UNITED STATES

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
ECW REGION ONE
801 GRACE SECURITIES BUILDING
RICHMOND, VIRGINIA
May 11, 1937
Professor Aldo Leopold
Department of igricultural Economics
University of Wisconsin
Madison, Wisconsin
Dear Professor Leopold:
Your letter concerning Harry G. Aiderson arrived while I was
attending a meeting at Washington.
For your confidential information, we are undergoing a heavy
cut in personnel in the very near future, and I am positive that we
will have no openings.   In fact, we have been unable to get some of
the boys back we lost six months ago, and are operating with a skele-
ton organization.
The only thing we have to offer,at the present tine, is the
position of student technician. This position is intended for grad-
uate students who intend returning to school, and is from Tune 1 to
September 15, and pays $70 a month.   I should say that it would not
be attractive to Mr. Anderson, but if be is interested I can put him
on for the summer. He would have to pay his own way to where he would
be stationed, which would take a good portion of his sumer's pay. It
is possible that he could go on as a student technician in a camp near-
or Madison.   If interested, let me know at once so I can get the wheels
started.   I am not sure that he could get placed out that way, as I have
nothing to do with the Second Region, but I would be very glad to put in
a word for him.
I have learned that Salyer may take some on a civil service status.
When,I do not know, but he said this summer.
If Mr. "nderson is interested in the foreman job at the Arboretum,
let me know, so that I can take the matter up with Adolph Murie, who is
Regional Wildlife Technician for that part of the country. As we settle
down to a permanent basis, that may be the way to get a start. If Mr. .n-
derson is willing to take a chance on a job like that, it is possible that
vacancies will occur in the better jobs, and he would be in line for one
of them.
I am sorry that I can offer no more encouragement, and thank you