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COPY 1907 Escarpa Dr. Los Angeles, Calif. February 16, 1947

My dear Miss Sutphin:

There us very little to report of activity in Southern California. However, I do want to thank you for sending me the two hundred copies of "Only Then Shall We Find Courage." I am sure they a re serving an educational purpose, if not a financial one.

I also want to thank Dr. Einstein for the copy of the talks made at the Princeton Conference which I am very glad to have.

I should like to have you explain to Mr. Oram why I have not gone ahead to form a large sponsoring committee. When the matter of Mr. Roos' broadcasts came up and Mr. Oram thought it desirable to have a committee to sponsor them, I talked with Dr. Pauling. He thought it would be best to ask only about a dozen persons. He thought that if he or I asked more, we would overload the list of sponsors at the start with liberals, whereas it ought to be balanced with the names of persons of wealth and prominence in the business world. I was glad to be guided by his judgement.

Dr. Pauling was to go East in January to the meeting of the Emergency Committee and was to find out then when Mr. Oram planned to come to Los Angeles to organize a financial effort here. I have not heard from him and do not want to bother him unless there is some reason for doing so. When Mr. Oram does come, I shall be glad to cooperate if there is any way in which I can.

I hope some money came in in response to Mr. Roos' broadcasts and was sent through Dr. Pauling Last week a member of the National Council of Jewish Women who had heard one of them phoned to ask me for material to help her prepare a talk for the Council, and to distribute. I was glad to have some of the pamphlets you sent me left to give her. As in the case of the pamphlets, I think the broadcasts have been valuable as education, while probably disappointing as a financial effort. It does not seem to me the way to raise much money.

It seems as if all efforts should be speeded up enormously if we are not to be too late in arousing public opinion to demand the end of war preparations.!

Yours very sincerely, (Signed) HELEN MARSTON BEARDSLEY

original sent to Mrs. Fry, 2-21-47.