Page 2 University Daily Kansan Friday, April 11, 1952 Interpretive Articles Editorials 'Maim Street'Says Women Aren't Lousiest Drivers We're awfully sorry. Although the members of the Daily Kansan's editorial staff never expressly stated it, we were under the impression that women were the lousiest drivers in the world. That is, until we read "Maim Street," a statistical brochure of street and highway accidents published by the Travelers Insurance Company of Hartford, Conn. "Maim Street" tells us that 93.6 per cent of last year's fatal auto accidents involved male drivers; only 6.4 per cent were charged up to the weaker sex. And the year before the situation was worse with 94.1 per cent of the fatalities being accounted for by men, leaving the distaff side a bare 5.9 per cent. The "Maim Street" report adds that 900 fewer persons were killed in traffic accidents last year than the year before and exhorts all drivers to take special precaution during the present year. Of special interest is the fact that 25 per cent of traffic fatalities were caused by people in the 18 to 24 age bracket which is way out of proportion to the other age groups. The report says "Youthful drivers are still the cause of thousands of more deaths and injuries than their numbers warrant." Taking a cue from Travelers, we suggest that students who own and drive cars be especially careful during the forthcoming spring vacation and for the rest of the school year. And to the women, our humblest apologies.—Chuck Zuegner. The New York Herald Tribune announced that Coach "Phog" will be examined by the Olympic committee's executive board to see if he is a fit assistant coach for the Olympic cage team. I guess the only thing funnier than that would be asking Liz Taylor to take a screen test. POGO and his friends Pennsylvania will hold a presidential primary on April 22 to elect state delegates—60 from each party—to the national conventions in Chicago this summer. Voters will show their choices among the candidates in preferential balloting. The names of General Eisenhower and Harold Stassen already are on the Republican ballot. General MacArthur, whose name once was entered by a state committee known as the "Fighters for MacArthur," has withdrawn from the primary, leaving the two names on the ballot. No names are on the Democratic ballot. Pennsylvania Primary Will Not Be Binding The electorate, however, will be able to vote for any candidate in the popularity contest. Blank spaces will be provided for both party ballots to enable voters to write in their choices. With the preferential balloting not binding on the convention delegates, however, the popularity contest means no more than an official straw vote. Both parties will send 70 delegates to their respective national conventions. With each party having selected 10 delegates-at-large in its state convention, the remaining 60 will be elected by the voters. The number of 70 is the second largest among all the states, next to New York. In this sense, the Pennsylvania primary means a great deal to the candidates of both parties. Since these delegates are unpledged to any candidate on the ballot, however, the results will not immediately determine the numbers of votes to be cast for each candidate in the national conventions. James H. Duff, Republican senator from the state, is convinced of a smashing Eisenhower victory over Stassen. Eisenhower's showing largely depends on if Gov. John S. Fine, who so far has not clarified his choice, will come out for the general. —Yujiro Haeda. Guatemala Vital To Pan-American Security To most Americans the blue waters of the Carribean are a holiday playground but to the men in Washington the Carribean is part of the searoad between North and South America. Most important of all is Central America, which is the hinterland of the Panama canal, still a vital economic and strategic link between the two oceans. To our actual and potential enemies this is rich operating ground. Guatemala is currently the most successful Communist battle field. This country was ruled by a dictatorship until 1944. An aggressive minority of left wing intellectuals then overthrew the government. This was the picture when the new president, Jacobo Arbenz, took over the government last fall. While he is not a card-carrying Communist, he has drifted with the tide in the last few months. The new government copied the nationalistic pattern of the Mexican revolution and the dogma of "spiritual socialism" resembled Juan Peron's Argentine "justicialism." The government was a hodge-podge of wellmeaning liberals, socialists and some Communist party liners. The Communist element stole the show and put Guatemala on the pro-Moscow road. The Communists in Guatemala work chiefly through their unions, which are united in the Central Confederation of Guatemalan workers. The growing aggressiveness of the Communist minority has stirred the anti-Communist majority to renew activity. They are handicapped by refusal of the government to grant them legal recognition and by their lack of funds and organization, so as yet they offer no serious threat. This group is composed mostly of market women and students. The business and professional men take little part because they fear government reprisals. Most analysts feel that President Arbenz is anti-Communist, but his campaign promises, redpacked congress, and the Communists that have edged into his administration, as well as the strength of the unions, prevent him from taking any action. The suddent recall of Col. Carlos Aldano Sandoval, ambassador to the United States, and his appointment as communications minister have given rise to the speculation that if Arbenz were forced to withdraw, a military junta might take over to bar the Communists. In any case, the present situation hardly can continue indefinitely. One or the other groups will have to take control completely. —Katrina Swartz. Book Review 'Ross And The New Yorker Is Good History Of Both Kramer's book was published in 1951. In December of the same year Editor Ross died after an operation for cancer. His story will always be timely for he, perhaps more than anyone else, helped to shape the American magazine journalistic style into its present form. From a rough and tumble trump reporter Harold Wallace Ross rose to become the founder and distinguished editor of America's most sophisticated magazine, the New Yorker. "Ross and the New Yorker" by Dale Kramer, is a well written history of both the man and his magazine. To understand the development of the New Yorker through its first struggling years and then its bursting into success with a style and appeal all its own, one must know the background and story of H. W. Ross. Kramer explains that the connection of the man and the magazine is hard for some to believe. Others, he says, believe that there is no Harold Ross. "Despite a few frenetic appearances by Ross on the public scene, there are some who still claim that he is a literary hoax," he says. "A man who looks and acts like Harold Ross couldn't possibly, they argue, be editor of the nation's smartest magazine." Ross began his journalistic career as an errand boy for a sports editor in Salt Lake City. It was the heyday of the trump newspaperman and Ross soon became one of the best. He worked for papers from coast to coast. He played a mean game of cards, talked rough and looked rough. He was notoriously homely in figure and dress. Working on the staff of the original Stars and Stripes gave Ross his first taste of being an editor and he liked it. It was in the dingy offices of that famous service paper that the idea of starting a magazine to report New York City first hatched. After the war and several years as editor of a Legion magazine, Ross began his experiment—the New Yorker. The basic principles that Ross stressed in those early years have remained with the magazine as the core of its policy. "Write it naturally, just as you would tell Ross wanted a magazine for New Yorkers. He wanted the smartest magazine in town. He believed he could create a market for a publication featuring intelligent and sophisticated reporting of the metropolis. He talked in terms of a formula. He didn't know what the formula consisted of, so he set out to find what was needed to appeal to the audience he wanted. it to your friends," was Ross's first instruction. The New Yorker has come to stand for quality reporting and beautiful prose. It is held up as the model for modern journalistic writing and sophisticated humor. Ross had an idea and he had faith in its accomplishment if through no other means than hard work. The tradition which he established will always make the New Yorker synonymous with quality and that quality will always keep it at the head of its field. Aoger Yarrington Daily Kansan News Room KU 251 Ad Room KU 376 Member of the Kansas Press Assn, National Association for Advertising Press Assn, Associated Collegiate Press, and intercollegiate Press Assn. Represented by the National Advertising Service, 420 EDITORIAL STAFF Editor-In-Chief Joe Taylor Clerk Editorial Assistants Charles Zugner, James Levine NEWS STAFF Managing Editor Ben Haiman Asst. Mgr. Ed. Charles Burch, Helen Lou Fry, Joe Lastelic, Jim Powers City Editor Jeanne Flizerardz City Ed. 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