The Coolidge examiner., 1940-02-22

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cedure and may want to skip those
parts of the meetings. None of you
are under any order or even any
moral pressure to stay, and the
moment the proceedings get too
dry for you, feel free to walk out.
Many of these talks, however, you
viii find intensely interesting and
I | especially wish that you would
feel free to enter into the discus
sion which follow the talks. You
women will see these things from
slightly different angie from the
men, and for that reason your
viewpoint is very important to me.
Aside from this official side Of
your visit, We want also to well
come you into our homes here at
headquarters. Please feel at all
times free to use them when you
want to read or lie down, or just
rest and relax, or to hold little
meetings of your own. We want
you to feel really at home.
To the men | might say that
we want this to be a working
meeting. Our three days to-
gether will be all too short for
the things we want to say and
we have provided a full pro-
gram. | will be little tough
on you and may grow tresome
at times, but we hope you will
be able to look back ON these
days and consider the work
job we'll done.
| am we'll aware that half the
good you will get from this trip
will be the pleasant contacts you
will make in the odd hours before,
between and after the official ses-
sions when you will be able to find
out what fine fellows we have in
the Southwestern Monuments.
| am depending on these con-
facts to broaden your knowledge
of our work and give you an un-
derstanding of the multiplicity of
Cur problems. You will find that
the problem which you thought
was yours alone is shared by half
a dozen other men, and they will
have solved some Of the things
which may be bothering you and
can offer you short cuts which
may not have occurred to you. 1t
is my opinion that the hotel lobby
sessions and the little group ses-
sions which gather here and there
during one of these meetings will
contribute nearly a third Of the
good which will result from our
getting together.
To our own headquarters office
force this will be a great oppor-
tunity. Here you will have a
chance to meet in the flesh the
many men and women with whose
names you have so long been
familiar. Hereafter, as you handle
the 1000 pieces of mail which flow
across your desks each month,
these names will have a signific-
ance which you have not hereto
fore been able to give them. And
you from the field will hereafter
be able to direct your blasphemy
at some real individual whom you
can materialize in your minds eye,
instead of the unsatisfactory blast
you have heretofore had to send
toward those so-and-so nitwits
Gown there in the headquarters
office!
We want as many of the office
force as it is possible to spare to
attend these meetings. / realize
that the mail and kilograms must
be kept moving, at least after a
fashion, and that the office jam
cannot be allowed to accumulate
beyond a certain critical point, but
| wish Parke would see that you
are with us as much as possible
and of course you will be in at
tendance at the night sessions.
We would like for the visitors
from the field to have chance to
look through the offices, and some
short recess may be taken for that
purpose if and when we can sQue-
eze it in. l would like you to
realize how much work these boys
are doing.
Most of you have been through
the ruins and the museum Al will
arrange a special trip for those OF
you who wish to go, or you may,
if you WISH. join a standard trip
and thus see how AL and the boys
bopd1o fba;r visitors ARRANGEMENTS