ge2 University Daily Kansan Thursday, Nov. 4. 1954 Every Eligible Voter Should Use This Right Since the day the United States cut the last thread of the umical cord tying her to England, the question of the voting right is off and on, interested the American people. The Federalists thought it would be a good idea if only the operty holders were allowed to vote, but they were put in their face. Finally the bloomer girls got out their chains and posters, fixed their pince-nez firmly on their noses, and raised the devil—and a women got the vote. Now we see that Fred Hall governor-elect, has come out for the year-old vote. One state has the 18-year-old vote at present,orgia. But we wonder why the 18-year-old vote has been such a fighting lie these many years when the 21-year-olds, and all the other-olds, have the voting right, and don't seem too excited about it. The Republicans passed off apathy as a boon to their cause—fewer people vote, it must mean they are satisfied with things as y are, they optimistically said. The Democrats said, again optimistically, that their campaign is strong, and that if only a few people did turn up at the polls they will surely be those people who have been won over to the democratic side. The pollsters said nothing—a pause for the memory of '48. The pollsters said nothing—a pause for the memory of '48. We say it's a shame. A shame that here in the free United States here is such a thing as anathy on the part of free voters. We do have free voters — that is one thing that is settled whether or not the 18-year-olds can vote remains to be seen, but think it is relatively unimportant, when those people who are enough to vote don't bother to walk in and mark the ballot. We tried our hand at helping the country last Saturday, via the sentee ballot—our first year to exercise the privilege. We felt little proud when we got it notarized and dropped into the mail, and we thought a little about luck, and patriotism, and that sort thing. We are also lazy. And do we love to gripe! If everyone who reams that the country is going to the dogs tried to rectify the uation, as he sees it, by casting his vote, the poll turnout would doubt be tremendous. We are lucky, you know—lucky that we have the right to vote, at no one holds a machine gun over us when we pick up pencil paper to cast our vote, and lucky that the ballot says vote for e—and gives us a choice between the different parties. As it turned out, Tuesday's election brought out many more letters than was expected with records predicted in many sections an off-year election. Regardless of whether or not 18-year-olds got the right to vote, the important thing is that everyone who is gible to vote remember his duty and his responsibility to good government and exercise this privilege every two years. 19. —Mary Bess Stephens We understand that a great number of students are planning attend the Missouri game. Wonder how many are going for the me and how many for the party? Mr. Eisenhower, for being so anti-political, is certainly doing a sing-up job of last minute campaigning. Now that this has taken place the place of his policy seems defined. The Democrats take control and now have no obligation for enactment of Ike's policy. Yellow football helmets, midnight blue, alias black, band uniforms with gold trim, let's see now—what were those school colorsain? ME AN TURTLE FOUND MOLE WITH A SECRET BOMB FORMULA! NECLAIM A SPY SNICK IT IN! DON'T THEM SPIES USUAL WORK THE OTHER WAY? WOUNN'T HE OF SNuckED IT OUT? In answer to my questions, they told me they had been out "bushwhacking"—a term meaning surprising lovers on lonely roads. It is a dangerous sport. We wonder if rural area teenagers are exempt from the violence of headlines which have recently come out of the nation's metropolitan areas. We remember the gang of "good boys" in New York City who made the nation shudder with their escapades. We remember the bloodshed of victims in Los Angeles, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and other cities of violence and crime not seen in other generations. The driver was not drunk, but he did not refuse the bottle. I was hitchhiking between Baldwin and Lawrence. It was after midnight. Just outside of Baldwin I was picked up by a group of boys their ages ranging between 8 and 15. None was old enough to drive legally at that time of night. And they were drinking, although the two youngest of the boys who were huddled in a far corner of the back seat refused the bottle when it was passed. One Man's Opinion Enough has been written about the causes of juvenile delinquency. Not enough action has been taken. Briefly, the causes of juvenile delinquency range from parental neglect to neighborhood influences to conformity to values of the group and back to parental neglect. Juvenile delinquency is present, and while statistics show more broken homes in urban areas, genuine neglect is hard to define. KU sociologists say the absence of court statistics makes juvenile delinquency in town and country difficult to compare. Juvenile delinquency is handled differently in different counties. Douglas county handles problems of the type through special courts set up for the problem. The function of these courts is to pass the responsibility for the young delinquent on to an adult adviser. The headlines from metropolitan areas do not call attention to the small town and rural problem. This area is loaded with a potential for crime, and there is a thin borderline between actual crime and what is called "mischief"—sometimes a matter of five minutes. Douglas county is not exempt and the headlines here will be just as big as they are in New York. Ron Grandon Although Bermuda no longer excludes the automobile, the popular Atlantic resort island restricts gasoline transportation. Speeds are limited to 20 miles an hour in open country, 15 in town. No family may own more than one automobile. Visitors must remain 30 days before being allowed to drive. Cars more than five years old may not be sold for driving on public roads. The 1886 Yale-Harvard football game was called by the referee "because of darkness" and the referee gave his decision as a draw, even though Yale was leading in the contest 4-0. LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS by Dick Bibler "Now that you have exchanged and graded papers—do we have anyone who made a '100?" Undergraduate Library To Show Books Missing With inventories almost completed, the library soon will know how many books are missing from the new undergraduate library in the basement of Watson. That there will be a number of books gone is almost as inevitable as the coming of final week. While the fact that college students will take books from the library is deplorable, it is even worse when this theft is furthered by the library's desire to help the student in the open shelf manner, which can be handled only by the honor system. The very existence of the new undergraduate library, opened in the fall of 1953, with its open shelf collections, was brought about because it is the desire of the library to have as liberal a lending policy as possible. Some persons seem to feel that the turnstiles at the doors of the room are a challenge to the student's "ability" or that they have been put there for the sole purpose of being a security measure against theft. This is not true. The turnstiles serve only to route traffic in such a manner as to be as efficient and as fast as the library can make it. For absent-minded people who forget that they are carrying one of the library's books, the turnstiles serve the additional purpose of reminding these people to sign for the book which they have. While the number of books that turns up missing is relatively small, the periodicals section suffers constantly from mutilation and theft. When an entire volume of a periodical is received, it then is bound. In many cases, in order to have a complete, uncut set of the periodical's issues to bind, it is necessary to buy a number of the issues for a second time. Harry Elliott Even though the stealing of books often is caused by pressures on the student, everyone should realize that stealing a book only places someone else in the same position. Let's all do our part in stopping this unnecessary condition and give our library a break. Major disappointment has now set in for the well-to-do freshman. First he found the girls cold. Then his room, and now even his car shows signs of freezing up. If the Philadelphia Athletics move as far up in the American league standings next season as they have geographically in the last two weeks, they should win the pennant by at least 50 games. University of Kansas Student Newspaper News Room, KU 251 Ad Room, KU 376 National Center for Education Nation Editorial association, Indiana Daily Press association, Associated College Press association. Represented by the National Advertising service, 420 W. Third Avenue, New York, rates: $ a semester or $4.50 a year (add $1 a semester if in Lawrence). Published by Lawrence, Kan., every afternoon during the week and Sundays. University holidays and examination dates. March, September, October, November, Sept. 17, 1910 as secretary, Sept. 17, 1910 as secretary, Kan., host office under act of March 3, 1879. 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