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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, MAY 5, 1948
The Editorial Page
High Stakes
It is hard to imagine a gambler so desperate to win a very small prize that he would stake his own life, his family's, or some other person's.
Unfortunately, it is not at all hard to imagine a motorist doing the same thing on the highway. Reckless passing, the worst kind of gambling, causes 49,000 accidents a year in which someone is killed or injured. That is a lot too much gambling with life, and it does not include the thousands of chance-takers who have won the toss so far. Unless they mend their ways, and soon, they or their victims will be next year's statistics.
The psychology of improper passing seems to be a blind optimism on the part of the driver that nothing is coming around the curve or over the hill to catch him while he is on the wrong side of the road. The fact that he has no possible knowledge of whether or not the way is clear—no second sight, no X-ray eye, and no radar equipment to guide him—does not enter into his calculations at all. He is tired of poking along in line, it makes him feel superior to the other fellow to go whizzing past, and he feels pretty smug when he makes it safely. "Smart driving," he tells himself, "knew nothing was coming!"
What if he fails? Have you ever seen a bad accident? Do you remember the grinding of metal, the shattering glass, the screaming passengers, the blazing gas and oil, the blood on the highway?
Don't gamble with lives!
Dr. William C. Menninger of the Meningerian clinic has written a new book called "The Psychiatrist in a Troubled World." One wonders if the psychiatrists have any more troubles than the average citizen.
At the student-faculty conference a student who believed that freshmen at enrollment time should have plenty of help and advice admitted that she had been allowed to take 20 hours her first semester and had hardly recovered from it yet.
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Serious Doubt
Mr. Forrest A. Smith
We appreciate your fine, sympathetic understanding of the racial problem here on the hill, Mr. Smith. We think your attitude is most admirable. But somehow we can'quite comprehend how anyone can want "equal opportunity, equal education, and equal rights under the law" yet preach social segregation. We can't see how we can have one without the other. In other words, Mr. Smith, we don't know what you want.
Lawrence L. Kennedy
College junior
Albert G. Moffat
College senior
Dear Editor
Coal was discovered in Illinois by early explorers in 1673.
Dear Editor:
Many Thanks
On behalf of the faculty members and the boys and girls of the seventh grade class of Kensington school, Kansas City, Mo., we wish to express our appreciation of the cordial hospitality shown us by the department members who gave us such interesting demonstrations when we visited their buildings.
The boys and girls will long remember the lovely luncheon prepared by the cafeteria staff as well as the other courtesies extended to them.
Due to the careful planning of Miss Margaret Habein, dean of women, and the Jay James, Mary Lynn Trousdale, and Hortense Bedell, our trip was made both profitable and enjoyable.
- Please accept this expression of thanks for a wonderful day on the K.U. campus.
Mary J. Burke, principal
Lenore Peery
Beatrice Jourdan
Still More Names
Dear Editor:
More names for the resolution which appeared in the April 21 issue of the daily Kansan:
More names for t. which appeared in the sue of the daily Kansan:
D. L. Chamberlain
H. Leon Bradlow
Aaron Feldstein
Thomas Bean
Robert R. Russell
August Sweenbjornsson
Albert Lindenstruth
Harvey S. Sadow
Harry J. Christoffers
Richard M. Wallace
Dick Ferm
Jack Ryan
Arthur F. Helin
Dorothea Chamberlain
John Tilghman
A recent high court decision adjudged that income derived from embezzlement is not taxable. This must have brought sunshine into the life of all those former bank clerks who are now residing at Leavenworth.
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Dr. Hall Talks To Phi Sigma
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Specimen collecting on expeditions in Mexico and southern parts of the United States was the subject of a talk by Dr. E.R. Hall to Phi Sigma, biology society, Monday.
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Dr. Hall, a professor of zoology, described specimens which have been collected for the Museum of Natural History.
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