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Fosthalt wtalé never Glo but would continue to thrive, were it not
for the football followers of Brutus who have stabbed the sport to near
death. These pseudo friends of football are the genblers, the subsidisers,
and the Pollyannas who state that, “football at the present, is enjoying
sound health and is becoming more of an emeteur sport all the tine".

I stated last winter that subsidized football and basketball had but
10 years to live. I revised this estimate downward somewhat this fall de-
pending on the part that we play in this second World War which we are now
in. Replying to my long-time friend, Major John L. Griffith, Commissioner
of the Big Ten, may I say that I base my deductions on the following facts
set up for the period of our National Defense Buergency. Living costs will
be at least 25% higher sometime in 1942 and at least 50% higher in 1943. The
Federal income tax payments of the people drawing salaries from $2000.00 to
$7000.00 will be more than trebled. Taxes are rising faster than corporation
earning which means that the proportion awilable for dividends to stecke
holéers is shrinking. Profite during war will narrow further. Congress will
be asked to vote the draft age reduction to 16 years of age when the time
is ripe. The signal hae been sounded by General Hershey. It is an open
secret in Washington military circles that there are plans for an American
Expeditiovary Force when American bombers and fighter planes iia ten mata
factured in sufficient quantities to control the air and to protect the con-
voys from Nazi submarines. Therefore may I repeat that taxes and living
eosts will be so excessively high that big time athletes who are not then
in the service will not be carried on the state's payroll the year around,
+ during the time that they are attending college as well as on the state's
highway department during the summer vacetion. State legislators will not
be giving free legislative scholarships to big time athletes granting then
free tuition at the state universitics, In some of our state universities