You all know of him and you all know of the splendid contribution he has made to American life. A great many years ago a very delightful young couple, half American and half British, came down here. They have been coming almost all the time ever since, and we hope they will always come down here, Mr. and Mrs. Patterson. Mr. Patterson is making possible, through his kindness and his energy, a very wonderful concert that is going to be held in New York City in about ten days, a concert for the benefit of the Warm Springs Foundation. Then, we have another problem.
Nobody knows anything about the water, where it comes from and where it goes.
All we know is that out of those hills come all kinds of waters. I often think of the fact that about five miles west of here there are white sulphur springs and black sulpher springs and yellow sulphur springs, and here we have our own Warm Springs, with magnesium and lime. Only about a mile east of here there is a spring that has nothing in it at all except that it is just plain water and very cold, and then about five miles further, there is another spring that has iron in it. Yet there has never been any scientific survey of this Pine Mountain region. I am quite sure that we would all like to know something about it from the scientific point of view.