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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1948
The Editorial Page-
It's Dangerous
Did you ever take note of the activity at the corner of Jayhawk drive and Mississippi just a few minutes after the whistle that ends class periods? A little observation reveals a mixture of cars, trucks, motor-scooters, bicycles, dogs. and, a good many students.
This mix-up has been going on for some time and by a seemingly miraculous turn of events, no one has been hurt recently, not even one of the dogs. However, there seems to be an increasing tendency on the part of pedestrians to disregard the instructions of the traffic officer at the intersection.
Students are not usually in such a hurry that they have to save a few seconds by walking across the line of moving traffic instead of waiting until cleared across the street. Most jawwalking is perhaps done thoughtlessly, but at the same time it is rather foolhardy.
If you are guilty of jaywalking, why don't you slow up a little. After all, you won't lose much time, and you might save a great deal.
—M.C.L.
- Letters To The Editor -
An Old Problem
Within the limits of my ability, I try not to confine myself to dandelion digging, as Donald A. Moser suggests, but to glance over the news, now and then, and to understand what is going on.
Dear Editor:
And in the light of the present international situation, it would certainly be foolish to deny that the tension between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. is a threat to peace. Neither can be underestimated the many difficult problems that have to be solved if we are to have a chance of avoiding World War III, and atom bombs, and the destruction of most that we love of the confused civilization that is ours.
But I refuse to believe that getting rid of Stalin and Togliatti (and some hundred or hundred thousand more Communists) would be the solution of the problems of our times. The war over, the problems would be still there. I refuse to believe that, just as I refused to believe—while fighting fascists of my own country and from abroad—that getting rid of Mussolini and Hitler would in itself mean peace. The problems, it seemed to me, would have been still there with the war over. And there are still there.
Let's try Donald, along with the dandelion digging, to do what little we can for solving these problems, instead of assuming that war has to be, that we can't help it and must just get ready to fight once more.
Albert Roland Graduate student
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Constable Race
Dear Editor:
I wish to make a slight correction in a news story that was carried in the Daily Kansan concerning the election of the local constable.
Unknown to me, some of my friends, as a joke, put my name on some of the ballots and printed cards advertising my candidacy. It seems that some of the cards were rather indistinct and my name was read both as D. M. and D. H. Johnson.
Thus arose the rather singular condition of having one man running both second and third for the same office. So, it seems that Mr. Seymour did not win by so large a margin but simply beat out one man, not two.
D. M. Johnson Graduate
Illinois Housing Is Serious Problem
Champaign, Ill.—(UP)—The peak load of veteran students has passed at the University of Illinois, but the housing shortages caused by the influx of veteran students hasn't eased off.
The housing situation is still as tight as it was last fall when a peak total of 11,500 veterans enrolled at the university.
All available space for single men and women students was filled before the school year started. Some of the women, who don't have to work, have taken "room and board" jobs merely to get a place to live.
With only 46 vacancies in the university housing area for married students, there were 499 applicants waiting for space.
21st Century Man Will See Our Life
Call K.U. 251 With Your News.
Minneapolis—(UP)—A detailed picture of present-day life in north central United States has been sealed in the cornerstone of the new Minneapolis Star and Tribune building.
Not to be opened until the year 2048, the cornerstone contains a stainless steel "century vault" crammed with pictures, documents and microfilms telling today's story of this section of America.
A highlight of the contents is the picture of a family chosen as typical of those who dwell in this region. Mr. and Mrs. Sigfred Nelson, a Fort Ripley, Minn., farm family, will give residents 100 years from now an idea of what rural life today is like.
Yet unborn sports fans will see shots of the University of Minnesota football squad in action, pictures of churches, farming operations and other phases that make the Northwest what it is.
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