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Dr. F. CG. Allen
Department of Athletics
University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas

Dear Dr. Allen:

Passing through Chicago Wednesday evening of this week,
I picked up a copy of the Chicago Herald-American and
found Dr. Naismith's name in an advertisement of "Old
Underoof" whiskey, and I am attaching the page of the
paper containing that advertisement.

It may be within the law for manufacturers to use

Dr. Naismith's reputation and basketball in order to keep
step in modern advertising, but somehow this particular
ad makes me somewhat "hot under the collar", and if you
know of any way in which I can help to minimize the effect
of propaganda which evidently is intended to show that
whiskey, like basketball, is popular, I will be glad to
have you advise me.