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University Daily Kansan Monday, Feb. 18, 1957
What's Important—
When you glance at a new car advertisement, what features of the car are usually stressed? If it is the average advertisement, it will stress such things as the smooth ride, ease in handling, power, compression-ratio, superchargers and above all horsepower. But less than 1 ad in 10 mentions the safety features and not one stresses these features.
Safety Or Speed Apparatus?
Statistics say no. In a National Safety Council study of 685,000 accidents during a one-year period, it was revealed that 87 per cent of these accidents occurred at 40 m.p.h or less. Even on the western part of the Pennsylvania Turnpike, where the speed limit is 70 m.p.h., 75 per cent of the accidents involved cars traveling at 50 m.p.h. or less
Yet every day in this country more than 50 persons are killed as the result of auto accidents, and many others are injured. Is excessive speed entirely to blame?
These figures indicate clearly that speed is not the big factor in causing accident injuries and fatalities. A safety writer states that most cars can kill passengers at 35 m.p.h., or bash in their faces in a mere panic-breaking operation. What, then, is the cause of bad injuries and fatalities in comparatively low speed accidents?
The blame seems to lie in the car design.
Some of the 1957 models still have hazardous knobs on the panels, sharp edges on some accessories under the seat, unsafe arrangement of door handles and window cranks and continued lack of center posts in four-door hardtops. Even in some of the higher-priced cars there are such shin-crushers as record players, heater casings and sharp heater panels.
Still nearly all automobile designers fail to put much emphasis on safety features. A couple of companies have initiated crash research to help in safety advances, but few of the others seem very enthusiastic about following suit.
Until the public shows enough interest in safety to make it a selling point, most car manufacturers aren't going to make any unnecessary effort to improve safety features as they need improved.
Are car manufacturers entirely to blame for this lack of concern over safety? A lot of blame may well be placed on the general public. Few people who purchase new cars are vitally interested in the safety features offered.
It's up to the public to recognize the need of the safety features, and then demand it as a standard feature in every car they purchase.
Kansas Water Problem-
—Del Haley
You Can Help Solve It
(Editor's note: This is the last in a series of three editorials on the Kansas water problem.)
Kansas, itself, will have to participate if it is to share in the future industrial development and increase or maintain its level of prosperity. Kansas must give more than it has in the past.
The 1944 Federal Flood Control Act requires the Chief of Engineers and the Secretary of Interior to submit plans and proposals to affected states for comment and recommendations. The act also requires state cooperation with the federal government in its investigations.
Essentially, the State of Kansas has commented, recommended and cooperated. Aside from trips to Washington to clamor for federal aid in this drouth stricken or flood stricken area as the case may be, it has taken little positive action.
legislation behind them to execute it. The state should make every effort to encourage competition among local and private interests, but if they fail to make adequate progress, the state government should be prepared to offer a financial program of its own.
The Water Resources Board is a step in the right direction. Once we have a state water plan, once we have the basic facts of the problem, we will be able to act. When that time comes the state should be ready to step into the plan with the proper
The water problem is one that confronts the entire population of Kansas, for although the water may be unevenly distributed. the problem itself permeates the whole economy.
From this viewpoint, in a real sense the water problem belongs to the whole of the United States. Twenty-eight of the 48 states are currently struggling against drouth. With the exception of a few western states, all of them are plagued with periodic floods.
But here in the Midwest, with virtually all of Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Texas going up in a gigantic cloud of dust, emergency aid from the federal government is only palliation. The long-range solution rests with the individual states and their citizens. This includes you.
—Dale Morsch
Not long ago a Kansas City TV station was bombarded with a deluge of letters enquiring the name of the "beautiful music used as the theme song of a late evening music program.
Music By Mantovani
"Faith," (Evans, Damercell; Huddleston) played by Mantovani and his orchestra is the name of that music which caused so many inquiries.
Recorded in London, this hi-fi long playing recording (London, $3.98) is appropriately titled "An Enchanted Evening with Mantovani."
Side 1 begins, of course, with Rodgers' and Hammerstein's "Some Enchanted Evening," followed by the old favorite "Tell Me That You Love Me Tonight" (Bixio).
The popular German song "When the Lilac Blooms Again" (Doelle Mair) livens the tempo, but remains in the same dreamy vein.
Also on side one are "Symphony" (Alstone, Tabet; Bernstein, Lawrence), "Armoureuse" ("So Madly in Love," by Berger) and "Agnes Waltz" (Hannah, Williams, Kennedy).
Mantovani's careful choice of music to fit a certain mood and his brilliant orchestrations create forty minutes of musical relaxation.
Side 2 begins with a light waltz "Belle of the Ball" (Anderson).
The strains of "Speakeasy" (Gensler, Murphy; Simon) are as picturesque as their title.
Franz Lehar's "Gypsy Love Waltz" blends remarkably well into the spell cast by some of the other, more popularized compositions.
Other selections include "The
Whistling Boy" (Stewart), "Faith" (Evans, Damerell; Huddleston), "Die Schonbrunner Waltz" (Lanner and "Czardas" (Monti).
Mantovani's ability to take well-known compositions, regardless of how often they have been heard, and weave them into a mood is remarkable. The perfect balance of his arrangements are similar to Puccini's orchestrations of his own works.
For soothing dinner music or a pleasant background for study, conversation or reading, this recording fills the bill.
Jim Tice
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We have spent much of our valuable time solving for your benefit Old Gold Tangle Schools Tiebreaker puzzles Nos. 1 and 2 (re Daily Kansan, Feb. 6).
The names of the two schools are:
No. 1: Tnoennigbn, a "leading experimental college for women."
No. 2: Xerni Tathstics, whose "present name dates from 1902."
Another public service of the University Daily Kansan.
Dawson
We have decided that French I would be a snap. "Coup d'-etat" obviously means "put the cat in its cage."
After looking over the U.S. attorney general's list of subversive organizations, we are wondering how soon we can
renew our membership in the KuKus with impunity.
A movie advertisement for "3 Brave Men" proclaims "it happened . . but it can never happen again." They must not have much faith in our generation.
We note that Dmitri Shepilov is no longer Soviet foreign minister. Perhaps he will be appointed ambassador to Siberia.
Jerry Dawson
You, Too, Can Get Army Duty, Gals
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The program provides four weeks of summer reserve training, "on the job," to show interested women what is available to them.
Training for the program will be from July 14 to Aug. 10 at Ft. McClellan, Ala. *Applications must be in to the Fifth Army by May 1. Applications may be made at 607 Massachusetts St. any Tuesday or Thursday morning, or may be arranged by telephone after 6 p.m. every day.
DIARY OF A COED
MONDAY: Prof Pomfritt sprang quiz in English lit this morning. If Shakespeare didn't write Canterbury Tales, I'm back in the steam laundry... Lunch at the house - turkey hash. Question: how can we have turkey hash when we never had turkey?... Smoked a good, natural Philip Morris after lunch. Yum, yum!... Played bridge in the afternoon. When game was over, Mildred Olliphant stabbed me several times with hatpin. Must learn weak club bid... Dinner at house - lamb hash. Question: how can we have lamb hash when we never had lamb?... Smoked a Philip Morris after dinner. Good-O! - no filter, no foolin'!... Chapter meeting at night. Motion made to abolish capital punishment for pledges. Motion defeated... Smoked some more Philip Morrises. Natural! Dreamy!... And so to bed.
TUESDAY: Faculty tea. Spilled pot of oolong on Dean of Women. She very snappish. Offered her a Philip Morris. Still snappish. Offered skin graft. No help... Dinner at Kozy Kampus Kafe - 14 hamburgers. But no dessert. Have to watch waistline... And so to bed.
WEDNESDAY: Got our marks in English lit quiz. Lucky for me Shakespeare wrote Canterbury Tales! ... Date with Ralph Feldspar. Purely platonic. Ralph wanted to talk about love trouble he's been having with Mady Vanderklung. I said things were bound to improve. Ralph said he hopes so because the last four times he called on Mady she dumped vacuum cleaner bag on him. Smoked Philip Morris. Yumm! Dinner at house—bread. That's all; just bread. ... And so to bed.
THURSDAY: Three packages from home — laundry, cookies, records. So hungry I ate all three. .. Quiz in American history. If James K. Polk didn't invent cotton gin, I'm in big trouble. .. Had afternoon date with Erwin Trull, pre-med. Nice boy but no loot. Took me to see another appendectomy. Ho-hum! .. But we had Philip Morrises afterwards. Goody, goody, gumdrops! .. Dinner at house. Big excitement — Vanessa Strength announced her engagement. While girls flocked around to congratulate Vanessa, I ate everybody's mackerel. .. Then smoked a good, natural Philip Morris. Divino! .. And so to bed.
-- took me to see another appendectomy
FRIDAY: Got our marks in American history quiz. Was dismayed to learn that James K. Polk did not invent cotton gin. He wrote Canterbury Tales... Odd!... Lunch at the house — bread hash. . . Philip Morris after lunch. Grandy-dandy!... Spent afternoon getting dressed for date tonight with Norman Twonkey. Norman is tall, dark, loaded — a perfect doll! Only thing wrong is he never tells girl where he is going to take her. So I put on a bathing suit, on top of that an evening gown, and on top of that a snowsuit. Thus I was ready for a splash party, dance, or toboggan slide... So what do you think happened? He entered me in a steeplechase, that's what!
SATURDAY AND SUNDAY: Days of rest, play quiet, meditation, and - aaah! - Philip Morris!... And so to bed.
© Max Shulman, 1957
Coeds and, of course, eds too in your busy campus week, a companion ever-constant, ever-true, and ever-welcome is today's new, natural Philip Morris Cigarette, made in regular and long size by the sponsors of this column.