Of Iowa

Fortnight ago in Princeton, students sped noisily to classes on rollerskates; a new university ruling prohibiting automobiles to undergraduates had just been published (TIME, March 14). Last week, able jurist William Squire

Kenyon, who refused the post of Secretary of the Navy when Edwin Denby resigned (TIME, March 24, 1924), onetime (1911-13, 1913-22, resigned) Senator, now presiding Judge of Iowa in the Federal Court of Appeals, unmitigatedly damned the folly of parents who send their sons to college with automobiles, said: "Rather than do that I would buy 30 cents' worth of powder and blow him up. It would be fairer to the boy." Much more he said, called Judge Ben Lindsey's trial marriage proposal (TIME, Jan. 24) "absurd idea," said of famed evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson that she "crossed the entire country capitalizing her notoriety."

Admiring friends of the worthy justice who had often mentioned him for the Supreme Court of the U. S. were disturbed, thought he had descended from his customary judicial dignity to deliver judgment in most unstatesmanly, not to say uncharitable terms.