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Show Traffic Professor Modern universities ''take all knowledge to be their province." The University of California has just appointed a professor of traffic problems whose chief function is to find out how to get more automobiles through the streets. His salary is contributed by an automobile company. And he has about the most up-to-date job of any professor alive. There are, in fact, few more important ones. The whole development of American cities, their property prop-erty values, their safety of life, and the conditions under which they raise their children, depend on the solution of this problem. Naturally, of course, it being a practical problem, they hire a professor to solve it. If they put it in charge of a committee com-mittee of business men, lawyers and politicians, they would be too theoretical. |