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THE DAILY .NEBRASKAN
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1935.
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Daily Nebraskan
Station A, Lincoln, Nebraska.
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UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA
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Take
It Easy.
p0DAY through the courtesy of the Reader's
Digest, the Nebraskan is privileged to pre
sent in its editorial columns the first of two in
stallments of J. C. Furnas' much discussed
article "And Sudden Death." It is a grue
some and shocking picture of America's traf
fic mishaps, made all the more unpalatable be
cause it is true but it should be of benefit to
this nation's speed crazed and careless drivers
who constantly flirt with death.
To further add to the sickening effect of
Mr. b urnas' statements, statistics released early
this week for motor fatalities and injuries for
the first six months of 1935 show that careless
ness and high speeds are still claiming their
huge and wanton toll of human lives, broken
bodies, shattered minds, and ruined nervous
system.
In being an exception to this tendency the
state of Nebraska can well be proud of its rec-
Peace, Plenty, Freedom
For Individuals.
Vehemently emphasizing the
need for a reformed social order,
to realize plenty, peace, and free'
dom for every individual, Norman
H. Thomas addressed a large audi
ence in Central Hall last night. In
make any driver but a born fool slow down at
least temporarily. But what is needed is a
vivid and sustained realization that every time
you step on the throttle, death gets in beside
you, hopefully waiting for his chance. That
single horrible accident you may have wit
nessed is no isolated horror. That sort of
thing happens every hour of the day, every- changes Needed to Realize
nucic in Luc uiiilcu stales, xj. tuu itmw itn
that, perhaps the cold lines of type in Mon
day's paper recording that a total of 29 local
citizens were killed in week end crashes would
rate something more than a perfunctory tut
tut as you turn back to the sports page
An enterprisincr judge now and again sen
tences reckless drivers to tour the accident end
of a city morgue. But even a mangled body reiterating the Introduction made
on a slab, waxily portraying the consequences by Prof. J. E. LeRossignol, who
of bad motoring judgment, isn't a patch on vocat tYeom of discussion
the scene of the accident itself. No artist
working on a safety poster would dare depict united States, however, the actu-
that in full detail. ality of freedom is not universal.
That nicture would have to include mo- Parts of America, he claims, are
tion picture and sound effects, toethe flop- "htlntoth
ping, pointless efforts of the injured to stand r. llh.. nnf K
panting groaning of a human being with pain fended as a single thing; they can
creeping up on him as the shock wears off. not be separated from our other
It should portray the slack expression on the problems. The disintegrating cap
face of a man, drugged with shock, staring at J"!! a"d
the Z-twist in his broken leg, tne insane crum- Freedom cannot be discussed with-
nled effect of a child's body after its bones 0ut the inclusion of peace and
are crushed inward, a realistic portrait of an plenty."
hysterical woman with her screaming mouth . Painting dark gray war clouds
opening a hole in the bloody drip that fUls her jSM? K
eves and runs off her cnin. minor aeiaus ton um.. Annr .nmrni h,,Hrt
would include the raw ends of bones protrud- spent in preparation for war.
inar through flesh in compound fractures, and "War is caused by the struggle of
the dark red. oozing suriaces wnere ciomes """ "s""1"
j , ,' finj t , the League of Nations is compar
and skin were flayed off at once, tivelv powerless. The historv of the
Those are all standard, everyday sequels Leaeue i. meianchoiv nroof that
to the modern passion tor going, places in a it is impossible to impose peace on
hurry and taking a chance or two by the way. hate and chaos.
Tf wto nlA Vn rmr tr. iiRofnl tiurnose. "We could provide each Amer-
every bad stretch of road m the Lnited btates ., t. ' f.a lhoon, . ,
wouia geet tne oncoming moionsi wnu Mara a year, but the administra-
and screams and the educational spectacle oi tion can only subsidize scarcity!
ten or a dozen corpses, all sizes, sexes and In this subsidization lies the fun-
uauicniai cieiuema m a revolu
tion."
ThA arvHalfaf norftr Poplar a4 MV
Last vear a state trooper of my acquaint- Thomas, seeks not to abolish the
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anoe stoDned a biff red iiispano ior speeding, system or private property, but
Papa was obviously a responsible person, odvi- ramer mai oi pnvaie lanaioraism.
miRlv RPt. for a nleasant week end with his fam- Labor talk of recovery is ironical;
r, J ----- -. ,-n v.0j we cannot recover wnat we never
ily so the officer cut into papa s well bred had WIthout planned eConomy of
expostulations: "I'll let you off this time, out a cooperative commonwealth, we
ord, which, according to statistics compiled by if you keep on this way, yotl won't last long
the Traveler's Insurance company shows it to Get coins: but take it easier." Later a pass
rank tenth lowest among the states
talities per 100,000 population
19 nercent below the averace for
Emiflllv favnrflhle reonrda stand in p. "Tnn hnrl von didn't." said the motorist. 1
will continue backward to Amer
ican fascism.
;es in motor fa- ing motorist hailed the trooper and asked if
This figure is the red Hispano had got a ticket. "No," said Geolcgi
"or the nation, the trooper, "I hated to spoil their party." Watei
ists to Compile
ater Survey Notations
DrasKa s credit on the basis ot deaths per
100,000 cars registered and per 10 million gal
lons of gasoline used in the state which stand
at 45 and 36 percent below average, respective
ly. And if the rest of the nation had kept pace
with Nebraska, 6,850 deaths from auto acci
dents would have been prevented, the insur
ance company figures reveal.
Nebraska has done well but it can do much
better. Figures for the first half of 1935 show
a 6 percent decrease in motor fatalities which
is a step m the right direction. Nevertheless,
118 lives have been claimed by accidents in
volving motor vehicles alone and eleven more
by railroad-auto crashes, many no doubt the
result of outright carelessness or neglect.
In any event the figure is unnecessarily
high for a state where opportunities for traf
fic mishaps are comparatively low. Nebraska
has a pressing job on its hands to better the
improvement already shown this year and uni
versity students can do much to help this ef
fort along. To be sure, students are responsi
ble for but a very small percentage of traffic
accidents although they and youth in general
saw you stop them and then I passed that L. K. Wenzel and Herbert Waite
car again 50 miles up the line. It still makes who have been on the Keith coun-
tai " "lllca ty water survey have completed
me feel sick at my stomach. The car was all thelr fleld worlnA have returned
folded up like an accordion the color was to the university where they will
about all there was left. They were all dead compile a bulletin on results of the
but one of the kids and he wasn't going to survey
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live io ine iiospnai.
Maybe it will make you sick at your stom
neb. too. But unless you're a heavy looted in
curable, a cood look at the picture the artist
wouldn't dare paint, a first hand acquaintance
with the results of mixing gasoline with speea
and bad judgment, ought to be well worth
yv,ur while. I can't help it it the iacts are re
volting. If you have the nerve to drive fast
and take chances, you ought to have the nerve
tn take the aDDroDnate cure. You can t ride
an ambulance or watch the doctor working on
the victim in the hospital, but you can read.
The automobile is treacherous, just as a
cat is. It is tragically difficult to realize that
it can become the deadliest missile, as entnu
siasts tell you, it makes 65 feel like nothing at
all. But 65 an hour is 1UU leet a secona, a
speed which puts a viciously unjustified re-
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OFFICIAL
BULLETIN
Y. W. C. A. Tea Hours Changed
Hours of the Y. W. C. A. mem
bership tea to be held Friday, Oct
18, have been changed to 4 p. m.
Rhodes Scholarship
Deadline for Rhodes scholar
ships applications is Thursday aft
ernoon at 4 o clock.
Publicity Committee Meets.
Publicity committee of the atU'
dent council will meet in the Daily
Nebraskan office at 2:30 Thurs
day afternoon.
United States Geological survey
and Mr. Waite is a member of the
Geological survey of the universl
ty. The survey of the state Is car
ried on in co-operation between
the university and the United
States Geological survey.
JOURALISM GROUPS
PLAN SALES ON TRAIN
Professional Members to
Handle Concessions on
Manhattan Trip,
Sigma Delta Chi and Theta Sig
ma Phi, professional Journalistic
groups, meeting In Joint session
Wednesday afternoon completed
arrangements for the concession
rights on the special train which
carries Nebraskans to the Husker-
Wildcat football game Saturday.
It was decided by the members
of both organizations that if it
is at all possible special booths
will be set up in the . the train at
several points where candy and
other food will be sold. Present
plans call for the sale of candy
bars, apples and sandwiches.
RESULTS IN WOMEN'S
INTRAMURALS POSTED
Chi Omega. Alpha Chi
Omega Win Soccer and
Baseball Games.
First results of the soccer-base
ball intramural tourney have been
posted on the W. A. A. bulletin
board in Grant Memorial. Winners
of the two games played Tuesday
were Chi Omega and Alpha Chi
Omega.
The Chi Omega's won from the
Kappa Alpha Thetas with a score
of 24 to 5. The Alpha Chi Omega's
came out victorious with a score
are blamed for far more than their share of sponsibility on brakes and human reflexes, and
can instantly turn inis aociie iuauij
mad bull elephant.
Pnllision. turnover or sideswipe, each type
of accident produces either a shattering dead
stop or a crashing change Qf direction and,
since the occupant meaning you continues
in the old direction at the original speed, every
surface and angle of the car's interior immedi
ately becomes a battering, tearing projectile,
nimrl finnarelv at vou inescapable. There is
no bracing yourself against these imperative
laws of momentum.
It's like going over Niagara Falls in a
stPPl bnrrel full of railroad spikes. The best
thing that can happen to you and one of the
rarer things is to be thrown out as the doors
mishaps when their elders are really the worst
and most consistent offenders,
But the fact remains that scarcely a year
has passed that one or more university students
have not lost their lives in motor accidents
That alone is reason enough for Nebraska stu
dents to take it a little easier at the wheel and
on the gas.
This week end hundreds of Nebraska stu
dents will travel by train and auto to Kansas
State to the football game. No serious mis
haps have marred recent student migrations
to games away from home and it is to be hoped
that the record will be kept clean this year and
in the future.
Saving all the minutes or hours in the spring open, so you have only the ground to
world will do you no good if the grim reaper
lays his hand on your shoulder or if you re
sentenced to a lifetime ox helplessness and mis
ery with a broken, pain wTacked body, simply
because the accelerator was so easy to push to
the floor or you decided to take a chance
around a curve or over a hill. Think a little
about your consequences
reckon with. True, you strike with as much
fnrpe s if vou had Len thrown from the
Twentieth Century at top speed. But at least
you are spared the lethal array of gleaming
metal knobs and edges and glass inside the car.
Anvthinc can happen in that split second
of crash, even those lucky escapes you hear
if you do miss the opening kickoff or make
your best girl friend wait a few extra min
utest Is it worth running a race with
Death!
If there is any doubt in your mind, read
today's and tomorrow's installments of
wonderful to be alive.
ers are expensive.
And funerals and flow-
What if you are a few minutes late? What about. People have dived through windshields
and come out witn oniy supeniciai Bcra ucB.
They have run cars together head on, reducing
both to twisted junk, and been found unhurt
and aroTiinff bitterly two minutes afterward.
But death was there just the same he was
riniv ATprciRinc- his nrivilece of being erratic.
And Sudden Death" and take it easy. Tt's This spring a wrecking crew pried the door off
a car which had been overturnea aown aa em
bankment and out stepped the driver with only
a scratch on his cheek.. But his motner was
still inaide. a splinter of wood from the top
driven four inches into her brain as a result
of son's takine a greasy curve a little too fast.
No blood no horribly twisted bones just a
gray haired corpse still clutching her pocket
book in her lap as she had clutched it when
she felt the car leave the road.
On that same curve a month later, a light
touring car crashed a tree. In the middle of
the front seat they found a nine months old
baby surrounded by broken glass and yet abso
lutelv unhurt. A fine practical joke on death
but spoiled by the baby's parents, still sitting
on each side of him, instantly killed by shat
tering their skulls on the dashboard.
If you customarily pass without clear vis
ion a lone way ahead, make sure that every
member of the party carries identification pa-
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AND SUDDEN DEATH
By
J. C. Furnas.
Am artlrtr esprrtenjr wrlttra for RvaMtrr Diceet, umi
rcprtat4 wttk prnnkulM il t Editors.
Like the gruesome spectacle of a bad auto
mobile accident itself, the realistic details of
this article will nauseate some readers. Those
who find themselves thus affected at the out
sat are cautioned against reading the article in
its entirety, since there is no letdown in the
author'i outspoken treatment of sickening
Publicizing the total of motoring injuries
almost a million last year, with 36 000 deaths
never eets to first base in iarrin the motor
ist into a realization of the appalling risks of I pers it's difficult to identify a body with its
rnotonnsr. He does not translate dry statis- whole face bashed in or torn oil. ine anver
tics into a reality of blood and agony.
Figures exclude the pain and horror of
savage mutilation which means they leave out
the point. They need to be brought closer
home. A passing look at a bad syash or the
re'vs that a fellow you had luncn with last
p eek is in a hospital with a broken back .will
is death '8 favorite tareet. If the 6teering wheel
holds together it ruptures his liver or spleen
so he bleeds to death internally. Or, if the
steering wheel breaks off, the matter is settled
instantly by the steering column s plunging
through his abdomen.
, (To Be Continued.)
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one between . the Alpha Delta
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mond hall and the ABC'a, a new
ly organized barb group.
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