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Form P. R. 511U) TO_ FROM REMARKS: Mr. Thatcher said that the dinner starts at 6:15 and should be over by 7:15» you then speak and it will depend on you how long you talk — he felt sure, however, that you could easily catch the 9s50 plane back to Washington. He will have trans portation waiting to take you to the air port. I am getting reservations as follows: Leave Wash. 12:00 noon Arrive Columbus 2:20 p.m. Leave Columbus 9:50 p.m. Arrive Washington 11:50 p.m. GOVERNOR ECCLES' OFFICE 0 SCHOOL or BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION MI AMI U N I V E R S I T Y OXFORD, OHIO d e p a rtm e n t or e c o n o m ics January 11, 1950 Mr. Marriner S. Sccles Board of Governors Federal Reserve System Washings, B.C. Dear Mr. Sccles: The Social Science Section of the Ohio College Association will have its annual meetings in Columbus, Ohio, Friday and Saturday, April 14 and 15. As president of the section, I extend an invitation to you to speak to this group either at a dinner meeting Friday evening or luncheon Saturday noon. The group is composed of about 75 professors of economics and political science in Ohio colleges. We have no funds at our disposal so cannot offer you any remuneration or costs. As a professor of economics, I have "been in agreement with your security reserve proposal and recent testimony before Congress. A discussion of the proper role of the Federal Reserve System and Treasury in our control system would he most welcome to us in Ohio, hut any subject you would wish to discuss would he satisfactory. Thank you for considering this engagement. Very truly yours, %(Lo. OU. George W. Thatcher Associate Professor nt Economics GffT/at January 23, 1950. Frof. George to. Thatcher, Department of Economics, School of business administration, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. Dear Professor Thatcher: Your very kind letter of January 11 inviting me to speak before the Social Science Section of the Ohio College Association is very much, appreciated. It would have had a prompter, acknowledg ment but for the fact that I have been trying to foresee what my schedule would be in the middle of April. So far as I can now tell I hope that I shall be able to make the trip to Columbus and I should prefer to speak; at the dinner meeting on Friday evening, April 1A, if that is agreeable to you. Let me say, incidentially, that I have always made it a rule not to accept any remuneration for speaking or writing in connects on with my public duties and therefore your lack of funds for this purpose is entirely immater ial in ray case.. Because of the importance of your group in the educational world I welcome an opportunity to express some of my own views on the general subject which you suggest, recognizing that monetary and credit policy is, of course, only one element in the larger problem of stabilizing economic progress. Unless something unforeseen develops I shall undertake to be with you for the Friday evening meeting. If that turns out to be impossible because of duties here I shall advise you as promptly as possible. Sincerely yours, M. S. Eccles. ET:mnm SCHOOL O r BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION MI AMI U N I V E R S I T Y orno OXFORD, DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS February 2, 1950 Ur. M. S. Eccles Board of Governors Federal Reserve System Washington, B.C. De&r Mr. Eccles: I greatly appreciate your acceptance of my invitation to speak before the Social Science Section of the ¿Ohio College Association. The dinner meeting will te held at ¡6:15 F.M. at the Hotel Fort Hayes, April 14 in Columbus, Ohio. If you plan on staying overnight in Columbus, I suggest that the Deshler-Wallich is the "better hotel and it is only about two "blocks from the Fort Hayes Hotel. If you would like me to make reservations for you, please let me know. Thank you again for your fine cooperation with our association. Sincerely yours, fa * GWTzat George W. Thatcher Associate Professor of Economics SCHOOL OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION MIAMI UNIVERSITY OXFORD, OHIO DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS .April 23, 1950 Mr. Marriner S. Ecoles Board of Governors Federal Reserve System Washington D. C. Dear Mr. Eocles: The entire Social Science Section of the Ohio College Association authorized me to convey their thanks for your excellent presentation to our group at Columbus last week. Your remarks were very well received and appreciation was ex pressed "by the passage of a resolution at our business meeting commending your address. appreciation. success. I personally would also like to convey my deep Your presence and remarks make the meetings a Very truly yours, \Qjlc George W # Thatcher Associate Professor
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