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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE. KANSAS
MONDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1949
The Editorial Page-
The Congenial Hitchhiker
Say, buddy, can you take an extra passenger in your car when you go home for vacation? Sure, you can squeeze him in. This is the time of year to be generous and help others. Help him out. You'd better hear about some of his odd quirks of personality, though, before you start out on your vacation trek.
You have to entertain this passenger. He likes to see a bottle passed around in the car. And he won't be happy unless you have your share.
You'll find out right away that he's a speed fiend. "Push down that accelerator," he'll say. "Let 'er go!"
He loves highway curves—particularly blind ones. He'll want to go around them fast. He'll want to pass all the cars on the curves.
"Speed! Speed! Speed!" he'll yell. "Don't be such a sissy. You've got as much right to the highway as anyone else."
He'll tell you to speed up on the hill and pass that "buggy" going up.
If you're driving at night, he'll jeer at you for your concentration on the right side of the highway and the ditch at the side. He'll tell you to loosen up, to turn around now and then to crack a joke with the others.
"Hurry! Hurry! Hurry! Why waste time on the road when you could be with your family or your best girl at home?"
If you get caught in a blizzard or a sleet storm,he'll tell you to quit worrying about the mid-stripe—to let the oncoming drivers do the worrying.
"You have to go faster than this! We've been hours on the road."
But in spite of your passenger, you might get home safely. And you might get your passengers safely home. And then again, you might not.
Your car might be that crumpled heap of metal in the ditch. It might be,that twisted wreckage gouged into that telephone pole.
That is, all but one passenger. He won't be in the papers. He doesn't have a family. He had his ride—and his fun.
But—he might need an introduction. His name is death.
-Virginia Fros
Matter Of Faith
If you ask most people about the matter, they will tell you that Santa Claus has gone the way of the stork. Especially if you ask college students. Most likely they will tell you that they do believe in Santa, but if you press the question seriously, they will snort at you for even expecting any answer other than "NO!"
In fact, anyone you talk to on the subject for any length of time will end up in a questioning argument with you.
"What proof do you have that there is a Santa Claus?" they will ask. "Show me just one thing that would be concrete evidence to that effect."
Just such questions serve as perfect examples of what is wrong with the American people of today. They think that they must have concrete proof of everything that they would believe in. And that is where they are in error.
That is why there are so few really religious people in America today. Because belief in Santa is just like belief in God. You can't offer logical, conclusive and physical proof that such exists; you just have to have faith in such matters.
To achieve faith in anything, God or Santa Claus, is a relatively easy matter. All that is necessary is to forget all questions your intellect might raise about the subject and repeat to yourself a couple of hundred times: "I believe in Santa Claus: I have faith that there is a Santa Claus. . . . I believe in Santa Claus. . . I have faith that there is a Santa Claus.' . . I believe in Santa Claus.
—Nelson Ober
Reed Discusses Semantics And Relation To Philosophy
Man is the only animal that can talk himself in and out of situations that don't exist, said Dr. Robert L. Reed, council adviser to the International Society of General Semantics. Dr. Reed spoke at a meeting of the General Semantics club Thursday.
"When persons ask me to define semantics I give them Socrates' advice, 'Know thyself'. That's what semantics is about," Dr. Reed said
"The most important part of semantics is a test to measure man's change of attitude. There is a startling amount of confusion and disorder in the world today—wars and conflicts, as well as widespread parts of the world have sought to determine the causes of these disorders," he said.
Dr. Reed said that the confusion is in the thinking of man. Philosophy is the attempt to see life clearly and wholly.
Partially quoting from James Harvey Robinson, Dr. Reed said, "Advance in human intelligence and insight depends on one's ability to take in questions and reconsider that which he has formerly taken for granted."
"Man is progressing because he realizes there is a problem. Another good sign is that man is questioning the method of problem solving," Dr. Reed said.
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, was the capitol of the United States for one day.
Dear Editor-
Editorial Topics
Dear Editor:
It is well to editiorialize about world politics, John L. Lewis, and the Truman administration. College students certainly should have information and opinions about these all-important topics. But college students should not occupy themselves with these far-off issues to the exclusion of local ones, where very often direct action can effectively be taken to remedy unjust situations. Charity begins at home, to quote a trite saying.
For instance, how many students are aware of the racial segregation that exists here in Lawrence? No restaurant on the hill will serve any Negro students, not because some of the owners object to serving Negroes, but because the owners are afraid their businesses will fall off if they do so. What can be done about this? We can buy meal tickets that C. O. R. E. is selling in $1 denominations to show the owners that we would support them if they terminated their unjust and inhuman practice of discrimination.
Helen Ulatowski
Graduate student
New Policy
Dear Sir:
As a chemistry major, I suppose people would expect crack-pot ideas (and this is in no way a reflection on in, or about the chemistry department); yet I believe it is time for the U. S. to adopt a policy of isolation in European affairs and begin a policy of developing a grand culture at home. We should consider ourselves no longer a great power country, but rather a good country—to be esteemed on a par with such countries as Brazil, Argentina, Canada, Australia, and other such countries that do not consider it a dire necessity to spend billions on E. C. A. and E. R. P. The danger is imminent—look at our fantastic national debt and our increasing lack of ability to balance the national budget each year. The only other course would be to plunge into a war of aggression, and although I am anti-Communist, we won't do that. So let's just give Russia the pleasure of thinking she's pretty much it, and in the meantime, get our financial ducks in a row at home; and continue to develop a really swell place to live here as our heritage shows so clearly we have done in the past.
You say what if Russia would attack us? Well, what if she would attack countries like the ones already mentioned? In our case, I don't believe she would ever live through the guerilla war where she seems to be doing quite nicely in a costly (to us) cold war!
Howard E. Rickhoff Education senior
Duluth, Minn.—(U.P.)A local hotel called police and said a guest was barking at his dog. Police found the guest not only barking but also determined to bite the dog. The man was arrested for being drunk.
No Barking Men Allowed
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Summerfield Scholars Have Monthly Dinner
Papers were presented by Charles Cory, College senior, and Stanley Englund, engineering senior, at the monthly dinner for Summerfield scholars recently. Cory's paper was on "Trends in Modern Poetry," and Englund's paper was on "The Future of Atomic Energy."
There are 51 Summerfield scholarships at the University.
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