1674-16 Carl FisherCo 7, National r iitary Home, Dayton, Ohoo, October First, I934.
Col. Carl G. Asher,
Montauk,
N.Y.
fly dear Col. Fisher: -
After the lapse of about two years I again address a letter to
you. I am till here under daily treatment and diet for diabetes and must hemain here, or
elsewhere .494a similiar kind of institution, if I care to live much longer. However, were you to
see me you would never think I have ever been sick a day in my life. I weight 236 pounds.
This is my seventh consecutive year here. It was a tremenduous
undertaking for me to become reconciled to my enforced withdrawal from my profession and all
other activities in this life, but I have, at last become so. Indeed, the post -death status
is and has long been a matter of my sincerest consideration, occasioned by the almost daily
deaths around ms here. Both you and I now have more than three fourths of our earthly life Jouriai
behind us and it behooves each of us to take cognizance of this fact and make due preparation
for the dark recesses of the tomb, just ahead of each of us. This I have done to my entire
satisfaction. For many yearsl was much inclined to lend scant attention to this all-
import<<,nt question and was inclined to be agnostic and even atheistic in the premises , but
thank Cod: this is all past with me now. I have elucidated this problem to my entire
mental satisfaction and am pereectly at ease with a most sublime faith in God, his son,
Jesus the Christ and the Bible. We are well aware that our residence here is but temporary
and at best is exceedingly short in its duration, but we continue to live on after death and
it is our paramount duty to make satisfac$ory arrangements in our own conecience to meet this
preeminently and transcendently most important of all conditions to interest the human being.
I do not know how you feel about this important matter, but
my daily prayer includes you and your salvation. :Maybe, your vast estate with its manifold
requirements of youtime and attention may be detrimental to this important phase of your life.
',that does it profit a man to gain the whole world a loos his soul? This interrogation was
asked by our Saviour. Pardon me, I did not intend to y . a sermon to you, and will
conclude by stating that you are the most actively on my mind of any person in the World.
Since writing you my two brothers have died in Texas and there are but three of us left in
a family formerly of eight.
Ly wife and I will spend the winter in Biloxi, Mississippi,
where the Federal Government has completed another of its grand hospitals. My blood pressure is
from 95 to II0 and normanlly it should be I60, hence, I co.ild not withstand pneumonia at all
and this vountry, Miami Valley, is the worse afflicted district in the Nation for pneumonia.
There are deaths therefrom every month of the year here. We will not go there till after ,
the November election.
That do you think of the New Deal? My faith therein is greatly
subsided, yet, we should not expect the miraculous from President Roosevelt as the Nation
was practically all in when he took charge.
It would afford me inexpressible delight to see and be with you
again on this earth. :y great interest in you dates from the afternoon, long years ago, on
Signal -ountain Tennesee, when we were in attendance on a Dixie Highway Committee Meeting of
which we were members.
How are you? Has this great depression left its imprint on you? I
sincerely trust not.
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I do trust that in thus writing you I have not unduly imposed upon you and with
assurances of high personal esteem and wishing you the very best that this life affords and itx
that in the life to come we will still know each other in happiness and contentment, I remain
yours vary
it,C&6L
Claude rle'cer.