University Daily Kansan Wednesday, Feb. 13, 1952 Letters Daily Kansan Editorials Heart Disease: Killer One of the most important money-raising drives, the annual campaign of the American Heart association, is in progress. Things of this type too often are taken for granted, but any ailment as serious as heart disease must be recognized as a vicious killer. In 1950 heart disease was the leading cause of death in the United States—750,000 deaths were due to diseases of the heart and blood vessels. This was almost twice the total number of deaths caused by the next five top killers—cancer, accidents, pneumonia, tuberculosis and nephritis. Three-fourths of the money raised through the Kansas Heart Fund drive will remain in the state, and the same is true for other states. One-half the remaining amount will be used for research. The national goal is eight million dollars. If that much is raised six million of it will remain in the states. Of the remaining two million which will go to the national Heart association, one million dollars will go into research. Last year $21,000 was received, yet the University of Kansas Medical Center received grants totaling $24,000 for research in heart disease. That word is the key to the whole problem; research. Ten years ago when a baby was born with a defective heart it faced almost certain death. Now, new surgical techniques have been developed which not only save the lives of those "blue babies," but help them toward a healthy and useful life. Almost every day the newspapers carry stories of men and women dropping dead from heart attacks. A good share of these could be prevented by abstinence from too-strenuous activity. Studies are being carried out which can gauge the amount of work a person with a weak heart can do without risking his health, and life. For years rheumatic fever has been the greatest enemy of children. Those lucky enough to survive its attacks have been plagued by serious after-effects. New hormones and various treatments have been developed which help to minimize the effects of rheumatic fever. Even housewives have received their share of aid in the form of time and energy-saving techniques developed to help them protect their hearts. All these developments are results of research—any others also must come through research. That research takes a lot of money, all of which must be raised through donations. Every year we spend billions of dollars for military protection, and millions of dollars for protection from criminals. Heart disease can kill as fast as any bullet, or cripple as completely as any shell fragment. We need protection from a killer as deadly as that, and we can get it by investing in the Heart fund. —J.W.Z. The Honor System On Trial The Park Stylus, Park college, (Mo.), took a long look at its school's honor system recently and came up with some cogent comments. But, "The Stylus is impatient with the faculty member who openly regards the honor system as a passing fad. It is perhaps more impatient with those faculty members who profess to believe in the honor system and yet show by every action that they do not. "The Stylus is angered beyond words to find that a student having knowledge of violation of the honor system has refused to report the violator and not only prevented punishment of the violator, but escaped with impunity himself." The editorial decided that the honor system at Park "is operated by too few students compared to faculty. It covers too few classes. It covers too few phases of life on a campus pledged to development of 'the whole man.'" News Room Student Newspaper of the Ad Room KU 251 UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS KU.376 Member of the Kansas Press Assn, National Editorial Assn, Inland Daily Press Assn, Association of Advertising Service, 420 Madison Avenue, New York City. 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Doores Mail subscription rates; $3 a semester or $4.50 a year (add $1 a semester if in Lawrence), Published in Lawrence, Kan., every afternoon during the University year except Saturdays and Sundays, University holidays and examination periods, Entered as second class matter Sept. 17, 1910, at Lawrence, Kan., Post Office under act of March 3, 1879. Simple Plan Given For ASC Ailments Dear Sirs: I am writing in regard to your recent editorial concerning the apathy of certain ASC members. It is inconceivable that anyone who actually witnessed or participated in last spring's bitter election would desire to have a repetition of it this year or in any succeeding years. It would seem that the low level "personality assassinations" indulged in by many partisans have no place in such an enlightenend environment as Mt. Oread. The plan for reorganization of the student government in its broad general outline is basically simple. Instead of the present representation by divisions cognizance would be given to student residential affiliations. In its simplest form Greeks would compete against Greeks for council seats, as would Independents. Candidates for the ASC presidency, members of the ASC, would be elected by the student body as a whole. The advantages of this plan would be that cathroth political contests between Greeks and Independents for council seats would not develop. Members elected in this manner would be more objective in their approach to campus problems. It is my opinion that the administration plans to grant the All Student Council considerable autonomy in the management of student affairs, if and only if, students adopt a new plan, which opens the path to responsible student government. Loy Kirkpatrick College junior Comments ... Cheaters Classified. . . Ten years ago a student council committee at Albion college (Mich.), made a study of student cheating. This year a new committee is in the process of enlarging on this study. Here were some points made by the first committee: Students who cheat may be divided into five types: 1. Those who cheat only in desperation. 2. Those who cheat only occasionally, and are conscience-stricken while doing so. 3. Students who cheat while not believing in it, and excuse themselves by saying the tests were unfair or they were too busy with worthy extra-curricular activities. 4. Students who boast of new cheating methods they have devised. This last group includes those who feel cheating is unethical, those who can get good marks without cheating, and those who feel cheating is just too much of both. 5. Students who never cheat. Editors of the Miami Hurricane, noting the similarity between their newspaper's masthead and that of the Rollin college Sandspur (both Florida college papers) wrote the Sandspur editors pointing out the coincidence. "Coincidence, Hell!" was the reply from Rollins. "It was a case of theft." The Sandspur editors explained that for the eighth straight year the Hurricane has carried off an All-American rating from the Associate Collegiate Press, "and is, undoubtedly headed for another." "We're gunning for an 'All- American,'" said the Sandspur. "Ha, ha. . . No, Miss Faddle, this is a dressmaker's dummy for art class." Gen. Gruenther: Only Man Who Could Take Ike's Place There are four men who could replace Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower as Supreme Allied Commander of Western Europe. There is only one man who could take his place. Before "Ike" can become a candidate for president, President Truman will have to release him from his assignment in Western Europe. General Eisenhower's popularity and influence in Europe are great, and it is the observation of many that the success of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's military program has come about on account of these two qualities. It is only too apparent from this that the man who replaces Eisenhower will have a lot to live up to. He must be a man who is now "Ike's" right hand. Such a man is Gen. Alfred Maximilian Gruenther, Chief of Staff of Supreme Pact Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Forces. As one of the Big Three of the Atlantic Pact nations' supreme headquarters, he, above anyone else, is an extension of 'ke's" mind. General Gruenther handles all problems which comes to General Eisenhower's desk during his absence. He is, besides a military brain, a mathematician, physicist, diplomat and industrialist. During World War II he was "Ike's" planning genius. And, with General Eisenhower, he planned the birth of the NATO. Above all, he regards himself as a member of an integrated staff whose job it is to develop plans for the common good of the NATO nations. When a surgeon is operating and he is suddenly called away, there must not only be another surgeon to continue where he left off, but one who has been standing by and who is intimately familiar with the entire operation. Alfred Gruenther has been standing and the patient certainly would not die if placed in his hands. General Gruenther is not Dwight D. Eisenhower, but Eisenhower alone did not accomplish all. Field Marshal Montgomery, Gen. Omar Bradley, William Henry Draper jr., new head man in Europe of the Mutual Security Agency, or Matt Ridgway could take over now, if circumstances called for a change in the status of the Supreme Allied Commander. But the fact remains that it was Eisenhower's philosophy which gave the needed strength to the organization, and Gruenther shares that philosophy. He is as convinced as "Ike" that the NATO can be a success by practicing the doctrine of common responsibility and common sacrifice. —Dianne Stonebraker. News From Other Campuses A synthesis course to create an awareness of the major problems which now confront mankind is being offered to University of New Hampshire liberal arts seniors this year. The course is designed to assemble graduating students to graduate such knowledge as he has acquired, to enrich his personal life, and to develop his personal philosophy. A new student curriculum committee has been formed at Purdue university. This group, in cooperation with the head of the school and other advisors will give opinions on various course evaluations, including texts, methods of presentation, and suggested curriculum changes. After a successful trial period of one year, the Smith college student bank has embarked on its second year with many of its methods and aims more clearly established. This organization was set up last year to aid the treasurers of various clubs on campus. At present there are between fifty and sixty organizations under the student bank system. Students at Yale university made an unsuccessful attempt recently to institute setups at college dances. They pointed out that "the duty of Yale is to give a social as well as an academic education to its students." Snapped the dean: "If we need liquor to sustain the college system, then we had better abandon the college system." MacAlester College, Minnesota, students have added a new twist to their annual Sadie Hawkins dance. Minimum cost per couple is 50 cents, plus a penny for every inch of the boy's waist.