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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MONDAY, MAY 2, 1949
The Editorial Page-
Camel Trails
Joe had a wreck the other night. He was hurt, and his car was badly damaged. The accident occurred in Lawrence at an intersection on Ninth street.
on Ninth street.
Joe was barreling down Ninth (he had the right-of-way). He saw the approaching car, but he didn't slow down. He simply honked his horn. The car hit him.
Who is Joe? He's a normal K.U. student with a car. He was raised in western Kansas where every place is a long distance from every other place. Out there, distance is the motivating thing. To get where he wanted to go, Joe had to drive at high speeds.
Joe learned to drive on long stretches of open road where he could see a mile in every direction. If there was a car in the vicinity, he could see it or its dust. The only thing which slowed down his swift journeying was a network of roads as bad as Lawrence's streets.
Joe came to K.U. and brought his car. He also brought his habit of driving fast. This habit was helped along because Joe couldn't get a campus parking permit, so he often did a little speeding to get to class on time. The streets of Lawrence were as narrow as camel trails across the Sahara, and there was more traffic.
across the Sanara, and their students. Joe is like many other K.U. students with cars. He won't adjust his driving methods to fit the antiquated street system in Lawrence. And he will continue to have wrecks until he does. —Sim Myers.
Hot Air-Going Up
A small article nestling on the front page of a newspaper last week stated concisely and with admirable directness that the cost of tooting a train whistle has risen from one-third of a cent a toto to two-thirds of a cent for the same toot.
This miscellaneous piece of information, insignificant in itself, set us on the road to discovering a fact highly pertinent to people, especially students.
At the University power plant there is a Sanderson called W. C. He carries the title of maintenance engineer. Mr. Sanderson estimated that one year ago it cost 30 cents to toot that big whistle that signals the changes of classes. Now he estimates that it costs 50 cents for the same toot. A rise in the price of gas and oil is responsible.
With a trend beginning to show, we checked with the water company. Last November, diligent readers may remember, a price hike raised the cost of water from five to 15 cents a thousand cubic feet.
This confirmed our theory, because you can't get steam without water, and without steam, you can't toot a whistle. This is basic. The amount of air it is going un!
The cost of hot air is going up!
A quotation from a man who does something around the journalism building brings the raw importance of this fact forcibly home.
"Hot air is costing my students more in grades than it used to," the man said. —Doug Jennings.
- Letters To The Editor -
Corrections
Dear Editor:
Recently the Daily Kansas reporter for the All Student Council made several mistakes in reporting what has gone on in that assembly. Before this date, the Council asked for more space so that the students might know what the Council does. This request was granted, and since that date as full a coverage as could be expected has been given. Now we ask for not only quantity, but also quality. If an accurate job of reporting is to be done, it would seem that all the facts should be presented, and that those facts should be checked for authenticity.
In the issue of the Daily Kansas for April 27, the report of the All Student Council had several mistakes which I would like to have corrected.
1. I said that organizational representatives should either be given full rights and duties of representatives on the Council, or they should be taken off entirely. The point being that if they are good enough to sit on the Council, then they also should have the right to vote. A mere seat makes their presence nil unless they also have the right to vote. As any student, they may sit in and speak through an elected representative.
2. Our (the finance committee) reasons for opposing the A.P.O. appropriation were: They already had received $200 and still had a balance of $155; the rummage sale would net some money, and then
they more factually could present a request for just what was needed; no itemized request was presented for each expenditure; until such a list is presented, the committee thought that as a service organization, they had little need for costly equipment to serve the students.
3. The balance on hand at the end of this year is not the sum quoted by the Daily Kansan. The sum so quoted is the amount of money we will have which we did not count on. At the present time of the disposal of the old council our balance is $4307.76. At the end of this fiscal year, or July 1, 1949, our balance will be about $6875.36. This is the total of the balance expected in our budget plus money yet to come in.
Editor's note: The University Daily Kansan is glad to be set straight on these points. Our reporter tripped on one of the figures in Mr. Bennett's financial report. In regard to organizational representatives, our reporter quoted Mr. Bennett as saying they should have "all or nothing at all." We think this short quote describes his stand on the issue.
If we are to have our meetings written up in the Daily Kansan, then I wonder if it wouldn't be possible to present the facts accurately?
Robert F. Bennett Treasurer, A.S.C.
'First Class Show'
Dear Editor:
The population of North America more than doubled between 1880 and 1940.
I saw Tau Sigma's presentation of "City Life" last Thursday and have but one protest. Why call such a magnificent production a "modern dance recital?"
"City Life" was deserving of far better labeling. The "Madness of the City" and "Opium Den" scenes were worthy of any professional show. Likewise, the soloists of these two numbers, Jim Kiefner and Gerry Clement, are certainly not in the "recital" class.
Miss Selicovitz can stop underrating herself and her students. "City Life" was a first class show.
College Senior
(Name withheld by request)
Fencing Club To Manhattan
The University fencing club will go to Manhattan tomorrow for foil competition with the Kansas State team.
"It will be only an informal match between the two clubs, because our team is not yet being supported by the K.U. athletic department," Norman C. Ellis, club president, said.
The University team will also give an exhibition of saber fencing for those at Manhattan.
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40 Engineers Go To Wichita Meeting
Forty faculty members and seniors in aeronautical engineering left the University Thursday to participate in the sixth annual meeting of the Institute of Aeronautical Sciences to be held in Wichita today and tomorrow.
Dr. C. C. Turnas, director of the Cornell university aeronautical laboratory, will speak on "Aircraft Safety" at a dinner meeting Friday in the Hotel Allis.
The University group will make an inspection trip through the Boeing, Beech, and Cessna aircraft plants in Wichita after attending the meeting.
the meeting William M. Simpson, professor of aeronautical engineering, will be in charge of the group.
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KU Bridge Club Loses
The Four-No bridge club was defeated Wednesday by the burn university bridge team $20\frac{1}{2}$ to $17\frac{1}{2}$.
to 1712.
The Kansas team included Guy Smith and James Feitz; James Baker and Homer Riley; Robert Poolman and Homer Reed; and James Hopkins and L. W. Reed.
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