at the present time this practice is followed, uit it does not exist in
Kansas. (The State of Kansas is also a happy hunting ground for the
athletic head-hunters from the Big Ten, the Southwest and Pacific Coast
Cmferences. Coaches and athletic officials, or their emissaries, of

these conferences annually pay profitable visits to Kansas and make away
with much of our choice high school athletic material). Corporations will
not be financially able to make good-will donations to these athletic slush
funds nor will fraternities and sororities be willing to feed an extra ath-
letic mouth for the glory of good old Siwash! Father and Mother will not
be able to foot the bills. The vital business of whipping Hitler will be
paramount to our over~indulgence of glorifies publicity and financial display
neither of which are worthy lessons for youth to learn. Participation in
athletics for the masses will be emphasized, but our gate receipts will fall
off and there will be a consequent dimenution in the numbers of our high-

priced coaching staffs.

Many times more than double the money is gambled on football games
each year than is bet on horse races in the United States. The big time
gamblers cut on football parlays which they put out each Saturday is nearly
40% = leaving the easily hood-winked public the suckers share. While this
situation is not the — of the college, nevertheless, the slimy hand
of the rackateer has not edified these intercollegiate games which were once .

academic.

A high school or college teacher desires security the same as does the
manual laborer. A teacher of young men desires security - anathletic coach
desires security, but there can be no security with subsidized football and

basketball because the followers of subsidized athletics demand a sure-fire

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winner every time. So-called athletic boosters pay their subsidized money

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into a secret fund to insure this. Every coach in the same conference cannot j

win the championship for his team. Winning a championship is very uncertain.