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Went to Hooker office there met [[red underline]] Elon H. Hooker [[/red underline]] and Albert H. Hooker in conference
Same old idea of Hooker [[red underline]] wants to calculate 50 years ahead how to shape chemical or other enterprises and make something as large as Standard Oil company. [[/red underline]] Nothing less than [[red underline]] 400 millions [[/red underline]] etc. etc. Has a list of all industries and talks about it as a god on a throne and plays with numbers and figures.  Tried to persuade him once more this is not the way big industries planned but by [[red underline]] developing according to opportunity. [[/red underline]] told him bluntly I take no interest in his toying with numbers. He [[red underline]] should better watch his Niagara enterprise, [[/red underline]] that it does not slip out of his 
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hands. Explained to him in detail my [[red underline]] Soya bean [[/red underline]] project and also in connection with the raising of [[red underline]] Kaffir Corn [[red underline]] but I do not think his imagination [[red underline]] lies in that direction. Size and numbers seem most impressive to him. Is this a case of Megalomania or is he so overawed by Percy Rockefeller and some of his richer friends that he wants to get as rich as they. [[/red underline]] Poor ambition. I feel very much like dropping my connections with Hooker Company so as not to be bored any more with those vague dreamy schemes.
[[red underline]] I cannot understand how anybody who has already more money than he needs should want to make more and submit himself to vexations or worries on [[/red underline]]