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VOL. XXVII, NO. 21 UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE, LOUISVILLE 8, KENTUCKY Thursday, March 15, 1956
Spitzer Wins In Photo Contest Kentucky's Senator Clements
Will Speali To Voters Forum
Soviet Military Power Is Topic;
Ad(lress Scheduled In Playhouse
Senator Earle C. Clements, senior Senator from Kenh1cky, will
speak to the Young Voters Forum on .\1onday, :\1arch 26, at 7:30
p.m. in the U of L Playhouse. His subject will be "Is Russia Gain­ing
Military Supremacy Over the United States?" All young men
and women between the ages of 17 and 24 are invited to attend
Larry Spitzer, Cardinal photographer, was awarded a first place
p ize for a photograph submitted for exhibition at the twelfth
annual Kentucky Professional Photographers Convention. The con­ention
was held last week at the Kentucky Hotel.
From 405 prints submitted from
five states, 268 were chosen for
the exhibition. Sixteen first place
trophies were awarded, one in
each class according to the sub­ject
of the picture. Spitzer's pic­ture
was taken on a U of L Med­ical
School assignment at Gen­eral
Hospital. The photo was used
in the Medical School section of
the 1956 Thoroughbred.
This was Spitzer's first photo
entry into this contest. He is the
youngest person to receive a first
place award. He works part time
at Caufield and Shook and rep­resented
that company in the con­test.
The award was presented to
Spitzer by Billy Davis, Courier­Journal
Chief Photographer.
Student Boat Ride Reality:
USS Announces New Plans
The University Student Senate Progress Commission has an­nounced
that there will be a university boat ride this year on
Wednesday night, April 25. The contracts were signed this Tues­
·day. Tickets will be sold for 50 cents apiece.
Two weeks ago, the USS voted
almost unanimously in favor of a
boat ride, and the Progress Com­mission
co-chairmen, Bruce Baird
and Carolyn Krause, were given
the job of setting up a social re­gulations
program. This program
was presented to the USS last
week and also to the Dean of
Men. It was accepted.
campus. For the future, it is plan­ned
to make this an aU-day cele­bration
with contests, booths and
floats and ending with a boat ride
in the evening. All the proceeds
from this affair will be turned
over to the Student Chest Com­missidn
of the University. Student
Senate.
the meeting.
Senator Clements has had a
long and varied political career.
Born on October 22, 1896, in Mor­ganfield,
Ky., he attended the
Morganfield public schools and
then the University of Kentucky.
In 1917, he enlisted for service
in World War I and became a
Captain in the Infantry:..
A farmer by vocation, Clements
served successively in the offices
of sheriff, county clerk, and
judge. In November of 1941, he
was elected to the Ky. State Sen­ate
and in 1944 he became major­ity
floor leader of the Ky. Senate.
In N overnber of 1940 he was
elected to the 79th U.S. Congress
and in 1946 was re-elected to the
80th Congress, se.rving both terms
for the 2nd Ky. District.
Clements was elec.ted Gover­nor
of Kentucky in 1947, and after
Senator Barkley's resignation to
accept the Vice-Presidency, Clem­ents
was elected in November of
1950 to serve the remaining Sen­atorial
term until 1951 and for the
following six-year term. He took
his seat, which w~ll e:x:pire in
January of 1957, on November 27,
1950.
Senator Clements is currently
serving as Majority Whip in the
Senate, and as Democratic Whip
on the Democratic Policy Com­mittee
under the Chairmanship of
Sel\ator Lyndon John-son of Tex­as.
Clements during this 2nd ses­sion
of the 84th Congress has
been the author of several bills;
among them, one concerning Ci vii
Service-Compensation, introduc­ed
on January 17, and another
concerning Government Employ­ees-
Disabled Citizens. The pur­pose
of the latter is "to provide
preference in Government em­ployment
for persons who . incur
SENATOR CLEMENTS
permanent disabilities while ser­ving
as civilian employees of the
government."
With Senator Barkley as co­author,
he introduced a bill con­cerning
the Agricultural Adjust­ment
Act, on February 22, and
one concerning the Flood Preven­tion
Act on January 23.
He collaborated with several
other Senators on the bill con­cerning
Compulsory Military Ser­vice-
Extension, "extending the
provisions of the Veterans Re­adjustment
Assistance Act of 1952
until such time as existing laws
authorizing compulsory military
service cease to be effective and
to provide for payment of tuition
and fees of veterans receiving
educational benefits under such
Act," and also on the bill con­cerning
Federal Elections-Prac­tices
and Contributions, introduc­ed
on February 28.
The reasen for having the boat
ride this year is to try to build
an All-University Day on the
NSA Vice-President
Speaks On Campus
Music School Host To Piatigorsky
Student leaders, student coun­cil
members, and also students
interested in working with the
National Association will have
an opportunity to talk with Gene
Preston, NSA National Affairs
Vice-president, next Tuesday,
March 20, at 4:00 in the Jeffer­son
Room.
Preston, Phi Beta Kappa and
former Religious Council presi­dent
at UCLA, will lead a discus­sion
on student government prob­lems
and the Ford Foundation
study on student government and
student leaders in the U. S. and
NSA and will answer questions
on these topics.
The meeting is open to the stu­dent
body and students who de­sire
to stay and talk further
may eat .in the Jefferson Room
cafeteria style.
By WILLIAM PEARSON
The University of Louisville School of Music
was host this past Tuesday to the greatest cellist in
the world, Gregar Piatigorsky. He spoke before an
audience of about one hundred people, many of
whom were townspeople.
Piatigorski is a giant of a man in stature as well
as reputation. He lectured on the artist's relation­ship
to his art. An artist must be an absolutely
dedicated person, according to him. One does not
choose a carreer for what it promises, but fOZ"
what one hopes to give to it. One does not think
of oneself, but of how to help others. This is the
philosophy of his own life which Mr. Piatigorsky
suggested for others.
He stated that the division of the musical pro­fession
into departments, chamber musicians, vi­ruosos,
teachers, ·and so forth has tended to di­vide
the IJ>rofession from its art. The question,
in his point of view, is not what department shall
I choose, but rather, how can I best serve music.
Mr. Piatigorsky read a chapter from his auto­biography
which dealt with his life as a musi­cian
in Germany. In it he stressed that his rela­tionships
with such men as Richard Strauss had
contributed a great deal to the moulding of to-
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C4nlinal Photo bv La."JI Spitzer.
CELLIST PIA'Q.QORSKY
day's Piatigorsky.
Student Program
Planned On Proper
Voting Procedure
"Why and How to Register to
Vote" will be the topic of a 10
am. convocation next Wednesday
in the Playhouse. This convoca­tion,
sponsored by the Young·
Voters Forum, will be official for
all undergraduate schools of the
University.
Two important men in their
parties-William Cowger, Repub­lican,
and Robert Burke, Jr.,
Democrat, will give fifteen min­ute
talks on registration proce­dure
and their party machinery.
Mr. Cowger is Republican
Chairman of the 3rd Congression­al
District, a member of the City
and County Republican Execu­tive
Committee, Ky. Chairman of
the Crusade for Freedom, past
president of the Jr. Chamber of
Commerce, past president of
the Louisville Mortgage Bankers
Association and was voted one
of the three outstanding young
men of Ky.
Mr. Burke is a member of the
Board of Trustees at U of L, one
of the trustees of Bellarmine Col­lege,
a memb~r of the Urban
League, on the Board of the Lou­isville
Service Club, and served
as temporary County Judge after
the death of Judge Wetherby.
Following the talks by Mr.
Burke and Mr. Cowger, a twenty
minute question and answer ses­sion
will be held.
Vocalists Compete
In Eighth Annual
BarhershopContest
The eighth annual Barbershop
and Beautyshop Quartet Sing will
be held in the Playhouse at 7:30
tonight. Kay Eda Brockman and
Winson DeWitt, co-chairmen of
the Ways and Means Commission
of the University Senate, an­nounced
that there are eighteen
quartets scheduled to sing. Ad­mission
is free and everyone is
invited.
Besides the quartets from the
University, there will be two va­riety
acts and the chorus from
the Barbershop Quartet Society,
which will open the show.
The Barbershop Quartet So­ciety,
which has worked in close­cooperation
with all the entering
quartets, will furnish the judges
for the contest. There will be·
trophies awarded for the first and
second place men's and women's.
groups.
Party!· Party!
The Arts and Sciences Student
Council has announced that they
will sponsor a jukebox party at
Saint Matthew's VFW Building
from 8 until 12, Friday, March 23.
Admission will be one ID card
per couple. All students of the
university are invited to come
join in the fun.