mar

with ronarkable success, and now is recel ir ng

 

serving as the sole put a curiously effective contact with the outer >

contemporaneous world of which they see nothing else, In the last
ten years dress and all the habits of social greeting have changed

 

ai asked in the same breath if I know Dr Carrel personally

and if I happen to know Tom Mg or Dustin Farnum, or Mary Pickford,
They look on the American Aray as its fondest jingoistic admirerx
would not drean of dolage= they think the Eatados Unidos are anway®
worth wotching, vith admir ation ready to flow, like the saliva of
Pawlow's & dogs--hefore it ie Justified, Some day the date of the first
noving picture will ° 2 given place with outtenburgs work ag & factor

in education,

Ther is one place here where work of the very best p sort

is being done and that it the Institute at B ut ax ntan, where Dr Vital

 

 Brezil has worked out serums for ‘the polsonous: snakes of Brazil

 

very satisfactory —
I 8 would interest you,
or if you have any friends who would Like a full report of the —

public support, If the full details of thie

 

‘ techni que I could send ; gladly a ‘eopy of he: report of the process
in French, y

The work of the Commi ssi.on here has resulted. in an increasel
interest on the part of the Government in vari, ous. problens of
public administration of s

 

nt tation, « now their reports are pubs
lished along side of ours every month in the newspapers, Mr Morgan

the U.S, Anbassador says that the Oe ideKoned is the only Anerican

 

f organi zation hntat has not as. yet gotten iato trouble in E Brazil!

TN ews ‘Maps we will have & chance to continue our 19,000 treatments
& month for a little while longer !

I an writs ag this on a erasy” Li ttre piver boat: on. the Te~

 

vassu river trying to take 800 sacks of herva natte up a shellow
and tortuous stream from Sao Matheus where we have just finished

a survey, to Poarte Amazonas and later Ponta Grossa » where perhaps

 

I shall find some mail from the States--a thing that is like roast

beef and. EU mush-rooms to a hungry wan, Lord, A delicacy !

Now that ae know the general outlines of what I am doing

  

you @ line with less of formal deserip-

  

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tion and more of what is going on from day to day under the
sky that sports the Southern Cress, the Centaur and a
Moon that rises and sets witha brilliance and a speed
that makes me forgive the theatre for all its dash
and vigor inthis parkoulery:
Wi ti the very best of remembrances anid I think
from all I know now of Brazilian postofiices, vlis

very best of Christmases

 

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3 Ania the thousands of letters with a more
familiar postmark than this one I thought you' 'd be amused

— have some mail from @ young Brazilian friend, He opens

with a politeness characteristic of the country and hopes
the
that, hurried departure from U.S. battleship without saying
goodbye to lady whe made stay in Rio more pleasant than other-

wise would have been, wai be AS excused as it was justified,

“gust got to train in time to have a, ‘five-milreis “squabble with

the porter--- and that is as late as you can economically be

to a train, here no Brazil, —

. Today was a scream, Ne asked the Prefect of Lapa to

give us a horse to ge out to the colony outside town, He came

across with a swell barouche ram by four serawmy but unquest-

Lonably spirited er piel | . bays, with thousands of sleigh

bells everywhere about theme-- and ners almoco with the

 

y a guarda and I set to the

colony about six miles out of tow, The road was the sort. that

keeps you apologising for innocent violence the whole time,

end when we arrived T was glad to Look - ariver in the eye
and memori s¢ what that sort of a driver is apt to look ‘like,
He kept clving the horsee the right of self-determination
and the fore pair never lookea at a crosseroads in the sane

way that the hind pair dide-- I jumped: out and had to hold the

municipal barouche from going over the edge of a hill, be-

cause the driver couldn ’ & get enough unanimd ty i the tean —
at the last | minute ,.
fhe colonists are Italians, really splendid looking
peasants but they have had nothing much better to copy than
the local customs, and the result is a little sad, The

main room of the kitchen is nearly always a mud floor around

an ppen fire built on a raised platform---no suggestion of

a chimney, The entire colony of forty or more houses has been

tuilt without any sawed wood at all and the effect of the

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constant thick smoke on these huge slabs of the x

rough wood makes really a& very handsoue though dirty

house interior, I dont think that in one afternoon A.

haveever seen so many iednaly faces as teday<« ‘they

were all so cheerful and pleasent and agreeable, ‘and

told us all their troubles in the sinpeees and cherr=

fullest way, We would examine the whole family fron the

Pat on down to the pequeno, all of them tall pink-cheeke

ed Italians and smiling and Lauching the whole tine, a
This is. the country for you. High rolling hills,

no life that is not on horseback, Frost on my bed in

the morning, to the horror of my crew who think that

to sleep out under a fine little orange tree on a cold

starlit night is the heigzht off insanity, Verdade it is

cold here, I have had to buy a local comforter which |

makes a geod bedding roll even 4f it is lavender on the

outside, Yesterday Shey had & horserace out near the

    

- -gherch and it is a very picturesque costune, the long
fine woolen penche that the horsemen wear here, The
"horses are «ood toogs-= ‘in fact this 4s no more like
the rest of what 2” ve seen than Wontana or New Mexico
is like Palm Beach, It is a country of pine trees and
“a cool fresh skies and I like it, There is about

$ infection here in Lapae--so I expect I shall never
see this tow again.

_ Much obliged for the forwarding of all the

sturt; my address will continue to be Caixa 295 while
out in the interior of this bon libtle séate, whose

cpaital is my home--and if ever a word deserved " "

marks that word home is the word sint it?

 
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es i August 19° |
To-night I have been dom at the Station Agent's, Mr to —
Tamplin's house, first talking at some lenght with his
Brazilian wife about the habits and customs here in
this country and later going over Tamplins siter-in law
to find a full blown Tb, process in her right upper
lobe, They were rather amazed at the fulness of the —
examination, which was good fun merely for the en
“@t recalled,

The women here nurse their children up to sect $r0o

years of age; seldom leaving off before the third month

‘and it is very rare to find a case of undernourishment

among the infants, In cages where they wish to wean the

‘baby en early start is made by squeezing beans up and

cramming them intouthe kids mouth adnost from the start

and going on ‘to & erued wade of fleur or mi ihe which’ is

I think & rough native flour, It is admitted that this”

As hard for _ baby but at is practiced Phd losophteadiy<*
and souie seem to survive, | ,

- famplin's father was a feather merchant in England
who lost through 411lhealth a successful business in Lon=
don, He happened to «o the Brazilian consulate in London
when he was hard pressed for a new chance and seeing there
the siteiane postera of life in tlie “colonies of Brazil, he
sold the family plate and all put a fine harmonium bought
at the Paris exposition in 1853, which he brought to
Curityba for his wife to have in the new land, The Pres
ident of the Province of Parana then he saw it was so keen

to have it that he offered 100 pounds on the spot to Mr

possess the first Harmonium ever seen or heard $s the Pro-#.
vince, But lire T felt so badly to lose it that her husband
refused to sell it. This. angerd the President 60 mich that
when with endless trials they. finally got to the colony

in the matte near Serre Azul they found that the Local

     
 

   

head of the Colony there had orders to send that Ingleze
Pamplin into the matte itself, So Tauplin, his wife who
had had in London most of the ordinary luxuries,and five
children, were dragged up into the bush to a plce where
the only clearing was around their hut, and where they
used sheets and old opera-cloaks to keep out the rain
and where Tamplin’ mother's bed was a pile of banana —
| leaves, and thier only food beans and cane sugar! lr T.
"ated there of heart disease and Tamplin worked in the
wash. for eight years till he was twenty four, At that
time his mother happened | to have made some sketches of
Seleeets and especially butterflies, which she sent as

@ mere keepeake to the British consul in Rio whorn she

had a debt of gratitude to, A Brazilian official happen

ta to see these and in his aAntration for then arranged

_ that she be brought out of the matte to Curityba to do

- la set for the Govermment; that ia the only way that the

family ever saw the light of day again, He told ue this

looking in an odd way at his hands and saying from tine

 

to time" What they have seen!" Which is probably true.
an Tonight I heard the frogs that ery like babies
and of course I went way out of my road to rescue the |
kids that were lost, Such a funny noise, for to eo
coming from a aiteh full of nothing but frogs,

We are off to Campos de Tenense tomorrow, where
I suppose Remigio is saying " Mas eu digo com freangueza" “n=
of this leaving, I ao not tnt the Brazilian Line is

paricularly true: aa "’

Quem inventou /a partida
Nao sabei @a”“Anor

Que parte parte chorando
Quemfica morre: de dor.

Bernas Voveier

 Qutw ge Mist pa
Nav’ paber dee ai
Que pate pate plraus

icf perder 0 Prear

 

 
yey

(Eng,) numerous Christian Science: is

Here it is the very end of August and I have finished the
inspection of two more towns, Campo de Tenente and Rio Negro .
with but little to show for it all in the way of letters to
the North,

Campo de Tenente was 4n informal little place, largely
German, and devoted to a box factory of Snr, Henrique Stahlke —
and consisting of lovely flat topped pinhto trees stuck
casually about some scattered houses, with geese and endless
mule trains and stray horses drifting through the lanes, There
were also sone cedars of a new sort-- the most lovely I have
evere seen, because the cdld touches their tips with a deep
purply red, and only the depths of the foliage is green, the
rest is all a gentle mixture of the softest reds and brows
and greens ,Sprics of this are geing North if it can be done,

- One evening as ‘I was trying to do accounts I heard a
most unpleasant humming noise-- just the noise _— a year
ago used to mean Fritz coming te the Hospital. fer a raid,

Just the same noise---- I was astonished and started out to

see what in the world it was, There wasnt any firing of course

and it suddenly came to me that it was only the sawemill of

Snr, Stahlke --instead of the Mercedes of Herr Stahlke! Gosh
that's a bit of a change for one year's time,

We left Campo on the 27th having examined 375 people
in five days end finding 144 of them with hookworm, Twas 4
bon little tow and Stahlke was very helpful and. jovial----
but I am sorry to say I cant fall for sll of the German
joviality as yet,

But when we got into the train I found Dr Araujo with

a suite case nearly full of magazines and some letters tambem

and here it is that my letter really begins for I have been so

-leng on the trail that I'd almost forgotten what other people

were aware of my existence--having May as the last date to -
go by, I was simply delighted and mail does look good you
know, at times, I had Scientific Americans, and The Nation

 

onitors ( the best paper —

   

 

 
 

 

Pa

1 most ways that I know) sme copies of Science and some

(edical journels and as & finale Sytem and Poetry (separate

agazines if you understand me rightly), Perfectly happy,

pened & typewritten letter first out of curiosity and

was rewarded to find that it was yours, and was dc lighted to
learn that the Trotter book had not gone wide ne the arkew«
I'd agree that the conclusions are too anxiously drawm,I—
think no book by an intelligent man should be sotten aku out
without a simple statement of what he'd like to believe on

the subject at hand as a preface --" Where the treasure is

- there is the heart also",

I ahve the system of reading ( I really never did
: i
anything systematically in my life except toothbrushing)
one newspaper each evening; to make things last and to give

a sense of progress to the week, But I cant be so selfcontrolled

‘on letters and ‘whacked ‘em all open'at once, including one I

shouldnt have opened to one of my. men from his Brazilian ene

amorada, and before I knew it Tf Was well into the heart of a

very hearty Porusuese sonnete-- and I couldnt think who in the

world in the U.S, knew me and Portuguese well enough to be
writings such a load! ~

It is a curious thing isn't it how quickly you can
fal out of one existence into another? Already here I begin to
feel that so much has happened to make a big distance even
bigger that-I am not writing to people because it seems
somehow necessary to give an introduction to a sudden one
slaught delivered from so strange a place as Brazil,
Please advise ( as they say in commercial circles ) me if
you get bored by tribute from a wild and distant state--
and at times from a wild and distant aitte of mind ---
you are the only person I have seen yet who can maintain
a mental EXISTENCE without soing in for absurd generalities
and theories whose purity 1s stifled by their falseness
and their deadly boredom, Not 4 light sentence--- but the
idea is that I dont find many who can ¢@ endure a good Christ-

“fan and 7. feel She” yee charm eee W th the di-

i ane OH lene Cae pink [* Ove

 

 

 
verting buncombe of Greenwich Village, (which I'a defend to
any Ladies Home Journal mind with more loyalty than hope of
success), Perhaps a queer petition this --but I had nearly
theught you hull down over the horizon until your Letter cane,
I'll burbdle on and the Brazilians and Burleson will get

half «--dont curse lir Burleson, like the cornet soloist he
nay be doing the best he can,

I enclose an interesting description of a man, You
dont find many like that---and frequently the few that do
exist fail recognition in either sense of the word, There
ore not many things more 211 outdoors than such absence of
Gant and inherited prejudices; I know of nothing nore desir«
able in friends or acquaintances, I think I will get me the

book, pes
I have ‘much chance to wear out prejudice here in Brae
ail, but there come times when the longing for mine om and
all that that means, comes very strong, They have a different
set of values here, Promptiess, energy, cooperation, imperson-
al kindness, lsinterested gentility especially toward women,
prodigality of effort and insistence on efficient methods, —
silent nike self-effacing service, spontaneity of wit or origin
ality of mind find less value here than at home, Here more
"“homenagem" goes to tribe loyalty, ability to express verbally
friendship, felicitations, tribe good-will, and amityorith
aestring , and to the recognition of natural beauty, and the
maintainance of undisciplined personalk identity and self-re-
spect, More perfume and jewels among the men, I have made no
railroad journeys without an escort to and from the station, ©
Slapping a mn in rage is an insufferable insult to his dignity,
And I have seen three crew men rush to the window to exclaim
"Que bonita! Ah Doutor como linda essa sabiaf" at the sight
of a gray ereen robin in the orange tree, The men are the
only ones to have anything approaching intellectual indepéend-
ence and - this,friends, To the women I think life must be
very dreary--- their faces have a powdered stoliaity that

   
 

is not a very high tribute to their men, I have often.
wondered why the husbands of beautiful women, instead —
of being the objects of shallow praise for having

made such a catch, are not more often complimented for
the beauty or spirit of their wives long after the catch
Wes catched, As it seems that would be a rare thing in
Brazil, : :

I am now in the funniest little boat you ever saw
being stared at by some rustics to whom this is an extra=
ordinary scene, We are going down to Sao Matheus, the _
boat ordinarily takes loads of matte up from down river,
and the green powder lies all ower the deck, I shall have
the most interesting time--- birds I have never seen be-~
fore and types of scenery soe, & fourteen hours trip for |
#200 with jerked beef and the local beans to eat, A dirty
looking place to be sure but we shall simply fit out our
camp beds where the matte is usually and have really a de-
lightfully cool and pleasant night of it, It ie very hot
now, but this part of Brazil gets cool by night and the
Christian Science Moni ten hag just provided me with a
map of the Southern Heavens which the pleasant clear
“weather will make good fun to study I had a lot of fun.
on the boat aown; in the Tropics you get & "close-up"
on them all and the stars are even more worth while than
ever, a

I wish the pictures that are stored in my camera
euld accompany but Rio de Janeiro is the nearest place
for decent developsent and that takes about a month from
here, The answer is ma mate tarde which is local for later
on owe 2 frequent expression of the human spirit as it
has its being here, It is not fair to say lives and moves
and has its beinge---it cant do all thatk in one day: mais
tarde,
Good Luck and cheerio

A. G, |

P.S. % am not & Mgocial worker. no ne + ree
Z “ ; " pene

    

 

 
Lattnight we had a big party here «= a baile of which thet
invitation runs .
E <MO, SRR.
A commisseo abaixo assignada convida V,S¢ Exma, familia

 

para assisterem ao baile que se realisara na noite de sabbado
6 do corrente, nos saloes do Club "IDEAL", offerccido aos dig-
nos noivos Snr Gilberto de Paula Leal e Senhorita Elvira Polati _
em regos jioso de seu enlace matrimonial, '
Dr Paulo Foretes ‘pedro @ des Santos
Theophilo Sabbag — Jose Portes
| Jose A, Wolff
No dia seguinte havera baile infantil das 4 horas em diante,
The Commissao Rokafel1' was invited and it was certainly worth
going to, They had a band like nothing on earth and the room of
the clooby was filled with beautiful and fearful looking mocas
who when I arrived were walking, round and round with a fella
supporting them : making sert or a grand circle an the cemter
of the roome--because ae I found out it was a social error to sit
Gow with a moga ( the local for young lady)especially in the
chair absolutely next-to her! They have a system that should be
copied everywheree-«you walk round and round until you finda
seat and then you leave here-just leave her that's a11!

I had an amusing time, They de

 

nee the onestep here ale

ready but they dance it at& arms lenghh and the sensation of dance
ing anything is lost, More like eymuasiueexerchses:whersiyou try _
to follow the instructor cverytime he moves--but youre always — :
a little bit late, “In the middle of the festivitbkes suddenly a
youth stepped forward and began to talk in a loud voice to the
bridegroom who wae standing rigid and miserable under the gaze of
alle-. the saudacoes was a fearfully flowery affair in Portuguese
of the orators school, all about how splendid an idea marriage

Was and how we are indebted to our direct forefathers the Romans
for all that 4t means to us and ending up with the iieoadl good
wishes very heavily expressed, The sort of thing you did when

  
 

at seventeen your bosom friend got married and you

 

to write a serious letter adequate to the situation,
I am & bit disanimated to-day---low in the mind to be
toss Braziliane-- because we stayed on to treat the Poles
after they had come out from church, adnoni shed cud advised
by the Padre, but any about seventy have come, Two hundred
is what we wanted, and we never would be wasting these three
days if we had known that theyre only g0ing to’ ysera thi s
_ tiny crop, This morning up till 12 o*clock I was a surgeon —
working with Dr Paulo Fortes over a little Polish lad ‘whose
? right fibiidaand tibia received a compound fracture 20 days
ago out in the matte, We made ® window splint and got some
traction fairly well applied after an inferminable time —

spent in cleaning the wound up--Dr P,F, lad let the thing

 

drift on from bad to worse, He had nothing ‘prepared and no.
idea of what was going to happen next) There was ao little
surgeons plaster left in tom that now that they have just
_told me the traction has come off I am net surprised-- but
‘here what the dévil to do next, When the last ten inches
has one by the boardegas? Luckily the little boy is not in:
ony pain, Gosh what. a lot of work there is for anyone who
wants primarily to practice medicine and surgery and seconde
arily to belong to! & Club, raise a family and stick to the
standards that he has quietiy absorbed aii his life as the ~~
thing to do, city life ete etc,
There are some interesting fo:ms of leaves and flowers
here, a tree that has @ hearteshaped center quite black with
white wood around it, call smak coracdo de preto.or negroes

heart, Here is a leaf I got on the Iguassu coiling dow here,

 

Ive had no dinner and hence my spirit is not strong for alt
litrachoor but clieery 0h -<as the Tommies letters used te | ct

finish,

  
The next night I rode out to the fazenda of Major Infante
Viera on a pully horse he provited for me and spending the

night there started treatments early the next morning begin-

     
   
   
 

f ing with this famihy, whose son and
¥ heir is 16 and his sister 6, That

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) | shows what H* can do, The entire

p colony of workers had hookworn,

 

it was our first group of 100% es-
| tablished infection, and I used up
Ji all my chenopodium treating then,

= |
| After the treaments were over I wens

 

- over the estate with the Major and
I have never seen coffee as fertile
and promising lboking,
ESF we ™ — His opinions of Americans were |
that they talked and bluffed a good deal -but their chief virtue
Was that when they made up their mind to have sbmethimg they
stuck to it until they got it. I was interested to dee in his
bed room library "A Forca de Vontade" by Samuel Smiles,
Saturday and Sunday went in treatments and in routine |

wormcounts in the pouring rain, so that by Monday I was

more thah ready to get out, Again we had a pouring rain, so
we put off going at 10 o'clock exactly to favor the driver

of the trolg, Characteristically enough he called up about
two to say that he couldnt go that day for the price agreed
upon but would only be able to go for 20 mil more, I went
right up to his barn and took his name down in a notebook

for éffect, and, being theroughly fed up with such behaviour
indulged what Cannon calls " 10 minutes fury" with him be-
cause he wouldnt understand our cold northern scorn, He came
bacy to his original price but if it had rained heavily be-
fore it was nothing to what began just as we were leaving

the hotel in an uncovered buckboard, The road out of the
town of Jacarezinho was nothing but a mill-race of red mud
on a very steep hill and of course the nigh mule upon being ~
unmercifully beaten kicked the harness into ribbons and lay. in ~
the slippery mud and water while my banker friend told me it
was impossible to get out to the R.R. that day, and was arranging
to have his luggage left by the roadside and return to the hotel,
After we got the mule up. Ape to the top of the Bill he changed
his mind and we finished by Teta in Ourinhos much ahead of
time and very wet indaeea, but glad of the chance to get the train
the next morning at 3:40,

All that next day and the day dexieeias was on the train.

and finally when we got to Curityba I was delighted tp find a
lot of letters and to see all my stuff in the trunks I had left
tows in August 4 just as they were left. It was nice too to talk
a bit of English to a Scetchman named Machattie, at the Lemdon
and River Plate Bank, When he introduced me to the manager I
forgot what to sayin English and started " Muito prazer de con-
hecel-o" quite naturally---which made me feel ridiculous, as he
looked rather askance.

The next day I started on a flying trip to Serro Azul
put on arriving at Rio Branco found a thirty or forty. kilometer
journey in a doubtful diligencia and no satisfactory assurance
of copperation from the Prefeito, whom I met, so we returned
to Curxgtyba and the second day after that we went down to Par-
anagua and caught the boat for this next field of labor, the
State of Santa Catherina. The boat served to remind me what a
packwoodsy sort of life I have been up to recently and I waa.
filled with SAUDADES of the U.5, and my trip dom to RIO,
Saudades means a cross between memories of a pleasant and close
sort.and homesickness and is a word the Brazilians are wery

jealous of-- they say there is no translation for it,

sili spilt se At NW nd tet de de wm ad 8 * a5 \ 4 Law BARD ; > Pw sac ee iis
 

In many ways this Sao Mattheus is the most interesting place

we wane seen yet, The trip dow the river was by night and

finished by day in a rain that was too heavy to allow taking \
pictures, At night we sate-- my Italian guarda and I out in
the prow of the boat watching the winding black river over
hung with moss-laden trees down which we slid and sidled,
He has a pleasnt tenor voice and gladly sang whole pages

of his favorite opera to me --Pagliacchki, interrupted
occassionally by the boat crashing into the bank on a badly
steered curve, Once we stopped for wood which the caboclos
with streaming cunny-sackg ever their heads carried down
from a tiny clearing in the dense matto, And once for three |
sacks of oranges which. three ruffians brought to the boats —

- edgefrom more perfectly black matto, With earrings and red
scarfs overn their heads, rough beards animal eyes and a
large facao or bowie knife stuck in their belts they were
worth siting up for, Then we went to bed--- the center
of the boat was free from its ordinary load of matte and.
twas easy to set up our nice clean American camping beds and
sleep under netting in peace and uninterrupted isolation,

Sao Mattheus proved to pe a wild backwoods tom cut out of

the matte; the Prefeito did not seemaz very excited to see us
but let us have the Car

 

ara Municipal without more adieu and
said that he would arrange a nan‘ito:eone ona. transport the:
beds and equipment from the wharf to the Camara, After waiting
twe hours in the rain I began to fume and we got a man on’ our
own hook who hauled the stuff for'us, © >>

I sent Bonini and Miragaya out to a store and to the poste
office with microscopes and some’ specimens. that. showed active

and convincing worms and again the next day similar propaganda

but with but little result, Visits to the Polish colonies .
were: very discouraging too, because the people seemed to be
- very suspicious and we were getting almost no-one to examine,

Most of the Poles thoughk though there has been a colony here
for 27 years cannot yet speak Portuguese and naturally ied

       

 
 

 

 

made it hard ~--Deodoro Silveira came back furious
that there should be people in Brazil so long and
yet not inéw the’ linda lingua "the beautiful

 

language of Portuguese, —

" ‘The night of the second day we had our cone
ferneia and 130 were there at first curious, then
dumbe founded and incredulous and at last keen for
an an examination, Poor devils they have never had an
_ thing from the hahd of strangers” that did not cost

something in the end and natuzally zx they dont see
. why an American millionario should be doing any.
such thing, I am tempted to tell them that he is
doing it as a matter of penance, which would make it
all instantly comprehensible to them «-- and I wone
der how far I'd be off,

Not ti11 today aid I discover why they have
been so slow here, The Poles have circulated a rim
rumor that I am a representative of the American Army —
that there is coing to be another war in the U.S, and
that& we are getting the names and ages of possible

conscriptge--taking the names of the women and chil-

 

dren is only a blind to fool people with, We went
to the Padre who rules with a vod of irone=- he will
anday that they

 

instruct them Lomerrow which is Sv
are to be examined and in the conferncia after church —
I am going to get a Pole tw explain to all the people
what we are doing, I was interested to have the POlish
teacher say "Why the Rockefeller Commission was in
Poland too during the war!" which was the job Reggie
Foster did after his fiancee shot herself and he’
couldnt stick it in America any longer, His work is
helping me,)) &

Of what happens at church I'll teil you later