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ir. Vance Hall,
Downs, Kansas.

Dear Vance:

I received your very good letter of the 17th instant
from Lake of the Woods, Canada, and I assure you that I was happy to
hear from you. I thought perhaps I had better send this letter to
Downs and have it forwarded rather then take a chance on mailing it
to Canada.

Last spring I made most of the arrangements regarding
the supervisor's job. However, I want to have a talk with you regerd-
ing the possibilities of such a job in your senior year. You will re-
member that Mr. DeGroot complained quite a bit on several occasions
about your lack of punctuality and perseverance on the job. ‘hile I
RVG GPURD SOREL Ser: yoy Taney I want you to realise that one
of these jobs entails much concer om and punctuality. It is always
difficult for an administrator to put anyone on the job requiring much
more responsibility than he has assumed in his clerical work.

When you figure the time lost away from school on
trips for basketball it does not unt to a great many hours. When
you consider a nine months period figure the few hours that you
lese it doesn't run into a lot of money. And too, Vance, if you need
money that badly we could give you some extra hours, if you want then,
but generally we find students are cutting their hours pretty close so
that they can get out and do something else. You know what I mean, do
you not, Vance? There are so many wonderful things in college age
dances, ball games, and so forth, that are a part of student life, and
a boy hates to pass them up. He realizes a responsibility in earning
a living and he is very serious, but when he sees a pretty girl and
has a coke date he is like the old inebriate who said, "You kmow,
there are a thousand reasons why I should not take this drink of
liquor, but darned if I can think of a single one of them just now."

 

I can pledge you, Vance, my friendship and my desire
to help youe At the same time, wmless I was utterly frank with you
and wuld pass on as an inventory the criticisms that Mr. DeGroot made,
then I would not be fair to you. Somebody of necessity mst take the
responsibility and the fellow who takes that supervisor's job has
double trouble.