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are always good reasons. It is a combination of various things--world conditions which are at a most discouraging pass, business conditions that are bad, unrest in the office, our small locomotive campaign threatening to flop. Jake running wild, losing the Republic Steel job at Buffalo to Plymouth, my cartooning flop, a gradual souring and back biting tendency on my part, worries over the new house, etc., etc. Most of all perhaps is a feeling of defeat all around, a feeling I am not making the most of things, am flopping all around personally.  So I want to right this situation, and as many times before I think keeping this journal again will help immensely. It helps me chart my course, check up on myself, and not least of all, it gives me a sense of at least accomplishing something in writing it.  So I resume, and I want to maintain it, not to the exclusion of other activities, which is not necessary, but as a desirable thing just like eating and sleeping properly. It helps me live right and keep straight.

Above all is gloom. And yet if one looks on the cheerful side of things, there is much to offset the darker aspect. The children are well and gaining weight. Willie and I are well. We live in America and not Europe. I have a good job and in spite of the vicissitudes of business, it appears to be a secure job for some time at least, and probably until I am