Page 2 University Daily Kansan Monday, Nov. 24, 1952
Experts Sum Up Your Driving Odds
Over the past years the diagnosing of automobile accidents has become quite a science. Statisticians have figured out just about what your chances of getting home for Thanksgiving are.
Without the use of care, your chances of making the trip home and back get slimmer every year. After figuring the causes of last year's accidents, the following are the conclusions that safety experts have come to.
One big factor is always true, the faster you drive, the better your chances are of being killed. Last year 49 per cent of the accidents were due to excess speed.
The adage that if you're young your reflexes are faster is not always true. One out of every five accidents last year were caused by people between the ages of 18 and 24.
If you think that because you have driven for at least a year you are safe, you are wrong. According to the figures the longer you drive, the greater your chance of being killed. Only one per cent of the accidents last year involved drivers who had been on the road less than a year.
Clear weather and dry roads don't always make for safe driving. With all types of weather conditions considered last year, 82 per cent of the accidents occurred when the weather was clear and 76 per cent when the roads were dry.
Wide smooth highways won't enhance your chances either. The better the road and the less curves it has, the better chance there is of an accident. Almost 40 per cent of the accidents have occurred on highways.
Needless to say, your car should be in top shape when you leave but this is far from a guarantee of safe driving. Almost 95 per cent of the cars wrecked last year were in apparent good condition before the trip started.
An early start in the morning or leaving right after school closes might get you home earlier, but if the statistics are right, the hours from 1 to 6 a.m. and between.6 and 7 p.m. are the most dangerous driving hours.
The men who gather the statistics give KU drivers one break. If you leave Tuesday, there is less chance of accident. Leaving on Wednesday is still pretty safe, but returning on Saturday can be murder. Saturday is the worst traveling day, with Sunday just one percentage point behind it.
These figures are worth thinking about. The statistics for next year are mounting up. When you drive home, come back a student, not a statistic.
—Don Moser.
Short Ones
The comrades must be working overtime at the Kremlin trying to dig up a good story on how the Soviet scientists exploded their H-bomb six months ago.
for four years and page after page on the lives of the magazine staff.
The Jayhawkier will be out soon and for $5.75 seniors will be treated to the same pictures of the organized houses they have been seeing
Panic almost struck the Daily Kansasan office the other day when it looked for a moment that there would be no front-page story on Queens. Luckily the Military ball members decided they needed one and saved the day.
Little Man on Campus
by Dick Bibler
"Miss Molar, remind me to prepare a test for Monday morning covering all the work we've done this term."
One Man's Opinion
By DON SARTEN
Father:
Yes, my son?
Yes, my son?
I have a problem.
What is it, my son?
I have allowed myself to become mad at another's opinion.
I have a problem
I am disappointed in you, my son.
Have I not told you to think ration-
ing? are all times—and that only fools
alloy a mission to deteriorate into
an argument?
Yes, my Father. But this is a bad situation. My efforts, and the efforts of my friends have been belittled by a powerful man in local affairs.
Oh? my son? What could a mind no older than yours fashion in the way of an opinion that would draw the ire of an elder?
Politics?
Politics, my Father.
Yes, my Father. I chose to believe one man would have been better as president for this country than did a majority in this area. The powerful voice in local affairs has said in a public statement that "An occasional error in judgment or selection of editorial personnel is to be expected. It happens in the best of newspaper organizations." He's referring to me and my friends. Father.
Listen my son. Do not dignify this statement with an answer. Though every bone in your young body cries out at the injustice of the falsehood, think tolerance. You can do nothing.
This I do not understand, my Father.
Hush, my son. Listen. You are young. Wisdom is gained only through the years, therefore only the elder may be deemed wise. This is a premise on which many men have built their lives. Education is chopping away with relentless strokes at their life's belief—and they find the strokes no more pleasant than you do their cries of pain.
I am beginning to see, my Father.
talk.
Are you my son? I am glad. The process is very slow. Only those who become directly involved are aware of its presence. Think now. Can you see where it must be very disturbing to have an opinion expressed in this area that does not conform with an older, influential opinion?
Yes, Father. I do see. In the place of a mad feeling—pride is edging in.
Not too fast, my son. The attacks are not over. Mud is plentiful and words are cheap.
I understand, my Father. I shall bide my time. Thank you, my Father.
Twas nothing, my son.
Letters
To the Editor of the Daily Kansas
I submit that the purpose of an editorial is to force people to think—not to think what the editor thinks, but just to think, period. Apparently many of us are out of the habit of exercising our mental powers in reading to read the editorsials, nod 'yes' and done with it. Perhaps this is why we like to see only our own often unthought-through opinions in print.
10. The Editor of the Daily Kansas:
I should like to take issue with Dana Anderson who stated in a letter in Monday's UDK that the purpose of the UDK "is to represent the voice of KU." Is this necessarily the purpose of an editorial? True, the UDK is tax-supported by the people of Kansas and the students are forced to pay for it in their activity fee. But the purpose of any editorial is not that of a mirror used to simply reflect the opinions of the readers. If an editorial is such a mirror, why print it at all?
But a newspaper which only reflects the opinions of its readers is a stagnant one which leads only to stagnant thinking. On the other hand, a newspaper which stimulates our minds—either to agree or to the partisan concerns clear thinking on the part of newspapers thereby leads to improvement and progress. Which type of newspaper do we want on our campus?
Esther Storer college senior
Mail subscription rates; $3 a semester or $4.50 a year (add $1 a month if in Lawrence). Published in Lawrence, Kan., every afternoon during the University year except Saturdays and Sundays, University holidays and examination periods. Entered second class matter Sept. 17, 1910, at Lawrence Kan., Post Office office of March 3, 1879.
Little Man on Campus by Dick Bibler
"Oh, he's happy about a winning season-th' boys in front are graduating seniors."
Labor No Longer Can Seek White House Aid
Editor's Note: This is the third in a series of articles dealing with President-elect Eisenhower's administrations probable attitude toward business and labor).
Previous articles in this series have discussed the attitude President-elect Eisenhower and the Republican party likely will take in the field of business. But the most immediate and dramatic effects of the change in administration and economic policy will be felt in the delicate balance between unions and business.
Last week at the CIO convention in Los Angeles, the unionists tried to pick up the pieces of the debacle at the polls—figure out what happened as well as how to keep it from happening again.
Labor leaders found their political prestige at a new low Nov. 5. With a unanimity never before attained, the unions had been completely and officially committed to Stevenson. Now their political stock is lower than it has been since it started to rise in 1936 (when John L. Lewis lent the Democrats $500,000 starting the trend that has since developed the CIO Political Action committee and the AFL's Political Education committee).
On the other hand, the AFL rail unions and the mine workers have never received the kind of White
Undoubtedly the most worried about Republican labor policy are CIO leaders who probably will battle for control of the Democratic Party. Formed in 1935, the union has never known a time when it didn't have a friend in the White House, Roosevelt and Truman have come through again and again as CIO protectors.
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House help the CIO Steelworkers got, for instance, all last winter and spring in the steel dispute. So these groups aren't too perturbed that they aren't going to be favored now.
AFL leaders, in fact, seem almost unworried about the change. While trying hard to make peace with the new administration, they will draw some comfort from Ike's words to the AFL convention in September: "America wants no law licensing union-busting—and neither do I."
Certainly "progressive legislation" for repeal of the Taft-Hartley act is unlikely—and laws for government health insurance and federal aid to education will be out during the 83rd Congress. Strengthened rent and price controls and expanded public housing programs also will not be the urgent desire of the Republican Congress.
But all unions are alarmed at the prospects in Congress. The Republicans are almost certain to block much of the unions' legislative program. "The outlook for progressive legislation of any kind is extremely bad," mourned the railroad brotherhoods' newspaper, Labor.
Labor leaders not only fear congressional blocks on their "liberal" proposals, but are apprehensive about what steps the legislators may take in the "right" direction. Bills to outlaw industry-wide bargaining and make unions subject to the anti-trust laws are certain to be offered—and some sanctioned by many Republicans.
The National Association of Manufacturers wants the Taft-Hartley law's national emergency provisions changed so that a court could extend indefinitely the present 80-day injunction period. Some businessmen want curbs on the required scope of bargaining—so unions couldn't pursue such "schemes" as the guaranteed annual wage.
The possibility that Congress would go along with these or similar proposals is the nightmare of the unionists. Labor leaders probably will be satisfied to block unfavorable bills and concentrate on the 1954 elections. In the meantime their strategy is to "wait and see."
Dot Taylor