Editorials
Here's Another Bit About Safe Driving
Safety is a common, well-worn topic for both college and professional newspaper editors. You readers probably think that about the only time we write them is when we run out of something more interesting.
It's truly difficult to make a safety editorial really interesting and still get the point over. Death is a subject that cannot be treated lightly, and so an editorial about it must be written in a serious vein.
No matter how long, hard, or earnestly we preach, the accident toll keeps rising. The National Safety council has already given up on the one million limit they set for 1951. We're almost there and still climbing.
When you get right down to it, it is very seldom that an automobile death hits close to home. Last year four KU students, an instructor, his wife and daughter, were killed. Only freshmen cannot remember the somber air that prevailed on the Hill for weeks after these deaths.
The remaining son of the instructor will be able to go to school because of a scholarship fund that went over the top. Compare that with the fact that the 1951 Campus Chest failed to meet its quota. Is it significant in some way?
Automobile deaths show a winter decline, taking the four months as a whole. But the experience of the past two years proved them to be greater in December than in any month except October, even though the passenger miles driven are materially lower.
A year ago this Thanksgiving, three students were hospitalized as the result of highway crashes and a fourth was wounded while hunting.
That really isn't a bad record, but it could very easily have been better. How, you ask? You know the answer to that as well as we do!
You've got five full days of vacation. So have a nice, safe Thanksgiving. A.G.M.
This Ghost Talks Turkey
Hating to give up the ghost, we present a few statements which we think are obviously facts.
1. A nude figure is not obscene in itself. To wit:
Museum of art.
2. To be obscene, such a picture must be viewed with that intent, unless, of course, the painter of the picture obviously intends it to be obscene.
3. A picture which is not obscene or vulgar is not subject to condemnation, unless the reaction of the majority of viewers demand such censure.
And we don't think the large majority of adults regarded the TKE float as obscene. It was not done in the spirit of back-fence vulgarism.
But now the TKE's are on social probation. It is supposedly the action of a student committee. Wonder if it was really their verdict? A.G.M.
Our favorite coed, Iva Latepaper, thinks Sen. Paul Douglas of Illinois would make a dandy president. After all, he was so convincing as the policeman in "Fourteen Hours."
She also thinks that Sen. Joe McCarthy will do a better job in Washington, now that he's given up managing that baseball team in Boston.
At the University of Colorado a classroom roof caved in during a lecture. Not that we want anything like that to happen here, but we always have hoped we could die in our sleep.
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Little Man On Campus
by Bibler
"But. Flossy, this is our fourth date."
What You Are Saying About . . .
Less Griping, More Action Urges This Reader. But How?
Dear Editor:
As a member of the "younger generation," I am getting very sick and tired of hearing all the gripping that is going on about what type of world the older generation has left to us. We face the same types of problems that our fathers and grandfathers faced in their youth—economic, political, and social. The chances are good that we will not do a conspicuously better job than they did.
The self-pity and the tales of woe that the "younger generation" (or those who claim to speak for this class) wallow in are not signs of realization of world problems, but rather signs of immaturity. Why stand around and gripe about what we face and how rough it is for us? If these problems exist, do something; don't just stand around and talk.
With regard to the mistakes of the older generation, their errors were largely ones of commission and not of omission. They chose a path. It may have been the wrong one, but at least it was something positive.
It was done through the forced jettisoning of traditional institutions, through the fear and hate of France, the commercial rivalry of Britain, the holier-than-thou attitude of American idealism. What would we, "the younger generation," have done? Probably the same thing.
But were some of these things mistakes? You say that they let the Nazis grow in Europe and "undo all that had been gained in World War I." I say nonsense! If anything was gained by W.W.I, it was lost through the creation of artificial boundaries separating people of like culture (the Polish corridor, etc.)
You say "people starved in India and the older generation supported an imperialistic regime." Considerably fewer people in India starved under British rule than under the new government.
They did have an efficient (though British) civil service, and were financially stable. The Moslems and Hindus were kept from each others' throats. The British brought more food imports to the starving Indians during any one year of the 20th century than the Indian government has in any one year of independence. These are the "mistakes" of the older generation in India.
You say in conclusion "So as our heritage we of the younger generation have a world composed largely of people who either suspect us, hate us, or support a form of government which intends if possible to overthrow ours."
What nation that has occupied a premier position in the world has not been hated, feared, and despised by others? The Romans, the English, the United States. It is the fate of the people who lead to be reviled and despised by the have-nots.
I say in conclusion, if you don't like what the older generation has left to us, and you think you can do it better, then do it, damn it, and don't sit in moaning about how grave and fatalistic we are. Time will tell if our generation did any better than the one before us.
William L. K. Schwarz College senior
An Anvil Reader?
Dear Editor:
This is to tell you that the last time I walked through the Student Union building, I saw the Kansas City Star on sale. I'm wondering if Chancellor Murphy and Dean Woodruff have rid the campus of this influence, too?
I once purchased Time magazine from an instructor in Social Science Survey. This practice should certainly be stopped also.
Luther H. Buchele Graduate, 1947
News Roundup
Truman Speech Set For Tonight
Page 8 University Daily Kansan Tuesday, Nov. 20, 1951
Key West, Fla.—(U.P.)—President Truman flies back to Washington today to make an important political speech sure to set tongues wagging anew in both parties as to what he plans for himself in 1952.
The chief executive will speak at 10 o'clock tonight at the annual dinner of the National Women's Democratic club of Washington at the Mayflower hotel. The speech will amount to a nationwide pep-talk to a Democratic organization now openly concerned about the increasing cries of "corruption" against the administration.
Reds Appear Ready For Truce
Tokyo—(U.P.)The Chinese Communist radio indicated tonight that Red negotiators will accept the United Nations "truce by Christmas" challenge in Korea.
The Communists are scheduled to give their answer to the UN proposal at an Armistice subcommittee meeting in Panmunjom, Korea, at 11 a.m. tomorrow (9 p.m. EST today).
Even if the Reds accept the proposal, however, UN troops will continue fighting in Korea until a full Armistice is signed, Gen Matthew B. Ridgway warned in a formal statement.
Revenue Officials Watched
Washington—(U.P.)—Some of the Internal Revenue bureau's top-ranking officials are under scrutiny in the spreading congressional investigation of tax scandals, it was learned today.
This disclosure was made following the resignation of Daniel A. Bolich, former assistant commissioner of the tax-collecting agency. Bolich, 52, resigned late yesterday for "health" reasons.
Ridway Concedes Atrocities
Tokyo—(U.P.)—Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway conceded today that 6,000 or more U.S. troops may have died in Communist atrocities in Communist atrocities in Korea, but said his command has proof of only 365 such deaths.
The supreme United Nations commander qualified the figures given by Col. James H. Hanley chief of war crimes investigator for the 8th Army, in his controversial atrocity report last week and contended Hanley exceeded his authority in releasing it.
The Chinese rebels admitted that some American war prisoners have died in Communist captivity, but insisted they were victims of disease rather than atrocities.
The Navy was embarrassed by this disclosure because a press release had been prepared praising "Surgeon Lieutenant Cyr's" skill with a scalpel. In Korea, Demara extracted a bullet lodged within a quarter-inch of a Canadian soldier's heart, collapsed a patient's lung and performed various leg amputations.
Ottawa, Ont.—U.P.)—Red-faced navel sources indirectly paid tribute to a phony "doctor" who successfully performed difficult operations aboard a Canadian Destroyer in Korean waters. The Navy identified the bogus surgeon as Ferdinand Waldo Demara Jr., a part-time philosopher from Lawrence, Mass.
Navy Uncovers 'Phony' Doctor
Key West, Fla.—(U.P.)—President Truman confirmed today that George F. Kennan, long time state department Russian expert, is being considered as the new ambassador to Moscow.
Kennan Up For Russian Post
Kennan, now at Princeton university, has served in Moscow with the American embassy on several occasions and prior to his departure from the government, was one of the state department's top experts on Russia.
Kansans Always Talk Politics
Supreme Allied Headquarters, Roquencourt, France—(U.P.)—Sen. Frank Carlson, Kansas Republican, said today he hoped Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower will be available for the Republican presidential nomination in 1952.
After a 45-minute conference with Eisenhower Carlson was asked if he and Eisenhower discuss politics. "We are Kansans and Kansans never meet, but what they get into politics," he said "I hope the situation here in Europe will be such that he will be available for the nomination."