August 28, 1944.

Mr. Frank Miller,
Miller Drug Co.,
723 Story Street,
Boone, Iowa.

Dear Mr. Miller:

I read your letter very carefully and my advice would be,
Go very slowly. I can appreciate the long hours that you face in the
drug business, but I could not conscientiously advise you to change
from a certain promising future which you have to a questionable one.

1 do not know your athletic history or your athletic ability.
You see, a letter in varsity athletics is a symbol of laboratory work
done on the athletic field. Did you make a letter in college in any
sport?

LOY "Fi In my text I meiitien the’ faet that drethe early days the
physician contracted the diseases. that were commmicable’ to man so that
he might more sympathetically treat his patients. By that time the
physician was generally dead and was not able to treat his patients,
but it was a humanitarian idea anyhow. This goes for a trainer in ath-
letics. I go into great detail explaining that the fellow who has ex-
perienced sprains, bruises and contussions as well as mental and physical
dejection after a hard game fits himself to be more sympathetic as a

_ trainer for the boys who come under his care.

I would rather stige¢est’ that yow tale the mtter slowly in
figuring your way through this thing. You facetiously suggest that you
might buy one of my books. I dic a lot of joking about the book, but
everything that I teught at that school and more is in that book. I
wrote the book as a matter of self-defense and as a means of educating
‘thé high schoo! ‘and ‘college coaches ‘ina better understanding of the
Doys ‘and “the ‘proper fimidameritals'‘to’ use. Frankly, I-think the chapter
‘oft thé “treatment of athletic injuries is worth four dollara because it
is the only ‘contribution of “its kind on the market. If you fed like «it,
you might get the book and study this, and it is a lot to study. Then
you might be in a better position to know whether you wanted to enter
this field. For a good trainer, the remmeration is excellent, but they
generally pick their trainers~from men who have been in athletics.