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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, Dec. 14, 1955.
Don't Crash The Christmas Party
(Lawrence Journal-World Photo by Rich Clarkson)
How well can you see? Do you have any corrective physical defects? If so, you'd better take care of them—and fast. Physical alertness and fitness may save your life.
Did you know that one out of 14 drivers involved in fatal accidents in 1954 had a physical condition that could have been a contributing
factor in that accident?
Being asleep or fatigue was the condition in three-fifths of these cases, followed by defective eyesight, illness, and poor hearing.
When you get behind the wheel of that car be prepared to be its brains. Operate it—don't let It operate you.
Salk Named Man Of Year
Bv LEO FLANAGAN
By LEO FLANAGAN
(Daily Kansan Editorial Editor)
"The vaccine works."
With these words, Dr. Jonas E. Salk took his place in medical annals alongside Pasteur, Koch, and Jenner. Because of his work on the polio killer, he has been selected Man of the Year by the University Daily Kansan editors and editorial writers.
Dr. Salk got 104 out of a possible 110 points in the poll conducted. Finishing behind him and filling out the list of the top 10 men of the year in order were: Chancellor Konrad Adenauer of Germany, Premier Gamal Abdel Nasser of
Jonas Salk
Egypt, Comunist Party Chief Nikita Krushchev and Premier Edgar Faure of France, Premier Nikolai Bulganin of Russia, President Eisenhower, George Meany, president of the AFL-CIO, and Sherman Adams, presidential assistant.
A graduate of the New York University School of Medicine, Dr. Salk began his fight against polio in 1950.
Eventually, he found a way of killing the virus while preserving its power to stimulate the formation of protective antibodies in humans. When first released, the vaccine was up to 90 per cent effective. Dr. Salk has said the vaccine can be made almost 100 per cent effective, and that eventually polio can become a rarity.
Dr. Adenauer received support for his work on the Western European Union, the release of German war prisoners from Russia, and the Saar question.
Premier Nasser's stand on Czechoslovakian arms and antagonism toward Israel in attempting to assert Egypt's place of power in the world, gained backers for him.
The move to power by Communist boss Krushchev and the political manipulating by Premier Faure put them in a tie for the fourth and fifth positions. Although the Communist is officially the No. 2 man in Russia, he is recognized as the real power in the Kremlin. Premier Faure's dissolution of the French National Assembly and his handling of the off-again on-again French government won support.
The rise to power by Nikolai Bulgamin, supplanting Georgi Maleukov as head of Russia, was of utmost significance in world politics. His peace motions at Geneva and in India surprised the world.
President Eisenhower was selected high on the list because of his efforts at Geneva, and because of the realization of his true strength within the Republican Party as was shown at the time of his illness.
Schools Should Teach Avocations Too
America in the last 10 years has prospered more than anyone ever dared guess. This year, economic experts estimate Americans will make more than they did in the record-breaking year of 1954.
But, they also have begun to demand more money for less work from their employers. There was a time in American history when we had a 70-hour work week. In recent history it was a 48-hour work week. Now it is generally accepted as a 40-hour work week.
If the trend continues, as it most certainly is apt to do with the innovation and introduction of electronic gadgets to improve production methods, there will be a time in the not too distant future when we will have a 20-hour work week.
That's not bad—but what happens to the other
hours that most people were accustomed to working in? What will Americans do with their spare time when we have a 20-hour work week?
The responsibility for teaching an avocation as well as a vocation could very easily be placed with the nation's educators. They feel they have a tremendous responsibility now just teaching a vocation. But when it comes the time for a 20-hour work week, we feel a great surge of pressure will come from the American public, demanding the school system develop both—an avocation along with a vocation.
One person has expressed the opinion that the nation's educators should begin teaching their students not only a vocation but an avocation as well. And we heartily agree.
Sam L. Jones
$500 Million From Informal Talk
NEW YORK (U.P.)—The hands of the set-in wall clock in the windowless, 11th-floor board room neared 1 p.m. when a chunky man sitting midway down a 40-foot mahogany table said in dry, informal tones;
"Then it agreed we'll go ahead on this basis!"
Twelve men around the table nodded their heads. Four were industrialists and business men; two were publishers; one was a banker; one was a judge; three were educators; one was a lawyer.
It was last Saturday afternoon. The nodding of heads gave final approval to the biggest one-shot act of philanthropy in history- granting $500 million to American private colleges, hospitals, and medical schools.
This was the final session of a three-day meeting of the 13 trustees who control the country's largest foundation, with a 2.5-billion-dollar capital. Henry Ford II is 38. On his immediate right sat Charles E. (Electric Charlie) Wilson, 68, former president of General Electric and chairman of the foundation trustees' finance committee.
The man doing the talking was Henry Ford II, chairman of the trustees of the Ford Foundation, which his family set up in 1936 to make grants to advance human welfare. Outside the board room, in the chastely decorated lobby of buff and bright red, only two pictures broke the wall monotony—the chairman's grandfather and father, Henry and Edsel Ford.
"And you can be sure we knew this was a momentous thing," said H. Rowan Gaither Jr., foundation president, "These programs have developed in an orderly, thorough way in the last 2½ years. The first time the college grant program was discussed was in September 1953. The real decision on it—on the faculty raises—came last winter."
. . Short Ones .
The Pittsburg Collegio has stated: "Four Gorillas Chosen For AllCIC Honors." How many bananas did it take to coax them out of the trees?
The classified column of the Kansas State Collegian recently carried a "Lost" ad for a 1951 4-door blue Plymouth. How dense can the Aggies get?
A recent Baker Orange headline read; "Gym Shorts." Isn't that getting pretty intimate?
Gifts And Death In Five Minutes
By TAL STREETER
(Of The Daily Kansan Staff)
He had five minutes to live.
He had five hounds Packing the back seat of his car very carefully, he added a suit to the large pile of boxes and clothing a student generally takes home over the vacation.
Four minutes. . . "Should make it home in a couple of hours if the weather holds up," he thought silently.
He slammed the rear door, climbed behind the wheel of his car, fumbled through the loose change in his socket, and finding the key, placed it in the ignition lock. The motor whirred to life and he moved the car out of the house parking lot and into the line of traffic heading out of town.
Three minutes. . . Christmas presents bounced around in the back seat as he pressed a little harder on the accelerator to pass a car going at a snail's pace.
The car found its way through the congestion of downtown traffic and onto the highway with a line of cars. Reaching over to turn on the radio, he thought of the folks at home and the tree that would be in the window. "I'm dreaming of a white Christmas," he heard from the radio.
He thought of the sensation the red tie would cause when Dad unwrapped his present. The store had wrapped it with red ribbon and two red balls. Real clever.
Two minutes. . . Passing another car, his mind wandered to the music on the radio, "Just like the ones I used to know." A slight surge of power and he sped past another car.
"Probably students as glad as me to be going home," he smiled to himself.
One minute. . . A light snow drifted slowly down to earth, the flakes all coming straight at the car like it always looks when you're driving.
Moving up a little slope, trees along the side of the highway rushed by in a white blur of snow. He moved the wheel to the left and pulled out to pass another turtle.
"Hope it doesn't get any worse," he thought and turned on the wipers to push off the little drifts collecting on the windshield.
0. . . Christmas presents were thrown to the floor as he slammed on the brake and desperately lurched the wheel to avoid the oncoming car.
A siren, screaming its message through the gently falling snow, announced that he would never be some for Christmas.
A Whale Of A Problem
BOSTON (U.R.)—A new Massachusetts law directs the state's public works department to remove any whales that may get beached. The statute was adopted by the legislature after a whale was beached on the South Shore and no agency would take the responsibility of removing the huge carcass.
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