April 4, 1941

Ure Honry Werner
_i Frank Streng Hall
‘University of Kansas

Dear Frites

ee When I was a her, Sots pe08 een Set smints Lenten thet the
ieee aek ee te lapels of their coate One that I remember pare
ticularly well read as follews, “Tell your troubles te a policemane
Nobody ¢ise wante to hear theme" ‘his reminds me that I shoujd inhibit
my inet to write you this ate but the inhibition is not strong
enough, so here £o0ese ,

Por five or six years the District Festival, the widwost Bend
Festival, and other festivals, consisting of hordes of find youg students
from the. high schools, together with a copious amount of wind and brass
instruments, have descended upon the gymmasium and made our teaching
impossible, “not only in the gym but in our elassroons, whieh are Toon ted
in the gyumsiume :

I have implored the administeetion and the powers that be, to
petition the Union Building for such quartering as checkrooms for wraps
and instruments, and a general meeting place for this great group of
prospective students, but it has been of no aveaile

It seems to me that this would be the logical plece to quarter
these youngsters because it would be selling the youth of the State, in their
very begimming, this fine Union Buildings Its atmosphere is cheery, homelike
and friendlys While, on the other hand, we are forced to send the
down to the basement which quarters the toilets and the shower bath, It is
like putting the youngsters in your basement at heme whon they cone to visite

The only objection that I can see to the use of the Union Building
is that the gym is close to the auditorium, while the Union Building is across
the campus, which occasions a trek by the students across one of the most
beautiful campuses in Americas I am wondering if you do not see the logic
‘in wy argument, so faras the utility, the reseption to the students and
the proper handling of these youngsters is concerned, !

the girls in the bands are likewise forced to go to the basement
of the women's dressing roon to change their clothese Naturally, there
cannot be the proper maid service and hostesses thet are necessary for such
a sitetion.g The Union Building provides theses