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were terrible. Well at least the Coxes, when they run it, they were pretty
fair. Mrs. Cox, she was a good woman, she was a good woman. Oh, she helped
a lot of people.

AV: What did she do?

JS: She give them eats, you know, and milk and everything, even buy clothes for
people, you know. And every Christmas, every school in her territory, like
Drifton, Eckely, Humboldt and all
of these that were her collieries, you know, the school children used to
Christmas presents. She used to have a program every Christmas.
All the, like now, already before Christmas, about a month or better maybe,
the teachers used to be learin' the kids--bigger classes, higher--programs,
you know. And they'd have that goin' all day before Christmas, and she'd
pass the presents out. pretty nice presents,
and some clothes or something, candy, oranges! Yeah, they used to be pretty
good. First they used to give then out in the store, when the store was down
below, and they used to say that the parents would have to go down and bring
the stuff up because the kids couldn't, wouldn't be able to carry it. She used
to give, oh, you'd see a big truckload come in with presents.
And that was all over, all over, she used to
do that. Yeah, she was a good old woman. She was small, small lady.

AV: Oh yeah?

JS: Very small. But she used to like the kids! Boy, she enjoyed that more than
anything. That used to cost her hundreds of thousand dollars! All them
presents that she used to buy. Yes.

AV: Why did she do that?

JS: Well, she was just so good-hearted. She like the people and all, and she
knew that she made it here on the coal, you know, so she didn't care that she
was spendin' it. If you had a couple of women like that, you would have something.

AV: Yeah.

JSL You know one time Henry Ford wanted to buy a