Page 2 University Daily Kansan Friday, Nov. 6, 1953 Calling All Fans - Rivalry? Sure- The Friendly Kind Tomorrow, needless to say, will be a trying day. We'll be trying to plaster K-State, and K-State will be trying to plaster us. And University officials and student leaders will be trying to see that the Peace Peace between the two schools will not be violated or that nothing happens which would be to the discredit of this school or its student body as hosts to an athletic contest. Students of both camps will be trying—by every means available to them—to bolster the spirit of their team and thus come out victors. This is as it should be. It should be a great game, sharpened with the traditional rivalry that has existed since way back when between the University and K-State. But this rivalry, to remain within the bounds of decent behavior, must be friendly rivalry. In the past, before K-State's football slump, it has not always been so. There have been acts of vandalism, rowdyism, and exhibitions of ill temper that have marred the contests and left a bad taste in many an onlooker's mouth. We're not predicting that this will be the occasion before, during, or after game time tomorrow. But with the heightened tension surrounding this game, a reminder is in order. Each student should remember that his action tomorrow will not be his alone: whatever he does—commendable or revolting—speaks also for his University. —Jerry Knudson Hour Dances Outdated In This Day And Age The hour dance season is about over for another year and let's hope it is over forever. The hour dance is an ordeal for everyone involved. Hour dances were organized for people to get acquainted. Sororities don't see much point in having them now because of the deferred rushing system. All of their pledges are sophomores and are pretty well acquainted with the members of the fraternities by their sophomore year. Freshmen dorms still have hour dances with fraternity pledge classes because it was believed they had no other opportunities to get acquainted. But by the time hour dances start they all know many boys. One need only be at North College or Corbin during orientation week to see how long it takes to meet people. Freshman pledges are hanging around the dorms for several days before the freshman women move in. When the girls do arrive the boys practically fight over who will help carry their luggage. Each girl usually has a dozen or so boys carrying boxes and suitcases. Blind dates have proved to be a more popular way to get acquainted. And whoever had the idea that girls and boys didn't know anyone before they came was entirely mistaken. A great deal of enthusiasm is shown for the first dance and then after that it is difficult to find enough girls to go. When enough girls do go, in many cases, enough boys are not available. If a social custom has outlived its usefulness why continue it? —Elizabeth Wohlgemuth I'm writing to curse and castigate the University's sorry substitute for a health clinic, Watkins Memorial hospital. To the Editor: Letters Sunday I found myself deeply engaged in another session with my old enemy, asthma. Each breath felt as if it were going to tear out the lining of my lungs. Wheezing and sneezing, I painfully made my way to Watkins Memorial. After a very cold reception, I was motioned to a hard-backed, hard-bottomed chair that rested impersonally in a corner of the hallway. Eventually a nurse entered. She asked me a few questions, took my pulse and temperature, and then coldly related the news that there were no doctors on duty on Sunday. Nothing could be done. She presented me with a handful of completely impotent pills and told me to come back Monday morning when there would be a doctor on the scene. Consequently, I spent the whole day Sunday in complete misery, gasping for each breath of air that I managed to force down my well-clogged lungs. I'm sure that my experience isn't an isolated illustration. This is characteristic of the sorry service offered by our University hospital. Just because it is cheap in terms of the fees charged to patients, it doesn't have to be cheap in terms of neglect and shoddy service! I believe that our students deserve and should demand better health service. Bob Ramsey College sophomore. Editor's note: The Health service, clinic hours are 8 a.m.-12 noon, 2-5 p.m. daily, said Dr. R. I. Canuteson, director of the Health service. While there may not have been a doctor on duty when Ramsey entered the hospital, a doctor is on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and can reach the hospital quicker than could a city doctor in case of emergency, he said). To the Editor: Tom Stewart, I must take exception to your editorial of last week on the subject of retail liquor dealers. You have been completely correct in some of your editorials, but in this one you were completely incorrect. You propose to emancipate the retail liquor dealers—to give them a chance. A chance to do what? To sell more liquor? Isn't there enough being sold right now? Don't you realize that liquor is already involved in a majority of our bloodiest highway accidents, and that it accentuates every undesirable aspect of every realm which it enters? What manner of moron can you be? Granted, Kansas did have a thriving bootleg industry a few years ago. It was definitely not desirable. So what did the voters of Kansas do? We finally legalized the sale of liquor. But by doing so, we did not intend to increase the sale of it. Nor did we want some of the worse laws for Missouri laws, such as those permitted upon sales. We simply saw the fall of an un-enforceable law and substituted for it something we hoped would be no worse. Your ill-advised proposals would make it worse. We felt, through our legislature, that to permit liquor dealers to advertise in newspapers, on the radio, or in print, would increase the sale of liquor. I suggest that your time, energy and ability to write interesting and readable copy could be better employed in a campaign to accomplish the antithesis of your proposals now under fire—more specifically, to reduce the consumption of alcohol by persons using our streets and highways. You could also do well to repeat the very commendable campaign of last fall's UDK staff to reduce traffic mishaps in general. Get hep, Stewart, and use your abilities and position to accomplish a little good. If fifteen, fifteen hundred, or fifteen thousand liquor would be because they can't advertise, so what? My only comment would be "T.S." Jack L. Barnett Engineering sophomore Proximity of the Gulf Stream is believed to account for the fact that citrus fruits grow at Cape Hatteras, N.C., several hundred miles north of the normal citrus belt. Publick Occurrences BOTH FORREIGN AND DOMESTICK CAMPUS Watch for the heavy hand of the University administration to try to move some pawns soon when an attempt is made to up campus parking fines. ASC approval is not needed for the move, but it is understood that an attempt will be made to have the Council seem like the backers. $$ * * * $$ The campus cops will probably have plenty of red faces this winter. When the snow flies no amount of threats or fist shaking by the minions of the law will deter students from rushing to class and ignoring traffic at the intersection. Widespread approval of this year's dramatic productions is expected. The "Glass Menagerie" is being well accepted, and indicates that most of the rest of the year's schedule will be too. Many students were disturbed last year by the tendency of the theater schedule to present "experiments" instead of conventional stage fare. $$ $$ Expect a message soon from the manager of the Lawrence Centennial group. Students are a little leery of contributing to the Campus Chest this year, since a slight amount is to be channeled to the Centennial fund. $$ ☆ ☆ ☆ $$ Although it is being rumored that football coach J. V. Sikes may get the boot if things don't start looking up, it would be well for the rumor-mongers to take a long look at Coach Sikes' excellent past record before they jump on the band wagon. Every team has to have an occasional building year. NATIONAL Expect a lot of Democrats to rush back into the party fold before Congressional elections next year. Some of them aren't so sure they like Ike anymore, particularly since they have to fight both parties to get elected. Now that the latest McCarthy investigation is being explained to the satisfaction of most people, he will drop it. His next verbal volcano will come inside of the next two weeks. It will very likely be the state Department again. Look for the Republicans to take recent election defeats to heart. They will attempt a more concrete program upon which build a reputation. $$ * * * $$ Agriculture Secretary Ezra T. Benson claims that farm prices but not farm incomes still will be falling by Congressional election time next year. This undoubtedly means that extended and higher price supports are in order to obtain this end. Look for the Defense department to build-up secondary defense plants in inland cities to make trans-continental bombers and jet planes. If plants are concentrated in one area they can be destroyed or badly damaged by one bombing raid. Don't expect the federal parole system to be changed as a result of the Greenlease case. Investigators are finding that most of the parolees make good, while publicity emphasis is placed upon those who do not. Although President Eisenhower has dropped 10 points in the popularity polls since he took office, he really doesn't have too much to worry about if you consider that former President Truman dropped more than 30 points in a similar period following his election. ENTERTAINMENT Julius La Rosa, an ex-little Godfrey, may have lost his humility while working for Arthur but he is finding a real career for himself now. Televiewers will be seeing a lot of him this winter, and this time he won't be working for peanuts. Now that the assortment of 3-D, wide screen flops have made the rounds, the public may expect another feature in the next year—a few good movies. INTERNATIONAL A sudden build-up of pressure may come in West Germany to get out of the Bonn peace pact unless a European Army is approved within a few months. It looks like the rumor that Princess Margaret was giving up her chance at the throne to marry a divorced man is just a rumor. The chief reason for Queen Elizabeth's designation of her husband as a possible regent in place of her sister seems to stem from something else. The responsibility for raising Prince Charlie, next in line to the crown, goes to the regent. Member of the Kansas Press Assn, National Editorial Assn, Inland Daily Press Assn, Associated Collegiate Press Assn. Represented by the National Advertising Service, 420 Madison Avenue, N.Y. City. Mail Subscription rates: $3 a semester or $4.50 a year (add $1 as semester if in Lawrence). Published in University every afternoon during the University year except Saturdays and Sundays. Uni- versity examination periods. Entered second class matte. Sept. 17, 1910. at Lawrence, Kansas University. Senior Police, Kahl. Post Office under act of March 3, 1879.