Page.2 . University Daily Kansan . Monday. Dec.15, 1952
Army Offers Tips For Safe Driving
Friday and Saturday thousands of student motorists will start home for the Christmas vacation. Many drivers will have between 500 and 2,000 miles to cover before they reach home.
The United States Army has come out with some tips that might make your trip home a lot safer. Their main advice for a safe trip is to take a 10-minute coffee stop at least once every two hours.
The Army believes that these periodic interruptions of long trips for coffee and rest are largely responsible for the sharp drop in military highway accidents over the past six years. Using the coffee break and four other suggestions, the Army has dropped their accident rate from 2.6 accidents every 100,000 miles to 1.7 for each 100,000 miles. The average civilian rate for the same distance is 2.5 accidents.
To protect the driver when he feels fatigue and drowsiness coming upon him, the Army offers the following suggestions.
Keep car windows open and breathe deeply; drink coffee or other alert beverages every two hours; where possible, change drivers every two hours, and for the driver who finds himself too tired for safe driving, the Army has a sure-fire remedy. Pull off the road and rest until physically fit to continue.
These suggestions aren't guaranteed to get you home safely, but by following them, chances are you will get to your destination in one piece. —Don Moser.
Short Ones
The head of the Republican National committee said recently he'd "hesitate a long time" before going along with a proposed Congressional limit on the amount of editorial space a newspaper may use in backing a political candidate. The shoe now seems to be on the other foot in regard to freedom of the press.
Little Man on Campus
by Dick Bibler
"I suppose it's good we have a student newspaper—It gives 'em something to read during class."
MacArthur's Plan Probably Not New
It doesn't seem to happen often but President Truman probably has the right idea concerning Gen. MacArthur's "clear and definite solution" for bringing the Korean war to a successful conclusion.
If the talented general is capable of figuring out such a plan, and maybe he is, it also would seem that he would be intelligent enough to realize the need for putting it into operation immediately.
The general, of course, was removed from his command the last time he suggested a plan to end the Korean war which would explain his reluctance in presenting his "new solution" to the President.
President Truman probably feels that Gen. MacArthur has nothing really new to offer and is merely seeking to find an ear which might be more willing to listen to him than was he.
It is doubtful that the general has actually been able to formulate a better solution for the Korean problem while sitting around the conference tables of the Remington corporation than while he was in Japan, which is much nearer to the war.
However, the fact that President-elect Eisenhower is going to talk with Gen. MacArthur is no reason to assume that he will accept any proposals that might be advanced. Gen. Eisenhower has said in effect that he is willing to talk to Gen. MacArthur or anyone else who thinks he has an answer to the Korean problem.
Politics also figures into the forth-coming talks between the generals as the Taft faction of the Republican party has favored the would-be politician on several occasions.
So as President Truman would probably say, "Well, Mac, if you've really got the solution, let's have it now. Otherwise why don't you content yourself with 'fading away' and working for Remington?"
Charles Burch.
Ike-MacArthur Talks WorryWestern Europe
President-elect Eisenhower's decision to consult Gen. Douglas MacArthur on the Korean war will send a shiver of fear through Western Europe.
All the West was fearful when Eisenhower decided to visit the Korean theater. There was editorial applause in the great continental and British newspapers when Eisenhower had completed his survey and had shown again he was not eager to spread the war area.
The minority Socialist parties in Great Britain and on the continent were especially suspicious of Eisenhower's motives. For their own political purposes, a considerable number of British Socialists keep drumming away that Americans as a whole are trigger-happy and not to be trusted as co-makers of foreign policy involving the use of force.
That was the party line of the whole Socialist campaign during last year's British elections. Winston Churchill was tabbed as a warmonger in cahoots with the Americans. The implications of what responsible British Socialists said in that campaign was that Churchill's election would be followed by an atomic-bomb free-for-all.
A lot of them really believed that and so did many a continental European. They were scared. Nomination of Eisenhower and Gov. Adlai Stevenson for president quieted their fears, but Eisenhower's campaign alliance with Sen. Robert A. Taft (R.-Ohio) frightened them again.
Entry of MacArthur into the picture will give a lot of Europeans the shudders and give the Socialists some handy, new war scare propaganda. But viewed from Washington, instead of from London or Paris, the forthcoming Eisenhower-MacArthur conference looks like something very much different.
It looks like a move to get MacArthur to put up or to pipe down, or even to join the team. That remains to be seen. For the present no one knows the nature of his new ideas about Korea or whether Eisenhower will like them in whole, in part or not at all. But so long as MacArthur was on the sidelines with a plan to end the Korean action honorably, a great many Americans would want to know why his experience and wisdom were not being used.
On his recent trip to Korea, Gen.
Eisenhower piled up rotation points
faster than any other GI since the
shooting started.
Short Ones
Must all U.S. ambassadors to Great Britain be bankers?
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Wonder if there were any hidden ball plays in that Powder Puff bowl game recently?
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Note to Corbin and North College women! Only a few more days of school until Christmas vacation, and we hope you are as prepared for it as your song indicates.
President Truman made a martyr of MacArthur, in some people's eye, by abruptly rejecting his services and his advice. Eisenhower strategists do not intend to repeat on that. They know that only the judgment of future historians can decide who was the United States' greatest World War II general. But MacArthur unquestionably is among the nominees, despite his current low rating in Europe—United Press.
Bv ROGER YARRINGTON
From week to week, we usually find ourselves admiring the fine column of Ernest K. Lindley titled "Washington Tides" which is printed in Newsweek magazine.
Last week's issue, however, carried a column by Mr. Lindley which had us puzzled for half its length. Writing on "Eisenhower, Durkin and Taft," he managed to expand half his space to an improbable and hypothetical supposition.
"Iimagine that Adlai Stevenson had been elected. Suppose the president of NAM had suggested that he appoint an officer of that organization to his cabinet. Suppose that Stevenson, concealing his astonishment at the approach had appointed the man recommended . . ."
Continuing in this manner, Mr. Lindley tries to set up a situation where Gov. Stevenson might have been led to make a similar appointment to that made by Gen. Eisenhower. The entire point is to show, although the situation is unusual, the move is as advantageous for Ike as it would have been for Adlai. The need for making such a point is not clear.
Having finally arrived at the point, Mr. Lindley says the Durkin appointment will help Eisenhower in two ways:
1. It will give the new GOP administration an added potential with a new and strong ally in the form of organized labor.
2. It will increase Eisenhower's leadership in the Republican party. Taft's outcry was not echoed by his Senate pals and Mr. Lindley guesses it might have cost him the majority leadership.
These conclusions seem quite evident. It is disappointing that Mr. Lindley saw fit to lead his reader through such a jungle of "supposes" and "imagines" only to arrive at the obvious.
It takes Jupiter almost 12 years to make a revolution around the sun.
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