45 PAGE SLX UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1949 The Editorial Page- Vicious Progress Television is here! The full implications of this fact have been ignored by many newspapers, who herald the advent of TV with headlines reading: "Towards a New Era" and "Video a Magnet." Particularly if the paper owns a new TV station. Television means that instead of merely listening to Helen Trent's woes, we'll be able to see them. No longer will "Ma" Perkins be only a kindly old voice coming over the air. Now we'll be able to see "Ma" shake her old gray head at the world's latest mischief. Unfortunately, television probably means that the tripe with which radio has flooded the country for years will now be visual. Looking at a radio program schedule for Sept. 28, we found that between the hours of 9 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., five hours and 45 minutes of soap operas were offered to the listening public, over three local stations. These dramatic music ran from "The Second Mrs. Burton" to "Young Widder Brown." That's 23 soap operas, generously interspersed with hillbilly music and things like "Queen for a Day" and "Bride and Groom." There's no reason to believe that TV will do any better by us. So far, aside from the serialization of Eisenhower's book, the best it has offered are puppet shows and Gorgeous George. We'll admit that television looks promising in sports (not wrestling). But that's about all. One 20th century prophet has said that the automobile allows man to turn off half his brain, and that the automobile combined with the radio enables him to turn it off completely. Television, we predict, will let him turn it off permanently. —J.W.S. Still With Us Any pedestrian who has survived a day of mingling with the multitude along the walks of Jayhawker drive might well wish several hundred thoughtless persons could view their daily breaches of common courtesy through the eyes of a candid camera. Naturally, the University's larger population makes for cramped quarters everywhere—inside buildings and on the sidewalks. The mad rush to and fro is necessary because of scattered classrooms and limited time between classes. No one expects to walk with or opposite a mass of humanity without brushing a shoulder occasionally. Conversely, no one should be expected to be brushed off a sidewalk, kicked in the shins, or decapitated by a hastily slammed door. At the current rate of disregard for fellow men, there should be safety zones for the weak and halt. Most common offenders are the "buddies" who must gallop cross-campus four to six abreast. These animated tanks cut a wide swath. To sidestep such a united front, one must take to the grass, gravel or mud alongside, only to collide head-on with others detouring for the same purpose. Also monopolizing the sidewalk is the "lover-boy." This species is so intent on chivalry to its companion that it heedlessly assaults the passing parade with not so much as an "excuse, please." The "door-slammers", though, are technicians. Having reached a destination in questionable humor but still breathing, one advances under a feeling of false security until safely past the doorway. But to reach for a half-open door on the heels of a predecessor is stark delusion. You can never make it. That split second of frustration is ample time for the excited crowd to carry you back down the steps where the encounter began. At the present rate of deterioration, the future of human understanding appears lost if these citizens-in-training believe manners are a tea-time must and a work-time nuisance. —Lyle Young—From the Feb. 11, 1948 Kansan. "Small Things" The sociology department bulletin board announces that the University of Michigan is offering "Sex Research fellowships with $1,000 provided for the academic year." All this and a salary too? We hear that the administration plans to import a fleet of Great Danes to combat the motorcycle menace. (Even if we really didn't heat it, it's a good idea). Science has come forth with a robot which can speak. We always wondered where they got the voices for the screen ads at the local cinema. Soon everyone who saw the "Claudia" series will be graduated, and it will seem strange not to hear at least one girl in each class trying to sound like Dorothy McGuire. Who knows? Maybe we'll have a Jayhawker this year without one single picture of the girls grinning at us from the top of a doubledeck bunk. Husband Goes Home To Papa Grand Rapids—(U.P.)-Police report a wife beat her husband so much he packed his bags and went home to father. Firemen Report Short Run Columbus, Ohio—U.(P.) — Firemen didn't have to go far to put out a fire in the garage behind Leon F. Johnson's home. The garage is in the back yard of engine house No. 15. Upstream Critic Dear Editor Editor's note: All letters to the editor must be signed and must give the writer's full address. Name of the writer will be withheld from publication upon request. Letters limited to 250 words will be given first consideration. Occasionally letters must be edited to meet space requirements. Sir: I just finished reading my first issue of "Upstream." The material struck me in such a way that comment is necessary. Here it is: Stans's a man. He likes this world He lives in. Albert's pseudo display of mind. Could be, we think, like A portrait. A man who sits and thinks. Paragraph two, sentence three. Who do you like? And thinks, and thinks, and thinks. (But never stirs) You all would like to be the bard. You fail because you try too hard, Name withheld by request Ku Ku's Wrong? Sir: In last Friday's Kansan, an article on the Ku Ku's, the University men's pep organization, contained the following statement: "A resolution was passed stating that the club's membership will include three men from each fraternity and 14 independents." With 24 fraternities on the hill, there would be 72 fraternity men in the Ku Ku's and only 14 independents. The Ku Ku's is supposedly an all-school pep organization. Assuming 75 men to a fraternity and 6,000 men on the campus, how come that 1,800 fraternity men get 72 members in the Ku Ku's and 4,200 independent men get only 14 members? If the Ku Ku's are to continue as the official University men's pep organization, it seems only proper that the present Ku Ku leadership explain to the students the unfair representation of independent men in its ranks. Membership in the University pep organization certainly should not be dependent on one's belonging to a social fraternity. College Senior (name withheld by request) Justice Douglas Hurt Yakima, Wash., Oct. 3—U.P.—Supreme court justice William O. Douglas was reported in "satisfactory" condition today at St. Elizabeth's hospital where he was taken after suffering serious injuries when his horse threw him down a rocky hillside. Ruth Hussey John Carroll New Show Time, 7:00—9:10 Open Every Nite 6x30 p.m. Proofreaders Read About Everything From Spanish Poetry To Entomology Everything from Spanish poetry to entomology that is printed by the University press must first pass the inspection of Mrs. Gordon Stein, Mrs. Edwin Calkins, or Janice Neibarger, proofreaders of the University press. Any time of the day the proofreaders may be found in their little alcove in the Journalism building, one listening and checking while the other reads aloud from a duplicate galley proof. Mrs. Stein and Mrs. Calkins are employed as full-time readers, and spend nine hours a day huddled over printed material, checking it for errors. Miss Neibarger, a graduate of the college, is now studying journalism. She will remain a part-time employee of the University press until she is graduated in June. "At present we are busy with the student directory," Mrs. Stein said, "And we expect to finish work on it before the deadline of Tuesday, Nov. 1." She said that the University Daily Kansan has first priority when it comes to getting their work out on time, but that work on the directory comes before everything else." Mrs. Stein began working for the University press in the fall of 1948. She is from Overland Park. Mrs. Calkins, from Lake Wales, Fla., started as a proofreader this fall and will remain until her husband, an engineering senior, graduates. University Daily Hansan Student Newspaper of the UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Member of the Kansas Press Assn, National Association, Press Assn, and the Associated College Press. Represented by the National Ad- direction Service, 420 Madison Ave., New York City, Editor in Chief... 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