Hmmmnnnn...I guess Dan didn't vote for FDR in 44!
Volume Twelve
Vol. 12, No. 1 [Dan]
July 30, 1944
Dear Helen and family:
Appreciate the kind word about the origin of the chain. I guess we would all agree that it is successful, but the credit there belongs to each member of the family. Keep it up and don’t forget to send me the back copies. I’m missing many of them.
Our two weeks at Estes Park were superb—Ah that is God’s country. We both feel 100% better.
Well now this is getting to be quite a family; Shan an Insurance Executive, Nan a Society Editress, Dick an Army pilot, Don a full fledged soldier in the Combat Zone, Elaine and Paulie nurse cadets, Sadie a teacher, Frank a Lieutenant Commander, Howard a lawyer, Kate a new dealer and Dan half lawyer half du Ponter. Some crew!
Helen it was typical of your generous nature to give Rose and Howard the helping hand and I know what it meant to them.
The war news is surely good isn’t it. May it fold and fold fast!
Shan’s suggestion regarding our individual comments on a selected subject impress me as a keen idea and I hereby cast my vote in favor of adoption. Let the first subject be “National Politics,” as suggested, and the following is my paragraph:
There are certain things in life that I value highly. Among them are intellectual honesty, freedom from prejudice and pressure, dignity of conduct, opportunity to display initiative and enterprise and to be rewarded for them. There are certain things I loathe. Among them are high pressure salesmanship, arrogance and deception, disregard for established principles and laws, indispensable humans, moral codes based on expediency, and government by indirection. To my mind the Roosevelt administration stands for these latter things—and to a larger extent the Democratic party has always stood for them. Therefore, I am a Republican, because I believe that those things I value so highly are much more likely to prevail under Republican government.
I still think the chain should be confined to one page, to preserve interest, to encourage quality and to
lessen burden. It’s tough on Shan because he writes larger than most of us.
Before too much longer I will send Sean and Didalee’s baby album to be routed along the chain. You will enjoy it.
Reunion in ’45 is O.K. by us. We’ll be there! As to a time—believe that should depend upon whether the “boys have come home yet.”
Love,
Dan
