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L ibrary Is Open
- - Is It Wanted?
After many months of helm; under consideration,
tlie opening of tlie Margaret I. King library on
Sunday night has at last become a reality even if
only on a trial basis.

With the announcement that the library would
open on Sunday nights beginning this Sunday and
Director Dr.
continuing through May
Lawrence S. Thompson made it clear that the attendance of students would be a large factor in
determining if the arrangement would become
permanent.
According to Thompson, he and the members of
his library staff are being forced to work overtime
to staff the library on the Sunday nights it will be
open.
This situation is unavoidable, Thompson said,
because the library at the present has no additional
funds with which to hire more workers for the
extended time a situation which we feel sure will
be rectified if the experiment proves a success.
The only question that remains now is if students
really want the library open on Sunday nights. The
issue is, temporarily at least, out of the hands of
committees and in the hands of students we hope
they handle it well. And we would commend the
library staff for allowing this trial period.
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No, it couldn't he April Fool

o Women Rule?
oLclear thinking for the vcar, we could think of no
worthier recipient than the group of social scientists
who spoke in New York last week to the Child
Study Association of America concerning the topic
of "momism" and today's American women.
The Associated Tress story carried in the Louison March 26 quoted the sciville Courier-Journa- l
entists as agreeing that, among other things, the
time has come to pay more attention to fathers.
As one of the speakers at the meeting, Dr. Otto
Klineberg, put it, "it is time to reassess the role of
the man in the American family. We are getting a
little tired of 'momism' not that we want to ex. . . Specialists on the
change it for a
family . . . have decided that women should not
receive all the credit nor all the blame."
Another of the speakers, Dr. Irene Josselyn, of
the Chicago Institute of Psychoanalysis, issued a
dire warning when she told the association that we
are "drifting toward a social structure made up of
and
We, ourselves, are becoming increasingly weary of
being bombarded on all sides about the "wonderful"
emancipation and independence of women. We
don't advocate a return to the old days when Ma
spent 16 hours a day baking bread for Pa and the
kids, But we would like to return to the time when
a frustrated
Ma was feminine, and proud of not
creature dressed in men's clothes trying to prove
her independence to the world, and all the while
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And because of
the accession of a great percentage- of the male
population to it, the woman is rapidly assuming a
role as head of the house in far too many instances.
As Dr. Janet Rioch of the William A. White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and Psychology, told the group, "the long established pattern
of family life in which father was the boss has
largely disappeared.""
All of the above state of affairs cannot, of course,
not the males accept
be blamed on the women-d- id
the situation, it would not be occurring.
In short, we are a little fed up with the independent woman. We would like to see an ocif there arc any left.
casional independent man
And we hope we never have to see the day, which
shows sighs of approaching, when Pop does the
washing and cooking while Mom makes the living
and bosses the household.
It could happen.

Letters From The Readers
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(This week the Kernel received an extremely long; and
rather disjointed epistle from one Mr. Paul Johnson, who,
as the reader will see at the end, thought every, word

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should be published. This was impossible, since. to have
done so would have taken up the entire editorial pipe and
then some. Since, judging: from the tone of his letter,
Mr. Johnson will be extremely hurt because we had to
cut his letter, we would like to extend to him an offer to
perhaps supplement what is published this week with
more of his thoughts next week if he can learn to condense. The Editor.)
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To the Editor:
Tlie March 1 issue of the Kernel was the best example
I have ever seen of someone "having to say something"
rather than "having something to say." There were three
things which especially teed me off. I shall discuss each
briefly.
First the article concerning the engineering college. 'Ts
This Really an Education?" Let me say first I am not
an engineer but a senior in the College of Agriculture and
Home Economics and represent at least a partially unprejudiced attitude on the question.
I will be the first to grant you that the engineering
curriculum and the Engineering College are without a
doubt specialized and that the students receive a narrow
education. Our whole university is specialized and receives a very narrow education.
The question which disturbs me is whether the engineering college is more isolated than the rest of our colleges. It appears to me the engineering student you referred to in your editorial is aware of his problems in
achieving a broad education. This is certainly more than
I can say for the School of Journalism.
Whether you are aware of it or- not, this is a highly
technological society in which we live and to be highly
worthwhile and thus highly paid or actively sought for
employment, orie must be highly educated. If you would
tear yourself away from your dear old journalism building for a short period and try a course or two in the
Economics Department, you would discover that in our
economic society an engineer is either worth $6,000 to
society or he isn't paid $6,000.
Back to the question of who is better educated, the
engineer or the average college student. If you wfll take
a look around you will find engineers in the following
of our SGA are engineers, about
positions: about one-ha- lf
one-ha- lf
the officers of fraternities on campus ore engineering students, at least three of the presidents of religious groups on. campus are engineering students. All
of the total students and those one-filt- h
this for one-fifin what is without a question the hardest undergraduate
curriculum on campus.
(There are 32 members in SGA 30 representatives and
the president and vice president. Of these 30, six are
engineering students. Neither the president nor the vice
president is an engineer. There are. 19 fraternities on
campus. They list, themselves, 78 major offices among
them president, vice president, secretary, and treasurer.
Two fraternities listed an additional officer one an historian and one had two "secretaries," Of these 78 officers,
21 are .engineers, or a little over
Of the 19
presidents, five are In the College of Engineering. We
would suggest sir, that you "tear yourself away" from
your dear old Ag College and try a course or two In the
Mathematics Department. Ed.)
With only a minimum of effort in a study of economics, we cannot but conclude, positively, that the aver--ag- e
engineer is worth more to society today than other
college graduates because he is paid more.
(Judging by this paragraph, .which is so completely submerged in the realm of the ridiculous that it is not actually worthy of discussion, we would infer that the more
a person makes, the more he is worth to society. Since
teachers, as a prul'cvsion, are paid less generally than
other professions requiring equal amounts o( education,
they must constitute the most worthless class of people
on earth, while such thining lights as movie stars and
television performers, who make immeasurably greater
incomes, are the people worth most to this same earth.
Correct? Ed.)
Ttie second article which invoked my wrath was the
one entitled "Big Hurdle for RE Week." I feel at least
sightly qualified to tpeak on this matter being one of
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the 12 committee chairmen selected by the Steering Committee to help run HE Week. Some of those on the Steering Committee were, I'm sure, hurt by your article although you apparently don't know what it means to hurt
someone's feelings with untruths).
(We challenge you, sir, to point out one word of untruth
in the rcferred-t- o editorial. Ed.)
You as a journalist should of all people know the danger of taking short excerpts and using them for emphasis.
You quoted the following, "In the classroom presentation,
we hope so far as possible, that the speakers' talks will be
an integral part of the course of study and in su:h cases
attendance can be required." If we emphasize the words
"speakers talks will be an integral part of the course of
study," we get an entirely dilierent sort of statement.
The facts are that the RE Week speakers are among
the top educators in our nation, trfcn of great value. These
people were available and are offered to various lucky
professors as an integral part of their course of study.
The professor is asked, not told, if he would like to use
one of the speakers in his classroom work. If he feels
this person can make a definite contribution to his class
work, and most of them do feel so, then and only then is
a speaker sent to his classes. Whoever the student was
that got religion crammed down his throat, I hope he
strangled.
Now for the last of my original three. When I saw the
cartoon on the current fertilization of our campus with
manure I thought it very funny and laughed accordingly.
(Thank You Ed.) However, the quantity of material
concerning this matter in the last two issues has, to say
the least, passed the funny stage. This is a perfect illustration of having absolutely nothing to say but having
to say something. The Kernel is constantly riding the
M&O Department about something. If you have something to say, then say it and shut up.
As I see it we are justified in spending the taxpayers'
money on the Kentucky Kernel for two reasons: to publish news and to train students in publishing news. The
first may be excused for lack of experience but to fail the
second is to swindle the taxpayers of their money. Some
of the recent articles have driven me to wonder if we are
succeeding in either.
(At this point, sir, you have reached the epitome of ignorance. The Kernel does not spend the taxpayers' money for anything. The only revenue we receive is 5t cents"'
from each student from his registration fee. The rest of
the Kernel is financed through paid advertising, just as
any other newspaper. With this paragraph, you have
clearly shown the value of the axiom, "lis better to keep
your mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it
and remove all doubt." Ed.)
I am not questioning the rights of a free press for this
is one of the foundations of a democracy." I am question.-in- g
whether our paper is in itself free. (No, we are a tool
of the engineering college, Religious Emphasis Week and
Maintenance & Operations. You should be able to tell
this by the contents of your letter. Ed.)
I will have more conclusive evidence after I see how
.much, if any, of this is published. I sincerely hope my
present opinion is in error !
Paul Johnson
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(You repeatedly 'make reference to 'having' to say
something,'' rather than "having something to say." Never before have we seen a better example of this than jour
letter.
Although we appreciate letters from anyone, even persons who obviously have not taken the trouble to check
their facts, we would suggest that in the future you endeavor to confine your weighty thoughts to a somewhat
briefer space. As for the Religious Emphasis Week question, we would think that you, as somewhat of a leader
in the organization and obviously a staunch advocate of
"the good, the true, the beautiful." would not have to
resort to such thoughts as wishing "someone would
strangle."
We are certainly glad you do not question the rights
of a free press. But as to your reasoning that one of the
tests of a free press is how much of a very lengthy letter
a certain newspaper prints, wo would suggest you treat
yourself to a little of the education with which jiw w"1
to be so familiar. Ed.)

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