Portis, Kansas, .
May the Twenty—f: ifthi,
Nineteen Forty.

DR. F. CO. Allen,
Lawrence, Kansas.

Dear Doctor Allen:

I am writing you to clear up a matter I mentioned some

time recently as regards “getting some information about cerhéinn boys

going to colleg@e ft gid not get a great deal but rather think a
strong group of K State alums were trying to get a whole group of good
senior boys at State this year.

I did not learn anything definite about Tucker's plans but
he would seem to favor KState as I guess he has a course there in mind.
No you may not care for this much and on the other hand maybe Tucker
has been there or you have talked to him and he is headed to KU but

I was offering it for any value it might be. I think he needs some help 4

and also that he has many offers, etc.

Max is in Topeka and he wrote me that they (someone) told
him at Manhattan that Tucker was a cinch to go there, -Someone also
told him that if would enroll there that he would get to be in the
group with Tucker, Evans of K. City and some other good boys. I had

heard that Evans would go to KU or to Benedicts.

When Max left the other day, it was about the hardest day of
my life, because it brot me face to face with the fact that he had grown
and was gone from home for good. We went in the house and I could not
say a word for an hour, His room looked bleak and bare and things
stared at meg ‘4e is the last child and I was tied up to him in al-
most every way and he was a great pal. It’ was just the thot that ac-
tually he was leaving home practically for all time, I guess I am
too big a sissy for “r, Hitler to send out into Prance

I might see you sometime soon as a friend of mine there,
Warren Zimmerman, wants me to come there to look into buying some
paper that may be for sale, If I come I will look you up and may also
bring Max down. He may be in Lawrence any day now and call on youe

Must close for now and get this on the cars. Things
look fair here but the a. shadows everything and God only knows what

' will happen over there. can't conckgve of a justice that (inthe

end) will let Hitler win. HE can't do it but may do a lot of damage
before fate catches him,

 
 
 
 

Kindest regards to you and yours,
Sincerely,

Portis.

   

 

 

 

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