UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE’S
CARDINAL
VOL. 10 LOUISVILLE. KENTUCKY. FRIDAY. MARCH 13. 1942 NO. 21
WE ARE PROUD
THAT . . . .
. . . “The Cardinal is a newspaper,
published by the students of the Uni-versity
of Louisville. The views ex-pressed
in it are those of students
only.”
University Mag
Shows Variety
In New Issue
On the whole this issue of the
University is rather good. The
stories are varied—all the con-tributors
are new to the magazine
and their stuff is new and some-what
varied.
Mary Margaret Donovan’s story!
“Letter to the Editor,” is light and
written for the amusement of the
readers—and it accomplishes its
purpose rather well—The whole
thing is in a spirit of fun and
broad humor. And frankly, we
got many a hearty laugh reading
of the experiences of this horse-loving
yokel (saddle horses, no-tice)
who shines when there is a
little bourbon handy. Donovan
displays evident familiarity with
her subject—keeps the story of
the characters moving rapidly 1
from one event to another. The
erroneous typography to say
the least adds to the general
fun and “is a thing of beauty” to
behold.
Cardwell Sets Pace
The story by Betty Ann Card-well,
“Wandering Companion-less”
is the best all-around story
with respect to subject matter,
actual style and story value—in
the current issue of the Univer-sity
Magazine. Miss Cardwell
writes in a very fluent and easy
prose style—and of consequence,
her sentences and sentence-struc-ture
are of a superior kind. Her
prose catches the reader’s inter-est
and makes him want to finish
the story. At the same time he
realizes that he is reading good
stuff. The plight of Phil and his
loneliness holds the reader and
one wants to learn how he solved
it. Why? Simply, because, almost
everyone at some time or another
has been akin to Phil and there
is a bond of interest between
them.
Newcomer Clicks
Beth Osborne’s “March of
Time” is a good story. The char-acters
are drawn quite well,
there is good detail and descrip-tion,
the point of interest is held
—all these cardinal points of a
good story are developed skill-fully.
But—the central situation
in the story doesn’t come off very
well. The conflict between Mrs.
Lake and Elsa is described nice-ly,
but there is no incident to
show this sharply enough. Conse-
Kentucky Colonel
To Address Med,
Campus Convos
Colonel Erskine Hume of the
Surgeon General’s Office of the
United States Army Medical Corp
will be on Belknap Campus Tues-day
morning at 10:30 to speak at
a special convocation at The Play_
house. He will speak at Medical
School at 1:30 on “Training Med-ical
Men for Military Duty.”
Colonel Hume has been an
army man the greater share of
his life. Besides being an army
man he is an author, a doctor, a
teacher, and definitely a book
worm. One of his favorite jobs
was that of librarian for the
Army Medical Library —a posi-tion
he held two times.
Campus Sampling
Indicates Approval
Of Belknap Council
A strongly favorable response
greeted the Cardinal’s unofficial
poll this week on the desirability
of establishing an all campus
council.
The poll took the form of three
questions:
“Do you think that the plan is
desirable?”
“Do you think it’s practical and
would work effectively?”
“If not, why not?”
Whether this is due to greater
natural ebullience is a moot ques-tion—
but it is a matter of record.
Some of the girls thought that
this would be a fine means for
keeping them in touch with what
was going on about the campus.
Most of the boys favored the no-tion
of greater cooperation be-tween
the different schools. The
editors are happy that many stu-dents
should have taken the
trouble to read the editorial.
There was a minute minority of
rugged individuals who thought
that each of the schools should
sink or swim by itself; and sev-eral
students who favored it as an
idea but questioned its practic-ability.
Wilcox To Explain
Causes Of Conflict
At Army Camp
At request of the War Depart-ment
Dr. Francis O. Wilcox will
invade southern h i nte rla n and s
March 23 to lecture on the causes
of the present conflict for benefit
of soldiers stationed at Camp
Tyson, Paris, Tennessee.
Dr. Wilcox explained how the
Army had recently introduced
this procedure in an effort to
show the background of the pres-ent
war. Army officers conduct
the course which is supplemented
by experts in the field of inter-national
relations. Indicative of
the progressive spirit of the
army, this is a relatively new
thing towards building up morale.
“This makes for informed allegi-ance
rather than blind obedience
as evidenced in the Fascist
states”, declared professor Wilcox.
Marriage Waits
On War Tides
For Collegians
College youth, on the threshold
of active participation in adult
life, is having to postpone its
plans for marriage.
How war is taking precedence
over the every-day pursuits of
most Americans is being seen
everywhere every day, and how
it is affecting the nation’s young
people is perhaps the most sig-nificant
of social upheavals. A
national sampling of Student
Opinion Surveys of America in-dicates
that while a year ago this
month at least half of the stu-dents
attending colleges and uni-versities
hoped to be married
within two years after leaving
school, today only one-third of
them have the same expectation.
Interviewing students of all
ages and incomes in a propor-tional
cross section, the Surveys
placed this question before hun-dreds
of collegians:
“How soon after you leave col-lege
do you hope to be able to be
married?”
Men Women
Before leaving college,
said 1% 1%
Within 1 year 13 17
Within 2 years 18 20
Within 3 years 9 10
Within 4 years 5 9
Within 5 years 6 4
Within 6 years 7 5
Within 7 years or more 6 2
Depends on the war 17 14
Already married 1 1
Don’t know 17 17
Co-eds, it may be noted, are
eager to marry sooner than men,
but the hopes of all have dimin-ished.
Last year, for example, 22
per cent wanted to settle down
within a year after graduation;
now only 14 per cent of both
sexes have that hope.
Engagements, on the other
hand, appear to be comparatively
high. “Would you mind telling
me if you are engaged to be mar-ried?”
interviewers asked.
Men Women
Are engaged, said 7% 10%
Are not engaged 88 84
Would not answer
question 5 6
First Aid Course
Awaits Prompt
Campus Start
If within the next few weeks
you note many people going
about with cravat bandages tied
artistically around their heads or
suddenly come upon a student ad-ministering
artificial respiration
on a “victim” you really have no
occasion for alarm. These seem-ingly
unusual incidents will mere-ly
be the results of instruction re-ceived
in the Red Cross first aid
class which will start soon here
on the campus. The course is to
be held on Thursdays from 3:30 to
5:30 in the Women’s Building.
The only financial involvements
are sixty cents for a first aid
manual (several can use the same
one) and fifteen cents for two
triangular bandages. Watch the
bulletin boards for announce-ment
of the first session of this
course.
Co-eds Learn About Food
Also in direct connection with
civilian defense is the Nutrition
course which held its first meet-ing
last Wednesday in the Home
Economics building. These classes
will meet regularly every Wed-nesday
from 5:30 to 7:30. The
Nutrition course is a pre-requisite
for Canteen work and no prev-ious
training in home economics
is necessary for either. Upon com-pletion
of this course one will
have a knowledge of, among
other things, home gardening,
canning, and be able to prepare
school lunches. Again the only
expenditure necessary is the pur-chase
of a manual. It is still not
too late to enroll in this course.
“Shadrack” Shively Bids Adieu To Old Haunts
Gives Up Volley Ball and 90,000 Grads For Boats
By BETH OSBORNE
The face at the Alumni Room
window is no more. That’s right—
Les has gone. He so successfully
defended his title as “Perpetual
Campus Freshman” (even after
graduating in 1933) that he was
offered a defense job. Mr. Shively
left Wednesday to do personnel
work at the Jeffersonville Boat
Works.
There was a time when Les
was the Joe College of U. of L.
It’s a fact. In 1933, one of those
“political elections” so famous at
U. of L. made Les the Man about
the campus. Then, came gradua-tion.
Oh happy day! Shively won
his reprieve. In 1937, Shively won
back. Matter of fact, he’s been
here for the past five years.
Giving away geese, handing out
jobs, and holding up the Alumnae
Association. Les has collected
$60,000, gotten together a file on
the 90,000 grads of U. of L., and
played a mean game of volley
ball with the faculty. “Come to
think of it,” says he, “that’s the
thing I’ll miss most about U. of
L.”
Flossy Carries on
Will the Alumni Association
continue without this guiding
light? Naturally. Mrs. VanZant—-
or Flossy if you like—will carry
on. (In a quiet way of course.) At
this point in the interview, there
was a slight argument as to who
had been doing all the work in
the Alumni rooms these past
couple years anyway. Les refused
to yield—so you can refer to him
as the boss.
Some of us will miss that sunny
(where does he hide that sun-lamp?)
face more than others. In
order to avoid this, Les is going
to try and get back to the campus
every couple of nights. He will
attempt to squeeze Miss Hoblitzell
into the rest of the week. At some
future date he’s going to come
back to the campus to work again
—he hopes. He must have meant
it when he said he liked to be
with the students.
It’s going to be so much easier
to find Les now that he has this
new job. Of course you could al-ways
look in the Bookstore. Yes,
it’ll be a change. And that made
us think—what had changed the
most since Joe College arrived at
Belknap? Says Flossy, “The scen-ery.”
But Les voted for the in-creasing
spirit of unity. And he
said: “Speed School has come to
the front in campus affairs and
Liberal Arts is going backwards.”
Ouch.
Well, we hate to see him go, but
it seems that Shadrack told Les
it was OK.
Breese To Feature Entertainers
In Tonight’s Prom Blowout
By MARY HOAGLAND
Well, tonight’s the big night! Tonight Sally will wear her favorite
formal and Johnnie his (only) tux. Tonight they’ll proudly stroll in the
Madrid, spell-bound at the thought of seeing one of radio’s “Spotlight
Bands” in action.
Tonight Lou Breese’s 16-piece band makes it triumphal appearance
to a U. of L. audience. Tonight anticipatory dancers will waltz and
swing to tunes featuring vocalists, Bobby Baker, Bobby Warren and
Skip Morr—each an expert song
stylist, both Bobbies specializing
more or less in rhythm numbers
while Skip Morr really gives out
with those sentimental ballads.
(Girls, it’s been said that he really
turns it on, causing many a fem-inine
heart to flutter. Hey, that’s
talking up the wrong alley, after
all, it’s you boys who are puttin’
out—pardon.)
Two other performers, Ted Till-man
and Mel Winters also do
their special bit, Ted being a sec-ond
Gene Krupa and Mel Winters
doubling for Vincent Lopez.
That’s just a subtle way of in-forming
you that Ted is super on
the modern tom-tom while Mel
excels as a pianist. (Aren’t we
just too clever?)
Does it seem that every mem-ber
of the band is a star in his
own field? Well, that’s not far
wrong. From all appearances the
whole gang is simply tops, with
speciality numbers a profession.
Seems as if we’ve about cover-ed
the orchestra’s contribution to
the dance but that isn’t all; the
place, crowd, and array of outfits
all have their place plus the
flowers we hope you buy at the
door. Of course, by this time >ou
know that pre-bought corsages
are definitely out of order. If
there’s any splurging of this sort,
it’s to be done at the door where
the Red Cross is preparing some
at a much more reasonable fee.
Now come on boys, let’s all go
to the dance of the year! Remem-ber,
tonight’s the night! If you
haven’t gotten anybody to drag
at this late date, there’s still time
—believe us, just every girl on
the campus is practically dying to
go—so give somebody a break. Or
if you’re not in a kind-hearted
mood, come on anyway. Stags are
always admitted with open arms.
We’ll be expecting you.
Amorous Mixup
Stars Earl Tyler
In Comedy Tuesday
A one-act play, “Red Carna-tions”,
will be presented at The
Playhouse Tuesday, March 17, at
8:30. Starring Jewell Brown, and
Earl Tyler, both L. A. Freshmen,
and Mr. Charles Seitz, Little
Theater member, the play will be
presented free of charge to Little
Theater members and U. of L.
students.
The plot is briefly this. Boy
meets girl at a masquerade ball.
Inevitable result: they fall in
love, and boy asks girl to meet
him in the park the next day.
Since they are both in masked
costumes, they have no means of
identification except that boy
tells girl his name is Smith. Boy
goes to the park, meets another
man who says he attended the
same ball, wore the same cos-tume,
met the same girl, planned
a meeting in the park, and, you
guessed it, his name is also Smith.
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