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As usual around vacation time,
literary gems to Clearing House
mere few for this issue. In fact, onlv
one letter was received and it full
of t h
irony. On today's front page
is a new type of column by AUenby
Winer which we are trying for a few
issues to see how it is accepted. Any
comment pro or con will be appreciated.
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ENGINEERS GIVE

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Plea For Peace
Althougn you may noS agree with
everything advocated in the peace
convocation Thursday, every student
should make arrangements to attend. Just wanting peace wont do
a whole lot towards getting that
peace. It will take an educated
public alive to the horrors, history,
And
and methods of
this convocation should be a part
of that education. . . . two war
editorials today . . . and so to press
at 10 o'clock.

Comment Corner
By ALLENBY E. WINER

William O. Douglas yesterday was

snorn In as Justice In the United
States Supreme Court. He is only
42. When some time ago President
Roosevelt "threatened" to pack the
conservative Court there was Immediate tumult in the ranks of nuDeal factions.
merous anti-NeRoosevelt, cagy. on the infighting,
was Just feinting. Today, the Court
isn't packed, but it s liberal. That
is all the president hoped for.
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Tommy Tucker Signed
For Music

Featuring the music of Tommy
Tucker and his orchestra, the Engineers will present their imnual
Ball on Saturday, April 22, from
8:30 until 12 in the Ballroom of
the 8tudent Union building.
The dance, it was announced by
Chairman Bob Strohm, will be the
year's Initial spring formal.
The orchestra, in response to numerous requests, will be placed on
the level of the dance floor, a position which has In the past proven
more popular than the
"upstairs" position, Strohm said.
Tommy Tucker's crew, according
to reports. Is presently playing at
the Aragon Ballroom In Cleveland,
Ohio. They are said recently to
have completed engagements In the
better known night clubs and ballrooms of New York and Chicago.
It will be recalled that approximately a year ago the Engineers,
In collaboration with ODK, officially
opened the Student Union building
with a formal attended by 3800 persons. On that occasion the music
was furnished by George Hall and
his orchestra.
Tickets for this year's Engineer's
Ball mill go on sale today at the
information desk of the Union. The
price of each ticket on the advance
sale will be $1.50. At the door the
charge will be $2.00.
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Hunsaker Is ODK
Jr., Van Lear,
College of Arts and
Sciences, was named last week as
the eirhth initiate to Omicron
Delta Kappa, 'honorary leadership fraternity for outstanding
Kentucky men.
Hunsaker was elected unofficially on a previous date, pending
his selection as Managing Editor
of the 1Mb Kentuckian, With the
official
announcement of the
yearbook's staff, he automatically
became a pledge of ODK.
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By MARTHA MOORE

Frontier," Dr.
Thomas D. Clark's latest work is a
pioneer-lif- e
book of middle-westein the raw. Written with a delightful informality, the book is "chock
full" of native humor and wit.
The book deals with "an expansive
strip of country which stretched all
the way from th3 sandy shores of
the Carolines, from Virginia, Mary"Thi Rampaging
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and Red Rivers.
Dr. Clark gives a realistic picture
of the "buckskin" society of the
ax ly- -. Iron tiarsman. Starting with
description of the pioneers themselves, he gives an authentic picture
of their crude and makeshift existence. He renders an exciting account of the pioneer's encounters
with the "varmints," a term applied
to the wild life of the forest. According to Dr. Clark's description of
the early elections, the disputes must
have been more hot and fiery than
those of the Kentucky mountains;
today. Elections lasted three days,
and the system of voting was direct, the voter pointing to the canWhiskey
didate of his choice.
flowed freely at these elections and
shootings were not uncommon.
Every phase of their daily life,
including the gambling, horse racing,
and "tall tales," is minutely des.
cribed and vividly illustrated with
anecdotes, told in the coarse, rough
language of the pioneer.' This language goes into making the book
both colorful and entertaining.
The book contains a chapter entitled "Fooiln" with the Gals," and
gives in humorous detail the part
the "gals" played in frontier life.
Many amusing incidents of wedding
celebrations are told in realistic
style. The stories of the "house
warmings" and "barn raisings" give
the book an added human touch.
The author attacks the westward
movement from a new angle, omitting the forces and causes behind
it, and recounting the everyday ex
periences of the daring pioneer who
made western settlement possible.
This book does not make fun of
these hardy pionears, but is wholly
in sympathy with them, relating In
humorous fashion their problems
and trials.
Life on the Mississippi is vividly
described and many hilarous exper- ences of the early flatboatmen
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MAY DAY PLANS

AiyaLETEO
Dance In Union Will
Conclude Events
Complete plans for the annual
May Day celebration to be held on
the University campus. May 5, were
announced yesterday by Bill Elder,
president of SuKy, student pep organization which is arranging the
event.
To get underway at 2 p. m. with
a "Parade of the Nations" featuring
floats representing various nations,
the festivities will continue with a
pageant on Stoll Field and will end
with the annual SuKy May Day
dance in the Union ballroom.
First and second place cups will
be awarded to the women's and
men's organizations
entering the
best floats in the parade. The floats
will be judged by three designers,
as the parade
from Cincinnati,
passes in review before the South
stands on the stadium.
The pageant will start immediately after the parade and will feature
a May-podance, an arthery contest, an English morris dance, a
Dance of the Dairy Maids, a fencing exhibition, a hooprolling contest
for senior women, a children's
dance, singing by the University
Madrigal Singers and "The Charge
of the Hobby Horses.
The coronation of the May Queen
will take place following the pageant
procession onto the field.
Float cups will be presented at the
dance later In the evening.

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In Cincinnati, where loyal
yesterday watched "our boys"
open against the Pittsburgh Pirates,
there Is a strong sign of pennant
fever. One reliable source in the
Rhineland says only one thing can
keep a pennant from Crosley field
And that's
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bound to recede.
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P.ill Tudor, Lexington. Delta
Tau Delta, was elected editor
Kentuckian,
of the 1939-4- 0
University year book, according to an announcement made f
yesterday by the board of
student publications.

Tudor succeeds Sid Buckley, Stur-gi- s,
who served as editor for the
1938-3- 9
Kentuckian.
Tudor is a
Junor in the College of Commerce.
Franklin Frazicr, Alpha Gamma
Rho, Upper Tygart, junior in the
College of Agriculture was elected
to serve as business manager on the
new staff.
John Hunsaker. Van Lear, Sigma
Phi Epsilon. junior in the College
of Arts and Sciences, will be managing editor of the annual next I
year, and John Clore, Prospect,
Phi Kappa Tau, sophomore in the
College of Agriculture, will be associate editor on the publication for

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Dr. Kitchen Today
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Dr. D. K. Kitchen, clinical endocrinologist of the Parke. Davis and
company research laboratories, Detroit, will address a joint meeting
of k the Pryor
society
and the Bacteriology society at 7:30
p. m. today in Room 214. Ka.stle
hall.
"A Concept Regarding the Diagnosis and Treatment of Sexual Immaturity" and also "Estogenic Therapy, with Particular Reference to
the Menopause" will be topics for
discussion by the speaker who has
specialized in the clinical applications of recent researches into glandular unbalances, especially with
regard to the sex hormones.
The meeting will be presided over
by Samuel Saslaw, Bacteriology society president, and President Edward Kass. of the Pryor
society.
Students and faculty members
have been invited to attend the
meeting and refreshments which
of
will follow in the laboratories
the Biological Sciences building.

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Helen M. Patterson, author, lecturer and assistant professor in the
School of Journalism at the Uni

versity of Wisconsin, will be guest
speaker at the Theta Sigma Phi
matrix table banquet Friday. Apr'l
21 in the Union building.
Miss Patterson, who formerly
worked as reporter, columnist, telegraph editor, city editor, feature
editor, movie critic, advertising
copy writer and director of publicity
on various city dailies, has chosen
as her subject. "The Newspaper and
the Reader."
"Writing and Selling Special Feature Articles." a book which Miss
Patterson has just completed and
which will be published in June by
Prentice-Ha- ll
Inc.. is based upon her
work with the courses in speciil
feature writing In the Wisconsin
School of Journalism.
Her students
have sold annually more than
worth of feature articles to
newspapers and magazines.
As a free lance writer and associate editor cf trade publications.
Miss Patterson has contributed
many articles. She is also the au- $3.-7-

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Lambda Chi Alpha fraternities, and
has served as student manager of
the Student Union cafeteria.
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journalism fraternity, and the Student Union publicity committee.
Miss Hamilton. Lexington. Kappa
Kappa Gamma, served as assistant
managing editor on this years Kernel staff. She is a member of Thet
Sigma Phi. women's journalism honorary: Cwens. sophomore honorarv
for women, and the Daughters of
the American
Revolution.
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Hamilton is a Junior in Arts and
Sciences college, majorng in German.
News Editor Lamason. Montclasr.
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rW tne last two months he
has held the position to which he
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vice president of Delta Sigma Chi.
a spcrts writer on the Kentuckian
staff.
Andrew Q. KckdahL Wincnester
was chosen to edit the Summer
Kernel. He was managing editor
of the Kernel for the
hr
months and editor of the 1938 Sum
mer lierneL
Laiayett stuattt
Iglehart tentatively chose the folI RAN KLIN FRAZIER
lowing staff: Joe Creaon. Benton
sports editor; Virginia Hayden. Atlanta. Ga.. societv eriirnr- - n
well. Lexington. Ben L
Williams.
Lexington, and S. Louise
Calbert
Falmouth, associate editors: and
Vincent Crowdus. Morganfield.
and
Minta Anne Hockaday. Lexington
assistant news editors; James Howell. Hodgenville. assistant
managinu
editor; and Laura Lyons. Lexington
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assistant managing editor, and Andrew Eckdahl

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Members of the Kentucky swimming team, four successive times
state champs, climaxed their first
undefeated season with a banquet
last Tuesday night at Beaumond Inn
in Harrodsburg.
Following the dinner, attended by
22 swimmers, coaches and newspapermen, Frank Roberts was present-i- d
with the Bob Freeberg memorial
plaque given each year to the team
high scorer. During the year Roberts, who participated in both dash
events and the 440 yard relay team,
established a new state record for
the 50 yard freestyle.
Lettermen returning for next sea
son's team elected Lloyd Ramsey as
the new captain to succeed Herb
Hillenmeyer. who will be graduated
in June. Roberts was named coach
of the tank team. Members of the
team present were: Herb Hillenmeyer. Jim Doyle, Tommy Rees. Huston
Curtis, Bud Scott, Frank Roberts.
Lloyd Ramsey, La telle Stephenson
Eddie David. Jack Lewis, and Austin

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lications. Other editorial sta.T
members
include
Patricia
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Guests present included Manager Billy MacSumpter, James S.
Shropshire, faculty adviser of the
team.
Athletic
Director Bernie
Shively, Coach Gene Myers, William
Ramsey
of Somerset,
Laurence
Shropshire, sports editor of the Lexington Leader. Gerald Griffin of the
Courier-Journa- l.
J. D. Davis, president of Delta Tau Delta, who presented the memorial plaque and Joe
Creason, sports editor of The Kernel.
Kentucky's "poolless wonders" have
been invited to participate In the
inaugural swimming meet In Georgia Tech's new $125,000 pool, tentatively set for next January 27,
James S. Shropshire, faculty advisor, said yesterday.
Mr. Shropshire, who with Bud
Scott, Cat natator, and Rondal
Sharp, former member of the team
and now assistant director of the
ROBERTS TALKS BLIEGRASS Union Building, spent the spring
vacation In the Smoky Mountains
Prof. George Roberts, head of and attended the Southeastern
the agronomy department and as- Conference meeting at Knoxville,
sistant dean of the Agriculture col- Tenn., last Friday and Saturday,
lege, spoke on "Why the Bluegrass said Tech extended the invitation
Is What It Is" at a luncheon-meetin- g
at the meeting.
Wednesday at the Phoenix hotel.
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Awards will be made to outstanding women students on the campus
and recognition of officers of women's organiaztions at the annual
WAC banquet
Tuesday, April 25,
in the Union ballroom.
Officers of WAC, which is a board
composed of a representative from
every women's organization on the
campus, are Leslie Lee Jones, president; Dorothy Hillenmeyer, secret-fry
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Sue D. Sparks, treasurer;
Dean Sarah Holmes, faculty advisor.
To be presented at the banquet
are the Mortar Board award, the
Alpha Gammo Delta award, the
AWS scholarship award, the WAA
award, and the Theta Sigma Phi
award. Officers of Phi Beta, YW-CAWS, Chi Delta Phi, and Phi
Upsilon Omicron will be recognized.
Tapping ceremonies for Mortar
Board and Cwens are an annual
feature of the banquet.
Committee chairmen for the banquet are: Alice Wood Bailey, Susan
Jackson, Sarah Renaker, Polly Pol-li- t,
program committee; Mary Lou
McFarland, Dorothy Babbitt. Hazel
Perkins, Eva Clay, Jessie Francis,
Vashti Albert. Susan Clay, Hattie
Richie, and Frances Young, decoration committee; Jean Bowne. S.
Louise Calbert. Virginia Hasten,
Laura Lee Lyons, and Ruth Bennett, publicity committee; Barbara
MacVey, ticket sales committee;
Nancy Mahoney, invitation
Grace Silverman, menu and
placecard committee; and Margaret
Stewart, organizations committee.
Miss Helen King, of the publicity
bureau and Mrs. Geo Smith of the
English department are advisors to
the program committee.

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Of the seven nations which by
yesterday had endorsed President
Roosevelt's appeal for world peace,
it is difficult to classify even one
They
as a potential trouble-make- r.
are all In the Western hemisphere;
but the ill winds of today are emanating from points far removed.
By the rate at which European
countries are falling into line behind
the president, one must wonder if
the other half of the world even
WANTS peace.

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Georgia Tech's new pool next January. Too bad that they didn't enter the Southeastern Conference
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Kernel

TUESDAY ISSUE
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Senator Ernest Lundeen WOMEN TO GET .GLEHART TO EDIT
AWARDS AT WAC
Will Speak On Thursday
DINNERJUESOAY
TUD0BS WILL
At General Peace Convo Annual Banquet To Be
Assembly To Be Held
At
O'clock In
Memorial Hall

Neglected
One of the professor dropped a
hint the other day which might
well be regarded a little more generally by the students at dances. He
said that the chaperons at social
affairs have been pretty much neThey oftentimes forego
glected.
tilings that they would much rather
do In order to chaperon for students, yet many times receive nothing more than a nod. If that. In
appreciation. It would help to get
rid of this modern
Idea if a lot of us would
stop to think every once In a while
about the common courtesies of
everyday life.

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LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY, TUESDAY. APRIL

for that letter: Dear Sir:
I am In full sympathy with you
when you complain of students
commending you for some hazy"
charge of policy. This is an insult
and is not to be endured even for
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a moment. Of all things to say
Times may
about the Kernel!
change, kings may fall and empires
may be destroyed, but the Kernel
Farmer-LabErnest Lundeen.
will continue its present laudable party senator
from Minnesota, will
policy of sticking its head under speak on "The United States in Re
the ground as far as its neck lation to The European War Crisis,"
reaches "
at a general convocation at 10 a.
m. Thursday, April 20, In Memorial
Midst Cloistered Walls
hall.
Wait, there's still more: "When
The convocation is being held in
it comes to world politics, the Ker- conjunction with the 6th year of
refraining from the peace strike which was formernel has excelled in
mentioning them. However, I cant ly sponsored by the American stuunderstand who on earth was re- dent union but which Is now under
sponsible for printing the Missis- the direction of the Youth CommitDespite the fact tee Against War. The general theme
sippi editorial.
that its clear, calmly logical think- of the Youth Committee Is "Keep
ing and its unsurpassed wisdom is America Out of War."
Senator Lundeen, member of the
laudable, nevertheless, the article
must be blamed on the Inexperience Veterans of Future Wars, volunof some trial editor who wasn't as teer in the Spanish American War
fully acquainted mith our paper's and a member of the House of Reppolicy as he should have been. Fie! resentatives when the United States
"Let's have a real long editorial entered the World War, voted
on the subject of Freshman caps against entrance of the United
States into the World War and
next issue."- - E. B.
against conscription.
And then came the Spring.
As a member of the block in the
Senate, Mr. Lundeen has also sponNot So
sored the adoption of a war refBy the way, in regard to the above erendum measure by Congress.
James Howell, Art and Sciences
letter the article wasn't "blamed" on
there student will introduce Mr. Lundeen
ft trial staff editor because
was no trial staff editor that Issue at the convocation. All third hour
classes will be dismissed.
Dr. J. B. Shannon, associate proNearly Complete
fessor of political science, will speak
form, on "Are We Being Propagandized
Almost In its completed
the constitution for the proposed Into War," at 7:30 p. m. Thursday
new form of student government in Patterson hall.
will be presented to the entire student body at a convocation or mass
meeting of some kind soon. Meanwhile, the Kernel will print the
constitution In successive issues beginning Friday. Be sure to read It,
study it. and make your suggestions
at the general
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Rural Life Institute
Delivering the second of a serin
of lectures on "Basic Problems of
the Rural Church." Dr. Georee V.
Moore, dean and professor of philosophy and religion at Transylvania
coliege. will open the second day's
session of the fifth annual Rural
Leadership Institute at 8 45 thus
morning in the Pavilion building.
Experiment Station farm.
The institute, conducted jointly
by the extension division of the
College of Agriculture and the Kentucky rural church council for town
and country pastors and other
community leaders, began yesterday-afternooand will extend throili
Priday morning.
Dr. A. B. Graham, educator ami
inspirer of leadership in community
betterment projects from Columbus.
Ohio, will follow Dean Moore on the
program an hour later with
of his daily talks on "Discovering. Recruiting, and Tramuin
Leaders in the Rural Community "
Dr. Howard W. Beers,
recently
came here as professor of Rural Sociology from Rutgers College. New
Jersey, will also appear during
session. He will s(Mis
"Weaving the Patterns of Community Life."

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Kernels
Tickets for the WAC banqnrt mar
be procured from Barbara MarVrr.
ticket chairman; the Dran
WrmeE's 00106; or from the
rf Mrs. Ethel Lebna. Idkh buiM
KrsenratMns nntt or maie
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before ftcoi . April 25. arrordirr
Leslie Lee Jones, pmidert oi' w A .
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day, Patterson recreation hall.
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