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the ceiling that you found later. They weren't angry. They were very surprised. I think that's because Akron is a small city which grew from a much smaller place rather recently. The people who run the factories, and the prinoipal owners of the factories, actually live there, or live around thore. They are personally on reasonably good terms with a great many men who work in the factories. Although I realised, as I talked to them later, that there was a class line drawn then, and there was a country club group that the workmen didn't belong to, that was all a new development. The country club was new in American life and new in Akron life. The older workmen and the older people on the managerial side all remembered very plainly that only a few years before there hadn't been any such thing, that they had all gone to school together, that they all went to the same churches. They all knew each other. he man who was a rubber worker knew the man who was one of the managers or one of the superintendents. So there been no class line. The coming of the country club had made a difference.

There were, of course, some extremely good people in Akron. The man who was the President of the Goodrich Company, Paul Litchfield, was an exceptionally good man,