Dear Steve: Engelskirchen, Jan 4, 1919

Owing to me being attached to the Y.M.C.A. for a week on duty, my mail has gone astray and I seem to have lost all interest in writing, reading, and study. I was called back to the Batt. On New Year’s Day and am now attached to H.Q. for duty with the Educational program but so far I have done nothing.

There is a restlessness in the atmosphere for me, but I think we leave this area soon on our way back and I’m hoping for demobilization in March in Canada. That will suit me fine. I want to take a course at Bus. Coll. Before I go back to teaching in Sept. However, "Count not your chickens before they are hatched". That does not keep me from making "castles in the air" anyway.

This educational paper and pencil I am using, so that is an advantage of the work. There is a dizzy specimen in charge of the programme in Ed. And I’m afraid it will suffer but here’s hoping for good. Carman knows the chief pedagogue and I must write him about it.

Yours in F, L, & T, J. C.