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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1949
The Editorial Page-
Highway Harvest
Death is whetting his scythe today. He's got a big harvest ahead of him. He's always busy, of course, but holidays are his most bountiful times; highways his most fruitful fields.
A lot of you will be driving home for the vacation. Some of you will be going tomorrow, the rest of you will leave Saturday. Make sure that you and your car are in condition for the trip.
Some of you are planning long trips, and time's going to be pushing you. As a result, you're going to be tempted to push the accelerator harder than usual. You're going to be tempted to sacrifice sleep for driving time. Be careful. Don't parlay that long trip into a short life.
Some of you are going to be tempted to take chances. You're going to be tempted to pass on hills and curves and to ride the rear bumper of the car ahead until you can get around it. You may get careless and reckless. Why not stay careful and wreckless. Be a wise driver behind the wheel instead of a "wise guy."
Some of you are going to be driving cars with faulty brakes or lights or other mechanical faults. Get them fixed, or pray that your name doesn't wind up in the University Daily Kansan file marked: "Accidents, Student; see also: Hospital, Deaths."
Touring the nation, Death and his scythe will have reaped a sizeable crop by the close of the Easter weekend. A lot of people will have become statistics in newspaper columns and safety bulletins How about you?
Four K.U. students have been killed in highway automobile accidents since school started this fall. Several others have been injured. Give yourself a chance to stay off the list.
Give yourself a chance by obeying traffic laws and safety suggestions and by keeping alert when you're behind the steering wheel of a car.
'Play Ball'
If the turnout at Tuesday's baseball game between the Jayhawkers and Rockhurst college is equaled in quantity and quality by future crowds, Coach Bill Hogan and his team can look forward with pleasure to something the K.U. baseball teams haven't had the past few seasons—a friendly and sizeable rooting section.
Tuesday's crowd didn't boo its own players; a notable improvement over last year when at times opposition teams must have thought some of its own student body was in attendance. It's bad for a player's morale to have a member of his own University give him the Brooklyn treatment when he makes an error.
The crowd at Tuesday's game was larger than those of the past two seasons. Students are to be commended for this interest shown in a sport in which K.U. has been notably weak. Maybe it's just the "play ball" spirit that prevails in Americans every spring, but whatever the cause for the increased attendance, the students deserve praise.
Let's keep the rooting section up, quantitatively and qualitatively. Arthur McIntire.
Artists Copy Maxon Says
Commercial art is more important than so-called 'fine' art because it has a purpose rather than being a mimicry, Dr. John Maxon, director of the Museum of Art, told Delta Phi Delta, honorary art fraternity, Wednesday night.
"When people paint today they imitate the masters rather than paint their own interpretation," Dr. Maxon said "Modern artists do not paint for people, but paint hoping to become famous," he continued.
come here.
Painting for the people started and died with Rembrandt, Dr. Maxon believes.
"Less than one per cent of all fine arts students today will become real artists," Dr. Maxon predicted, "Approximately 24 per cent will become commercial artists, and the remaining 75 per cent should gain an appreciation of art," he said.
Summerfield Finals To Begin April 18
Thirty high school seniors from 21 Kansas schools will compete in final examinations and interviews for Summerfield scholarships Monday, April 18 and Tuesday, April 19.
They are the winners of preliminary examinations given in six districts the past month.
Between 10 and 15 scholarships will be awarded this year. The winners will receive sufficient allotments to guarantee four years of study at the University.
The scholarships have been maintained since 1929 by an annual gift of $20,000 from the late Solon E. Summerfield.
Soldier-Writer To Speak In July
Cleveland, April 6—(U.P.) T he national student association's executive committee are protesting the dismissal of college professors for alleged membership in the Communist party.
Capt. Michael Fielding, soldier-journalist, will appear on the University Summer Session lecture course, Dean George B. Smith, Summer Session director, announced today.
The committee, representing 730,- 000 students in 289 American colleges, has issued a statement empowering its national staff to investigate the dismissal and placing on probation of University of Washington professors; the firing of a professor at Oregon State college, and the expulsion of a student at Michigan State college.
Captain Fielding, who was born in India, served in the Indian army through World War L. He is now a U.S. citizen. Although Asia is his special field, he went behind the 'Iron Curtain' in 1948, touring Yugoslavia in disguise.
He will speak July 7 on "Red Shadows Across Asia."
Students Oppose Faculty Dismissals
The statement, issued at the conclusion of a three-day meeting here, said: "This committee opposes with grave concern the present tendency in the educational community towards the negation of long-established principles of academic freedom because of hysterical emergency circumstances."
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