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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MARCH 21.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Student Newspaper of the UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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Slow----Student Crossing
The University has one record it would be regrettable to break.
That record is in campus traffic safety. Despite the congestion on the Hill, there has never been a major auto accident on the campus.
But this is definitely not the time to rest on our laurels. This semester's record enrollment and record number of cars driven by students makes it only a matter of common sense to exercise more caution than ever.
The traffic rules are simple and impart little or no inconvenience on anyone:
Don't drive more than 20 miles an hour on the campus.
Use special care during congested periods between classes.
Don't run, stop signs.
Don't run stop signs.
Don't ride on running boards or fenders of cars.
Park only in zones of your parking permit.
Cross streets only at intersections.
The University needs at least two traffic officers to back up these regulations—officers who not only police parking zones but who also enforce the no speeding rules on the campus and keep students from jaywalking and jayriding.
The administration has been considering a motorcycle patrolman for the campus for some time. In the interest of the safety of the student body, we call the question. Let's stop "considering" and find a man for the job.
Prohibiting parked cars on either side of University drive has helped relieve congested traffic conditions. It has, however, created an added parking problem for student car owners who are often tempted to line the drive in spite of ensuing red tickets.
A sane student attitude backed by these co-operative measures on the part of the University administration can prevent the danger of automobile accidents on the campus.
Providing more parking space would undoubtedly present difficulties. But taking into consideration the reward for clearing University drive to provide a safe thoroughfare, no difficulty should seem too great.
Neither the development of this attitude nor the execution of the University's part in the traffic program should be postponed.
"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure" may be an old-fashioned axiom, but it's the only rule to follow to preserve our safety record—LF.
Walter Winchell states he has in his possession a thick, handsomely-bound book which Fritz Kuhn delivered to Adolf Hitler shortly before the war. It contains the names in their own handwriting of thousands of Americans pledging their support to Hitler. He says he hesitates to turn it over to authorities in Washington for fear they will muff proper action. We hope Winchell hasn't muffed doubling his bodyguard.
Where's the Big Stick?
Today there is no section of the world without at least one trouble spot. Just how many of these will become real threats to world peace and security remain to be seen. The Soviet-Iranian situation has already reached the stage that responsible persons term "grave."
With such an unsettled world about us, people are rightfully asking, "What can the young and immature U.N.O. do to effect peaceful settlements of these difficulties?" And even more important, "What can be done if peaceful measures fail?"
The answer to that second question can be given only in vague terms for it seems the U.N.O. security council has failed thus far in one of its paramount duties.
A military force at the disposal of the U.N.O. is to provide the "big stick" that the league of nations did not have. In its first 36-day meeting little or nothing was done to provide that world police force.
The U.N.O. charter states that all member nations are to contribute to that armed force. Article 43 states that, "The agreement or agreements (concerning the amount of each member's military contribution) shall be negotiated as soon as possible on the initiative of the security council." To date these agreements have not been started.
The charter further states that these agreements "... shall be subject to ratification by the signatory states in accordance with their constitutional processes." It will take time to negotiate 51 agreements and get their ratification. If only for that reason, this problem should have received priority consideration at the London U.N.O. session.
But even more important is the question of just how soon that military force may be needed. Regardless of how much we hope that military measures will not be needed to block another war, we cannot assume that such will be the case.
The world is beset with much unrest and no one can say when or even whether any of that unrest might become a direct threat to international peace and security.
There is only one thing to do and that is to be prepared as outlined in the U.N.O. charter. Concrete action to provide the "big stick" to maintain peace should be high on the agenda when the security council holds its next meeting in New York March 25.
To neglect this need any longer will only invite serious trouble and can only be viewed as a failure by the security council to realize fully and fulfill its responsibilities.-LF.
With many officials painting a gloomy national economic picture, Bernard Baruch has said that the U.S. will embark on five or six years of real prosperity beginning in about six weeks. But, Mr. Baruch, will that be another war prosperity?
Students Risk Lives on Campus Thoroughfare
These two students made it across the busy intersection by Bailey chem lab. But student luck won't last forever. Added awareness of traffic dangers plus University measures to insure safety are necessary if the Hill's traffic record is to remain spotless.
★ Letters to the Editor
'Let Townspeople Pay Activity Fee'—Miller
To the Daily Kansan: The athletic ticket office could stand a wholesale shake-up and rejuvenation. "Quig" is doing wonders for the future of KU. athletics, but that won't help unless the chaos in the ticket office is cleared up.
The recent sale of K.U.-Aggie tickets was a classic example of pack-off efficiency. Our pack-off game in earnest would have been laid for an efficient sale
As it was, some of the first in line for $2 reservations will end up in the rafters with their opera glasses. Some of the elite, no doubt, did not have to experience this inconvenience.
Every sale is the same thing. Basketball season ticket reservations for this year were handled the same way.
The activity fee is compulsory, but if the choice of tickets is to go to ownpeople and alums, then remove the compulsory aspect of activity tickets.
WARREN DENNIS MILLER
Engineering sophomore.
Six thousand students will want to attend basketball games next winter. How many will be turned down so the elite can be there? Hell, let them pay the compulsory activity fee.
WARREN DENNIS MILLER
Let's make student athletics for the students-if not, pay the athletes and call it professional.
EM Were as Ambitious As Officers, Ex-Sergeant S
To the Daily Kansan: I am writing in response to the ex-officio who is of the opinion that "officers garb was available to the ambitious" and nearly "any G.I. could be an officer if he so desired."
I do not hold a grudge against officers in general, nor feel inferior to them because of their exhalted rank.
I. as any normal human being, like to respect a man for what he is and not the brass he wears on his shoulder.
I have met and served under officers who were really men and lived up to their role as gentlemen and soldiers, and I have worked with EM that were truly as fine as men come. I have worked under and with officers and EM alike who were downright worthless.
And—to the point-I have known EM with as much ambition, mental and physical capacities, and as much desire for a commission as any man fortunate enough to attain one.
To you personally—perhaps you can understand, too, as ex-officer Mr. Corliss (Daily Kansan March 5) the reason for the enlisted man's contempt for some officers by taking a good look at the attitude reflected in your letter.
EX-SERGEANT
Rock Chalk
By BUNNY LAWLER
Money-making proposition. Dining is becoming an expensive petime at the Pi Phi house, Jane Clespie, Sara Jayne Scott, Carol Campbell, and Joan Woodward be set up an intricate system of for offenses such as eating one's bread, drinking water one's meals, using salt on one's pots. As yet no appreciable difference can be seen in the girls' respective fixtures, but the fund is assuming tremendous proportions.
Sit right down. Which would you prefer, a lap or a chair? Phi Psi have both, especially at women intramural swimming meets. A were amazed when the entire Phi Psi chapter marched in to see thbathing beauties, especially the bathing beauties themselves, all of wher ran for the nearest towel. But thbiggest surprise of the evening campwhen Ken Bellamy proffered his oh so-comfortable lap to Jean Ketzler, Chi O. Ketz took him up on it, until some other Psi, taking pity on the both of them, found her a chair.
Eager? And speaking of the swimming meet, don't ever say Regina McGeorge, Chi O, and Pat Billings Pi Phi, aren't eager. Maybe they were just anxious to hide those lovely suits in the aqua depths, but everytime the starter called "Get set!" Gina and Pat fell in the pool. After the third time, the girls restrained themselves and the race began.
Something for 31. Bob Stewart, Kansas City medic (Nu Sig and Sigma Nu) and Hanna Hendrick Kappa, were among the select few who beat the ticket problem at the K.U.-Aggie game. Arriving just before the tip-off, they climbed up to row "Z" only to find that in seats four and five was a large movie projector. Beset by others who were in the wrong places and nearly at his wits end, the usher finally sent the two down on the floor. There, for one dollar, they saw the battle from the first row.
Lewis and Clark were the first pathfinders to mark out a way from St. Louis to the mouth of the Columbia river.
Look Out!
From the St. Louis Star-Times