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following fast developing facts set up for the period of our National De-
fense Emergencye Living costs will be at least 25% higher sometime in
1942, and at least 50% higher in 1943. The Federal income tax payments
of the people drawing salaries from $2,000.00 to $7,000.00 will be more
than treblede Taxes are rising faster than corporation earnings, which
means that the proportion available for dividends to stockholders is shrinke
inge Profits during war will narrow further. Congress will be asked to
vote the draft age reduction to eighteen years of age when the time is ripe.
The signal has already been sounded by General Hershey. It is an open secret
in Washington military circles that there are plans for an American Ex-=
peditionary Force when American bombers and fighter planes can be manufactured
in sufficient quantities to control the air and to protect the convoys from
Mazi submarines.

Therefore, may I repeat that taxes and living costs will be so
excessively high that big time athletes who are not then in the service
will not be carried on the state's payroll the year round, during the time
while they are attending college as well as on the state's highway department
during the summer vacatione State legislators will not be giving free
legislative scholarships to big time athletes granting them free tuition
at the state universities. In some of our state universities at the present
time this practice is followed, but it does not exist in Kansas. But the
State of Kansas is also a happy hunting ground for the athletic head-hunters
from the Big Ten, the Southwest and Pacific Coast conferences. Coaches and
athletic officials, or their emissaries, of some schools of each of these
conferences annually pay profitable visits to Kansas and make away with -

much of our choice high school athletic material.