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VOL. XXI
Thoroughbred I
And Pia yshop
Join Talents
The Playshop and Thorough­bred
will combine .their efforts to
make the last student production
of the season a social event for
the entire University.
The three one-act plays now in
r ehearsal, Through A Glass. Dark­ly.
All-American Ape and Silver
Nails. will be presented May 25,
26 and 27. Curtain .time is 8:30.
The two groups are collaborat­ing
on the production with the
aim of bringing all of the schools
of the University together for
dr amatic entertainment.
The first play on the program,
Through A Glass, Darkly by Stan­ley
Richards is a treatment of a
current racial problem.
Working under the new direc­tors,
Dick CJ.ay and Glenn Hut­chins,
the cast includes George
Morr ison, Ludie De Spain, Joe
McCall, Fadel Friedlander, Lucy
Cohen and Harold Stuckler.
The AU-American Ape by Wil­liam
Kephart is the story of a
football player who can't face life
competently a f t e r graduation
from college. George Weimann
and Tom Grayson are directing
the play. Among the students in
the cast are Bill Ray and Sarah
Bewley.
Charlie McDaniel Directs
Silver Nails. by Nicholas Bela,
will furnish the comic relief for
the evening. This Irish play cen­ters
around the proud Patrick
Dennis O'Conner who is willing to
"d ie to save the family honor."
Now under the direction of
Charlie McDaniel, the cast is made
up of Ludie De Spain, Glenn Hut­chins,
Betty Thompson, Joe Kraft,
and Marguerite Stevens.
Braasch1 s Report
Reveals Senior's
Average Is J .457
The University Office of Field
Relations and Placement recently
released a report on the grade
point average of the 353 Arts and
Sciences seniors who made appli­cation
for degrees in June.
Grade point averages were tak­en
from students' grades as of
February 1, 1950.
The report reveals that one stu­dent
in the college topped the list
with a standing of 2.9, and that
three have standing of 2.6. Forty­five
students have better than 2.0
standing, and 80 have over 1.5.
One hundred and ninety-five of
the seniors have from 1.0 to 1.4
averages.
Twenty-nine hopefuls have less
than a 1.0 standing, 25 now having
averages of .9; three with aver­ages
of .8; and one with a low of
.7.
1.3 For Top Half
To be in the upper one-fourth of
his class a student should have a
grade poin taverage of 1.722, and
for the upper one-third, an aver­age
of 1.555. Students must have
at least a 1.375 in order to be in
the -top half of the present grad­uating
class.
The mean grade point average
is 1.457.
The report was compiled under
the direction of Mr. William
Braasch, director of the Office of
Field Relations and Placement,
and his assistant, Mr. Lorin K.
Johnson.
The Annual Navy ROTC Formal
ball will be held .at ·the Louisville
Boat Club on Friday night, May
19, 9-1. Music will be furnished
by Ckne Ernst.
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THE CARDINAL PLAYSHOP PRODUcnONS
MAY 25, 26, & 27
UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE'S OFFICIAL WEEKLY PUBLICATION
ASSOCIATED COLLEGIATE PRESS FRIDAY, MAY 12, 1950 lifTER-COLLEGIATE PRESS NO.2~
Little. Theater Company Thirty Austrian Students Coming
To. Close Cu~rent Season Here To Display Native Culture
W1th 'T~e V1llage Green'
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BE,FORE THE DEBATE on Socialized Medicine, Law School facul­ty
members Athol Lee Taylor and Edwin W. Paul held a warm-up
discussion. From left are Bill Fuller. president of the Political
Arena which sponsored the debate, Mr. Taylor. and Mr. Paul.
Taylor And Paul Debate
On Socialized Medicine
By JIM O'LEARY
Law instructor Athol Lee Taylor attacked socialized medicine
in a debate with his colleague, Edwin W. Paul, in the Ballroom of
the SUB last Friday at noon.
"I oppose the intended sociali­zation
of our government," said
Taylor. "It is just another step on
,the road to the bankruptcy of our
country.''
Taylor based his attack on the
assumption that a socialized medi­cine
program would involve an
unreasonably high administrative
expense and the loss of personal
freedom.
change. What we are doing is
quarreling over the rate of change.
"I am in favor of a change that
will meet the needs of the day."
Bill Fuller, moderator, closed
the platform with the announce­ment
that the Political Arena's
next meeting would take place on
Tuesday, May 16, the topic being
' "The Taft-Hartley Act."
The Little TI1eater Company will close the 1949-50 season at
the Playhouse with The Village Green, a three-act comedy by Carl
Allensworth. The play opens Monday night, May 15, at 8:30 p.m.
Dealing with small town poli-tics,
the play's central character iously ill just before rehearsals
is a judge, one who has definite began.
ideas about .artistic freedom. He Tickets for any one of the five
jumps to the defense of a young performances can be obtained at
painter when the fellow's work is the Little Theater box office, open
called obscene. now from twelve 'till four p.m.,
A complicated situation evolves, open Monday through Frid-ay of
because the judge is in the midst next week from noon until nine
of a campaign for a seat in the p.m.
state senate, and by defending
the artist he is endangering his
political position.
Playing the part of the judge
is Leroy Cooper, well-known local
actor, who has appeared in many
Little Theater shows. The large
supporting cast is headed by
Joyce Calloway, U of L co­ed;
Allen Clark, who is making
his stage debut at the Playhouse
in the role of the artist; and Dick
Clay, another U of L student who
has had several Li·ttle Theater
roles.
Others in the cast are: J -im De­Vol,
who was the flippant young
clerk in Counsellor-at-Law; War­ren
Oates; Mrs. Carl 0. Guenther;
James Willis who was Aegeus in
Medea; Ella Louise Wiedeburg
and Mrs. Reuel G. Hemdahl.
All in all, there will be
five performances of <the play, one
more .than usual. The added per­formance
on Friday night, May
19, will serve as a testimonial to
Ninde Wilder, prominent Louis­ville
educator, who was to have
portrayed the Judge in The Vil­lage
Green. Wilder became ser-
No Answer Found
For Speed School
Election Question
T.he Speed School's election is­sue
still remains unsolved. Fol­lowing
the counting of ballots
from Speed School for USC posi­tions,
it was found that Dale
Briggs and Jack Lynch were tied.
Kenneth Whitehouse, another can­didate
from Speed, was elected by
a safe margin.
The USC met on Thursday, May
4, and the issue was brought forth
for discussion. The Council deci.­ded
to count the second-place
votes on Whitehouse's ballots.
When they were counted, by an
amazing coincidence, the two can­didates
were still tied.
"You pay in the long rul\," he
said. "You pay in money, and
you pay in the loss of personal
freedom."
He called for a return to the
"individual approach" and "per­sonal
touch" that have character­ized
professional work in the past.
White And Rivers Win
Annual Writing Cqntest
A Speed student on the USC
suggested that Whitehouse's third
place votes be counted, but the
move was lost. The Council ,then
elected to turn the question over
to the Speed School Student
Council and let them decide the
matter as they saw fit.
The two boys in question agreed
that any method of selection
would be suitable to them. One
candidate even suggested flip­ping
a coin.
Mr. Paul began his defense of
socialized medicine by replying to
the charges made by Taylor.
Paul For Better Health
"I don't know what freedoms a
person would lose by b~longing to
a health insurance plan," he said.
"Most of the faculty bas hospitali­zation
now. Their freedom is
limited by a choice of only six
hospitals in town and only certain
types of rooms."
Paul also pointed out that we
practically have socialized medi­cine
now with our hospitalization
plans, plant physicians and nur­ses,
etc.
And pointing up his argument
for a healthy America that could
defend i•tself, he said, "Mr. Tay­lor
didn't say socialized medicine
would not make healthy people.
He said it was expensiye."
'Change To Meet Needs'
Mr. Taylor rejoined by relating
his own personal experience. "I
came from the working class of
people," he said. 'I didn't want to
stay there . . . and through hard
work and sacrifice I got through
Law School.
"Frankly, I don't want the
Government to worry about my
old age and my medical problems.
I believe in individualism."
Distilling the problem as he
saw it, Mr. Paul concluded that
"we 'are always going to have
Board Of Publications
Will Meet On May 16
The meeting of the Board of
Student Publications scheduled
for May 9 has been postponed un •.
til Tuesday, May 16.
At the meeting, the board will
select the editors and business
managers of the ThroughbrecL
Prologue. and the Speed Engin­eer
for 1950-51. Applications for
ali positions have been filed.
Robert White and Lucia Rivers have been awarded first priz­es
for short story and poetry, respectively, in the annual writing
contest sponsored by the English Department.
Ram K. Gupta_
Wins IRC Contest
Ram Krishna Gupta was
awarded first prize in the Inter­national
Relations Club Essay
Contest, "What can a campus
group do to promote International
Peace in its community.''
Mr. Gupta is a citizen of India,
working on his M. S. degree in
chemistry by virtue of an In­ternational
Fellowship.
His paper dealt with the need
of foreign students to feel they
are "accepted" socially as well as
on just a speaking basis. He also
pointed out that a campus group
should fight against discrimina­tion
against any. rflcial or relig­ious
group.
Mr. Gupta and representatives
from Georgetown University, Ur­suline
and Nazareth Colleges, and
U of L participated in a Ken­tucky
State Round Table last
week, sponsored by_ the U of L
International Relations Club. The
purpose of the Round Table was
to discuss "The Grass Roots Ap­proach
to International Peace."
The Moderator was Dr. William
A. Mueller of the Baptist Simi­nary.
While the radio round table was
in progress the remaining repre­sentatives
met in the periodical
room of the Student Union Build­ing
to discuss the United Nations
and peace. The student Madera.
tor was Ed Watson, Vice-presi­dent
of U of L's International Re­lations
Club.
Perle Commissioned
For Band Symphony
Pi Kappa Omicron has com­sioned
Mr. George Perle, Director
of the University Chorus, to com­pose
a symphony for band. The
date for the completion of the
commission has been set for Oc­tober
15, 1J!50.
Pi Kappa Omicron is the na­tional
band fraternity which was
founded on this campus. Accord­ing
to Charles Hammond, presi­dent
of -the :fraternity, '\the c.>m­mission
is the first of what is an­ticipated
to be a long series. In
.the future the :fraternity plans to
extend comn'lissions to at least
two nationally known composers
a year. Thereby we hope to raise
the quality and standards of bands
and band music."
Mr. Perle said, "I think. this fra­ternity
is doing something marv­elous.
The band has been general­ly
neglected by modern compos­ers-
there is no reason why the
band should be cbDfined to play­ing
marches on the football field.'~
Before he came to U of L Mr.
Perle . confined bjmae)f to work
~ tbe CII'CbeRra1, IIIWl lltriDJI,
and plaDO mecllnm But with his
mminl to tbe UDiveraity he "dis-
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~-- of IllUMe.
White's 40 page story about
jazz, "The Men From Mars," was
~dged best from about fifteen
entries in this division. The first
place winners in both sections
were awarded fifteen dollars.
The second ·award of ten dol­lars
in the short story contest
went to Robert Withrow for his
"A Pair of Calves," and the third
place honorable mention was won
by Miss' Rivers for "The Father.''
The poetry entries were judged
in groups of poems by each con.
testant. Miss Rivers took the first
prize, and the second award of
ten dollars went to White for his
works.
The prizes in this contest, which
has been running for about five
years, are donated by a Louis­ville
woman interested in pro­moting
student literary efforts.
This year the selections w.ere
judged by Ralph Nash and
Creighton Gilbert. The contest
was under the supervision of Dr.
Jarvis Thurston.
Change Of Views
Listed By Seniors
On Questionnaire
The greatest change of view
made by a group of 232 U of L
graduating seniors during their
four years of college was'that to­ward
international r e 1 a ti o n s.
Eighty-one per cent of them be­came
more interested in this sub­ject
during college life.
This change of view was dis­covered
when the A & S seniors
were asked last year by Dean J.
J . Oppenheimer to fill out a ques­tionnaire
concerning their atti­tudes.
The second ~argest change was
in beliefs about race relations. On
this point fifty-eight per cent of
the students felt more tolerant;
only six per cent were less toler­ant.
Forty-eight per cent of those
questioned stated that there was
no change in their attitude toward
political party affiliation while
twenty-two said they were more
liberal now than when they en­tered
the University.
Toward personal philosophy of
life fQrty-three per cent changed
slightly;· twenty-eight more social,
three less social. .
Also included in the survey
were questions concerning the stu­dents'
appreciation for his :friends,
family, church and rights as a ci­tizen.
·
ChUidl :b Leut Appnc:iahd
Sixty-seven of those interview­ed
stated that they have become
more appreciative of their rights
as a citizen; only six percent be­came
less appreciative since en­<
tering U of L.
Sixty-two per cent are now
UlOre appreciative of their friends
and sixty-one per cent more ap­preciative
of famll)r. The leut in­.
creue of appreciation due to col­lep
education appem-ed to be to­'
ward clluzdl.
If the issue has been settled by
this past Wedesday when the
Speed School Council was sched­uled
to meet, the two boys names
were to placed on the ballot and
voted upon by the student body
again.
John Oakley Wins
'Ugly Man' Contest
Sponsored By APO
Anyone can be beautiful, but it
,takes work to be ugly, says John­ny
Oakley, by all rights ~he ug­liest
man on U of L's campus.
This man with the oh-so-natural
countenance likes being Mr. Ugly
and is determined to surpass the
distinctive features of Franken­stein
and .the Angel (a pro rassler).
The Alpha Phi Omega contest
proved a tough one. We never
knew we had so many ugly men
on campus. The contestants were
Irvin Kravitz, Cliff Rompf, Brown
Cullen, Tom Pfau, Johnny Oakley,
Ingold Grinheim, and Morton
Walker, Dean of Men.
This time stuffing the ballot
box was encouraged, for .the win­ning
candidate was the one who
received the most money in nis
jar. Each penny was a vote.
The APO service fraternity dis­played
a rare brand of enthusiasm
in promoting this contest. Last
week they rigged up a public ad-
JOHNNY OAKLEY
TKE Candidate ,
dress system in front of the Stu­dent
Union Building on Howdy
Walk and stopped every passer­by
with calls and jibes. One felt
like a lower-calss amoeba unless
he or she added their two cents or
so to one of ·the jars.
A handsome trophy was deliver­ed
the night of the Fryberger
Sing ·to the winner and a booby
prize to "Dark Horse" Walker­a
dark horse.
Alpha Phi Omega's chairman of
-the contest, J. Cleve Gatchel, de­clared,
"This is the first time such
a contest has been sponsored on
the campus. lt ·has been given at
other schools to reise funds for
worthy projects, tho\llh." The pro­ceeds
from this COD188t will 80 to
the Student Chat l'uDd.
MEMBERS OF THE AUSTRIAN GOOD-WILL TOUR who will
appear on the campus May 25 are seen in one of the folk dances
which they will do here. The International Relations Club sponsors
their appearance. In addition to dances they will present tra-ditional
folk songs, poetry. and drama.
lJSC All-University Day
Proves A Great Success
Any Way You Look At It
ByEMILAUN
All-University Day last week was probably the most enjoyable
and best-organized social function held on campus this school year.
From the opening of the car­nival
at 1 p.m. until the finish of
the Sigma Kappa street dance
late that night, it was all one big
opportunity for everyone to have
a good time.
Hightlight of the day was' a
rendition of "Waggery for Wood­winds"
by the University Band
under Ernest Lyon. They didn't
do so bad on numbers such as
"Clancy Lowered the Boom" and
"Dry Bones", either, but for our
money, "Waggery", (like Middle.
ground) was the winner.
Kappa Alpha's both was the
most popular at the Carnival. You
bought three baseballs for a dime
ana- fiurled them at any one of
four targets. A bullseye dumped
a human victim into a pot of
water. I
The K. A.'s must have made a
barrel of money on that one. The
baseballs were going almost con­stantly,
and so, incidentally, were
the victims. Old Dizzy Dean him­self
couldn't have pitched very
many more strikes than that
crowd of students was throwing.
Lambda Chi featured a freak
show and promised for a dime to
show the "missing link"! Whether
this latter attraction was the fel­low
outside wearing a derby and
chanting into the microphone was
a matter for debate among sever­al
unkind bystanders.
Pi Phi's Give Fags
It was hard to tear yourself
away from the K. D. booth. Four
good-looking girls stuck out their
legs, and you tried to toss a gar­
·ter on them. The one drawback
was that you had to keep your
distance.
Pi Beta Phi attracted the golf­ers.
This sorority set up a minia­ture
course which would have de­fied
Byron Nelson. For a dime,
you got three chances to punch a
golf ball through a six-inch gap
between two blocks of wood on
into a hole about eight feet be-yond.
•
The Pi Phi's proved themselves
good business women. If you got
the ball through the wood and
into the hole, they gave you a
pack of cigarettes for a prize. Ten
cents for a chance on a twenty­cent
item! Well, it's a woman's
world.
ing it aloft, he triumphantly de­clar:
ed, 'Without work, there is no
real sucess.''
Actually, there wasn't a bad
booth on the midway. Some of
them were almost impossible to
beat, and one or two charged
prices bordering on the outrage­ous,
but the girls smiled so pret­tily,
almost no one had the heart
to complain.
Butler Played For Dance
The Red-Black football game
started around 3:30. All things
considered, it wasn't a bad con.
test at all, but I don't think any­body
was straining himself. The
- Reds won, 31-19.
The Sigma Kappa dance (admis­sion
free) began in front of The
Thinker at eight o'clock. Cliff But­ler
and his band furnished music
to a capacity crowd.
The Sigma Kappas passed out
several gallons of free punch
which was spiked with (alas!) ice
cream.
Each organization kept the
money it earned at the Carnival
for its own private use, so any
way you look at it, All-University
Day was just about a total success.
Group To ~eature
Folk Dances, Songs
"Amt Fur Studentenwanderun­gen,"
an Austrian non profit, non
political student group will visit
Louisville on Thursday, May 25.
Thirty young Austrian students
will invade the University of Lou­isville
campus at 12 noon in the
Playhouse where they will demon­strate
the cultural life of their na­tive
Austria as exemplified in her
traditional folk dances, folk songs,
poetry, •and drama.
Their appearance and perform­ance
is being sponsored by the In­ternational
Relations Club.
They will bring with them au­thentic
and colorful costumes
loaned by Austri·an museums and
fashion shops, and a roster of per­formers
who were chosen from
700 applicants at Austrian colleges
and universities.
Requirements were ability to
play two Alpine instruments, a
good singing voice, a knowledge
of folk songs and dances, good
scholastic standing and moral
character, and most important of
all, rthe ability to absorb every­thing
.they see in nine months in
America.
Have Been Well Received
The group is on a seven month
cross-country tour of rthe United
States. The purpose of the trip is
to establish personal contact be­tween
the university youth of
Austria and America.
The students have been enthus­iastically
received by the student
body and the general public of
Yale, Harvard and many other
universities.
The program will be announced
in next week's Cardinal
Speed Debaters
Lose To U of K
The Speed School Debating
Club lost a debate to a Universi­ty
of Kentucky team on May 4.
Speed students James Leahy
and Bruce Long argued before a
convocation audience at Speed
Auditorium that the Urured States
should "nationalize its basic non­agricultural
industries.''
Phyllis Burckhart and J oe
Mainous, U. of K. students ar­guing
againist nationalization,
won the approval of the audience
by a narrow margin.
An additional debate, held in
Sackett Hall that afternoon, was
transcribed and broadcast over
station WHAS on Sunday, May
7.
At the W a n d e ring Greek
"Douse House" you got to ·throw
a wet sponge at a human head
thrust through a canvas. Dean
Walker scored two direct sloshes
on target Gene Stewart, and won
a prize (a balloon, I think). Hold-
- (Cardinal photo b11 McDonald
THE KD'S 'TIBIA nBULA' TOSS at the carnival last week was a
great 1uccess. Helen McDaniels, left, sold rings while Rosie Haw­kins,
Judy Martin. Marion Platter and Nancy Smock provided the
Tibia Fibula targets. Leg Toss wouldn't pass the censors!
Demonstration
Of Speed Typing
Slated For Monday
A Speed Typing Demonstration
and Business Machines Exhibit
will be given by ·the Secretarial
Science Department of U of Lon
Monday, May 15 at 8:00 p.m. in
the Auditorium of Speed Scien­tific
School
Miss Mery Pajunas, representa­tive
of the International Business
Machines Corporation, will give
the demonstration.
Miss Pajunas has won second
place in both novice and amateur
typing contests held by Interna­tiooal
Commercial Schools and
demonstl'ates with ease at a typing
speed of 150 words per minute.
The Buaineas Machines ,Exhibits
will be open before and after IWa
PajUDU' performances. It will in­clude
the latest clevelopmenta in
office equipment and ed•JClMionel
wate&lals. .
Dr. Donald Bennett To Study
At Oak Ridge Research Lab
Dr. Donald Bennett, head of the Physics Department of Speed
School has been assigned by the Faculty Research Participation
Program to the Stable Isotope Laboratory at Oak Ridge, Tenn.
Dean R. C. Ernst of Speed
School, chairman of >the Univer­sity
committee for cooperation
with the Oak Ridge Institute for
Nuclear St~;jy, secured this ap­pointment
for Dr. Bennett.
Dr. Bennet~, a graduate of the
University of Wisconsin, has been
with the University of Louisville
for 24 years. During the war he
served aa assis1ant to the Director
of the Radiation Laboratory at the
Massachusetts Institute of Tech­nology.
At that time there were
3000 acieDtista at M.l.T. working
on the development of radar in
this country.
Dr. Bennett is the first profes-
101' from the University of Louia­ville
m be appointed to such a
pol1tioD.
He will remafD at Olk ~e
for thre months but will resume
his duties as head of the Physics
department for the fQJI quarter.
Dance Films Presented
Four dance films were present­ed
in conjunction with the Hu­manities
film series in the Play­house
May 4 at noon.
Jose Limon was featured in
"The Moor's Pavanne." Valerie
Bettis was feat\lred in "The Des­perate
Heart." In "The Birth of a
Ballet" the Sadler Wella ballet
group showed bow the dance is
born.
The last film, "Dancea of IndiA",
demonatrated bow the Datives use
taeial apreaioDI aDd flutteriua
of tbe1r ._,. u a part of the
claDce.