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« I believe Mother has elven up the idea of elie teak York with ‘us
and visiting with Eleanor and ee uring Christmas vacation. I ‘hoped
that she would go, and then ‘for ne Se oa
had the nation the® Retary wuld end us there for the International
Convention. But I have just learned that this ‘convention is to be held
in St."Loulsjeo"that 4s out. ° ¥.

We elweys read Joan's and Libby'& letters with much delight, and
once in a while we get » letter from Sonny. Please ask that old historien
why he doesn't write a lengthy epistle to his grandparents in Lawrence,
Kensas. We would like to know howhe is progressing. I had a nice tele-
phone conversation with ‘ae Masai aoe gets a
ite thrill out “ Pete's orn, — Ups | . ee

ea Mother ta terribly depressed over the war. she’ niirid about ont

fe ag wv ;
tad “J

y of
ane you jive the aa diteas that are
the casualties from ow om loved ones
feel, but even one is a terrible loss. I beli : |
with her physical condition. I do not believe that her is so bad
because last night she was the healthiest looking person o

ballroom floor. We had a “fine turkey dimer at the Uni

the Rotarians entertained the Rotary Anns. She did
very fine mal. Then they had speaking end I had to sl : coa
the basketball teaa, but’ t got back about 10 o'clock, and we all danced
wuitil ll o'clock. Mother had a sprained knee and was hardly able to walk
from the cay into the Union Building, but after that music started she |
shook her Methodist foot so fact that you would have thought she was a-
young girl. This morning she was feeling tip top.

She: has these periods of depres#ion, and I imagine she will always be
affected by then. eth el nel ovis calle fant dieayats pl Bag
it. There isn't any way of stopping half-way or short of a possible in-
carceration of the madedogs of Europe. And while the rehabilitationists
may say that-we have got to treat the squarsleads, the spaghetti-benders
and the sliteeyes with consideration, I say the only way to take care of
the German war machine and the slit-eyes war machine is to put them in

such condition that they will not have anjjhing to fight with for quite

some time. fsmihilation may not be the answer but certainly we will heve
to have a world police strong enough not to allow these guys even to drill

with wooden gums of with spades. The minute they start the stuff that
Hitler started in the Ruby, then that is the time for the world police
to step in and tell then to dig with the spades in the ground and
not oarry them up in the air as they did before. But I will leave that to
the constructionists. I am still pretty much of a destructionist when I
think of all the havoc they have wrought, and I am pretty much convinced
thet Joseph Stalin is going to be a tough fellow to dissuade from getting
his share of Adolph Hitler, et al.