The Ontario,
Washington, D.C.,
November 10, 1922.

Mr. Guy LeRoy Stevick,
2425 Hillside Avenue,
Berkeley, California.

My dear Guy:

Your letter to Mary and Marion's to us, giving us the en-
viable trip you had into the Sacramento and northeastern regions
of California have been wonderfully welcome to us. It seemed
providential that you happened at the dam at just the time you
did and more providential that you were able to give Mason the
immediate employment he needed under the depressing circumstances
which had come upon him. Mason has passed through a number of
mills of that sort, and has turned to other things and gone ahead
successfully. We trust that in this case it will not work out
differently. My own expectation is that Mason may be getting
out from under a situation that would have been far worse had
he continued under such oversight.

No great undertaking like that should be gone into
without the people who undertake it being willing to stand by
the man that they place in power. It was Wilson and the Govern-
ment of the United States behind Pershing that enabled him to
win in France. He was not the only one that with the same back-
ing could do that thing.

We are just about settled in our quarters. Mother
has written you something of how we are getting on and I only
wanted to write you a word of gratitude for your prompt and