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
ASST MANAGING EDITOR Frank Davidson

EDITOR-IN-CHIE-

ASSOCIATE EDITORS
Melvina Heavenridge
I. Newton Combs
Leida Keyes
LeRoy Smith
EDITOR
Martha Minihan
ASSISTANTS

AN UNPATRIOTIC OMISSION
We observe that Abraham Lincoln's birthday passed
without any undue excitement at the University, and
rather idly wonder why. It is not The Kernel's intention to assume a grouch because no holiday was declared at this institution to honor the birth of this
greatest of Kentuckians, but would suggest that the
occasion would have been an excellent excuse for one,
'
at least.
Glancing at our calendars from business firms in San
Francisco, New York, Atlanta, and Detroit, it is interesting to note that February 12 is nationally agreed
upon as a legal holiday for no good reason except that
Abraham Lincoln was born on that date. Referring to
papers on our exchange list from various colleges in
all the country, one finds that this date does not merely
call for the closing of the banks.
It is not too much to say, nor far removed from the
concensus of opinion, that Lincoln was one of our great
est presidents. It is no less a fact that he was the
only president that Kentucky has ever contributed to

the country, and The Kernel feels that his birthday
should be worthy of as much attention as St. Patrick's
Day or "May Day.

.NEWS

Janet Lalley

James Porter
REPORTERS
Bernice Byland
Beecher Adams
Tom Riley
Jessie Sun
Alice Prows
Harry Towles
Jane Ann Carlton Margaret Cundiff
Elizabeth Carter
John Murphy
Margaret Treacy
Catherine Best
Virginia McAlisterBob Thompson
SPECIAL WRITERS
J. Clark Graves
Kady Elvove
Sara .Elvove
P. P. Baker
SOCIETY EDITOR
Ellen Minihan
ASSISTANT
Lillian Combs

Evalee Featherst'n
Emma Jeffries
Catherine Redm'nd
W. A. Kirkpatrick
Ollie Bowen

True Mackey
Scott Keyes

SPORTS EDITOR
John W. Dundon, Jr.
ASSISTANTS
Wayman Thomasson
George, W. Kay
Herman Sharp
Bill Reep

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WAILS OF THE WEEK

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In refusing to exchange with The Kernel recently,
the editor of a Paris, Ky., paper said that The Kernel
is a "charitable graft proposition." In spite of the
hard work of the student staff and regardless of the
editor's discourtesy, we hope that "charity" is as
good to the editor as it has been to The Kernel. Incidentally, it wouldn't harm the editor to have subscribers who spend more than a million dollars in his
city nine months of each year.
"Phelan's Phullbacks Phace Phootlight," reads a
headline in Purdue Exponent. Ain't that phine?
for
Soneone objects to the term
Would "miners" be more dignified or more
our
descriptive of their powers?
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'Now Our Idea Is This

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CONCERNING THE STUDENT
At Harvard, Wisconsin, Yale Medical School, and
Antioch College, the new plan of permitting students
to follow their own inclinations as to studying what and
when they want to, is being successfully carried out.
Throughout the land, it seems, the student's mind is
in rebellion against the enslavement to which it is
subjected. What the student desires most now is to
read what he wants to, to write when he feels the inspiration, to talk, ah! to talk, and talk whenever and
wherever he can find someone with whom to exchange
ideas. And so it is that some few colleges have rec
ognized this new attitude of the students and changed
from the standard conventionalized system of edu
cation, with no recognition of the student as an indi
vidual, and adopted in its stead a method that permits
the student to find and to know himself for what he is,
One perceives that other colleges will not be long
to see the wisdom of this new plan. It is a plan that
stands on its own merits and needs no defense. By it,
the college may determine, and that easily, who is,
and who is not fit for a college education. Under the
old system such knowledge is impossible.
For under
the old system it is possible and it so happens that a
student capable of independent thinking fails, whereas
one who commits to memory the facts he is told to
learn makes "satisfactory" grades.

Nor does the student admit that merely because he
is young, he has a right to be reckless, or that he will
become resigned to the present system when he has
gained a few more years of mellowing experience.
That the student is interested in the method by
which he is taught is a cause for hope, not worry.
His attitude should be encouraged, not suppressed.

READING
Universal education has substituted reading in our
modern life for the speech and the narrative of the
ancient civilizations. Newspapers supplant the old
orator, magazines and books the poet, who, like Homer,
sang for his bread. An entirely new form, advertis
ing, has sprung up, dependent wholly upon the power
of the people to read. The cinema is another product
of the machine age, and has made a noticeable effect
in the drawing power and influence of the spoken
drama.
The machine age may be said to be largely respon
sible for the wodern interest in reading. The great
mass of people wonld be greatly handicapped if it
were not that the highly developed printing press made
production possible at a greater speed.
Reading, however, in its strictest sense, is confined
chiefly to literature, which is one of the principal meas
ures of a country's culture. Not until its literature is
well established can any nation call itself established,
and through its literature one can trace the chief his
torical movements of that country. Times of peace
and plenty, such as the Elizabethan period in English,
or the Second National period in American literature,
are made evident by a great number of works which
are of fundamental interest to all humanity.

It would be useless here to point out any rules
which should be observed by the student in his reading; everyone, or practically everyone, knows what he
should do, and does what he pleases. Most of the col
lege students prefer something light, humorous, and
with a synical trend. They prefer things modern,
thinking that they are showing marked originality,
freedom, and independence.
A few, however, still cling to the classics. A few
still love the poetry which has thrilled or soothed the
hearts of men since it was given to the poet to make
truth manifest to man; a few still read the old plays
and ,novels, which are free from the hurried atmos
phere of those now written; and a few still find in the
old histories or essays food for reflective thought.
S. C.

co-e- d.

Why all this uproar over the turtle's heart beating
hours while "unturtled." For a real, record, test
some college cardiac muscles during the spring weather.
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and Screen

Music9 Stage
Students may be expected to be
terested in the story of "Justics," the
Galsworthy drama Romany is to produce early in March.
William Falder, 23, is the junior
clerk in the law office of the firm of
James and Walter How. He is a
very nervous youth, of pale features,
weak will and chivalrous disposition.
This last quality manifests itself in
his attempt to rescue Ruth Honey-wi- ll
the woman he loves from a
her.
husband who habitually
Under stressing circumstances he
turns a check of nine pounds into a
check of 90, in order to take her
to a far country where they both
would be unknown and might pass as
husband and wife.
His forgery is discovered on the day
they were to have started, and the
case is argued out at length in a
court of justice. The counsel for the
defense, in an impassioned speech to
the jury, urges that the prisoner be
treated not as a criminal but as a patient. The jury returns a verdict of
"Guilty" and the judge commits Falder to penal servitude for three years.
He is visited in prison by the senior
clerk, Cokeson, a kindly man, through
whom we are enabled to see what pris
on life is like. Falder is brought to
a verge of madness by the treatment
he receives, and after two and a half
years he is released on a
ruined in health and reputation.
The hardship of solitary confine
ment destroys his nerves, and when
he comes out he is prevented from
taking the new start his employer has
offered him because he is again wanted by the police for forging a char
acter and failing to report himself.
He is about to be taken into custody
once again, but he throws himself
down the staircase and breaks his
with Ruth
neck. The play closes
Honeywell
weeping over his dead
in-

in this picture by Helene Costella and
John T. Murray.

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We Allow People to Skate for Nothing?

What Do You Think

Afternoon Skating
Night Skating

Lon Chaney, for the first time since
"Tell It to the Marines," plays in
a picture without the use of a makeup. In "The Big City" Chaney plays
the role of a New York gang leader.
The picture is a vivid mystery tale
of New York's night life, with
Day, James Murray, Betty
Compston, and others of note, in the
supporting cast. Tod Browning, di
rector of other Chaney productions,
directs this picture with his usual
The picture will be at the
finesse.
Strand Theater Sunday for a four-da- y
run.

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"Thunder," the dog star of Fox
films, plays the title role in "Wolf
Fangs," the picture coming to the
Ben Ali Sunday. The wolf pack,
beautiful Arctic nigtits and excellent
photography combine to make this a
picture worth seeing.

The College studies require much
"Light"
both mentally and electrically.
v

"Silk Legs" is the picture coming
to the Strand Thursday, Friday and
Saturday of next week. The leading
role is taken by Madge Bellamy who
proves that silk stockings cover

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You furnish the mental "Light" and
we furnish the correct appliance for

multitude of shins. Her humorous
delineation of the female drummer is
one of the best performances Miss
Bellamy has given for some time.

the electric "Light."

I SEE
That practically all the basketball player who went to the
Atlanta Tournament were wearing Braeburn Suits from the
K Shop.

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body.
Conrad Veidt, in "A Man's Past,
will be the feature attraction at the
Ben Ali Monday, Tuesday and Wed-

Ohio college boys recently gave a concert in the nesday. This motion picture is taken
penitentiary. The convicts have protested against "un- from the European play, "Diploma," '
necessary cruelty."
by Emerich Foeldes. It raises the
question of whether a doctor has the
right to put an incurable sufferer out
"You're in the army now,
of his misery. In this picture SoYou're not behind the plow;
ciety sends the man who dares, to do
You'll never get rich,
this thing to prison. The picture was
Etc."
directed by George Melford. The
Once more the khaki background for medals has supporting
cast includes Barbara
made its appearance on the campus and stiff necks are Bedford, Ivan Keith and Corliss
now in vogue. Coming by the Armory, one can pause Palmer.
and hear, or not pause and hear, those husky voices
sergeants telld
calling
and the
Louise Fazenda is the star in "Fining them what it's all about.
ger Prints," the picture coming to
The beautiful blue grass of the campus will shortly the Ben Ali Thursday, Friday and
be blue, really, when the army gets going. But it won't Saturday of next week. Finger prints
be the only thing that is blue; viz., the awkward squad. suggests mystery and Louise Fazenda
is just
But there is some misconstruction here, for the blue suggests comedy and that supported
Louise is
grass will be worn brown and the awkward squad, like what one has.
the newspaper, will be black and white arid red all over.
Don't be disappointed, girls, if he doesn't see you.
There are two reasons for his overlooking you. One
Over
is that he probably is overlooking you (if you had ever
you would know what I
worn one of those uniforms,
mean), and the second is that he is on the lookout Nfor
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someone to s'lute.
By J. Clark Graves
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King Lear may have looked like a
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line for this Coca-Col- a
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Looking
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A pure drink of natural

Interesting Things About
by Donald Ogden Stewart
in "The New Yorker" for February
11th, is altogether absurd and delightful. By taking a few of the better
SECTION
known anecdotes about Lincoln, twisting them about, and involving such
MARTHA CONNELL, Editor
notables as Chauncey Depew into
interesting
them, Mr. Stewart's
things about Lincoln, without being
blasphemous, are a pleasant relief
DENIAL
from the seriousness of some of the
appreciations of the great emancipaLast night I laid upon renunciatory fires
tor published in the magazines and
My exquisite carved idpls, and my hands
papers. In the same issue of "The
Trembled like tears
New Yorker,' I suggest Dorothy
Ah, love, the years
Parker's' story, "A Terrible Day Tome still. Through far-oand lands
hours
Pursue
morrow," an amusing incident relatStrange-shininlife with my desolate heart conspires ed in a "speak easy." "The New
To keep me from you. Penetrant, but low,
Yorker" is a wise, sophisticated jourThey warn you. Dare you stay, beloved? . . . Ah, go! nal, much better in its way, it seems
F. D.
to me, than "Vanity Fair," well illustrated by drawings, the smartness
of which must astonish New Yorkers
OH SHELLEY!
themselves.
If I could only capture
That wild tempestous rapture
ATTENTION !
That golden melody divine
NEWSPAPERMEN !
That flows with every line.
Of thine;
We offer only newspaper in county.
If thy poignant lyric cry
earning better than
Could mingle with the sigh
500.00 monthly. Big local and forThat upwelleth from my soul
eign business; 20 miles coming city
As though the cosmic whole
of Kentucky. Opportunity limited
Were its goal;
only by enterprise. Address:
If I were only gifted
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With a heart, like thine uplifted
Paducah, Ky.
anguish of the mind,
For the
For the misery of mankind
That I find:

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I would bow down before thee
And in silent prayer adore thee
While with frankincense divine
I would worship at that shrine
Of thine.

a "Bite" From
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But my destiny was cast
In a mould that will not last;
And the music, welling slowly
From my heart that beats too lowly,
Is not holy,
Does not possess the gladness
Which relieves the painful madness

That is born with every sigh
On the winds that upward fly.
Let me die!

Anon.

ANSWER TO DEMAND
I shall build you a house
Gay, charming with colors; within its walls
All things shall bo to your delight; my hands
Shall fashion for you artistry.
Without, its garden walks shall know
The flowers you love best . . . You say
That this is well? But wait . . .
When you have entered, dreams
From some black hell shall haunt you. When j ou go
For refuge to your garden, from that air
Laden with your loved perfumes, you shall die . . .
F. D.

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March 23, 1927

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got a blistered tongue.
One evening, when looking over a
certain outdoor magazine, I read that
a certain fisherman could catch more
fish when using "Edgeworth," so I
decided I would try "his" tobacco
for I am no poor fisherman!
The next day I tried to secure Edge-wort- h.
The local country storekeeper
did not have it, so I sent by a friend to
the city for my first Edgeworth. Two
things have happened: I still smoke
Edgeworth, and the local storekeeper
always has a supply.
I catch fish and never get "a bite"
from Edgeworth!
Yours for keeps,
H. V. Massey

De Soto might be a
telephone man today
He pioneered a way into new counand back again: He led his
try
men thrqugh every obstacle; where
there were no resources he made them,
where there were no boats he built
them.
Today men of the telephone industry are the De Soto kind of pioneer.
They have the vision to tackle the
new job and the resourcefulness to

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a better cable they saw the need for a
new method of insulating wires and

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