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rules will enter into this because conferences do make changes in spite of the rule
bock. We, of course, want to have our Canadian friends with us and continue one
book with an equal division of funds to all organizations interested in the publi-
cation of that book. I wish we might try this out for a year or two and when the
time comes I feel confident we will want to continue on:this equal basis of repre-
sentation and distribution of funds."

Mr. Porter: "Naturally these matters have all been discussed in some of the High
School Federation meetings, particularly in the executive committee meetings and I
would say thet taking the plan proposed by Mr. St. John in its entirety, I think
the Federation would have no objection to the reorganization. You all know we

have had something of the same situation in the colleges. No one would blame the
N.C.A.A. for publishing their own rules as they are powerful enough and have enough
basketball games. In some sections of the country right now the high school groups
would vote to publish their own rules just as is done in football. Reorganization
such as has been mentioned should be satisfactory. However, I would agree to the
modifications which have been suggested here. I think the mechanics of publishing
and distributing of the National Federation material are such that there is no good
reason why they should not have the right to publish these rules exactly as made by
the joint committee, in any form they please. The distribution of the funds in the
plan suggested by Mr. St. Jokm seems fair enough."

Mr. Rowe: "The National Federation, because of the fact that they have at the pres-
ent time published a great deal of material, should be permitted the right to pub-
lish the basketball rules, absolutely as written by this body, but I do not think
they should in any way participate in the earnings of the rules as published by
the other bodies. In addition, I think the National Federation should pay its
pro-rata share of running expense of the Federation including treasurer, office,
honorarium given to the editor, etc."

Dr. Brown: "I have no disposition to advocate anything. I have my personal opin-
ions and the Y.M.C.A. has its place as an organization. At a time when we were
stronger in basketball interests we published our own guides. We had our own rules.
The time came when we thought the game would be advanced by giving up one set of
rules and publishing these rules. We did away with our own guide and discontinued
to discuss basketball rules in any of our Physical Directors’ Society Meetings. We
were among the first to advocate the admission of the high school group, long be-
fore they were admitted and on an equal basis. We stayed in the Committee with a
much smaller representation than we thought we were entitled to have. At the last
annual meeting of our Physical Education Committee, instructions were given author~
izing Mr. Metzdorf and myself, to negotiate and we would like to go forward with
good will, with equal representation, equal distribution of funds and one guide.
It becomes a question of what is best for basketball interests as a whole. Could
we have an Editorial Committee that would actually publish the guide and incorpor-
ate advertising space that would add an equal footing to all? From year to year,
perhaps, from a financial standpoint, any arrangement would change with a changing
constituency. Anything but an even arrangement on every particular would always
be subject to new negotiations and misunderstanding. What to my mind is likely,
but I would hate to see it happen, is, that the colleges and high schools might
publish their own rules and the other organizations cooperate and go forward ex-
cluding those two with the publication of official rules in a joint guide or hand~
book. .