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University Daily Kansan Tuesday. Oct. 2. 1958
Victims Drop In Hunting Season
This being the fall season, and the fall season being the hunting season, leave us fly on the gossamer wings of imagination to the far distant lakes and mountains of Canada, where naught can be heard but the cry of a loon, through whose veins courses the nature-endowed passion that soon will bestir him to lift himself from his secluded haunts and, with an unuttered sigh, bend his wings to the south.
But wait!
A tremendous explosion vomits from the bushes, echoes from the distant peaks, and poor loon lies, a broken mass, floating in the water.
Soon Hunter appears, his faithful, noble dog leaps into the water, and snatches Loon from the kurch.
But wait!
ANOTHER tremendous explosion vomits from yet another bush, echoes and re-echoes from the mountains, and Hunter lies, mortally wounded, felled by his own kind.
Another over-anxious sportsman, his mind intent on felling a deer, will wind up in the courts, be convicted of manslaughter, and never bring himself to hunt again.
Year after year, in increasing numbers, the hunting season ends with more hunters killed than deer. Last year, in Colorado, one hunter saw some movement behind a bush, raised his .30-.30, squeezed the trigger, and was horrified to hear a human scream come from what he thought was a deer. The unhappy ending was that the man was maimed for life, and too-eager hunter was sued for damages which he will be paying the rest of his life.
The happy thought is that all this could be prevented. The proverbial ounce of prevention in the form of calmer nerves and caution, plus good old common sense, would spare many a hunter agony and perhaps his life.
To eliminate this seasonal slaughter, hunters should be given stringent tests of not only their skill with a rifle, but their response to situations similar to those they might encounter in the backwoods hunting for deer.
If a man really wishes to hunt, he will take the test and, if he proves himself calm under the circumstances described, will be issued his license to hunt. The man who does not wish to be bothered with these tests would undoubtedly have not qualified anyway.
Before the private plane, which can land or lakes and on short flat strips of ground, came into use, a hunter who took the time to hack through the underbrush into good hunting ground could feel reasonably well assured that he was alone and safe from other hunters' guns.
Now, every spot where deer abound is literally swamped with sky-going hunters who land, shoot, and, barring accidents, load their game in their planes and fly home again.
The fact that it has become easier to go deerhunting has increased the number of hunters crowding the forests and game preserves. Unfortunately too many leave the scene with a crushed lung or a scream still ringing in their minds.
Before the enactment of tests which will separate the novice and first-timers from the seasoned hunter, however, a look back at Boy Scout days may remedy some of the fall hunting tragedies.
A hunter is wise who dresses in bright-colored clothing—red is ideal—so that he may be readily seen. Firing through a bush is the mark of an amateur. Not only should a gun be unloaded while skirting fences or hurdling fallen trees, but the bolt should be opened until the hunting area is reached. And leave the bottle home. A dulled mind has made many a hunter a killer.
—Jerry Dawson
Editor:
The KU campus police contribute to the orderly management and protection of campus property and traffic with a courtesy that is all-too-often accepted without an appreciation of its uniqueness. It would be a worthwhile move by some campus organization to promote some activity which would recognize this branch of University service.
Erik Wright.
Professor of Clinical Psychology
Professor's Drape Designs Praised
A collection of designs for drapery fabrics, by Alexander L. Boyle, Jr., assistant professor of design, was shown in New York City and received praise in the trade journal of the field.
A fabrics writer for "Retailing Daily" wrote that "A feeling for clean, crisp design marked by freedom and airiness is apparent in the new collection."
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As the two regular readers of this column will testify, we've been babbling sporadically about traditions here at old KU, because we feel that such matters are of more than passing importance.
And because we are concerned with such important matters, we are becoming worried about the way things are going.
Do you realize that in two more days school will have been going on for three weeks, and as yet no one has chosen any sort of honorary queen? Matter of fact, we haven't even heard any such plans discussed.
This restrained type of action is definitely not in keeping with the old KU spirit.
We can remember back in the good ole' days when there used to be a queen for nearly every day in the week, with two or three extras left over on weekends.
And then there'll be the Homecoming Queen, Senior Queen, Relays Queen, Student Union Queen, etc., etc., etc.
Of course, nearly every men's organization on the hill will choose a queen or sweetheart at some time during the year, and some of the eager organizations like the lawyers will choose three of four.
But even so, countless opportunities are being neglected, and looking at it from the newspaperman's point of view, each wasted opportunity means another day when the Kansan must go to press without its front page graced by a picture of a pretty girl.
The opportunities for queen contests are actually limitless. Our favorite suggestion comes from the guy at the next desk, who wants to run a Miss Easter contest to choose the girl with the biggest ears.
But by consulting an almanac, some sort of contest could be dreamed up for every day of the year. For example, this week we could have beauty queens honoring the hanging of Major Andre in 1780 (Today); the first Thanksgiving day, 1863 (Wednesday); the birthday of former president Rutherford B. Hayes (Thursday); and the birthday of former president Chester Arthur (Friday).
There's only one trouble. If we have a queen for every day of the week, it's going to be quite a job
Are Poznan Trials A Step To Liberalization Of Poland
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Three trials which have started in Poland are likely to take a step further in the trend toward liberalized rule in Russia's most important Satellite.
Twenty-three men have been charged, in three simultaneous trials, with murder, assault, attacks on official buildings and theft of arms
The trials stem from the big riots which broke out on June 28 in the industrial city of Poznan.
But none of the strikers in the factory where the riots started are among the defendants.
The Communist government has abandoned its original allegation that the strike and the resultant riots were fomented by foreign agents.
Admit Misrule
Dispatches indicate that every attempt is being made to show that the defendants are members of an anti-Communist underground organization or common criminals.
It has been admitted officially that the strikers had legitimate grievances—intolerable living conditions and bureaucratic misrule.
The sentences imposed on them may give a further indication of the extent to which the Polish government intends to loosen its tight grip on the lives of the Polish people.
It may be taken for granted that most, if not all, of the defendants will be convicted.
As things have turned out, the Poznan riots were much more important than those which broke out in Communist-rules East Germany and Czechoslovakia in June, 1953.
Fifty-three persons were killed, including soldiers and policemen, and more than 300 wounded in the riots.
They have led to a government shake-up, a curb on the interference
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of the Communist party with ordinary Poles, promises of better living conditions and even a revival of at least mild opposition rights in parliament.
The Poznan workers who struck on June 28 really seem to have started something.
Finance Council Denies Hay Aid
TOPEKA—(UP)—Refusal of the State Finance Council to vote emergency funds Monday bogged down a plan for federal aid in a hay program for drought-stricken farmers.
Under one, the government would pay one-half of all transportation costs for farmers who purchase hay in areas outside their area, up to $10 per ton.
Harry Frazee, Assistant to the Director of the Federal Agriculture Credit Agency, said the government is willing to provide a half-million dollar aid program and listed three alternatives.
Another proposal would have the state and farmer pay the first $10 and the government up to the next $15 per ton on transportation.
The third calls for a flat $7.50 government certificate for each ton of hay purchased under the plan.
Newspapermen End 2-Day Course
The fourth annual Newspaper Circulation Managers' School ended Saturday with a summary of the meeting by Elmer F. Beth, professor of journalism, at a luncheon in the Student Union.
Thirty persons were enrolled in the 2-day program. Speakers for the group were E. B. Thompson, director of editor-newspaper relations. King Features Syndicate, New York; Michael Tynan, country circulation manager, Cmaha World-Herald; and G. L. Carpenter, regional transportation manager, U.S. Post Office department, Wichita.
The managers attended the KU College of Pacific football game Saturday afternoon.
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