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I suggest to Toule idea of Greenwich Village Soc of Artists to get together the same spirits of the quarter to offset the rotten exploitation of the section by the freak bohemians.  Cap Toule strong for it asks me to take lunch some day early in April and will get the plan laid out.  Cap Toule very anxious to paint but army life gave him no time, he gave instruction in camouflage concealment and Mrs. T shows me photographs of the class at work outdoors and some of their "concealed" plants.  Toule says the government didn't give H Thayers work on this much consideration.  Toule subscribes.  Have a long talk and I find Toule much changed by his war experiences much more serious.

Monday 24 Mar stop at Cap Nave's find Dickingson.  Tell him I want to reproduce his "Elizabeth" more than ever now its turned out of Academy.  He says he'll have it photographed and says "I certainly appreciate it very much  it'll mean a lot to me."  Cap [[strikethrough]]com[[/strikethrough]] comes in and we agree that Monday is blue Monday so we sit and talk and Cap sends out for sandwiches.  We smoke.  We discuss the Bolsheviks & decide they've got to stopped before they roll us all down.  Decide its the rising of the Jew against the Christian.  Get some snake stories going and Cap says once he went over the border of his Texas home to hunt deer in old Mexico.  That he got a fine buck and was just starting back with it when he saw over the ledge of a hill in a pit a den of rattlesnakes  "Thousands of them!"

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  yells the Captain.  "I didn't say in that place and I didn't get the buck either!  I dropped it and got away quick!"  I suggest to the Capt that as he knows the West so well he's the man to do a series a portrait character heads of cowboys and western  heavies generally.  He likes the idea and thinks he'll do it.  Good.  Have supper with Dickinson who then suggests we go over to see the lights and decorations on Fifth Ave for the parade tomorrow of "The 27th" home from the war.  Find the "Tower of jewels" observing St. Gaudens' Sherman at 59th St.  Walk down the Avenue.  Dickinson rails at it.  "Isn't that atrocious?  'Tower of Jews'"  Pass Knoedler and see a man peering through the glass doors.  We look in  windows are dark but clean inside opposite end of big reception foyer is the "Hebrew Washington" with a spotlight on it.  D smiles.  See some terrible muddy portraits in the windows.  Get down to the Arch and find Paul Bartletts top sculpture not ready.  See some little plaster horses up there but [[strikethrough]] no [[/strikethrough]] no rider.  I tell D Paul is notorious for delays & is likely not to have the work done in time. Stop for a drink and then up the avenue.  Stop at St. Gaudens Farragut.  Some jewish boys are standing on the bronze pedestal with arms around the figure.  The blare of lights on the ^[[insert]] plaster [[/insert]] Arch do not reach the bronze Farragut who looks very dignified.