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2 1935 No, I was never at the Wenona fair. I think Woodford didn't join in, as we had good grounds and buildings for many years. The clock has struck eight. The paper has just come. I wanted to begin a chapter on my early political opinions, but it must wait. Jan.19. So you attended a Townsend club meeting? I went to their district meeting Thursday afternoon out of curiosity, and took notes for Dr. Brewster. He couldn't go. They say they have no intention of advocating a third party. They have the same tactic that Upton Sinclair employs - use old party candidates but get them to endorse their platform. Such things never work. An old time politician has too many Capitalist ideas firmly embedded in his brain cells to be able to keep his promises, even if he knows how to use his vote. I encourage the idea of pensions, not only for old people, but for everybody. I [unclear] the mere fact of getting together on an economic idea is a step ahead for many people, so I favor it, but I have not joined the club.

  You have done much more writing for the public than I. I have written letters and diaries voluminously, but very little otherwise, and some of it is out of print. You seem more than ever like home folks - only please, don't get sentimental - when you mention the Wesleyan at Bloomington, only 16 miles from old Metamora. I have a very dear friend who lives now, and has for years in Normal. Had a letter this past week from her. She taught me music for several years. Yes, I recall the Overland Monthly and the Woman's Magazine and the Daily. I was in St. L. at the time of the Fair there and took my little daughter. We went to the development and heard the publisher - wasn't his name Lewis? - give an address. He was a clever schemer, but little more, and was on the decline at the time. Your thrill over the Lahore, India paper reminds me of one I had - an article which was syndicated in a Chicago paper was translated into Spanish for an educational monthly there, then re-translated into English and printed in some school paper here in the U.S. My father-in-law Prof. Alexander Kerr, who was professor emeritus at Wisconsin U. after teaching Greek there 39 years, found the article and gave me the copy. It has been lost in all these years of moving about, but the subject of the paper was teaching children by suggestion, and founded upon the experiences and successes I had with my own Katherine. I cured her of thumb-sucking as well as some other things. I'm glad you wrote for Daniel De Leon's N.Y. People