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Dear Mr. Johnson:

You probably already know
something of the activities of Pioneer Youth
of America, an organization which seems to me
to deal with boys' clubs and camps and social
education in a highly intelligent fashion.
Pioneer Youth is about to start a campaign in
order to raise approximately $30,000 in order
to wipe out bond issues, a camp mortgage, and to
finance its current activities. If this fund
is successfully secured this excellent organiza-
tion will continue its work with none of the
handicaps which financial uncertainty bring.

A national committee for this
campaign is being organized, on which I have
consented to act as a vice-chairman. The
national committee will be quite large and
representative of many occupations. Members of
this committee will be expected to help
actively in fund raising. In addition, a small
group is being formed as an advisory committee
principally for the purpose of endorsing the
work of Pioneer Youth through the prominence and
representative character of the group. We are
inviting John Dewey, Professor Kilpatrick, and a
very few others to join this committee in an
advisory capacity on the understanding that their
contribution is to be limited to the use of their
names. I am writing this note to ask whether we
may not use your name on this advisory committee.

I know that you are exceedingly
busy. I have expressed to the committee my
willingness to write you, however, first because