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Summer Session Kensan
Tuesday, June 30, 1950
For a Safer Fourth
"Who, me?" many drivers ask. "I'm a good driver. I've never been in an accident. Collisions only happen to the other guy."
That's what they think.
Every statistic proves they, too, can be involved in an accident—because of an error by another driver.
With the Fourth of July at hand, now is a good time to stop and think: "It COULD happen to me."
Believe it or not, human error is by far the biggest single cause of accidents. Not slippery pavements, high-speed cars or driving rain storms.
Because millions of carefree motorists will be taking off on long-awaited jaunts over the Fourth of July weekend, safety consultants urge each and every driver to use extra care and caution on car-crowded streets and highways.
So you can help keep the highway accident toll down, here is a list of safe driving tips.
1. Before leaving home have your ear safety checked.
2. Start early, expect frequent delays and leave for home early, preferably during daylight hours.
3. Don't drive if drewee
3. Don't drive if drowsy.
5. Never pass a car on a bill or curve.
7. Keep a safe distance behind the car ahead.
6. Never cross a solid double line to pass another car.
4. Be extra cautious when driving on unfamiliar roads.
8. If you stop along the highway for a picnic or to sightsee, pull car completely off the road.
9. If children get out of hand, pull off the road and come to a complete stop before disciplining them.
10. If you drink alcoholic beverages don't drive.
Oregon's 100 Years
Oregon's 100th anniversary of statehood in 1959 recalls that this state set a record which has never been equaled. Within a year of its admission, one of its sons was given a place on a national presidential ticket.
In 1860, the year of Lincoln's first election, the Democrats split into two factions. The Northern group supported Lincoln's old rival, Stephen A. Douglas, and the South backed Vice President John C. Breckenridge. Breckenridge's running mate was James Lane of Oregon. Though the ticket was beaten, it polled more electoral votes than either of the other two opposition parties.
Early in this century Oregon was the talk of
the nation for its progressive legislation. The initiative and referendum, devices whereby the people could pass or defeat legislation by voting directly without the intercession of the legislature, were made famous by Oregon, and adopted by nearly 20 states. Oregon also worked out a method of electing senators directly, even before the Constitution was amended to make this the standard procedure.
Oregon ranks 32nd in population, but as the items mentioned above indicate it has contributed handsomely to the nation. On the occasion of its centennial, we salute the beaver state.
—Breese (Ill.) Journal
Daily Crossword
ACROSS
1 Elia — movie director.
2 One of the Ferrers.
10 Free of germs.
14 Part of the atmosphere.
15 Power behind the Nautilus.
16 Geraint's wife.
17 Useful fireplace devices.
18 San Francisco convention site 22 words.
22 catch up.
22 Former U.S. President.
23 Troublesome things.
24 Senitaura's name.
25 She lost her sheep.
28 Encourages.
31 Pile up.
3Craze.
33 “—— and order.”
34 Man's nickname.
3Forest.
3G Underground works.
37 Exclamation.
3V Very good person.
3Sioux Indian.
40 45th wedding anniversary gem.
42 Sign on thin ice.
43 Azores port.
44 Far-reaching.
45 More active.
47 Florida racing oval; 2 words.
51 Took a winding course.
53 Ghostly.
54 Drying oven.
55 Polio vaccine deviser.
56 Australian star runner.
57 Joy.
58 African tree.
59 Wild plums.
**DOWN**
1 Japanese harp.
2 Arm of the Black Sea.
3 Specified area.
4 Maddest.
5 Candles up.
6 Children's game.
7 Oklahoma Indian
8 Plant.
9 Insistent repetition.
10 Spanish name for jai alai.
11 Futile.
12 Staple food.
13 Tributary of the Fulda.
19 Main artery.
21 European high spot.
24 Senator from South Dakota.
25 Rum cakes.
27 City in Nebraska.
27 Rewording of a thought.
28 French river.
29 John ___
   Garner.
30 Pledge sacredly.
32 Dancer Shearer.
32 Cafe employe.
33 The "岛 City," of Canada.
38 Tatter.
39 Artist's media.
41 Grosse ___ Detroit suburb.
42 First name of a U.N. figure.
43 Distilled liquor.
45 City problem.
46 Chime.
47 Mark for omission: Print.
48 Cartoonist Peter.
49 Suffix denoting killing.
50 Lock openers.
52 Cheer.
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Prairie Dog Fading Away
WASHINGTON — The prairie dog, a sociable little ground squirrel that swarmed in astounding numbers over the Great Plains, is fading away.
At the turn of the century, one Texas "dogtown" covered 25,000 square miles and was home for perhaps 400 million of the cinnamon or buff rodents. Now only a few towns exist in fairly remote places, the National Geographic Society says.
Prairie dogs have been exterminated because they eat crops and compete with cattle for grass, although some experts believe the extent of their damage has been exaggerated. A Colorado zoologist is making a comprehensive study of the genus (Cynomys).
Prairie dogs are gregarious animals and usually live in colonies. A dogtown isn't one big, happy family, though. There are as many social groups as in a city of people. Each town is divided into small coteries whose members help each other build burrows, seratch one another's backs, playfully chase and fight friends, and identify kinsmen by touching mouths. They rush at outsiders with teeth chattering and tails raised.
A vital community warning system, however, crosses coterie boundaries. The familiar, shrill bark, which gave prairie dogs their misnomer, warns all of the approach of danger.
Mid-term grade reports will be replaced by six-week reports next year, according to the calendar committee. Apparently some faculty members felt they were waiting too long before giving the ax to those students who only stick around long enough to see the football season through.
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MEANS TO AN END, by John Rowan Wilson, Doubleday & Company.
Several years ago, with "Executive Suite," Cameron Hawley dug into a vein that has proved rich for him and many others, the heretofore unexplored theme of big business and corporate ethics. "Means to an End" is one of the newer books in this genre. It is extremely ordinary but absorbing throughout, good fare for hot summer days.
John Rowan Wilson's story is about Chris Marshall, a careless, casually rich young man who is a junior vice president in a large corporation (it makes transistors, or something like that; Wilson does not seem to feel that point is important). Because Marshall seems safe, the head of the corporation sends him to London, to direct affairs of the European market.
But our hero finds that all is not as it seems in the French office, where an underling goes berserk, tries to kill the boss, and then commits suicide. Something funny here, says our hero, so he goes in for some skulduggery himself, opens a letter that is not addressed to him, and finds that the French office is re-exporting the goods to the Soviet Union.
Now none of this can be found by reading the dust jacket, which stresses the fact that "the carpets were thick and pastel-shaded, the secretaries soft of voice, the doors closed automatically with a sigh, faint as the breath of a patient under heavy anesthesia." Wilson sees big business as being a jungle of predatory animals, where the fittest, in true Andrew Carnegie style, survive.
The title bears the crux of the story—"Means to an End." What is a man justified in doing to survive in business? If he sees dishonesty about him, is he justified in being dishonest to expose the evil? What means can he take to achieve what he believes to be a desirable end?
Chris Marshall, unlike the hero of "Executive Suite," who had both ability and integrity, has little of either. Marshall exposes evil in a mood of vengeance, because he himself has been badly treated by those at the top. In the climax, as he secures for himself the post of corporation boss, one wonders why. He had never been a good executive, he merely had the tools of blackmail in his hand, and these helped him on his way.
A confused moral tale, but, once again, absorbing. Like a Kraft or Playhouse 90 drama it holds your attention. You know it isn't much good, and you know about how it will end, but you want to know how, and you go along with the hero, even though you know that it will take more than Gregory Peck or Willian Holden to make Chris Marshall convincing if and when "Means to an End" reaches the silver screen.
MADAME BOVARY, by Gustave Flaubert. Bantam, 35 cents. THE RED AND THE BLACK, by Stendhal. Bantam, 75 cents.
Julien Sorel and Emma Bovary belong together, in a way. In a Henry James seminar we used to amuse ourselves by pairing off Christopher Newman of "The American" with Isabel Archer of "The Portrait of a Lady"—two others who deserved each other. But the consuming ambition of Julien Sorel of "The Red and the Black" and Emma Bovary of "Madame Bovary" might be too much. They would burn each other up. The stories of both are now available in Bantam Classics, the paperback editions. Each translation is new, each is by Lowell Bair; Malcolm Cowley offers a perceptive introduction to the Flaubert novel and Clifton Fadiman to the Stendhal. Each book is classed automatically among the great works of 19th century psychological realism, though the bedroom-ladder escapades of Julien are clearly in the tradition of romanticism. Students of literature take notice: here are two great books, in an edition all can afford.
—CMP
JOHNNY GOT HIS GUN, by Dalton Trumbo. Lyle Stuart, $3.95.
Joe Bonham comes to consciousness in a hospital after, or during World War I. Where, he does not know, nor can he know. He dimly perceives that he has lost a leg. Then he realizes it is two legs. Gradually the horror of his situation builds, for he has lost both arms. He cannot talk for his mouth is gone. He cannot smell—no nose. He cannot hear—no ears. He cannot see—no eyes. He is a stump being fed through the stomach. He cannot communicate; he has little sense of time. He is that one in a million, a medical miracle. He should be dead, and wants to be dead, and can do nothing about it. Trumbo's novel appeared on the eve of World War II, and was highly controversial. It still will be, but in a world that tampers with hydrogen bombs and fills the atmosphere with poison it perhaps should be read with more concern than even in 1939.—CMP
THE HISTORY OF EUROPEAN LIBERALISM, by Guido de Ruggiero. Beacon, $2.45.
The student in history or political science should find this famous study, now available in paperback reprint, of great value. De Ruggiero begins with the foundations of liberty, showing how liberalism could not exist in a society of aristocracy, monarchy and feudalism; traces its growth in the 17th and 18th century, its spiritual, "natural" and economic manifestations. A landmark was the French Rights of Man, which leaned heavily upon our Bill of Rights; other landmarks were the economic ideas of Smith, Malthus and Bentham; the Manchester school; the German romantics, notably Kant and Hegel. It is a thorough analysis that appears in a language that the unskilled layman easily can understand.—CMP