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University Daily Kansan
Friday. Nov. 21, 1952
by Dick Bibler
This Contest May Save Your Life
During the next month and a half a series of editors, features, and news stories will be run in the paper. These will not be to fill space; each one will be pointed directly towards you. Your spending the few minutes to read them and think about them may save your life.
The Daily Kansan has again entered a traffic safety campaign which is designed to promote safe driving. There are many prizes and awards attached to this contest, but the biggest stake in it is your life.
We are now approaching the most dangerous season of the year. The weather is just a side factor; the big point is vacations. Short vacations like Thanksgiving seem to urge students to higher and higher speeds to reach home. By driving an extra 10 or 20 miles an hour, they either save a couple of hours or
Before you start your trip home Tuesday, figure out how much time you are going to save by traveling at this extra speed. The time saved will be negligible. Balance that hour or two against your life.
Before each vacation starts the Kansan is usually full of traffic hints, but they seem of little avail. Vacation after vacation it is the job of one of the reporters to get the story about one or two students who have been killed or injured while driving back and forth to Lawrence.
lose their lives.
When you start your trip, try to remember a student is sure to be involved in a car accident before the end of vacation. We don't want to send a reporter around to find out how and when you were killed or injured.
A housing committee has been appointed by Bill Wilson, All Student Council president, to discuss, to formulate a policy, and then to organize a program to be made public through publication in the University Daily Kansan, the Alumni and Endowment associations publications, and the Alumni association legislative committee.
Housing Group Needs Better Representation
The formation of such a committee is applauded. Student ideas and enthusiasm can effectively and energetically steer such a program nearer to the desired goal of more and better University housing for KU students.
A compact committee of five members can be a very workable committee, and can accomplish a great deal, if all elements are represented. But it seems to this writer that some of the most important elements are missing in the composition of this committee.
Although all students in the University should be interested and concerned about such a campus-wide problem as housing, there are those who are more concerned. This includes those who are now living in what is considered problem housing—men's and women's upperclass dormitories, private homes, and graduate housing. Yet, no representatives from these three problem areas were named as members of the committee.
Those appointed to the committee consisted of two fraternity members, one sorority member, one scholarship hall member, and one freshman dormitory member.
This is not to say that these committee members will not do a good job. But, only that for effective organization and participation, the committee should be more representative of all those elements which have a keen interest in this problem.
Students living in problem housing areas are vitally interested and concerned in what the housing committee does. They feel that they should have a hand in helping the committee formulate policies and organize a program of action. Mary Cooper.
Letters
To the Editor of the Daily Kansan:
We "in the midst of hot, prolonged debate, over university housing for girls" would like to in our unfavored existence" at Templi.
Our grievance is not roommates, although six of us occupy one room. This should make our problem twice as great as Miss Simpson's.
One of the roommates is in a "Cutting and Pasting class" but we all enjoy criticizing her art. She goes to bed around nine every night. Some of us have down slips. None of us have $250 scholarships, but none of us would object to them.
Some of us like our room hot,
and some of us like it cold. Some days our room is hot, some days it is cold. Our room has four windows
which don't stay open very well on hot days, and let the cold air in on cold days. One of us doesn't have a desk; two don't have lamps. Two of us have orange-crates; four of us don't. Martha, Pat, and Donna have one close; Wanda, Jane, and Barbara share the other.
"In answer to cries of WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO NEXT YEAR??" we reply, "Continue enjoying each other and ourselves." We feel that one of the big things that we can get out of university life is learning how to get along with others. This includes accepting them as they are, helping, encouraging, and liking them.
Pat Felzien
Wanda Gugler
Donna Dyck
Jane Fox
Barbara Fischer
Martha Mueller
By CHARLES BURCH
Gov. Edward F. Arn has predicted that the change in national administration should result in a trend toward "full exercise of state sovereignty."
While speaking before the annual convention of Kansas Official Council, he also said that the people could expect "a return to more dependence upon the proper use of the facilities of our subdivisions of government."
Let's hope he is right. However, it would certainly be a sudden change for the millions who have been looking to the mecca of the new world, Washington. D.C., for everything from free pamplets on how to raise rabbits to huge sums of "pork barrel" money.
But before becoming alarmed, we must realize that any such drastic change in state-federal relations or, city-federal relations is extremely doubtful, if not impossible, because of two important reasons.
First, the Republicans realize that certain forms of aid from the federal government are absolutely necessary and also that the American people have come to look upon Uncle Sam as Santa Claus. This latter attitude must be changed if the states are to retain their proper position and sovereignty.
The Republicans, though they may have been a little slow, are aware of the importance of the federal government to the states and individual citizens. But they also realize the proper position and functions of the state.
Secondly, the GOP, contrary to the beliefs of many people, is not in favor of completely eliminating federal aid to states even if it could. Also the Democrats hold no monopoly on plans to aid the people.
Attitudes are slow to change but the American people should look more toward their state capitals rather than to the supposedly limitless funds of Washington. It's time many of them realized that the money from Washington and Topeka comes from the same place—their own pocket.
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Little Man on Campus
"All this emphasis on 'sweater-and-skirt' never ceases to baffle me."
Ike Faces Problem That Stymied Demos
(Editor's Note: This is the second in a series dealing with President-elect Eisenhower's administration's probable attitude toward business and labor.)
An earlier article by this writer pointed out that there is likely to be a change in the concept of government with the coming to power for the first time in 20 years of an all-Republican government. power at the top of a boom, a fact ___
An earlier article by this writer to be a change in the concept of power for the first time in 20 years power at the top of a boom, a fact which normally would indicate no change in government. According to Democratic orators during the campaign, "We never had it so good."
But the new president also will inherit the fundamental economic problem that neither the New Deal nor the Fair Deal could solve: How can you maintain high levels of employment and production in the U.S. without promoting a more or less permanent inflation?
wm ike's "no deal" be "no answer"
    too?
Truman's answer—to the extent that he had one—was to accept inflation, rejoice in its higher payrolls, and try to keep prices in line by using direct, especially price, controls.
Eisenhower's answer probably will go to the roof of inflation first. In his Peoria, Ill., speech Oct. 2, he indicated that his goal is to cut expenditures, and thus open the way for a cut in taxes. Then when taxes are cut, he maintains that industrial expansion will give the stimulus formerly provided by a government deficit.
His three main points were;
1—"Provide a sound dollar . . . A first and vital step is to eliminate the deficit from our national budget."
2—Restore the incentive to expand production, primarily by cutting government spending and taxes. His objective, "assuming that the cold war gets no worse, is to increase spending to something like $60 billion within four years (from the present level of $81 billion.)"
3—Give "positive support and encouragement" to new industry.
Eisenhower's economic efforts will include a budget showdown and tax cuts including the death of excess profits taxes and increased individual income leavens. But shows a business slump threat, he has pledged that the full resources of the federal government would be used to head off a depression and to maintain high employment.
—Dot Taylor
In general, the forecasts of the changed climate are "sound money" and "common sense" economy.
Short Ones
The President and President-elect are getting together to talk things over. No doubt Harry will tell like where the garden tools can be found, and which steps on the back porch need fixing.
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Christmas decorating time seems to get earlier and earlier every year. It might help the stores, but the frustrated freshman says it makes the profs think the holidays are coming sooner and they double the assignments a week or two earlier.
A London story points out that Prince Charles is showing his ability to rule at the age of four because he refused to leave a concert with his nurse. We suppose every time he pours his oatmeal down the drain he is showing his ability to rule the treasury.
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Missouri has had to give written oral and practical tests to find out that many drivers aren't fit to be behind the wheel. They could have saved a lot of time if they drove down Main street during the 5 p.m. rush.
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With Lodge and Dodge going to Washington, the local hep-eat thinks there should be a member named Hodge, then the trio would be "real crazy"
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