Salt Lake Telegram | 1941-12-15 | Page 10 | One Way to Help Defense

t One Way To Help Defense By y RUTH MILLETT t This year may see sec the bicycle replace the automobile on American Amerlean Amer Amer- scan lean college campuses it win will willi if college col- col lege authorities j throughout the country toll follow ow the lead of ot dede defense defense de de- ease minded t s 's Dean Theodore TheodoreA A A. Distler of ot Lafayette colI col- col 1 I e g e Easton rte Pa who has y written to the l. parents of ot all y undergraduates p at La Lafayette f t a aye y c t te asking that they not permit their sons to bring automo automo- Ruth Millett Milled biles to school except for tor the most important reasons If It as we we are told it will it r f soon becomes necessary for Americans to conserve gasoline and to get along on fewer autoS automobiles automobiles automobiles auto auto- S mobiles college students are one group It wouldn't hurt to make the sacrifice Home Amusement To begin with there are enough young people of ot the same age in a college community so that they can provide their own entertainment and have no need for leaving town to find amuse amuse- ment If It they must ride to classes college students are an able- able bodied agile lot who can easily take to bicycles More Studying Then too since colleges exist to educate the young a college would have a better chance to do its job thoroughly if none of its students owned automo automo- biles For the student who owns a acar acar acar car or has access to one almost never puts in as much time studying as the student who isn't tempted to jump in a car carand carand carand and go to the next town for a dance or out to the edge of town for a drink the minute dinner is over at night Ride Bicycles More than that students would be far safer riding bi bicycles bicycles bicycles bi- bi cycles than driving high powered powered powered pow pow- ered roadsters and brakeless jalopies jalopies especially especially when the driver as so often happens has beet celebrating a football victory victory victory vic vic- tory in the customary campus manner Also since the army is going to have to teach a large part of the country's young men how to walk the colleges might as well give them a start on that phase of their education i