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June % 1$50 Mr, Alexander Smith, Jr, Counsel The Davison Chemical Corporation Baltimore J, Maryland Dear Mr. Smiths Thank you for your letter of May Jl, IS550. The proposals referred to were mailed from this Laboratory June 1. You have probably received your copies by now* but on the chance that you have not, I enclose herewith six additional copies. X sent your copies originally through Mr. if. Vernon Enoy, as X .failed at the meeting to take not of the Counsel for each Company and the information was not sent to me with the plant information. ; The delay in submitting the proposals was caused by our not receiving plant information from on company. As yot we have not received the Information ' and w have not cent copies of the .proposal to'.'thorn. .*o hope that this does not indicate that your effort to sol'? your problem cooperatively has failed. It is our strong conviction th&t only through complete cooperative effort will Industry be able to arrive at the essential truth to -guide them.in'appraisingtheneed for, and kind of corrective measures which they mist make. To talc any other course in the face of present public sentiment is to*ask for punitive legislation, based, oh. sentiment, rather than sound fact, ouch legislation can well prove disastrous to some companies and a hardship to all. Kven with enlightened legislation, industry Is going to bo hard hit in:spots. .-o hope sincerely that your efforts to work cooperatively now, and in .the future, will not fail. Very truly yours, LBRsoss Enc: ccj Dr. R. A. Kehoe Lester B. Roberts