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THE KENTUCKY KERNEL

The Kentucky Kernel
The Kentucky Kernel is the official newspaper of the
students and alumni of the University of Kentucky.
Published every Friday throughout the college year
by the student body of the university.

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EDITOR Byron H. Pumphrey
MANAGING
ASST MANAGING EDITOR Frank Davidson

"Culture," according to the Daily Bruin, University
of California, m the scholastic world is acquired by
intelligent reasoning about things we learn in college,
whether heard in the class room, read in the library or
seen on the street." Well, every man to his taste, only
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does the sorority house come in this
where-in-hec-

EDITOR-IN-CHIE-

One way to lose your
girl is to try to entertain
tournament. The appetite
departs, while your bank
the foregoing verb.

ASSOCIATE EDITORS
Melvina Heavenridge
L Newton Combs
Leida Keyes
LeRoy Smith

Tom Riley

NEWS EDITOR
James Porter
ASSISTANTS
Margaret Cundiff

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Tells Why Transy Boys Are So
"Campus
'Extremely' Sweet," reads headline in The Crimson
Rambler. We don't know what her game is, but oh,
dear neighbors, watch your step.
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REPORTERS
Bernice Byland
Evalee Featherst'n
Margaret Treacy
Scott Keyes
Elizabeth Carter W. A. Kirkpatrick
Ollie Bowen
Bob Thompson
Jane Ann Carlton
ohn Murphy
Roy Baldridge
Virginia McAlister
True Mackey
Ollie James
Catherine Eyle

Jessie Sun
Harry Towles

SPECIAL WRITERS
Joseph C. Graves
Kady Elvove
Sara Elvove
P. P. Baker
SOCIETY EDITOR
Ellen Minihan
ASSISTANT
Lillian Combs
BUSINESS MANAGER
James Shropshire
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ASST. BUSINESS MGR.
Carlos Jagoe
ASSISTANT
Lucille Short

SPORTS EDITOR
John W. Dundon, Jr.

ASSISTANTS
Wayman Thomasson
Laurence Shropshire
Herman Sharp

It has been

noted

that the campus was swept by a

strange epidemic last week-enMany of the sufferers
were found taking treatment in the Men's gymnasium
watching the high school teams perform. Following
particular upsets, many miraculous cures were noted,
while others became more ill.
The Lexington Herald sport writer makes the discovery that girls' teams are rapidly improving in basketball, overlooking the ideally important fact that the
little devils are getting better looking far' out of pro-

portion to their playing.

Bill Reep

Harold Wynn
ADVERTISING STAFF
Jack Cousins
H. D. Ellis
MGR.
CIRCULATION
Harold Schimmel
ASST. MGR.
Ben Golden

MECHANICAL
ADVERTISING MGR.
Fred Conn
ASSISTANT
Virgil L. Couch

appetite over an
her throughout a high school
is usually missing after she
roll is in the past tense of

LITERARY SECTION
MARTHA

CONNELL, Editor

SCATTER THE VISION FOREVER

FOREMAN
W. D. Grote
ASSISTANTS
A. L. Pigman
Ted Strunk

I stood tiptoe upon a mountain height,
The summit of ideals attained at last;
My straining sinews quivered in the blast
Of raging wind that swept by with its might.

I stood tiptoe

DR. T. J. COATES
The University of Kentucky, through the columns
of The Kernel, wishes to express its sympathy
to the student body and faculty of the Eastern Ken
tucky State Normal School and Teachers' College, on
the untimely death of its president, Dr. T. J. Coates.
Dr. Coates was prominent in public school work in
Kentucky continuously for twenty-fiv- e
years, never
failing when a chance came to do a public service.
Achievement and service, his two goals in life, were
more than attained.

CONGRATULATIONS
It is with the greatest of pleasure that The Kernel
takes this opportunity to congratulate Ashland High
school, whose two plucky teams emerged the champions of the State in the annual high school basketball tournament held last week at the University. The
championship, we feel, could not have gone to two
more sportsmanlike teams.
The Kernel notes, too, that Ashland's ultimate victory has come as the result of years of hard work and
g
hope of Ashland's supporters that
the
their teams would some day win to the estate of Kentucky's champions.
Not to Ashland alone, however, are all the laurels
due. Each team in the tournament displayed the same
gallant spirit that was Ashland's and if it was their
fortune to be beaten, why it was their fortune. They
played their best and they played in a sportsmanlike
manner.
As to the victors, we know that they will bear their
chamhonors worthily. They deserve their hard-wo- n
pionship and The Kernel is unhappy only in that it
cannot bestow on the champions all of the praise they
so well merit.
never-failin-

upon this mountain peak,
And longed for greater pinacles to climb;
Mine eyes pierced yearningly the blue sublime,
While all below was desolate and bleak;

The University
Forum
Editor Kernel,
State University,
Lexington, Ky.
Dear Sir:
It was with regret that I learned
the sentiment of your paper as expressed in your editorial, "Presidential Candidates." It is well to teach
college students to take an interest in
governmental affairs and thereby
teach them to distinguish between
men and measures. A straw vote, as
suggested in your editorial, has a ten
dency to incite an interest in gov
ernmental affairs and a study of pos
sible candidates. So far so good.
I have a criticism to offer to your
editorial, "Presidential Candidates."
You said, "The Kernel is making an
experiment this week, the casting of
a straw vote by members of the fac
ulty and the students, so as to de
termine, as far as possible, whom the
collegiate world favors as the next
President."
That statement is fair, but you do
not stop at that in your editorial
You reduce it to recognized political
partisanship. You say that Prom
bition is the spectre that rises to
plague both political parties and the
test of honesty and sincerity of the
respective candidates depends on their
attitude toward that perplexing ques
tion. Upon that hypothesis you qis
card every present probable Republi
can candidate. Their attitude toward
the question of prohibition is placed
before the student body with the sug.
gestion of intolerance and lack of individual thinking upon their part. Can
you get a fair straw vote upon that
theory? After you have dropped all
the Republican candidates you then
proceed to eulogize just two of the
Democratic candidates, Governors Al
fred E. Smith, of New York, and Al
bert C. Ritchie, of Maryland. You
call the prohibition question the spec
tre that rises to plague both parties,
yet, your editorial places before the
student body and the members of the
faculty of the State University as The
two avowed wets.
Kernel's choice
You mention no other disqualification
to discard the Republican candidates
and you mention no other disqualify
cation to approve the two Democratic
candidates than their positions on prohibition. Governor Ritchie is rarely
mentioned as a prospective candidate

but Senator Reed of Missouri, and Kernel Editor.
It's a very poor rule that doesn't
Senator Walsh of Montana, are active Dear Sir:
work both ways, and it is probably an
A few months ago you printed an undisputed claim that girls do better
candidates, and Governor Donahey of
Ohi is sometimes mentioned. You undisputed claim that the average work for men teachers than for the
Respectfully,
state you are for Smith and Ritchie professor has a "failing" for giving women teachers.
for two reasons their independence better grades to girl students.
(Signed) OLD GRAD.
and their tolerance. Who has more
independence
and is plainer spoken
than Senators Reed and Walsh and
wherein do they lack tolerance and
wherein do they lack the same charDependable daily truck service. Baggage and luggage carefully handled.
acter of tolerance possessed by Gov
ernors Smith and Ritchie? Senators
Reed and Walsh are recognized
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throughout the nation as men of
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strong character and unpurchasable
honesty. When properly analyzed
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your editorial, although well meant,
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expresses political bias. Such edito
rials are calculated to influence the
young men and young women and the
faculty of the State University to
cast their votes for the men whom
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you recommend as being the best suited for the office of President, and
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been colored by the sentiments of
your editorial. Therefore, the pur
pose of the straw vote has been
to that extent.
I am an alumnus of State Univer
145 South Limestone
sity. The campus was my home for
six years and many dear reminiscences
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linger in my mind. Also, I was
member of the editorial staff of The
Kernel and I am interested in that
sheet. What I say is said with the
purpose of keeping the Kernel free
from political and partisan wrangles.
I am interested in the State University
and the student body since I have left
its sacred walls, I have contributed,
in a small way, to its growth. The
Kernel is the mouthpiece of the stuSee
dent body and I hope that its editoCo.
presenting"
rials will continue to be untrammeled
and that it will continue to maintain
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the high esteem in which it is held by
the alumni and student body of the
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great University of Kentucky.
Very truly yours,
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J. F. GOOCH.

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Editor's Note
While The Kernel disclaims any intention whatever of suggesting to
students and faculty folk how they
should vote, on second thought, and
in the light of the foregoing observation, written by our friend and former student, we are frank to concede
that our part of the editorial complained of might reasonably have left
the impression to which the commu
nicant calls
attention.
good-natur-

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Oh, give me once, ye gods, the eagle's wing!
One moment lend the eagle's power and strength!
That I may break and shatter now, at length,
The tie that binds me here, and upward spring!

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For Easter

I gazed, at last, into the astral blue,
The boundless pastures of the wheeling stars,
Where Venus sports in play with flaming Mars,
And the great Dipper splashes heav'n with dew.

Regardless of the mass of morbid men,
Who sit in lust at vane Belshazzar feasts,
Who wallow in the sensual like beasts,
And sleep content in Circe's tempting den.

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An eagle, sweeping through the soundless sky,
Awoke in me the longing to be free
From my faint contact with reality,
To rise on high, and let the world swim by,

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Bleak, desolate, and barren plains folorn,
Which I had traversed with much pain long since;
The savage crags that caused the heart to wince
And breathed defiance at the earthly born.

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A voice, melodious and sad, replied,
"The eagle lives, by putrid carrion fed,
And gains his .strength by eating flesh that's dead."
So, standing on my mountain top, I cried.
ANON.

FUTILITY
Within the soul is everything
The gods to whom we pray,
The answer to our prayers.
And all the hopes that life can bring,

THE STROLLERS
One of the best known but nevertheless one of the
least supported organizations on the campus, the Strollers, are soon to give their annual spring play, "Dulcy."
Struggling as they have through the year, taking or
receiving help from no one, this student dramatic circle
has overcome all obstacles set in its path and now declare themselves ready to give Lexington a j J . he University a production every whit as good as their productions of past years have been. To remark that past
performances of the Strollers have been in every respect finished and excellent pieces of work is unnecessary. That they will make good their boast this year,
and give to their audiences as finished a product, is
likewise, not to be questioned.
What the Strollers need at present is encouragement. They assure the student body that their play
this year will be a good one, and that assurance, we
believe, is enough. The Kernel trusts that the student body will show their support to the Strollers by
buying tickets and going to the play. Not by way of
charity, but because the Strollers will give a worthwhile entertainment, and because their work deserves
recognition and support.

in the hearts of men,
Are nourished there and die
Within the walls of flesh,
Nor from the dust will rise again.
Develop

And so forever runs the flight
Of phantom hope and foolish dream,
That of itself is but a flash
Of darkness from eternal night.
R. E. S.
BALM

'Twas yesterday they wounded you
And trimmed your many branches fair
Which offered welcome shade so true
That they might ever linger there.

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OVER 28 BILLION CHESTERFIELDS
SMOKED I1M 1927
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Only a few years back, you'll remember, it was 7 billion)

But in the night an angel came
With gentle wings drooped low
And healed your ragged signs of pain
With blessed, pure white snow.
You did not fear and why should we
When clouds bring dreary rain?
For God will care for you and me

THE "BULL SESSION"

In joy or heart felt pain.
"What has done some students more good than a
L. K. J.
four-yeapplication to Phi Beta Kappa, has occurred
in small rooms to which some professor or instructor
has been inveigled with promises of sandwiches, cake
FIRST LOVE
and coffee. Here, over cigarettes and physical sustenYou have forgotten?
Ah, in your hard young wisdom,
ance, classroom problems have been made into tanA thought that hurt in your throat and made tears start,
gible issues, and ideas have run rampant, with the
lore of factual information to control and direct And the first girl, so wonderly silken lying
Still at your heart?
their course."
Thus eloquently, does The Daily Northwestern
water
that long established, though somewhat looked Never recall how on the
Glamor of silver filled you, tranced and stirred,
down upon institution of collegiate life, the bull sesHow in your heart you loved her so, and whispered
sion. The idea passes that these informal gatherings
of students were simply "smut fests." They have Not one word?
lately come to be regarded as sessions where real and
vital ideas are given expression and where more than Ah, how can you forget, the wind caressed you
First, with a f eater spell than hands weave;
one interest is discussed with some degree of intelliThen her strange kiss, and the feel of her lean shoulder
gence.
Under her sleeve?
We are decidedly in favor of this pleasant diversion. In the wee small hours of the night those who
participate in this form of oral discussion will, we think, But she remembers; and in some ghostly garden
gain some vague conception of "the wholeness of She gathers gray blooms of rue and shame.
things." In this all too fast world such leisurely con- And whatever lips her white lip kisses
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