from the Wittenberg News Bureau, Springfield, O., K. G. Lind

April 14,1938

Dr.Forrest C.Allen —
University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansase

Dear Phogs

After the optimistic letter
which I wrote to you about ten
days ago, I experience a jolt
which seems almost fatal to our
project.

After the Prudential Committee
declined to act on granting per-
mission te hold the Allen Clinic
here in 1938, and after it passed
over the work of consideration to
a special conmittee (increasing
membership,April 5, to admit —
the dean of the college and the
dean of men), I findthat the sub-
committee unwilling to make a task
of presenting the project to the
Prudential Committee. Somewhere —
has come a bit of inertia attribut-
able, I believe, to a distaste for
the commercial side of the entire
under takinge

- As muchas it greatly annoys
me to write its: it looks here like
there is nothing more than I can
do. The sub-committee recommends
no action “at this time™.

Qur own director of physical
education, Prof. John B.VanWhy, whom
you met dm Chicago recently, and who
holds you in fine regard, spoke for
the project in committee meeting. So
did I, but we were alone.

I have enclosed a miniature of