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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MONDAY, JANUARY 17, 1949
The Editorial Page-
Council on the Spot
All Student Council members were jolted a bit at their last meeting when their president told them, in effect, to stop acting like petty politicians and start working together for the good of the student body. The president is to be congratulated for his admonition.
Recent council meetings have been sorry affairs. Maybe that's why so many members have stayed away from them. Or, perhaps the meetings have accomplished nothing because so many members have stayed away.
The A.S.C. is not a social organization. There is a lot of work for it to do. Some of the members do a lot of work. Others do a lot of talking. Some of them don't do anything, not even attend meetings. The council meets every two weeks and several members have missed as many as three or four meetings in a row. Why not get rid of these people who evidently like the prestige of being a council member (they don't resign) but are reluctant to accept the responsibilities.
Students can help the A.S.C. by taking an interest in it, by going to some of the meetings, and by talking to their representatives. The council's purpose is to serve the student body. If it can't accomplish that purpose, or if a general lack of interest is shown by the students, there is nothing to justify the existence of a student council.
—John Riley.
Reaction against the new Truman administration appears early as housewives over the nation object to Mrs. Truman's recipe for Ozark pudding.
The Auditorium
Here on the University campus, the job of keeping up the buildings and grounds is a staggering task and as a rule there is little fault to find. In fact there is only one exception that seems to stand out prominently.
In this case, we mean Hoch auditorium. This is the only building that should be the show place on the campus, if there is to be one.
Specific faults we have noticed, and others have spoken to us us about, include broken skylights that should be replaced; the walls of the main lobby need a new coat of paint to freshen things up a bit; and the ceiling of the auditorium seems to have been damaged by water leaking through the roof.
There are many people who visit the campus for basketball games, concerts, and lectures who may never see the inside of another building while here. The impression they carry away from Hoch auditorium may be the impression they have of all the University property which certainly would not be a true or fair picture.
Letters To The Editor
AN OPEN LETTER
Still Alive
-M.C.L.
You barely escaped homicide charges Saturday night, brother. You almost ran down four college students with your automobile. It happened at the corner of Seventh and New Hampshire streets, about 10 p.m.
Maybe you don't know what it is like to see a pair of blinding headlights suddenly careen around a corner and come close to ending a happy evening in tragedy. There was a stop sign on that corner, brother. You didn't stop. Those four people were just a couple of steps off the curb—and you were on the wrong side of the street. You cut that corner mighty wide, brother, and mighty fast.
Funny thing, some people call that a "Kansas corner," when you turn and use all the road—your side and that which isn't yours.
You don't know what it's like, I'll bet, to feel your girl clutch your arm and scream as a car bears down on you. It's a mighty hopeless feeling, brother, mighty hopeless. You don't know which way to run. That is, if you could run. You just stand there. One experience like that and you wouldn't drive that way any more.
No, we don't know who you are,
brother. In this town, anyway, we
probably couldn't have you picked up
as some sort of a public menace.
But we do know your license
number. That's enough. It's a
pretty good lead to your name.
This number is filed away in four
minds, brother, indebly stamped on four memories.
You drive a dark Chevrolet, brother, and you drive it like you owned the road.
One of those four said you must have been drunk. Another said you just weren't looking. It's a cinch you can't plead that you didn't know the stop sign was there—not with a home-county license on your car.
I hope you read this, brother, whoever you are. And I hope it makes some impression on you. I hope it scres you just as much as you scared four college students Saturday night. Somehow you swerved and missed them. You drove on quite a bit slower, your car sudddering as it you had killed its engine. You came pretty close to killing more than that, brother. You didn't stop, however. You probably were afraid to.
You had better not forget it, either, brother.
—One of the Four
Okay, those four young people are still in good condition, with just a jumpy feeling in the pits of their stomachs. Their nerves will calm down soon, and so will yours, if they were ever jumpy at all. But those four students will never forget the searing glare of your headlights on the wrong side of the street, scorning that stop sign.
Wider Bridges?
Sober Arrested For Drinking
Tacoma, Wash. — (UP) — Police freed Roscoe E. Sober, 36, on $15 bail after he was arrested on a charge of being intoxicated.
The report of the fact-finding committee on Kansas highways called attention, among many other things, to the gradual increase of the highway death rate in the state. It now is above the rational average.
"A part, but not all," said the report, "is due to the bridges that are wide enough for traffic but not wide enough for safety. It costs us 22 million dollars a year for accidents. Let's spend that money for improving the death traps. It is the thinking of this committee that these highways should be completed as soon as possible."
This report brought comment from the Abilene Reflector - Chronicle that evidently Kansas, with its many miles of straight roads does a mighty poor job of driving. The Abilene editor then told of a visit of a dozen young people from Salina who drove to Abilene in two cars, six in each car. When they sat down in the hotel dining room one boy asked another: "How fast were you going when I passed you?" "Oh, seventy." was the reply. "Then I must have been going eighty."
And so the Kansas road report talks of widening bridges. In Lyon county the Neosho bridge on 50S east of town is to be replaced with a new wider bridge on a straightaway highway. With present high speed autos and increasing carelessness of drivers, the state is going to have to spend a lot of money to protect its drivers. But will that entirely eliminate the 22 million dollars loss now caused by accidents each year? Human beings being as they are, we doubt it. —E.T.L., in Emporia Gazette.
Hen Lays Three-Yolk Egg
Dunkirk, Ind.—(UP)—Mrs. Stephen Starr says one of her hens produced an egg nine inches in circumference, containing three yolks.
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James W. Townsend, College sophomore, was elected president of Alpha Phi Omega, national service fraternity, recently. Other officers elected are: Harold Shigley, vice-president; Robert Stucky, treasurer; Orilton Shumate, recording secretary; Charles Hickey, alumni secretary; David Reeser, historian; Leland Bell, sergeant-at-arms; Robert Perisho, corresponding secretary.
- Breakfasts
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The members selected Charley O'-Connor's band to play for the March of Dimes dance to be held in the Union ballroom Feb. 5, and to limit the number of tickets sold to prevent overcrowding of the ballroom.
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The next meeting will be Feb. 9 and will be an initiation of pledges. Robert Perin, national director of scouting activities, will be the speaker at the following meeting on Feb. 16.
Judge Had No 'Feeling'
Open 7 Days A Week
Milwaukee—(UP)—Mrs. Isabelle Nienow denied she was speeding, "I didn't have to watch the speedometer," she said, "I can feel how fast a car is going." The judge banged his gavel, fined her $10.
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