Dear Cs- 
I have read the inolocod letter several tines. 
Without going into details, and without mincing matters, it looks 
to me 112:0 t e same old stereotyped proposition, under a little 
dij. oront guise, that has been going the rounds in Canadian and 
Ilwfoundland work Tor several generations;- vis., "A" ie appointed 
through "pull' to a position t.mt involves I: owlsdgo that he does 
not possess (that makes no difference* about his getting the appoint 
meat howove :), A looks about for a man who knows the topic or work 
and finds . 0 ", h is asked to do in the expedition, B is expected to 
do all the scientific work, all .he menial work, and nearly all 
0l ' iLer woril “hat n servant of A might bo expected to do; in return 
B goto the rages of the ' cheapest day labor 1 , the gro- t honor of 
SM MlP& Ji 1K nerves, jntbueing over the plants and explain ing thorn 
to A so he nan white all bout them and get all the credit.• This 
however is merely a side issue, the real issue being to get B to do 
tk° 0u2 --"' wor ^ rhut A is paid for, ratio A aits on the end of 
his spine in a comfortable place and reads or writes a novel or 
potters overt an archeological menu, erdpt, and pockets the money 
that may have loan allowed hint to got ,.ooti assistant. 
('if oour.re I may be entirely wrong in classing this case with 
11.30&a that have gone before, a rad I do not even know the man who 
writes you, however, the whole proposition has evidence of 
possessing onr marks which ere not unfamiliar; or at least thc.ro ' 
is a suggestion of an ethiopian in the tall timber, , 
Have I minced matters? -k{ 
’"ith best regards from all of us 
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