No doubt you read some months ago| about the investi- gation the Pacific Coast Conference had instituted. I+ had hired a former G-man to assist in & survey|of finaw J cial support for athletes playing in the Conference. If a G-man should investigate the Big Six|Conferehce or any other honorable, long-established ae on obeying the present rules of the conference as|they are mow printed, his findings would cause much panic. The athletic situation is a mess. Conferences are |printing Rapa but actually obsying another | This is compar+:: lable to the present international situdtion, wien the world powers say we must be prepared, we must grotect purselves against the outlaws. Colleges should take a page from ‘tne ‘stetubi-teskes in tts educational! polrsy veqaediles hie b, seGeols a pi-the Stute of New York, Ail activities of the high chools in New tork state, including alll forms lof compe ‘pitive athletics, are under the diréct \control pf the gh school admnistration. There is no such thing as athletic association. If’ colleges pald' aboligh ‘neti thletic associa ations, with their alumr and student — ards, and if the universities would handle athletic its of skullduggery such as diverting [ rom advertising channels into a 4lush ffund‘=then much f£ the grief of our present athletic caltastrophe would —— be done away with. | 4 e-pakehieak ciiek dae hk-sabhiniatas Aeeaeek oN ell ,of=tebe;, | hosp resieini—tre-neefl , he 1s oe h Pg qf competitive sport groups)’ saids “We| must believe in ake 411 sincerity, as Sn sure many of us flo not, that phy- ‘ficel education, including competitive peers 8 an es= sential part of the obligation of thm godlege eno in 14 on 12 13% 13% 20