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supermentality had the effTj»ntery t© ask whea?© vre were g»ing t« 

 have the West Indian ( part leu larXy the Haytien) plants worked up/ 

 and wouldn't believe me when I t©ld him we had m©re literature and 

 more material^ at New York than he had in Berlini Ot course I ovoar- 

 looked M».becatise he has seen only one side instead of two of the 

 shield and declares the Berlin side Is blue* All the same it Is wel,2i»- 

 to see the other side too and It is a broadening process In more ways 

 than •^«^» •^^ ^®st is to% see how the real fac41ities 



Of those self conceited narrow people tM so far in arreass of their 

 t)oasted and boastful pretensions to rank as authoritlesi 

 Youxi with best wishes. 



