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I nov; shall try to ansv^er various items which 
your many letters contain. 
I am taking your letter of February ^6, "the 
last but not the least",-- yes, I am truly shocked 
by the death of our f riend Stuntz. And only a 
young man yet! Mrs. Clime informed me, a few 
weeks previous, of our chum Charles Mansfield's 
departure which affected me most sorely and now 
we. have this sad loss again. "The dead are be- 
coming as numerous as the living." 
There is one thing that hangs both over the 
death of Stuntz and the consumption infection 
of Mr. Knight and that is, that Mr. Stuntz loved 
an over-heated, unventilated room and forced those 
who worked t?ith him to share his beloved state of 
atmosphere. It is up to you, Mr. Fairchild, to 
see that from now on warnings should be given to 
coworkers, that proper ventilation should be put 
above the feeling of being snug and warm, irre- 
spective of the condition of purity of the air 
some people feel inclined to inhale. 
i trust that Wilson Popenoe will come to see 
the point that in developing new supplies of food 
and especially of creating commercial reservoirs 
of vegetable butter, as the avocado undoubtedly 
aoes, that he assists his fellow men more than by 
merely going to try to kill a few who happened to 
be born somewhere else on this globe and who are, 
believe me, not all in sympathy v/ith those who 
drive them oni J 
Your itembf putting 300 acres in soy beans 
at Yarrow interests me greatly. It shows how 
food supplies slowly crowd out mere ornamental 
propositions. 
Concerning I giving you a careful analysis 
of Chinese food situations. Well, as you realize 
China is a big land and feeding the multitudes 
presents problems that are at times purely local. 
As a rule one can say that the poor live on a 
vegetable diet exclusively and are thereby nothing 
but human animals; the well-to-do, who rule and 
manage the masses, include considerable meat into 
their daily meals and therewith apparently find 
their brain cells stimulated sufficiently to lift 
themselves above the phase of being only beasts 
of burden. 
As a vmole, however, I can say that from my 
personal observations I can testify that here in 
September PI, 1918. 
