UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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MAY 20,1946
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Student Newspaper of the UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Member of the Kansas Press Association, National Editorial Association, and the
Association Represented by the National Advertising Service, 420 Madison Ave. New York City.
Mail subscription: $3 a semester, $4.50 a year plus 2% tax (in Lawrence add $1 a semester postage). Published in Lawrence, Kan., every afternoon during the school year except Saturday and Sundays, University holidays, and examination periods. Registered classmaster Sept. 17, 19, 10 at the Post Office at Lawrence, Kan., undeck act of March 3, 1879.
NEWS STAFF
Managing Editor ... Patricia Penney
Asst. Managing Editor ... Bill Hage
Takeover ... Chad Chen
Graphic Editor ... Jane Anderson
City Editor ... Marian Thomson
Sports Editor ... Bill Sims
Society Editor ... Martha Jewett
Staff Artist ... Richard Bibler
Editor-in-Chief  LeMoyne Frederick
Editorial Associate  John Conard
Billie M. Hamilton Grace Mullenberg
Cities and Places
Business Manager - Virginia Van Order Advertising Manager - Anne Scott
Marcella Stewart  Reverdy Mullers, J.
State Editor  Alamada Bollier
Eleanor Thompson
Assistant (for less繁琐)
Circulation Manager Anne Young
Promotion Manager Anne Young
Automobiles: No.1 Killers
This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the automobile industry. Since 1895, when there were four registered cars in the nation, the industry has made great strides. In 1941, the last normal production year before the war, 3,744,300 cars and trucks came off the assembly line.
Through those years little has been spared to develop cars that would give the American driver more pleasure, convenience, and speed. The automobile has become as commonplace in our life as the kitchen sink. But, as has been the case of other social benefits, we have carelessly lost sight of its true value and turned it into an agent of destruction.
In 1945 we killed more people on our highways than were slain on the war's battlefields. We are well on our way toward exceeding that goal in 1945; an ironic manner of celebrating the automobile's fiftieth birthday. Statistics tells us that to be most likely to avoid an accident, one should drive in the North Atlantic states, in a city with a population of more than 10,000. To be even safer, make the journey before 5 p.m. on Tuesday or Wednesday in a car at least two years old. The driver should be between 45 and 55 years old.
Figures show that deaths in the North Atlantic states are 18 per 100,000 persons, or 9 per 100 million miles. Twice as many are killed in rural areas as in cities, and twice as many accidents occur on Saturday and Sunday as on Tuesday and Wednesday. The other three days of the week show 20 to 30 per cent more accidents than the average.
Aparently bad weather is a minor factor, since 85 per cent of the accidents occur on clear or cloudy days. Mechanical failure of the automobile accounts for only 5 per cent.
Although few figures are available for the age of the car, the new ones, less than two years old, have been in most of the accidents reported. The age of the driver is more important; those under 20 have had three times as many accidents as the drivers between 45 and 55. Absolute speed seems to have little correlation, but relative speed for conditions is an important factor in accidents.
Two-fifths of all persons killed by automobile mishaps are pedestrians. If war is useless slaughter, surely there is even less to be gained when a family climbs gaily into a car bound for a picnic and ends up badly mutilated corpses along the road.
Safety program campaigns such as the Green Cross in Kansas City are being sponsored as civic projects throughout the country. A great deal can be accomplished by backing such plans to make the people accident-conscious.
Much more can be done by teaching persons how to drive, by enacting and enforcing laws requiring the passing of mental and physical tests before a driver's license is issued, and by removing hazards from roads.
After fifty years, it is time drivers were beginning to take some responsibility for their actions—A.B.
A Course In Marriage
A course of three talks on love and marriage is being presented at the Union building under the sponsorship of the Y.M.C.A. and the Y.W.C.A.
This is a commendable project. The war through which we have just passed has had an adverse effect on the social relations of the nation. Our social structure is in dire need of stabilization.
The institution of the family has lost its true meaning to many people during the trying war years. Not only the shockingly high divorce rate but also the wide-spread growth of juvenile delinquency mirror this condition.
The college-age youth of today and those who will follow must restore marriage and the family to a high place in our social institutions.
The University of California has had such a course for six years, and it has proved an unqualified success. This year's class numbered 600. The course is conducted mainly on a question and answer basis and no phase of sex and marriage is ignored.
There are some who will question the value of such a frank discussion of subjects that have always been of a hush-hush nature.
This is not because today's youth have greater immoral tendencies than former generations, but it is largely due to changing social conditions that have altered our mores. Life has become more complex; modern society creates many problems and tensions that demand a firmer devotion to high morals and the real values of life than ever before.
It is true that love and marriage are largely matters of personal adjustment but what is too often forgotten is that social relations have undergone great changes. Some of these changes have caused us to lose our sense of real values.
When a love and marriage course was suggested at the University of California, the students were asked to express their opinions on the proposal. They voted it into the curriculum by an overwhelming majority.
A similar course at K.U. could be of great value in producing citizens of the highest moral and social standard, citizens that would help restore a stability to our society.
-From the St. Louis Star-Times
Second Place: Post-War Problems Speech Contest
A Larger, Better-Paid Faculty Is Important K. U. Problem
By FREDERIC THOMAS
K. U. lost 85 members of its faculty to the service of their country. Of this number 35 were on military leave, from which two-thirds have returned. But of the remaining 50, less than 8 per cent have returned.
Our state legislature meets next January, February, and March. What kind of an appropriation will
Where will we get them? What will we pay them? Where will we get the funds to pay them? These are questions of great importance to the University today.
Why haven't they come back? The answer is that there is no incentive to return to a university where the wage scale is so much lower than in other universities and in most branches of business and industry.
We are expecting a maximum enrollment of 6,800 students here next fall. There are 5,200 here at present. We will need at least 100 more teachers to supply adequate instruction for that expected enrollment.
It is true that there is a shortage of teachers throughout the nation but the chief reason that K.U. is faced with this problem is our low salary scale.
we get? Will it be the same as we have received in the past 15 years, one that gives K.U. the "Oscar" for the lowest salary scale in the mid-west?
The only way that this University can continue to produce leaders in all of its different fields is to retain its present well-qualified faculty and secure new faculty members to lighten the already heavy load on our present staff.
Our present administration has been fighting a losing battle with the state legislature because it has had insufficient help from our Board of Regents, our legislators, and the people.
It is also the duty of our governor to review the tax appropriations and appropriations for our educational institutions in the state. Why can we not put our finger on him to emphasize this important need?
It is up to all of us: students, faculty, Board of Regents, and administration to put on an all-out effort to raise the level of K.U. faculty salaries and to get additional funds to add to our staff.
If we succeed in doing this, in getting an adequate appropriation from the state legislature, we can gladly relinquish the "Oscar" we now have for underpaying our educators.
Berlin Keeps Reputation Of 'Suicide City'
Berlin. (UP)—Berlin, long known as a city of suicides, is maintaining its reputation.
Nearly 350 Germans have taken their own lives by various means so far this year, and authorities fear a sharp increase in the suicide rate when diminishing supplies force the occupation authorities to impose a food ration cut.
Police reported 187 suicides in January, but only 46 in February. Authorities do not consider these figures particularly alarming in comparison with the 1938 records which show that even before the war an average of 175 Berliners took their own lives.
From August through December last year, 927 suicides were record-
over the same five months, an increase over the same five months, in 838 when 888 suicides were reported.
Compared with other European
nations, Germany's suicide rate has always been considered high. Psychiatrists believe the explanation lies in the fact most Germans become dependent easily and are acutely sensitive to economic and political reversals.
Hanging is the most popular method of committing suicide, police records reveal. Other victims take poison, cut their throats or wrists and hurl themselves in front of onrushing underground trains.
Records show that an average of one person daily meets a quick death by jumping in front of an approaching subway train in the British sector of Berlin.
Although a suicide wave was predicted last fall when natural gas was restored, few "gas" victims have been reported.
Letters to the Editor
To the Daily Kansan: I'm connection with the recent letter in the Kansan about the spring student election, I would like to add one more blob of mud to the K.U. electioneering mound.
Sophomore Agrees With Student Election Criticisms
When I went to vote, the official found my name in the directory, and lo-and-behold it was already marked out. Since my activity ticket had not been punched, I was allowed to vote but when the ballots were counted and checked, one of them must have been voided, but which one?
As for the election officials whom Miss Macfarlane mentioned in her letter, they registered amusement, if anything, when the duplicity of my vote was discovered. No one looked my ballot over though probably because I stood by and watched until it was deposited in the ballot box.
One isolated case could have been due to a mistake, but when several others, also independents, and at least one of them with the same last initial as mine had the same experience, there could be some healthy termites among the rotting planks of discarded party platforms.
Some of our party members aren't showing much basis for being en-trusted with student government.
NANCY JACK
College Sophomore
Arkansas City Has Committee To Handle Rent Complaints
Arkansas City. (UP)—Establishment of a three-man committee to handle rent complaints was announced today by the local American War Dads chapter as an alternative to demanding ORA control
Members of the new committee. C. D. Grant, C. M. Quinn and Mayor George Wylie will receive written complaints, conduct investigations, call an landlords, reach decisions on possible excessive rent cases and ask voluntary adjustments in cases which seem out of line. If adjustments are refused, cases will be referred to the OPA for action, Grant said.
The death rate for all diseases in the army, including overseas forces, has been reduced from 14.1 a thousand in the last war to 0.8 a thousand in this war.
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