Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1919 — DR: JOHNSON WRITES FRIEND; RUSSIA BOUND [ARTICLE]

DR: JOHNSON WRITES FRIEND; RUSSIA BOUND

Dr Johm.-on has w-ritten Fred Hamilton nr,- of-the keen disappointment that his ns a result of his " he:npr sent to Russia instead of being pi -mitted to board a liner for the dear old U.S.A. ~ Vallet. Franc". March 29, 191,9. T presume you* are home by this time and musing over the past, with little in the way of sorrow. Until a few days ago I thought I -was on the way home, but tonight I am packing to start in the other direction, i Though some strange stroke of for- I tune my name has been pulled from the bag and added to the Hoover Food Commission for duty. In a very few days I start for Warsaw and on to St. Petersburg on some sort o|jp mission having to do with feeding of the Russians. Just what I will gain in the way of professional j knowledge I am not prepared to say, -but there will undoubtedly be something in the way of experience mixing up with a gang of Bolsheviks. Have been promised to return to the U. E. either in June or July. You can imagine the fit of rage and ultimate depression following such disappointment.* However, I can stand it over here two or three months longer. It is my last appearance on this side, but something seems to stretch it over a longer stay than I would like..

Run into Art Buttleday. He F as fat as a jngF;7;Aiso saw Br. :Beeler, of Indianapolis. There is nothing in the way of excitement. Went upon the Somme again recently and on to Brussels. That is a splendid city. I much prefer it to Paris. Must cut this short. Hope you are feeling- tip top again. Regards to the family. C. E. Johnson, c o Hoover Food Commission, Crillion Hotel, Paris.