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[[red underline]] Ishikawa [[/red underline]] asks to be allowed to see our [[red underline]] chlorbenzol [[/red underline]] plant as a favor.  Promised him to ask Hooker to allow him to do so because I think it right and consider it a small petty policy to take airs of [[strikethrough]] secrecy [[/strikethrough]] secrecy where they are not justified.
Much snow everywhere
March 5.  A busy morning hurrying out letters before [[strikethrough]] lea [[/strikethrough]] taking Pennsylvania train 2:04 P.M for [[red underline]] Dayton Ohio, where I shall lecture to morrow [[/red underline]]
March 6.  Arrived here about 8 AM Miami Hotel where I found [[red underline]] Swan. [[/red underline]] Pleasant hotel Decidedly better than Algonquin.
Violent indignation in all the papers on account of [[red underline]] Lafolette, Stone and
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[[strikethrough]] tn [[/strikethrough]] ten [[red underline]] other Senators defeating armed ships bill by filibustering tactics in utilizing a right [[/red underline]] of discussion till end of term of present session of Congress so [[red underline]] as to prevent vote being taken. [[/red underline]] A most [[red underline]] disgusting behavior, [[/red underline]] contemptible trickery of technicalities in opposition to the overwhelming desires and outspoken opinion of all the other Senators.  President [[red underline]] Wilson [[/red underline]] in a special address for publication expressed himself [[red underline]] very severely.[[/red underline]].  After all how is it possible that this rule about unlimited debate -- a most chineselike rule -- should have persisted in view of frequent abuses of the past.
Went to [[red underline]] Delco factory.  Kettering [[/red underline]] there.  Showed me