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SEPTEMBER 22 TH·E CARDI AL Registering by September 5
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in November
VOL. XVII ASSOCIATED COLLEGIATE PRESS
-DAE Student's 'First Novel'
To Be Published Next Spring
It's About Kentucky
A first rate novel about Ken·
tuckians has just been completed
by U. of L. DAE student, Charles
Robertson. T h e manuscript is
written about the lives of a few
of the Kentucky tobacco growers
who were caught up in the cir­cumstances
which evolved from
the Black Patch War. It will be ·
published som~time next spring.·
The book, which as yet has no
name, is a first novel for Robert­son,
who stated that it took him
about eleven months to complete
it, working two hours a night and
eight hours on weekends.
Originally coming from Livings­ton
County, Kentucky, eighteen
years ago, Robertson claims he is
merely "a country boy who came
to town and wrote a book."
Robertson got his start in cre­ative
writing in 1943 when he be­gan
his postgraduate work in
night schcol under Dr. D. W.
Maurer. Since that time he has
done many short stories and char-
Gardiner Hall 203
Has Face Lifted
When the fall semester begins,
Gardiner Hall will be sporting a
completely m o d e r n classroom.
Classroom 203, refurbished, will
be the beginning of a plan to
modernize U. of L.'s buildings.
The room will be sound-proof­ed.
air-conditioned, and painted
in "cheerful colors," President
Taylor said. The old high windows
will be replaced by directional
beam glass brick, which reflects
the suns rays towards the ceiling.
A new material resembling
miniature rigid venetian blinds
will cover the lower half of the
window, and will reflect, absorb
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·l"he
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acter sketches, his latest work
being the first he has attempted
to publish. ·
The young novelist received his
B.S . from Western State Teachers
College in 1933, where he did
commercial advertising on the
side. He has spent the last five
years in Louisville, Ky. in a su·
pervisory capacity at the Louis­ville
duPont Neoprene Works.
University Leaders
Take Off Sept 20-1
For Camp Meeting
The President, Vice-Presjdent
and Secretary of e~ry organiza­tion
on the U. of L. Camp"4s will
go to Camp Chelan on the morn­ing
of September 20 thru 5 p.m.
of Sunday, September 21. This is
the annual camp meeting spon­sored
by the Dean of Women's
Office and will be attended by
various Deans and Professors of
the University.
The purpose of this annual
camp affair is to assemble the
leaders of all campus orgc{niza­tions
to discuss the problems of
the students and the University.
Panels for discussion will be hel'd
at the camp that will attempt to
draw conclusions from certain
questions as to what, when, how,
and whom 'is responsible for what
happens on the Campus and also
the problem of "What Is To Be
Done?" These panels will consist
of Departmental Clubs, Fraternity
and Sorority 1 Panels, Religious
Panels, Honorary Clubs and Stu­dent
Council Panels.
From the conclusions and ideas
derived from these panels, definite
decisive plans will be formulated
and machinery set up for contin­uation,
coordination and develop­ment
of campus activities and stu­dent
government, as well as re­lated
campus problems.
The Camp, under the general
chairmanship of Louis McQuady,
will not be all work. The Camp
offers fine sources for recreation
and included on the agenda will
be marshmallow roasts, boating
an9. dancing. The heads of other
committees who have worked
with Loui~ McQuady on tl\e func­tioning
of the camp include: Bill
Rummage, Carroll Fears, Pat
Kennedy, Hilda Lorenz, B i 11
Graham, Joyce Duncan, K a y
Hardy, Russell Daughtery, and
Bonnie Zamber.
FRIDAY. AUGUST 29. 1947 INTER-COLLEGIATE PRESS N0.5
State Charter Granted U-L In 1798
Traced Back To Jefferson's Writings
Pike Recruits
For Kentucky .
Air Nat'l Guard
In addition. to his studies as a
Law Scpool junior, Joseph Pike
has been assigned to recruiting
duties with the Kentucky A i r
National Guard, it was announced
this week by Kentucky Air Na­tional
Guard Headquarters at
Standiford Field.
Pike, who holds a first lieuten­ant's
commission in the Air
Guard, has ten other U. of L. ~tu­dents
in his organization.
After servil:'ig in the Army Air
Forces for four years, including a
tour of duty in Italy, Pike' joined
the Air Guard after his discharge.
(Continued on page 3, col. 2)
Medics Adopt
USC Constitution
Medical School, after a vote
taken two months ago of the stu­dent
body to determine whether
the USC constitution was accept­able,
has been declared an official
part of the University Student
Council.
Balloting indicated that over
three-fourths of the students were
in agreement with the constitu­tion.
Ratification of the constitu­tion
automatically brought the
School of Medicine into the USC.
Last week the students, tltrough
a process of equal representation,
voted Robert Heidt, junior, and
John M. Smith, sophomore, mem­bers
of the USC.
President of the Medical School
Student Council, Ed Warrick, and
Vice-President, Douglas Jenkins,
will also represent the school. In
addition to the above named
members, a member-at-large to
the council will be elected during
the fall term.
This is the first time that Med­ical
School has had representa­tives
on the All-University Coun­cil.
The schedule for regular fall
meetings of the USC will be an·
nounced in the September 22 edi­tion
of the Cardinal.
3rd President Started Ideas In Btll
A striking resemblance between the Thomas Jefferson's
Bill for Universal Education presented to Congress in 1776 and
the charter granted Jefferson Seminary, parent institution of
the University of Louisville, by legislative act in 1798, was
brought to light this week by University Trustee Charles
Farnsley.
The purposes of the old J ef.fer­son
Seminary were set forth in
the 1798 charter as follows:
"And whereas it is generally
true that people will be happiest
whose laws are best and best ad­ministered,
and that laws will be
wisely and honestly administered
in proportion as those who form
and administer them are wise and
honest; whence it becomes ex­pedient
for promoting that public
happiness t h t those persons
whom nature hath endowed with
genius and virtue should be ren­dered,
by liberal education,
worthy to receive and able to
Thirst Rates
Coke Vendors
The twenty-six glossy new coke
machines, now being installed in
nineteen buildings on campus,
will be filled with icy Coca-Colas
and ready for the thirsty con­sumer
by September 22, according
to Vice-President Fred Stamm.
"The new machines are being
installed for the convenience of
students and faculty," Mr. Stamm
stated.
"The operation of the machines
will be handled by the Servex
Company with which the Univer­sity
has a contract, on a more or
less experimental basis, with a 90
day cancellation clause. Termina­tion
o(the contract by either par­ty,"
he continued, · "is contingent
upon the cokes being drunk at the
machine and the empty bottles
being placed in the racks provid­ing
for them by the machine.
"If bottles are found scattered
over the campus, in the classrooms
and corridors, it will be to the
mutual advantage of both the
Servex Company and the Univer­sity
to remove the machines and
go back to the old scheme of sell­ing
cokes only in the Student
Union, Cafeteria and Faculty
Center.''
guard the sacred deposit of the
Tights and liberties of their fellow
citizens, and that to aid and accel­erate
this most desirable purpose
must be one of the first duties of
every wise government.
Charter and Bill Practically Same
Twelve years prior to the grant­ing
of the charter to the Jefferson
Seminary, Jefferson had phrased
these sentiments in bill proposing
pub 1 i c education. Jefferson's
measure read identically the same
except for the last clause (in bold
type above) which read:
". . . and that they should be
called to that charge without re­gard
to wealth, birth, or other ac­cidental
condition or circum­stance."
This bill was not acted
upon until 1796 and then not
adopted as proposed.
Kentucky Set Aside 6,000 Acres
Yet the laxity of the national
government in taking measures to
adopt a public school system was
not reflected by the J effersonian
thinkers of the mother-state of
Kentucky, Virginia. In 1780, in
response to petitions, certain lands
were donated by the then wide-
15oundaried State of Virginia for
the establishment of seminaries of
learning. Thus it was not unnat­ural
that when Kentucky acquired
statehood in 1792 that one of its
earliest statutes enacted set aside
6,000 acres of public domain in
each of the counties for the estab­lishment
of like seminari~s, among
which was Jefferson Seminary, or
that the charters to these institu­tions
should reflect the ideas of
Jefferson.
Fall Students
Register Sept. 22
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Maurer's Research Brings Forth Articles
Registration for the Fall Sem­ester
will be held on Monday,
September 22 and Tuesday, Sep­tember
23, 1947. Students not en­rolled
in school for , the Spring
quarter or Summer session will
be notified by mail when to re­port
for registration. Those stu­dents
who were in school during
the Spring quarter and Summer
session should report to Menges
Hall according to the following
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while!
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WEEK IJf THE CARDINAL
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STARTIBG SEPT. 26
The constant stream of argot
words into the living language has
again been tapped by Dr. David
W. Maurer, University English
professor, who is nationally noted
for his extensive research in the
field of etymology.
The articles which Dr. Maurer
is presently preparing for publi­cation
chiefly concern criminal
argots, "one of the keys," Dr.
Maurer stated, "to the culture
from which crime springs, to the
psychology of the criminal mind,
and to the nature of the crime."
"But even more important," he
continued, "this study throws
much light on the growth and ~vo-lution
of language." ·
One of the articles concerns
"perhaps America's oldest con­tinuously
operating professional
criminal, the moonshiner. Little
publicity is given the moonshiner
today," Dr. Maurer said, in that
his activities are outside the large
centers of population."
"Today," he continued, "the
moonshiner exists as a dual per­sonality
with the remhants of a
naive mountaineer 'gradually
being supplanted by elements of
well-organized racketeers, spawn·
ed by Prohibition and in present
days often sponsored (or opposed)
by powerful political machines."
Other articles, on which Dr.
Maurer is now at work, will trace
the argots of the professional
pickpocket and circus grifter into
the general American language,
thus revealing the derivation of
many commonly used words, the
etymology of which puzzles many
linguists.
Both the criminal language of
the pickpocket and the circus
grifter (traced through the argot
of the "Three-Shell Game") are
important because they are the
forerunners of t h e "Big Con"
games in the organizational break­down
of the underworld. "The
argot of the "Three-Shell Game,"
Maurer stated, "like that of Faro,
has permeated the American lan­guage."
Also included among his pres­ent
research, Dr. Maurer reveal­ed,
are studies on the criminal
monicker, its significance, and
how it is given, and an article on
incidents of humor in criminal
argot, which are the earmarks of
authentic argot.
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schedule: ·
N -S-Sept. 22
H·M-Sept. 22 ..
A-G-Sept. 22 .. .
T -Z-Sept. 22 .. .
Grads.
Srs.
Jrs.
B.:?fl
9:3U
10:30
11:30
So phs.
11:00
2:0G
3:00
4:00
Fresh.
H -S-Sept. 23 . .. .. .. . . .. . 8:30
H-M-Sept. 23 ............. 9:30
A-G-Sept. 23 . .. .. .. . . . . 10:30
T-Z-Sept. 23............ 11:30
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