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VOL. 9 LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY. FRIDAY. APRIL 4. 1941 NO. 24
Hot Hepcats
Thoroughbred
Dance Feature
Haley's Hepcats, who sling the
hottest jive in Louisville and
vicinity, will promote jive extra-ordinary
for the patrons of to-night's
Thoroughbred Dance. This
little seven-piece band, which has
been creating such a sensation at
Haley's Cafe, a colored night spot,
is under the able direction of
Davette Stallard; a personification
of versatility. He not only leads
the band, but also plays the bass
fiddle, sings, and arranges the
band’s music.
It is also interesting to note
that the band plays no stock
music. All their compositions are
either arranged or original, and,
according to avid fans, their
original composition, “Smoke
Town Possum,” should be num-ber
one on the Jive Parade.
Some of the members of this
band have recently accepted
offers from a well-known New
York band, and one boy used to
sing with the famous Inkspots.
The band will present a few
unique vocal numbers in which
all its members participate.
Sharing the limelight with
Haley’s band will be the Thor-oughbred
Queen election in
which eighteen U. of L. co-eds
will compete. One candidate has
asked to withdraw from the con-test.
The Candidates
The following are the
Miss 1941 Thoroughbred
candidates: Lacy Abell,
Ursa Linn Back, Marie Fitz-patrick,
Doris Gleason, Mary
Ward Goddard, Dorothy
Jackson, Helen Jennings,
Kitty Kenner, Martha Kim-
Grace McMahon,
Kitty Newman, Mary Rule,
Elizabeth Sengel, Eugenia
Stuart and Mary Trueheart
Williamson.
L. A. President,
Member Petitions
Due April 25
Petitions for candidates for
L. A. Student Council Presi-dent
and members must be turn-ed
in to either Leonard Jones,
Chairman of the Election Com-mittee,
or Dean Threlkeld on or
before April 25.
Each nominating petition must
have at least fifty signatures of
L. A. students. All students of the
Liberal Arts College are eligible
for the presidency and member-ship
on the council.
At the primary on the 25th if
one candidate for president re-ceives
a maority, he shall be de-clared
elected. However, if no
candidate gets a majority, there
will be run-off election on Friday,
May 2. between the two candi-dates
with the greatest number of
votes. The person who receives
the largest number of votes in
this election is elected President
of the Student Body. The unsuc-cessful
candidate automatically
becomes a member of the council,
reducing the number of coun-cilors
elected at large from nine
to-eight.
President Council Ex Officio
All other unsuccessful candi-dates
for President automatically
become candidates for Student
Council members and their names
will be put on the ballots without
requirements.
The newly-elected president
becomes an ex-officio member of
the student council without vot-ing
power immediately after his
election. His term of office begins
at the last meeting of the old stu-dent
council, when the retiring
president turns over the gavel to
him.
Election for council members
will be held two weeks after the
president is elected, May 16.
Council members will be elected
by the Hare system of proportion-al
representation from the Liber-al
Arts student body at large.
Eight members will be elected.
Poll Shows Students Favor F. D. R. Policy
Also Strongly Oppose War, Convoys To Great Britain
By JAMES B. HOGE
(Cardinal Poll Editor)
Endorsement of President
Roosevelt’s foreign policies by
55% of the students contacted in
a Cardinal poll conducted on an
all-University basis was revealed
this week. There was, however,
hearty disagreement on .he prin-cipal
parts of these policies, indi-cating
that confusion existed in
the minds of the students as to
the actual make-up of these
opinions.
Poll on Foreign Affairs
The question “Are you in favor
of Roosevelt’s policies at the pres-ent
time?” showed that the Presi-dent’s
popularity is still riding
high on the campus, especially
among the lowerclassmen, though
not to the extent that it is with
the country at large. The results:
Yes—ss%. N0—29% and Unde-cided
—16%.
“If Japan moves on the Dutch
East Indies, are you in favor of
sending our fleet against her?”
The results: Yes—34%, N0—47%,
and Undecided —19%. Of those
with an opinion, the student body
seems to dislike a war with Japan
This poll was taken as scien-tifically
as possible. Considerable
time was spent testing the senti-ment
of students at Medical, Law.
Dental, Speed and Music Schools,
Liberal Arts and the Division of
Adult Education.—Editor.
on those grounds, but especially
notable is the undecided vote,
almost a fifth of the electorate, in
whose minds a doubt rests. In-teresting
were the comments on
the location of the Dutch East
Indies and their part in our terri-torial
defense many asked
where the Dutch East Indies were
located, their distance from the
United States, from Japan and
from the Philippines. Some heat-edly
contended that if Japan
grabbed the Dutch East Indies,
they would be too close to the
U. S. for comfort.
“Are you in favor of the Amer-ican
Navy convoying supply ships
to Great Britain?” The results:
Yes—3s%, N0—55% and Unde-cided
—10%. Here is a clear ma-jority
against using the Navy for
convoying supplies to Britain.
This will be interesting to watch
in coming weeks. The undecided
vote in this case is the lowest of
all—ten per cent, but still indL
eating considerable lack of posi-tive
opinion.
Favor Sending Food
“Are you in favor of sending
food and other vital health sup-plies
to unoccupied France?”
found a slight plurality in favor
of the project among those with
crystallized opinions. The results:
Yes—4s%, N0—42% and Unde-cided—
l3%.
The Ludlow Amendment vote
“If you were asked to vote on
whether the United States should
go to war against Germany and
Italy, would you vote for the ac-tion?”
found 18% in favor of war
at the present moment and 82%
opposed. A Gallop poll of three
weeks ago found almost the same
percentage for the nation as a
whole or 17% for war and 83%
opposed.
Debate Team
Drives For Fund
With Tag Sale
Today has been announced as
Debate Tag Day with proceeds
from the sale of tags to be used
to send the U. of L. debate team
to the Rockhill, S. C. debate meet.
Extraction of the pecuniary re-sources
from parsimonious stu-dents
will be undertaken by fif-teen
(count ’em) coeds from three
sororities (this week only).
U. of L. may not be represented
in the Annual National Debate
Tourney at Rock Hill, South Caro-lina
this year if present efforts to
raise funds for the team are not
successful. Debate team members
have finished polishing up argu-ments
both for and against
“Union for the Western Hemi-sphere”
in intercollegiate and in-tramural
debates since October,
1940. But unless Debate Tag Day
is successful, debate members ex-plained,
U. of L. will be unable
to send its team to the annual
competition where teams from all
over the United States vie for
national honors.
Although debate activities had
already been cut somewhat as
compared with other years the
University Administration re-cently
announced that the admin-istration
would match any funds
which the Student Council might
provide for the team. The Student
Council has not as yet voted to
help finance the trip.
Easter Vacation
The longest Easter Vaca-tion
in many years begins
for all University students,
excepting Medical and
Dental undergraduates, to-night.
Classes will not be
resumed until April 14. Ad-ministration
official an-nounced
that Medical and
Dental students will con-clude
their work one week
earlier this semester.
Ace Foreign Writer
Gives Inside Views
At I. R. C. Luncheon
“Freedom never dies” declared
Captain Edward B. Hitchcock be-fore
a luncheon meeting of the
I. R. C. on Wednesday. Captain
Hitchcock, a foreign correspond-ent,
discussing the valiant stand
of the Greeks and other small
countries attacked by the German
Reich, predicted that Germany
had spread out too fast and too
thin and will soon, if she has not
already, find herself in an ex-tremely
precarious position.
Before becoming the personal
aid and recent biographer of
President Benes of Czechoslo-vakia,
he was head of the foreign
bureau of the Christian Science
Monitor. His book on Benes was
suppressed and destroyed in
Germany but has been repro-duced
since in England.
Turkey Joining Allies
Turkey, said the Captain, is
practically joining the Allies,
while Yugoslavia was the biggest
upset in Germany’s bloodless
Balkan drive and may be the
turning point of the war. This is a
war of attrition, he emphasized,
as well as a war of munition. U.S.
aid within a year will be great
enough to ensure the defeat of
the Axis and both Hitler and
Mussolini know this.
Rather than risk an invasion of
Britain, Hitler will probably
march into the Russian Ukraine
and seize the rich oil wells. This
lack of oil is stopping Germany
now and Russia has that oil.
Russia is still, however, the big
question mark. She may beforced
to fight Germany on the side of
the Allies, but it will be only for
the sake of expediency and not
because of any love for them, he
further stated.
In answer to questions from
several I. R. C. members, Captain
Hitchcock asserted that the Ger-man
masses are probably behind
Hitler and they will remain be-hind
him till he begins to meet
more and more reverses. In re-gard
to th& Pacific situation, the
Captain expressed doubt that the
United States and Japan would
come to actual blows.
Plans To Combine Two Years
Of Medical, Dental Announced
$125,000 Dental Addition To Medical,
Plus $40,000 Dental Clinic Foreseen
Plans for consolidating the first two years of the Medical and
Dental schools of the University of Louisville were announced today
by President Raymond A. Kent.
Steps to implement the plan include the abandonment of the
present dental building at Brook and Broadway; erection of a $125,000
dental addition to the medical building at First and Chestnut; and the
erection of a $40,000 dental clinic
at the City Hospital.
With the sale of the present
dental building, President Kent
said the entire project could prob-ably
be completed with an ex-penditure
of approximately
$140,000. Complete realization of
the plan depends upon procuring
that amount, Dr. Kent said. But
steps that can be taken without
the new buildings are already
underway, shrdlmt medical and
dental classes, for example.
Consumation of the plan, “will
place the University as leader in
the teaching of medical arts.” It
will also add materially to the
University’s contribution to
dental health of the city, he said.
Announcement Thursday
Announcement of the proposed
changes came on the University’s
105th birthday. The medical col-lege,
one of the first in the south,
was founded on April 3, 1837.
Specific steps approved by the
Board of Trustees, include:
1. Admission requirements to
the study of dentistry will be
equal to those for admission to
the medical school.
2. The first two years of the
dental course will be the same as
those of the medical course.
3. These first two years of
study may be counted either for a
medical or a denial degree.
4. The dental student in the
third and fourth years will have
opportunities similar to medical
student's for training in diag-nosis
and in clinical medicine.
5. The graduate in dentistry
may be able to obtain a medical
degree with two additional years
of study and the graduate of med-icine
may be able to get a dental
degree in the same length of lime.
“The time has come when it is
essential that the practicing den-tist
should have greater knowl-edge
of clinical medicine,” said
Dean J. T. O’Rourke of the Den-tal
school, who is responsible for
initiating the new teaching plan.
Dean O’Rourke spoke of a
“startling no man’s land” that
exists between medicine and
dentistry because of neglected
aspects in the education and prac-tice
of both dentists and physi-cians.
The entire new program is
based, he said, on'the extremely
close relationship that exists be-tween
health of the teeth and
mouth and halth of the body as a
whole.
“What has been done in the
field of medical-dental relation-ship,”
Dean O’Rourke said, “is
nothing compared to the needs
which should be met by import-ant
findings from investigation
in the relatively unexplored
areas.
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