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Portis, Kansas,
August the Eighth,
Nineteen Forty = Two.

DR. F. C. ALLEN,
Lawrence, Kansas.

Dear Doctor Allen:

Have been intending for some time to write you about
various situations, but as usual, have been delayed by work 6r .
folks wanting tires or ladies wanting sugar rationed to them if
you have never been on a ration board, you have missed somethinge
It represents the acme of criticisme

been in and thru Lawrence a few times since I lastsaw you, but either
did not find you or else did not have time to wait long enough to
connect with you. I guess maybe it was at the end of basketball
season in March that I last saw you, though maybe I saw you one day
at the end of the college year,

Also have thought I would see ‘you > gees and have

Aside from wanting to discuss the war and politics and
golf and minor activities, I wanted to thank you for the’basketball
letter that Max was granted from KU athletic association, and also
to thank you for being instrumental in getting him employment out at
the Ordnance Works east of Lawrence.

So far as I know Wx is getting along well out there and
the work ought to keep him in good physical trim, as it is open-air
d quite strenuous, I think he knows whent he day is done that
he has been somewhere. last I heard he was classified as some sort
of compressed tool operator, I am not very eager about the Union
angle but guess that is the only way that a chap like’ him can get
into that sort of work. I feel that organized labor, if allowed to
assume too great control, will be s menace after the war is over; or
as a matter of fact, it is already a problem.

As regards the basketball letter, I was some surprised as
I was not aware of demands by the department in order that a boy be
granted a letter and had not thot Max was in action enough to warrant
such, But guess he might have been more active than I assumed,and
so am glad as I have always felt that a letter from KU in basketball
really’meant something to a boy. I once had the desire to go there
myself, but could not as my father died when I was a little fellow
and so I had to work a good deal and I was fortunate in being able to
go to Kansas Wesleyane Later I played lots of kasketball here with
the Portis Dynamos in their early days of 1914 ‘oa about the time
Max was born in 1922. I think it is a great game and am proud to
have a son that could even hold the water jug at Kansas University,
and sorry that he was not able to do more towards helping the team
in general. |