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University Daily Kansan Friday, May 20.1960
Death on the Highway
If a city the size of Lawrence (estimated 33,000) was wiped out, it would be a national disaster deserving the largest headlines in newspapers all over the world. Within the past few years, more people than that have been killed from one cause—automobile accidents.
In 1958, 37,000 Americans were killed on the nation's highways. In our own state, 554 Kansans died, while in the neighboring state of Missouri 975 died in automobile accidents (National Safety Council figures for 1958).
Meanwhile the combination of better methods and improved materials give promise of the day when engineers and traffic experts will have done just about all they can in designing safety into the roads. Soon the only thing that won't be designed for safety will be the drivers.
We are prone to criticize road builders for the complicated cloverleafs and highway systems they offer the driver. In some metropolitan areas, inexperienced drivers find it a major task just to determine their destination from the maze of signs and markers. It seems that this situation finally has come to the notice of some safety engineers and a major step in eliminating highway confusion is being developed.
This major experiment is the development of multi-colored road surfaces. Dr. W. J. Sweeney, vice president of the Esso Research and Engineering Co., envisaged last week in Washington "interlocking highway arteries and clover leafs paved in various colors to define correct routes."
We can see it now as the motorist in Lawrence picks up his road map and reads this message:
"To get to Kansas City take the green road. If you wish to travel on to St. Louis, transfer to the red road at the first multi-colored intersection. A side trip to Joplin can be taken by getting on the amber red, and St. Joseph is at the end of the purple highway."
Of course, we realize that some markers will have to be retained for the many times during the winter months when Kansas roads are covered by several inches of snow, and it is difficult to tell just where the road is—much less determine its color.
Nevertheless, as silly as it may sound, the development of an improved system to take some of the guesswork and confusion out of driving should be a great boon to cutting down the yearly accident toll. Instead of the 1,350,000 nonfatal accidents listed in 1958, maybe the multi-colored highways can cut that down considerably. In spite of the tremendous cost of the new highways, it can't be much worse than the $3,700,000,000 estimated wage loss due to traffic accidents in 1958.
Dr. Sweeney says the use of thermo plastics and butyl rubber will make the new highways "all but indestructible." Constant improvements are being made in asphaltic type concretes and other highway construction materials.
— Rael F. Amos
Editor:
An Indian View
The people on campus must have been surprised about the sudden eruption of the Pakistani students on the arrival of India's ambassador Chagla in Lawrence for the University convocation recently. No doubt it is new for Americans to hear this sort of thing, but it is a normal attitude of Pakistan towards India. In my letter, I will try to give some answers to their charges against India, and in addition to this, I will bring out a few of the highlights of life in Pakistan.
Political Life in India and Pakistan
From 1947 to 1959, there have been at least twenty new governments in Pakistan. A few ex-prime ministers have been assassinated by stabbing and shooting, such as Liaquat Ali and Khan Sahib, and a few are still serving prison terms under the new military regime. But on the other hand, India has been able, in spite of all its difficulties, to set up a stable democracy under the guidance of educated and honest leaders like Nehru and Azad. This simple fact is an explanation of why these Pakistani friends are always on the defensive and consider it is their moral duty to spoil India's reputation by hook or crook and by false charges, just to hide their own gloomy condition.
Minorities in India and Pakistan
In all these letters, India has been accused of being unfair to its minorities. I am surprised that a man from the Holyland (Hollyland is the meaning of Pakistan in their language.) can say this. The appointments of ambassadors, federal ministers, judges, state ministers, prime ministers, and military officers in India from the minority community is itself proof of Indian treatment towards its minorities. There will be no trouble for minorities in India if they are left to live in peace by "Hollyland" people. For the last thirteen years, Pakistan has been trying its best to incite Indian Muslims to rebel against their country. Not only that, Pakistan has been trying to win the favor of the Middle East Muslim countries to fight a war against India, which they call a "Holy War." But unfortunately, they got the cold shoulder from Indian Muslims, as well as from leaders of high understanding, like Nasser. If the Muslims in India feel that full justice is not being done them, they are always welcome to move to the "Hollyland" for a better and more just life. What good is it to talk about a Hindu living a peaceful life in the "Hollyland"; even a Muslim of a different sect from the majority of the people is being treated miserably. For example, the mistreatment of the Ahmudias (a sect of Muslims) in Pakistan is well known to the world.
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The Food Question in India
Religion is important to everyone, but to be a fanatic on religion and to think everything in terms of religion should be left to a few priests and not to lay people, who often involve themselves in false religious slogans for their personal benefit. Moreover, religion is at least partly meant to spread brotherhood among people and not to spread hatred by terming other lands as unholy for a particular religion. It is ridiculous even to think so. The condition in Pakistan is exactly like the condition in prewar Germany under Hitler, who used religious slogans similar to those used in Pakistan today and played on the emotions of millions of Germans. By such tactics Pakistan may bring a similar catastrophe upon the world. I wish these people could learn to separate church and state. To work for the prosperity of only one religion is certainly a brutal, inhuman, and primitive idea. These friends of mine should learn a lesson from a great country like the U.S.A., where Protestants of West Virginia, for example, have whole-heartedly voted for Catholic Kennedy. This is the sign of healthy politics which Pakistan badly needs in order to get rid of its narrow-minded policies.
I admit that India is not self-sufficient in food at this time, but I hope that it will not be long, if India continues present development, before India solves this problem. Indians are not ashamed of buying grain from the U.S.A. This is only one aspect of international business, but I am pretty sure that had America not helped Pakistan (though the maladministration in Pakistan has disappointed American authorities) the country would have collapsed long ago.
I would rather see a man half-starved than living on the meat of sick, unhealthy, and rotten cows and buffaloes as in being done in Pakistan. This kind of meat, instead of solving our food problem, will create for us a medical problem. I am myself of the opinion that there is no harm in eating beef, but I am certainly against eating the kind of beef being sold in Pakistan.
Dilbagh Singh Bariana
Punjab, India. graduate student
Punjab, India, graduate student (Editor's note: This is the first part of a letter dealing with friction between India and Pakistan. The second will discuss the Kashmir problem, food shortages in the two countries and border disputes.)
"Papa?"
Formosa, so glowingly described in our press as the "bastion of freedom in the Far East," held an election for president recently, and here is what happened:
Free World Elections
Whenever a Communist country conducts an election, the American press has a field day deriding the absence of choice as the voters are handed ballots containing a single slate representing a single party. But our newspapers are usually busy looking the other way when much the same thing happens in a portion of what we are pleased to call "the free world."
2. The constitution was suspended for the day because the constitution of Nationalist China forbids a third term and Chiang already had two.
1. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek was the only candidate allowed on the ballot.
Anyone who doesn't see the difference between the free elections in Nationalist China and the rigged elections in Communist China is obviously a tool of the Kremlin.
3. Blank ballots — the only way electors could vote against Chiang — were thrown out as invalid.
4. More than 85 per cent of the people of the island are native Formosans (Taiwanese), but they were allotted only two per cent of the votes in the electoral college.
(Excerpted from the May, 1960 Progressive.)
Tactical Error
(ACP)—Duke University's CHRONICLE reports the plight of the graduate student faced with the opportunity to excell who encountered unexpected opposition.
The student, enrolled in a course under a prominent professor of military history, was permitted to lecture to his class.
As he was about to reach the climax of his lecture, he glanced up, and to his dismay discovered that his professor had fallen asleep.
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