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that he had something there. That is one insidious thing about price cutting. The customer may well feel he's a sucker and still doesn't know it. I got on the train just as they were yelling "all aboard" and left Neil and Blanchard to continue the campaign perhaps to the dawn.

Erie, Pa.,
Saturday, May 18, '40.

I had plenty of time to think about thing's today, not arriving in Erie until 4:15 PM - and I did think a lot about the war (looks bad now for the Allies), my job, my future, the future of us all. And all in all I didn't feel too chipper. The war situation casts a dark shadow over everything. It almost shakes one's faith in Justice and in God to see these ruthless, criminal, dishonest bastards riding roughshod over everything and everybody - without morals, without scruples, without mercy. One wonders why such things can happen in any kind of an order where justice and goodness are supposed to triumph and evil be punished. Perhaps we are being influenced by a deluge of propaganda but a lot of this seems far and above anything that propaganda could possibly sponsor.

I felt cheered when I saw the family there at the station to meet me, all well and the children, thank god, pretty oblivious to all this awful business. This evening Willie and I went to a Book Club party at the MacLeods - an innocent, simple party of games, Virginia Reels and light refreshments - and I really had a mighty fine time, all of which goes to show liquor isn't a necessity although sometimes one gets to imagine so. The Greers went