KANSAS PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY
LAWRENGE, KANSAS

October 1, 1938

Dre Fe Ge Allen

Physical Education Department
University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas

Dear Dr. Allen:

Your very fine article in the October issue of the Rotarian
will be received with the highest commendation by those conversant with
the subject and the justified intent of its application, as well as the
truth of its practice.

You very ably speak the language of those thus informed, truth
peing after all nothing more than facts revealed.

The situation is analagous to the prohibition era in the average
town. Inquiry could be made with the best of inquisitorial technique in
certain quarters regarding the purchase of a pint or so, and, with honest
belief, you would find out beyond a doubt that it was a bone dry town--"the
situation is well in hand in our tom." Shift to other quarters of the same
town among kindred spirits and you soon found the grapevine and the grape.
Not infrequently some branch of the law itself proved to be your quickest
and best entre'.

I appreciate indeed your frank and honest approach to the sub-
ject and feel that I, too, know something about it. In another article I
hope you will mention the use of athletic funds for the erection of build-
ings for the academic departments by some of the country's scholastic insti-
tutions favorably located in respect to large annual attendance to their
athletic activities.

You know if a man has never been hit, roughed or bruised, he is
hardly qualified to talk about a fight, or, for that matter, judge the game.
A predominance of these timid, sheltered souls sit im spokesmen positions.
Their vain egotism blinds them to any other qualifications with which a man
might be endowed or which circumstances may develop. The game develops among
its members an expectancy of greater perspective in others affiliated with
ite We certainly are far amiss many times in our expectations. You know my
wholehearted concurrence in your thoughts. Athletics develop inexpressible
and life long forces within the average athlete that just aren't produced
otherwise. When reason supplants the counterfeit logic that at present sur-
rounds the athletic structure, I am sure that no sensible person will be able
to say "no" to its program. How fine it would be to get the following picture