November 17, 1937.

Mir. Eldon
Arizona State Teauhes'e Coles,
Flagstaff, Arizona.s

Dear Eldons

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a paragraph of your letter regarding your brother, Roberte When
I read this paragraph and noted that Bob had Nodgkins disease, I
knew of course that ait would not be longe \

Words of mine or anyone are entirely inadequate to
you at this timee Only those who have traveled the Golgotha Road
ean really kmow and feel the reaction that is in an individual's
mind who has lost a brother. I assure you that I have had that
experience. Five years ago my brother, who was an inspector for
the Department of Commerce, was flying his ship on his way home .
to the airport at Haddenfield, New Jersey. ‘Something went wrong -
mobody lmows what. But he bailed out above the Military Academy
at West Point when his ship went into a tailapin. The parachute
failed to open in time and of course he was crushed to deaths -

It happened thet. he was flying home to his wife and
young son for his birthday dimere Those things are tragedies
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Whether we vend “the teldee of Hin lube Dee” or
whether we have a philosophy equal to the occasion to buoy us up
at eértain times, it seems that there is still something that is
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