April 27, 1944.

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Mr. John tie Trembly, ‘
17th Floor, Federal Reserve Bank Bldg.,
10th and Grand Avenue,

Kansas City 6, Missouri.
Dear John:

. I was glad to hear from you, but sorry to learn that you had been
ill. However, I don't think you have anything to worry about that blood
pressure 95 over 60. That doesn't look as if a man is getting old.

There are a lot of youngsters that would be happy to have that. I, like
you, am not overly enthusiastic about the recommended hemoroidectomy.
However, those Thornton-\inor people are specialists and they should know
their business. : :

I haven't played golf but once this year, and then got wet. liow-
ever, I am rather optimistic because someone told me that the rain is
going to be over by May 163 So I think we have nothing to worry about
if we just keep our chin up and keep our nose out of the water.

I did not attend the basketball tournament because, frankly, I
thought that the teams were so weak this year they weren't worth travel-
ing far to see, especially with gasoline rationing.

i have had a lot of speaking dates, plus my other activities, so
i have had to do too much night traveling and needed to catch up on my
sleep when I had the opportunity. Tonight I am speaking at a church
bowling league dinner at the Green Parrot at 52nd and State Line. ‘So I
' am making this letter rather short and snappy.

i am sorry that I had not heard of your father’s death, although
Mrs. Allen read it in the paper. I was speaking in Cedar Rapids, Iowa,
end had been to Hutchinson, Kansas, end mde the trip from one place to
the other and did not get to see the papers during that time. Had I
learned of it, of course I would have written you. Your dad did have a
host of friends and I enjoyed his genial personality very much. He had
the heart of youth even though he had grown old. He had an interest in -
people that was always pleasing to the people with whom he came in con-
tact. I do think sometimes that people scan live too long because they
generally outlive their own generation and they become lonesome, but
this was not the case with your dad.