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University Daily Kansan Friday, Dec. 14; 1956
Drive Carefully
Make This Christmas Safe
Within a few days students will be returning to their hometowns to enjoy Christmas. In many cases, students travel many miles from Lawrence truing this 2-week period.
Richard Stugard during last year's Christmas vacation was killed within six blocks of his home in New Rochelle, N. Y. Even though it happened far from this capmus its repercussion was definitely felt here.
This year it is the highest hope of The Daily Kansan that the students can enjoy this joyous season without any traffic accidents.
The prevention of accidents is up to the student and may be beyond even his control. However, if those traveling students and faculty members will follow these suggestions it ma ylead to an accident-free Christmas season.
1. Stay alert. Don't let the excitement of getting away from the books divert your attention from careful driving and cautious walking.
2. Slow down. Bad weather and more hours of darkness during the holiday season make it doubly important to reduce speed. Don't be over-anxious to reach home from Lawrence. Last Christmas, excessive speed was the most frequent driver violation.
3. Be a careful pedestrian. More than half of the traffic accidents at Christmas time involve pedestrians. Don't let your enthusiasm over selecting the right gifts cause you to forget common-sense safety rules. Cross only at corners and pedestrian crosswalks. Never dart into traffic between parked cars.
4. Be a cool driver. The holiday rush and bustle often leads to tensions and impatience. Traffic is heavy. Control your temper when behind the wheel and never take unnecessary chances.
5. If you drink, don't drive. This is an often-repeated statement, but it is one rule that should be carefully followed.
The most important thing to remember is the lives of other people. It is your duty to watch out for the others on the highways.
Let's be sure that we make a safe return to the University for the coming new year.
Letters. Comment on Critic
—David Webb
Editor:
I wish to comment on Tom Sawyer's most recent letter-to-the-editor, which appeared in the Kansan Tuesday.
First, I think Mr. Sawyer is guilty of an overstatement when he implies that 80 percent of the courses given in the Spanish department are directed towards an understanding of those elements which gave Garcia Lorca's play a "profound and complicated" import.
It is true that a student who is more familiar with things Spanish would probably better understand certain technical aspects of the play, but surely we would be denying Garcia Lorca his place in the world of the theater if we denied his ability to include certain universally understood ideas in his work. We would be unfair, too, to Mr. Brooking, who strives to underscore the latter, without, at times, understanding the local background of the play.
If we were to follow-through on Mr. Sawyer's idea, we would relegate the theater of Ibsen, Gorki, Chekhov, to the realm of misunderstood and misinterpreted plays, because most of us know nothing of the languages and customs of the countries represented by these authors. Such is not the case, however, for we feel that these great writers transcend international boundaries with their interpretations of human foibles.
I congratulate Mr. Sawyer for his attempt at honest criticism of our local theatrical endeavors, something which has been lacking in the UDK in past years.
A. V. Ebersole. Jr.
A. V. Ebersoie, Jr.
Lawrence graduate student
Three of four deans of the School of Education in its 47 years are members of the KU faculty. They are George Baxter Smith, dean of the University, John W. Twente, professor of Education, and Kenneth E. Anderson present dean. Raymond A. Schwegler, dean from 1923 to 1941, died in 1952.
(The Daily Kansan welcomes letters to the editor on any topic or of any opinion provided that they are in good taste. They must be limited to 300 words and must be signed. The Daily Kansan prefers to use the name of the letter writer, but will use a pen name if the writer so desires. It reserves the right to use or reject letters for publication as it sees fit, and the right to edit and cut.)
Swiss mothers in the canton of Valais carry their babies on top of their heads. The baby is trussed inside a wooden cradle, which rests on a thick cushion perched on the mother's head. With her hands thus freed, the woman does her knitting as she joys up and down steep rocky paths.
Watkins hospital has 63 beds.
Senator Gives Juvenile Report
NEWARK, N. J., — (UP) — Juveniles are becoming increasingly involved in confidence rackets, vice and other crimes, Sen. Estes Keaferau (D-Tenn) said after two days of hearings.
Sen Kefauver said after his threeman subcommittee has studied testimony of the hearing, it probably will recommend legislation to give federal authorities jurisdiction in confidence game cases.
The Tennessee senator also scott hearing transcripts to heads of three federal banking agencies in Washington for study and possible action to protect savings accounts from confidence predators.
Sen Kefauver suggested providing a waiting period of 24 hours before sums of more than 75 per cent of accounts could be withdrawn.
He said there was "no connection" between vice and confidence rackets. He said the vice aspects of the hearing were spotlighted to show the complex problem investigations face.
The first aircraft flight in the British Empire took place on the frozen waters of Baddeck Bay, Nova Scotia, Feb. 23, 1909. The plane, the Silver Dart, was built by the Aerial Experiment Assn, pioneered by Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone. With an engine that sometimes delivered only eight horsepower, the plane flew that day for a half mile, the National Geographic Society says.
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This being the Christmas season, and what with Christmas cheer of one sort or another just overflowing all over the place, we feel it is our sacred duty to make some comment upon these proceedings.
We want to say right now that we have absolutely no objections to Christmas. (And how's that for taking a strong stand on a controversial issue?)
Walt
In fact, Christmas is just fine, as far as we're concerned. It offers a great two-week vacation, the Big Seven preseason tournament, and various other excuses for much, much riotous living.
Also, the promise of Christmas vacation has offered a ray of hope for many downtrodden students, who manage to live for three months on the theory that "I don't need to do the work right now—I'll catch up over Christmas vacation."
(Note—these words, along with the expression, "they NEVER flunk graduating seniors," have been entered in the international competition in the "Famous Last Words," department.)
There are only two things which we dislike about it. The first is the shopping. The fact that some people have initiative and foresight to do their Christmas shopping in April is just plain discouraging to us. We belong to the exclusive set which does all its Christmas shopping on the evening of Dec. 24.
But back to Christmas.
The second negative aspect of Christmas is the receiving of worthless gifts which we don't want anyway.
For example, those brilliant people who shop in April always wind up giving us a lavender-and-pink tie that goes just perfectly with that orange sweater they gave us last year.
So, a message to Santa Claus or anyone else who might be concerned with this Christmas gift problem.
MOSCOW — (UP) — The powerful central committee of the Soviet Communist Party will meet early next week to review de-Stalmization in the face of developments in Hungary and Poland.
-Dick Walt
Nigeria's ancient tribal ways are being reshaped by modern power lines, industries, hospitals, schools and a new parliamentary government The country, reaching deep into Africa from the underside of the great western hump, is one of the most complex in the entire continent because of differing customs, politics, and religions superimposed on varied terrain, language, and racial and tribal groupings.
We don't want presents, and we don't even want Christmas cards. Just give us Miss Santa.
Soviets To Review Policy
It will be the first plenary session of the central committee since last March when the body put into effect the decision to purge communist life and government of the "cult of the personality."
The first University football game was played in 1890 K.U lost to Baker University, 22 to 9.
The much-delayed meeting is expected to open Monday. Many of the 133 full members and 122 alternates already have arrived in the capital and are holding preliminary conferences.
The central committee, top policymaking body of the Communist Party, is barely meeting within the deadline set by the party constitution, which provides for at least two plenary sessions a year.
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