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,240 Committee Revived
'lhe University has reorganized
Its Committee of 240 to inform
Kentucky's hih school seniors of
'the University's educational opportunities.
The committee, comprised of UK
students from each of the state's
123 counties, was originally formed
some 20 years ago, but has been
Inactive for the past few years.
in under the
The
direction of lewis Donoliew, head
of information services in the t'K
Public Relations Department. The
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committee's chief function will be
to provide general information and
answer the questions of high school
seniors interested In attending the
University.
The committee members will
meet Monday evening in Ouignol
Theater to receive ..instructions.
During semester holidays or whenever they have the opportunity,
they will return to their home
counties to talk to students about
college life at UK.
Members of the committee have

chosen from those In the
student body who have . demonstrated leadership ability and outstanding accomplishment during
their stay on the campus.
President Dickey said the committee forms "the best type of
state-wid- e
representation we could
possibly get."
"I can think of no better am
bassadors for Ihe University than
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UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY
LEXINGTON, KY., FRIDAY, JAN.

Vol. L

9, 1939

No. 53

In The AFKOTC

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University AFROTC
were
investigating a
yesterday
Wednesday inspection where cadet
gave demerits
officers allegedly
and then cancelled them if the cadet bought a $3.50 ticket to the
Military Ball.
Two Kernel sources, one freshsophomore 'Air
man and cne
Science cackt, said they had been
given
"incorrect
demerits for
nametags" on their uniforms. Both
said a cadet officer stated he would
tear up their demerit slips if they
bought . tickets to the March 7
dance.
Contacted yesterday afternoon
about the matter. Air Force Jt'ol.
It. Y. Houghton Jr., professor of
air science and tactics, said the
cadet officers' actions definitely
were unauthorized.
Col. Boimhton. wt.o said ne was
unaware of the 'buying off" of dethe
merits Mmtil contacted by
Kernel, said such a practice was
"a malcxerci.se of authority and
disciplinary action will result if
the charges are confirmed."
Shortly, alterwards the colonel
telephoned the Kernel and reported that Maj. Robert T. Palmer, an
Air Force ROTC Instructor, had
discovered the incident yesterday
afternoon. The major immediately
started an investigation to find the
cadet officer or officers responsible for the incident, he said.
"All senior cadet officers were
sorely warned (by Maj. Palmer)

the responsible party will be subject to strict punitive measures."
Both of the Kernel's sources said
their cadet officers had a ."huddle"
prior to inspection, and that particular attention was paid to cadets' nametags.
The freshman source said all cadets whose names were not typed
on the tags in capital letters were
given demerits. He said his was
one of the few which was so typed,
and he as not given a demerit.
The sophomore cadet source said
he received a demerit for having
his name and class section typed

on one line. lie said a friend of
his in the class, whose nametag
was typed identically to his own,
received no demerit.

Outstanding Pair

Both cadets said the inspecting
officer who gave the demerits was
followed by another cadet officer
who offered to tear up the demerit
slip if they would buy a ticket to
the dance.
The sophomore source said a
number of cadets paid cash immediately. He also said one cadet
officer told the group that anyone
who had no ready cash could "see
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take place by early May, Dr. Peterson said.

The Medical Center's assistant
dean. Dr. R. K. Noback, said the
medical sciences building is scheduled for completion the last of next
fall. Construction of the power
plant is proceeding on schedule, he
said, and the new project represents the third phase of the overall construction plan.
Noback said applications for admission to the first class, beginning
in the fall of 1960, would be accepted after June 1, with the deadline for applying to be "about the
end of February, 1960."
A brochure explaining admission
procedure is now being distributed.
Approximately 75 students' will be
admitted in the first class.
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Newborn, Butler To Be At

junction with a national college
newspaper contest.
A senior in the School of Journalism and a veteran, Hampton
served three years, two in Germany, with Army intelligence. He
is a former officer of Delta Tau
Delta fraternity; vice president of
Sigma, Delta Chi,' professional
journalistic fraternity; a member
of Lamp and Cross, senior men's
honorary; and a member of the
Board of Student Publications and
the Committee of 240.
Candidates for "Man and Woman of the Month" are nominated
by students and heads of University departments. Final selections are made by a Student Union
Board committee. ..
It consists or tferec students;
tions.
Dr. L. L. Martin, dean of men; Dr.
The "Woman of the Month" is a Doris M. Seward, dean of women;
Louisville junior in the College of Dr. Jane Haselden, Dr. E. D.
Education, majoring in special edMiss Mackie Rasdall and
ucation (speech therapy). She is Miss B. B. Gorrell.
treasurer of Kappa Delta sorority
and secretary of Interfaith Council.-..- .
.She is ndw serving ner second
term as Student Congress repre"Game Of The Week'9
college. She has
sentative from her
game will be
The UK-LSbeen a member of the Kentuckian
Saturday.
carried on WLEX-T- V
managstaff for two years and is
Tipoff time for the NBC-T1959 yearbook.
ing editor of the
"Game of the Week" will be 3
Hampton, from Evarts, is editor-in-chip. m.
of the Kernel. He was
The contest will be carried
selected as "Man of the Month" for
nationally by the network.
his part in the paper's
For details of the game, see
"Safe Holiday" campaign. The Kernel's high-- ; page 6.
way safety emphasis was in con- Jim Hampton and Donna Law-so- n
have been named as the University's "Man and Woman of the
Month" for December by the Student Union Board.
Selection of students for this
honor, begun in September 1958, is
based on scholastic standing, department achievement, leadership
and major activities. Recipients usually are cited for some specific
accomplishment during the month-oselection.
Miss Lawson was chosen for her
work as chairman of the committee which produced the new
Student Directory. This year's directory is the first to list both students' local and hometown address
and to have men and women students in separate alphabetical sec-

Medical Center Bids
Expected By Spring

TJicls are
expected to be asked
this spring for the third phase of
construction on the UK's multi-millio- n
dollar Medical Center.
The new project will include a
general hospital, a minimal care
wing and an outpatient clinical
facility. The first two phases of
the center the medical sciences
building and the power plant are
presently under construction.
Dr. Frank D. Patterson, I'K vice
president for business administratoday that tentative
tion, said
plans call for advertising of the
project to contractors about Feb.
1 and taking of bids by the last
of March.
The definite date will be fixed by
that it was a misexercise of command and a misexercise of author- the State Engineering Division.
ity." the colonel stated. "It won't Awarding of the contract and beconstruction should
happen again," he continued, "and ginning of

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The first annual
will feature the Phineas Newborn
Trio and the Cliff Butler band
from 8:30 to 12:30 p.m. tomorrow.
Profits will go to entertainment
of high school pupils attending
the state basketball tournament
held at, Memorial Coliseum in
March.
has invited all forThe
mer UK lettermen in the four
major sports, mailing about 200
letters. A banquet will be held at
the Phoenix Hotel before the dance
honoring these former ' lettermen.
Gabe Paul, general manager of the
Cincinnati Kedlegs, will speak.
A comparative newcomer, Newborn has now entered the "big-tunjazz field. "One of the top
night-clu- b
operators in America
has heralded him as 'the greatest
pianist to come alunu since Art
publicity
dance Tatum'," the
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null's en the nuswr of ci re monies, duties whuli

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the finest pianist to come along
in 25 years.
Newborn completed an engagement at Birdland in New York
last night and will open in the
Empire' Koom in Chicago on Monday night. "He has been acclaimed
while at Birdland as putting on one
of the finest jazz sessions seen
there in a long time," the committee said.

"Butler made a great hit playing
on the UK campus last spring at a
sorority formal and is being
brought back by popular demand,"
said.
the
The dance will have no intermissions and no queen will be
crowned. Admission to the dance
is $3 per couple, in advance . and
Ht the door. Tickets me being sold
;:t a booth in the SUB.
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Home Ec Professor Named
Kentucky Woman Of Year

Telephone Operators

Have Many Headaches
"And the boys have more paBy LARRY VAN IIOOSK
on the tience than the girls," Irene Wells,
posted
The cartoon
Hatlo who had. Just come on to replace
a Jimmy
fwitchboard,
feature, Mrs. Menne, complimented.
"They'll Do It Every Time"
"Once in a while we have trouhowed a yawning operator turning
and ble with someone who is trying to
to her fellow awitchboarder
saying it was a good time to take call the women's dorms at 3 o'clock
In the morning," she said knowinga break.
operator, connecting a ly.
The other
However, according to the operacall to a switchboard full of cobto Indicate the lapse of ac- tors, there is still a lot to be dewebs
tivity In the phone office assured sired In the students' education of
her companion that it would be all how to use a phone. Biggest probright. Then the fun began. Every- lem the operators face is presented
body wanted to use the phone at by students who try to dial their
once, and the poor operator faced number before they get a dial tone.
a common situation in her occupation.
In one way the telephone operators depicted in the Hatlo cartoon
have nothing on the University's
operators. Everyone is trying to use
the telephone at once.
A visit to the telephone switchboard office in the Funkhou.ser
building this week revealed a much
better insight to the tremendous
task being performed by the efficient women of the UK system,
which has been in operation since
1949. On duty at the time were
Itlrs. Irene Menne, Mrs. Ruth Scansion and Miss Carol Reevps.
"Our biggest problem is getting
enough lines for the .students." Mrs.
Menne said.
"But we are getting 10 more out-f-ilines in soon," injected Mrs.
Scanlon. "That will make 40 in all,
a big improvement since we started with 10.'
The three operators tried
to
.how us what they were doing by
putting earphones on us. bulafter
half an hour we knew nothing
more except some of the difficulties
they face each
day. All three
have been employed by the University since its dial telephone system was begun.
'These UK students are the most
'
patient people in the world," Miss
Reeves said.
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Another headache, occuring mostly between 4 and 11 p. m. is dealing with students who won't use
their directories.
"Tliis Just adds to our confusion
and trouble," Miss Reeves said.
"Since the new directories have
been printed and distributed, it is

Male Choir
Will Appear

Dawson To Serve
On Science Panel

At Coliseum

Tos-cani-

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Leslie Caron
Maurice Chevalier Louis Jordan

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Victor Mature

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Gregory Peck-Jea- n
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Charlton Heston

RelwsH thru

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"Battleground" - 8:45
Monteverdi to Siavinski and Jer- FAMILY "Queen of Outer Space"
ome Kern.
G:45. 9:55.
The featured soloist. Miss Carol
"The Bride and the Beast" -Jones, is another Robert Shaw dis8:25
covery who. since her days as a KENTUCKY "The In of the
soloist with the Shaw Chorale, has
Sixth Happiness" - 12:00. 3:00.
achieved a reputation in her own
6:00, 9:00

"BATTLEGROUND"

TONIGHT-AT- .-

A native of Colorado, Dr. Erikson holds the A. B. degree from
Colorado College and the Ph.D.
degree from the University of

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She was (liven the Sullivan Award
the University in 1957.
Dr. Erikson now Is associated
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with the University in a
research program in nutrition. In
addition to her other studies. sh
is working with a cooperative research study being done by seven
Southern states to investigats
nutritional balance in preteen-ager- s.
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Cavalcade of Song." featuring the Ralph Hunter Choir and
scloist Carol Jones will be presented in the Coliseum at 8:15
p. m.. Tuesday.
The program is sponsored by the
Ccntfal Kentucky Concert and
Lecture Association.
Hunter, who is also musical director of the New York "CollegiMOVIE GUIDE
ate Chorale." was "Mae'stro di
Core" for the late Arturo
He has for many years
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been Robert Shaw's righthancl ASHLAND
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man, and for six years was choral
"Earth to the Mocn" - 4:13. 7:53
coach and director at Radio City
BEN ALI "Roots of Heaven" Music Hall.
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"BETRAYED"
Van Johnson

Statie E. Erikson. distinguished professor of home economics, has been named 1958
n rule that we don't give student
Woman of the Year for Kentucky
numbers to callers on inside lines." by The Progressive Farmer magWe were amazed at all numbers
have memorized. azine.
the operators
She was cited "for outstandingly
They can tell you almost every
number from the Coliseum Swim- field of home economics."
ming Pool phone to a chemistry
Associated with the University
professor's lab phone. They have slnre 192S, Dr. Erikson was directo look up student numbers, how- tor of the School of Home Eco- -'
ever.
nomics from 1928 to 1956. In 1956
' "Darn, you have to know every- the Board of Trustees named her
thing. We may not be the most distinguished professor, the highbrilliant people in the world, but est academic rank which can be
we have to stay on the ball," Mrs.
accorded a member of the faculty.
Scanlon said.
employs nine
The University
operators, who
work on five
Huttler Strikes
you once visit their ofshifts. If
fice in the Funkhouser Building,
MOUNTAIN AIR, N. M.. (APt
you'll think Frank Evans, 22, of Dora pulled
no matter what time,
twice before blaming them when on a pair of coveralls near here
you wait 10 minutes before getting while working on a range reseed-in- g
an outside line or you are distrubed
project.
from your studies by a wrong
Evans quickly shucked off the
number.
coveralls when something bit him.
He figured it was a scorpion.
But hours later, he discovered a
Iwo-forattler in the coveralls.
His partner took him on a wild
ride to Mountainair during
which the car tumbled into a ditch.
Dr. Lyle R. Dawson, :ieacr of the
a desperate battle for life
Department of Chemistry at the Result:
stay in the hospital.
and a
University of Kentucky, left yesterday for Washington, D. C, to
serve on a research panel for the
Be respectful, you fool!
National Science Foundation.The panel will review and evaluate research proposals and requests
for financial aid from the National
Science Foundation.
Dr.

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faces and happy lauht-;r- e
always tho rewarding pro- i' s of the weekly program given
t!ie Baptist Student Union and
UIC Troupers at the Shnners
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added variety of entertainment for
the programs. These programs are
arranged with the aid of Miss Svl-i- a
M. Bently, recreational diree-lo- r
at the hospital.
Perhaps
the most memorable
this year, in the minds of
the children, will be the ChrMmas
program. Santa Clans, BSU member Alvin Qurney, made his appearance alter being 'conjured up"

by a magicians "snow dust'T with crippled child under 14, not menpresents and laughter fcr all.
tally defective, whose parents are
Santa's Rifts candy, fruit, and unable to pay can be admitted re- nuts supplied by the BSU were gardless oi race, creed, or color.
appreciated by each of the 37 The hospital is owned
and operatchildren now at the hospital. One
little boy, leaving the room in his ed by the Order of the Mystic
wheelchair, was asked what he Shrine.
received. He looked up with a wide,
unforqcttible smile and gleefully

leplied, "Everything!"
The Lexington unit of Shriners
Hospitals for Crippled Children is
a 101) percent charity hospital, not
supported by public taxes. Any

Demerit 'Buyoff Claimed
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orderly room after ' affinals would make every effort to
discover the author of the ticket- c'i;
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of the improper exercise of leadership," he said, "and it defeats the
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The Old Nemesis

Tests: What Do They Mean?
That time of year when everyone's

to his students to discover if he has
done as good a job as possible in the
presentation of the material.

thoughts turn to tests has crept up
on us once again. Finals are just
around the corner and the inevitable
battle of wits between the student and
the professor is about to begin.
According to the dictionary, an examination is a testing by questions
or exercises as to qualifications or
fitness of a student. It would seem
that to a great many of our instructors an examination is a contest in
which they try to show we students
how little we really know, lii all fairness we must admit that many professors do give that type of test in
which they find out just how much
their students have learned, not what

Because a student cannot answer
or a
more than half of a true-falsone word completion test, does this
mean he has absorbed less than half
of the material presented? Probably
not, for if the same material in those
two tests were presented to the student in a test where he could write
everything he knew on the subject, a
much fairer view of what he knew
rather than did not know would be
seen.

they have missed. Basically this is
what both should be aware of.
By giving the type of test where
the student can honestly put down
everything he knows about the subject, the instructor not only can grade
the student, but himself as well. If a
professor is sincere about his work he
should feel obligated to himself and

some of the tests we are required to
take which are given simply because
they are easy to correct. Only when
the students ca nbe sure that they
are going to be tested on what they
know will cheat sheets, fraternity and
t
files and long hours of
soroity
memorizing material forgotten immediately after the test all disappear.

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found. This, however,

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is no excuse for

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old-tes-

On page seven of your Wednesday
paper, you have a story which tells
what fine work the Air Science Department of the University does. I
thought ou and your staff might be
interested to know to what glorious
heights the Air Force ROTC has
lisen on the very day your article
was published.

Later on next semester, the Military
social event" breathlessly
awaited by all military personnel-w- ill
be held; the Air Force cadet
proudly showing those sterling
qualities which make up an ollicer,
have devised a new method of selling
tickets to this ball.
Having learned the ".principles of
psychology, human relations and
leadership in the classroom," they put
them to quick use in the "leadership"
laboratory by simply giving demerits
lor transgressions thought up just
prior to the drill periods, no trace
of which could be found in any regulationwritten or otherwise.
As the inspecting ollicer passed
through the ranks, there followed
liim, a lew paces behind, another officer; this one, in return lor the paltry
sum of a $3.50 tic ket to
agreed to tear up the demerit..
J ask you: could the basic cadet
corps (or anyone else on campus) ask
for. any other example of the brilliant
Ball the

of-licer-

t

you-know-wha-

t,

instruction and the incomparable officers which UK's Air Force Ollicer
Mill turns out?
"Colleges . . . in Ohio, Kentucky,
AVest Virginia and Tennessee," talc

s,

heed and mark well! Maybe your
cadet officers can someday instruct
vour cadets in the subtle art of ex-

tortion!
(Name Withheld)

Military Malodor

Demerits: $3.50 Each

Attendance at the forthcoming
Military Ball may soar as a result of
a spurt in ticket sales prompted by
some sly actions on the part of a few

Air Foice RO TC cadet ollicers. The
unfortunate part of their promotional scheme is that, while it was undeniably effective,- it was concomitantly unethical, irresponsible and in-

tolerable.
It was also, according to the Department ol Air Science's Col. R. W.

Boughton Jr., unauthorized.

On Wednesday at least two separate Air Science classes one freshman
Confused Clocks
and one sophomore had inspections
To The Editor:
at which what our source termed "a
Mas MO forgotten how to tell more than usual number" ol demerits
time? It's bad enough that every were given. Demerits are the standard
clock we look at on campus is forced military means of correcting various
by state law to be set an hour behind cadet deficiencies, and they are gencity time. At least that's the way it' erally erased front a cadet's record by
used to be.
an hour of disciplinary drill.
Now, nearly every clock is THREE
Not so here.
hours slowj This morning when I ate
The cadets who received demerits
breakfast at 7 a. m. and looked up to in Wednesday's inspection were offercheck my watch by the SUB clock, ed the oportunity to have their deit was 4 a. m., instead of the usual merit slip torn up if
buy',
(i a. m. It was an emotional shock,
for $.150, a ticket to the Military Ball.
which I shall probably never get This, plain and simple, is extortion.
over. This chaotic time situation,
It was not, we believe, intended to
coming as it does right before exams, be such, nor do we mean that the
is too much!
term is to have criminal implications.
Comtsfd It was merely a case where the
AFROTC cadet ollicers exceeded and
abused their authority and reneged on
Kernels
their responsibility. While probably
About "0 years ago the following, entitled "How to Make a l)oullc Petunia not intentional, it was nonetheless
they-woul-

out of a Begonia," went the rounds of
Missouri newspapers:
Begonia is a kind of sausage.
A sausage and battery is a crime.
People crime tices.
Tiees a crowd.
Crowds make a noic.
Vour noise is on vour lace.

The eyes also
l

hae

it.

ikewise the nays.
nay.
hau colts.
bed willi a colt.

Horses
Horses
Go to
Wake

up with double petunia.

f"Jj

My Dad Teaches The Course.'

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To The Editor:

n

The perfect test has not yet been

The Readers' Forum
'Sublle Extortion'

VMS'

reprehensible and lamentable.
When we contacted Col. Boughton
about this matter yesterday, he said
no ollicial authorization lor the "buying oil" of demerits had been given.
He further said that such practices
were strongly against department procedure and that disciplinary action
would be taken against the guilty
cadet ollicer or ollicers.
We accept that, both as explanation and solution.
One of the possible reasons lot the

cadet ollicers' venture into borderline
extortion is that.thev must have
riioiitdi monev bv Monday; U meet
.'
r
contract obligations lor hiiing a name
band for the dance. While this may
not have been the motive for the
forced sales of tickets, it would if
revenue .were falling shoit.of expectationsprovide an immediate source
of ready cash lor the lxoking agency.
Whatever their reasons, and however admirable their zest to pioinote
the Military Ball might be, the methods used by the ladet ollicers aie inexcusable. The damage is not oidy im4

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mediate in that

it lowers their
respect lor them, but it is
sub-ordinat-

e's'

also a violation of the responsibilities
placed on the cadets by the Air Force
ROTC cadre.
Probably it is impossible to determine which cadets were coerced
into buying tickets lor the dance and
thus give them the opportunity 'to
have their money relumled, il de
sired. If this is possible, however, we
hope the responsible persons will take
steps to remedy some of the damage
by allowing the a Ice ted - cadets to
return their tickets.
I

Kernels
It was at the: funeral of a woman
who had been thoroughly disliked
in a rural community and for cause.
With a sharply barbed tongue' and a
violently explosive disposition, she

henpecked her husband, drove her
children mercilessly and quarreled
with her neighbors. Even the animals
on the place wore a hunted look.
The day was sultry, and as the minister's voice droned on the sky revv
darker. Just as the service ended, the
storm broke furiously. There was a
blinding flash followed closely by a
teriifie thunder clap. In the stunned
silence a voice was heard from the
back row of the crowded room:
"Waal, she's got there!"-T7- rc
Header's

Digest

* THE KENTUCKY KERNEL, Friday, Jan.

9,

1939- -5

Love Bug Has Appeared On UK Campus
By ANN RORERTS
Break out the champagne and
Mart gathering up old shoes. It
,cems like the love bug ""has hit
UK with a bang, as is evidenced by
rings and fraternity
the many
pins being exhibited by most of
UK female population.
Why even my old buddy, Myrtl"
Elotchkiss is flashing a small 61
carat diamond. I was talking to
Myrtle, affectionately
called
"Hawk-eye- "
by her friends. Just
fhe other day and she gave me a
lfw pointers on how to catch a
man which I thought I might pass
pTong to you.
Ffrst, Rays Myrtle, you have to
find a man who looks like he
couldn't put up much of a fight.'
Then, before you put your plan In
action, find out if he is unattached.
You waste a lot of time and effort
rhasing after a man who has already been
caught by someone

him to the preacher and then
find out that you can't afford
the license it may be days or
weeks before
you can get him
there again. This is an old tactical
manuevcr employed
by
many
males to gain time. To be completely sure he doesn't elude you,
with this trick, says Myrtle, have
enough money with you to pay for
it yourself.
Another important thing, according to Myrtle, is to make sure
you have a healthy specimen. In
the first place, he must be healthy
enough to pass the physical before you can get your license and
in the second place, he must be
strong enough to get a good Job
in order, to support you in the
style which you expect to become
accustomed to.
After finding out these things In
your preliminary
Investigation,
says Sfvrt, you are ready to launch
else.
your nLin attack. This Is the easy
Then, make sure that he has at part according to her, since most
ast enough money to buy the men ate so gullible anyway, so I
marriage license. This is extrem- nill leave you to yo