larger ones. "By jimminy! I was afraid all along that women would act like this if we ever let 'em into things. They're too all-fired particular. Think you're cleaning house, don't you?"

"No," I said. "I'm just keeping house. Good housekeepers go along keeping things right every day. That's what I'm trying to do."

But with all our strict enforcement policy, we have not been quick to prosecute. In my five years of service we have gone to court on only a very few cases. It might have been easier in some ways if we had done it oftener, for this peaceful process has meant real work. It has meant countless conferences with or with

out legal talent other than my own interpretation of departmental law. But we have felt each and every time that it paid for the labor of it in the better understanding it invariably has brought about between the employer and the employee. The fact that the department has been frequently cited over the State as "a concrete example of law enforcement" has encouraged us to believe that our peaceful-process plan has worked in the right direction.

And I have had so much keen enjoyment being so busy that I couldn't "splurge around," that I haven't lost any sleep as to whether people are going to care.