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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE. KANSAS
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1950
The Editorial Page--
A Thing Called 'Joe'
America has become a land of weeks, and every week is really two or three weeks.
"What week is this?" you might ask. And well you might For this week besides being the third week in February is also National Brotherhood week. We are also rapidly approaching National Religious week as well as the fourth week in February, which in itself is logical enough.
Ah, but there is progress to report, and we invite one and all to be prepared for another great "week"—National Smile week. National Smile week is scheduled to make its bow on March 6, and is based on the theory that anyone can smile. That assumption may be the downfall of this mass baring of uppers: some people can't smile.
But for those who can, their spiritual leader during the happy-go-lucky week will be Joe E. Brown. Joe is generally regarded as the owner of America's broadest smile, a fact that would be extremely difficult to refute. Indeed, Joe's mouth has long been the subject of admiring study from children who feel that they, too, should make the most of their oral capacities.
"The idea is simple," says Joe. "It is just a week in which everybody is asked to concentrate on smiling and make someone else smile."
This idea, though simple enough, will require utmost concentration. Imagine that Joe Doaks comes home from a tiring day at the office and finds his house has burned to the ground. Ha-Joe Doaks will just stroll through the ruins nonchalantly poking for valuables and smiling all the while. He will look for his wife and kiddies and attempt to put them in an equally jovial mood. Wonderful!
An instructor informs a graduating senior that he will without doubt flunk the course. The senior merely nods and flashes a winning but toothy smile at the instructor, and humming to himself walks from the room. "It feels so good to smile," he will murmur to himself.
The committee in charge of the week hopes that smiling will become a national habit. If, indeed, such should be the case the world would become extremely monotonous. So please, National Smile week committee, recruit a few nasty-tempered old grumps to frown and snarl while the rest of the populace is smiling. We must have variety, and a well-placed snarl now and then would only serve to stimulate our smiling.
But as for the rest of the country, let them smile at will. As Joe E. Brown says, "Be a Joy Scout." (A statement that will bring thin, tight-lipped smiles to many, already.) —W.F.S.
Stop And Go
For years now, pedestrians and cars have battled for supremacy at the corner of Jayhawk drive and Mississippi street. The car-less have alternately dodged and cursed as drivers swung around corners with only a wink to stop signs. The more conscientious of those blessed with cars have watched impatiently while a river of pedestrians flowed around them.
Several years ago the University tried to solve the problem by stationing a campus policeman at the corner to regulate traffic and give each side a turn at crossing the intersection. This has succeeded primarily in fraying tempers of drivers and pedestrians as they wait for turns which frequently seem to depend on the whims of the traffic officer. Stop signs were installed also, and these have helped somewhat, but when an officer is present they are not necessary and when there is not they are often ignored.
With one simple act the administration could improve the whole situation. All it needs to do is install a traffic light.
The red and green lights of such an instrument would prevent many of the near accidents which occur every day. They would sooth rising tempers because the time for each side of traffic to stop and go would be inflexible and mechanical. They would, incidentally, eliminate the need for a policeman to stand in the middle of the intersection in cold or rainy weather. And they might even slow cross-campus traffic down to low flying speeds.
During the day, the signal could be set two ways. Either it could run during the 10 minute break between classes, or it could run from 7:45 a.m. until 6 p.m. It could run at night when there was special reason for traffic on campus. It wouldn't be needed Saturday afternoon or Sunday.
Other campuses have traffic signals where they are needed.
Couldn't we? —Kay O'Connor.
'Small Things'
"Jayhawker Wants Publicity Manager" says a headline, and it's obvious the fate that befell the dodo bird, which had no publicity manager, is not going to afflict that other old bird, the Jayhawker.
The Medical school is going to televise surgery clinics, and Rodney Nipnap is sure that anything would be better than "Kukla, Fran and Ollie."
Forty tables are still left for the Business school dance, and the freshman cynic says he could probably have more fun with a table than with most girls he's met.
Garbage Heap
Dear Editor-
Dear Editor:
I was certainly amazed that a senior in Journalism would write a letter about Dale Romig's informative article on Hill dance bands.
Romig did a wonderful job giving students the inside track on Sellards, Orten, and the other bands. It seemed to me that he was objective, original, informative, interesting, and fair to all parties concerned.
It sounds ridiculous that Sellards would need to resort to "dirty politics" in order to obtain publicity. I have been in school only a few months, but I have seen and heard Sellards' name and dance band more than any others on the campus.
Mr. Steeper's letter is an obvious attempt to pull a political angle to get his name in the paper too. Why don't journalism students stick together and fight out publicity among themselves instead of dragging Jim Sellards, an innocent by-stander, into the garbage heap?
Name withheld by request.
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