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Monday, July 10, 1972
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Light, More Light!
Whenever you near the phrase, "Light, more light!" what does it bring to your mind? Does it remind you of the moments when you were pouring over a book in a dimly lighted spot, trying to read the fine pages of a book? Do professors hold you responsible for in their examinations? Or are you thinking of light in the sense of intellectual light as Franklin meant when he said that a certain speaker needed "more light and less heat" for his argument? If you are a quotation buff, as some of our professors want us to be, then you have already recognized that these words were the last three spoken by Goethe, Germany's mighty man of letters.
But none of these is what your editor has been thinking of since last Thursday night when she drove down Jayhawk Boulevard in the wee small hours of the morning with final copy of the Kamper Kansan for the University Printing Service, and was met by messy street lamps from the front door of Hoch to Carruth-O'Leary only 5 were lighted—2 near Hoch and 3 near Carruth-O'Leary. What an invitation to crime and destruction, I
thought, with two well-traveled sidewalks in this area and little light to discourage those who strike by night.
I was not only surprised but angered when I saw the same thing on Friday night and again on Saturday and again last night as I drove this route to bring Monday's copy to the printer.
I mentioned this fact to one of our KU campus policemen and he said he would report it, but it either slipped his mind, the road through channels is a long circuitous route or he could not be or "fixing" defined the skill of those who are assigned such trouble-shooting jobs.
There have been all too many times on this campus when students have been waylaid, beaten, robbed or harmed in other ways. A poorly lighted campus is an invitation to disaster. Certainly one unsavory incident on our campus is one too many. One would think that KU officialdom would make periodic inspections of the campus so that we would no longer need to cry, "Light, more light!"
-Rita E. Haugh Editor
Register to Vote
Tomorrow is the last day Douglas County residents may register to vote before the state primary election August 1. Because of archaic election laws it is the responsibility of the individual to register. It is as un-American a burden as out-un-equal tax structure, but we seem destined to live with both, at least for awhile. Neither burden can be lessened without political action and that action begins at the primary ballot box.
As the wheat farmer said during the Democratic Telethod this weekend, "A man who don't vote got no reason to complain about his own mistake might object to the man's gratitude, but certainly not to his logic.
This year's primary election has considerable significance for voters, especially in the South.
munity. Some of the candidates running for important state legislative seats have shown their commitment to a strong educational system in Kansas. Their personalities and statements seem to suggest a commensurate interest in government for the people and not just the vested interests. Yet they want to see more of these outcomes of these battles will dictate what choices the people will have on election day. November 7.
So do yourself a favor. Register to vote for the August primary. The county clerk's office at 11th and Massachusetts streets will be open until 9 p.m. Monday and Tuesday to allow voters to assemble as they renowned sage Anonymous once said, "Actions speak louder than words."
Mark Bedner
Motorcycle Helmet Law Considered
By JOLENE HARWOOD Kansan Staff Writer
The new motorcycle helme law enacted by the Kansas Legislature requires a driver to beWhether it is a safety precaution or a safety detriment is a subject of debate.
The law now requires that motorcycles have operable turn signals, that the cyclist must wear goggles, visors or that the rider is protected and that all cyclists, no matter what age, must wear a helmet.
According to Officer Dick Rose of the Lawrence City Police Department, the laws were enacted early precaution for cyclists.
"in the accidents that I have investigated involving motorcycles, most of the injuries objected were head injuries," Rose said.
HE SAID HE felt that a helmet would have prevented many of these injuries.
Many cyclists, however, do not agree. One of these is Dr. Dale L. Clinton of the Douglas County Health Department.
"I feel that it is a very, very bad law." Clinton said. "It does not save lives and it certainly does not prevent accidents."
Clinton referred to the Metro-politian Life Insurance Company's mortality statistics in a report that said he reported that report, since helmets laws have been passed there has been no significant change in the death rate.
HELMETS CAUSE accidents, Clinton said.
Clinton said that according to a Kansas Highway Department official, "When the original helmet law went into effect, approximately 10 years ago, accident rates rose abruptly by 30 per
"The helmeted driver is a hazard because the helmet is a handicap," he said. "The five pound helmet is fatiguing. It
When workmen strung the portraits the other day, Johnson's picture was missing. A replacement was hurriedly ordered.
impairs vision, hearing, and mobility.
"It is also a psychological handicap. The rider takes more chances because he is given a false sense of security.
"Helmets do not necessarily protect the head. Head injuries are fatal no matter what you have on.
Clinton said he felt the laws were not only useless but that they were also unconstitutional and then declared so by seven states.
"THE STATE has neither the right to impose a dress code nor the right to restrict us for our own good." Clinton said.
"You cannot increase safety by riding with a bucket on. The helmets are fraudulent because they have resulted in a greatly increased risk of motorcycle accidents, mostly involving other moving vehicles."
The Department of Transportation, according to Clinton, once
He's got company: former Speaker John McCormack, Speaker Carl Albert and Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield.
proposed a law requiring every type motorist to wear a helmet.
if you can cram it down the cyclists, may you be able to catch them? If they are cyclists are not organized, and consequently they're an easy target for scams.
Clinton said he felt helmets should definitely be worn under some conditions and under these their use should be encouraged.
CLINTON SAID he felt there were two reasons the law had been passed.
"it sells goods," he said. "Four to five million dollars worth of money and goggles have been purchased for the sporting goods people."
"For dirt track racing, helmets are a must," he said. "But in traffic they're detrimental."
LYNDON JOHNSON, the last Democrat in the White House, is a man of quiet side, at the rear of the auditorium where he can be seen only by the door.
"Secondly, it was moral and legal blackmail. The Department of Transportation threatened to cut unless such laws were passed."
Alkgeld is there, sincere and proper in high-starped collar and pointed beard, sandwiched between Woodrow Wilson and Jennings Bryan. His is one of 29 pictures strung from the rafters.
Convention Color Includes Portraits
The cavernous hall, a sea of red, white and blue lighted like an open canyon guarded like fI. Knox, is nearly ready for Monday night's resumption of the party's quadrennial rite of an amounting the man
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Poor Lyndon Johnson. First his picture is stolen, then its replacement is hung in the back of the Democrats' Convention Hall. John Peter Alleged gife better.
Elaborate portraits of the party's heroes peer down on the delegates. Who but the most outraged Democrat can waver in his loyalty to presence of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Thomas Jefferson, and Jackson and John Peter Algefeld?
who helped the Great Commoner win the Democratic presidential nomination in 1896.
THE VIBRATOR to Convention Hall is greeted first by a sign order, then an opening ceremony, camera cases, pocket books and other personal items for inspire.
In the hall, the brilliant blue podium overshadows everything, rising like a layer wedge cake with frosting. You can see it too, but the haint of modern tragedy-removable ramps to accommodate the wheelchair of Gov. George Wallace should he come up to address the delegates.
ONE OF the last chores was putting chain-link fence around a new building, and hall for the candidates. They tell something about the occupants. The candidates have Hubert H. Humphrey have three each. Edmund Muskie and Wilson Mills have two. There is Shirley Chisholm and Terry McCarthy. Candidates Mike Gravel and Endicott Peabody have trailers.
Workmen were going through the final motions Sunday—with an elbow delegate chairs, putting down snippets of red carpeting on a podium that cost enough money and used enough money to build a
When Sen. Lawton Chiles of Florida makes his welcome remarks Monday, he'll see immediately in front of him the California and Utah delegation—which includes Oklahoma and Oregon are in the far corners to the rear, in front of the alternates' seats.
Historical Feature
"Heavy! Right on!"
Kenneth Anderson, professor of education, still remembers his view of the flooded Kaw Valley from the top story of old Fraser.
The summer session of 1955 was not the first summer session at KU marked by a flood in Lawrence. Indeed, the very first flood occurred when the great Kaw Valley flood of 1903 was at its crest. The 1903 flood blocked routes to Lawrence just at the time when students needed transportation to the university for the purpose of enrolling.
Saturday morning classes that the Lawrence community needed volunteer dikeworkers to help stem the wrath of the Kaw.
THE 1981 season, in terms of the summer session, was cancelled. It occurred several weeks after the session had begun. On June 23, 1951, the session resumed.
BY MARY PITMAN
Kangan Staff Writer
Safely allow on Mount Oread,
watching North Kansas students
watching North Kansas
water 21 summers ago, when the
Kaw River dikes to flood
the River.
Faculty and students quickly responded to the plea for help. The department of Building and Transportation—trucks, drivers, a PA system, and the campus traffic officers—to the community of
"So, to further our cause we must go to Miami Beach"
"Far out. Baby!"
"A roaring demented juggernaut" is the description of the Kaw in the Journal-World of Thursday July 12, 1851, which wrote that a man sprouting from North Lawrence sewers was so forceful that fish
Anderson, who organized his graduate students to help with franx and dissonance of many people associated with KU who served as volunteer dikeworkers in the last dich community effort to rebuild it.
The University Amateur Radio Operators set up portable mobile transmitters in crucial areas, in locations where it is difficult to maintain on alert for 20 hours.
"In the name of peace, we must defeat of Trieky Dick!"
By MARY PITMAN
were being thrown out in the streets of North Lawrence.
Lawrence Flood Struck in 1951
NEAR MIDNIGHT on July 11, the Kaw clamctically broke dikes near the flood gates at the Union Pacific Trestle and elsewhere along its banks. A state of emergency was declared in the area and the process of evacuating North Lawrence was begun.
houses were thick with two feet of slime.
"2500 residents are homeless," the July 12 Journal-world said. Volunteers from the Salvation Army, and the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce, assisted residents of North Lawrence. Thursday's mail from the community is on file.
PRESIDENT HARRY Truman visited the flood sites in Kansas and Missouri and called the flood the greatest disaster "this
But the bikes did not avert the crisis for long; rain continued heavily. From June 20 to July 13, the bike ran one-half of a normal week.
Lawrence businessmen formed a non-profit corporation, which is the principal corps of Engineers, to research ways of avoiding such a flood in the river.
country has ever suffered from water." He had not yet seen, of course, the South Dakota flood of the summer, 1972.
Since the 1951 flood, new and stronger dikes have been built along the Kaw. Flooding has still occurred but dams built since the flood at Kanopolis, Council Hill, was established as preemptive measures so that the flood of 1951 will not be repeated.
On Friday, July 13, the waters recede. The waters recede. When occupants of North Lawrence returned to their homesites several days later, the town was closed.
Airmen and sailors from the Oatlin Naval Base also arrived to help evacuate the people, who were cured from their roof tops. Some roofs had been jarred free of fire, and they were along on the surging Kaw.
KU, HOWEVER, was a dry island. Three planes from Olathe dropped emergency supplies into the KU Memorial Stadium; their dropped carges included life jacket medical kits and foul weather gear.
"And rip the holy hell out of the
Democratic convention!"
"Man! Do I ever dig your logic!"
By SHARYN BALLARD
Socratic Deaths Still Occur, But Dialogue Has Increased
KARAMAN SKIN JOHN
Poisoned a cell of all many heroes through history. Romeo took his fair share, as did Socrates.
To make your vote count, there have to be enough people who vote the same way you do to make your ballot worthwhile.
Readers Respond
So you finally have a vote. But despite what the self-proclaimed political pundits say, your vote in the primary by itself — by itself nothing.
Make Your Vote Count...
In the upcoming primary and general elections, KU for the first time has a chance to assert its
to the Editor:
An Open Letter to Members of
the University of Kansas Student
Body
If you don't think KU has been poorly represented in the Kansas Legislature in the last few years, you're not going to graduate assistant or university employee. The Legislature's nee KU has cost them and you as well.
But for the kind of change needed, you must register. University, must register to must vote in the primary and general elections and you must register to vote in the primary.
influence and importance in this city.
If, before the election, you live at your present address 21 days, you can register. If you will be out of town when either election takes place, get an absentee ballot from your local Massachusetts office, 11th and Massachusetts.
Your vote, combined with those other KU students, is the only choice that represents the traditional indifference and neglect manifested yearly in the student body.
David Dillon Student Body President
David Dillon
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Griff and the Unicorn
There are more than two million people a year who inject poles into their systems in the United States, national records show.
It is still the downfall of many,
according to John Dual,
professor of toxicology at the
Kansas University Medical
Also at the Medical Center is a poison control center that handles all cases of suspected children whose children have swallowed a poison and call to the police.
Ralph Kaufman, pediatrician,
Ralph Kaufman, pediatrician,
maccapologist, for poison
cases. There is a doctor on call 24
hours a day for the poison control
"Physicians of tomorrow must be taught to control the heavy tide of poisons," Dullil said.
"Copyright 1972, David Sokoloff.
DUAL EXPLAINED that a substantial extent of toxins as a part of the pharmacology block. This is mainly because there are
"We get about 300 calls a year. These calls are referred to either a pediatrician or an internist," Dupli said.
EIGHTY PER CENT of the cases under five years of age, Dullai said. About half of these cases involve drugs and the other half involve alcohol.
"People don't lock their medicine chests or leave cleansers, paints, furniture polish, and other poisonous materials or in the garage in the reach of small children." Duall said.
There are 600 or more such United States, although most are not well-staffed as KU's. Dull said she sometimes called calls from the nation, especially in the area of security sensing, which is U.K.'s special.
"Vomiting-induction for almost all poisons is the best thing a parent can do. Anyone who has a child under five years must learn to be careful, peacock on hand, should their child ever swallow poison," Dull said.
HE WARNED, though, not to induce vomite if lye, kerosene, drain cleaners, or this type of substance was swallowed.
The number one poison for
assailin. Iron poisoning has
an extremely high mortality rate
and is the second most-takenpoison
concerning pesticides, Duall said that children were often poisoned from poorly-stored chemicals.
"Pesticide poisoning does not come from food that has been sprayed on the crop or on the food is negligible. The poisoning comes from those who are spraying the crops and become overcome by the fumes."
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