had the money, they would buy new shoes. That would then help the Brooklyn shoe industry. But, of course, I never explained that.

I always explained to Southern audiences how sorry I was, that I hadn't meant that at all, that I might just as well have said that if the Brooklyn boot and shoe industry got more pay checks they could buy cotton cloth that came from Georgia and South Cerolina. I might just as well have put it that way, only that I didn't. That was all. I would explain it and apologize, but they always twitted me with