5403 Heno Road, 

 V/ashington , D. 0., 



October 10, 1022 



Dear Mr. Dearie, 



Thank you ever so much for you kind letter and for the 

 generous gift of $5 for Prof. Hackel. The plan is a suc- 

 cess, to my great joy, all hut June is no?/ provided for for 

 this year, and there is one man still to hear from. When 

 I sent the gift for July, immediately after my return, and 

 told Prof. Hackel of our plan he said he could not realize 

 that he had so many friends in America, I think the ex- 

 pression of sympathy means a great deal to him--and from 

 what I saw I feel that these gifts really mean longer life 

 for him. It is not just poverty, like poverty in this 

 country, that one can hope to work out of — with money con- 

 tinually decreasing in value it is so hopeless. iSven if 

 he gets a little money for his hay or his apples he can 

 not save it, even if crying needs did not demand it at once, 

 for it would he worth less every day. Saving has always been 

 so large a part of my plans for accomplishing things that 

 the impossibility of saving seems to me to make things al- 

 most hopeless. The only money that will "keep" over night 

 is the American dollar. I used one-dollar bills for some 

 3aster gifts in Vienna for the herbarium dieners and dienst- 

 frauen, and their gratitude for such fortunes was most path- 

 etic. It is terribly hard for the young people, but for the 

 older people, like the Hackels, who see the result of their 

 work and thrift melt into nothing, it is tragic. 



