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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1950
The Editorial Page-
Mud
The occasional sea of mud, called Jayhawk drive, is probably as responsible for nervous rages and apoplectic oaths as any institution on the campus—finals excluded.
Automobiles drive up and down Jayhawk drive. Pedestrians walk along its edges. Because these two pastimes are performed simultaneously, usually between classes, it is inevitable that the pedestrians are struck by flying mud and water sprayed by the automobiles.
Since no one will presumably argue with the above bit of logic, it only remains that we be concerned with the fixing of guilt. Do the automobiles drive too fast when the streets are sloppy or do the students and professors afoot walk too near the street?
The masses—those who do not own cars—appear to be unanimous in their condemnation of the motorist. Their cries of anger and dismay can be heard on any muddy day. We recently heard of a graduate student who was striding happily down the drive with his 126 page typewritten thesis—the work of an entire year. The streets were heavy with slush and dirty water. Just as he got to the corner he stopped. "Perhaps I'd better put this thesis under my raincoat," he said to himself. He did. Just as he was about to cross the street a college joe-jalopy plowed up the drive. Of course, we have given away the point of the story, so we hardly need say that the jalopy stopped for the stop sign and the graduate student was not splashed, but he could have been splashed, and what then? Suppose he had not thought to put his thesis under his coat.
The car owners, the splashers, they have their trials also. The pedestrians, or splashees; although they would appear to be the perpetually persecuted, sometimes have their moments of glory.
Only last week a member of the Cadillac class was speding through the muddy drive, showering student and dean alike when a wonderful thing happened. He had a flat tire. Right in front of Robinson gymnasium. And justice was sweeter still. He was splashed by a professor on a bicycle.
The Jayhawker
The winter issue of the Jayhawker is one of the best examples we have ever seen of what a college yearbook should be. No publication can please all of its readers, but we think that the Jayhawker comes as close as any of the past several years.
First, it follows the modern trend in journalism by giving us plenty of pictures. The feature stories are well written and must be interesting to a large proportion of the student body. The football and track sections are particularly well arranged and made up. Organized houses are covered more thoroughly than any other issue we have ever seen, and the whole magazine, from the art work to the advertisements, is compact and attractive.
The Jayhawker staff has considerable responsibility. Most of the subscribers hand over their money before they ever see an issue. It would be easy to let things go; to be satisfied with an average yearbook. The staff members of the 1950 Jayhawker are to be congratulated for their good work. If they continue the way they have begun, this year should see the best Jayhawker in a long time.
'Small Things'
A couple of political science professors were reported seen at the play "Mr. Roberts" in Kansas City, Saturday, and any harsh language these gentlemen might use in class the next week may be forgiven.
We had hoped that the basketball team might run up 60 points against Oklahoma-poetic justice, you know.
The report is that business courses are crowding the zoologists out of Snow hall, and what else could you expect from a group that learns all about monopolies, trusts and holding companies.
We hear of a pre-med who has three finals on the same day, and he can get army or navy enlistment blanks down at the postoffice.
Grade in final ...
Grade in course ...
Thank you.
(signed)
Typographical Error Almost Convicts Man
Did you ever stop and ask yourself just whom you're thank-ing and for what?
Lancaster, Ohio—U.(P) — A jury came close to convicting a man charged with a traffic offense after voting to find him innocent. Jurors by error signed a printed form of "verdict guilty" instead of the other form and the jurors foreman read it in court. When the jurors interrupted to protest, the mistake was corrected, freeing Charles Clark, 68.
Heavy Buckets Of Sand
Don't Add Up To $50,000
Memphis, Tenn.—(U.P.)—S a n d b buckets didn't spell $50,000 to a federal court jury. Eugene S. Perry claimed he was hurt lifting heavy buckets of sand and sued the railroad for $50,000. The railroad said Mr. Perry should have known better than to put 72 pounds of sand in a bucket, then try to lift it. The jury agreed.
Kansas Traffic Kills 493 In 1949
Topeka — (U.P.) — Traffic accidents took a slightly greater toll of lives in Kansas during 1949 than in the preceding year, Claud McCamment, state safety engineer reported.
Mr. McCamment said the provisional total was 493 dead, topping the 489 fatalities on streets and highways in 1948. Furthermore, McCamment said, the number injured in Kansas traffic mishaps climbed over the 4,000-mark compared with 3,750 a year earlier. He blamed the climbing death and injury toll on "traffic foolishness, ignorance, improper driving and carelessness."
The safety official warned that unfavorable road surfaces—Ice, mud or rain—will be met often in January driving.
He said motorists must realize that stopping distances on snow or ice coated roads are three to 12 times greater than on dry concrete. Caution must be doubled and speeds drastically reduced, he said, for slippery driving surfaces played a part in one of every five traffic fatalities last winter.
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Editor in Chief ... James W. Scott
Managing Editor ... John Riley
Asst. Managing Ed... Kay Dyer
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Civil Engineer ... Keller Kellar
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Asst. City Editor ... Keith Leslie
Asst. City Editor ... Dale Mullen
Sports Editor ... George Brown
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Telegraph Editor ... Norman Nielsen
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Kansan Calendar of
Coming Events
Wednesday. Jan. 11
K. U. band concert, 8 p.m. Hoch auditorium.
Monday, Jan. 1e
Kansas City Philharmonic orchestra, 8:20 p.m. Hoch auditorium.
Final examinations begin.
Monday, Jan. 30
Enrollment begins for the spring semester.
Fur exhibit through Jan. 31, Museum of Natural History.
Police Cut Short Trip To Hollywood
Kansas City Mo., —(U.P.)—A Chicago youth who "found" five $500 bills hidden by his father in a statue of Christ was stopped here by police today before he could reach Hollywood "to see the stars."
Doran said he found the bills Christmas day. He also had $350 in travel checks, police said.
Police, acting on a pickup order from Chicago police, took John Robert Doran, 16, and his companion Martin Gibbons, 16, off the Santa Fe's Chicago-to-Los Angeles train, El Capitan.
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