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privilege, so are forced to eat all meals out. So, you see, we
have no home as it is, anyway. Now in Pasadena our plans, God
willing, are to add onto the office building a small two-room
apartment where we can live until such time as God permits us to
build a new home for our own.
There are still other housing problems which may be
difficult to solve---but God will open the way for them. We do
not, of course, plan to move our entire staff to Pasadena. At
present my son-in-law, Mr. Vern R. Mattson, is manager of the
general office. Our daughter, Dorothy, his wife, is in charge of
the mail-opening department. Vern was in the Marines---started at
the bottom, came out a lieutenant---and under the G.I. Bill of
Rights he and Dorothy can get a loan to build a home of their own.
That takes care of them. Then my personal secretary and book-
keeper, Miss Evelyn Paeschke, and my correspondence secretary Miss
Betty Hutchison, and at least two other girls in the general office
will come with us, and we will have to manage rooms for those girls
somehow. In the last BULLETIN I wrote you of how my other son-in-
law, Jimmy Gott, is no joining our staff in charge of the mailing
department. He and Beverly have the two little youngsters, and
housing for them will prove the hardest problem of all. But
meeting problems and difficulties is nothing new for us---God will
open the way.
Now it will take time to select the site, get building
permits, have plans drawn up, and complete the construction. How-
ever, the way already has opened to us so that we are assured these
may proceed fairly smoothly and rapidly. I am in touch with a firm
of architects who, busy as they are, have agreed to handle the
project and push it right thru. They handle large operations, and
happen to have all the necessary contacts and connections to get
what they want. The contractors they work with are engaged in
large-scale projects generally, and they assure me that for a
project as small as we contemplate they will be able to supply all
materials. Special permission must be secured from the government,
because of the freeze on certain types of construction, but due to
the nature of our project my information is that it will be
granted. It's marvelous how God opens up the way for His Work!
Now I come to the problem about which I particularly want
to ask your advice. This is the selection of the building site.
The two possible sites which impress me best are shown on
the accompanying rough map. Site number 1, at the approximate
location of the "1" in the heavy circle, is WEST of the Arroyo,
toward Eagle-Rock and Glendale, only a block or two inside the
city limits of Pasadena. It is virtually on Colorado, just south
of it, and south of the Annandale Golf links. It is on Highway 64
leading directly into Arroyo Seco Parkway and downtown Los Angeles.
It is on a local city bus line and also on the bus line from
Hollywood and Glendale to Pasadena, and might be much handier for
our friends in Glendale and Hollywood coming to public services,
than the other site over in the very center of Pasadena.
By the way, I see I shall have to interrupt right here
and explain something I overlooked. We contemplate, in present