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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, Nov. 30, 1955
by Dick Bibler
Only You Can Judge Value Of A Life
Tomorrow's genius plays in today's streets.
Tomorrow's genius plays in today's streets.
Would man's wisdom have progressed to its present level if the child, Albert Einstein, had been run down and killed by some careless driver?
But more important, who can estimate the value of a life—any life?
Indifference and carelessness are the enemies of society. When YOU swell the ranks of the indifferent, the careless, YOU are the hangman—by your own choice.
A screaming ambulance bears down on a busy and blind intersection against a red light. Society stands on the sidewalks in breathless anticipation Will the ambulance make it? Or will it be the cause of an even worse tragedy? What right has that ambulance to jeopardize the lives of countless beings on the streets?
What is the value of a life?
The answer is that at the moment the red lights are seen flashing and the siren is heard, society unites in an effort to help save the life in that ambulance. And at that moment there is nearly universal concern for fellow men.
Along the highways of the state of Arizona are numerous white markers. There is scarcely a bridge or abuttment without at least once.
Each marker means "in memoriam" for a life lost at that particular spot on the highway. Are these markers a good idea? Morbid? Yes. Expensive? Rather. But, if ONE life is saved because some driver is shocked into concern, it is well worth it.
Concern? What is concern? Who has it?
Should it come only as the result of tragedy?
YOU have the answers.
a bit o' blarney
(Daily Kansan Editorial Editor)
Tomorrow is Safe-Driving Day. Throughout the United States, drivers will be asked to attempt to go through the day without causing a single traffic fatality.
15y LEO FLANAGAN
Last year, when the campaign was originated, there occurred 81 deaths on S-D Day. If 80 of these persons had lived, there still would have been one death too many.
But driving safely should not be a one-day proposition—it should be a year-around one. And it's up to you and me to make it that.
When man gets behind the wheel of an automobile, he becomes the brains, the motivator of it.
Until he performs certain acts, the vehicle is powerless. But once those acts are performed, the automobile becomes a mechanical powerhouse.
When man begins driving his automobile, he puts to use his advanced mind. As long as he drives his car he should keep his mind on the serious business at hand.
Herein lies the reason behind most traffic accidents and fatalities. Too many men do not use their minds. They don't drive their cars, they aim them.
We, as college students, are supposed to have a higher intellect. Let's prove it by driving like human beings and not animals.
Slow up here—show up there.
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For the second consecutive year the Daily Kansan, KDGU, and Kansan photographers are sponsoring the Miss Santa contest in co-ordination with Lawrence merchants.
Last year more than 20 candidates entered the contest. They competed for more than $170 in prizes contributed by 20 local merchants.
We ask that you help us in naming a Miss Santa that not only KU will be proud of, but also that jolly old fat man with the big round belly.
This is probably the only title contest on the Hill that has more than just a "name" as its reward. The contest also has had national recognition for its originality and timeliness.
Also, in an effort to be completely fair in the selection of the winner, two judges each from the law, business, and engineering schools will select the winner.
We back this contest not only because it's Kansan-sponsored, but because it has a real value to the contestants. When the mums of some of the other titlists have faded, the awards of Miss Santa will still be usable.
"EYESTRAIN - HE WROTE HIS CRIBNOTES SO SMALL HE
COULD HARDLY READ 'EM."
Republicans Urge Restraint On Foreign Policy Issue
WASHINGTON —(U,P)—An increasing number of Republicanus urged that foreign policy be kept out of partisan political debate.
Sens. Alexander Wiley (R-Wis.), ranking GOP member of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, and Frederick G. Payne (R-Me.) were the latest to make such a plea.
But the man who took the lead last week in urging that foreign policy not be made a political football in 1956—Sen. Walter F. George (D-Ga.)—said he did not mean the administration should be exempt from "constructive" criticism of its policy.
George is chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. "So long as this criticism of our foreign policy is healthy and constructive, I have no fault to find with it," George said.
"My concern is that no substantial issue be taken with our basic foreign policy course, which was begun under Democratic auspices and which Mr. Eisenhower's administration has largely followed.
Republicans have charged that Democrats are weakening U.S. influence abroad by making what GOP National Chairman Leonard Hall yesterday called "pretty dangerous" attacks on the administration's handling of foreign affairs. Such attacks have been made in varying degrees recently by New York Gov. Averell Harriman, former President Truman and Adlai Stevenson.
Sen. George said that "thus far" he has "heard nothing" in preliminary speeches by presidential possibilities that conflicts with his idea of constructive criticism.
Democratic National Chairman Paul M. Butler said the matter of keeping foreign policy out of political debate is largely up to the Republicans. He said Hall himself made foreign policy an issue by declaring that "peace" would be the GOP's chief boast during next year's election campaign.
Butler invited Mr. Eisenhower to call "a truce on exploiting foreign policy as a political campaign issue" and promised that Democrats would meet him "more than half-way."
Wiley urged both parties to adopt voluntarily a "code of self restraint" in discussing foreign policy. He expressed hope that Democrats would see the danger in "partisan tactics on this all-important issue." But he conceded that "if we expect the Democrats to refrain from using foreign policy as a political football, we have got to make sure that we Republicans don't kick it around ourselves."
He said it is "a most inopportune time to abandon bipartisan support of administration foreign policy in favor of partisan political advantages.
Payne said upon his return from a week's visit in London "that the mounting chorus of partisan debate" in this country on foreign policy is weakening U.S. world leadership.
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Presidential Hopefuls Johnson's Running Depends On Health
(This is the last in a series on 1956 presidential candidate possibilities.)
Bv DEE RICHARDS
The one man who might have provided great competition for Adlai Stevenson in the race for next year's Democratic nomination faces somewhat the same dilemma as does President Eisenhower, Lyndon Johnson, Senate majority leader from Texas, has also suffered a heart attack. Though his chances of being nominated have been lessened.
His chances, prior to the attack which struck him last July, were good. A Johnson-for-President movement was already under way in Texas political circles. Even Gov. Shivers, who turned the Texas tide in 1952 for President Eisenhower, favored the senator.
The 46-year-old senator has led the Democrats in the Senate since 1953, supporting 90 per cent of the party's legislative policies. Johnson is no figurehead in his leadership. He pushed through 275 items of important legislation in 81 days. This constant drive in all probability led to his attack.
He has voted against flexible farm price supports and revision of the Taft-Hartley Act. He has supported increases in foreign military aid and income tax cuts and exemptions.
In legislation since 1950 he has favored the McCarran-Walter Immigration Act, and wage and price controls. He voted against cuts in European economic aid, TVA, and soil conservation programs.
If his health holds out Sen. Johnson probably will join the ranks of the long termers in Congress. He was elected to the House of Representatives by a special election in 1937 and served there continuously until 1948. He then was elected to the Senate, and when the Democrats captured the majority there in 1954, he became that body's majority leader.
The policy which is now developing in Texas has all the earmarks of the present trend toward moderation, which places Sen. Johnson in support of the Stevenson program. The political split of 1952 seems to have mended.
Sen. Johnson has pledged support to whomever secures the Democratic standard. He stands a slim chance himself but his friends say not to count him out.
The age of the horse and buggy has long since passed and the age of the hot rods and convertibles is here to stay, at least until the advent of flying saucers for family use.
Parking Suggested East Of Stadium
Here at KU, however, we are still living in the past as far as the parking problem is concerned. Every year howls of protest are raised about the intolerable parking conditions on and around the campus, and every year profound statements are made by school officials to the effect that the situation is being studied.
One possibility which could increase parking space near the campus has arisen since the football team nacked its bags and moved near Allen Field House to practice. They no longer have any use for the practice area just east of the stadium.
Of course, this plot of land must be used for the field events in the KU Relavs. However, as plans have been made to move the baseball diamond to an amphitheater which will be carved in the hillside west of the field house, this will leave two fields which will be used only at the Relavs.
When this move is made, arrangements could probably be made to double up on one of the two fields for the Rélays events. Then the other field could be paved and made into a permanent parking lot.
This lot would serve a three-fold purpose. It could be a parking lot for students driving to class, alleviate the parking situation around the Union, and provide a parking lot for football games.
Granted that the Relay's people won't be too happy about the situation. But someone has to sacrifice to correct a situation as bad as the parking problem is. John McMillion