June 2, 1942.

Mr. Elton Winter,
Sublette, KOnsase

Dear Elton:

: I am very happy to have your favor of June 16th and

I assure you we would welcome you hére at the University of Kansas.
The best indication of the merits of the University, I believe, is
your conversation with Otto Schnellbacher. Otto is a fine athlete
and & good student. Ne is a personable chap, and a truthful one.
Therefore, I am sure that you have great confidenvte in posal As ing
that he has to sey. I know that’he would not overplay Univer~_
sity because he would want to have you believe what he sayse !

| Otto is always willing to work and does a fine job whether
it is manuel labor or mental toil. |

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I can promise you what we promise all boys = work at 35/¢ |
an hour - the amount of work to be commensurate with your desires
and ability. I do not know what next fall will held forth, but at
the present time many of our boys are working out at the Ordnance
plant.and getting 85¢ an hour. However, I do not believe that this
work will be permitted during the echool year. !

| I do not endeavor to attract boys by offering them lucrative
or special jobs. The great value to a boy is the procurement of his
education which will insure him competence and appreciation of living
all through life. The benefit comes to the boy, not to the University,
and I make that plain to every boy that I speak with. “hile we are
glad to help boys help themselves, we do not place their athletic
abilities as a barometer of self-help. Athletics are short-lived and
they are only good or fit to introduce .the individual favorably to
business or society. ; es ne 7

I am not endeavoring to preach, but I would want you to know

| that we will help you in every possible way but it will not be on the

basis of your athletic ability. We will help you even if you do not

geo out for athletics. Many boys ere working here in our department

_ now who are not out for athletic teams and their jobs are secure as
long as they do their work. | : :

With a frank understending between the coach and the athlete
in the begiming it is much easier for the boy coming to college to —
appreciate the great necessity of making excellent grades and compet-
ing on athletic teams when and if ho has the opportunity. I imow how