Jenuary 16, 1942.

ur. G Dd, Mott,
Mott Stables,
University Drive,
Lawrence, Kansas.

Dear Mr. Mott:

I appreciate your letter of January 12th, and
fully appreciate your desire to have more students enroll
in equitation. For the present, however, we are going to
hawe to follow exactly the courses as already outlined.
There is no chanee to change that now in the light of the
recent reorgenization of the physical activity classes.

You mentioned that you have lost severc] stud-
ents due to the war, and I am afraid that you are going to
lose many, many more. 1 would be glad to talk with you,
but from all the advice that I get things are going to be
tougher and tougher. I am a poor one to offer advise, but
if I were offering any advice I would advise you to get rid
of all your horses at once at the best pkesible figure. In
another six months the students are not going to have
for equitation and a lot of other so-called (by their par-
ents) luxuries. ae

Whole industries are about to be curtailed and
some of them done away with entirely. The plan is to force
people into war production as a substitute for a vacuum.
They will foree them to quit waking things for civilians
and they will force the shift to war. ‘They will force.
every business and individual to convert, conserve and cur-
tail. Much temporary unemployment is inevitable and it is
even intended so as to compel men to scurry up new jobs in
the war industry. This means shifting of workers and their
jobs on a wholesale scale.

: Vital changes are ahead in all of our personal
lives, in our living and in our jobs, and this drastic change
in business will mean that there is more than a fifty-fifty
chance of a less basic change and a one hundred per cent
certainty of some sort of dislocation for all of us.

The authorities state that half of the workers
will be shifted to wer work in due time. There are now five
million persons on war production and it is estimated that in
eighteen months there will be twenty million. Half the workers,