UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1948
PAGE SIX
The Editorial Page
Let George Do It?
The army's new chief of staff, Gen. Omar Bradley, hasn't figured in the nation's news the past two years. He has been quietly ironing out GK affairs as head of the Veterans Administration. His new job assures him a top priority on the front pages of the newspapers. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's step-down speech took care of that.
General Eisenhower reminded General Bradley and all Americans that the U.S. army is deplorably undermanned. Considering America's responsibilities abroad, the army's present strength of 500,000 men sounds like peanuts. The army needs 100,000 recruits to meet its requirements.
The new chief of staff will have to do battle with an economy-minded Congress. The law-makers are apt to ask the army to get along with two pieces of equipment here where three are really needed. They'll suggest that two men there can do the duties of the three the army says it needs. Any soldier knows that the army fares best with congress when the bullets are flying. During peacetime our congressmen are inlined to roll up military appropriations like miserly string savers.
We, the public, will be busy making things tougher for General Bradley, too. It seems that Americans are "traditionally opposed to military conscription." We all agree that America needs to be strong, but when it comes right down to issues, we're found pointing at each other in a "let George do it" stance.
Yes, the general has a big task on his hands. His picture will be in all the newspapers. But the real question is whose pictures will be on all those draft cards, if there are any, and where is the money coming from to pay for them?
Men And Manners
Any pedestrian who has survived a day of mingling with the University multitude along the walks of Jayhawker drive might well wish several hundred thoughtless persons could view their daily breaches of common courtesy through the eyes of a candid camera.
Naturally the University's large population makes for cramped quarters everywhere—inside buildings and on the sidewalks. The mad rush to and fro is necessary because of scattered classrooms and limited time between classes.
No one expects to walk with or opposite a mass of humanity without brushing a shoulder occasionally. Conversely, no one should be expected to be brushed off a sidewalk, kicked in the shins, or decapitated by a hastily slammed door. At the current rate of disregard for fellow men, there should be safety zones for the weak and the halt.
Most common offenders are the "buddies" who must gallop cross-campus four to six abreast. These animated tanks cut a wide swath. To sidestep such a united front, one must take to the grass, gravel, snow, or mud alongside, only to collide head-on with others detouring for the same purpose.
Also monopolizing the sidewalk is the "lover-boy." This species is so intent on chivalry to its companion that it heedlessly assaults the passing parade with not so much as an "excuse please."
The "door-slammers", though, are technicians. Having reached a destination in questionable humor but
Jingles Jangle
The excuse "it's what the people want" has long been the byword of the radio for the plague of soap operas, singing commercials, and quiz programs that beset the listening public. This reason is largely an assumption. It behooves the nation's broadcasting systems to look about for ways to improve themselves. Instead of soap operas, why not dramatize some of America's better adult literature and present it serially? The same could be done with children's programs.
Instead of singing commercials, why can't radio advertising grow up and draw a little dignity about itself? The American public might be flattered if beseeched to buy by other than jarring jingles and words spelled backwards.
Radio might discover, it it experimented a bit, that soap operas may charm some American housewives, but that there is a large group who would appreciate a higher level of entertainment. At the most, there can be no plausible explanation as to why this group of listeners should be so sadly neglected. They buy soap, too.
still breathing, one advances under a feeling of false security until safely past the doorway. But to reach for a half-open door on the heels of a predecessor is stark deulsion. You can never make it. That split second of frustration is ample time for the excited crowd to carry you back down the steps where the encounter began.
At the present rate of deterioration, the future of human understanding appears lost if these citizens in training believe social graces are a tea-time must and a worktime nuisance.
Lyle Young
13th, 11:45 p.m.
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