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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, OCT. 2, 1947
ALL'S WELL - at - 8th and Vermont
Signs Ought To Help Safety
Are the city officials and policemen in Lawrence really sincere about cutting down accidents? Do they consider sticking up stop signs here and there and arresting a few offenders the answer to the problem?
For instance, the police can look out the police window every day at the corner of Vermont and Eighth streets. With no stop signs or traffic light, this corner, just one block from the busiest part of the Lawrence business district, perplexes even the most cautious motorist. This setting for scraped fenders, squealing brakes, and injury to life and limb is right under their noses. But nothing is done about it.
No stop signs there. But elsewhere, Lawrence seems full of them. Many of them are necessary, but the way some are placed is a puzzle. An example is Tenth street. It has a stop here sign where it crosses Indiana street. Yet just across the hill where it crosses Ohio, for some unapparent reason, Tenth street has the right-of-way. Although they parallel on opposite sides of the hill, Indiana street is protected, while Ohio street is cut by a little-use street.
Going south on Massachusetts street, you run right into the stoplight at 19th street without any warning sign of any kind. There is a sign on the same street for north bound traffic, however. Why the distinction? Cars frequently drive right into the stoplight intersection, endangering traffic and pedestrians because they do not know there is a light ahead, or because the warning is not large enough to catch their attention.
Let those in the Lawrence city government who really want to do some good take a look at the corner of Massachusetts and 19th streets. Here is an intersection near a high school, a grade school, and the University. Yet traffic coming down the Hill must travel on a miserably rough and narrow street, and then try to pull into the stream of traffic
from a practically, blind corner.
Although a policeman is usually stationed at the corner during the school traffic hours, this does not take care of the traffic which constantly moves down 14th street and tries to get into the highway traffic on Massachusetts. A stop light is clearly needed to cut down the chance for serious accidents and to make driving more convenient for all concerned.
Will something be done about this by city officials? Or will tragedy have to take place at every one of these places to convince those in authority that action is needed?
When will Lawrence wake up and really become a "city of the first class"?
The city of Baltimore, Md., was first settled in 1662,first given legislative recognition in 1729,and chartered as a city in 1796.
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Dear Editor
We "high school playboys" got quite a chuckle out of Cyrus Simmon's lament. In fact, we've been looking for him to dry up and blow away any day now.
While "poor Cyrus" presumably had to slave away in an old hot classroom, this "playboy" played around all summer in the harvest fields and on pipelines. How does Cyrus think the playbys pay for their beer when they're "meeting the boys at the local beer spigot?" You guessed it, we found a pot o' gold. Yeh!
'Play Boy' Answers
Dear Editor,
According to Cyrus, the "swarms of high school playboys and bobby-sockers are taking over the campus as if they were playing a game." Man, life is too short to be serious all the time. Read the Sept. 22 issue of the Daily Kansan which says on page five, "The grim, serious faces of most college students today have some college educators worried. They have never seen anything like it."
Too many of us have seen our brothers, cousins, or uncles march away to war never to return. Perhaps we may have to go sometime in the future. In the meantime we want to enjoy life. Can you blame us?
Gene Cooper, College freshman.
Cyrus, we playboys would be glad to compare grades with you at midterm.
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