fe ‘November 5, 1937. Hiss Mildred Seaman, Radio Station KFKU, | University of Kansas, Dear Miss Seaman: | Regarding last night's radio talk on “Youth Looks at Alcohol and Play", ' Iwas sorry to hear the announcer introduce Dy. He Le mbers as Secretary of the Kansas State Board of Health, I was careful to give you his official title, which is Secretary of the _Kensas State Medical Society. I also gave it to Mr, Dill. Dr. Helm, of Topeka, is Seeretary of the Kansas State Board of Health, Dr. Chambers seemed rather sensi- tive on the potint. I think it would be 2 fine thing if you would write him regretting the ers It was straight from thie end of the DB Sincerely yours, 5 FCA: AH . Director of Physical Education. October 19, 1937, Miss Mildred Seaman, — Extension Division, | University of Kansas, Dear Migs Seamen: I want to mildly protest regarding the record useé on KPKU during the of our Physical Edueation for Health” broadeast, | I listened in at the end of the 9:30 period , and the record was atrocious, if that is a good word to use under these conditions, Hany of our friends listen- ing in have complained that the liasen is badly broken, both at the beginning of the program and sometimes dure ing the giving of the program, Nes 3 liany of our people complain about the long de- lay from the time that WREN signs off to the time that we begin, Some of our people said they jiggle their radio feeling that the radio had gone out of commission, Others stated that it was fully three mimtes from the time that WREN signed off until KFKU was heard, ; I do not know what the difficulty is, but there seems to be dissatisfaction on the part of our listeners with the way the thing is handled over there. ft assure you that I do not want to be hypercritical, I an very desirous of working very diligently for the success of our University station, However, i do know that you want all the criticisms that are coming in, and each of these people that have telked to me have not been hypereritical, They have been badly dissatisfied with the way the program gets on the air and with the records used ag an introduction or in closing the broadcast, I am especially referring to the Crimson and the Blue, Assuring you of our fulsome cooperation, I am Very cordially yours, PCA?AH Director of Physical Education, Oetober 27, 1937. lir, Harold G, Ingham ' Direetor, Extension Division, University of Kansas. Dear Mr, Ingham: I aeknowledge receipt of your very ‘good letter of the 25th instant. I quite agree with you that getting together for appointments is rather difficult, and I believe that the written letter is the best modium at the time for us to get things done pronto, I accept your explanation whole- heartedly, and see the position that you are in. It is quite agreeable with us to cooperate with you to the fullest extent. We will conform to the arrangement as outlined in your letter. . Very cordially yours, FCA:AH Director of Physical Education, Central Sandard Time KErFKU as xz ke BROADCASTING STATION OF Sudio in Electrical Laboratory THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS Office of PROGRAM DIRECTOR 109 Fraser Hal! October 25, 1937. Dr. F. C. Allen, Head, Dept. of Physical Education, University of Kansas. Dear Dr. Allen: Following her telephone conversation with you, or with your secretary, last week, concerning the change in hour for the Thursday evening broadcasts of the Department of Physical Education, Miss Seaman requested that I explain to you more fully the reasons why we request this change. I planned to get in touch with you personally before the end of the week, but your schedule seems to be about as crowded as mine and, so far, I have failed to make connections. So I am offering the explanation by letter and will be glad to talk this over with you per- sonally at any time at your convenience. This evening schedule on Thursday is not a part of our time allotment in the time-sharing agreement between KFKU and WREN. When it came to renewing our time-sharing agreement last summer, Mr. Smith was unable to give us 4 regular period during the week starting earlier than 10:15. However, he did agree to arrange for an earlier period for us after his schedules had been made up following the change from Day- light Savings Time at the end of September. When we started broadcasting this fall, we rejected the period which he first offered us and he finally allowed us time from 9:00 to 9:30 on Thursday evenings, with the understanding that we might be asked to change to a slightly later period if he ran into any difficulty with the National Broadcasting Company on account of this assignment. His hesitancy there is due to the fact that N.B.C. has a definite con- tract or claim on the time of its affiliated stations each evening up to 10:00 or 10:15. It develops now that the National Broadcasting Com- pany is resuming its feature educational program, “America's Town Meet- ing of the Air”, starting the first Thursday night in November, and using the period from 9:00 to 9:30 Central Standard Time. Mr. Smith feels that he should carry this program if at all possible, both in or- der to keep faith with N.B.C. and because a very large group of listeners in this area are interested in following that particular program. In spite of the fact that changing our program a half-hour later on Thursday evening may prove a little more inconvenient for some of those who are asked to participate, I think that this arrangement places us in @ very advantageous position. As you know, the program ®America's Town Meeting of the Air” is a high class educational program, not sponsored, and attracts just the kind of an audience that should be fu most interested in the programs offered by your Department. From that standpoint, even more than the desire to cooperate with Mr. Smith, I think we are all interested in making the change. I trust that you feel as I do on this matter and can assure you that we appreciate the splendid cooperation which you and your staff are giving in providing these most interesting programs. Cordially yours, pono be Meg hares. Program Director. HGI-DR a -S- = oo -tromtreg oC ZHOY Ma borsvto: anstgoT~ edt : peteoretat teom ; steqovo of etiteb edd sarft atom seve ,dafogbnata— voy gad? geued I ; ae edt soidem. ot betestecai iis S18. oe talidy f = ee ee ee - ss Pe . i 2S | i - Stk cant ae Ree ae a a mts we fe ieee aloerqgs ew fact boy ervess neo bas tetiaw eidt no oh I es feet . youg al aadvig exe Tiate. ‘Say fg woy dol dw= noitstegooo "patente ae =_— compan ence toon = Ne oa ag yey ened Sa ag rat anne STIR ga ere es UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Lawrence Miss Ruth Hoover Miss Elizabeth Dunkel livs, Alice Bauman. Dear Friends: | ’ | Our first broadcast last "Physical Education for Health” I thought went over rly we « ‘the individuals patianeetaNs WHE BOSEhs Ned saith, » lepp, Aliphin, Plumley. ght I would appreciate it if iia oF tee oe coger teond wre pace Se eee — which would incorporate for women ani dencing, both po siiget cna ng gen Dig. th ven Guan taiie GEE tea Very sincerely yours, PCA: AH Director of Physical Education, Director. (? nnd Joxti-| d Cha no LAl ¢ 4 ¥ ort bs 9A Cg ° (Sch - Vr . Mutt, % Sts Aare 40 O48 Naot 5 6 9 ~~ Sincerely yours, ections you may have to this plan over the j ps ob a a > seeunik eth tottbies auemaie,. We. wen sicane ‘get forth one set i Novenber 19 iy 4.84 “Mr. Maurice Le Breidenthal, Pres. Phe Security Netional Ban th & Minnesota Avenue ~ Kansas City, Kansas Dear eurice: | of : ia X peenkoek yew » + am onclosing - herewith a copy @ paper read before the Free Speech Division of the F See ae oe ees ee ee of the Women's. Governing Association, — og here were three student 8 GRR. speech was ten minutes long with sion in panes ‘for as long as twenty minutes if - the wk — the panel discussion it was epen lic. dia- Gassed was "The Subs : getior ot Gellege Athletics". wer eee te etl | gil te gant to tive: poe at cus ine ee Will you please set for may have to this plan over the one set forth ational ai Assoeiation of | taiverstty Presidents? Sincerely yours, PCA: IW Someone has said -- The three great epochs in our “mericm life are, the passing of the Indian, the passing of the buffalo, and the passing of the "buck." Tonight I am not passing the "buck." These statements are my own convictions. I am convinced that 4 heave a way out of this ath- letic muddle without meking a "goat" out of a two-fisted, healthy American boy because he desires to play a game in which he might excel. ‘This proposal that I am now making to the National Association of University and College ?residents is for national enactment by all schools, If not nationally adopted then this should not be operative on any school because it would seriously penalize the school or schools that did adopt it, if others failed or refused to do so. _ I am recommending this plan to the American Association of Uni- versity and College Presidents for their serious consideration. In order that you, assembled here, may follow me readily, I am going to take a minute to explain to you just how our local sthletic board is formed, 3 ; + _ The Athletic Association or University of Kansas Physical Educa- tion Corporation (the corporate name) is comprised of fourteen members, eight faculty members with Chancellor Lindley as tresident, ‘rofessor We We Davis, Faculty Representative, Dr. James Naismith, Dr. Ray Moore, Professor W. R. Smith, Deen Frank T. Stockton, Karl Klooz, Bursar, ené F. C. Allen; four alumni members, George Nettles of Pittsburg, Tom Van Cleave, ar, Kenses City, Kansas, Irving Hill, Lewrence, and Dan Servey of Kansas City, Missouri; two student members, the President 2 of the tents dtulent Gounell, John fiiten Philiips, and one etudent athletic representative, Pred Pralie. The alumni and the students ere selected by thelr own organizations, This amounts to @ nominae- tion by the Athletic Association, and the Athletic Association in turn olects to ite own or to the corporation mewbership. By the very nature cf the Big Six Rules this body must be faculty controlled, henee the feeulty members are eppointed by the fresident, Chencellor Lindley. Thue we have a faculty controlled Athletic Association with the student body and the alweni heving representation. uch fun ie now poked at the definition of the word amateurs Someone hes stated that the difference between a professional ani an amateur is that the amateur will not aceept checks. Othere speak of the Cesh end Carry Pigekin Athlete, while others think of the four lettereman in college as one who has four large | capital letters eoress his varsity sweater, ¢ AG Be I am definitely tn favor of Junking the absolete end unworkable definitions of amateurlam as a test of eligibility for athletic com- petition in colleges and universities, and of substituting « stand- ard of scholastic attainment that actually moves the player toward greduation. I would suggest further that intercollegiate competition in the ‘major universitios be confined to two yoars-the last of the four = - years following the date of the athlete's matriculation. Unior this plen an sthiete met have a two-yesr residence ste tue before competic- tion. Also the athlete's competition sust cease four years after the date of his matriculetion. This move would improve scholarship and would prectieally eliminste proselyting ond “athletic tramping." — For el] of the smaller colleges, the ones now permitting ethletic competition for the entire four years, I would recommend the present Sars See eS Sin ae $ wajor college freshman-rule. Purther, I am proposing to the American Association of Colleges ena Universities that they enact a national Athletic no-transfer rule whereby when a student, regardless of his previous ethletile participation, trenefers from one eollege to another, his — athletie participation cesaes, Purther, that they pormit no twoeyear resident university to schedule games with the one-year resident colleges The smell school, Gesiring to project itself unduly end unproportionately inte the athletic spotlight-big time football, is one of the mejor contri«- butory causes of thie athletic hysteria. The real purpose of & ments going to collage ie to get an education. The playing of games is s leudeble eddition to the study curriculum, and indeed is a necessary Dit of laboratory work for the youth who wants to become an athletic coach. But two yeare of competition is encughe This two-year period should give the athlete time te ear an athletic letter, which is, efter all, the objective of the men who goos out for a Varsity eportse Additionel letters moan littlee In the gajor colleges it might be well to continue freshman teams, a6 at present without inter- collegiate competition, wd to maintain seconmi-yesr mon @S & junior Varsity, whieh eould sehedule « limited number of gazes with eimiler teams from other major universities or with fresheen tears of minor universities that were operating under the three-year rule. Of | course, many detalles of thie proposed plan would have to be worked out by © speetal feculty representative group assivted by athletic Girectors. Undeniably the present freshmen rule, which was ineu- gurated eat stendard univorsities, some thirty years ago, war the 4 greatest single foree in driving — ringer or the itinerant athletic tremp fron the athletic fields. Therefore, it is at least thinkable thet the American Associa- tion of \nivereity and College Presidente could ineugurete another workable plen to meet these -ew and perilous conditions which are making dangerous inrosds into the vory life of the sport itself. This group of men is the Suprene Court of College Ife, Their fine job of thirty yeers age paid imge dividends, | | The very antithesis of this plan which I am proposing is the plen recently endorsed by the Netionel Association of Stete Univer- sities wherein they suggest a court of inquisition com-anling every boy of athletic tendencies ami desires to eign an affidavit attest- ing to his emeteur standings Under this plen the only crime is in getting eeughte We 11 know how very difficult it 1s to make honest men by legislation. Any boy who 4s required to sign an effidevit thet he ig an amateur, will resent the insinmuaticn, and when we define as professional things thet appear perfectly normel and haruless to him, we ere inviting mass perjury. | There are but few University Presidents who would appleud a faqulty member requiring his students to eign affidevite that they had not cheated In examinations. tet this is exectly what the pre- sidente propose in regard to athletic regulations. Why showld we as universities be so concerned about whether or not the young man played summerebeseball for money or carried ice during the summer? Either form of labor is honorable. It would seem more emseistent for ecllege presidents to make rules enlarging upon resident requirements for athletic participa. : 5 tion rather than te inquire inte the persenal wte and trensactions of @ student, thet is, eo long as those transactions ae honorable. I 4o not find that the eligibility of the college glee club menber 1s predicated upon hie refusal to accept feos for singing at funerals. 7 What we need to do is to forget these cut-moded rules of amaq teurism, ana put on our eollege teams only these men whom the fseculty | nenbers certify are actually meking progress toward graduation, If the eligibility test comes from the etassroom there will be exall eppertunity for proselyting ami emeall temptation for « rich alumnus to subsidise a player beceuse of his footbell ability alone, due to the fect thet there wuld be two years interim before the bey could play on the team and then for only one or two yeers at moste Purther, if this slumnus 44d want to subsidize this athleti- eeliy irelinea boy under this plan it would become en acedemie sub- ‘etdization rather then en ethletic subsidiaation because the student actually would be making real progress toward greduations if we put eligibility up to the feoulty we will be getting fit representatives of their university, axi such athletes would enjoy the greater thrills when they heve won their letters Put it up to the seademfotan to insist thet the athletes have the sane scholastic attainment as the non-athletes. Under our pre- sent Big Six Conference rules an athlete may contime his sthietic eligibility ec long eae be wakes a passing grade (grade “D") tn at least twenty-seven hours for the two preceding semesters, yet if he is ever to receive a degree, he must mate a "C" average. Under our present scheme edded difficulties are heaped on the athlete who must work hie way, by limiting his col ege hours earrie’ in any one semester 6 to twelve. Therefore, be may get hie twenty-seven ‘curs cniy by attending swo-er acheol or by taking a correspondence cov ree during the sumer even though he bas passed the full 100% in his allowed yeer's study. Recognition of this unequal burden }as been seted upon by the College of Liberal Arte ot this University, where regulations have been adopted for stulents participating in extra-curriculer ecti- vitiee cther than athletics. To be eligible for such activities the student Gust be making « "C" average in at least twelve hours the preced ing semester. : | Under this proposal I would recermen’ for consideration to the University Presidents thet an athlete be required to pass at least ten hours por serester with a “c* average for four consecutive seresters after netriculation before be wuld become eligible fer athletic participation, After his first perticipstion, he aust meke « totel ef twenty bourse “¢" average the two preceding senesters. Under such © plan scholerships, loans, subsidies, outright gifts or anmities would have no beering on bis playing desires or abili-«- ties. The curse of athletice would be removed because the ethlete in question would be e bonefide student making progress toward gra- This letest suggestion would work inesleuable good to three important factors of college life, namely, the faculty, the coach and the sthlete. Certeinly the faculty sember wild be bappy to seo stue dent, ethietes pleying the game, ad the ceach would be protected against such unjust criticises for the public. Unresscnable eritics could not expect such well ofled and polished teams vith but one or two yoar men participeting. 4nd yet the carpetition would be much better equalised than at present on account of eliminating the athlete i } : ; ahe playa at any college where the pay off 4e for football ween’ rather than for acedemic merit ani too, the athlete could play withe out the etigne of professionslian. Others may say thet some of these rules interfere with en ath- | letets personal libertios. Ani they may, wut we ore endesvoring to | @eflate professional footbell in our colleges in order that our college ethletes will ne longer have to bear the onus of being looked UPON &€6 HeEP-MOPross s | Rugged individualien must end somewhere. Se subeit « program that will further limit the participeting time of the athlete, be- fore we are forced to try a plen suggested by seme college presidents which we fear will cause doubt, mistrust end downright dishonesty.