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VOL. XXI ASSOCIATED COLLEGIATE PRESS FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 4, 1949 INTER-COLLEGIATE PRESS NO. S
Policy Of Segregation
Temporarily Continued
By Board Of Trustees
The University of Louisville Board of Trustees decided this
week to continue to ban Negro students "pending a legal clarifica­tion
by the courts" of the University's position.
The Board authorized a state-ment
about its action after a
lengthy meeting, it was an­nounced
by Eli H. Brown, III,
Chairman of the Board.
The statement follows:
"The Board of Trustees at a
meeting considered at length the
admission of qualified Negro stu­dents
to the graduate and gradu­ate
professional schools of the U­niversity
of Louisville. The Trus­tees
have long recognized the de­sirability
of providing equal fa­cilities
for Negroes and have
maintained the Louisville Muni­cipal
College as a fully accredited
undergraduate liberal arts college.
We recognize our obligation to
Louisville and to the State of
Kentucky to provide graduate
and graduate profes sional educa­tion
and favor the admission of
qualified Negro students to the
graduate and graduate profession­al
schools of the University.
"By advice of counce! the Day
Law is legally a bar to the ad­mission.
However, we will co­operate
in seeking a legal re-ex­amination
of the constitutionality
of the Day Law and a re-examin­ation
by the Supreme Court of
its decision in Commonwealth vs.
Berea College.
"Therefore, be it resolved that
we regretfully must continue to
decline to admit Negro students
to the graduate schools and to the
graduate professional schools of
of the University of Louisville
pending a legal clarification by
the courts of the position out-lined
above."
Delta Phi Alpha
Installs Officers
The new officers of Delta Phi
Alpha, the German honorary fra­ternity
on campus, have been offi­cially
installed for the term. They
are: Donald Huffman, president;
Katheryn Kramer, vice-president;
Anneliese Weber, secretary; Bob
Johnson, treasurer.
This organization, under the
sponsorship of · Dr. John R. Bro­derius,
has made plans for a pic­nic
to be held on Sunday, Novem­ber
6 at 1:30 p.m. Those wishing
to attend are to meet in front of
the Administration Building.
ELI H. BROWN. III
'Recognizes Obligation'
Webster Elected
To Head AAUP
Dr. Harvey C. Webster, pro­fessor
of English in charge of the
U. of L. college-by-radio series,
has been elected president of the
local chapter of the American
Association of University Pro­fessors.
Dr. Webster succeeds Dr. Sid­ney
Terr, Associate Professor of
History.
Other officers named in the
election held last week are: vice­president,
Dr. Louis C. Kessel­man,
Assistant Professor of Poli­tical
Science; secretary, Dr. Wil­liam
Ekstrom, Assistant Profes­sor
of English; and treasurer, Miss
Georgia Ethridge, Instructor of
Social Science.
For the first time the local
chapter has established a board
of directors. Composed of all
present officers plus all past
presidents, the board also in­eludes
Dr. William Furnish, As­sistant
Professor of Biology; Dr.
George D. Wilson, Professor of
Education at Louisville Munici­pal
College; and Miss Mary Jo
Fink, Instructor in French and
A. A. U. P. national representa-tive.
- (Cardinal photo b11 McDonald
EVERYBODY'S TRYING TO GET INTO THE ACT ••.• cam
paigners and candidates flash their propaganda outside the polls
a:t :the Arts and Sciences Student Council Election on October 28.
Six out of eight candidates were elected and installed at a banquet
last Tuesday night.
Organization Candidates
Sweep Council Elections
At an election held in the Wo­men's
Buiding last ·Friday, Octo­ber
28, six students were elected
to the Arts and Science Student
Council.
Those chosen were: Hewitt Wil­kinson,
Delta Upsilon; Martha
Weidemer, Zeta Tau Alpha; Mary
Stewart Mullin, Pi Beta Phi; Tom
• Pfau, Lambda Chi Alpha; George
Korfhage, Kappa Alpha; and
Brown Cullen, Phi Kappa Tau.
The first candidate to be
elected, and the only one to re­ceive
the required 135 first place
votes was Hewitt Wilkinson.
Trailing him by one vote was
Martha Weidemer with 134. Tied
for second and third honors were
Mary Stewart Mulli.."l and Tom
Pfau with 132 each. The last of
those elected were George Kor­fhage
with 128 and Brown Cul­len
with 122 votes cast.
Ml Studeats Voted
The nine original candidates
gave the traditional speeches in
the Playhouse on October 26.
There were promises made to
the students l'8D8ing from various
methods of pre-reptratlon, to
Had•coJ fountaina bi eteey buDd­ing.
The orators were intro­duced
by the pt"eeidmt ol tbe
.tuMDt 00'....0, Joe wa.aa. Be
also read the candidates respec­tive
qualifications.
Out of the 2,251 students en­rolled
in the School of Arts and
Sciences, 941 managed to get
their votes cast before the closing
of the polls.
Phi Delta Delta
Lawv frat Returns
Phi Delta Delta, an internation·
allegal fraternity for women, was
reorganized at the University of
Louisville campus during a din­ner
and installation banquet at
the Brown Hotel last Friday,
October 28.
The organization was original­ly
founded in Louisville in 1928,
at the old Law School on Broad·
way by Anna H. Settle, Mrs. M.
Fowler, and Mrs. Julia Fahey.
These ladies are still active and
were very much responsible for
the reactivation of this chapter.
New officers were a1lo e1eeted
at the dinner. Those choeen were:
J:stelle Gordon, pre~ident; LouJie
Kaufman Petrilli, ~preaideDt;
11ar7 Arierberry, MeneeiJor;
LudUe Burt, recorcliDI motam
IIDd lreae PiplaD. cheplla
Dr. Corner
Will Speak
To Sigma Xi
Dr. George W. Corner, a nation­al
lecturer of the Sigma Xi, will
speak at 8:30 p.m. on Friday eve­ning,
November 11 in the Allen
Court Room. His subject will be
"Ovary and Embryo and The Re­produc'l:
ive Cycle in the Rhesus
Monkey."
Dr. Corner was the speaker at
the intial meeting of the Sigma
Xi Club, a medical organization
of the University of Louisville, in
October 1946. He is a member of
the National Academy of Scien­ces
and the American Philoso­phical
Society, and the director
of the Department of Embryology
of the Carnegie Institute of Wash­ington.
He is a frequent speaker at
medical and scientific society
meetings and has lectured on his
research and on topics in med­ical
history in Europe, Canada,
South America and United States.
His writings include a large num­ber
of articles and several books
chiefly on anatomy and physicol­ogy
of reproduction and on the
history of medicine.
This lecture is open to the pub­lic,
and the Sigma Xi Club ex­tends
a cordial invitation to all
those interested.
Crandall Plans
New Recital Hall
for Gardencourt
Plans are being made for a
Recital Hall at 'Gardencourt that
will put Louisville on the map,
according to Mr. William Wright
Crandall, of New York City, arch­itect-
in-residence of the Universi­ty
of Louisville.
The uses of the hall wilL in­clude
operas, small or large con­certs,
solo programs, or pageants
with recorded music for a back­ground.
Although only tentative
plans have been made for con­struction,
Mr. Crandall said that
full advantage will be taken of
the wonderful views and scenery,
and the main problem is- to bal­lance
"What we want and what
we have to spend."
Building To Be 'Flexible'
The hall is being built as a re­sult
of a series of-gifts started in
1937 by the late Mrs. William R.
Belknap, widow of the man for
whom the Arts and Sciences cam­pus
was named. The cost of the
building is not definite but the
$16,000 given by Mrs. Belknap
plus additional funds contributed
by the University, and friends of
the Music School , will finance the
hall. Dr. John W. Taylor, Presi­dent
of the University, who an­nounced
the gift, emphasized that
Mrs. Belknap's gift was the fac­tor
that made the Recital Hall
possible. ·
The Emily Davison Recital Hall
will be named after Mrs. Bel-
Du.EEn
-(Cardinal photo by McDonald
Grid Team Picks Lovely Debby Blair
Queen Of '49 Homecoming Festivities
By RUTH KIRBY
Lovely Debby Blair was chosen by the football team last Monday to be the 1949 Homecoming
Queen of the University of Louisville. Debby, a member of Pi Beta Phi sorority, was selected over
nine other contestants representing different organizations on the campus.
The "Queen" will be presented by President Taylor at half time at the Homecoming game on
November 2. She and her court, consisting of the other contestants, will reign at the Victory Dance
that night at the Club Madrid.
knap's mother, who has been
called one of the most distin­guished
resident musicians Louis­ville
has had. Mrs. Davison, who
was a concert sorprano here, sang
as a guest artist with the New
York Philharmonic Orchestra,
toured England and Ireland, and
once -shared the platform with
Jenny Lind at a charity concert in
London.
Mr. Crandall said that he would
plan a building that should com­plement
the Georgian type main
building but would be set a short
distance from it. It will not be
Georgian because a dome-shaped
building is best for auditoriums,
and also because in Georgian
architecture "too much of the
money goes on the outside," he
said.
"People are the best acoustic
material in the world because
they are soft and bu~y so they
deaden the echoes, "Mr. Crandall
said. Too large a hall would mean
empty seats, so Mr. Crandall
plans a building, "as flexible as
possible," so it could be con­tracted
or expanded a bit by add­ing
aisle seats when necessary.
Nominees for the crown besides
Miss Blair were: Sarah Bewley,
Robbins Hall; Eloise Camp, Chi
Omega; Fadele Friedlander, Card­inalette;
Ann Jones, Sigma Kap­pa;
Jo Anne Knight, Kappa Del­ta;
Betty Quinn, Delta Zeta; Mar­guerite
Stevens, Independent Wo­men;
Marilyn Weinstein, Delta
Phi Epsilon; and Betty Wolfe, Ze­ta
T'au Alpha.
(Editor's note: A feature story
on the Queen appears on Page 3.)
Plaques To Be Given
Debby was chosen at an inform­al
meeting at the Playhouse which
was closed to the public. Each girl
came on the stage carrying her
number and told the players who
she was, what organization she
represented, and why she would
like to be Queen. The players
were told to make their selection
on the basis of poise and persona­lity.
Forty-three votes were cast.
After a meeting held last Fri­day,
October 27, the Homecoming
committee has released additional
plans for the festivities to take
I place next week. Acting upon a
suggestion from ·the administra­tion
and much discussion, the
Home,oming Committee decided
to give awards for house decora-and
second place plaques given
for both the fraternity and soro­rity
houses.
Bands Will March
Houses are to be judged by the
same committee who will judge
the Homecoming parade. Those
serving on that committee are
Mayor Charles P . Farnsley, Eli
H. Brown III, Morton Walker,
Lieutenant Governor Lawrence
Wetherby, Hilda Threlkeld, and
Dr. John W. Taylor.
It has also been released by the
Homecoming Committee that the
University of Washington Band
will be on hand to march in the
parade Friday. Other bands parti­cipating
in the parade will be
Jeffersonville High School band,
Jefferson Post 15 American Le­gion
band, Shawnee Post Ameri­can
Legion band, and the "March­ing
Cardinals" of the U. of L.
· Tickets for the Homecoming
Victory Dance went on sale last
Wednesday, November 2. All stu­dents
are urged to purchase their
tickets as soon as possible. The
tickets may be purchased in the
SUB for two dollars per couple.
French Film Critic Analyzes
Post-War Continental Cinema
tions.
The awards will be sponsored
by University of Louisville Alum­ni
Association. There will be first
Game tickets for the Homecom­ing
encounter with Washington
University of St. Louis have been
on sale for the past week. The
tickets have been mov·ing very
rapidly, and from all indications
there will be a sellout crowd at
DuPont Manual stadium come
An amusing critique was made last week when French film November 12.
producer and critic Jean R. Debrix stated that "American movies
are like ice cream sodas . . flavored to suit the taste of the audience,
and, like all things sold in drug stores, are sterilized by a censorship
office."
The former French Army of­ficer
who was a German prisoner
of war for five years addressed a
student convocation at the Play­house
last Thursday, Oct."27. He is
making an extensive ten-week
tour of the U. S. and Canada at
the invitation of the Alliance
.Francaise to lecture on the French
cinema at the level of poet and
novelist.
Dr. Paul Angiolilio, president of
the local chapter of the Al­liance
F r a n c a i s e, s t a t e d
that Mr. Debrix was the most
brilliant speaker to address the
group in the last two years, and
that "he did for films what has
been done for literature and mu­sic."
MoYi• Strongeat Media
Mr. Debrix, who sees the cine­ma
as a major art rather than as
a commercial enterprise, spoke
on the intellectual curiosity ap­parent
in French films since the
war and showed excerpts of films
dealing with psychological, SO·
ciological and philosophical pro­blema,
exemplifying the ten­dencies
of realism in French films.
"I feel tbat the cinema is the
.urongest media of communication,
1Uid it's very easy to believe when
you consider what the Nazi Goe­bels
did with propag&Dda films.
And education ia not neceaary for
appreciaUon, for fi1ma talk to our
uneonaclous rather than to our
c:oucioul, aDd penetrate iDto the
deptba af the human adDcl even
more thm does Ute U.U." be ·a,..,,....' .e.f.. ............. ..
a department of cinemagraphic
arts, and Mr. Debrix's eventual
aim is to found a similar institu­tion
in this country. A writer,
producer, director, critic, Mr. Deb­rix
stated that American movies,
the 'good' ones, are now very pop­ular
in Paris although the French
public was quite disappointed
when Hollywood sent its worst
shortly after the war when the
audiences were 'starving for good
shows'.
Teaches At Sorbonne
Formerly engaged in literary
work, 'Mr. Debrix has been wqrk­ing
in the film industry for 15
years, and is now completing a
book on "Cinemagraphic Arts."
He still writes for The Review of
Freach Thought, a French maga­zine
published in New York and
Paris, and is now teaching at the
Sorbonne. He is a native of Nor­mandy,
but has lived in Paris for
most of his life.
Oar Josie Is Back
Josephine, canine queen of the
campus, is back. Early last Sat­urday
morning, her long-suffering
cuardian angel, Mr. Warren Ray­mond
of Buildings and Grounds,
paid four dollars out of his own
pocket to the City Pound oHiciala
for Joeie'1 release.
By noon Saturday she wu back
on camp111, looking fat and IIUIY.
and up to her old habits nf eat­ing
lee cream cone tips and
..-rial at lltraDprl.
Weloome back, J~
Democrat Slate
Wins Majority
In Campus Poll
The Democrats can stop worry­ing
about the November eighth
election if political preferences of
U. of L. students are a reliable
barometer.
It was Charles Farnsley for
Mayor by 271 votes in the mock
election held last Monday by the
Political Arena. Though Farnsley
piled up a bigger vote than any­one
else on the Democratic slate,
every one of his running mates
scored victories over their Re­publican
rivals. The vote stood
at 448 for Farnsley to 177 for
Rees H. Dickson, the Republican
candidate.
At least nine students on th~
campus don't care for either
Farnsley or Dickson as mayoral­ity
timber. There were two write­'
in votes for James G. Stewart,
last year's Republican candidate,
and seven for Frank Leo, U. of L.
English major. Informed of the
election results, Leo, a completely
unpolitical student co~ented:
"Ha, I beat Stewart."
Of a total of 625 students vot­ing,
427 voted a straight ticket;
272 Democratic and 155 Republi­can,
leaving 198 scratched ballots.
The next largest number of
votes after Farnsley's went to
John Daugherty, Democratic can­didate
for Police Court prosecu·
tor. He received 403 to 205 for
E. P. Denunzio, his Republican
opponent. B. L. Shamburger,
Democratic nominee for County
Judge, received 330 votes to 258
for Miles Thacker, Republican
nominee. Votes for all other can­didates
ltood at 300 odd for the
Democratic candidate and 200 odd
for the Republican.
Gorin To Lecture
On 1Light Metals/
Mr. Lewis Gorin, President of
the Senior Chapter of the Society
for the Advancement of Manage­ment
and Special Assistant to the
Vice-president of Reynolds Metals
will speak at a meeting of the
Student Chapter of SAM at 12:15
on Thursday, Nov. 10.
Mr. Gorin will speak on "Light
Metals-A Short History and a
Long Future."
Awards Planned
for Radio Pupils
Sets of the twenty-four volume
Encyclopaedia Britannica will be
awarded to those Radio-Corres­pondence
students who most
satisfactorily complete the home
study course conducted by the
University of Louisville in associ­ation
with the N.B.C. University
Theatre.
The winners will be decid&l
by a board of impartial judges,
to be chosen later, on-the basis
of the final examinations.
"It is regrettable," stated Dr.
Harvey Webster, instructor of the
class, "that the university stu­dents
who also participate in the
class are not eligible for the a­ward.
Only those who participate
by radio, be they credit or non­credit
students, may qualify."
Accordin& to the present plan
two sets of the encyolopaedia will
be &iven this semester and tbree
sets next ~emester. At this date
there are JllOIIe than tbree ~
dred ~ studenta ellpble
for the award.
George McGhee Clarifies
Truman's Point Four Plan
For Law School Students
President Tntman's celebrated Point Four program was ex­plained
and clarified in an address here last week by George ~Ic­Ghee,
Assistant Secretary of State for Near East and Africian affairs.
U. of L. Delegates
Will Leare Today
for Psych Meeting
Several members of the U. of
L. Psychology Department, led by
Dr. Noble H. Kelly, head of the
department ,will leave t oday to
participate in the annual Chicago
meeting of the Association of
Northwestern College Psychia­trists
and Clinical Psychologists.
Dr. Kelly and Mr. Clyde W.
Swink, also of the psychology de­partment
here, are scheduled to
speak Sunday morning on "some
basic ideas of theory of psycho­dynamics"
Dr. Kelly will speak
on the fundamental growth pro­cesses
of people and the nature
of early conflicts in childhood
that contribute for or against
mental health. Mr. Swinks' topic
will cover the basic patterns of
parent-child relationships with
their resulting effects on patterns
of personality development.
The Association, of which Dr.
Kelley was president last year,
has been organized for ten years
and is the only organization of
its kind in the country where
members of both professions,
psychiatrists and psychologists,
can meet to talk over their com­mon
problems. Only those men
or women actively engaged in
mental hygiene work with col­lege
or university students may
obtain membership with the
group. All the members from the
state of Kentucky are from U.
of L.
Those planning to accompany
Dr. Kelley and Mr. Swink in­clude,
Mr. Paul Brown and Mr.
Nevel!, both from the Psych De­partment
and Dr. Samuel J . An­derson,
university physician and
psychiatrist.
Speaking before a large group
of students at the Law School's
Allen Courtroom, McGhee ela­borated
on the program designed
to develop those areas of the
world which are far behind in
industrial and technical know­how.
Point Four was one of the
principal clauses in the Presi­dent's
inaugural speech in Janu­ary.
However, McGhee emphasized
that the program was not primar­ily
a "stop-Communism" measure,
but would indirectly help the
western world's fight for free­dom
by helping those countries
out of their economic and poli­tical
chaos. He referred directly
to those countries in which he
has had a major role in the task
of rehabilitation, Greece and Tur­key.
To Introduce Private Enterprise
As an addition to the money
grants made to Greece, he cited
the example of the present low
death rate from malaria. This
was brought about with a rela­tively
low expenditure by a group
of technicians who sprayed every
house in Greece with DDT. The
estimated 60 million man-hours
saved yearly by the lowered
malaria rate will prove an eco­nomic
boon to Greece.
"It is not contemplated to give
undeveloped areas aid through
such a program as the Marshall
Plan, but to introduce private
enterprise and initiative through
our own investors," he added.
Competition Will Reduce Trade
The government is now work­ing
on a plan to guarantee these
investors from loss of their
initial cost; danger of war;
and nationalization of industry.
"Competition will reduce the
demand for American products in
foreign markets for a while, he
said, but in the long run such a
program as this would greatly
aid our export and import trade.
-(Cardinal photo by McDonald
MIGHT WE SAY EDITOR KAY HARDY and Business Manager
Dick Barne:t:t were slightly overjoyed at the huge success of their
campaign to pass the Thoroughbred Blanket Charge. Incidentally.
if you're wondering. the ballots they're Iossing are blanks.
Student Body Says
To Annual Blanket
'Yes'
Tax
With seventy-nine percent of the students voting yes, the Tho­roughbred
blanket tax was approved last Friday, October 28, in a
student poll conducted by the University Student Council.
China Discussed
Reverend Raymond W omeldorf,
a missionary recently returned
from China, spoke on "The Chal­lenge
of Communism" last Mon­day
in the Religious Center.
Womeldorf is concerned about
the problems that confront west­ern
Christianity as a result of the
foothold that Communism has
gotten in the Asiatic world.
Briefly decribing the inception
of Communism and how this has
been accomplished by the gradual
propaganda methods, he provided
some interesting glimpses into the
machinery of the party in China.
He pointed out that the Commu­nists
have taken several hundred
students, each year since 1926,
to Moscow for train;ng in propa­ganda
methods.
Reverend Womeldorf is pessi­mistic
about the future of the
world and its defense against
Communism but believes that
there ia hope. This, he believes,
ia the unification of Christian
forces in. the West and the Jiving
of an ideoloiY to the people of
U..Eut.
The blanket tax, a system used
in most of the major colleges was
suggested by Kay Hardy, Editor­in-
Chief of the Thoroughbred, and
Business Manager, Dick Barnett.
It was only after vigorous cam­paigning
by Kay and her associ­ates
that the system was finally
approved by the students. Letters
were written to the Cardinal, and
discussions were held with the
various fraternities, sororities and
other organized groups.
Retums Listed
Kay also talked at convocations
of the various schools in order
to impress the benefits and pres­tige
that are to be gained from
this system. ·
The official returns from all the
university Schools were:
Y• No
Arts aDd Sc:ieDee. 741 164
Medleal llehool 80
Dental llehool 178 38
Speed llehool 151 68.
Law Sclaool 110 u
llu8le 8cbDol a 2
TwCd ~- 117