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Dr. Allen, page two.

Fully one-third of the people here are devending.upon public
agencies for getting along in every way, and none of them appear
to have any enthusiasfyabout getting any other way. I am connected
with enough: organizations around here that I know whereof I speak
and I can't yet see how we are going to pull thru. I am speaking
in a general way and I.doubt df some sood crops would be the answer.
So many people havé gotten to be so foolish, with money that they would
go more into debt or buy with their money in good times, and not pay
aébtss. A local man told me he had $50,000, outstandin and he would
take $500, cash for it and doubts if he ever collects that mach, <
have some eight thousand dollars out on subscription account and
do not believe I will ever get five per cent of this. I got off
onto this rampage about economics and must quit, as it has nothing
particular to do with Max and school except that with money so hard ‘
to get or collect, it is a problem to know what to do about spendi ng it.
However, I am very much for higher education and Max will go some=~- ;
where in a year or two no dount. We and he cannot decide what he
wants to take up. e glad for any suggestion from you but I guess
you talked to us about it that day at Osborne.

 

I won't dare get started talking about our Hi basketball thks
year, or I will get pertinent as I did above on the money question.
I will say this, AJlen, that I think Max is the best Hi basketball
player I have ever seen, Our coach, tre Jewish boy, Max Kurman,
said the other day, "Max is just a dream player and I never had
expected to see a high school player like him." Our Hi has won all
eight games by big scores and Max has scored over 200 points, or 26
plus per game. IT know that I am partial to his play, since I am
his father‘and can only see the good points and fail to see the
weak ones, but I'll say this to you, that Max may write his name
alongside some of the basketball greats in the next few years.

On the other hand he may go, to some school-and not get off Tigkt,
and drop out and find tough competition and turn out to be just another
pasketball player. I have seen 2 lot of flashy Hi boys that way;
gzood against weak teams but can't stand uo against the hard tests. I
think Max can,but can only hope now that he will, The other night
a sportsman from California was thra here looking for ereynounds,
anda friend of his here said to him to come out to. the game and see
our pretty nice little basketball team. That night Max ran 35 points,
and looked like 4 pesketball machine in precision, The next day the
man came in and offered Max a complete coverage (he called it that)
education at a big California school. He said that while he had not
seen Hank Luisetti much in Hi school, ‘yet he knew Hank did not do
the things in Hi school that Max does. Of course, Allen, I am not
enthused about his plan as I feel that if liax was not a high-class
player in games, they would cut him adrift out there. I guess, tho,
that any school would. Two coaches have been here to see us and
our coach is trying to get Max at KState a d isbaking him down there
soon for a check-up. Have letters from Nrthwestern where I the
ceach and also from Oklahoma, and Gene Johnson wants Max at Wesleyan,
my old school, A doctor we know from California was in yesterday and
told Max the place for him to go was Kans. U. and Frank Mandeville ‘wa
in for a tlak about Max going there,

  
   
 
 
 

T gee I did just what I said I would not do so will qu ate
I watch your team daily and believe you will go good this year qd
you win them all. I think I will give Max a Christmag-ppéjgnt a

trin to Toneka to see that tourney. Thot he might ge
by watching that thru and it is when we have vacation
Bob, is getting pretty slick on the court and see bE
refers to him as “diabolical. How come, Doc, is he
Must close. Regards to your wife, Bob, and al