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SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
TUESDAY, JULY 27, 1937
Comment
Far From Perfect
Sunday's issues of nearby newspapers tell of plans for construction of a new highway between Kansas City, Kan., and Leavenworth, which is labelled a "super-highway." It will facilitate travel by cutting several miles from the distance, according to reports.
All of which is well and good. But when will the Middle West learn the need for real "super-highways?" Building more highways of the type now prevalent in this part of the country is nothing but a direct campaign to perpetuate the present hideously high motor car death rate, and the system will have to be changed sooner or later.
As a first principle, the freeway eliminates sideswipes and headon collisions by having two lanes separated by a wide section of unpaved ground. Frequently rows of trees or shrubbery are planted between the lanes, and a driver bound in one direction seldom even sees anybody going the opposite way.
Experiment has shown that only one highway, the so-called "freeway," will avail much in the drive to reduce traffic accidents. Construction costs much, it is true. But human lives aren't so cheap, either.
But that is not all. The freeway has no entrances except at infrequent intersections, and the cross-country traveler need not wear himself out with anxiety every time he passes a farm house.
The intersection problem receives adequate attention, also. One solution is the use of underpasses, so that motor cars never meet at right angles. Perhaps a more popular system is the circular device which keeps all machines going in the same direction, thereby doing away with that greatest of all dangers—headon collisions. And the circular device, taking the form of a small "island" at the intersection, enforces reduced speed while the car passes through.
Persons traveling in the East are familiar with this sort of thing already. It is gradually spreading in this direction and its universal appreciation seems to be the only way to reduce highway deaths to any appreciable extent.
Littler Democrats
Several weeks ago the Kansan printed a "letter to the editor" urging the use of one-mill tokens to eliminate the inconsistency of paying four per cent tax on five-cent purchases. Dissatisfaction with the situation had been expressed in all parts of the state ever since the tax law became effective. And now comes news that a one-mill token actually will be provided, so all the nickel nursers should be happy.
But that's only one side of the story. Readers of the "letters" column will recall a more recent contribution, by the wife of a Lawrence grocer, in which she pointed out that a merchant never receives tax money on one, so three, and fourcent purchase... and yet must pay the tax on his gross sales nevertheless. Whether these tiny sales amount to much is a matter of individual cases, but certainly it must be considerable in particular stores. So what?
So what?
Along about 15 minutes before deadline is the time when many an editor would mortgage his soul for a type-stretcher.
THIS and THAT BY KENNETH KITCH
Dale Carnegie, author of the now-famous "How to Win Friends and Influence People," is scheduled to appear at the University next March 21. Too late, of course, to help the apple-polishers with the first semester, but timed just right for the precarious period preceding the second semester finals.
Judging from the number of Carnegie's books which have been sold, there ought soon to be a dire need for some kind of a book on "How to Keep from Being Influenced."
A marvelous peach crop is expected in the Arkansas valley this year, according to the state department of agriculture. And with a graceful bow, may we say that there is always one here at the University.
Kid McCoy, one-time middle-weight boxing champion of the world, announced his ninth marriage. That's all right. He ought to be able to do it if anybody can.
Doc Piccard has announced that he is going to take his wife on his next stratosphere hop. The chances are that the lady on looking through her husband's notes finally realized that he was going out of his way to commune with Venus.
These folks who are objecting so strenuously to the recent ordination of a 7-year-old preacher ought to calm down a little and consider the thing soberly. After all, the 7-year-old probably will be able to preach pretty intellectually to the average congregation.
And come to think of it, the ease with which scandal mongers can start stories about. public characters might have led to a tale that Piccard's proximity to Venus was responsible for his balloon coming down in flames.
Things: Tough that rain had to cancel the big field day which had been planned . . . Just imagine! Rain in Lawrence . . . And your reporter had to miss out on it . . . 'Tis said that a bunch of the Corbin hall gels jellied themselves into their bathing suits and stood right out in the sprinkle until it started to hail. They do say that hail is simply rain which is shocked by what it sees when it reaches earth.
Another of these stories: There once was a college prof who liked to chew tobacco. Liked it so well that he chewed it in class as he lectured—meandering over to a nearby open window occasionally to spattoo. During the midst of his lecture one day, however, some tortured soul reached quietly over and closed the window. Innocent of the plot, the prof when the danger gauge lapped his palate sidled over toward the window, drew in his breath and let go. Blam. . . . . splat! And the worthy prof swallowed his quid.
Ten students in Dr. Bert Nash's clinic class, and Doctor Nash, returned over the week-end from Atchison, where they went to give clinical examinations to children in the orphan's home.
LINES FOR LEISURE MOMENTS
By Ruth Lockwood Yoeman
☆ ☆
Three-Two a.m.
Three-Two a.m.
A little night life,
A booze-sot crony,
Home too late—
Alimoy.
Pedestrians as well as drivers of cars should remember that he who is reckless will never live to scratch an old head.
Don't go home without visiting the Lawrence room in Watson library. No printed word can tell the story found there. The room bristles with the atmosphere of early days. One of Beecher's Bibles carries the acrid tang of its "moral persuasion." The scabbard of Jim Lane's sword that he seized to protect himself with as Quantrill raided Lawrence, the faded Civil War uniform of General John Fraser, the first chancellor of K.U.—these and many other prized possessions are found in this room. Go see for yourself the story of this border-state town with its struggles, its hardships, its sacrifices, its victories. Any visitor is fortunate who can hear Miss Carrie M. Watson tell the story of these relics.
"When the imagination and the pen part company" . . . the result is so dry it could be sold for sawdust.
Slogan for budding writers: Imagination supplies what reality denies.
If you have a bit of news you would like made public but do not care to publicize it yourself, just whisper it to the town gossip as a secret after dark and every telephone will ring with the news before breakfast.
A printed warning
Went unheeded.
The man's now buried
In a plot well seeded.
Grad in Medicine Takes State Post
Dr. E. O. Stevenson, practicing physician at Oswego, and graduate of the University School of Medicine in 1911, has been named by state officials as assistant superintendent of the State Hospital for Epileptics at Parsons.
Doctor Stevenson succeeds Dr. J.
T. Naramore, assistant superintendent at Parsons for several years.
Doctor Naramore in turn succeeds the late Dr. C. S. McGinnis, former superintendent, who died a few months ago.
Summer Session Kansan
Address All Communications to SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
EDWARD BARNETT Editor
BILL TURNER Associate Editor
F. QUENTIN BROWN Business Mgr.
Telephones
Business Office ... K.U. 66
News Room ... K.U. 25
Ellsworth Family Travels Through Central Part of State
Fred Ellsworth, alumni secretary, accompanied by Mrs. Ellsworth and their two sons, left Sunday night on a three-day trip through central northern Kansas.
Mr. Ellsworth's itinerary includes Minneapolis, Beloit, Hays, Russell, Ellsworth, Salina, and Manhattan. He left Mrs. Ellsworth and their two sons at Minneapolis, and will return through that town to bring them with him back to Lawrence. Besides doing promotion work for the association at the towns mentioned, he will work on plans for teachers' meetings at Hays and Manhattan, to be held next fall.
Rosemary Blakely, student in the department of journalism, suffered a severe leg injury while playing, "Squirrels in their Nests," at a church party Friday evening.
GIFTS, SCHOLASTIC HONORS and PRIZES for 1937
Prizes
Prizes have been awarded as follows to students of the University of Kansas in the academic year 1936-37:
The University Honor Award for 1936 to the senior man whose influence on University student life was adjudged most wholesome and helpful, to Sol LINDENBAUM of ElDorado.
The Hattie Elizabeth Lewis Prize Essays in Applied Christianity; First Prize to RICHARD DEAN MOORHEAD of Hugoton, for his essay on "Cooperation, the Christian Alternative."
Third Prize to RALPH EDWARD HOKE of Wichita, for his essay on "Some Thoughts and Observations on Contemporary Society."
Second Prize to Ross MARSHALL ROBERTSON of Marysville, for his essay on "Christ and the Doubting Youth."
Fourth Prize to MAYE HOOPER LEONARD of Lawrence for her essay on "Health and Human Problems."
The William Herbert Carruth Memorial Poetry Prizes:
First Prize to KENNETH RALPH LEWIS of Topeka for his poem "Trumpets at Dawn."
Second Prize to MARTIN J. MALONEY of Lawrence for his poem
"Symphony from a Smoking Car."
Third Prize to MARJORIE GRACE HOUSTON of Kansas City for her poem "Mars in a Veil."
Honorable Mention to MAYE H. LEONARD of Lawrence,
FRANCES P. HULL of Lawrence, and HAROLD N. RAPORT
of Lawrence.
The William Jennings Bryan Prize Essay Award to MARGUERITE
C. BURK of Ottawa, a senior in the College.
The A. Morris Ginsberg Prize in Medicine to the junior student who has done the best work in the department of medicine, to Jesse David Rising of Kansas City, Mo.
The Hannab Oliver Latin Prize, provided by friends of Miss Hannah Oliver, A.B. 1874, associate professor emerita, to WILLIAM J. GILSTAPR of Topeka, a sophomore in the College.
The Carl Schurz Memorial Foundation Prize to the senior doing outstanding work in the field of German literature, to EDWIN FREIDR MENZE of Atchison, a senior in the School of Education.
The Honor Graduate of the R.O.T.C. for the Corps of Engineers, to LAWRENCE N. BIGLEW of Topeka, a senior in the School of Engineering and Architectures and for the Coast Artillery Corps to ELVERSON E. BAKER of Leavenworth, a senior in the School
Silver Marksmanship Medal and Name Engraved on Lawrence Reserve Officers Association Cup to WILLIAM A. SMILEY, JR.
of Junction City, a freshman in the College.
The Phi Chi Theta Scholarship Key to the woman in the School of Business ranking highest in scholarship, activities, and leadership to LOREEN AGNES COSANDIER of Onaga, a senior in the School of Business.
The Lambda Chapter of Chi Omega Prize for the ranking woman in the department of economics in the College, or in the School of Business to BARBARA PENDLETON of Lawrence, a service in the College.
The Delta Sigma Pi Key to the ranking man in the School of Business to BERT HAROLD RUSH of Independence, a senior in the School of Business.
Honors in English to CLARICE CRAWFORD of Spring Hill, and to GEORGE RUBLE WAGGENER of Wagoner, Okla.
Delta Sigma Rho Medal for excellence in debate to Roy LEE STENHIELER of Hutchinson, a senior in the College.
Acting Award for excellence in acting to BETTY RUTH SMITH, of Wichita, a senior in the School of Fine Arts.
The Alpha Chi Sigma Award for outstanding achievement in chemistry and chemical engineering to GEORGE W. HOLMAN of Kansas City, Mo., a senior in the School of Engineering.
The Sigma Tau Scholarship Medal to the sophomore in the School of Engineering and Architecture having the highest freshman scholastic standing, to RICHARD GAGE of Minneapolis.
The Kansas State Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers Award to the civil engineer having the highest scholastic standing for four years, to LAWRENCE N. BIGELOW, of Topeka, a senior in the School of Engineering and Architecture.
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers Regional Award to BENJAMIN NORTON BAILEY of Kansas City, Mo., a senior in the School of Engineering and Architecture.
The American Institute of Architects Medal for excellence in architectural work throughout the course, to MARGARET WHEELER of Lawrence, a senior in the School of Engineering and Architecture.
The Thayer Medal for excellence in architectural design, to JOHN J. REGIER, of Hillsboro, a senior in the School of Engineering and Architecture.
The Alice Chittenden Prize for excellence in Freshman architectural work to LELAND ROBERT JOHNSON of Stafford.
The Scarab Medal for excellence in Sophomore architectural design to RALPH KLEINMESS KLEANS of Kansas City, Mo.
The Rowlands Prize in Design to HELEN MATEEL NARRAMORE, of Lawrence, a sophomore in the School of Fine Arts.
The Rowlands Prize in Antique Drawing to CHARLES MAX NIXON of Augusta, an unclassified student in the School of Fine Arts.
The Keeler Painting Prize to JAMES THURMAN KEEPNER of Joplin, Mo., a senior in the School of Fine Arts.
The Carter Prize in Design to Doris Evelyn NELSON of Salina, a sophomore in the School of Fine Arts.
The Carter Prize in Painting to EDGAR STARECK of Benton, a junior in the School of Fine Arts.
The Vernon Prize in Design to CHARLES MAX NIXON of Augusta, an unclassified student in the School of Fine Arts.
The Henry Schott Memorial Prizes in Journalism to MORRIS M. THOMPSON of Trenton, Mo., an unclassified student in the College; to MARTIN BENTSON of Lawrence, a junior in the College; and to TOM A. ELLIS of Burlingame, a junior in the College.
The Sigma Delta Chi National Scholarship Awards to DONALD E. AMES of Moline, a senior in the College; to DOROTHY H. HOODGE of Kansas City, a senior in the College; to DORIS ELAINE KENT of Humboldt, a senior in the College; and to MARY ESTHER RUTTER of Lawrence, a senior in the College; and to JOHN MALONE of Leavenworth, a senior in the College.
Awards for Superior Work in Writing to William R. Downs of Kansas City, a senior in the College; to Mrs. ISABE TOWN-LYES Voy of Topeka, a senior in the College; and to CARL W. Smith of Kansas City, Mo., a senior in the College.
The American Pharmaceutical Association Membership Award to LILY BETTY CHECKLA of Kansas City, Mo., a senior in the School of Pharmacy
The Midwestern Druggist Award to five seniors in the School of Pharmacy: LILY BETTY CHECKLA of Kansas City, Mo.; MARY NICHOLSON of Ellis; DONALD EDWIN McCOY of Marysville; MARGARET HENGELGE of Columbus, Neb.; and ROBERT BALDRIDGE of Lawrence.