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taxes for the rehabilitation of the state institutions and the
University of Kentucky.
The tax on gas has been increased. Mny of the lending agriculturalists
tobacco men, business men, bankers, thought it unwise to impose either
luxury or income taxes. They formulated a substitute plnn to submit to
the voters of the state n bond issue sufficient to:
Editor W. C. Wilson, Alumni Secretary
First, refund 4jic floating debt of the. stale, that will not only Increase
Editor, Helen J. Osborne
Assistant
the interest charges but be a material direct saving in intencst charges and a
greater saving in the indirect cost to the state because of high prices charged
Engineer's Club, 1317 Spruce street. by those who sold material to the stMc;
CALENDAR
BulTnlo, March 13 (Second SaturSecond, to provide for the rehabilitation of the penitentiary at Frankfort
day Regular) luncheon nt 1:15
Loifisvillc, March 6 (First Satur Chamber of Commerce, corner Mnln a school for the feeble minded, the Enstern Kentucky Hospital for the Insane,
day Regular) luncheon at 1:15, Elk's nn,i Seneca street
and other institutions;
wul)Chicago, March 15 (Third Monday
Third, to provide for the extension of the University, of Kentucky. Gov'
y
Philadelphia, March G (First Sat- Regular) luncheon at 12:15
crnor Fields, animated by the desire and inspired by the sole purpose to
Regular) luncheon at 1:15, shall Field Men's Store. (Grill Room). for the enactment of these tnxes nnd hold them in abeyance until the people
tnx before this legislature, but to withdraw temporarily the recommendations
hnvc the opportunity to vote upon the bond issue nt the November election
income

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cstcd in the progress of our basketball team.
"Was mnrried to Miss Helen Chnp-i- n
of Wilkinsburg, Pa., on January 15,
1920, therefore, the change of address.
Please see that my Kernel comes to
the new address."

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(The Lexington Leader, February 27, 1926)
It is highly probable that public approval will be given to the proposed
SI J ,000,000 State bond issue for the University of Kentucky, the normal
schools and various charitable institutions, and to liquidate the State debt.
The proposition to submit this bond issue, in lieu of the contemplated
"luxury" and income taxes, seems to furnish the only solution of the
problem of how to secure funds for educational and charitable institutions
which have already been long neglected by the people and by those high
in authority in recent State administrations.
The proposed bond issue is fj;ce from many of the objectionable features
which aroused opposition to the 875,000,000 bond issue which was submitted
to the. voters in 1924. In that case it was impossible for the voter to express n preference for the charitable and educational institutions, or for the
construction and maintenance of highways, as the case might be. He was
compelled to accept all or none of the provisions of the bill. In addition
to this phase of the $75,000,000 submission, there were confusing and apparently unbusinesslike provisions relating to the distribution of the funds
which excited antagonism and distrust.
The bond issue which is now proposed for educational and charitable
institutions alone will no doubt be very simple in its administrative provisions and merit the enthusiastic support of every voter who is disposed to
deab fairly, if not liberally, with those agencies which supply practically
free education to the boys and girls, the young men and young women of
the Commonwealth, as well as those which furnish shelter and other benefits
to those unfortunates who are either temporarily or permanently wards of
the State and entitled to the help of generous people everywhere.
This newspaper will most heartily support the proposed bond issue at
the same time living in hope that within the next two years public sentiment
may lead some constructive statesman, or some company of
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men and women, to 'come to the front with a program of administrative improvement in our State government which would' result in better methods and
substantial saving of public funds.

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'REASONS FOR THE PROPOSED BOND ISSUE

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(The Lexington Herald, February 28, 192G)
The present constitution of Kentucky, adopted over a third of a
century ago, provides specifically that the legislature shall not contract
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time to ex"debts, direct or contingent, singly or in aggregate,
unless provision be made to levy and collect an annual
ceed 500,000
tax sufficient to pay the interest stipulated and to discharge the debt within
thirty years; nor shall such act take effect until it shall have been submitted
to the people at a general election, and shall have received a majority of
all the votes cast for and against it." This constitutional limitation upon the
debt of the state has been honored consistently by violation instead of by observance. Soon after the adoption of the constitution, when the floating debt
of the state exceeded the limit of $500,000 by only a moderate amount, the
cturt of appeals rendered a decision holding the amount owed by the state-i-

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excess of $500,000 to be a valid obligation.
It has, however, been an open secret that numerous judges of the court
of appeals have expressed regret at that decision.
It is the belief of able
lawyers that the decision was not in accord with the constitutional mandate.
It is further believed of able lawyers that there is more than a possibility,
in fact probability, that should another case get to the court of appeals it
would reverse the' former decision, which would invalidate the warrants issued
by the state in violation of the constitutional prohibition. The debt of the
state increased steadily until in the aggregate it was estimated to be over
.six millions of dollars when Governor Fields became governor.
It is
estimated now to be between four and five millions of dollars.
The state has issued interest bearing warrants to those to whom that
' debt is owed. It has, however, paid far more than the straight interest on
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that debt, because those who sold material or labor to the state added to
their price a sum sufficient to recompense them for the delay in receiving
their money and the risk involved in accepting the warrants.
' . The state would save in interest one to two and a half percent, and
far more than that by being able to purchase material and labor on a cash
basis instead of on a warrant basis, if it would find its debt in the form of
bonds.

years ago the Kentucky legislature passed
s One hundred and twenty-eigh- t
an act providing for the erection of a penitentiary at Frankfort, which was
years ago. In the act passed by the
erected over a hundred and twenty-fiv- e
legislature in 1798 the size of the cells was specified. The cells built a
years ago were larger than the cells that are now
, .hundred and twenty-fiv- e
.' in the penitentiary
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used.

There is no justification for the continued use of that institution. It has
expense re-- ;
cost the state an incalculable amount becouse of
quired to conduct it than'would be required to conduct a modern and model
institution and because of the devilish effect on those confied therein. It
$is inconceivable that Kentucky has been so negligent, so inhumane, as to
years to confine men and women in
continue for a hundred and twenty-fiv- e
that hell 'hole.

We have not seen the provisions of the bills to submit the bond issue and
therefore can express no opinion based on the bills thomsolvcs.
But nssum
ing thnt Uiey will be drawn by able, lawyers and in accord with the views
advanced by Governor Fields, there seems to us every reason that they should
be submitted by the legislature, and the bond issue npproved by the people
If the figures given in the newspapers of fifteen million dollnrs as the
sum total of the issue are correct it will tiot be sufficiont to accomplish all
millions of the former issue
that should be done, even as the twenty-fiv- e
would not have accomplished all that should be done in Kentucky. And it is
true that it will be necessary to increase the taxes on tangible or intagiblc
property, or on both, a few cents to pay the interest and yrovides for the
sinking fund, which would not have been necessary if the'former bond issue
had passed, dedicating part of the revenues from the tax on gasoline nnd
motor licenses to that purpose.
But the increase in taxes will be purely nominal in comparison with the
snving through the refunding of the state debt and the benefit to the state
through the expenditure of the money tha would be available for he state
institutions and the state university.

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of the high school nt Preston, Mnry-lnnWilliam

M. "Spilmnn
is in the
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radio ales nnd service department of
comthe Brunswick
US pnny, Schenectady, N. Y. Ho was
formerly with the General Electric
company of that city.
John W. MacDonnld is farming at
R. R. No. 1, Campbcllsvillo, Kentucky.
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Plense make this change as soon as
ns I miss the Kernel very
much."
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Herman L. Straus writes as follows: "Please change my address
from 3435 Clay street, San Francisco, California to G247 Blackstonc avenue, Chicago, Illinois. I nm now with
the Chicago Bridge and Iron Works.

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C. Picklesimer ex- - is with
He should be addressed
the Navy.
U. S. S. New York, care Postmaster,
New York, N. Y.
Miss Elizabeth Guthrie is teaching
nt Grayson, Kentucky.
Morton

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any of the graduates listed below.
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Society Resolutions on

Herbert Graham

Whitesville high school, "Whitesville,
Kentucky.

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D. W. Perry writes us as follows
cnange my address upon
"1'iease
your records from South Pittsburgh,
"223 Stonewall street, McKenzio,
to
Tenn. I am going back to school to
former alumni secretary at the Uni- teach Bible over there, and I do not
versity of Kentucky, who was killed want to miss the Kernel.
in an automobile accident on Long
"With best wishes for the school
Island February 7:
and for your success in the work
of the American Iona Was s,orry to hear about Graham.
"Resolutions
Society in homage to the memory of
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lierbert Graham.
Henry Tyler Watts, power engineer
"Today the winds and storms of is living at 3370 DeSota avenue
Dixiejand chant a requiem over the Cleveland, Ohio.
sleeping , place of Herbert Graham.
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The practical talent that marked
Walter F. Hanley is now living at
William of Graham in 1143; the chi- Omar, West Virginia.
valry that linked Sir John Graham as
We are in receipt of the following
the right hand of Scotland's patriot
Wallace; the valor that inspired the from Albert J. Kraemer: "My favorite
brilliant Montrose the qualities of indoor sport lately is sending out
'change of address' notices. I am now
all these forebears were conspicious
again located as shown rfbove. Please
in Major Graham our beloved friend
send the Kernel to me at the above
and secretary. Gentle yet resolute,
sagacious yet tolerant, loyal to his address.
friends yet generous toward all men, w "I am pulling for the Wildcats to
in
another Southern Basketball
Horbert Graham needs neither elegy Championship.
What does the, angry
nor eulogy.
mob say;
"He had read widely and deeply. He
Charles S. Rosllings is now living
absorbed the best that lies in men and at 510 Cornelia avenue, Chicago, Illideveloping his own individ- nois.
in books,
uality until he became a recognized
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leader among his fellows. We shall
Alfred D. Bosley, new business de
never meet a man the sincerity of partment representative of the Peo
whose life and the manly courage of pies Power company, Moline, 111., is
whose nature will make a more en- - now living at 2508 Ninth avenue, Mol
during impression upon the hearts of inc.
those who know him best.
We are always glad to receive let
"Farewell, i Herbert Graham. We ters from our alumni, but when those
long dreamless letters contain information about lost
leave thee to thy last
sleep, carrying with us the conviction alumni, they are doubly appreciated
that thou didst play the game of life We are in receipt of the following
cheerfully to the last.
from M. L. McCracken, agricultural
"Whereas, on Sunday the 7th in agent, 508 Wood street, Paris, Tenn,
"I noticed in the last issue of the
stant, Major Herbert Graham of
Frankfort, was suddenly summoned Kernel that two of my old classmates
to that bourne whence no traveler re were listed as missing:
"B. H. Mitchell
I have heard that
turns; therefore
"Be it resolved that we trustees and he is now located in Nashville, Tenn.,
members of the American Iona Soci but have been unable to get in touch
ety herewith express our sincere sym with him, perhaps you can get a line
pa thy to his parents and to all his on him through, some alumns there;
"Wm. C. Mitchell is now county
kith and kin. .
The American Iona Society, Inc., at
a meeting in New York City February
13, adopted the following resolutions
on the death of Herbert Graham,

"Resolved that, emulating him who
is gone, we strive to attain the love
of wisdom and the wisdom of love.
"Resolved that we send a copy of
these resolutions to Mr. R. H. Gra
ham and to the press of Lynbrook,
Long Island, Lexington, Kentucky,
and Frankfort, Kentucky.
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James C. Melvin is teaching in the
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Alabama, Auburn, Alabama.

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The present address of Rodman
Wiley, former president of the Alum
ni Association and now with the, Ken
TO AT- aucky Rock Asphalt Company, is at MAKE ARRANGEMENTS
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TEND THE BIG U. OF K. BANQUET
Kentucky.
The University of Kentucky banquet will be held in Louisville this year
AT THE BROWN HOTEL, LOUIS
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at the same time the Kentucky Educational Association is in session. BeMail will reach James C. Hamilton
MKi-cause of the fact that so many out of town alumni wjll be in Louisville, it is
VILLE, APRIL 22.
The school for the feeble minded nt Frankfort is crowded beyond safety at his business address, 121- West
expected thnt this will be one of the best V. of K. banquets ever held.
or decency. Yet there are thousands of feeble minded for whoso care and Third street, Oklahoma City, Okla.
This will be a fine opportunity for all alumni in and near Louisville to
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confinement the state makes no provision, who are free to roam at their
renew acquaintances and greet friends, who at other times would be
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Mrs. Josie Endris, formerly Miss
own sweet will and propagate their kind to an extent limited only by their
Margaret H. Tuttle writes as fol scattered all over the State.
opportunities. And society as a whole bears the burden of the idiots and Josie M. Alexander of Paris, Ky., is lows: "Please change the address
,
of
now living at 1002 Holly street, Biloxi,
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'feeble minded who are not in the institution exactly as it'does of those who Miss. Mrs.
,
FILL OUT AND MAIL TO ALUMNI OFFICE
Endris received her M. A my subscription and all University
are confined.
notices from M. H. Tuttle, 39 Wall
degree in 1909.
street, Room 1201, New York City to
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Jvw a century ago, in lain, me nrst institution lor the care anu
,
Charles M. Roswell writes asking my residence, 103 23rd street, Jack
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The same buildings, that we change our record of his ad son Heights, Long Island."
f1 treatment of the mentally ill was erected at Lexington.
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.that iiolu out a constant invitation to the uemqn of fire, are today crowded dress from P. O. Box 93, Wilkes- Leo E. Steinhauser. cost accountant
with the wards of the state, sons and daughters, brohers and sisters of Barre, Pa., to P. O. Box 113, Philadel
phia, Pa. Mr. Roswell, who has an with the Southern California Edison
"Kerituckians.
unbroken record of dues paid since company. Third and Broadway. Los
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1914,
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From the settlement of Kentucky, until after the Civil War, Kentucky gineer is Consulting and Sales En Angeles, is living at 5012 Cimarron
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of Electrical and Steam Ma street, Los Angeles.
The first college, chinery.
'was among the very leaders of American commonwealth.
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tlje first library, the first medical schol established west of the Alleghuny
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Yancy C. Holbrook. is in the engi
mountains were founded by Kentuckians who valued and sought to give, to
Holton Cook, civil engineer, is neering department of the Cumber
their children opportunity to secure education. Kentucky failed to keep living at 521 Twelfth street, Hunting land Telephone & Telegraph company,
step with other states and has fallen far to the rear of the states that gave ton, West Virginia.
1011 Republic building, Louisville.
io their children opportunity to secure education.
Hundreds of Kentucky
Mrs. E. I. Scrivner. formerly Miss
girls and boys are driven from Kentucky to get their education in colleges DUES
Eva Congleton, is now living at 326
AND SUBSCRIPTION TO
Aylesford Place, Lexington, Ky.
of other states.
We are in receipt of the followinif
THE KERNEL $3.00
from G. W. Baumgarten: "Please
This year the governor submitted a recommendation to the legislature
change my address from 920 Franklin
.to, increase the tax on gasoline for two years from three to five cents, to be
avenue to 111 Braddock Road,
wsetl in the construction of roads, and the imposition of luxury taxes or
Jacob F. Druner is prhicjpul of the
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at Brown Hotel, at 6 p. m.,
April 22, 1926.

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