In his diary of this time he writes, "Only home in the world is the one I own.

Everything belongs.

It is so comfortable and the lake and the streams in the woods where you can get your feet wet.
The thrill of thinking a stump is a trespasser! You can't do that on ten acres." A cause in which Richard was enormously interested at this time was that of the preparedness of his own country, and for it he worked unremittingly.

In August, 1915, he went to Plattsburg, where he took a month of military training.
PLATTSBTTRG, N.

Y.
August, 1915.
DEAR OLD MAN: This is a very real thing, and STRENUOUS.