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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, APRIL 30, 1948
The Editorial Page
Walk Safely
Have pedestrians any rights? The annual toll of some 12,000 pedestrians killed in traffic accidents throughout the country seems to raise the question of whether an individual's right to stand—and walk still exists in an increasingly motorized age.
The answer to that question can be found in current reports by safety specialists on the causes of fatal pedestrian accidents. Three out of every four pedestrians killed were themselves violating a traffic law or committing an unsafe act, by jay-walking, crossing against signals, coming out from behind parked cars or doing something equally foolish. Three out of four were presuming upon a right to walk when and where they wished, in utter defiance of safety considerations. Losing one's life is a very high price to pay for the right to walk carelessly.
In addition to the thousands of pedestrians killed, many thousands more were injured—of whom a third were crippled for life—while unknown thousands escaped accident by the skin of their teeth and continued to take chances.
Society does not concede the right to be killed or mained by one's own foolish acts. There is a moral obligation upon us all to personally use every known safety means, and for those who simply will not, there must be enforcement by law.
It has been clearly proved that the only way pedestrians and automobiles can exist together safely is by having strict regulations for the protection and control of both. By crossing traffic where directed, when directed and as directed, pedestrians will have given up the questionable privilege of matching wits with speeding autos. But let us hope they will have gained the right to live.
Tip For All
Dear Editor:
Here is a tip for all C.O.R.E. members and every other human on this earth.
Booker T. Washington, who was born into slavery and rose to heights reached by few as a scientist educator, said this of his people and their fight for racial equality:
"The wisest among my race understand that the agitation of questions of social equality is the ex-
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tremest folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all the privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than of artificial forcing. No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized."
The C.O.R.E. should recognize that their sensational approach to the solution of their cause is only a selfish, childish, thirst for publicity by their own members and is doing more harm than good for an unfortunate circumstance that could be overcome with hard work and sincerity.
Name withheld by request.
To break your dog of the habit of jumping in greeting, hold his front paws and walk him backwards for a few steps.
Just another warning to Daily Kansan contributors. Some of the letters are entirely too long. In the future, such letters must be limited to 200 words and are subject to cutting.-Editor.
Dear Editor
Correction?
I would like to correct an error in the United Press dispatch in last Friday's Daily Kansan concerning the dispersal of striking C.I.O. packinghouse workers by 70 Kansas City, Kansas policemen. The article reads as follows: Captain Dahlin later said the hall was piled with "weapons," including sawed-off billiard cues, rocks, chunks of iron, and other obstacles of "throwing size."
Dear Editor:
This pile of weapons actually consisted of the following six items: a sawed-off billiard cue, a billy club, a broomstick with a bent nail in one end, a large iron bolt, a wooden mallet, and a three-foot stick.
Dewey Radcliff College junior
How do you know this to be true, Mr. Radcliff, because the Kansas City Star said so?— Editor.
Pity The Umpire
Dear Editor:
I happen to be one of those fellows who a large majority of the student body affectionately refer to as blind, stupid, conniving, cheating, underworked, and over-paid peons. In other words, an umpire.
I take my share of the insults and guff that officials have been justly and unjustly subjected to since the beginning of organized athletics so I am inclined to feel sorry for anyone who falls a victim of the public's wrath. I noted with a grain of sympathy the fate of your sports staff concerning the coverage of intramural games. I was all on your side until I came actress one part of Mr. Zeh's rebuttal that changed my mind. It was this, "If someone clouted the umpire with a Louisville Slugger we might feature that."
You, sir, have placed my life in jeopardy. If the feeling is as keen
Newsman Inspects Campus
Announcing the opening of a new exclusive camera shop at 1107 Massachusetts Street, opposite the Court House.
You are cordially invited to visit our new store on opening day, Saturday, May 1, from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.
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W. Lowrie Kay, chief of the central news bureau of the Christian Science Monitor in Chicago, visited the University Wednesday.
Mr. Kay in touring Kansas and Oklahoma is particularly interested in crop conditions, soil conservation and flood control works.
RUSS MOSSER
ART WOLF
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as it seems to be, then the intramural office will be forced to provide all officials with helmet, steel, M-I. I would hate to think that my skull is going to be a constant source of news for some quick tempered slugger.
Mosser - Wolf's
Please, Mr. Zeh, be careful of what you put in the mind of some publicity-conscious ball player.
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International Relations Club Elects Marvin Martin
The International Relations club recently elected Marvin Martin, president; Glenn Varenhorst, vice-president; Diane Stryker, secretary; and Michael Alt, treasurer.
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