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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, MAY 3, 1951
Marvin Arth
the editorial page
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Hey, Handsome—
Hello there,
You're looking fine—today. I hope you look as nice the next time I see you, but I really don't expect it. Automobile accidents are so disfiguring, you know. Glass is so brittle and faces are so easy to scar. What's that? You've never been in an automobile wreck? And you're all of 20 years old! Tsk-tsk. Too bad. Then it's about your turn. A shame. You have so much youthful vitality. Today.
There's really nothing to it, you know. So simple. All you have to do is push your right foot and let your mind wander. It's quite relaxing. You sit comfortably behind the wheel and listen to the radio. No pain. No nothing. Just dreams. Until that car pulls out of the crossroad in front of you.
Then there's fear and noise and dust, but still no pain. That comes later. After they remove the steering wheel from your ribs and your twisted legs from beneath the dash. After you regain consciousness. If you do. And even then the pain wont be unbearable. They'll shoot you full of dope for a few days until the new wears off and it won't be bad. A little uncomfortable, but not bad.
It won't be for a few days that reality creeps up and slaps you right in your scarred face. That will be the day they take your bandages off and you catch a glimpse of your new look in the mirror. Then you'll feel real bad. I'll finally dawn on you that you're going to have to go around looking like that for some forty-odd years. You'll feel mighty bad.
But even then you may be luckier than the guy in the other car. It all depends on how you look at it. He's dead. You'll have to live with yourself while other people nudge each other and talk out of the corner of their mouths. Little girls may walk a wide circle around you. Little girls are not very brave, you know.
Yes, you may or may not consider yourself lucky to be alive. It's all in how you look at it. But I'll lay you odds that each time you see that jagged red scar or feel that twinge of pain in your chest or legs, you'll see that car pulling out of that sideroad. And I'll bet you're a darn sight smarter about driving then. It'll be real educational.
Well, I gotta run along now. Hope to see you again soon—looking as you do today. But like I say—I really don't expect it.
Solong
Francis Kelley
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For some strange reason the dictators of the world refuse to go along with pretense that they are not dictators.
Peron, Then Franco -
along with pretense that they are not dictators.
Juan Peron of Argentina, for instance, has blasted the case of all those who would like to insist that he really isn't such a bad sort after all. He did it by closing down the great newspaper La Prensa, throttling freedom of the press in Argentina. Now Generalissimo Franco in Spain seems intent on following the Peron pattern.
Franco's government has just withdrawn the press credentials of the New York Times' correspondent Sam Pope. The allegation was that Pope was filing inaccurate dispatches. Yet on challenge the Spanish press chiefs admitted they could not cite an instance of a false report. Madrid observers have concluded that the move against Pope is simply part of a campaign to rid Spain of the seven American reporters who are still there.
Signs of such a campaign have showed before. Censorship is officially abolished in Spain. But when correspondents recently tried to tell the facts of a strike in Barcelona, their copy was mangled before transmission. Censorship, unofficial but still as brutal as ever, was back. Now that censorship apparently is moving toward an actual ouster of foreign correspondents, a ringing down of a made-in-Madrid iron curtain.
This is the action of a dictatorship, of course, for a dictator can never stand a free press.—St. Louis Star Times.
Francis Kelley
galley-west
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A couple of engineers we know became stalled between Ottawa and Lawrence in Monday night's drenching rain.
After failing to start their car, they waited for the rain to abate and soon discovered they were out of cigarets. Figuring they could fix the car as soon as the rain stopped, one of them stood in the beating rain and flagged down a truck to bum two cigarets.
He returned to the car, wet to the bone, carrying two waterlogged Kools.
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General MacArthur may be the new national hero, but he won't convince the kids until he starts wearing six-shooters and riding a horse.
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Akin to the sailor who takes a boatride on a holiday, and the postman who takes a walk on his day off, is the college student who spends his vacations loafing.
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We are now given to understand that Hollywood's film clinches are exhausting. And all the time we thought they would be fun.
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