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Tuesday Evening, Feb. 18, 19G9

UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY, LEXINGTON

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Consumer Crusader
Charges Corporations
With Irresponsibility

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By BILL MATTHEWS

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Ralph Nader, who gained national prominence for his auto safety
campaign, spoke to a University audience Monday night. He
indicted U.S. manufacturers for their irresponsibility in providing
consumers with inadequate goods and challenged UK law students
to help light the black lung problem plaguing many Kentucky
Kernel Photo By Paul Lambert
miners.

Favors Trustee 'Triumvirate'

Futrell Urges Moderate Rebellion
By TERRY DUNHAM
Assistant Managing Editor
Student
Government Vice
President Tim Futrell Monday
night told a group of student
leaders that violence on the UK
campus "is a probability," and
urged that they join in a "moderate rebellion to end the explosive situation."
"The Board of Trustees," he
said, "should be changed to consist equally of Kentucky citizens,
faculty members and students,
each with equal privileges. Students, faculty and administration
must form a genuine triumvirate
to govern the University."
He told listeners at the Omi-croDelta Kappa President's
Banquet for campus student organizations that he thinks "Kentucky students are sickened by
extremists on the right and left,
and are now ready to work hand
n

Vol. LX, No. 98

in hand to find moderate
tions to varied campus

He opposed the initial dorm
boycott because he felt it was
lems."
unnecessarily disruptive, he said,
He asked the leaders' help but favors the new "boycott,"
in bringing about the following which urges all students to submit their dorm applications on
changes:
The alteration in composiApril 1, as a sign of solidarity.
tion of the Board of Trustees,
He said afterwards he probwhich would require constituably will run for the SG presitional and statutory change.
but that if he does he will
The institution of an atmo- dency his campaign on the apnot base
sphere of freedom in dealing with peals in last night's speech.
students.
His address was given as a
The end of "unthinking critstudent response to comments
icism of the administration."
Critical joint deliberation of by Interim University President
all problems faced by the Uni- A.D. Kirwan, who compared the
University of today with that of
versity community.
the 1920's when he was a student.
He said the University "lives
Dr. Kirwan told the leaders
a lie" by releasing projections
which indicate no upperclass res- that contemporary problems inidents will be required to live in cluding the war in Vietnam, povthe dorms, and then forcing all erty and social change are
of your
students to apply for housing "problems worthy
efforts."
in those same do mis.
solu-

prob-

Kernel Staff Writer
Ralph Nader, outspoken lawyer and social critic, suggested in
a Monday night speech here that one means of correcting the
Kentucky black lung problem would be for lawyers and UK law
students to file mandates ordering Cov. Louie Nunn to enforce
existing workman's compensation laws.
Nader spoke on Corporate
and Consumer ing to Nader. He indicated that
Responsibility
Protection" in an address in the the biggest fraudulent practices
Student Center Grand Ballroom. occurred at the corporate level.
Nader charged that far more
Nader cited air pollution, the
than half of the nations coal "unwholesome meat" contromines don't meet the requireversy, auto safety and mining
ments of the workman's com- safety as examples of corporate
pensation laws.
irresponsibility.
"The law knows this," said
The consumer crusader said
Nader, "yet it's doing nothing a basic change in the structure
about it. Even the governor of of the administrative process is
this state is aware but isn't doing needed for effective consumer protection.
anything."
He urged law students in the
Referring to the unwholesome-mea- t
audience to join practicing lawproblem which recently reyers and obtain a legal order sulted in stiffer federal regulaforcing Nunn to take action in the tion, Nader said, "Some of the
worst meat products are pawned
matter.
"Right now," he said, "the off on university cafeterias."
coal industry is reaping great
Nader said outdated meat reprofits, profits it is not putting gulations had allowed dead,
into safer working conditions and dying and diseased animals to be
better employee benefits."
used for human consumption. He
Nader pointed out that coal claimed such regulations also permining is the most hazardous mit low sanitation standards in
occupation in the nation, that factories and the "ingenious"
half of all coal miners get black
Continued on Page 3, Col. 1
lung and that black lung victims
are not eligible for workman's
compensation here.
The crusading lawyer challenged the audience to invite
a coal industry executive to apThe Black Students Union fipear for a
nalized plans Monday night for
session, and predicted that no an anniversary memorial service
one would appear.
Feb. 21 for slain black nationalist leader Malcolm X.
'Myopic' Manufacturers
The service for Malcolm X
"UnAuthor of the
safe at Any Speed," Nader cited assassinated Feb. 21, 1965 will
"myopic" and unconcerned man- be held from noon until 2 p.m.
ufacturers as the cause of most Friday in the Student Center
Theatre.
consumer problems.
BSU members also heard last
The Princeton graduate
named two facets of consumer night a policy statement drafted
protection: conditions which re- by the group's president, Marduce the real income of the shall Jones, and submitted to the
people, and conditions which af- University administration.
The statement, which appears
fect the consumer's health.
"Consumer deception is not on page four of today's Kernel,
restricted to small business and sets forth BSU aims and
operators," accord

BSU Memorial
Will Be Friday

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Opposing Ideologies Arouse Mental Conflict

College Editors Scrimmage With Coaches
By GUY MENDES

Managing Exlitor

Ali dishis transition from Cassius Clay
cussing
to a disciple of Allah was outdone.
United Auto Workers President Walter
Reuther, safety crusader Ralph Naderand
famed economist Kenneth Bo ul ding were
likewise topped.
Ditto CORE leader Roy Innis on black
separatism and a very rare briefing at the
Central Intelligence Agency.
Even the Yippie- s- who did manage a
moment of glory when they took over a
congressional reception for conference
delegates were not its equal.
Though he may now be exiled in an
Montana motel, the reservations
eight-undirector of Washington! Shoreham Hotel
provided the College Editors Conference
guests when
with its most
he Juxtaposed with it a flocking of 1,000
high school coaches and players.
Since such blatant differences in orientation, ideologies (which, as I learned
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This article is the first in a series of reports on the United
States Student Press Association's annual College Editors Conference which was held over the weekend in Washington, D.C.
A press conference with Muhammad Ali, a rare briefing at the
CIA, and a definition of black separatism by former CORE
director Roy Innis will be the topics of other reports.
from one of the coaches, are
words) anatomies and general life
do not pass unnoticed in even the
styles
largest of hotels, the situation stimulated
much mental-a- nd
nearly some physical-confl- ict.
pseudo-intellectu-

al

From the time they moved in at Friday
were elbowing each
noon, the
other with the ole "Look at that one!"
The sight of a handful of certified Yippies
was eiough to color the entire 500 college
editors; like the black man and sexual
potency, you know.
The first interaction between the two
groups came late Friday night when the
no-nec-

coaches began filling the spacious Shore-halobby. Seems the bars had closed.
After the screening of a recently completed foreign film, the college editors
did likewise.
Hike!
A small group of editors began a mock
football game, ran a few absurd plays
and in the process drew a large crowd.
On their final and fateful play, the editors turned from the huddle to find three
angered coaches on defense. A quick
rehuddle called for the snap and a hasty
retreat-w- ith
only eight editor you don't
buck the odds. But the about-fac-e
proved

unsuccessful when the coaches charged,
knocking one editor to the floor and
almost forcing another over a railing.
A discussion ensued. One coach began
a tirade about the "Red, white and blue"
and "my father died on them islands"
while a Yippie egged him on with "List en
to Mr. America . . . speak up, Mr. Amer-

ica."

Another coach purged his conscience
and almost had a breakdown while doing,
it. In a cracking voice, he kept screaming
that he had killed, that he had mowed
down people with a machine gun and that
now he had to see this, now he had to look
at these people.
"I was a Ranger. I bet there's not a
Ranger in the house. Is there a Ranger in
the house?" He was almost weeping as

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he yelled.
After he finally was led away, the
crowd of several hundred broke into group
discussions with the domino theory, the
monolithism of the commies and the inequality of man getting a lot of play.
Continued on Pace 3, Col. 1

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KENTUCKY KERNEL, Tuesday, Fcl. 18,

TIIE

Romeo And Juliet Revisited

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Guest lecturer David Hosteller, left, and Assistant professor of art
Terrcnce Johnson crack up in discussion following Hos teller's appearance at Pence Hall Auditorium. The head of the Department
of Sculpture at OhioUniversity urged his audience to avoid a
insular attitude toward the arts, utilizing a slide show to
draw parallels between the life styles and art forms of various culPhoto by Rick Bell
tures and periods.
closed-minde-

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Once you see it, you'll never again picture
-'Romeo&Juliet' quite the way you did before!"

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Juliet" opens Wednesday at the
Qievy Chase Cinema. The critic's
review is based on an earlier
premiere.
Dy CHUCK KOEHLER
Kernel Arts Critic
One thing about the movie
version of the play "Romeo and
Juliet" by William Shakespeare
Is what isn't said. I mean fresh
air, forest greenery, people
moving, that sort of thing.
Through the camera eye see
Montagues and Capulets really
brawl it out on Verona's streets.
See Romeo running through the
woods, see the phony party
Juliet's father gives. See the
prince and his men arrive at the
scene too late. See the firebrand
Tybalt (the perennial kid on the
block that is always a couple of
years older than you and could
always beat you up and push you
around) p. d everybody. See
Romeo and Juliet naked, or rather
the complete nude backside of
Romeo's smooth flesh and a brief
glimpse of Juliet's breasts.

Do everything to it; don't
let it do anything to you; force
it to be in your own image. De--

Read the play and get something out of it; see the movie
and experience it.
Learn Lessons
Leam all kinds of lessons-comp- are
those kids with today's;
love, generation gap, social
and concern, repressive authority, bigotry, hatred,
violence, sacrifice, idealism, fate,
cynicism, blah, blah, blah, blah,
blah.
Call the director a bastard for
leaving out parts of the sacred
text; chastise him "for prostitut--.
.'ing a work of art; play the purist,
the intellectual snob, get intobig
words.
Glorify the scena rio, the action, the depth of the acting of
a 15- - and
old, love them
when they frolic; hate their
parents; call it sublime, impose
meaning. Cry at the end.
Turn it inside out, rip out its
Innards, pick it apart, examine
each piece closely; place it into
a slot, under a heading, compartmentalize, synthesize,

stroy it.
"Romeo and Juliet" is a sublime, moving motion picture
about two
teenage
lovers who are befallen by fate
with a little help from some
ignorant people who see what's
happening but can't do anything
about. It is a celebration of life,
love and youth, and ends in
death. Call it a tragedy.
The management of the Chevy
Chase Cinema let me and a
bunch of other people into this
movie free so that I might tell all
my friends about what a good
how I saw
movie it is and
in tears at the end and
people
that it was soon coming to the
Chevy Chase Cinema in Lexington and that they could pay
$1.50 or $2 to see a really good
movie when there were no parties
going on and impress their dates.
Thank you. Chevy Chase
Cinema. I had a good time.

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Play Pump In Needed Vitality

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JULIET

The remainder of the week
art exhibition,
three concerts and the opening
night of a Cuignol production
to widen the recently drab Lexington artistic scenario.
Associate Professor Ay-opened his newest exhibition
Sunday at the Fine Arts Building. The Japanese colorist includes in his latest show a room
constructed of his paintings and
wall panels containing holes into which the visitor is invited
to thrust his finger. The results
are unpredictable and stimulating, and wiU run through March
offers an unusual

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open to the public.
Friday also marks the opening night of the Cuignol production "Dark of the Moon."
The Howard Richardson-WilliaBemey work will be staged both
Friday and Saturday nights this
weekend and Vriday, Saturday
and Sunday nights the following
weekend. Tickets for the production, directed by Charles Dickens, are available through the
Cuignol box office.

in Henry Clay Auditorium, the
University Orchestra, under the
direction of Phillip Miller, will
present a program including selections by Mozart, Berlioz,
Schwartz and Beethoven.

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Friday the concert locale is
again the Agricultural Science
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18,

l9-- 5

College Editors Briefed By Gov't Officials

Continued from Tare One
One coach thought he had
the antiwar college punks all
figured out. "You ever been
man-to-ma-

n,

You

ever
face another man across the line?
Nol That's what it is, you're
one-on-one- ?

chicken."
At 5 a.m. Saturday, scattered
parleys still were going on. Skirmishes went on for the next two
days; catcalls were prevalent, elevator ventures were somewhat
hairy and it was impossible for a

female delegate to move 10 feet
through the lobby without getting
propositioned ancVor pinched.
(We all know what those college
girls are like.)
ocAnother confrontation
curred after some editors circulated a rumor that Spiro
was to speak in the Tudor
Room at four Saturday. At that
time some 75 editors occupied
the room, completely disregarding the fact that the Tudor Room
had been reserved for "Defen
Ag-ne- w

sive Line

Play."

Coaches grumbled outside or
drifted into the room while an
editor from Queens College explained that there was a problem
no one knew if Agnew had
arrived because no one knew
what Agnew looked like.
It was put to vote: "Yes,
Agnew is here" received 13 votes;
"No, he isn't" got 18, and "Agnew does not exist" polled 21.
Then, after three delegates

'Yes, Manufacturers Consciously
Design Inadequate Goods9
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Continued from rage One
misuse of modem chemistry to
"cover up bad foods" with coloring, seasoning and antibiotics.
"Possibly Americans get more
antibiotics through foods than by
prescription," said Nader.
Nader Cites Air Epidemic
In another area of consumer
protection, Nader said air pollution now is being referred to as
"an epidemic."
Citing Los Angeles as being
described by physicians as "no
longer suitable for habitation,"
Nader claimed that only one factory in the United States has been
completely closed because of air
pollution violations.
Do manufacturers consciously
design inadequate goods? "The

answer is obviously yes," says
Nader. "Callousness and indifference" by industry is the cause
of poorly designed goods which
often result in consumer hardship and even death, he said.
According to Nader, industry
resists changes in production
policy, choosing instead to "divert consumer attention from the
real to the trivial."
"When auto companies sell
fully tinted windshields, do they
tell you that you are paying
more and seeing less?" Nader
asked.

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Nader said manufacturers
"don't believe in a free market"
because they offer neither a diverse choice of goods nor information on which to base
choice. For example, Nader pointed out that until federal legislation last year consumers could
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Student Center or 103 Bradley
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103 Bradley Hall by Saturday,
February 22.

ader

voted for Agnew as the defenranged to provide the editors
sive lineman of the year, it was with a chance to meet their conmoved that the football coaches gressmen, but only four lawmakers showed up one of whom
be allowed to have the room.
was Marlow Cook. Others merely
The coaches were bewildered;
sent aides. The squad of New
Ara Parseghian has never writYork Yippies in attendance grew
ten anything on the subject.
Though the coaches tried to disenchanted and took over the
unoccupied podium at one end
get into a few of the editors'
of the room. One Yippiepounded
later that night, priprograms
his fist and proclaimed that they
vate detectives with walkie-talkiin different parts of the were in charge now that anyone
hotel prevented further large-scal-e who wished to, could come forth
to kiss their feet.
confrontations.
The conference began poorly
The Pepsi Generation
with a series of briefings at govIn true guerrilla theater style,
ernment departments.
one Yippie ran to the podium
Secretary of State William charging that the people in power
Rogers canceled a planned apwere unrepresentative. The head
pearance at the last minute; Sec- Yippie responded by dashing him
retary of Defense Melvin Laird, with a Pepsi-ColPepsi had
although scheduled, was not never before poured it on quite
available, and a replacement dislike that in the Cannon Office
cussed how the Navy led the Building.
fight for integration. The editors
The next day the Yippies tried
to relate naval to
were
disrupt poor old Walt Reuther
integration with the Department
and his horrid metaphors (povof Defense other than to assume erty is getting aid from the
it helps to reduce the number of
out of the congressional
dangerous ghetto Blacks.
medicine cabinet") and did a
The next day MuhammadAli,
pretty good job of it.
Roy Innis and a good briefing
Yet they still could not match
with the CIA brought the confer- the
"theater of the
ence alive. And that night the absurd" presented spontaneously
Yippies made, their attempt at by the
grassroots
liberating the conference.
constituency the very ones that
A reception in the Cannon
student editors may some day be
House Office 'Building was ar facing in the "real world."

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That's the day the GE interviewer will be on ca

pus. He's coming to talk to engineers. All kind
engineers.
He'll be talking about the opportunities at General Electric. All kinds of opportunities.
Opportunities in research and development.
Where an engineer can work on everything from
equipment to ways to prevent
jet engines to
air pollution.
Opportunities in manufacturing. Where an engineer can be responsible for designing a factory or
developing a new production system or getting the
most out of other people.
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So no matter what kind of engineer you are,
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Why not line up an interview now? And you
might line up just the job you want on Tuesday,
February 25.

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Editorials represent the opinions of the Editors, net of the University.
Lcc B. Becker, Editor-in-ChiDarrell Rice, Editorial rage
Guy M. Mcndes III, Managing Editor
Tom Derr, Business Manager
Jim Miller, Associate
Howard Mason, Thotography Editor
Chip Hutchcson, Sports
Jack Lyno and Larry Kclley, Arts Editors
Dana Ewcll,
Frank Coots,
Janice
Terry Dunham,
Larry Dale Keeling,
Assistant Managing Editors

Editor
Editor
Editor
Barber

Changing Course
Curriculum changes are easy enough to instigate at the University,
but few students apparently are aware of the processes by which this
is accomplished. Accordingly, the University should follow the example
set by Berkeley and other campuses by establishing a permanent
committee for the express purpose of considering suggestions on course changes and ideas.
A structure of this kind would encourage students to take a more
active part in the learning process and to come with suggestions which
could revitalize the classroom. This standing committee, too, would be
d
in the channels through which changes must be made and
could promote ideas it considered to be of merit.
Such an arrangement could allow for the offering of more relevant
courses. Should a certain topic, especially where international politics
are concerned, rise to prominence because of current events, a course
could be offered in relation to this, if only on a
basis.
One thing that would have to be avoided if such a committee is to
be at all effective is the naming to it (as is the usual practice here)
of administration lackey students who are more interested in running
up a list of activities than in making meaningful changes.
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Kernel Soapbox: BSU States New Policy
Moreover, "integration" speaks not
at all to the problems of poverty, lack of
Marshal Jones, Chairman
educational opportunity and most of the
"Justice for black people will range of problems which oppress the
not flow into society merely from black community. Rather, as a goal, it
court decisions nor from fountains has been based on complete acceptance
of the fact that in order to have a decent
of political oratory. Nor will a few house or education, black people must
token changes quell all the temmove into a white neighborhood or send
to
pestuous yearnings of millions of their children idea a white school. isThis
au--i
reinforces the
that "white"
disadvantaged black people. White tomatically better, and "black" is by
America must recognize that jus- definition inferior.
What must be abolished is not the
tice for black people cannot be
achieved without radical changes black community, but the dependent,
colonial status which has been inflicted
in the structure of our society. The upon it.
In indicting white America for its
comfortable, the entrenched, the
ingrained and tenacious racism, the term
privileged cannot continue to tremall
"white" describes the majority,
ble at the prospect of change in the who are white. We have found not
many
Status Quo."
people who clearly perceive the justice
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. of the black revolution for human dignity.
Many have joined ourcause and displayed
We, of the Black Students Union at heroism no less inspiring than that of
the University of Kentucky, reject the black people. More than a few died by
prolonged lip service of white Americans our side; their memories are cherished
to the guarantees of life, liberty and purand are undimmed by time.
suit of happiness. These fine sentiments
Yet, the largest part of white America
are embodied in the Declaration of Indeis still poisoned by racism and fallacious
pendence, but that document was always assumptions of white superiority. These
a declaration of intent rather than reality. are the conditions which we are dedicated
There were slaves when it was written; to change. Institutional racism is not!
there were slaves when it was adopted; speaking primarily of individual acts of
and to this day, black Americans have discrimination
by individual Whites
not life, liberty, nor the privilege of against individual Blacks, but of total
pursuing happiness, and millions of poor acts by the white community against the
whites are in economic bondage that is black community.
scarcely less oppressive.
Thus, the University of Kentucky canBlack people have been in the United
not begin to deal effectively with racism
States since the early part of the 17th on this campus until it first realizes
century. And they have only "legally" and openly acknowledges the extent of
been free human beings since the middle racism in American society.
of the 19th. There h ave been 200 years
In 1954, when the Supreme Court
of complete slavery and now, for the last acted to end discrimination in the schools,
100 years, a "legal" freedom has existed
the total number of black students ena freedom having so many ifs, ands
rolled in the University of Kentucky was
or buts, that we, of the Black Students
less than 1 percent (none). Today, in 1969,
Union, see as a legal fiction that has been the total black population in the Univerperpetuated to assuage the moral consity community of 14,000 students is still
science that must, at times, exist in all less than 1 percent (0.07 percent) or about
109 black students.
Whites.
We of the Black Students Union unequivocally state that we reject the past
of deadening passivity, old evasions and
procrastinations. The luxury of a leisurely
approach to educational opportunity for
black people gradualism has been forfeited. We shall work actively for change
rather than wait for it in pathetic fu-tility. The sullen and silent slave of 110
years ago, an object of scom at worst
or of pity at best, is dead. The time has
come when further evasions of social
responsibility in the world of today will
court disaster.
America has not yet changed because
By

students are from the ghetto; "The ghetto" is where any significant number of

so many think it need not change, but
this is an illusion of the damned. America and its social institutions must change

THE BLACK STUDENTS UNION

black people live. Therefore we shall be
seen and function as a part of the larger
community.
C. To end racism on the University
of Kentucky campus. In order to alter
the racist structure of this University,
changes must take place in the following areas: admissions, scholarships, housing, curriculum, counselling, facilities and
student employment.
The Black Students Union shares many
of the same concerns of all students
and organizations. We can
and participate on many levels, but there
are some things black students must do
for ourselves. Endemic to being black
is coming to grips with our own needs
and our own problems.

because 23,000,000 black citizens will no
longer live supinely in a wretched past.
We have left the valley of despair, we
have found strength in the justice of our
struggle; and whether we live or die,
we shall never crawl nor retreat again.
The goals of the Black Students Union
are:

That there be an educational releUnivancy in the learning experience at the
A.

versity of Kentucky, where we, as black
students, are recognized as black people
with our own history, heroes and culture.
B. To relate to the needs of the black
community at large. Black students and
the ghetto are one, because more black

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Communis t Birds

To the Editor of the Kernel:
In a recent Kernel, a columnist wrote
about a public opinion poll conducted
by the local newspapers. The poll indicated that 74.2 percent of the respondents
favored putting the public hangman back
to work to reduce crime.
An equally serious issue was raised
in a letter to the editor, recently printed
in the local press. The writer said he was
"increasingly angered" because Kentucky
continues to have as its state bird the
cardinal, whose color by accident or
design matches the color of the Communist ideology which we now oppose
in Vietnam and which seeks to destroy
our nation.
What to do?
One might dismiss his argument but
of hand, pointing out that the color red
also is in our Flag, on our stop signs,
in our street lights and, too, on
little school houses, brick buildings, other houses, etc. Or, it may be
argued, the cardinal feathered or clericalhad the color red before the Communists did so the letter writer properly
should have written to Pravda orlzvestia,
suggesting they change their color since
we had it first.
Opportunists might take advantage of
the situation. The move to get rid of
the Cardinal may appeal to elements
which favor another bird for their own
reasons the blackbird?
Happily, there is a third alternative.
For there is a bird which, while not
native to Kentucky, does have worthy
characteristics and could be bred here.
It is the blue and white finch, com