THE KENTUCKY KERNEL
University of Kentucky
MILITARY EDITION

VOL, X

COMPETITIVE

LEXINGTON.
EXAM

FOR

COAST GUARD SERVICE

KENTUCKY, NOVEMBER IS, 1917

MIAMI DOES BIG BIT

FOB FRIENDSHIP FUND ALL LOYAL U. K. GIRLS

MEET TODAY AT NOON
Four thousand three hundred and
sixty dollars in eleven hours was the
record of Miami University in the
Applicants
Should See the Student Friendship
Fund campaign, Mass Gathering of University
Commandant Before
Women in Patriotic
held there recently.
Four thousand
December 17
Meeting
dollars was the allotment of the
OFFICERS TO GET $1,700 University, which overpledged this ARE YOU A SLACKER?
amount $360, within eleven hours.
Captain H. M. Royden, command- Ninety per cent, of the faculty and
Are you a slacker? This epithet
ant, has received from the Custom student body contributed to the fund. will be applied to every girl In the
House, Baltimore, Md., Information
University who does not attend the
concerning the qualifications necesSTRONG ALABAMA TEAM mass meeting at noon today, in
sary for young men who seek apchapel.
The meeting will begin
pointments as cadets of the line and
promptly at 12:05, and will close
PLAYS CATS SATURDAY
cadet engineers in the Coast Guard.
promptly at 12:30.
Students will
Any one seeking such offices should
sit by classes, class rolls will be in
confer immediately
with Captain Weight and Record Gives Odds the hands of the presidents, and
Royden.
slackers will be noted.
To Visiting Team From
A competitive
examination
for
This meeting is held as the last
the South
both branches of service will be held
drive in the Student Friendship
December 17. This examination will TO BE HARD
FOUGHT GAME Fund campaign. The fund is still
cover modern languages,
history,
undersubscribed.
Patterson Hall
mathematics and engineering.
A
The Wildcats will face one 6f the girls have averaged higher in their
rigid physical examination will also best teams seen
here this year when subscriptions than town girls. There
be given.
are 270 girls in the University, with
the heavier, more experienced team
The requirements for applicants
115 of these in Patterson Hall. Lexfor the line are age, 18 to 24; mini- from the University of Alabama ar- ington is noted for the generosity
mum height, five feet six Inches. rives to furnish their part of the and patriotism of its men. Are its
They will receive $500 a year, with Wildcat menu.
girls slackers?
one ration dally while in training.
All who have already subscribed
Alabama has lost but one game
The age limit for the cadet engineers this season and that to Kentucky's to the fund are expected to come to
is from 20 to 25, a college course in
mass meeting as. they will be
rival, Vanderbilt.
This was called the
engineering is necessary, and the pay
particularly interested. Those who
is $75 a month, with one ration daily the best, hardest fought game the have not subscribed will be given
McGugin team has played this year. this opportunity.
or 45 cents a day.
More than 400 of
The courses of study at the Coast It is admitted that the Alabama team the sons of the University have enGuard Academy, New London, Conn., outplayed the Vandy boys in nearly tered the service of the country. This
requires three years for a cadet of every part of the game. In the third Is the test for its daughters. They
the line and one year for a cadet enquarter Vanderbilt was unable to are called on to sacrifice not life, but
gineer. Upon graduation from the
Today's action
some little pleasure.
academy, the cadets are commission- make a first down against them. will decide whether the girls of the
ed by the President as third lieuten- They completed eight passes out of University of Kentucky are as loyal
ants, which rank is equivalent to the fourteen attempts tor a total dis- to its traditions and their governsecond lieutenant in the army or tance of 106 yards. Vanderbilt made ment as the boys.
ensign in the navy. When commis- one pass of seven yards. They made
sioned, the officer's salary will- - be first downs sixteen times to Vandy's U. K. MAN IN SERVICE
$1,700 a year.
seven. They tied Sewanee 3 to 3,
STILL A CARTOONIST
The battalion of the University and defeated the University of Mishas been measured to the last man, sissippi and Mississippi College.
Herbert Felix, alumnus of the
and the Kaufman Clothing Co. has
After such a record the Alabamans University, now in the Kentucky
rushed out the orders for uniforms. look rather formidable, but the fight- Signal Corps of the 8th Division,
They hope soon to have the battalion ing spirit of the Wildcats is to .be Camp Shelby, Mississippi, has been
properly garbed in the olive drab, but considered.
made associate editor of the Liberty
weekly
due to the disturbed conditions, they
Division
The game Saturday will probably Quard, a 38th
are in no position to say when the be the hardest fought on Stoll Field newspaper.
A copy of the Guard recently reuniforms will be completed.
this season. There has never been
With lectures on Monday and such pep In the rooters' section; ceived by Ezra A. Gillis contains a
Thursday by Captain Royden, West there has never been a green team in clever cartoon by Felix, entitled,
Point graduate, and practical experi- the school that fought as they have "Could She But See Him Now." It
ence in drill maneuvers on Tuesday, fought.
Kentucky's stride into the pctures a solitary sentry standing
Wednesday and Friday, the thirty-eig- affairs of the S. I. A. A. has made guard on a hill-to- p
as the sun rises
juniors and seniors enrolled in an impression and Kentucky has up over the hill. Under the cartoon
the Reserve Officers' Training Corps often proved herself worthy of con- Felix has penned the following
are gradually becoming well trained sideration in the championship race. lines:
Alabama outweighs Kentucky in "When moonlight o'er the soughing
in the intricate business of fighting.
pine
line and backfleld. Their line averages 175 pounds, the backfleld 165. In soft efQugence gleams,
DR. M VEY AT ENGLISH CLUB
From 190 pounds to 155 is the range R. Angellne, R. Lady Mine,
and Dost thou remember Jeams?"
The line-u- p
The regular monthly meeting of of the weights.
(With apologies to Thackeray).
the English Club will be held Mon- weights follow: Lowman, 1. e. 170;
day evening, at 8 o'clock, at the home Rowe, 1. t. 180; Brown, 1. g. 190;
On reply to the letters sent out
of Dean Anna J. Hamilton oa South Session, c. 170; Johnson, r. g. 180; by the Registrar with the question,
Limestone.
Dr. Frank McVey will Captain Hovater, r. t. 185; Hastings, "Do you wish a Christmas letter?"
speak to the club, and the meeting r. e. 165; Stovers, q. b. 155; Einmett, Felix printed across the copy of the
will give an opportunity to all the 1. h. 157; Stephenson, f. b. 168; Quard received here, in large letters,
"Christmas Letters? Yes, indeed."
Members to meet President McVey.
O'Connor, r. h. 163.
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No. 10

SOLDIERS SENT CANDY
BY PATT. HALL GIRLS CRIPPLED

CATS LOSE

Girls of Patterson Hall contributTO MISSISSIPI TEAM
ed more than $10 for candy to be
sent by the Girls' Honor Guard of
Lexington to the United States troops
An Unlucky Stumble Prevents
in France for Christmas. The candy
the Wildcats From
is all homemade.
It will be packed
Scoring
in tin boxes and sent November 15,
in order to reach France for ChristPLAY
FEATURES
mas in good shape. Miss Jane Craw- OPEN
ford had charge of the money and
Open play on the part of both
candy making from Patterson Hall.
teams, the broken field running of
the A. & M. backs, and the usual exhibition of Kentucky's ends in runREFORM EOR CARE OF
ning down on punts, were the features of the game at Starksville, SatFEEBLE-MINDEHEEDED urday, when the Wildcats were deD
feated 14 to 0.
In the scecond quarter Wllhelm
Dr. Johnson Tells of Danger punted and the ever ready Riddle
was down on the Aggie before he
From Feebleminded in
could move. The tackled man fumKentucky
bled the ball, and Heber was there
to pick it up. With a lead of 15
$300,000 BEING USED NOW
yards on the nearest pursuer, and a
Dr. Alexander Johnson, represent- clear field to the goal, the fast little
ing the Kentucky Commission on end stumbled and lost the great
A Wildcat recovered the
chance.
spoke in chapel
Feeblemindedness,
ball but the chance to score was lost.
Tuesday on the feebleminded in KenTwo splendid forward passes by
tucky. He appealed to the boys pres- the Mississippi team marked its only
ent to use their influence with their advantage over the Wildcats in the
legislators for reforms within the first half. The usual stiffening attiState in the care of the feeble- tude assumed by the Wildcats whenminded.
ever their goal was threatened preDr. Johnson said: "The State of vented a score by the heavier team
Kentucky was the fourth to have a in the first half. Near the end of
school for the feebleminded, but it the second period, a forty-yar- d
run
has gone no farther. We spend by a Mississippi back, and a success$300,000 within the State for this ful pass placed the ball on the
work, and get nothing for it. Difd
line as the whisferent methods are needed now for tle blew.
Today we
treating this problem.
Evidently the stubborn resistance
realize that it is not only necessary by the famed Wildcats to the atto train the feebleminded, but they tacks of the Aggies put a stronger
must be kept under control always.
spirit of determination into the op"The feebleminded are like chil- posing team, and Captain Bobo led
dren, immature in mind. They are his team back on the field at the
found in the public schools, where sound of the third whistle in a difthey stay in one grade until they ferent state of mind. Then he beoutgrow the furniture. Then they gan a series of passes, rapid and
are advanced. They are found in generally successful, which took the
reformatories. Most of the delin- ball to the Wildcats'
d
line
quents are really feebleminded and again. Two plunges thru the line
They by the ripping Aggie backs resultshould be treated as such.
are found in hospitals for the in- ed in a touchdown in spite of the
sane, where no distinction is made
spirit of the blue and
between feeblemindedness
and in- white team. Howell kicked goal.
sanity.
The withdrawal of Captain Bobo
"The problem is how to prevent and the work of his successor Leontheir increase, for they are increas- ard in line bucking and repeated ating. It has been proved that feeble- tacks on Kentucky's harried line
mindedness is inherited. The chil- brought another touchdown in the
dren of feebleminded parents are in- fourth auarter.
The goal was
variably feebleminded.
From this kicked.
affliction follow crimes of all kinds.
In a last desperate endeavor to
The remedy is in taking proper care score, Kentucky uncorked her botof the feebleminded we have now tle of forward passes and threaten- No
and preventing their increase.
more money is needed than is alContinued on Page 3
ready appropriated for this use, but
MISS SWEENEY TO SPEAK.
wiser methods must be adopted.
"At present $65,000 of the $300,-00- 0
Miss Mary E. Sweeney will adgoes to the school at Frankfort.
dress the Home Economics Club at
Some is used in the asylums, some
its regular meeting Monday
in reformatories aad alms houses,
in chapel. Miss Sweeney will
which include feebleminded among bring a message fram Hoover. This
All this shoald be will ha aa open meeting, and all Unitheir inmates.
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versity women are invited to attend.