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POSTMARK 4-1-41 Miss MARY ETHEL NOLAND 216 NORTH DELAWARE STREET D INDEPENDENCE, MISSOURI March 31, 1940 Dear Harry :- :- We were more than sorry not to see you on your trip home last week but we can soe how rushed you are with all The important things you have a hand in. Bess and Margaret too, were here and gone be fore we could realize it. Harry, there is a matter about the schools in Kansas City which my polit- really-minded. principal, Mr. Ray Hailay, is constantly bringing to my attention in hopes that I will lay The matter be- fore you. The situation is that Kansas city wants more money, which is not news to you -but Mr. Hailey who comes from out- state, Knows that the repre senlatives of outstate Missouri are prejudiced a- gainst Kansas City to such an extent