August 85, 1941,

Mrs Jack Kline,
Milier, Kansas.

Dear Jacks

Thank you for your good letter concerning Jack Dean,
of Harveyville. The Aggies are making a concerted drive on
basketball and baseball men and if a fellow wents to choose
Kansas State and play Ban Johnson baseball I do not know of
anything that I can do about it. I appreciate your interest
end I wish that there was something that you could do when you
see Jack on September 2nd.

I am wondering if you could not see him and tell him
that the Aggies have been in the basketball cellar for so long
that of course they have become desparate and promise much to
boys, I am told, that they have not been able to keep. However,
that is none of my affair. If Jack Dean wants a job we will be
willing to give him a job, but we are not putting it on a com
petitive basis. I think you kmow me well enough to imow that
we will keep any promise that we make, but we are pretty careful
to promise a boy a job if he will go to school.

To my way of thinking an education is much more desir-
able than an athletic career, Some boys never think of the
paramount question, and that is "What school should I choose to get
the vocation or profession that I desire?", but rather if some coach
will offer them a job they will choose any school and study any-
thing that is in keeping with that school's curriculum. I think

you get what I mean.

Of course, I like to coach basketball but I would not
want to change a boy's future just to get him on my athletic team.
And the inverse is also true. If a boy is willing to go to any
school just to get a little better job then he is not apt to be
the fellow that will develop as he goes along. ‘hen these coaches
promise boys jobs at which they can make money, rather than jobs
to help them get through school, then we find much dissatisfaction
in those camps and the morale is always lower than it wuld be
where all promises are kept.