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THE KENTUCKY KERNEL
RUTH JONES WILL PLAY

THE PROCRUSTEAN BED

UNIVERSITY CHAPEL
Mies Jones is-Native of Louis
ville Praised as a Great

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A Department

of Prejudice!
By Troy Perkins.

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Artist

The students of the University will
be given a treat in the violin concert
of Ruth Jones (Mrs. Richard C.
Knott) to be held in the chapel of
the University of Kentucky, Tuesday
evening, October 10, at 8:30 o'clock.
Although Miss Jones is a young
musician less than a year out of the
conservatory, her work has called
forth praise from the leading violin
masters of the country and from the
press. She is a pupil of Leopold
Aucr, violin master.
Miss Jones is a native of Louisville
Although born in Indianapolis, Ind.,
her parents moved to Louisville when
she was but a few months old, which
city she has since made her home.
During the period of her musical
of
career, under the instructions
Charles Lctzler of the Louisville Conservatory of Music, Miss Jones appeared several times publically in
Louisville and in other Kentucky
towns. At the age of 15 she gave a
recital at Macauley's theatre in Louisville and with the proceeds of the
recital she bought herself a $600 vio-

Preface
Since the first appearance last week
of this column of critical spoof and
satirical seriousness, several inquiries
have been made as to the meaning of
its caption, "The Procrustean Bed."
Like many nonsensical treatises by
litcratcurs, its origin
other would-b- e
is found in Greek mythology. As the
fable goes, a famous giant named
Procrustes once dwelt in the hills of
Attica. Each who came weary but
quite unwary to his simple abode, he
treated with kindness, fed with gen
crosity, and heard with civility. When
the guest was ready to retire, however,
lie would lead him to a bed which he
considered so highly that if his victim
were too long to fit it, he would, in
g
fashion lop off the
parts, and if too short, he would
quite as arbitrarily, stretch him until
a nt was cnectea. ine application i
make of the mythological instance is
was
purely figurative. Procrustes
our first critic. Like others of his
trade, he had a prejudice. And so
have his brothers of today, the leading critics being merely those with the
most interesting prejudice.

phenomenon that confronts us now
the corrupting
of a mode of
thought into a manner of living. The
whole generation of younger people
have become "Greenwich Villagey."
What perplexes the sober generation
is the influence this is having on morality and particularly the effect it is
having on the family. But here the
sociologist steps in, and so I step out
The feature most to be remarked
about the affair is the enlistment of
the weaker sex in the cause. Although
the matter had been seething for several years, it came to its head a year
or two ago, when the girls started
bobbing their hair. The jeune fille
then stretched her arms, bummed a
cigarette, and took a run down to
Brcntano's for the latest volume of
Havclock Ellis. Her figure became
more boyish and her intellect more
mannish. Her actions, aided by a vast
amount of publicity, grew from a fad
into a cult. The movement has spread
over the entire country. What it has
spread, I am not allowed to say.
is

All Democrats who arc interested in their party and desire
to aid their party in the coming
elections arc desired to meet in
chapel at 3:30 Tuesday afternoon.
In the past years there has
been a Democratic Club upon
the campus of the University of
Kentucky. Why can't we get
behind the Grand Old Democratic party now and swing the
state as it should be swung.
AH Democrats are wanted
men and women.

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The next summer, Leopold Aucr,
the teacher of Heifez Zimbalist,
l,
Kathleen Parlow, Toscha
and other world famous violinists, heard her play and at once consented to take her for further instruction.
Miss Jones studied under this master for nearly three years in Chicago
and New York. During that time
she made but three public appearances,
two of them in Louisville and the other just recently at the Ziegfield thea
ter in Chicago.
Following her appearance at the
Ziegfield theater Miss Jones was herr
aided as a genius. Since then she has
received flattering press notices from
ill over the world.
n,

Sei-de-

J.E.

KHIRBE SPOKE
IN

CHAPEL TUESDAY

tChirbe's Work For Past Year
Was to Investigate Condi-

tions in

,

Asia-Min-

or

Conditions in the Near East, where
the American Relief has charge of
thousands of stricken refugees and
children, were described by Mr. J.
E. Khirbe, national speaker of this
cause, in his address in chapel last
Tuesday on "Travel in the Near East
and Political Situation of the Greeks
and Turks."
Mr. Khirbe's work during last year
was to investigate hunger conditions
in Asia Minor and Russia. In the
sections he visited the entire popula-tiowas poverty stricken, dressed in
rags, and living on food brought
thousand
from without. Twenty-fiv- e
children have been made orphans in
the Near East during the last seven
years. The "dead cart" went around
every morning to pick up the dead
and carry them away for burial in
have steadily
Conditions
trenches.
improved
since 1919, the speaker
n

said.

The Greek Alpha Test
Having been annually moved to
tears by the bootless expenditure of
time and money by the men's fraternities of the campus, I arise to make
indignant protest. Purely from a desire to simplify matters and a simpler
desire to purify them, I suggest a sys
tem for saving the Greeks considerable
trouble. The plan is offered without
charge.
The fraternities want to know sev
eral things about every man. Upon
matriculation, therefore, the freshmen
should be made to fill out the following
questionnaire:
1.
Do you have ambitions to join a
fraternity? (Answer "yes" or "certain- ly.")
2. Were you an athlete in high
school?
3.
Having answered this, do you
intend to remain a star in college?
4. Do you wear white sox?
5. What size shirt do you wear?
6. Do you have a car? Brand?
7. Preference in girls?
(Answer:
Good dates, sorority girls, etc.)
8.
uniPreference in fraternity
forms?
9. Father's
business?
(Answer:
Coal operator, bootlegger,
etc.)
10.
How do you rate in your home
town?
When this is finished the different
lodges can ascertain with some particularity which thirty or forty men they
want. The pledging should thus be
complely over by noon of matriculation day. It might be suggested, by
the way, that in the case of
s
who want to make hay while the rushing is good, a fifty dollar bonus might
be offered for an immediate decision,
as this will cover, in most cases, the
expense of rushing.
The matter of sorority rushing is
not so important as it doesn't amount
to much. Generally speaking, how
ever, the rushes will be most favorably
inclined toward the gang of gals that
she is with the least.
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The Young Revolt
there, Mr.
The whole situation
The keenest fillip provided by the
Khirbe stated, is one of the great trag- past year has been the serious discusedies of modern civilization, the re- sion of the youth of
the country by
sult of the contention of the older and their solemn elders. The papers have
Religcivilization.
newer types of
been full of it. Much nonsense has
ious struggles have been deep and been written on the subject,
but it
lasting; Asia Minor is the seat of has been generally approached
with
three religions, Hebrew, Christian, the utmost gravity. Not a little self
and Mohammedan. The clash of so- analysis has been done by the young
cial, economic, and religious ideals tolk
themselves, with an !nv.nr!rititi
has necessarily occurred.
treatment of the matter in a clever and
The speaker pointed to Constanti usually, prankish fashion.
nople as the hope of the Near East
The jazz age is the outgrown of the
It is one of the most important points, modern idea in literature and art, and
strategically speaking, in the world, lor its slogan it might well
choose the
he said, commanding as it does the quotation at the
head of this column.
outlet for the great wheat crops of I do not think I am wrong
when I
southeastern Europe. The prosperiplace the parentage of arts. The last
south- twenty years have
ty of several small nations and
seen the reign of
ern Russia are dependent on condi- the merely clever, the epiirrain.
the
Stutions there, Mr. Khirbe said.
paradox, the beautiful ohrasc whoso
dents were urged to read about and only excuse for being is its own
beaustudy the Near Eastern question with ty alone. Art has become a fad
and
a view to finding a remedy for this a pose, the cause of which I hope
to
interesting and pressing problem.
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