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University Daily Kansan Thursday, Feb. 16, 1956.
Lawrence Has A Parking Problem
Few of us realize that downtown Lawrence has a parking problem just as real as the one on the campus.
Students have become well aware of the shortage of parking facilities on the Hill, but not all are equally aware of the problem downtown, even though they are the cause of part of it.
Townspeople and KU students are both guilty of double parking on Massachusetts. If there were enough places to park there would not be such a tendency for this. Each year the parking problem grows steadily worse, and, according to E.R. Rook, Chamber of Commerce secretary, 500 more automobiles were registered by November of last year than at the same time the year before.
Lawrence proper has only three downtown parking lots which do not accommodate even the bulk of parked cars.
Mr. Zook said one of the main difficulties was in keeping merchants and employees from parking in the shopping area. He said that to remedy this situation the city is contemplating building off-street parking areas for employees as far west as Kentucky Street.
Mr. Zook cited the arcade, which will be built where the Patee Theatre once stood, as one of the most important projects of the Off Street Parking
and Traffic Control Committee.
It will help cure the fact that heavy traffic is concentrated in one area because all the main stores are located on one street instead of spread out on two or three.
The arcade will cut through to the parking lot immediately behind it which is being enlarged to hold approximately 300 cars. It will extend as far as the Dr. Pepper Bottling company. The city has torn down the four houses in that area to extend the lot. "If this space is still inadequate, a two-story building may be built," said James L. Schubert, president of the Merchants' Association.
Lawrence must face the same problems of any town such as that caused by people who come to town, park their cars, and sit in them to watch the crowds go by. This makes even fewer parking places for shoppers. It would be better to have enough parking places to accommodate "peak" traffic, such as during the Christmas season, even though this means that there will often be many places left vacant during less busy days.
Perhaps parallel parking on Massachusetts would relieve congestion. After all, streets were made to carry traffic as well as to park cars.
All these changes and improvements won't appear overnight, however, and, as with so many other things, students are asked to "be patient."
Ann Kelly
Lincoln's 'Equality For All' Distorted
Abraham Lincoln advocated "equality for all, privileges for none," but now his ideals are being distorted today in our supposedly democratic country.
The South continues to fight the Supreme Court's ruling of integration in public schools; the best example, of course, being the case at the University of Alabama where a Negro, Miss Authorine Lucy, has not been allowed to attend classes.
While the South shouts its defiant opposition to the non-segregation ruling, it is screaming "bloody murder" over an amendment to the federal aid school bill proposed by Rep. Adam Clayton Powell (D-N.Y.). The amendment would limit federal financial aid to schools still practicing segregation.
House Republican leaders are backing the amendment, but the Democrats evidently are preparing for an intraparty fight. Foremost Democratic presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson said he would not cut off federal aid to the segregated states if he were elected. Mr. Stevenson favors gradual enforcement of the anti-segregation law.
Gov. Averell Harriman, also considered a Democratic candidate for the presidency, recently said he was in favor of the amendment. He wants immediate and complete enforcement of the Supreme Court's decision that segregation is unconstitutional.
Organized labor is split on the subject. AFLCIO Vice President Walter Reuther said it would be "morally and legally wrong" to give federal aid to schools which practice segregation, while George Meany, head of the merged labor organizations, opposes the amendment.
It all adds up to a perplexing problem. If the bill reaches the Senate, the amendment almost certainly would bring a filibuster from Southern Democrats, who want to keep their schools segregated but still want the full amount of federal aid for their schools. In other words, they ignore the law in one way and swear by it in the other.
If the bill and the amendment were passed, it would be deserving to the segregated states, but it would be another step farther away from equality. Rapid enforcement of the anti-segregation law appears to be our only sure answer.
—Kent Thomas
Olympic Ideals Have Changed
It looks as if the Olympics' real purpose is being shoved aside by the old "team victory."
Just recently during the winter Olympics, newspapers and magazines were full of headlines and stories telling how Russia was in first place with so many points, followed by Austria, with so many and so forth.
The purpose of the Olympics is to recognize the outstanding INDIVIDUAL athletes of the world, not how much the individual can add to
his country's score. Of course, in those events which require several participants on each team the particular team should be cited, still not the country.
It's a tremendous honor for a person to win a gold medal in the Olympics. Why think of a gold medal as meaning just so many points to a country's score? We grant that teamwork is wonderful, but let's keep it in its place.
—Kent Thomas
Roosevelt, War, Draft Were Top News
15 Years Ago This Week
A time of crisis, Feb. 10, 1941.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt had just been inaugurated for his third term. The Berlin-Rome-Tokyo axis was waging war in Europe and in the Pacific. The draft was in full swing, and the country was in the midst of preparing for war.
While in the country's capital our leaders were attempting to keep this country at peace, our sister nation, England, was already engaged in a war with Germany and the Japanese Empire was steadily advancing towards the Philippine Islands.
The nation's young men were volunteering by the thousands. Of those who were being drafted, some were anxious to go, some were reluctant. One young man, rejected by the Army because of bad teeth, hot-footed it to a dentist's office, held his mouth open for 10 and a half hours
The giant automobile industry was rapidly turning its mass-production genius into the job of building airplanes for national defense. By March 1942 it hoped to be producing 5,000 airplanes a year.
and was happily accepted the next day.
With the possibility of war looming ominously, the country tried to maintain a peaceful front. Sports were very much in the headlines. Bob Feller was starting his fifth year in baseball, after posting a record of 27 wins the previous year with the Cleveland Indians. Heavyweight champion Joe Louis had just won the 13th defense of his title by knocking
President Roosevelt told newsmen that "the government was prepared to take over the Ford Motor Co., or any factory in the country, if that action were necessary for national defense."
The Columbia Broadcasting System had just fashioned a show designed for the thousands of eligible draeftes and their families entitled "Dear Mom."
out challenger Clarence ("Red")
Burman in Madison Square Garden.
Hollywood came out with several top hits. Among them was a movie entitled "So Ends Our Night," an anti-Nazi picture starring Fredric March, Margaret Sullivan, Glenn Ford and Frances Dee. Another top movie was "The Philadelphia Story," starring Katherine Hepburn, James Stewart and Cary Grant.
The nation had just survived a decade of depression. People who a few years ago were jobless now found jobs in defense plants. America had survived one time of crisis to find itself in the midst of another, this time one of war.
.. Letters ..
Editor:
It was with considerable amusement that I read the poorly explained reply to the inquiry last week regarding the contract between the Jayhawker and Estes Studio.
—Daryl Hall
When I finished my undergraduate work in 1953, I also investigated the procedure of having a picture put in the Jayhawkter. The reason was that I had a particular picture I wanted to use, and also the expense of having a new picture made seemed a bit high if it was not necessary.
Shuttling between the office of the Dean of Men, and that of the Jayhawker. I was also told the "checkerboard" story, that is the pictures were to have the same "quality," whatever that means.
Imagine my astonishment when a telephone call to the Estes Studio brought forth a slight contradiction, that they would be very happy to use any picture I already had, so long as I paid them the full price as though they had taken it and made prints. This now, over the telephone, without even seeing the so-called "quality" of the picture. I ask you, where does this leave the "cheekerboard" story?
At that time, in a silent one-man protest, I refrained from putting my picture in the Jay-hawker, and do not intend to ever do so, so long as strong arm methods are used to force students to deal with money hungry people.
Regarding the unsatisfactory reply given to the previous letter of inquiry, first, the $400 bribe should not be binding on the student body as a whole, second, the group pictures, etc., I would be paying for indirectly although not being in them, third, it would seem much more "above board" for the students to pay directly to the Jayhawker rather than the kickback method referred to in the reply, and, fourth, my telephone call in 1953 makes the "checkerboard" story a complete falsehood.
How about dat?
Robert C. Howard
Robert C. Howard Wellington first-year law student
(Editor's Note: "The poorly explained reply" was not that of the editors of the Daily Kansan. Whether a storyory fund shop or senior picture now used is of the best or not should be left to the editors of the Jayhawker. Your statement that the present method is "strong arm," is completely without sound fact, since you yourself withheld your picture from the Jayhawker. If you have a better suggestion on how and where the Jayhawker may be assured of a definite income, then it is requested that you send your suggestion to the editors of the Jayhawker.)
Two of every three passenger cars and three of every four trucks manufactured in 1954 replaced vehicles that were scrapped.
Egyptians, first architects to work with stone, began using the material for building about 2750 B.C.
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