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37 [[underlined]] To Willie, March 2, 1926 [[/underlined]]: It was terrible for me to go a week without getting a letter to you and I didn't intend to do that nor did I realize I had done it. I'm awfully sorry for I know it must have hurt you and worried you both. I guess that was during that terrible rush of rehearsals and overtime that kept us in one continual state of jumping in and out of working clothes, rushing for the trolley to get downtown, rushing for work to get there before the whistle blew, rushing to my room late at night in order to get a far-too-brief sleep. This week so far has been no overtime, so I'm having what seems like leisure although I find I must go in town every single evening. For instance: Monday -- Rehearsal Tuesday -- Mail letters Wednesday -- Rehearsal Thursday -- Dinner at the Benedicts Friday -- Rehearsal Saturday -- Dance for Nancy Harsh at church Sunday -- Hear Dr. Dutton preach Monday -- Rehearsal et cetera ad infinitum In fact, there are so many, many things one would like to do that there isn't one half enough time. I think I can safely say I never spend five consecutive minutes at any time of the day when I'm not doing something -- there's no time for day-dreaming. At the plant, we fill our spare time up in writing letters and reading. But it's good to have a great deal to do for it certainly keeps life from being monotonous. My poor reading is suffering terribly but when the play is over, I'll have what will seem like oodles of time for reading. Until then, ye gods! I've always wanted to read a good book on the Russian upheaval and just before I left Schenectady, I was about to get the whole business explained to me by my friend, Georges Nivitsky, who was there at the time and is a native Russian. However, my sudden departure stopped that. Now I'm having an opportunity to get the real dope about Mussolini from our young Italian engineer here, Ferella, and also the situation in India from Castellino, who gave a short talk at church about Gandhi and the Indian policy of "passive resistance." Ferella says Mussolini saved Italy from Bolshevism and I guess that's perfectly true. For that, the Italians are grateful and today he has practically all Italy behind him, acclaiming him. Ferella calls him "the greatest man in the worrld," but I believe that a slight exaggeration although offhand, it would be rather hard for me to name just whom I think should occupy that exalted position. ...... Mr. Priest, who is the traveling secretary of Phi Delta Theta, once made a speech to a group of young Phi Delts on this wise: "When I was a young man in college, it was considered the mark
