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"white collar" workers. It seems to be wrong to have a white collar. If you lose your job you are supposed to lose your self-respect and get yourself a dirty collar and go out and work in a sewer. That seems to be the attitude of the enemies of relief toward the unemployed.

"For instance we may take take art. Art is looked down upon by some American people. At one time this country spent $100,000,000 in buying so-called foreign masterpieces. Mr. Mellon goes over to Europe and spends $1,000,000 on one picture. He goes over there and buys a picture painted 400 years ago, and he brings that back to this country and uses this $1,000,000 picture for the edification of the people of the United States. My only comment on that is that I have no objection to foreign masters; they are all right. But, on the other hand, WPA spends something like $1,500,000 to $2,000,000 to put several thousand living native artists to work and save them from starvation. It puts their product in the high schools and colleges and various places all over the country for the edification of the American people, and a great howl goes up.

"Mr. Mellon spends $1,000,000 for one picture 400 years old by a man who is dead and who does not get any benefit from it, and spends it for a picture that ought to stay in Europe, while the Government spends $2,000,000, and we are told that we are a bunch of boondogglers. Well I am for boondoggling."

The fact, then, that the United States Government and our American artists are working together is not an un-heard-of thing. But what is new about the American art project is its tremendous scale. It is the belief of many of the country's most competent authorities that the Federal Art Project has been, and will increasingly continue