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I do not know just now what Max plans to do in the way of
enlistment in service. 4e is not twenty yet but will be soon and it
will be necessary to decide. I hardly know what is best as I am not
familiar with those various brancheg but he talked of the Marines --
Candidates! Class and he might get in that or in some of the V-
branches. If you have any suggestions, I would be glad for them,
that is you could make them to him direct as is still there at Eleven
Hundred Indiana, except when working. Some have told me that boys
should finish school, that isy that some of them ought to, as they
will be needed badly in other fields a little later.

Have been noticing lately that you are lining up games
for the coming season andthat you will play various service teams.
Soon as a schedule is available, I would like to have it and also like
to know what you will have for a club the coming season. Have noted
from time to time that this boy and that one would be missing until
I wondered if you will have a creditable starting line-up.

A man from your town, Warren Zimmerman, who once lived
here, was here recently and is now writing a story flor me to print
about his visit and early day Portis recollections. | He is quite a
character. He said he was required to pay $65.000, ineome tax last
year on his Color Press there at Lawrence and that the government is
getting so critical wt of his various endeavors and needs that he
will likely be forced to quit. That is confidential. You may not
have net him. I think the same will’apply to me here as the little
business is being puhed out of the waye It is a battle to keep the
bank here going as government demands make it impossible to make
any money from the business.

I have fine tomatoes this year and also fine’potatoes but
now that we have a good many of them, we cannot sell them, that is for
any kind of price.

Am chairman of the UsO drive here and we are now finishing
it up and also am on a Bond selling committee that has the joh of ,
selling Three=--Fourths Million Dollars in War Bondg by end of the yeare
In case You want the whole amount, just let me know and we can dismkss
the committee.

I had some talk with some fellows in Kansas City, and they
said they were sorry that Kansas and Colorado were not kept apart in
that play-off in March, in the hope that both would have won the
first nightfand then met the last night. I fully believe that would
have been best and that it would have gotten a good deal more money
and also that Kansas would have beaten Colorado on any other night. But
the game is over so must look forward to the coming season.

I will not start on the war and politics as I have only
a dozen or so sheets of paper left, and that would not be wnoughe

I can hardly keep tab of your family people, but regards
to them wherever they are, and same to yourself, and all, and
I will see you some of these times, maybe. Always glad to,\hear from
you when you have a moment's time.

 
 
 

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