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company commander of no matter how great ability, but who is coming in maybe a little unsure of himself, maybe a little bit young, who is coming into an organization that's been functioning a long time, where there are a lot of old hands around, but who must assert a certain authority or feels he must, and those problems often solve themselves when the new company commander gets used to the situation and realizes this is a working organization that's going to go right along. Would you more or less have the opinion that the way this is going to resolve itself is that pretty soon the old relations will develop and things will go along pretty much as they have in previous years rather than that there will be a real change on both sides?

Yes, I think that's a fair statement. I didn't make that statement, you did; and I think in all honesty I think that's a very precise description of the way I feel. I would amend it in the sense only that I do not want that statement of yours to indicate that I sort of represent the old guard and that we're going to beat down the new publisher into going along in the old ruts. I'm an anti-rut man. I welcome new ideas. So with the amendment that this isn't a question of trying to retain old ideas, I will go along. As a matter of fact, if I try to do anything with this page it's try to put new ideas and new life into it. But in the structural or organizational sense I would say that what you have said is quite true, yes. I think that will be the outcome of this. In fact, I think I see it already happening, having gone through this problem a few weeks ago. I think that is just exactly what is going to happen.

But I want to emphasize that so far as new ideas go, I'm in no sense resisting anything new that Punch can contribute to that page. I'm more than happy to have his contributions.