JOHNNIE SIMMONS PIPES A FITTING

His letter of last September follows:

"In response to 'The Folks Back Home Want'a Hear Bout You' postal card, I might advise there is nothing to report except that the G-D pipe and fitting business in which I have the misfortune to be engaged is just as lousy as ever, and particularly so when you try to sell fellows like EDDIE BUTTS. What—a-Pal!

"Another source of regret to me is that both my sons John Jr. and Edward picked out Cornell for their Alma Mater instead of Dartmouth. They are both fairly good students which is just the diametric opposite of what their father used to be. John starts his Senior year and Ted (Edward) his Freshman year in September and they are both taking engineering.

"After what Cornell did to Dartmouth in football last Fall, it isn't so hot so look forward to the coming season when I will have two boys at Ithaca instead of one. This begins to sound like I was going to burst right out crying, but this is not strictly the case because Earley, the Demon Life Insurance Agent and Economic Royalist promised to buy me a drink in one of the cut-rate bars that clutter up Manhattan. I think this was in 1938.

"I have reached the conclusion that Mr. Earley is an 'Opportunist.' Outwardly at least he poses as a confidant of Big- Business and Wall St., but intuition tells me he is a 'New Dealer' at heart. The question might arise as to what prompts this feeling on my part and my answer is that cut-rate drink which has now had almost two years in which to age. Believe the chances are it will die a natural death before—well what's the use—because I'm on the wagon now! !"

Howard. Macy Park and Anne on board hissailboat, "Sea Biscuit" at Shelter Island,N. Y., July 1940.