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it seem all right, and it worked.

He held hearings. If anybody complained they sent word to General Glassford. General Glassford's mail caught up with him sooner or later, or he telephoned in to some headquarters he had established. They would tell him and he would drive over in his Ford car. A rumor travels very rapidly so he would just let it be known that he was in town and that if anybody had any complaints, they were to come to him. He sat in his Ford car in the public square, or whatever the most public part of the town was. He heard what they had to say. He would tell the farmer, “You haven't any right to interpret that differently. There it is on the proclamation. It doesn't say that the wage is to be less if it rains. This is the minimum. That's the least you can pay. You have no right to make any interpretation as that. Yes, you've got to give them clean drinking water. No, they don't have to drink water out of the ditch.”

“But they've always drunk out of the ditch.”

“That doesn't matter. You've got water on your farm. You've got to haul water to where the camp is and they've got to have clean water to drink.”

He broadened it all out. He made them have clean water. He didn't do much about the tents and about the