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Niel Plummer
John R. Bullock, Jr.
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Mildred

McFarlandWill
Coach Frosh
Netmen
James McFarland, son of J. E. Mc- Farland, of Lexington, former star
basketball player at the University of
Kentucky and scholastic
forward, has been appointed coach of
the University of Kentucky freshman
basketball team this year, it has been
announced by S. A. Boles, director of
athletics at the university.
It was decided at a recent meeting
of the athletic council to give the po
sition to McFarland, who played his
last year on the varsity team in 1925.
McFarland, who was one of the best
basketball performers ever seen in
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is no easy thing to tell the story
of Ruth and Naomi, especially if we
confine ourselves to that portion of
it given in the verses printed in the
Sunday school quarterlies. The"
story to be appreciated must be read
in full. As a literary idyl, it is unThe Centre Spirit would have been of the potency of excelled. !There was a famine in the
of one per cent had the Wildcats land of Judah, and Elimelech, his
less than one-ha- lf
massaged the Colonels with a little of the Kentucky wife, Naomi, and their two sons journeyed into the land of Moab. Here
fight shown at Knoxville Thanksgiving Day.
in this strange land, among a people
And now that "Jenks" and his gang are beginning to worshiping strange gods, Elimelech
died and left Naomi with her sons
cavort on the hardwood, we would like to mention that not yet grown. Naomi was experKentucky's right.
iencing exile, poverty, bereavement
among a strange people, but with
It may not be safe to bet on football games but courageous heart she struggled to
we can give you one safe tip and that- - is to the point bring up her sons and find suitable
that the German doctor who said that a woman who wives for them. And then another
Both sons died childless
piloted her auto over a couple of victims was not re- calamity.
sponsible because she was a woman, is not a married leaving Naomi only her daughters-in-lawe

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RUTH AND NAOMI
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THIS AND THAT

Lexington, should be a valuable ad
The football schedule adopted at the
October 29 Vanderbilt at Nashdition to the coaching staff at the uni- meeting, follows:
ville.
versity.
The position of freshman
November 5 Alabama at BirmingOctober 1 Maryville at Lexington.
coach was left vacant year before last
October 8 University of Indiana ham.
when Ray Eklund took C. O. Apple- November 12 V. M. I. (place ungram's position as varsity coach. at Lexington.
decided).
October 15 Florida at Jacksonville.
Last year, S. A. Boles, athletic direc
November 19 Center at Danville.
tor at the university, coached the
October 22 Washington and Lee
November 25 Tennessee at
freshman team.
at Lexington.
A tentative schedule for the 1927
football season was adopted at the
meeting of the Athletic Council.
At
meeting of Southern Conference
Coaches and officials at Jacksonville,
Fla., December 2, 3 and 4, contracts
for the games will probably be completed.- To the seven games already
arranged, two more will be added.
r,
At the meeting, Dr. W. D.
chairman of the athletic
and secretary of the Southern Con
ference, read several amendments to
the conference constitution which he
will offer at the meeting in December.
He said, also, that he will make every
possible effort to procure the 1927
conference meeting in Lexington.
Members of the athletic council
who were present at the meeting
r,
Wednesday are: Dr. W. D.
Enoch Grehan, E. A. Bureau,
Louis Haggin, Louis Hillenmeyer and

University Organizations

DISCUSSION

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SPORT EDITOR
Frank K. Hoover

SOCIETY

SPECIAL WRITERS
Lydia Roberts, Exchanges
Kathleen Peffley, Feature
Dorothy Stebbins, Feature
Lucile Cook, Squirrel Food
Virginia Boyd, Literary
P. P. Baker, Cartoonist

Leida Keyes
Ann Williams
Jewell Hayes

head coach at the university receives a larger salary than
the dean of any college. The present head coach has re
ceived, perhaps, the greater part of criticism for this
year's unsuccessful outcome. As the present coach will
not be back next year it would be fruitless to enter upon either a defense or adverse criticism of his system of
coaching. The Kernel feels, however, that it should state
that in its opinion many persons have made reckless and
extravagant criticisms without a full understanding of
the local situation.
As this is written the heafi coach for next year has
not as yet been selected. Several very capable men are
under consideration and action will probably be taken
by the athletic council in the very near future. The important thing is that whoever is selected, the student
body support him loyally. No coach can make a successful team by himself alone.
The Kernel believes that the future presents an optimistic rather than a pessimistic view. The university
loses but two regular members of the team and it has
waiting to take their places some of the most promising
freshman material seen at the university in years. The
athletic council is working zealously to secure a satisfactory head coach and to correct all existing evils.
After a careful consideration of these conditions, The
Kernel feels that the football season yext year should be
a brilliant success. To insure its success it is only
necessary that coaches, team, and students work together and that all do their part.

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Naomi decides to return to the land
these daughters-in-laOur freshman friend issues the following consoling of her birth. Butspell
of her personhad felt the
MECHANICAL
words: "Don't be sorry because you did not have turkey ality, and though Naomi did not deCIRCULATION MGR.
for Thanksgiving you won't have to eat hash now for sire to have them accompany her and
FOREMAN
E. L. Berry
Delos Nooe
Christmas."
share her misfortunes, it must have
ASSISTANTS
been a trial even for Orpah to part
ASSISTANTS
Carroll Morrow
Orpah kissed her
The Alabama Crimson and White carries a story with Naomi.
W. D. Grote A. L. Pigman
Carlos Jagoe
but Ruth clave unto
in a current issue announcing the loss of a game by the mother-in-laher. No passage in literature is betTide yearlings the first in four years. How sad.
ter known than the one in which
FOOTBALL SITUATION
mother-in-lato
Nifty work, freshmen. But it's a shame you couldn't Ruth replies spoke her
to her, and bade
the disastrous Centre game The count higher than 55. Yours, however, was the biggest when Naomi
Last week after
her return with her sister to her own
score run up against a Centre team by a Kentucky team people and find a husband among
Kernel called upon the football team to go into the Tenunisince 1916. That's worth a lot.
nessee game Thanksgiving Day and fight for the
them, as she was still young and beauversity as it had never fought before. Only those who
There is almost nothing of
tiful.
religion in this book, as we generally
saw the game last Thursday can appreciate the truly
conceive of religion. But Naomi's life
heroic fight put up by the blue and white clad players
'
had been so beautiful, doubtless in the
in the face of overwhelming odds; only those can underreligion of living, that Ruth declared
stand the spirit of coordination, the animating desire to
that Naomi's god should be her god.
VIRGINIA BOYD, Editor
do their best for the university, the true Kentucky spirit
It was no easy matter for an oriental
shown by every player, which allowed Tennessee but one
to consent to death and burial in a
MENCKEN SHINS SINAI
touchdown.
foreign land and among strange peo
Democracy by H. L. Mencken, New York, ples, but Ruth further declared that
game of their university careers,
Playing the last
Notes on
and
1926, Alfred A. Knopf $2.50 net.
Captain Smith at half, and DeHaven, Portwood,
she would live where Naomi should
Creech at tackles performed yeoman service. For three
The bad boy of Baltimore has again turned his fusil- find her home, and be buried where
they both should die. This story is
years these four men have worked and practiced faith
lade on the very tenets upon which this, vast and incomenough in itself to condemn the moth
fully every day; for three years they have given their parable republic is founded. The Comstocks, the
slander that has probably
best to the team whenever called upon; for three years
leaguers and other flourishing peddlers of ana- rarely been justified in the conduct of
they have been a mainstay to the team in spirit as well thema may blubber from the pulpit and press that any mother-in-laas such.
"as in actual playing. They graduate from the team with Mencken is a devil incarnate, drunk with the tabooed
This story is a domestic idyl,
the satisfaction of knowing that they have done this and elixir of radicalism, yet he stands paradoxically a figure
in its simplicity, and unselfish
with the student body's acclamation of "well done" re- weatherbeaten and lonely, an uncompromising American. devotion. Ruth asked no greater re
sounding in their ears.
Let us look more closely at Notes on Democracy, ward than to be with Naomi, Where
she might render such service as the
The football season is over. With two victories, one his latest and most devastating treatise.
tie game, and six defeats, the season can certainly not be
At outset, there is the appearance of democratic declining years of the mother-in-lacalled a successful one. There are,however, two bright man in the world. To the sweet tune of Jefferson's might call for. Bue she was reward
spots in the otherwise drab surroundings: one, the loyal imbecilities, Rosseau's tears, and the blood of the nobility ed in an unexpected way by finding
a husband among Naomi's kinsmen
backing of the student body, evidencing itself in unfalof France, the clod was raised to the exalted position of And as the wife of Boaz she became
support of the team through defeat after defeat; the most high. What matter that dreamers and senti- the ancester of David, and through
tering
the other, the more or less favorable financial outcome
mentalists far above the mass had first conceived of him the ancester of Christ.
of the season, enabling the athletic council to pay off a democracy? What matter that history proves a lack
The charm of the story lies in its
considerable portion of outstanding indebtedness and to of fodder and not of liberty has caused all revolutions ? simplicity, and in the delicate touches
face next year's problems less hampered by pressure of In our present enlightenment this is forgotten. Some that reveal character, such as the constrange cosmic force has changed the voice of an animal trivances by which Ruth was befriendfinancial difficulties.
ed when gleaning in the fields of Boaz,
What was the matter with the team this year? This howling in the wilderness into the voice of God.
Mencken's terrifiic polemic indicts the wheedling, lying, and the "place of honor accorded her
query, first asked by a few audacious ones early in the
at the meal."
season, has been on the tongue of townsfolk and students and mountebankery that is a necessity in the pursuit and
Centre game. Opening the season with attainment of public office in a democratic state. To be
alike since the
one must think and act as the mob. "In
a seeming abundance of good material, its future painted a
in rosy bues by sport critics everywhere, what happened all ages the herd has hater bitterly the men who were
laboring most honestly and effectively for the progress
to make the year a failure? Who is to blame?
The Kernel thinks that a post mortem examination of the race. What such men teach is beyond its grasp."
of theseason is useless and a waste of time unless the An howling mass, unable to understand His magnificent
deductions, nailed the Master of Men upon a cross. The
findings of such examinations may be used to avoid similar errors next year. It is with the hope of perhaps years have not changed human nature; Coolidge is exaltbeing of some aid in the preparation for next year that ed, great art is suppressed.
With superb irony Mencken has titled one chapter
this paper here considers the subject.
"Democracy and Liberty." It is Mencken's belief that
In the opinion of this paper a great deal of reck
less and unfounded criticism has been made in the past there can be no liberty in a democracy as the mob, enraged by its impotence and cowardice, attempts to bring
few weeks. Some persons have become so fired with en
thusiasm and reformative zeal, that they have gone so to its own bovine level those who are having a better
p
time of it. Mencken attempts to apply the above prina
far as to demand a general
of everything pertaining to athletics at the university. ciple to the most colossal piece of legal buffoonery that
Especially at this time when athletic conditions at the world has ever known, the eighteenth amendment. The
Captains
university are in a troubled condition because of Coach reviewer presumes to disagree. Our
Eklund's resignation, leaving the basketball team without of Industry are responsible for prohibition. "Keep a man
sober and he will do more work," said the lords of trade.
a coach, and the present popular dissatisfac
tion with the football coaching system of the So Mohammedanism was incorporated into Christiantiy
university, it is important that students remain and lo! the United States became the greatest industrial
The athletic council is working dil
nation of the world. That the Constitution has been vioigently to secure a satisfactory basketball coach as well lated means nothing the dollars are pouring in.
Quite contrary to the usual critic of government,
as a head coach and undoubtedly this matter will be taken
care of satisfactorily within the shortest possible time, Mencken offers no suggestions or remedies for the evil
In the interim, students must be content to wait and he has attacked. With a rather disheartened gesture
he seems to say, "Here is your vaunted democracy.
"keep cool."
Many persons overlook one of the fundamental rea
What are you going to do about it?" The reviewer is
sons for the team's disappointing showing in the ratio waiting complacently for the arrival of a Frederick the
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of games won to those lost. This year the university Great.
schedule it had ever
As epilogue, the usual comment upon the style.
took upon itself the most ambitious
attempted: every game was a crucial one. In such a Mencken's is comparable to what Atilla's might have
season as this, (especially when a majority of the games been had that barbarian turned from homicide to literNewton Combs.
are played far from home) any ordinary team is bound ature.
Beautifully-Enamelea play off form at some time or times. This year it was
DREARY DAYS
so ordained that the university's "off day" had to come
Bitter smoke is in the air,
when we played our traditional rival, Centre.
Bitter-sweUndoubtedly another factor which contributed to
upon the wall,
Colors
And bitterness is in my heart
the team's lack of success was failure of certain memSorrow for the first snow fall.
bers of the squad to keep training at all times. No playGone is the reluctant bird,
er can perform as well if he has violated the fundamental
Vanished days and dreams,
principles of training as if he had not. Members of the
Frasted flowers, and broken hours
team are not only to blame for this. Student opinion
Hushed lips and silenced streams
should demand that all players keep strict training; and
Ruined heaps of fallen leaves,
in the past it has not always done this. Students must
Wild whisps of shattered clouds,
do their part.
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And the hollow laughter
The other consideration is that of the efficiency of
Of the weary wind rings loud, , , , ,
members of the coaching staff. It is no secret that the
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