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Erie, Pa.,
Wednesday, Oct. 19, 1938.
Finally took the bull by the horns today and went to Dr. Schlindwein to be examined for new glasses in a effort to get rid of these headaches I've been having. They found I needed more correction and slightly stronger glasses which I forthwith ordered, new from A to Z and much better looking so I will have more incentive to wear them - a little psychology. The rest of the day was rather dull because I couldn't read and went around wearing dark glasses like the Phantom in the funny paper.

Erie, Pa.,
Thursday, Oct. 20, '38.
Today I buckled down to the small locomotive job again and plugged at it all day, gradually having it sink in, detail by detail. After 5PM, I went in to talk to Maurice and he unburdened his mind to me on the bawling out he got from Andrews yesterday. Andy told him the [[double underlined]] full [[/double underlined]] responsibility for the New Haven excess development and the U.P. debacle was Maurice's - 100%. As head of the railway locomotive section, he was responsible for [[underlined]] all [[/underlined]] of it. And my opinion of Andrews thereby sinks to another low. Any man who could make such a statement is either utterly ignorant, entirely unreasonable or simply damned dumb! In my opinion, the bulk of the U.P. responsibility hangs on H.L. himself for having swallowed it in the first place, hook, line and sinker and embarked on the lavish program he did with nothing much more concrete than a bunch of optimistic statements. Common sense should have told him to go easy until everyone had his feet on the ground and not in the stratosphere. As for the New Haven, I think the statement entirely unjustified. The real trouble lies in the facts that H.L. established a price, then proceeded to give the New Haven a lot of stuff not covered by the price

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