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In a talk with Quentin Roosevelt I learned that the young man's views in regard to the status quo of the Aviation Section of the Signal Reserve Corps coincided with my own. In vigorous language, much after the manner of his illustrious father, the Lieutenant was prone to agree that the folks back home have always been fed on the same rations of the precious care taken of the welfare and well being of the aviator; they have been satiated with the items of comfort accessories and amusements as though he were a pampered pet - provided for the birdmen - and so much of it is false and so much is still to be desired that the aviator, who alone knows the real condition of affairs, does nothing more than gain and accumulate his own stock of comforts and attend to his own well being.
Roosevelt is the same in build and character as his voluble parent. In a lecture to one of our groups he inmpressed me as given to the utterance of crticism - yet finally his idea was that of a "square deal!"