CARDINAL
Official Student Publication of the University of Louisville
Z-247
Vol. 8 Louisville. Ky., Friday, December 8, 1939 No. 13
'Yellow Dog' Parker Dedicates
New Law School Building
(AN EDITORIAL)
Justice John J. Parker, known to fellow legalists as
“Yellow Dog” Parker, spoke at the dedication of the new
Law School Building on the afternoon of November 24.
We have witnessed a strange paradox. A school piade renown
by its benefactor, Louis D. Brandeis, a school indued with his
liberalism and progressivism, now receives the supreme sanctifica-tion
by one whose most vicious decision has been invalidated by
the former justice, himself.
Judge Parker was born in the western mountains of North
Carolina and was bred to the typical “west country philosophy” of
his parents. This philosophy he first propounded to the public in
his race for governorship of North Carolina in 1920. Speaking of
the Negro, he said: “The Republican Party of North Carolina does
not desire him to enter politics. We recognize the fact that he has
not reached that stage in his development when he can share the
burdens and responsibility of government. . . . The participation of
the Negro in politics is a source of evil and danger to both races,
and is not desired by the wise men in either race, or by the Repub-lican
Party in North Carolina.”
Due in part to the great Negro vote which this stand alienated,
he was defeated and in 1924 was appointed to the United States
Circuit Court, fourth district, by President Coolidge.
The oft referred case of his judicial record is the so-called “Red
Jacket Case” upholding “yellow dog” contracts. In such a contract,
the worker is forced to sign a promise to the company that he will
join no non-company union while working for the company. At the
time that Judge Parker upheld the contract, the ethics of which
may be judged by the name, the United States Coal Commission
called it “immoral.”
In 1930, when President Hoover offered him for appointment to
the Supreme Court, the Negroes, unionist and liberals of all degree
worked to prevent his confirmation. At that time, President Servius
of the United Mine Workers asked: “Why, from all that long list of
eminent legal minds comprising our federal judiciary, was it
necessary for the President to appoint the judge who delivered 50,000
free Americans to indentured servitude?”
This might well be asked of others on less weighty occasions.
W. S. R.
Campus Log
December 8 to 14
FRIDAY
12:00 Noon—Alumni Rooms.
University Women's Club.
12:30 P. M.—Women’s Building.
Episcopal Club Luncheon.
9:00 P. M.—Gymnasium.
Student Council Dance.
SATURDAY
12:30 P. M.—Canary Cottage.
Ellen H. Richards Luncheon.
8:00 P. M.—Henry Clay Hotel.
Alpha Kappa Kappa Dance.
8:15 P. M.—Gymnasium.
Basketball Game—U. of L. vs.
Holbrook.
SUNDAY
3:00 P. M.—House.
Zela Tau Alpha Tea.
MONDAY
6:00 P. M.—House.
Zela Tau Alpha Dinner For
Kappa Alpha.
7:30 P. M.—Alumni Rooms.
Dames Club Meeting.
TUESDAY
12:30 P. M.—Alumni Rooms.
Y Club Luncheon.
12:30 P. M.—Women’s Building.
Faculty Advisers' Luncheon.
6:00 P. M.—Canary Cottage.
Faculty Advisers' Dinner.
7:30 P. M.—Alumni Rooms.
Astronomical Society.
7:30 P. M.—Emanuel Mission.
Sigma Alpha lota Vesper
Service.
WEDNESDAY
12:30 P. M.—Alumni Rooms.
Faculty Luncheon.
7:30 P. M.—Alumni Rooms.
Alumni Chemistry Club.
THURSDAY
2:30 P. M.—Station WAVE.
Fletcher Smith.
8:00 P. M.—Hanover College.
Basketball Game U. of L. vs.
Hanover.
8:00 P. M.—£' .mni Rooms.
Delta Phi Alpha Christmas
Party.
9:00 P. M.—Henry Clay.
Medical School Freshman
Dance.
Cooperative Study
Group Consultants
Visit L. A. College
Monday and Tuesday, Decem-ber
4th and sth, were calling
days for Dr. George Barton and
Dr. W. H. Hill, consultants for the
Cooperative Study of General
Education. This group has its
headquarters at Chicago, Illinois,
and is formed of representatives
of twenty-two of the leading
schools of the country for the
study of various problems of
education.
Drs. Barton and Hill have been
attending humanities classes and
departmental conferences in
connection with a study of the
Humanities Department of the
Liberal Arts College.
On December 12th and 13th, a
personnel consultant, Dr. John L.
Bergstresser, Consultant of Per-sonal
Problems of the Coopera-tive
Study, will be at the Univer-sity
to discuss personnel problems
with faculty and staff.
'Union Now' Streit
Scheduled For Talk
Announcement is made through
the office of Dean Oppenheimer
of two official Liberal Arts Col-lege
convocations scheduled for
the next two weeks.
On December 15th, Friday, at
11:30, convocationalists will hear
Clarence Streit, author of the
book “Union Now,” in a highly in-teresting
review of his work.
Tuesday, December 19th, at
11:30 in the Playhouse will be
presented the annual Christmas
Convocation, featuring Christmas
music.
GRATIS
Dentists, Medicos
Sweater Hop,
Guests Tonight
The annual Sweater Dance,
sponsored by the Liberal Arts
Student Council, will be held Fri-day
night, December, 8 at 9 P. M.
in the gym, with free admission
offered to all students of the
Medical and Dental Schools.
Freddie Kahler’s Rythymeers,
who hail from Jeff and New
Albany, will swing out for the
occasion.
The admission is, as usual, 75c,
couple or stag, with, as afore men-tioned,
Dent and Med students
on the house.
“We want Dental and Medical
students at campus socials,” Bill
Watts, L. A. Prexy said. “And
perhaps this is one way of im-pressing
them with the fact.”
Steiger Sale
Merits Fund
$101 Total
The Pallas Club has issued a
statement signed by Grace
Towles, chairman of the organiza-tion’s
Steiger Tag Day sale, which
“wishes to thank U. of L. students
for their support of the tag sale,
especially the L. A. girls who sold
the tags.
“The Pallas Club is especially
grateful to those organizations
which gave large sums to the
fund: Woman’s League, Y Club,
Student Council of L. A., Kappa
Delta, Pi Beta Phi, Sigma Kappa,
Gamma Rho and Beta Tau Chi.”
Special reference was made of
the valuable assistance of Dr. Guy
Stevenson, Dean J. J. Oppen-heimer,
Dean Hilda Threlkeld and
the Cardinal.
Amounts made on tags was
listed at $62.11; amount received
from groups $39.00. Total -re
ceived was $lOl.ll.
Rooney Voted Speed Frosh Head
In a fiery political battle the
Speed School frosh elected class
officers on Thursday, November
23. The following class officers
were chosen: Bob Rooney, presi-dent;
Barnett Grimes, vice-presi-dent;
George Read, Secretary;
Martin Schad, treasurer; Wm E.
Evans, historian; Bob Burns, ser-geant-
at-arms. Freshmen rep-resentatives
to the Speed School
Student Council were J. Kempe
Richardson, George Sager, and
Victor Zehnder.
The election terminated in a
contest for offices between a sec-tion
of the class organized to con-trol
the election and the remaind-er
of the class determined to
maintain control of the election.
The position of Historian, held
by Bill Evans, is the only per-manent
office. It is held by the
same person during the entire
four years duration of the class
in school.
Election for the other classes in
Speed School were held last
spring
Campus Constitutional Meet
Convenes First Time Friday
Moot Court Room
Convention Site
. An all-Campus constitution-al
convention, called for the
purpose of setting up a
Belknap Campus student
'governing body, will convene
in first session today at 12:30
at Law School’s recently
dedicated Moot Court Room.
Representatives from Music,
Speed, Law and Liberal Arts
will attend.
The call was issued by Liberal
Arts Student Council president,
Bill Watts, upon the authorization
of his council last October. Music
School will be represented by two
delegates, Law by four, Speed by
seven, and Liberal Arts by 10.
“I have no idea how much we
can accomplish in this first ses-sion,”
Watts said. “Probably there
will be only the election of the
chairman who will appoint the
various committees.”
The action of the Liberal Arts
Council in a meeting on October
25, was the direct result of a pro-posal
by Bill Ray, who had drawn
up a constitution, at the sugges-tion
of the campus senior honor-ary
organization, College of Car-dinals.
The constitution, calling
for g federal set-up, was brought
before the Council for action. The
council ignored it and made plans
for an all-campus constitutional
convention.
The reason given by Council
members for this action was that
they favored a unitary plan.
Others expressed the opinion that
the power to deal with a constitu-tion
should be an elective body.
“Of course, I’m still sympathetic
with my orginal plan,” Ray said
yesterday, “but whatever the rep-resentatives
wish to do will re-ceive
my sanction.”
Wild Weseylan Sinks Cagers
In Overtime By 48-44 Count
By Bud Reeves
(Cardinal Sports Writer)
After leading the Purples of
Kentucky Wesleyan throughout
three periods of play, the Car-dinals’
inner defense crumbled
before a lest minute spurt that
saw the invaders knot the score
with seconds to play, then out-distance
the Card quintet in an
overtime to triumph 48-44.
With Wesleyan trailing by two
points, ar.d fifteen seconds of
play re naming, McKensie of the
Purples ripped the ropes from a
few feet out to even up matters
and send the game into an extra
frame.
Wesleyan Breaks Loose
Wesleyan broke loose with
reckless fury in the added stanza.
Garnett’s conversion of a foul and
Deaton’s bullseye pushed the
Purples out front 45-42 before the
ref could stroke his brow. Weber
registered on a push shot to move
the Cards within one point of the
foe, but Garnet clipped the cords
with a one-armed flip that
clinched the test. An incon-sequential
foul shot a moment
later completed the scoring, and
before the Cards could strike
back, the game ended.
The game was ragged from
start to finish, with both quints
playing with reckless abandon.
Neither side was able to connect
consistantly, and only occasionally
did either side capitalize on their
share of gratis flings. At times
the Cardinal offensive showed
possibilities, but erratic passing
and shooting nullified their
chance of pulling away. Seven
times during the encounter the
score was knotted tigher than last
week’s wash, including the half-time
score which was 21-21.
Frazier, Weber Top
Whitlock of the Purples paced
the visiters’ attack with 10 points,
with three of his mates garnering
8 apiece. “Si” Frazier, the only
sharp-shooter of the night for
Louisville, shared scoring honors
with Co-captain Weber, as both
men rang up an even dozen
markers.
In a preliminary go, the Car-dinal
Frosh captured their first
win of the year as they nosed out
Fern Creek 19-18.
Line-up:
Wesleyan
FG FT TP
Slacy 0 1 1
Mckenzie 4 0 8
Deaton 4 0 8
Johns 2 1 5
Garnett 2 1 7
Baumeister 4 0 8
Whitlock 5 0 10
21 3 48
Louisville
FG FT TP
Frazier 5 2 12
Andrews 1 1 3
Slater 3 0 6
Horine 0 0 0
Roney 0 0 0
Weber 5 2 12
King 3 4 10
Gans 0 1 1
Summers 0 0 0
17 10 44