HE CARDINAL Official Student Newspaper of the University of Louisville
VOL. 3 LOUISVILLE, KY., FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 1935 NO. 31
Trustees Rejects Legion "Red" ln·quiry
DEFINITE PLANS
ARE ANNOUNCED
FOR BOAT RIDE
Dancing, Musical Comedy,
Games of Skill on Pro­gram
12:45-7:45 ARE HOURS
A definite program for the fir t
annual Campu Boat Trip on
Friday, 1\Iay 17, has been decider!
upon and plans are progressing
rapidly, according to Gil Adams,
General Chairman of the trip.
For the first two hours of the
trip, which begins at I 2: 45 ~here
will be dancing to the mus1c of
the ten-piece colored orchestra
which has been engaged for the
occasion. The Players' Club will
present a musical comedy, and the
faculty are giving a show-boat
play for the entertainment of the
students. There will be game~
of skill which may be played at
any time. Tickets for the seven­ty-
mile ride will be on sale at the
book-store, and by representatives
of each fraternity and sorority.
Students are uro-ed to buy their
tickets early. The price is soc
per person. Classes will be dis­missed
at I 2: oo on the day of the
boat ride so that all students and
faculty members may attend.
The trip will begin at I 2:45 and
the boat will return at 7:45p.m.
tudents may bring picnic
lunches, or may buy sandwiches
and drinks on the boat.
The committee chairmen and
members in charge of the trip are
as follows: g~neral chairman,
Gilbert Adams· advertising com­mittee,
:Merrill Gyles, chairman;
Melzar Lowe, George Cassaday;
tickets, Katherine Miller, chair­man;
Robert Lancaster, and Paul
Bell· arrangements for boat, Rob­ert
Roulston, chairman, 'Myron
Stolp, Gertrude Hendershot, and
George Reiger; program commit­tee,
Marshall Edelen, chairman,
Herbert Clay, Robert Sales, War­ren
Arata, Mr. Money, and Mr.
Bower. Betty Zinsmeister is se­cretary
to the general chairman.
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In Review
Emmet V. Mittlebeeler
FIFTEEN HUNDRED CITI­ZENS
OF this allegedly civilized
state recently thronged about an
improvised gallQws in a county
seat town, gaped at a condemned
man as he harangued the crowd,
and were eager spectators at his
hanging. One feature of this show
was a bantering of words between
the condemned and the woman
whose testimony sent him to his
death.
This return to medievalism
must of necessity create im­measurable
disgust in the minds
of all respectable Kentuckians. In
the middle ages an execution was
a festive affair; all residents of
the countryside swarmed into the
town out of morbid curiosity, to
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LEWIS COHElV, EMMET MITTLEBEELER PLAN OWN PROBE
HEAD NEW CARD.!NAL EDITORIAL STAFF ;:'E~~R~ ~i~~~~~
EDITOR
LOUIS M. COHEN
WINNIE McBRIDE
IS FIRST LAUREL
QUEEN NOMINEE
DeadJine for Nominations Is
April 29. Poll in Cardinal
Office
WINNER DECIDED MAY R
\Vinnie Lee :McBride, president
of Sigma Kappa, is the first nomi­nee
as the University of Louis­ville
s representative to the Fifth
Annual Kentucky Mountain Lau­rel
Festival to be • held on :May
3I and June I in Pine Mountain
State Park.
Any girl enrolled in the Uni­versity
of Louisville is eligible for
nomination as Louisville's repre­sentative.
Nominatons must be
signed by ten students, and de­posited
in the Cardinal office on
or before noon, April 29, which is
the absolute deadline.
Ballots will appear in the May
2 issue of the Cardinal, and must
be returned to the office not later
than noon of Tuesday, May 7.
Any sub~criber to the Cardinal
may cast a vote.
The winner of the contest will
be announced May 8, at the All­University
Women's Banquet at
the Kentucky Hotel.
WOMAN'S LEAGUE BACKS
UPTOWN MOVIE MAY 2
"The Right to Love,'' starring
George Brent, will be presented at
the Uptown Theatre on May 2,
sponsored by the Women's
League. Girls on the campus will
sell the tickets, which will admit
one person to the theatre. The
price is 26 cents, of which the Wo­men's
League will receive half.
Kelso, Eury, Haddock, Law­rence
Get Posts; Business
Staff to Be Appointed
Soon
Lewis M:. Cohen was appointed
editor-in-chief of the Cardinal and
Emmet V. 1\littlebeeler, managing
editor, according to an announce­ment
of the Board of , tudent
Publications Tuesday.
Other appointments to the edi­torial
staff were Robert N. Kelso ,
news editor; Charles Eury, sport
editor; Dorothy Haddock, ~o­ciety;
and Sue Lawrence, features.
A new business staff will be select­ed
at a meeting of the Board to
b~ held next Tuesday.
Cohen, a junior in the College
of Liberal Arts and a major in po­litical
science, is at present news
editor of the Cardin~l. He has
served on the staff for two years.
Mittlebeeler, who is also a junior
and a political science major, has
been a member of the staff since
the publication of the Cardinal
was begun three years ago. He b
now university editor. Active in
student affairs, he is president of
the International Relations Club.
"On behalf of the new staff,"
the n~w editor said in a state­ment,"
I should like to say that
we shall devote every effort during
the coming year to be a real stu­dent
paper, and that we shall
fight to maintain student rights.
"The development so marked in
the Cardinal since its establish­ment
we shall do our best to con­tinue.
Especially, our aim will be
to become a unifying for<;e in the
University.''
Sophomore and Senior
Tests April 27, 28, 29
All applicants for degrees at
the end of the spring semester will
take senior examinations Mondav
and Tuesday, April 29 and 3~,
from 9 a. m. to 3 p. m.
All students of sophomore
standing will also take tests, on
Saturday, April 27, Monday, April
29, and Tuesday, April 30. On
Saturday the tests will be given
from i: 30 to I 2, but on the other
two days, from 8:30 to 3·
TEST YOURSELF ON
LAST WEEK'S NEWS
I. Who is Pat Harrison?
2. Who is the most prominent
aspirant for the Republi­can
presidential nomina­tion
in 1936?
3· Who is Andrea Toscheff?
4· What is the name of the
secretary of the treasury?
5. Who is Bernarr MacFad­den?
Answers on page 8
The League will receive money
only on those tickets which are
sold at U. of L. The money will I
be used for improvement on the
Women's Building. --------------~
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MANAGING EDITOR
EMMET V. MITTLEBEELER
WOMEN'S LEAGUE
NAMES GIRLS FOR
ANNUAL TICKET
Campus' Outstanding Coeds
Also to Be Chosen by
Voters
VOTE ON MAY L MAY 6
The following have been nomi­nated
for officers of the Women'.~
League, which will hold its elec­tion
with that of class officers on
:May 6: president, Mary Louise
Frehse, :Mildred Litkenhaus; vice­president,
Beverly MacDonald,
Lois Skaggs; secretary, Jean Plea­vin
Jean Jones7 Willie Ware;
Treasurer, Ella Garth Choate,
Louise \Valther, Mary Elva Jones.
In connection with the Student
Council Election May r, the
\Voman 's League is sponsoring a
vote for one girl for each of the
following positions: most popular,
best dressed, most humorous,
most sophisticated, most beautiful,
and most outstanding campus
leader. Voters will be asked to
fill in the name of the girl they
think capable of filling each posi­tion.
McClain To Talk
Petitions for Academy's Free­dom
Circulated on
Campus
FREEMAN INVOLVED
Any investigation of alleo-ed
radicalism in the Univer ity of
Louisville will be conducted by the
board of trustees, the American
Legion was informed Tuesday by
the board. The decision was made
at a special meeting of the board
called to take action on the an­nounced
plan of the Legion to
conduct such an investigation on
the campus.
In a letter to Colonel Henry J.
Stites, chairman of the Legion in­vesitgating
committee, the trus­tees
stated that "he board alone
is responsible for the educational
policies of the University of Louis­ville,
the conduct of its faculty,
and the discipline of its students,
and it cannot delegate this au­thority
or responsibility to any
outside agency."
Col. Stites announced Saturday
that the Legion, following reports
of radicalism on the campus, in­tended
to investigate. He in­cluded
the public school of
Louisville in the proposed investi­gation
.
Evidence that Dr. Ellis Free­man,
professor of psychology, had
received and cashed a check from
the State Bank of the U. S. S. R.;
that a group of radical students
plotted to 'pack'' the American
Youth Congress held here last Fri­day
and Saturday; and that the
campus on April 12 was com­peace
convocation held on the
munistic in nature, is claimed bv
Col. Stites.
Thanking the Legion for it
civic interest in University af­fairs,
the letter to Col. tites pro­mised
to "make a most thorough
and searching inquiry'' if the
Legion committee "will furnish
the board with a complete and de­tailed
written statement of the
results of the investigation you
have made, giving the names of
the professors involved, the time,
place, and nature of any radical
or un-American activities or state­ments."
The board has also invited any
other organizations or taxpayers
having definite knowledge of un­Continued
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On Law As Vocation 20 Council Nominees
-- Are Named for Election
Dean J. A. McClain of the
School of Law will speak on "Law
As a Vocation" Thursday, May
2 in Gardiner I02 at I2 :30. This,
and two other lectures to be pre­sented
on succeeding Thursdays,
are part of the vocational guidance
series.
Speakers for the other lectures
on Banking, Business, and Secre­tarial
Work, and on Social Work
respectively, are, as yet, unchosen.
All lectures are a part of Fresh­man
Survey.
Council Can Refuse Consider­ation
of Unfit-Gyles
Six nominations for senior class
representative, five for junior rep­resentative,
five for sophomore
and three for unorganized men
have been received by Merrill
Gyles, Student Council election
chairman. The election will take
place May I.
The Council has the privilege
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