BIRTHDAY LETTER TO SUSIE 125

young people in my country, too. I wish you
and they could get more together. I know you
would understand one another finely; they a
hundred per cent English just as you are a
hundred per cent American. Of course there
are multitudes of others (I have met them in both
countries) who get bewitched by Freudian hear-
says and psychological claptrap and think they
are practising * self-expression ' when they are
only playing the fool and expressing precisely
what is not themselves. I am sorry for them, for
they are more sinned against than sinning. But
you and Elmer ' belong to another denomination f
and it is your denomination, and not theirs,
that I am putting into my book, along with the
Grand Canyon, as representative of America's
youth, a hundred per cent American and the
hope and glory of your country. Many happy
returns of your birthday! May you flourish in
specula saculorum! And here is a motto to serve
till the last of your birthdays and for the voyage
into the mighty deeps beyond:

' Se in segui tua stella
Non puoifattire a glorioso forto* "*

1 If thou f ollowest thy star a glorious home-coming cannot fail
thee.