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Vol. LVII, No.

10

"Op art" replaces "pop art" with
Pogt Two.
Spindletop hosts art show: Poge Two.

LEXINGTON, KY., THURSDAY, SEPT. 16, 1965

Eight

Society editor previews weekend events
en "The Merry Go Round": Poge

Three.
SDS

accreditation discussed

by read-

ers: Poge Four.

PagCS

Legality of governmental editing of
textbooks questioned: Poge Five.

Pint Negro professor introduces era
of progress lor UK and civil rights:
Poge Four.
Smithsonian Institute began 200 years
ogo with mysterious grant: Poge Five.
Sports editor discusses UK's quarterback strength: Page Six.
Indian officials to consider President
Johnson's
appeal lor peace: Poge
Seven.

Kentucky' s House
Tables Resolution
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The Centenniar motto and the revolving Cendisplay is in the exhibition wing of Freed omHall
tennial symbol highlight the UK exhibit at the on the left side facing the entrance, and will be
State Fair. The exhibit portrays the history, the on exhibit until the Fair closes Saturday.
present, and the future of the University. The

AWS Encounters Varied Views

In Definition Of Senior Woman
AWS, in a routine evaluation
of its senior privileges policy
has discovered much confusion
and variance in the definition of
a UK senior woman.
A student who has completed
90 hours of study with a 2.0
standing is classified by the University as a senior.
In its definition of a woman
eligible for senior privileges, AWS
states that, "A senior is defined
as a woman who has attended
college for three years or who
will graduate during the academ-

of women eligible for these privileges. She further explained
that there will also be established
some form of appeal for the inevitable exceptions that will
arise.

tentative policy will be read
to the AWS Senate next week
that will redefine which women
A

are eligible for these privileges.
One qualification will be the completion of 90 hours of study to
a
establish
definite
senior
standing.

All residence halls are presently operating under the policy
DeDe Cramer, president of outlined in the
AWS, reports that a new policy manual issued to all women stustatement is under consideration dents by AWS.
to clarify the present confusion
Before this tentative policy
concerning who is actually eligibecomes permanent it must be
ble for these privileges.
read to the Senate, tabled for
Under the present policy a week to allow
discussion, and
women who have attended UK then voted on. If a woman meets
e
as
students for two years the
present requirements, she is
including summer school are
classified as seniors and are eligible for senior privileges. Another
coed, who has been in college
e
three years as a
student
yet has only completed 72 hours
By TERENCE HUNT
of study and is classified as a
Assistant Managing Editor
Junior, is also eligible for senior
The governor's property tax
privileges.
bill was
again in the
Senior privileges were de- House this morning and was exsigned by AWS to recognize the pected to go through the Senate
maturity of UK women by allow- and be ready for Gov. Edward
ing them in their last two semesT. Breathitt's signature this afterters at the University to deternoon, according to the governor's
mine their hour of return to their
press secretary.
housing unit.
Contacted in Frankfort this
Each residence presents to morning, press secretary Don
AWS a plan for the operation of Mills said they did not foresee
these privileges in that unit.
any more loopholes to block the
This policy was instituted in
bills path to passage. "Of course
19G2 on an experimental basis.
we didn't expect the trouble yesIn the fall of
it was adopted
terday," he added.
as a permanent AWS policy and
The bill, due to be signet! in
has operated successfully since the 1 louse and Senate Wednesday
that time.
and sent to the Governor for his
Miss Cramer explained that signature, was held up in the
AWS now finds that it must
Senate enrolling committee when
establish one general definition a technical error was brought to
ic

year."

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eligible for senior privileges until
the new policy is instituted.
One of the women's residence
halls has already issued a statement defining a senior woman as
one who has completed 90 hours,
and asking the students to review their individual standing
under this new requirement.
The staff has issued this statement as the result of information
from Miss Sandra Kemp, assistant dean of women and advisor
to AWS.
Other residence halls housing
senior women have not received
such information. Miss Kemp has
been
and will not be
back in her office until Friday.
Miss Cramer emphasized that the
90 hour requirement is tentative
and that the confusion concerning
its status can be definitely
clarified
when
Miss Kemp
returns.

For UK College
By KENNETH HOSKINS
Kernel Managing Editor
Conflict between urban and rural legislators in Frankfort Wednesday brought the tabling of a resolution proposing a University
community college tor Louisville.
"I'm going to to everything
Rep. Norbert L. Blume,
who introduced the I can in the regular session
resolution, today said there were (January) to get a Louisville colstill two possible methods of lege where tuition is equal to
reintroducing the resolution be- that at Lexington," he said.
He has contended that Louisfore the current session ends
ville does not have any higher
Friday:
Either one of the House mem- educational facilities which can
be afforded as cheaply as the.
bers who voted to table the relike UK,'
solution would have to reconsider state institutions
his vote, or a motion to take Eastern or Western Kentucky
it off the table would have to State College.
be made and accepted by a constitutional majority of 51.
Blume, however, said he has
not decided on reintroducing the
resolution, which was defeated
Wednesday by a House vote of
33

to 23.

Specifically, the proposed resolution asks the University
Board of Trustees to consider
placing a community college in
Louisville.
The vote on the Blume resolution was taken immediately
following the hearing and passage
of Senate Resolution No. 8, a
piece of legislation strongly supported by rural interests and
against which Blume testified.
legislators)
"They (rural
showed their wrath by defeating
my resolution," Blume claimed.
Before considering the
of the resolution,
Blume said he would "have to
get the pulse of this outfit."
He said the only Jefferson
County legislator to vote against
the resolution was Rep. Eugene
Blume
P. Stuart
said Stuart was in favor of state
support for the University of
Louisville.
Blume partly blamed defeat of
the resolution on his own bad
timing. He claimed the resolution
would normally have passed with
little or no opposition.
Should the resolution fail to
be reintroduced by the end of
the session Friday, Blume has
other plans.

Grand Jury
Investigates
Cawein Case

The Fayette County Crand
Jury is probing the murder of

Mrs. Mary Marrs Swinebroad
Cawein and the coroner-polic- e
investigation in the case.
Called Wednesday by the
panel were the county coroner
and two police officers assigned
to the city police department's
investigation.
Mrs. Cawein, found dead at
her home July 5, is the wife of
Dr. Madison Cawein III. associate professor at the University
Medical Center.
Dr. Cawein, contacted today,
said he has not been subpoenaed
to appear before the jury.
His attorney, John Y. Brown,
said he has not been contacted
about a possible appearance by
Dr. Cawein.
Dr. Cawein has been identified as the subject of a lie detector test in connection with

the death.
Coroner Chester Hager, a
Lexington undertaker, told the
Continued On Pare 8

House Gets Property Tax Bill Again
light. Some of the bill's opponents discovered minor inked-i- n
changes between the original
and the official copy. So, going
along with the custom that enrolled bills are to be completely
typed, the bill was sent back to
the House.
Mills said the bill has now
been corrected and has begun
again its path through the House
and Senate.
The House covened at 10
a.m., and the bill was enrolled
before 11 a.m., according to Mr.
Mills. It faced the House
speaker's signature and then on
to the enrollment committee of
the Senate and to Lt. Gov. Harry
Lee Waterfield, president of the
Senate, for his signature. This
was to be the last stop before it
reaches the governor.

Waterfield has declined to say
if he would sign the bill, which
he opposed all the way, when the
corrections are made. He said he
wants to see a corrected copy
first.
Dwain Mcintosh, executive
assistant to Waterfield, also was
contacted by the Kernel this
morning and asked the procedure
now for acceptance of a rectified
bill. He wasn't sure it would
go through today.
"I'm not sure." he said.
"We've never encountered this
sort of thing before. Lawyers have
been consulted. It's a legal
question," he said.
Mr. Mills told the Kernel the
have been
bill's opponents
"pic king and nitting to delay the
bill." The inked-icorrection
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error was just another method
of delaying the bill further, Mr.
Mills explained.
A clerk in the House clerk's
office has taken the blame for
the error. Mrs. Betty Balch explained, "I was Just in a hurry."
She said she found five errors
after typing the Louisville occupational tax amendment, "four
long legal pages of single spaced
type." Instead of typing them
all over, she instead correc ted the
errors with a pen and drew notations out into the margin, she
said. She used a pencil to mark
the corrections in brackets.

that the
copy sent to the printer
was copied exactly and the corrections were made in the margin
just as in the copy.
Mr. Mills said

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On The Merry

will be Saturday, featuring the
Bountwo's.
It's shades of Creek and Roman splendor for the Kappa Sig's
this weekend. In the spirit of the
Coldcn Age, costumes will range
from sheeted slaves (dates). to
gladiator-dresse- d
swoard
bearing,
brothers driving chariots
(I swear, that's what they told
me). Cosmo and the Counts will
play amid statues, columns, and
flaming bird baths.
This is also the weekend when
many of the sororities who have
not already done so will be initiating their second semester
pledges. In which case it may be
difficult to get dates with some
sorority women. . .at least for a
while.

Two and a half weeks of Seven" will provide the sound.
school, and it seems as if we never
Saturday evening will find the
left the campus at all. Even all brotherhood
and rushees at
the changes have already en- Johnny Allman's Restaurant for
grained themselves so that this is a steak dinner stag.
A "good ole" nayride is in
the fimiliar old UK of last year.
New buildings are old news, and store for the rushees and dates of
familiar problems are and just as the brothers Phi Cam. And after
the Friday night bout with the
prevalent as ever.
However . . . those who think hay, it will be "coat and tie" for
the University rid of the likes of Saturday, when the Torques play.
the Lafferty Hall social menaces
Pi Kappa Alpha will also have
this fall ought to take another
two parties this weekend. On
look around. The Law Students
Friday night the Seven Sons will
may have moved into a new entertain to say nothing of the
so have UK's
building-b- ut
brothers. And music by the Magbudding young architects.
nificent Seven will end the Pike's
A person has only to gaze
rush Saturday evenacross the way to the newly upperclass
ing.
renovated portals of Pcnse Hall
The Triangle final rush party
to find a lovely new crop of eager
wolf whistlers and cat Cillers.
Already the grass in front of the
journalism building is being worn
thin by coeds who carefully skirt
the rather dubious verbal accolades of the architecture gentlemen.
To return to the social world,
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* New Era Of Progress
The lack of fanfare accompanying the arrival of the first Negro
history
professor in the
of the University marks the beginning of a new era of progress
here in the area of human rights.
Not that the arrival of Dr.
Joseph Scott went unnoticed. There
were the inevitable hushed whispers that one would have expected
from provincial Lexington and unsome
doubtedly
questioning
glances were cast the way of the
Scott family as they moved into
a previously
neighborhood.
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Lexington may not be ready to
throw open her arms and welcome
Dr. Scott into her most sacred
circles or clubs, but one doubts
any Negro, no matter how qualified, will vault these walls of
prejudice.
But the University has taken
a markedly enlightened approach
toward Dr. Scott from the time
he applied for an appointment on
the staff of the Sociology Department up to his arrival this summer.
No favors went his way because
of his race, even though the Administration was possibly anxious
to show its openness by hiring a
Negro.

They realized, however, that
more harm than good would come
from hiring any Negro professor
who lacked qualifications.
And so Dr. Scott's application
progressed from deans to chairmen
to committees and to the President'
just as did the applications of
others.
This fall no special considerations were doled out as Dr. Scott
was greeted with the same cordialities shown other new instructors.
has
the
Thus
University
achieved another goal in President
Oswald's program to make the University both "the leader and the
servant" of the Commonwealth.
Not that the hiring of a Negro
professor was a "goal" as such that

The Last Battle
Colonial rule tor the District of
Columbia appears almost over,
thanks to President Johnson's
um-cleaner
tactics in rounding
disfor a home-rul- e
up signers
charge petition in the House of
Representatives. The long refusal
of the House District Committee
for Washto permit
ington because 60 .per cent of its
citizens are Negro ranks among the
shabbiest blots on our democracy.
It has been made more shameful
h
still by the committee's
effort to frustrate home rule by
turning 85 per cent of the city back
to Maryland. All the people of the
United States share with those in
the District a debt of appreciation
to the President for bringing victory closer in this "final battle of
the American Revolution."
-- The New York Times
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Kernels
The future is something which
everyone reaches at the rate of sisty
minutes an hour, whatever he does,
-- C. S. Lewis
who ever he is."

was set aside to be accomplished
by some given date. But the University has now shown it mean
just what it says in its statements
that this is a place where people
can be considered on their merits
and not by their race or their
background.
What better service can the University provide the state than the
example that a man's true value
runs deeper than his skin coloring?
Let us hope the lack of fanfare
surrounding Dr. Scott's arrival will
indicate to employers and landlords alike that a new era is dawning, and they need not fear for
the reprisals of their peers when
they do what is just and right
and open their doors regardless of
race.
The experience of one of Dr.
Scott's students teaches this lesson
clearly.
An admitted discriminator, the
student immediately singled out
his new professor as a Negro.
"After a class session, I found
myself describing him in terms of
his knowledge, technique, and personality. I was surprised to realize
I had omitted any mention of his
race from my description," the
student confessed.
And what better teaches the
truth than individual experience?

"Don't Worry, Sam! The Best Defense
Is A Good Offense"

Letters To The Editor

Readers Discuss SDS Accreditation
To the Editor of the Kernel:
As a student, I find it hard

to accept the Faculty Senate vote
to back the accreditation of the
organization, The Students for
Democratic Action. To foster such
an organization on campus is in
my opinion an unhealthy decision
creating an atmospere inconducive
to the maturation of a healthy
political climate.
By allowing such an organization to openly function, the Senate
is in effect condoning subversive
action upon this campus. In openly opposing American principles
and policies, and proporting Socialistic ideals; this little band of willful men has caused quite a stir on
other campuses even to the point
of violence. A subversive element
this University can not afford to
foster within its structure.

This organization has displayed
none of the attributes desirable in
a campus organization. It has offered no plans for campus
improvement, has openly advocated policies
in direct violation of federal law,
and tends to foster attitudes unhealthy in the campus thought.
An organization of this type
which has no respect for the law
and is openly opposed to protecting
the constitution and the sovereignty
of this nation is not worthy of the
freedoms guaranteed by this nation
and its constitution. Nor isanorga-izatio- n
which shows no signs of
campus improvement rather subversive trends, worthy of faculty
approval. In light of these facts, I
should hope the faculty would re

consider its decision in an effort
to protect the now desirable campus political environment.
John Barrickman
Haggin Hall
C-3-

Free Speech Urged
For SDS, YAF Groups
It certainly is interestingtonote
that while Dr. Krogdahl, professor
of mathematics and astronomy, is
faculty adviser for an organization
which advocates freedom (YAF) he
should have submitted a motion
which would suppress the freedom
of another organization.
That men of such learning as
Professors Maney and Krogdahl
should take such a position is in
itself appalling. And while they are
perhaps sincere in what they consider our best interests
as
Americans, it is most fortunate
that they do not have the final
word in such valued privileges as
freedom of speech!
Professor Krogdahl's position is
obviously that taken by the organization he advises. Perhaps it might

be worth knowing exactly what
kind of freedom is proposed by the
Young Americans for Freedom.
The Students for a Democratic
Society should be given an opportunity to express their views, as
well as the YAF. For, is not the
University an ideal place to express
views, be they conflicting or otherwise? We as college students should
be willing to hear both sides of
an issue before drawing a conclusion or making a decision on where
we stand. If we are not willing to
do this, then we are not yet ready
for college.
And the European criticism

that

American students are led by the
hand of their professors, who not
only think for them but also make
decisions for them, would certainly
be justified.
Rather than deny SDS members
the opportunity to express their
views we should welcome it. Perhaps the SDS and YAF would
have a public discussion of issues.
CUESSLER M. NORMAN
Graduate Student in French'

The Kentucky Kernel
ESTABLISHED

1834

The South's Outstanding College Daily
University of Kentucky

THURSDAY, SEPT.

Walter Crant,

Linda Mills, Executive Editor

Sally Stull.

News Editor

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Editor-in-Chi-

Kenneth Homcins, Managing Editor
Associate Editor
Judy Cmmiam, Associate Xew$ Editor
Rosenthal, Sports Editor
Margaret Bailey, Arts Editor

Kenneth Creen,
Henry

Cay Cish, Women's Page Editor

Tom Finnie, Advertising Manager

Business Staff

Marvin Huncate, Circulation Manager

* THE KENTUCKY KERNEL, Thursday, Sept.

"Inside Report"

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Robcr, Novak

Government Textbook Editing Poses Dangers

Tentative plans are quietly being made inside the
Federal government for a long-rang- e
pressure campaign
on local school boards and publishers to give the Negro
better treatment in history textbooks.
Although no final decision has been made, the top
brass of the Community Relations Service-crea- ted
by
the 1964 Civil Rights Act to help mediate racial disputes
-i- s leaning toward adoption of the plan. Indeed, it
already has been spelled out in some detail in a confidential memorandum drafted by Ben Holman, head of
the service's "Media Relations" office.
Although the goal of giving the Negro his rightful
place in history books is commendable, there is considerable doubt whether the Community Relations
Service is empowered by law to perform this function.
The 1964 act is to "provide assistance to communities
and persons" in settling racial disputes-a- nd
nothing
more.
More fundamental, however, is the danger of the
Federal government's getting into the business of editing
the nation's school books. The authoritarian implications
of Washington officials censoring what Johnny reads
in school disturbs even some officials at the Community
Relations Service who look at the textbook project with
some misgivings.
The Holman memorandum on textbook revision begins
by stating' the problem: "Negroes usually are ignored
in textbook illustrations, and the Negro's role in history
is either ignored or inaccurately presented."

Consequently, Holman concludes, the Community
Relations Service should mount "a massive educational
and informational campaign" directed at "publishers,
school administrators and boards, parents and teachers
groups" to get the textbooks changed. Though this
scarcely falls within the agency's statutory mission, it
seems generally inoffensive.
But the Holman memo goes on to suggest the beginnings of Federal high pressure: "Once the educational and informational campaign is solidly underway,
we should conduct a systematic effort to contact all
publishers and school boards to encourage their publication and adoption of textbooks conforming to established standards."
The term "established standards" has a particularly
ominous ring. The intervention of many legislatures
(particularly throughout the segregated Deep South)
in textbook selection is ominous. But the idea of the
Federal leviathan with its incomparable powers of
coercion getting into the textbook business is enough
to make publishers break out in a cold sweat. It smacks
of rewriting history in Orwellian style.
Actually, the textbook project is only the most
of the Community Relations Service's digressions from its legislative purpose.
The service was originally conceived in 1960 by then
Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson as a counterpart in racial
relations to the Federal Mediation Service in labor

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tion's capital is set to celebrate
the 200th anniversary of the birth
of James Smithson, the English
scientist who made the bequest
from which the Smithsonian Institution sprang. In this story,
AP newsman Raymond J. Crowley writes about Smithson's life
and the mystery which still surrounds his $503,000 bequest.
By RAYMOND J. CROWLEY
WASHINGTON
and scholars from around the
globe are gathering to celebrate
the birth 200 years ago of James
Smithson who grew up to:
1. Become a plunger in science
and at the gambling tables;
2. Make a mysterious bequest
of $508,000 to the United States,
a country he never saw.
If Smithson were alive today,
his thirst for knowledge and his
pronounced ego would be immensely gratified. For his gift
was the seed from which sprang
a tremendous tree.
The tree is the fabulous Smithsonian Institution, with its network of muieums and art gallerresearches and
ies, its
explorations.
Big, brightly colored tents
have been pitched on the Mall
outside of "Red Castle," the
original Smithsonian building.
There on Thursday, Friday and
Saturday, ceremonies will be
held, attended by learned men
from 90 countries, including Communists.
Chief Justice Earl Warren will
speak. Seminars will range from
physics to changing trends in art.
Born as an illegitimate baby,
James Smithson was the son of
Hugh Smithson, an English gentleman who became the first Duke
of Northumberland, and Elizabeth Macie, wealthy widow descended from kings.
On discovering that she was
pregnant, the mother discreetly
retired from fashionable Bath to
Paris, where the boy was born
in 1765, exact date unknown.
He grew up to be a geologist
chemist, a man of insatiable curiosity, a fellow of the Royal Society at the age of 22. He discovered
a mineral now called smithsonite;
he invented a method of brewing
coffee akin to the modern vacuum-drisystem.
Once, when he saw a young
lady weeping, his science overcame his sympathy. He collected
the tears in a vial, analyzed
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them, and announced they contained four salts.
In his latter years, he alternated between collecting meteorites and bucking the gaming
tables of Montmarte.
Though his friends worried,
he was far from broke when he
died at Genoa on June 27, 1829.
His will left his fortune to a
nephew, with the proviso that if
the latter died childless, which
he did, the money was to go to
America to found an "establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men."
Thus it was that in 1838, the
clipper Mediator put in at Philadelphia, carrying in its hold gold
sovereigns worth $508,000.
The mystery is: Why did
Smithson make such a will?
Was it because the British
Parliament, granting him citizenship at the age of 10, gave him
the back of its hand? It decreed
that he never could be an officer
in army or navy, sit in Parliament, or enjoy crown grants.
Was it because of his admiration for Franklin, Jefferson and
democracy? He called kings an

"encumbrance."

Or was it the "grand style"
gesture of a plunger?
Nobody knows.
For 11 years Congress debated
w hat, if anything, to do with this
gift from a Britisher. Men still
alive could remember the Revolution and, of course, the War of
1812. John C. Calhoun wanted to
reject the bequest, as beneath
the nation's dignity. But John
Smith-son- 's
Qu!ncy Adams, arguing for
goal, carried the day.
Hence the Smithsonian, magnet for many other gifts and congressional appropriations down
the years, came into existence.
Its collections, ranging from
the Hope diamond to every species of clam known to man, have
a book value of a billion dollars.
The National Gallery of Art,
An- product of the generosity of
is tne
drew Mellon and others,
"Jewel in the Smithsonian's
crown." Another is the Freer
Gallery, containing Whistler's
"Peacock Room."
Dinasaur fanciers dote on the
Smithsonian. There also one can
study radioactive dust on film,
or the last dulcimer made in
North Carolina.
The industrial revolution repeats itself as sightseers turn
cranks or push buttons to work

machines. They wonder how the
.Wright brothers ever dared to fly
that flimsy aeroplane.
The sightseers gaze, usually
in silence, at the
Banner which flew over Ft.
at Baltimore during the
British bombardment of Sept. 13
and 14, 1814151 years ago this
week.
The Smithsonian was the nation's first weather man. It financed Robert H. Coddard, "father of rocketry" and thus an
usher-i- n
of the space age.
Public exhibits are only a
fraction of the Smithsonian. The
accent is on research. S. Dillon
Ripley, present secretary, says
the idea is to tackle unfashionable studies. If they turnup something practical, the work can be
spun off into other hands.
James Smithson would

relations. The proposal went into the 1964 Civil Rights
Act.
In operation, however, the service has relegated mediation to a secondary role. Only a handful of racial
mediators are in the field while a Washington-base- d
staff dreams up projects such as the textbook scheme.
Holman also has in preparation elaborate programs
to improve the treatment of the Negro in the press,
establishing mobile exhibits for use at fairs and exhibitions, and influencing Hollywood.
In a memorandum, Holman has suggested:
"We ought to mount a specific project aimed at
Hollywood film makers to produce films for purely
entertainment purposes that would help further the cause
of better human relations. . . The current Negro revolution and the crescendo of the civil rights movement
provide a wealth of material for fiction story plot.
Plots centered on the problems of intergroup relations
are as legion as those for Westerns."
This is government propaganda a domestic "Voice
of America" at its worst. No matter how deep the need,
the Federal government has no right to try to shape
the thinking of Americans in such insidious ways. Besides, there is a surplus of wor