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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, MAY 11, 1951
Marvin Arth
the editorial page
If You Want To See Mother—
Sunday is Mother's Day and many of us will be going home for the weekend. It is the one day of the year when mothers receive the favors they so much deserve.
Nothing will please her more than having her sons and daughters home for that day, so if you're going home, make sure you get there. If you're driving, drive carefully. Few last words are more famous than "Don't worry. I've been driving for years . . .." Experience is never a substitute for caution. The more you drive, the more respect you should have for the dangers inherent in driving.
It it's raining and the weather is bad, then watch your driving, but if it's nice and sunny weather, then you had really better watch your driving, because three out of every four traffic accidents happen in clear weather on dry roads. Clear weather and dry roads invite more driving and faster driving—and 75 per cent of the accidents.
Drivers in the student age group compose well under 20 per cent of the total of all drivers, but in 1950, this group was responsible for more than 27 per cent of the year's fatal accidents. Saturday and Sunday retain their doubtful distinction as the most dangerous days of the week in traffic. So if statistics mean anything—they're unfavorable to students driving home this weekend.
There are a great many things you can do to prevent accidents, but the largest single cause of accidents in 1950 was speeding. Sure, you want to hurry home; you haven't got much time and have quite a distance to travel, but if you want to see your mother, stop speeding.
Speed took 13,300 lives last year. Speed caused 475,500 injuries last year. Speed was the dreadful mistake made by one out of every three drivers involved in last year's serious accidents.
Choices are you consider yourself a good driver. You don't insist on the right-of-way. You never drive on the wrong side of the road. You use the proper signals. But the truth is that if you exceed speed limits, you are a poor driver. You are a menace to yourself and to everyone who must share streets and highways with you. If you must speed, save it for the Indianapolis Speedway race later this month.
Watch your driving and you'll have a happy and thankful mother waiting for you Sunday.
Francis Kelley
With June (the month) just around the corner we thought it might be well to offer a little marital advice to those who will trek down the aisle "for better or for worse." Not that we're experts. Marriage is one thing a man will never become expert at. Women are too unpredictable for anything like that. But there are a few things with which a married man becomes more or less familiar. One of these is the matter of family finances.
Finances are one of the big stumbling blocks in the path of a successful marriage. A husband can't be too stingy or there's the devil to pay. And he can't be an easy financial mark for his wife or she'll don the family pants and he'll pay for the rest of his life. A wife, as you may or may not know, is a funny creature. Once she puts her financial foot down, you can't budget. They can be a terrible nuisance or a genuine blessing, depending on which kind you got to begin with. But I'll not go into that. My wife may read this.
One of my favorite "marriage" jokes concerns a woman who was married to a terribly stingy man. He never took her any place, never bought her anything, although occasionally he would give her the right time.
One day he left on a business trip out of town. While he was away, his wife had a birthday, and she received a letter from her husband. She was very much elated to find a check enclosed That is, until she read the check. It was made out for one million kisses! She was completely deflated and mad as hops. She thought and thought and finally figured out an answer. She wrote him as follows:
"Dear Norman: Thanks for the birthday check for one million kisses. The milkman cashed it for me this morning."
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Quote-of-the-month dept.: Aroused by student protests against exams on Monday or Friday, a K.U. professor defined a semester as "a series of week-ends connected by Wednesdays."
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In Germany, the frauleins are now using sliced bananas to form a "beauty mask." We presume that all the ugly ones will band together and sing a chorus of "Yes, We Have No Bananas. . ."
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One of the national magazines of recent weeks informs its readers that Ava Gardner has spice and backs up its statement with pictures. One look at the curvesome actress in her scanty costume and you assume that she is chili.
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A friend of mine was telling me yesterday about two nudists who quit going steady because they were seeing too much of each other.
(Because of space limitations, the editor reserves the right to condense letters of more than 100 words. Anonymous letters will not be published, but names will be shielded on request. Letters should be addressed to the editor of the Kunsan.)
Letters—
Letter From Leyte - doesn't make many friends on the highway either.
(Editor's note: We were only too happy
we had this opportunity. We have sent him University Daily
Kansans of the past semester and also
from other colleges and universities).
To the editor:
In a recent issue of the SCHOLASTIC EDITOR I noticed that your publication received special honors among the school papers. May I offer my sincerest congratulation for your success in student journalism.
After such an achievement I hope you can advance your field of journalistic ambitions and give a hand to some Filipinos trying to be writers. It will not be too difficult for you to help. All I ask is that you send us some old copies of your school paper, whether magazine or newspaper. For my students they will serve as models and inspiration. Most of the boys and girls here in our high school and college (there are more than 2,000 students) have not had the opportunity to see a really good school paper.
Here is my situation. I am an American Catholic Missionary from Indiana and have been in educational work since my arrival in 1947. In this post-war educational boom there are many students interested in becoming newspaper workers and writers. If we could examine copies of your school paper, I feel sure our own publications would greatly improve.
Please mail us any back issues of your school paper or magazine that you can manage. We will be glad to send you issues of our papers if you wish. With deepest gratitude I am.
Sincerely yours.
Rev. Raymond Kunkel, S.V.D
St. Paul's college
Tacloban, Leyte
Philippine Islands.
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