Page 2 University Daily Kansan Thursday, Dec. 11, 1952
Death in Traffic Strikes Swiftly
Death, when it comes in traffic, comes swiftly.
At 7:40 a.m. yesterday Robert Webb was driving his motorcycle down 6th street on his way to work at the Kansas Color Press. At the same time, two buses stopped at the corner of 6th and Maine streets. One picked up passengers, the other proceeded on its way.
At 7:43 the lifeless body of Robert Webb lay entangled in his machine, covered with gasoline and broken glass.
When he left his home yesterday morning, Webb was not expecting an accident. One minute he was driving down the street, the next minute he was dead. These things are not planned ahead of time; they just happen.
Traffic accidents are not selective, anyone can be involved in them. The only preventive is care. Care alone in driving your car is not enough. You must be cognizant of everything around you. A hasty estimation on your chances of getting across an intersection can cost a life, yours or the one you take. —Don Moser.
China too Dependent On Russia to Break
A so-called Chinese "third force" claims that Red China is so exhausted by the war that she is becoming more and more dependent on Russia and that Russian "advisers" are taking over both in government offices and industry.
This "third force" has its expression in a mimeographed sheet called "Freedom Front" and has its headquarters in Kowloon, Hong Kong, which is on the Chinese mainland just outside the barbed wire barriers to Red China.
It is a force which has opposed both the Chinese Communists and the Nationalist regime of Chiang Kai Shek.
Its sources of information are considered good, and therefore its observations are interesting.
It reports there is no such thing as Chinese "Titoism" at the moment, which might split the Chinese Reds from their Russian teachers. The Chinese are too dependent on Russia for that and are becoming more so.
The publication says that as result of Premier and Foreign Minister Chou En-Lai's September visit to Moscow, the Russians agreed to supply more jet fighters, Stalin tanks, howitzers and other weapons to enable new Red drives against the United Nations forces in Korea.
These drives, however, will not be intended as a push against Seoul or any attempt to push straight down the war-ravaged peninsula to Pusan.
Rather, "Freedom Front" claims, they will be intended to inflict more casualties of the U.N. forces and thus shake morale at home, particularly in the United States.
The publication said that because of heavy American bombing attacks against North Korea since last June, the Chinese have moved their North Korean headquarters to Mukden in Manchuria, with a field command post at Antung, across the Yalu river from North Korea.
The Reds, it is claimed, have suffered about 600,000 casualties in North Korea, and as result now are split among themselves as to future policy. One wing regards the Korean war as a white elephant, wants to get out and to concentrate on reducing Chiang Kai Shek's forces in Formosa.
Another faction, entirely under the influence of Russia, wants to continue the Korean conflict.
The Reds, however, it is said, still fear an attack by Chiang's forces on the mainland. Orders have been issued for burning of buildings and supplies in event of an attack-United Press.
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In The Editor's Eye
By ROGER YARBINGTON
We have found that there are numerous comments which we would like to make on this page that cannot be facilitated in either the editorial columns or in the Short One-type paragraphs.
Assuming the need is great enough, this writer intends to utilize these comments at regular intervals in this space and under this same heading.
The comments contained in the column will be confined to campus matters or news concerning the University.
THE BIG 7 ACTION on post-season games has proven very disappointing. To lift the ban on NCAA tourney participation but to continue to deny members the privilege of playing in football bowl games seems very inconsistent.
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The partial lift is, however, a step in the right direction and we hope the next meeting on the conference will see another step taken which will go all the way and eliminate the ban on bowl competition.
A CAMPUS POLITICO has paid the UDK another one of his frequent visits. He protested certain statements that were attributed to him in a recent Pach story.
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It was suggested to him that he prepare a typed statement in duplicate the next time he wishes to go on record. The same person then turned to an editor and suggested that three reporters be sent on the next assignment. One would take the guy's statement and the other two could verify it.
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It seems last spring's steel strike is still holding up the special pieces which are required before the buildings can go any further.
Ron Kull, editor, says it will appear just as soon as the Allen press can get around to it.
NOW THAT BASKETBALL is here again many students are going to be wondering whatever happened to the million-dollar plus gymnasium and armory that is supposed to be under construction in the lower southwest corner of the campus.
Raymond Nichols, executive secretary to the chancellor, says the completion which was originally hoped for in 1954 has no doubt been delayed by at least one year.
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The first issue will probably appear next week. The magazine began as a monthly publication but seems to have evolved into a bi-yearly.
SPEAKING OF MYSTERIES, some may be wondering what has become of the Sour Owl, campus humor magazine published by Sigma Delta Chi.
A KANSAN REPORTER received a call from a Pach person who stated that many of the things the reporter repeated in a story were spoken as "off the record" comments in the meeting. Her reporting everything that was said at the meeting was called the biggest "lack of cooperation" the party had ever experienced.
The reporter replied in her sweetest voice that if the person had no further news, she would like to bid him good evening.
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To the Editor of the Daily Kansan:
Student discussion following the recent action of the All Student Council in approving salary increases for the Editor and Business Manager of the Jayhawker annual seems to have brought out a very important idea, namely, that if any financial compensation is to be given to the Editor and Business Manager of the Jayhawker, it should be given on the sole basis of a job well done in producing a reasonably economical and genuinely representative student annual.
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Perhaps a method of putting this idea into practice is embodied in the following plan:
(2) But that such compensation would be given only if the Jay-hawker had shown a profit on the year's operations.
(1) That the Jayhawker Editor and Business Manager could be given compensation for their work, but only after completion of that work.
(3) Further, that such compensation would be given only as a
The effects of this plan would be to provide that the Editor and Business Manager could receive compensation for their work (admittedly some of the most time-consuming on the Hill); That such compensation would come only after the Editor and Business Manager had conducted the Jayhawker "enterprise" in a profitable manner; That the size of such compensation would depend upon whether the Editor and Business Manager had produced an annual which was economical enough and representative enough as to meet with widespread acceptance by the student body, as that acceptance was expressed through student subscription purchases.
The person who suggested this plan recommended that we see what response the students would give to it before presenting it for ASC consideration.
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