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nature more plainly that I realized that it was a certain snootiness on my part that made me not wish to answer these dirty dogs who said these uncouth things about me. Fitzgerald not only fed that feeling in me but sort of initiated it.

I finally got to the point where I knew that it was doing me great harm, and more than one person told me that Fitzgerald never planted anything. I used to have to push him to plant things.

Now, on this Father Parsons thing, Fitzgerald was very doubtful. In the first place, he said, “I'm very doubtful if Father Parsons will do it.”

I said, “What harm does it do me to try, Fitzgerald? Anyhow I'm going to.”

So we did. We wrote the letter to Father Parsons one Sunday afternoon. Wyzanski came in to help me write it. He had suggestions to make. Reilly and Fitzgerald came too. Fitzgerald had no suggestions to make except to keep taking out things. Anything that was the least bit picturesque or the least bit colorful he wanted to take out. Anyhow it was a good enough letter and it gave me the first chance I had had to make a statement to somebody, in response to his request, which told the facts. I mean the papers wouldn't print anything you