UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, SEPT. 18, 1947
PAGE SIX
Aimed At Us
In the Lawrence police station there is a map spotted with red pins. This map of Lawrence has a pin for every accident here in the past year.
The pins are thickest in two areas. One area is that on Massachusetts between the Kaw river and 14th street.
The second area of thick pins points right straight at the University. This area is 14th street between Massachusetts and Oread street. The pins are especially thick around 14th and Kentucky and 14th and Tennessee.
This week Lawrence is sponsoring a traffic safety campaign, and promoters frequently hear it said that the campaign should be aimed at students attending the University.
Perhaps they are right. The row of red pins aimed directly at the heart of the campus says so in plain, cold terms.
A Few Yards To War
Just a few yards of earth often lie between war and peace.
The recent border quarrel between American troops and a Yugoslavian detachment near the Adriatic port of Trieste shows this with sickening clarity. "What might have been" parallels only too closely what often did happen during the war.
Then, a few acres of beach might cost the lives of a division. A pillbox might cost 100 men, a hilltop a thousand. In the Trieste affair, a few yards might have cost us a peace and millions of lives.
The story seems to be that the Yugoslav detachment tried to move into territory granted its government a few hours before the deadline set by the Italian peace treaty. American troops halted them and kept them off the territory. The American "good sense and tactful handling" of the situation was commended by the British commander of Trieste. He credited their action with keeping the incident from becoming a full-fledged border clash.
The incident shows where danger lies. We don't want war. Russia certainly must not—with the atomic bomb and her own war-ruined resources against her.
But careless handling of the countless clashes that will come up as long as our ways of life tangle in certain areas may lead to war as surely as a planned Pearl Harbor. Care, patience, and firmness must be used so that the crossing of a few yards of territory will not take us from peace to war.
Inflation plus — When United States troops first occupied Japan, the official money exchange rate was 15 yen to one dollar. We read in a recent dispatch that the official rate now is 50 yen to one dollar.
Mystery of the week - those big footprints leading to a certain West Hills sorority house and the little ones leading away.
School has really started. Those men with parking tickets are running around again.
The person who most often fails to live up to your expectations most likely is the one who is reading this paragraph.
Some inventor could make a fortune if he invented a women's purse with a zipper in the bottom. That's where everything is, anyway.
Death, taxes, and semester examinations, as to all men, cometh to each student one day. And the last, coming soon and inevitably, shall cause more gray hairs in January than those possessed by the old gray mare herself.
The Gospel Truth
And therefore let it be known to all the students that it is now that one must prepare and not the too short night before.
He who studieth, and takenth notes,
and listeneth well now will have no
need to burn midnight oil. He will
not run to his friends' houses and
ask for well-kept notes, only to be
turned away with "Get to—out of
here."
He will not need to memorize page after page of material, or to read the textbook for the first time. He will have no need to search frantically through the house quiz-files (and then learn next day he should have studied test A-2 instead of Z-1.)
He, having studied well, may turn out his light at 10 o'clock the "night before", leave the radio on, wrap himself in the drapery of boarding house liren, and lie down to pleasant dreams of an examination to which he knoweth the every answer ten times over.
A Good Wind?
Advance estimates indicate that Kansas will receive 933 million dollars from its grain alone this year. This is half again as much as the 618 million the state grossed for all its crop products in 1946.
Why the increase? Some answers are easily seen. The tremendous wheat crop this summer, and the fact that the dollar in your pocket buys less this year than it did last all figure in the answer.
But other things do, too. There was the bad weather, then drought in Western Europe this summer. The Iron Curtain shut off wheat imports from Eastern Europe.
All this and the world-wide need for grain, which will take all we wish to sell at the prices we ask. Add to this the shortage of purchasing power outside this country, and the answer takes form.
The shortage of meat in the United States forms part of this answer. The poor prospect for corn this fall sets off a vicious cycle of less grain, less meat, and higher prices.
Paradoxically enough, this scarceness of corn has forced up its price.
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Non-League Games
Our athletic department has goofed up at times, but never so bad as this year. Here's two big reasons I say so.
Dear Editor ----ample supply would be kept for University students.
ONE. With prospects for the greatest football team in University history, our athletic department gets chicken-hearted, decides to line up an easy schedule of non-league games so that an impressive wont-lost record can be made, and forgets about trying to give the patrons the best games possible. I notice we dropped Tulsa (56-0, remember?).
Nebraska has put us to shame. I admire them for scheduling Minnesota, Indiana, and Notre Dame, knowing they have a good chance of losing to all of them. At the same time, Kansas will be playing South Dakota State and Arizona.
Dear Editor,
The home schedule this year is miserably weak — South Dakota State, Iowa State, Kansas State, and Missouri. The only good game in the bunch is Missouri.
TWO. Stingy enough not to allow activity books to the game, the athletic department does not even have enough respect for the many faithful football followers here at Kansas University to save tickets to the Texas Christian game for those who want to go. Any student who didn't arrive on the campus until Tuesday to enroll found the ticket supply exhausted. Tickets were open to the public in Kansas City, but no thought was given to make sure an
Kansas will make more from this year's poor corn crop than it did from last year's much better harvest.
It looks right off hand as if Kansas is making good out of the ill wind blowing against the rest of the world. But this wind will soon chill our own backs in the form of higher living costs.
What's the answer, athletic department? If Nebraska can schedule good games, why can't we? And how about this TCU ticket deal?
Name withheld by request, Business senior.
Editor's Note. Oklahoma A. and M., Texas Christian University, and Denver are also on our list of nonleague games. At least two of these are considered strong, nationally-known teams.
The athletic department said today that ticket sales in Kansas City (which began Sept. 9) were for end zone seats only. The department had no way of knowing how many tickets University students would require, and could only estimate as to how many to hold back.
James Liddy, Watertown, N. Y., made the first coil bedsprings in the middle 19th century with coils from the seat of a buggy.
Public Post Card
WEATHERMAN
UP ABOVE
Dear Friend,
We know it is September. But couldn't you decide whether it's going to be cold or hot or sultry or what?
Undecidedly yours Daily Kansan
The University of Kansa
Christian Fellowship
Invites You
To Their
First Meeting
Sept. 25, 1947
7:00-8:00 p.m.
MYERS HALL
1300 Oread
Here's Important Fashion News in Sweaters
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