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Page 2 University Daily Kansan Monday, Dec. 8, 1952
Let's Play Santa To A Needy Family
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. But each one of us has to be that Santa Claus to someone else.
It's an old, old story that millions of men, women and children are dying due to starvation and neglect throughout the world. But far too many people think of this condition as existing only in the far reaches of the world, in places too remote from them and their immediate influence.
This is not so, for even here in a medium sized Kansas town, there are many families who will not have a happy and cheerful Christmas unless given some encouragement and help.
Although the United States is better off financially than it has been for a long time, there are many families who have not shared in this prosperity. Families, who because of personal troubles and disasters are down on their luck, and need a little help to put them back on their feet.
The holiday season is traditionally one full of love and cheer. Would it be too much for a house or organization to adopt a family for Christmas, to make one or two families a bit happier because someone thought of them at a time when happiness and encouragement were needed?
The Independent Student association has sponsored a March of Toys on the campus. Used toys collected by students will be distributed by the ISA to orphanages throughout the state. This group has added to the holiday spirit by sponsoring a project advocating the idea of "good will to men."
If groups feel that they would like to undertake such projects, further information concerning the adoption of Lawrence families may be gotten from Miss Mildred Watson, welfare director at the Court House, phone 975.
Yes, Virginia, there is no doubt that there is a Santa Claus. But it should not be just one which caters only to small folks, but rather many who answer their neighbor's needs.
Mary Cooper
Kansas Tests Prove Speed Does Not Pay
The minute your foot pushes down on the accelerator and the speedometer climbs past 50 miles an hour, you are asking for trouble.
Out of every 100 highway accidents, 33 of them occur at speeds ranging from 40 to 50 miles an hour. As soon as the speed goes above this mark, your chances of accident are doubled. Seventy-seven accidents out a 1,000 occur at speeds over 50 miles an hour.
Speed does not pay. An automobile driven over 295 miles of Kansas highways with a top speed of 65 miles an hour maintained an average of 46 miles an hour and had to pass 126 vehicles.
The same car driven over the same stretch of road with a top speed of 50 miles an hour maintained an average speed of 43 miles an hour and had to pass only 62 vehicles.
By traveling at the faster speed, the driver made the trip in 6 hours and 25 minutes instead of 6 hours and 50 minutes. For the 25 minutes saved, he increased his chances of having a serious accident substantially and lost 11 per cent on gasoline and 50 per cent on oil consumption.
When you start your next trip remember that by increasing your speed to 65, you will have to drive steadily for six hours to save 25 minutes. Is that extra saving of four minutes an hour worth your life? —Don Moser.
Off-Campus Projects Have 2-Way Benefits
A few campus organizations have accomplished some worthwhile off-the-campus projects this year which certainly deserve considerable credit.
These projects were not taken on in the interest of the organizations but as efforts to help others. However, such activities often receive little publicity compared to that given "panty raids" and other so-called "typical college stuts."
Three outstanding examples are the Independent Students Association's March of Toys which is now in progress; the Inter-Fraternity council's clothing drive for an orphans home, and the Inter-Fraternity Pledge council's program of inviting boys from orphans home to some of this year's football games.
Continued efforts by these and other campus organizations will help in two ways. They are of benefit to the groups or individuals receiving the help. And secondly, they help show people that college students think of other things than parties and football games.
Charles Burch.
Short Ones
Anybody stopped to figure what'll happen to this country if something happens to General Eisenhower?
My, but it's quiet on the Western Front.
President Truman and Gov. Adlai Stevenson have been formulating a "constructive" policy for the Democratic party when it becomes the minority next January.
Bv ROGER YARRINGTON
One of the first steps in this admirable policy was taken last week when Gov. Stevenson spoke before the CIO convention in Atlantic City. The election of a Republican president, he said, was not necessarily a misfortune for labor.
He spoke of labor's responsibilities rather than its enemies and future fortunes. He urged unions to put the national welfare first above all else.
"Labor's long battle for status and recognition has been largely won," he said. "The bigger job of the future is the proper exercise of organized labor's responsibility, not just to the working man but to the country. Some of the attitudes, habits of thought and methods of the past are not longer relevant," he said.
Gov. Stevenson's approach was a direct contrast to the pessimistic tone adopted by Labor Secretary Maurice Tobin who warned his listeners of a new administration that would be "a lot more hostile" to labor than the Democrats had been.
During the past 20 years of Democratic rule, the minority party became one of the most unresponsible in history.
The Democrats under the leadership of Gov. Stevenson appear to have made a good start toward being a constructive minded but effective balance to the new Republican regime.
If this policy can be maintained, despite the trial of being a minority party, it will be a victory in itself and the Democrats will have provided the most valuable type of opposition.
To the Editor of the Daily Kansan:
Despite the fact that I'm a journalism major, and perhaps should be more sympathetic to the whims and inconsistencies—and party affiliations—of the reporters the Kansas sends to the Pachacamac meetings. I'm becoming a little tired of being misquoted.
Letters
J-Major Tired Of False Quotes
Where the Daily Kansan reporter got the idea that I was criticising the editorial board of the Kansan—either positively or negatively—is more than I can understand. As a matter of fact, I didn't mention the "editorial board," "great pressure," "support of Adlai Stevenson," or any other portion of the statement attributed to me.
I merely asked that Pachacamac-NOW-FOR endorse freedom of the press as a means of settling arguments over censorship in the ASC meeting since this issue had caused no little bickering, both within and between parties, in the last meeting. The representatives did this. And I sat down.
Just for the information of the tongue-in-cheek-opposition, I was misquoted on my stand on the housing argument in a previous story. But since the reporter who wrote up this little journalistic curio has been replaced we won't go into that.
Ron Kull
journalism senior
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Jayhawker Policy Needs Clean Up
A good yearbook is fun to read and remember. It's also fun to help plan and assemble. It is a slick scrapbook full of memories for alumni, a record of times and things contemporary for undergraduates. Its booster articles and gay pictures are the best publicity a university can have.
A good yearbook is big business too, as near professional as is possible extracurricularly.
extracurricular. The Jayhawker, fall issue, is hot off the press with "picture coverage of University students doubling that in the first issue of the previous year's annual."
Still, the addition of a few extra picture pages of a few Greek parties—doesn't seem to exhaust the possibilities for complete student coverage. Certainly the students are paying enough for a good book.
Subscription rates were raised 50c this fall. Seniors who want their pictures in the commencement issue pay $2.81 for the privilege. Organizations and houses that want to be included in their respective sections pay $79 per page.
It's widely rumored that this yearbook is a successful business venture. Last year the Jayhawk earned $1,000 profits—pretty good for an activity run by and for students.
It's common knowledge too that the editor and business manager are well paid for their exhaustive labors. Last year each received a salary of $350 not counting liberal bonuses and expense accounts. The bonuses were given last summer without the approval of a full Jayhawker board and were not considered by the ASC.
At the Council meeting last week a Pachacamac amendment to the publications bill was passed increasing the salaries to $450 apiece.
Granted that has the Jayhawk editor editor "the biggest student job, financially speaking on the campus," and that he is responsible for the smooth running of a $27,000 enterprise, much larger than that of many retail stores.
It was argued that the editor's pay hadn't been raised in 10 years and that after all there was an inflation, you know. The bill passed by a close vote of 12-11 without too much opposition expressed.
Still we question the whole principle of the thing. Why are the Jayhawker editor and manager the only paid student activity positions on the hill?
Council members didn't seriously question the basic assumption. "It's traditional" said the advocates for the raise and the argument was dropped.
This writer feels that work on the yearbook is an "activity". Students should participate in this activity, as they would in any other—and that they need not be paid for it.
If not, the Council should be consistently generous with the students' money. They should have annual salaries for cheerleaders ASC members, editors of the Daily Kansan, and presidents of the Student Union and AWS. We hear that they do a lot of work too.
A chosen few at top positions are paid for the work they do. It is not laboratory experience but a closed shop. No one knows exactly how things are run. How much money does the book bring in and where does it go? Why aren't $1,000 profits channeled into the making of a better book instead of going into the pockets of the staff?
The point is, the Jayhawker seems to be on a little cloud all by itself. It is not an all-student annual.
The Jayhawker should represent all the students. It should be worth the price they pay for it and the University it represents.
—Dot Taylor
Little Man on Campus
by Dick Bibler
"Well, SOMEONE must have circulated a rumor last quarter that I teach a snap course."