April 50, 1945.

Dr. R. I. Canuteson, Director,
Student Health Direator, a
University of Kansas.

Dear Dr. Canutesori:

I enjoyed reading the carbon copy of your letter to Mr. Wiliard E.
Givens, Executive Secretary of the National Education Association of the
United States. :

I certainly agree with the importance of the things outlined in your
letter, nauely, that healthy parentage, adequate food, decent living son-
ditions, and so forth, are all given in their rightful order. However,

_ I believe it needs to be said that we would have many fewer rejections
if our physical education started in the grades and the junior high school
rather than in the high schools and the wiiversities.

I’ remember Dick Barber and Don Hults, two lawyers in Lawrence who were
drafted. ‘They took their physical conditioning in the army, and both were
in the hospital. They wrote back that their education in the University and
Lawrence high school was from the ears up, and not from the crown down.

The universities will not have compulsory physical training after this
war unless the Amerioan Legion sees to it that they have it. Frankly, I
am for it and have been because the only way people will keep fit while
ie” growing is to provide facilities for play and then see that they
get it. .

I will be glad to discuss this with you at the first opportunity. Thanks
for the letter. 7 , R

Very sincerely yours,

. Director of Physical Education,
FCA: AH Varsity Basketball Coach.