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[[symbol in top left margin]] # [[symbol of circle topped by cross in top left margin]] 132 [[strikethrough]] Oct 22. Went [[/strikethrough]] ^[[Drove]] to [[strikethrough]] New York office [[/strikethrough]] University Club to get latest war news Took supper with Mershon and McMahon. [[red underline]] Celine [[/red underline]] still in bed. Oct [[overwritten]] 23 [[/overwritten]] 22 Left here at about [[strikethrough]] eleven [[/strikethrough]] ^[[ten]] with car. [[strikethrough]] Took lunch at Lafayette then drove to Bro [[/strikethrough]] Went to Takamine to talk over the japanese contracts -- see correspondence on this subject. Then lunched at Lafayette Restaurant then to Brooklyn. [[red underline]] All cells going. [[red underline]] Peter shows me samples of leather [[strikethrough]] made [[/strikethrough]] ^[[tanned]] with [[red underline]] glyoxylic acid [[/red underline]] and others without. Glyoxylic shows decidedly better results. Charge 2 hours Hooker. " 2 hours Royal Baking Powder Co [[symbol and note in left margin]] # 2 hours Hooker [[/symbol and note in left margin]] [[symbol of circle topped by cross in left margin with note]] 2 hours [[/symbol and note in left margin]] Then drove to University club Mr. Montague the lawyer came to take supper with me. Talked war, inventors guild and patent legislation. [[end page]] [[start page]] 133 [[strikethrough]] Oct 24. [[/strikethrough]] till midnight. Oct 23. 1914 [[red underline]] Celine better [[/red underline]] but still in bed. Beautiful Indian Summer weather Oct 24. Quiet day. All this depressing news of the [[red underline]] savagery [[/red underline]] committed now in [[red underline]] Europe [[/red underline]] makes me more and more uninterested in my work. I cannot escape the discouraging influence of the thoughts which are the natural result of what I read. [[red underline]] President Wilson [[/red underline]] some time ago invited the nation to a day of national prayer. Did it occur to him and others who pray that in praying ^[[to]] their man-conceived God, they make their God fully responsible for what is happening. And what a monster would such a God be. The worst incarnation of the Devil could not conceive anything more fiendish than the destruction now going on in Europe, the starvation of innocent women and children!