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in the form of a serious menace to health.

The past week has been the real beginning of spring here and during its warm sunny days, grass has turned rich green, trees and bushes budded beautifully, and the early flowers broken into bloom. I watched it all and knew that one should be happy if only he were well and could see and smell and appreciate all this beauty.  To have health, to be able to drink in beauty, to have ones children and loved ones around one--after these things, what is there to worry about. Worry vanishes.

So, as a result of this experience, I go back to life equipped to play the game as never before--as I have long felt intuitively I should play it but never quite could. Now I think I have the push, the spark, the drive to do it. To take life as it comes and appreciate it, see beauty in it. To play it calmly and well, refusing pettiness, giving it all I have.

Erie, Pa.,
Monday, May 1, 1939.
The first thing that met my eyes when we drove in the gate this morning, was one of the Union Pacific units sitting outside of Bldg. 10. A generator bearing burned out due to a plugged oil line and they returned it to Erie for repair as long as the job is headed east on