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January 16, 1942.

Mr. Me Pe Ahearn,
Director of Athletics,
Kansas State College,
Manhattan, Kansas.

Dear Mike:

Thank you for your very good letter. Yes, Mike,
I knew through my knowledge of the rules and the experience
that I had gained here as Director of Athletics that you of
yourself could not do the things that I asked. But I was
hoping that you would ask Dr. King to consider the matter.

I know that it would be illegal, but I thought
sine Oklahoma had been so definitely illegal and then had
endeavored to smoke sereen the issue, that maybe someone might
want to call their hend. I certainly would if I could have an
opportunity to do so. I am not a policeman nor do I desire to
persecute anyone, but this Lester Layton ease is not ended yet.
Nor is the action back of transporting those ten boys to
Oklahoma U. over yet. I will endeavor to lay before the con-
ference some information that I think will be rather surprising,
and if the conference desires to do nothing about it, then well

and good.

Prenkly, there are too many yes men in the country
and again, there are too many fellows who think the other fellow
has got something on them and thex are afraid to speak their
minds. I felt that since Oklehoma has cast aspersions on the
University of Kansas and had insinuated that her basketball
coach had made some startling offers to Mr. Tucker, then and
there I wanted to call their hand, and I still do. I have never
seen you afraid of anybody and I do not think that situation will
ever exist.

If dirty linen must be dragged out of the closet to
clean some things up, then I have no hesitancy in doing the m-
savory job. In my humble opinion, Oklahoma has been in very much
the position of Japan when they marched into Manchuoko and of
Hitler when he marched into the Ruhb Valley. It seems as if