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Mother is worried about the war and other things, and I think this
has more to do-with her indigestion than anything else. The depression
of her mind over Clint Kanaga and other boys, like Bobby Haynes, in the
Pacific, has just about wrecked her. The doctor diagnosed it a slight
shadow of an uncer in the duodenum, but frankly I do not think it is
nearly as bad as she sometimes thinks it might be.

We had a fine turkey dimer at the Union Building last night when
the Rotarians entertained the Rotary Anns. She did full justice to a

‘very fine meal. Then they had speaking and I had to slip over and coach

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until 11 o'clock. Mother had a sprained knee and was hardly able to
walk from the car into the Union Building, but after that music started
she shook her Methodist foot so fast that you would have thought she was
@ young girl. So what I think she needs is more Methodist music and
‘more Methodist foot swinging. She said she never had such a good time
in all her life and she was as buoyant as a sixteen-year-old girl.

_ Every morning when she gets up she is terribly depressed. When the
good news comes in about sinking the Jap ships she will say, Yes, but
look how many we lost. I ask her if she ever figured it in the reverse
ratio. Suppose we had lost what the Japs lost, then that would be some-
thing else agai Her war psychology is negative. Of course she thinks
of Hoot and Sobby and Mit, and perhaps Pete, and so many of her friends
who have children in the service that it about gets her down.

If it would do any good I might worry, but I never have and I am not
going to start at my age. If anything has happened it has happened, and
I an not going to worry about it until it does, and when it does then it
is too late to worry.

One person said, "I am too selfish to get angry or to worry because it
harms me. It interferes with my peace of mind and my digestion, and I
cannot be as efficient as I should be." Well, that is about my philosophy,
‘that it doesn't do any good, and wtil I find out that worry is helpful,
then I em not going to start.

We have had a very tough year. I do not believe that we could have
had more aiftioulties. confront us. ie have had 1800 men in our physical
conditioning courses that were forced to take compulsory physical education
on account of the war situation. We have never serviced over 450 before,
and we are doing it with no added faculty personnel. In fact, we are one
short, so we have ape to take 18 underclassmen, athletes, football and
basketball players, and physical education majors, and develop them into
- @ leaders’ corps. I will not go into detail, only just to say that the
congestion in the gymmasium takes on the appearance of a can of mustard
sardines.