April 12, 1941

My, Leaford F, Cushenbery, Attorney at Law
Medicine Lodge, Kansas

My dear Leaford:

Well, I see you and I are both getting into the letter writing
habit, aren't we?

Well, I have enjoyed the episode, and I appreciate greatly your
writing me regarding the unfortunate experience of Bill and Tiny
De'’eese, I know such things happen as you describe when the Sate
urday night drunks roll in at some fraternity houses. As I mene
tioned, the fact that this fifteen per cent lunatic fringe applies
to the university as well as high schools, and this spectacular
demonstration on the part of these inebriates has a depressing
i. high school visitors who are not accustomed to such
things.

I, personally, will see that Bill is protected from such exposures
this time. I would appreciate it very greatly if I could be ine
formed at what fraternity house he stayed last year, You and I
will keep this confidential, but I will see that such a thing does
not happen again. ;
Many of these boys go out on Saturday night and all it takes is a
sour apple to make some of the boys think they are high. Of course,
sone of these fifteen per cent do over-indulges; but many of these
youngsters are hilariously bent and a cork shot from a beer bottle,
if it should happen to hit one of them, would make them tipsy; then
ae come home to their fraternity house,and, because someone else
feels a little hilarious, it makes them more so, And so the even
ing goes. This causes a bad misunderstanding, and I am frank to say,
that this is one of the blots on university life. a

I am glad that I wrote you the letter that I did yesterday recarding
Bill*s not taking too much extra-curricular work his first year.

The adjustments are many. If a boy is tied down to a working job,
when it is not wholly necessary for him, then his academic work is
apt to suffer.

Any letter that I write is for the eyes of Bill's mother or father,
and you can assure them that I check pretty clasely on my athletes.
i do not annoy them or snoop on any of them, but I know what is going
on, and I protect my boys from just such thi

ngs that interfere with