college

EDITORIAL

education is the culture it imparts. Yet at
every convocation this year there have been a goodly
number of students so impatient to get away that they
did not observe the most rudimentary of courtesies and
wait until the speaker concluded his remarks before
beginning their mad rush for the exits.
One would think that college students would at
least try to act like men and women of some degree of
refinement. It would seem that they would do so without request or demand.
But the fact remains that
Doctor McVey was obliged to speak about the matter at
the May Day exercises last Friday morning. Hardly
a matter to congratulate ourselves about, is it?

MANAGING EDITOR
F
Niel Plummer
John R. 'Bullock, Jr.
ASSOCIATE ED.ITORS
Helen Shelton
A. P. Robertson
Paul Sanders

MAY DAY

The Kentucky Kernel
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.
Subscription One Dollar and Fifty Cents a Year Five
Cents the Copy. Entered at Lexington Postoffice
as second class mail matter.

The Kentucky Kernel is the official

EDITOR-IN-CHIE-

Unquetionably this year's May Day celebration was
NEWS
the most successful ever held at the university. From
NEWS EDITOR
the time that the senior class orator presented the class
Virginia King Conroy
of 1927 to Doctor McVey at the morning exercises until
ASSISTANTS
the orchestra played the last strains of "Home, Sweet
W. H. Glanz
Thelma Snyder
Home" that night, the day was filled with a rapid succession of interesting features.
REPORTERS
More interest was taken in the day's activities this
Rebecca Edwards Leida Keyes
Catherine Redmond
year than ever before. This was evidenced by the large
Martha Connell
Frank Davidson
Harry Bolser
Howard Jenkins
number of town-fol- k
as well as students who thronged
Beecher Adams
E. M. Sargent
Elizabeth Strossman Mildred Cowgill
the men's gym in the morning for the awarding of honOra Spradlin
Evalee Featherston Dorothy Darnell
ors and by the even larger number who packed the audiEthel Stamper torium almost to overflowing
Byron Pumphrey
Dorothy Darnell
for the May Day dances
Pauline Adams
Billy Whitlow
Katherine Best
and the elaborate coronation services of Kentucky's
Bill Reep
Morrow-Jes- s
Elizabeth Shea
Carroll
Queen. And as for the parade whole papers could be
James Mills
Kady Elvove
M. Laughlin
written about it but owing to the limitations of space we
EDITOR
SOCIETY
can not enter into any description of it here.
SPECIAL WRITERS
In the past May Day has not meant much on the
Martha Minihan
Lydia Robert- - Exchanges
campus. Because of this and because it is such an easy
Kathleen Peffley, Feature
ASSISTANTS
thing to let such a matter drift along from year to year
Lucile Cook, Squirrel Food
George Moore Jameson
Virginia Boyd, Literary
taking care of itself as best it can, it is a genuine pleasD'Allis Chapman
Cartoonist
P. P. Baker,
ure to see someone put a real May Day program across.
For doing this The Kernel extends its hearty congratSPORTS
ulations to SuKy circle and especially to Bob McGary,
ASSISTANT EDITOR
EDITOR
chairman of the May Day committee, who was personJohn W. Dundon, Jr.
Kenneth Gregory
ally responsible for a great part of the successful obASSISTANTS
Frank Smith servance of the day.
Tom Cochran
"Warren Price
True May Day even this year did not mean much as
it should. The Kernel believes that May Day should
BUSINESS
be the students' day the day for the awarding of all
CIRCULATION MGR.
BUSINESS MANAGER
honors and for wholesome pleasure. It believes also that
L. Berry
E.
James Shropshire
this is the idea of the university administrative officers
ASSISTANTS
who have showed an earnest desire to cooperate in makUniv. 74
Phones 6800
Carrol Morrow
ing May Day the
day on the university cam86256Y
4651
Carlos Jagoe
pus. A good start has been made this year. , It's up to
ASST MANAGER
SuKy and the student body to make May Day next year
MANAGER ACCOUNTS
Maude A. Van Buskirk
a greater festival occasion than ever before.
J. P. Glenn
Weakley
Leonard

RELIGIOUS

DISCUSSION

I

SCIENCE WALKS HUMBLY WITH
GOD
of Robert A. Millikan from
the Ohio State Lantern).

(Speech

"Those in the field of religion who
call themselves fundamentalists and
atheists are irrational and unscientific. Both are dogmatists," said Dr.
Robert A. Millikan, noted scientist, in
a talk yesterday in the Ohio State
University Chapel on "Science and

Religion."
"We are moving forward in every
part of life at an enormous rate. Our
whole
conception . of matter
has
changed within the present generation. We have not a precise definition of matter now.
We have put
into matter all the potentialities of
life.
"Religion as we find it in the world
today is one of the best examples
of evolution.
"What is religion, as I am using the
word? Historically I think that religion has always dealt with two
groups of ideas, first with one's conception of the meaning of existence,
of what is behind the various phenomena of life,
them and

MECHANICAL

ASST. ADV. MGR
' it: :i
1.
t

THAT AND THIS

FOREMAN
Delos Nooe

ASSISTANTS
A. L. Pigman

W. D. Grote

Last week the regular Kernel staff took a holiday
and turned complete charge of the editorial part of the
paper for last week's issue over to Theta Sigma Phi,
honorary journalism sorority.
When we say "took a holiday" we mean it literally.
...For one solid week the news room of The Kernel was a
"veritable "no man's land" and no women in the World
War took men's places, more willingly or ably than did
these university girls of ours. Their work speaks for
.
itself.
The regular editors of The Kernel wish to extend
staff" of the paper
to Theta Sigma Phi and the "pro-tetheir most hearty congratulations for the excellent way
in which the paper was handled last week. The editors
feel that Theta Sigma Phi has set a mark for us to
strive to reach.
. While it is only once a year that the girls take complete charge of the publication of The Kernel, yet
throughout the year many of them perform yeoman
service in various capacities on the paper. The Kernel
feels very much obliged to women journalists of the
university for their hearty help and cooperation in the
publication of the college paper.

LET'S FUNCTION, COUNCIL

Men students of the university have elected Bob
McGary, president and Leroy Miles, vice president of the
..Men's Student Council for the coming year. In the
election held Monday approximately one-ha- lf
of the
Lmen students voted.
For the past several weeks there has been a move-

ment abroad to get real student self government here
next year.
0 micron Delta Kappa, honorary campus
leaders' fraternity has gotten behind the movement;
the student body is more aroused than it has been for
several years at least; faculty members have expressed
their willingness to cooperate and help. The next step
must be taken by the council. What are you going to
do, Bob, now that you are president?
Now is the time for officers of the council to begin
making plans for next year. They must decide, on a
regular meeting time and see to it that meetings are
held then. They must plan the work of the council.
Together with university administrative officials they
mpst decide on what powers the council is to have, and
'then see .to it that these powers are used.
;.
In the past the council often has been spoken of as
'an honorary organization merely another activity. No
.meetings have been held; no work has been done. The
council cannot continue that way. Unless the Men's
. Student Council
becomes a real organization and force
on the campus it should and must be abolished.
Tke
Men's Student Council ,is on trial. The officers this year
- have a most unusual opportunity
for some real service
to the university. The student body wants and expects
to see them take the fullest advantage of this opportun- ;

'

"T1T?lrrT?C!'T,TTrTTOT
TiTn T ci

L

r TXTt Tmr

r xta

One
3 ocawons, sees them everywhere
most especially at

on the campus

at

con- -

athletic contests, even
(unbelievable as it may seem) at dances these hurry
up, can
men and women whom President
McVey has cognomened
as "tempestuously inclined
persons."
We read in the papers of Eastern university students remaining in stadia after athletic contests and
cheering their teams, victors or losers. Then
of our own student body who when the home team gets
a run or two behind, walk out of the DrandstinHs in
truest of other entertainment at one of the nearby
fnun tains,, lonvintr thek foom
:t uauie as Desc. .,
,.&
iigm, 1LO i
it
can alone, we wonder if the press is reliable.
They say that one of the chief advantages of a
--

--

u

jgHEawawawawawawaw

Bell and Spigot Joint
Joint for Cast Iron
THE Bell and Spigotone hundred years
adopted over
ago, is the preferred joint today.
i

It

SEPTEMBER TO MAY
Continue
your regular academic course aboard tha S.S.
Ryndam, while visiting 28 coun-

The Cast Iron Pipe Publicity Bureau. Peoples

tries.

One safe thing, about a formal dance is that a
man can never be murdered by having his throat cut.
The "tux" collar has usually accomplished
this long
before the wearer gets to the dance.

non-corrodi-

ble

,

.
I

Gas BIdg.,CUcag

CAST IRON PIPE

37617

28B Madison Ave.
nvw iotk wily

is tight, flexible, easily made and

there are no bolts to rust out
it makes changes of alignment or inser
tion of special fittings a simple matter it
can be taken apart and the pipe used over
again, without any in jury it is not subject
to damage in transit in fact, it embodies
practically all of the desirable qualities in
an underground joint.

Second Year
CRUISE
S. RYNDAM

slicker.

CONGRATULATIONS

Is

4:

open-mind-

A real college with a faculty
of experienced educators.
Basketball,
baseball,
tennis,
soccer, swimming,
with team
of foreign unlverslUes.
A University Afloat for men
only.
Enrollment limited to
years or more of age.
For Illustrated booklets, description of courses, map of Itinerary and cost or a school year
of travel, write:
UNIVERSITY
TRAVEL
ASS'N., INC.

If

The index was accepted by Dean
Charles J. Trek, and President Frank
L. McVey sent a letter of acknowA new index to legal literature has ledgement on the behalf of the univerbeen presented to the library of the sity.
College of Law of the university by
The freshmen coming to the Unithe Kentucky Law Journal, official
versity of Cincinnati in September,
publication of the Stale Bar Associa- 1927, "are to be trained, not tamed."
tion, which is edited at the university. Various committees will have charge
The books contain a complete index of "Freshman Week," and the beginto all legal literature that has been ners will be trained in the traditions
published in periodicals and offers a and campus rules of that university.

COLLEGE

Hi

ence.

Index of Legal Literature
Presented Law College

ROUND THE WORLD

Among the monuments we would erect is one to the
college student who hasn't written on the back of his

THE STAFF'S

-

There are too many persons who think that the
downward course is the most popular one offered by
universities.

valuable source of research and refer-

Get Books

giving unity and significance to nature; in a single word, with his conception of God, and second, with his
conception of his own responsibility in
this world, with his own place in the
scheme of things."
The idea that nature is at bottom
benevolent has now become well nigh
science to religion.
Its keynote is
"A Perfect Circus" was the name
service, the subordination of the in- chosen for the circus which was
dividual to the good of the whole. recently held at Ohio State
Jesus preached it as a duty for the

red-lett-

ADVERTISING MGR.
Fred Conn

sake of world salvation, while science
preaches it as a duty for the sake
of world progress. Science has added nothing and has subtracted noth
ing.
"So far as science is concerned religion can treat that problem precisely as it has in the past, or it can
treat it in some entirely new way if
it wishes. For that problem is entirely outside the field of science now,
though it need not necessarily alScience has unways remain so.
doubtedly been responsible for a certain change in religious thinking as
to the relative values of individual
and race salvation. The emphasis upon making this world better is certainly the dominant and characteristic
element in the religion of today.
"Religion is changing now because
of the interplay of science upon it,
precisely as it Jias been changing in
the. past, especially during the past
century.
"As I see it, there are two points
of view to be taken with respect to
this whole question of religion. The
one is the point of view of the dogmatist; the other the point of view of
the
seeker after truth.
Dogmatism means assertiveness withThe attitude of the
out knowledge.
dogmatist is the attitude of the closed
mind. There are two sorts of dogmatists in the field of religion. One calls
himself an atheist and the other calls
himself a fundamentalist.
Each is,
I think, irrational and unscientific.
Modern science of the real sort is
slowly learning to walk humbly with
its God, and in learning that lesson it
is contributing something to relig
ion," he concluded.
Ohio State Lantern

THE BELL

Our new booklet, "Plan,
ning a Waterworks System," which covers the
problem of voter for the
small town, will be sent
on request

S
Til.

SPIGOT

JOINT

Send for booklet, "Cast
Iron Pipe for Industrial
THE ACCEPTED

STAMOAMD

FOR

Service, 'showinginterest-in- g
installations to meet
special problems

1
J-

-

.V

.

LITERARY SECTION
'VIRGINIA BOYD, Editor
OUR CITIZEN
He walks down the street to his office
And returning home picks up the evening paper,

Reads and chats about the steel market,
Yawns, and goes to bed.
Day after . . Thus . .
And the neighbors say: "He's made a mint of money."
Yes! Quite so! But Beethoven is a mass of incomprehensible noises,
The "Ode to the West Wind" a jumble of meaningless
.-

words,

-

Shakespeare said some wise things . . . but . . .
"What a hell of a way to spend a life," he says;
And, staring at a copy of Botticelli's Venus,
Asks, "why don't they take down that disgraceful
picture."
Norman Bruce.

"TVhat's the future
with a large organi-zation?" That is what
college men want to know,
fast of all. The question is
best answered by the accomplishments of others with
similar training and like opportunities. This is on: of a
series of advertisements porse
traying the progress at
of college graduates
off the campus some five
eight ten years.

LIFE AT THE SPRING
The leaves are qivering from the soft spring breeze,
The sun beams down on Earth's new green dress
And the tree's
Lusty arms are still,
And raptuous beauty dreams
On every dale and hill.
And the laugh of Youth rings out upon the world,
The teasing breezes dance among Youth's curls,
Life, at its zenith,
Laughs softly for a time
And calls to Youth
To taste its wine.
Norman Bruce.
THE SOPHIST MUSES
('
I.
What if I kiss thee
And look into thine eyes
As if forever
Love would linger there?
What if I caress thee
And stroke thy hair?
I know . . not long from now
That you will be
Only a dear sweet memory to me .
And I to thee.
;
II.
I see no reason
'
For not lying gallantly
And swearing to her
By all the gods
j
That as long as the wind sings
I will adore her
And yet . . . somehow it is sad .
Ah! very sad to think
That tomorrow
I will no longer love her
And that still
The wind will sing
Its old, uninterpreted song. '
Norman Bruce.
.

SPRING
Emerald green a pale, pale pink
And the delicate blue of the sky.
Oh, God, how did you ever think
To thus entrance the eye?
The feathery leaves of a nearby tree
And the soft blossoms of a flower
Charm away the world's dull cares
And change a day to an hour.
Frances Robinson.

sate.

V-

v

'

aWBWBWBWalaWBWBWBKLwBWBWBWBWBWBWBWBWBWBwfl

Frenger Came Here
HEN R.
W!F. Frenger
was at N e w M

automatic control for subst-

ations, hydroeR. F. FjtHNGSR

lectric generat
ing plants, railway and mine substation systems, was a hazy
dream. Even five years later,
when Frenger was working in the
Switchgear Sales Section of the
Westinghouse Company, automatic switching was far, faraway.
Today, however, Frenger, still
in his thirties, finds himself in
effect the Sales Manager of an
automatic switching business
a business that runs up into seven
figures every year.
Frenger came to Westinghouse
to sell. He expected to sell steam

-

apparatus, since he had taken an
M. E. degree.
After a period in the Westinghouse sales school, he became
interested in switching apparatus.
He spent many months on the
engineering side of the work.
He spent several years as a sales
specialist in the Westinghouse
Chicago Office.
Then, as automatic switching
grew in importance, Frenger
grew along with it. Today he is
head of the Automatic Switching
Section of the Switchgear Sales

Department.
Frenger's work is pioneering
in a very real sense, for the automatic control business, lusty as
it is, still is in its infancy. Engineering ways and means must
be supplied as well as specialized
sales skill. The whole world is

to

the market.
Not long ago, Frenger ran out
to San Antonio to help the local
Westinghouse salesman land an

order that puts the San Antonio
under automatic
control. When the Holland vehicular tunnel opens, and connects Manhattan with the Jersey
shore, Frenger can point to the
sub-statio- ns

traffic signaling system as coming
from his section.

At Cleveland one man in a
downtown office building turns
off and on eleven different substations scattered throughout the
city and its suburbs to operate
the railway system all without
leavinghis chair. Frenger's section again.
It is another case of a well
trained man in a pioneering

Westinghouse

g)

Sell

*