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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, MAY 19, 1948
The Editorial Page
Give The Kids A Chance
Every parent whose child rides a bike will want to take a look at the statistics on bicycle accidents recently totaled up by traffic authorities. Unless something is done about it, during the coming year more than 25,000 bicyclists—most of them children—will be killed or injured in street and highway accidents.
Ever since the coming of automobiles, bicycles have been tolerated somewhat grudgingly as hybrids in the vehicle family—a sort of cross between a pedestrian and a motor vehicle—with neither willing to accept them. Pedestrians don't want them on the sidewalks; motorists call them a nuisance and a danger on the streets. Where there are no proper regulations for their operation, cyclists ride to the right, to the left, through red lights, in and out between moving cars, and sometimes even travel afloat beside their bikes in crowded traffic.
Such a state of affairs is hair-raisingly dangerous. It is unfair to cyclists, motorists and pedestrians alike; for accidents are often caused by cyclists even though the bicycle itself may not be hit in the crash. But perhaps the worst damage of all is to character. Young people are encouraged in habits of recklessness and lack of respect for traffic laws, and this is the worst possible preparation for them as future citizens and car-owners.
Cure for this situation would seem to lie not in outlawing bicycles, but in giving them a respectable place in the traffic family. Every community should welcome a constructive program providing for enforcement of such traffic regulations as apply to bicycles and for their registration, licensing, and inspection.
Let's give the kids a chance!
A recent survey shows that the average reader of Newsweek earns $8300 a year. Quite a few University students are contemplating giving up college and becoming average Newsweek readers.
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There is something noble about the whistling of the law students. The oldest group on the hill are still giving it the old college try.
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Dear Editor
Clear Thinking
Dear Editor:
While eating at the Union cafeteria May 13, my eye fell upon one of several mimeographed articles conveniently placed at each table. The article concerned the recent third party crusade to which are attached, strangely enough, the lovers of peace and freedom, the warmengers, the honest liberals, and the pinkos, depending of course, from which side of the fence you choose to scream. I suppose one of our greatest American rights is to be able to shout our wares, good or bad, in the streets. What a good market can be found in our American colleges, where radicalism is rarely discouraged and where young minds can be so easily urged to climb on the bandwagon. Clear thinking, we can certainly use, but these confused harangues against our "tottering" democracy disguised as clear thinking, we can well do without.
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