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Cairo AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY STUDENTS* PAPER tive oi :r that in the Nasser V o l . XXXIII— N o 5 Auckland, N.Z., Friday, 5th June, 1959. Price 3d 'osition Arab k with f sup- f ship- trained tppears rart toj Creeping Tragedy in Sth. Africa in the ing oi e land, id has pays his 'hoys' and stare at you when The 1957 bus boycott began with the a gulf of £7 11s. 5d. a month ten years 70 mil- On Sunday, 16 December 1838, a fist- you tell him that the infantile mortality announcement by the bus company that later. The vast majority of African wage- under uil of Yoortrekkers met the Zulu army the border of Natal— rifle against as­ rate for Africans is officially estimated its government subsidy no longer covered earners were employed in the less skilled evelop- as 200-300 per 1,000, and that only 50 its loss and that its fares would be grades of the distributive, municipal, morel segai— and broke the power of the most militant and furious of the African tribes per cent, of all Africans born in the raised from fourpence to fivepence per building, engineering and motor indust­ aq has Union reach the working age of 16. If single trip. At first, the press alleged ries ; and the wage-rates in these occu­ ; main m the south. And every year the victory i> celebrated as the Day of Covenant, he accepts the statistics at all and grasps massed intimidation— this classic white pations averaged £ 1 1 8 s. lid. a month Arab their significance, he will begin shrilly explanation for any show of black unan­ in 1954. Yet, in the same period, an Insti­ t King when God delivered up the enemies of the Afrikaners into their hands and made to defend himself by claiming that Nat­ imity— and prophesied a speedy collapse. tute of Race Relations survey established l from ives waste their money on gambling, But as township after township joined in that an average African family of five warted possible the white control of southern Africa. It is no ordinary anniversary drink and extravagant clothes. And if, and Africans walked in sympathy on un­ required £23 10s. 4d. a month in order 'urkish with patience, you are able to persuade affected routes as far away as Port Eliza­ to maintain minimum standards of health. nodern that. It is. as no other, the festival of Afrikanerdomr the Faster of white su­ him to assist you in working out a bud­ beth, till more than 60,000 people on the With the erratic earnings of wife and id Is- get which would fill five stomachs ade­ Witwatersrand alone were walking up working children taken into account, :r pro­ premacy . ‘Small, weak and alone, the Afrikaner quately on what is left of £16 after rent. to 2 0 miles a day to work and home there remained a discrepancy of nearly in the £8 , invariably met by drastic cuts in the e very people again stand on the hanks of Blood amount spent on food. An investigation nts oi Kiver facing defeat and extinction,’ Dr. conducted by the Johannesburg Non- were Diedrichs. South Africa's Minister of This article is reprinted in an abridged form from the New Statesman, 28 European Affairs Department in 1952 had Economic Afifairs, told a Day of the Cov­ revealed that 69 per cent, of the families enant rally in Vereeniging last December. February, 1959. For the complementary reasons that the local newspapers would never print anything so unreasonable as the truth on important matters such as in the city’s African townships had com­ : July As in 1838, we are surrounded by en- bined incomes below the essential mini­ this and that few students read the New Statesman, Craccum felt it was essential t Nas- en'iies determined to destroy us, and with­ mum, and that 44 per cent, had less than that the article should be reprinted. if the in the next ten or 2 0 years our fate will £15 a month. And since then, the Insti­ en in- have been decided.’ The following example will illustrate how necessary this is. One expects most tute reported at the time of the 1957 Syria, "White" Areas people to respond with sympathy and anger to the harsh treatment meted out to boycott, the gap between average income C.A.R.] the non-whites of Soufh Africa. As far as we are concerned, it is quite clear that and ‘the defined minimum of health and ie way And the green buses roar along the there are but two countries involved. Either we do nothing and condone the exploita­ decency’ had enormously increased. ■ inde- road from Alexandra to Johannesburg. tion of one group of human beings by another. Or we do what we can in the practi­ he un- The case for, at the very least, sub­ It is ten miles from the township to the cal circumstances. There should be no question of choice. A seemingly incidental sidising the bus company and revising all Sashe- city, hut the buses that stab through the matter has arisen in which New Zealand can express its choice — namely the ;n vic- unskilled African wrages seemed unan­ ten miles of quick dawn and nightfall non-inclusion of Maoris in the All-Black tour of South Africa in 1960. And this swerable. And. as the boycott continued amoun between Sunday and Sunday charge only is where the example lies. unabated and commerce and industry eptem- fourpence a passenger, and the shon- alike began to suffer as a result, appeals lenged. keeepers and industrialists of Johannes­ In editorials in the New Zealand Listener, 24 April and 8 May, 1959, the to the government to raise the annual burg mutter and pay the rest. For with- editor, M. H. Holcrft, carefully concealing a reactionary temperament, very per- subsidy grew in strength. The National­ Nasser sausively gives an impression of fair play and reasonableness in what is a plea for • Gen- out the buses, Alexandra could not be ists, however, do not believe in settling brought to the city; and without the apathy. "Much more discussion may be needed if fhe dangers of emotionalism are boycotts, but in breaking them ; and soon e Iraq to be avoided," is his cry; show of anger is so immoderate. rs in- Alexandras of Johannesburg Johannes­ after parliament convened in January he is burg would die. "A white jersey team would be a reproach and an insult to the South Africans 1957. the Minister of Transport, Mr. italistic Yet with supine indifference to truth, every time its members walked onto a football ground." Tut-tut and shame, we can't Schoeman, swung the baton for the gov­ a have the government regards Johannesburg and have that happening. Yes, Mr. Holcroft, you are very clever with your irrelevancies; ernment. ‘It is quite clear that this is not rill de- all the other cities and towns of South they appeal to one's sense of fairness, reduce the context of the issue: "The Spring­ so much-an economic matter; it is a pol­ British Africa and all the land outside the boks, it will be remembered, behaved in an exmplary way towards th Maoris in itical movement . . . There will he no ;d him cramped ‘Native Reserves’ as white. The 1956. They did nothing to transfer their racial prejudices to the New Zealand scene, capitulation ; the government will not be intimidated. This bus boycott will be lomatic Bureau of Census and Statistics reported but accepted the conditions they found here, and respected them — as good sports­ broken and law and order will he main­ having last year that there were 398,500 whites men should!" It seems that one must keep up the appearance of decency with the iny of and 576,200 Africans living within rhe devil himself. "Have we done so much to lift (the Maoris) to equality with the tained . . .’ 1 their boundaries of Johannesburg, and this rest of us that discrimination is unthinkable?" is again an appeal to fair play out rather makes Johannesburg, by any standard, of context. For it is irrelevant: what is at issue is the su fferin g of the coloured Land Hunger the largest black city on the continent. people of South Africa; it is not a question of colour. Further, "missionary zeal rx and Any description of South Africa's race Yet legally it is white, only whites may may be making us forget our manners if we think we should try to impose (our conflict must begin with an analysis of own property and trade within its lim­ conditions) on South Africans. There are places where Apartheid can be debated t Nas- its. And its blacks exist as temporary African land hunger — the first cause of more appropriately than on the football-field." No, it's not good form; pray tell the agony of apartheid. In 1913, the first is on tenants, belonging only to their jobs in us kindly, Mr Holcroft, Sir, what callous chivalry do you subscribe to? uniting the streets and factories and kitchens of parliament of the Union passed its first ination the city, their lodgings somewhere in the "Cancellation of the 1960 tour would not be an isolated gesture: it would be Native Land Act, limiting the land Afri­ at will undergrowth of shanties at the ends of an act of policy with far-reaching consequences," he argues with nicely misdirected cans could own to the established Re­ is, and the long roads that run from Johannes­ logic. Surely, in any and every way we can, we should be acting against Apartheid; serves. the small pockets already held by ffasser. burg to disappear down hollows and be­ against something which is causing such physical and widespread suffering. Africans in freehold, and such further areas as parliament might consider nec­ :ontrol hind distant hills. Apparently not. Mr Holcroft, who is in a strong position to influence public opinion in New Zealand, prefers it seems the pastimes of his own safe backyard. His display essary to meet the ‘legitimate’ claims of munist So white Johannesburg comforts it­ the African population in the future. One self—its blacks are not there because they jf moderation discloses an unhealthy sense of values. Alternatively, one could n who conclude in fairness to Mr Holcroft that his motive was to represent every point should, at the outset, notice the distinct­ cannot he seen— as a frightened child ive deception used in naming non-white in con- with its hands squeezed tight over its of view on the issue — fairly. nd in legislation in the Union. Land Acts take eyes. It is not, after all, the individual away land, Franchise Acts disenfranchise, Ī estern African who terrifies— one knows him Industrial Conciliation Acts harass and ;r con- behind his broom or his machine to be tax and transport costs have been de­ again, white South Africa rubbed its divide, the Bantu Education Act substit­ i fight, inoffensive enough. It’s the mob that ducted, he will probably shrug his should­ eyes and woke for a few short months utes indoctrination for education, and the makes one feel suddenly unsteady, the ers. explain to you laboriously that whites to the humanity stirring at the end of Suppression of Communism Act sup­ iterests jostie near the bus-stops in Main Street cannot judge Natives by inflated white the long roads. Nasser presses practically everything, and Com­ at half-past five in the afternoon, the standards of living : then he will retreat Articles began to appear in the news­ munism only incidentally. It is, perhaps, there­ picture of a riot in the evening news­ behind the self-satisfaction of paying his papers analysing the economic conditions white South Africa’s one compromise of the African industrial worker and con­ of the paper. ThoSe long roads are an emotional boys a little more than he is legally re­ with conscience. necessity. quired to do and make a note not to ditions that the average African family lar, to In 1936, the fusion of the two major Cassem And a moral necessity, too. For £16- invite you to his home for dinner again. in the urban areas lived calamitously be­ udd a month is very little for a family He is. after all, no worse than the liberal low the bread-line. From the welter of poiiticul parties in parliament under \y dis- to live on— if one has to see them do it, lady who talks interminably of leaving statistics ignored for years, it reluctantly Hertzog and Smuts encouraged a com­ vithout that is. Pot-bellies and rickets and babies the country before the Nationalists cover emerged that the cost of living had far prehensive ‘solution to the Native prob- for his dead in corners from enteric dwindle and it with concentration camps, and who outstripped the occasional wage increases st plan and disappear in the roads separating told me once excitedly that the high in­ of the post-war industrial boom, and that power them from sight are only long enough. fantile mortality rate among Africans is what had been a gap between average in­ A sweet manufacturer will glow at the due to the large number of children they come and essential minimum expenditure Turn to page 12 ; upon benevolence of the £3 5s. a week that he have. of some £3 a month in 1944, had become Page 2 CRACCUM Friday, 5th June, 1959

(.■ ml most unfortunate]) gone union- Association, to question the miluemc tested. No slur is intended on the two such efficiency is likelv to have on appointed members of the new Exec., future Exec, members. Effii iency is as they will obviously carry out their one thing, but when it is in danger oi duties most efficiently. But in doing becoming an end in itself, it loses all this, they are forgetting the reason its value. CRACCUM why they are at University. One of One final word. I he President *>i them enters on a third year as an the Association is the link with the Executive member, and during that world outside the University’s ivon The Editor accepts as little responsibility as possible lor the contents of this paper, and time it is not untrue to say that this tower. Thus anyone holding the of­ the opinions expressed are not necessarily those of the Editor or the A.U.S.A. member has, while becoming the most fice of President needs, in addition to efficient Exec, member in Exec, his­ great administrative skill, to have some tory. neglected the acquiring of academic achievements to present to academic qualifications. It is none of a public, who secretIv respect success, E d ito r: Jonathan Hunt. rnv business to inquire into his private even academic success. If they see that life, but it is my duty, and the duty of the President ol the student body is U n iv ersity News E d ito r: Barry Faville even student who regards himself as acailemicalh sunesstul. they may tend a member of the Students' Association, to regard general student activities m O v e rse a s News E d ito rs: Jim Holt and Terry Power. and uses the facilities provided bv that a more benevolent manner.

Literary and Arts Editors: Wystan Curnow, Felicity Maidment, and Vince O'Sullivan Sports Editors: Phil Andrews and Barry Gustafson. creeping tragedy Reviews Editors: Tony Hammond and Michael Bassett, in Features Editor: Michael Jackson

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Business Manager: Jolyon Firth. New Zealand's position in inter­ even worse than ii was in 1 9 4 9 It is national politics at this moment is vitally important to 11s that 1 stand Distribution, Files: Vivienne Porsolt. and Anne Millar crucial, lied by traditional bonds to is made now, and thus show Asian- Britain and the U.S.A., she is tainted that we are the ii friends. It is because this issue is so import Photographer: Bill Rountree. with Western power politics and cap­ italism, and vet geographically, ant that it is not enough merely to economically, and morally New Zea­ state our own moral attitudes \Va Reporters and Correspondents: Margaret Weatherley, Jack Beggs, Pat Bull, Owen Gager, land must recognise that she is part of must make this opinion felt by the John Orbell, Bill Broughton. Michael Jackson, David Hamer, Borrie Prendergast, S.E. Asia and must act as such. It is in New Zealand Rugbs Union. ()ne wav Mac Jackson, Beverley Snook, Alison Mills, Max Richards. John Seymour, Warren Drake, this way, as part of S.E. Asia, that the to do this would he for all students Chris Hayden, Pat Sinclair, Peter Lorimer, Tony Kingsbury, people of Asia and Africa are watching selected to go t<> Smith Africa to with us, watching for the signs of friend­ draw from the team, but this would ship and willingness to trade and meet he putting the burden of action on Asians on an equal footing, the signs only a few people. A far more drastii that will indicate that New- Zealand and effective step would be for Uni Friday, 5th June, 1959. lias recognised her political respon­ versitv Rugb\ teams to withdraw front sibility. rugby competitions if the N.Z.R.l It is in this light that we must con­ decided to send .1 team. Another sider the projected All Black tour of method would he .1 large-scale boycott South Africa. One of the most sensi­ of N.Z.R.U. matches this yeai At am tive points of the Asian or African is rate, those who think this issue is vital slick tricks his awareness of his colour and his at­ and urgent must not be complacent, titude towards it. If our attitude is one hut be prepared to ait. We must real of complete non-discrimination, he ise that the controversy ovei the All Executive elections have come as many people in 1 9 5 9 as he had been will accept us as his friend, but if we Black team is being regarded with around again but the ordinary student in 1 9 5 8 ”. But why, you may ask. did show in any way that our official non­ more interest m Asia and Airica than is probably aware of this. W ith superb they stand, if they feared the student colour-bar policy is only a facade, he we appear to regard it ourselves. secrecv. a little clique who have de­ body’s opinion of them? Because, as will distrust us, and this distrust will The eventual dnision will not lx signs on executive management, have more than one Exec, members has tell against us. If, then. New Zealand something we either accept m rejeit practically succeeded in dividing up said, they feel that they alone have uere to send any team to South Africa, from a distance, hut something which all the major posts of the Association the experience necessary to perform whether it he completely representa­ is going to vitally concern us in this (President. Man and Woman Vice- the onerous duties loaded on them by tive or not, it will he regarded as con­ country. Our ai t ion in this matter President. and Treasurer), and it was virtue of their office. And here we get doning and even partially accepting presumably as a unified counm, will with a rude shock that Craccum real­ to the root of the whole problem. Just South Africa’s racial policy. This either confirm mu friendship with ised that nominations had closed be­ what experience is necessary to he an policy. 1 am sure, we all recognise as Asia or taint 11s with racial prejudice fore the May vacation. The only pub­ Exec member? e\il and without any moral justifica­ Our answer to this question must lx licity given to the fact of nominations Only two positions require much ex­ tion. But we must realise that the rea­ a clear and uni (unpromising NO. It being open were two pokey little perience — that of President and son that a team must not go to South we do send a team to South Airiia. notices displayed inconspicuously, one Treasurer. Luckily, the Presidency is Africa is not only because we leel and then extend the hand ol ltieml outside the main building and the being contested, but one of the candi­ impelled to condemn ourselves from ship to South East Asia, it will be other beneath two-month-old Execu­ dates appears to be working “full- their apartheid, but because to allow .1 rejected with distrust and suspicion tive meeting minutes which are never time” for the Association, as his attend­ team to he sent could well have a tre­ because the Asian will remember-that likely to be removed. When the stud­ ance at lectures has been, by his own mendous effect on our future life in we connived at Smith Africa’s apai ent body realises that these four senior words, practically non-existent. Phis this country. It is on these grounds theid policy. It is not enough ior 11s positions are the vital student official is something which must be guarded that we must appeal to the New Zea­ individually to he able to say: Well posts and that these elected represen­ against. This is a University, not a land Rugby Union not to send a team, anyway, I personally don’t approve ol tatives lead the rest of the Executive business concern, and we are at U ni­ lust because teams have been sent in apartheid”, and like Pilate wash out in presenting official student opinion, versity, not only to be President or the past, does not justify sending a hands of the whole affair. In this then it can be realised what a low Chairman of this and that, but also to ff;tm now. The article, “The Creeping issue, it is as .1 country that we an trick was played on us by the 1 9 5 9 acquire academic qualifications. The Tragedy of South Africa” shows that watched and as .1 country we will stain! Publications Officer. No word was President’s job is of course important ' situation in South Africa is now or fall. passed to the official organ of the hut past Presidents of the Association Students’ Association, Craccum that have managed a great deal else besides elections were taking place. If copy being President. Any position that had been presented, it would have looks like becoming too much for received as much space as required. In someone — and by too much is meant addition by not giving copy, the Publi­ that his academic career is being cations Officer set a new precedent, as endangered — should not exist at any i§uth Ulrica -1960 ? for the past twenty years, Craccum has University, Secondly, the Treasurer’s always been handed such copy. position. This does require specialised SPEAKERS: L. Patridge — Principal of Southern Rhodesia Teachers But when all is said and done, the knowledge and here, Mr Streven’s re- Training College. . . . X. Thornton — a representative of 194(> whispering attitude is not one adopted election will be looked on with All Black team. without reason. Certain of the people pleasure by many as he seems to find returned unopposed were afraid of not no difficulty in doing an excellent job Open Discussion getting in if a ballot had been neces­ while at the same time passing units— AC HALL, 1 p.m., TUESDAY. 9th JUNE. sary for their position. One was heard tire only true sign of academic ad­ to say to prominent members of Crut- vancement. cum staff that lie “was not liked bv The Vice-Presidencies have, in the Friday, 5th June, 1959 CRACCUM Page 3 NEW HORSES FOR OLD REINS PRESIDENT

John Bayley Owen Miller

Nominated: A. Young Nominated: J . Holt M. Freyne G. J. Davies Beverley Snook Dinah Fairburn

Academic Qualifications: Part B.A. Academic Qualifications: M.A.

John Bayley has been connected with the roles he has played in the Revues of 1957, Owen is the likely successor to a line of for the position of Student Liaison Officer activities of the Students' Association for a 58 and 59, his most recent being that of Presidents with unusually high Academic la st yea r. In this capacity he has been one number of years and will need little intro­ "Hamlet". In adition he has been President qualifications — Peter Boag, M.A. Peter of the most energetic and successful mem­ duction to most students of the Debating Society, a Joynt Scroll Gordon, B.A., Arthur Young, LLB, to name bers of the Executive. representative, a member of Drama Club the three most recent. Owen Miller gained Ait important requirement for the position John served on the Executive over the Committee and a Drama Representative at his B.A. in 1956, and his M.A. in French in of President is experience in chairmanship past year, holding the portfolio of Social Tournament. He has held a commission in 1957, all within four years and Psychology I end Constitutional matters. Owen has chair­ Controller and in this capacity he organised the Territorial Air Force and has other and Experimental Education (for the Dip­ ed in his first term of Office, the fortnightly and directed the Association's various social interests centering around tennis, skiing and loma of Education) last year. This year he is meetings of Men's House Committee, and functions. He was a member of Capping water-skiing. doing Psychology II. The University Body is in his second term of Office, Student Liaison Committee, Orientation Committee and by definition academic, and should be led Committee and Orientation Committee. He Tournament Committee and has played his He is a part-time student, studying Arts, by a person who has full knowledge of the drew up the draft copy of the constitution of full share in the organization of these and is the secretary of an importing firm. interests and opinions of the overage the newly-formed Students' International activities. Apart from his portfolio work, student. Four years full-time and two years Club and successfully chaired the difficult John ha< p la y ed a p ro m in e n t role on the The President of the Students' Association part time Varsity have enabled Owen to Constitutional meeting for the formation of Executive He has been acting as the As­ must, above all else, combine imaginative gain a clear insight into the needs of both th e C lu b . sociation Public Relations Officer, has been leadership with sound administration. John's sides of student life. With two terms of Office as an Executive active in the initial steps towards a new Selected for Men’s House Com­ member behind him and his wide range of student building, and was instrumental in record shows that he is well suited to the task of Presidency. The enterprise and mittee 1955, he became Secretary in 1956, experience of Student Affairs behind him, the recent establishment of the "University energy he has shown in the past marks him and the Chairman and a member of the we feel that Owen will be able to give to News" column in the Auckland Star. as a student leader and we confidently Executive in 1957. A member of Orientation the Executive the strong leadership it needs. John is also well known for the leading commend him to you. Committee in 1957, he stood successfully We recommend him to you as President.

Eeiurned Unopposed MAN VICE-PRESIDENT WOMAN VICE-PRESIDENT

Neil Maidment

Barbara Skudder

The new Woman Vice-president, Barbara Skudder, is a 4th year Arts student, who enters into her second year on Executive. I Her specific duties will be to be Cafeteria Controller and hostess at Association official functions. TREASURER

John Strevens, B.Com,

The new Man Vice-president is Neil Maidment, a 4th year Commerce student, who enters into his third year on Executive. His i John Strevens enters on his second year as Treasurer. Else- chief duties will be to be Corresponding Member, keeping this where (in the editorials), reference has been made to his effi- Association in touch with NZUSA and the other N .Z. Universities. ciency. He is Chairman of Finance Committee. Friday, 5th June, 1959 Friday,

meant something other than what hi wrote and thinks that I meant yimethim: other than what 1 w rote. On Tuesday (7th April) a report He attempts to excuse his self-contra appeared in the New Zealand Herald dictoryr assertion that “no man . . shook concerning the city council’s decision to consciously strive to make others accept fluoridate our city’s water supply. his owm view", by explaining that what (. r a c c u m On Wednesday (8 th April) the head­ he said was "only related to the dogmatic lines of the same paper were focussed assumptions of much Christian thought it the hi on a proposal to build an aluminium In other words, Mr. Jackson meant that meeting oi mill in New' Zealand. no Christian should strive to make other> plendour Firstly, concerning fluoridation, two accept his own views. He should have umulating councillors were absent from the meet­ said this in the first place. Ms in f;i( lie appoim ing, and both are known to have op­ My namesake then wastes ink arguing posed fluoridation previously. If these portfolio against an assumption which I did not ring to dt two had been present the council may make. If he reads my former letter with have been split eleven-all. half the care with w hich I wrote it, lie In detail For some unknown reason some of the will find that nowhere did I assert that ainment. councillors 'who had previously been it is alway's wrong to kill. Nor did I worth while strongly opposed to fluoridation now have imply anything about the rightness or wanted hi no objections. Some of the dental opin­ wrongness of the action of Gandhi’s as and Mr. 1 It w as con secure the largest possible influence for ions that had been supplied to council­ sassin or of the attitude of the conscienti­ Although it is gratifying to see so lors (e.g. Otago Dental School) were ant mattei many students writing letters this year, herself in South East Asia. We do not ous objector. These folk merely figured in strongly opposed to fluoridation but the and bv \ 1 most of the letters have one common see anything objectionable in that aim. examples of conscience giving incompat­ Mayor suggested to councillors that they oncerned fault, that of length. If you want to write It is only when we consider the means ible directions to different men. should not again traverse at great length click ! ) 600 words on any subject, that is strictly by which this is done that we can con­ The real point at issue between Mr. half an demn any particular nation in this re­ the literature they had been given. Jackson and myself emerges in his an article — letters should not exceed Secondly, concerning the manufacture sressions : 400 words. In future, over-long letters spect. We believe India has nothing to fence of cannibalism. The conscience of of aluminium, the primary by-products it's rotuiu will not normally he printed. Remember, be ashamed of in its record. Mr. Nehru’s a cannibal allows him to kill and eat ilutely the smaller the letters, the more policy has been largely the application of are fluorides (from fluorspar, CF2, and other men, and he is justified in doing cryolite, Na3AIF6.) and obviously only place. Acti Craccum will he able to print.— Ed. Gandhi’s admirable philosophy. We have so (according to my opponent) because sweepinglv seen how the British “unselfishly” bore an aluminium mill that can sell its by­ such behaviour "satisfies a human need"; product is a good economic venture. brief sojoi the White Man’s burden. The French and I am naive for believing that a can­ ing at anc Hayden's Howler have had their civilization missions, and Obviously when an aluminium mill is nibal would be a morally better person being suggested, Auckland would try to tence wide the Germans of course had their “Kultur" if he felt no need to indulge himself it; regarding M r, to spread. The Japanese have tried to get it. Is this the reason why the prin­ this w'ay. Mr. Jackson’s cheap brand of ciple of fluoridation has been approved? ring (in t With reference to Mr. Hayden's letter spread the idea of the Co-prosperity ethical relativism commits him to the gentleman sphere, and we believe, are still trying. or has the large aluminium enterprise view that one man’s conscience is as grea‘ in your last issue, we would like to been at wmrk trying to guarantee them­ whom he point out certain glaring errors. Firstly, All these are minor variations of one as another’s. I prefer to believe that inent as ‘tl central theme— greed and barbarism. But selves a market for their by-product. Michael Jackson's conscience, which pre­ the Tibetan "revolt” has not caused Mr. In conclusion, supposing the council­ concerned Nehru to “shed the guise of the great th light that Mr. Nehru and India are sumably prevents him from carving up meats for trying to spread is that of the gentle lors have not been led astray by a large his fellow Varsity students, is a better Asian and World statesman”, and sec­ money-making company, are they still General at ondly it has not revealed him as “no philosophy of Gandhism — a philosophy one than that of the native who has no alleged ‘sh rooted in the Hindu belief of the sanct­ correct in forcing mass medication upon scruples in this regard. more than India’s chief politician, play­ us ? Are they correct in imposing fur­ when the ing the game of power politics” . If any­ ity of all life and which can, as Tolstoi to he a f; ther limits upon the individual’s liberty, Finally', let me point out that to ack thing, it has brought to light his great has shown us. be traced back to the ings, tliouf. when they themselves are still not sure nowledge the existence of an “intuitive" statesmanship and belief in non-interfer­ Bible itself. scribing tl about the controversial problem of flu­ conscience is not necessarily to ascribe ence in the internal affairs of other portfolios. Mr. Hayden suggests that Mr. Nehru oridation ? to it any' ultimate moral authority; let countries. His conduct throughout the should treat China to a dose of "that -A.J.C.B. me also suggest that Mr Jackson thing \tter ri Tibetan crisis has the finesse of a man hot air and abuse which he so liberally' twice before likening my remarks to “in­ tiling, Exe totally dedicated to the ideals of bestows upon the friends who are paying audible echoes”, (it is rather like talking protest t< i Gandhism, and democracy. to keep his tottering economy intact.” Socialists Are Learning about damiverous animals that don't placement Whatever certain propagandists might Firstly, we would like to point out that Sir. eat meat), and that he stop using “infer" at Sakiet. say otherwise, there is no doubt to most it would be entirely anti-Gandhian in and “inference" as synonyms for “imply' this was r Asians that Tibet is an integral part of spirit, and secondly, as far as results are Craccum treated us to a whimsical and “implication". Imprecision is the use was generr China proper. In not interfering in the concerned, it would achieve nothing. As situation last issue by providing articles of words is the trade-mark of woolly meeting. internal affairs of China, Mr. Nehru is for the rest of this piece of vulgarity by very ardent socialists decrying the argument. Grants t< only observing the co-existence pact ht from Mr. Hayden, it deserves nothing but separation of Christian ethics from pol­ MacD. P. Jackson. were appr< signed with Mr. Chou-En-Lai in 1954. contempt. Such unkind references to itics— man’s public relationship w-ith his ilisappointe It is very rarely that we see a states­ India’s “tottering economy" display noth­ fellows. hey disco man honouring a pact he signed under ing but total ignorance of the true state Time was when such talks from them lotted. Mr. different circumstances. Thus, we see of Indian affairs. Starting in 1948, with would have been most unexpected. Now ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS obviously i that there are still parts of Chinese ter­ a treasury that was practically emptied they begin to understand the oneness of defies to > ritory' held by certain imperialist powers b\ his “ British friends" before they left, the human personality and the need of Ferdinand J. Rollsworthy: Thank you prevent tl. even though they have signed innumer­ Mr. Nehru has managed to keep the admitting an ethical code so as to guide You will find your letter is covered In necessary. human behaviour not only on Sunday but that of Messrs. Hoo and Nair. able pacts guaranteeing Chinese sover­ country prosperous and raised the stand­ Mr. Strt eignty in those areas. ard of living of the people. With con­ all seven days a week. For most of us (and for European V.O’S : Snurgery all in the ho tical objec As for moral considerations, we are summate skill, he has managed to revive you know. nt the ne certain industries which had almost died civilization as a whole )the Christian sure, Mr. Hayden must be aware of Mr. ethical system is our guide. It would be own unpad under the repressive treasures of the col­ D .R .T.; Your remarks much appreci­ Nehru's vigorous protests against the silly to insist on the separation of our ceptibly. I violation of certain inhuman acts per­ onial masters. The amount that his ated, but yen try editing the paper. started tn “friends" are now' paying to support his lives from our frame of reference. petuated in this very nasty affair. We All praise then for our new- fledged The mee "tottering economy” is but a tiny frac­ Isabel; No, dear, we will not pub­ tied morali: are not saying that we agree with Mr. Champions of practical Christianity— licise the “ Movement for closer ties with Nehru’s protests, but we think that all he tion of what some of his other “friends" getting irn may we follow' their advice. No longer nature". could do under the circumstances is to pilfered from the country in their al­ not attendi most 200 years rule in India. let us separate our life in the commun­ bring to the notice of the Chinese that ity from our map of life. Let us bring R.M.S. Tudehope: 1 hope the tedd\ a brief flur they have violated the pact. Mr. Nehru is no hypocrite or moral forward unhesitatingly reforms based on bear will turn up for you. one tried coward. With all apologies to Mr. Hay­ Christian brotherly love, not hate or ra­ ting the m Mr. Nehru is one who believes in the sible. rule of law- and conference, and does not den, may we point out that, naturally, we tionalized avarice. Our religion is also our ethical system. Craccum send his troops rushing into Tibet just do not expect anyone who believes in 9.3 p.m. because the beliefs of the rulers of Tibet nothing but force and abuse to understand How we worship is the more private do not happen to coincide with his. We the finer points of Gandhism. Mr. Hay­ matter. How we treat one another is any­ have witnessed how ‘ the champions” of den and others can shower all the abuse thing but a private matter. Don't you democracy have rushed their troops half­ they like on Mr. Nehru, but we, like agree ? — Phoenix. COPY FOR NEXT ISSUE way round the world into another country millions of other Asians, not necessarily (Agree to what?— Ed.) to protect that country from “invasion" Indians, will continue to have faith in by citizens of that country. Luckily, Mr. his leadership of the ‘active neutralists". Jackson v. Jackson C. S. Hoo (Malayan-Chinese >. Monday, 8th June Nehru is not one of those military mani­ Sir. acs who believe in that type of de­ N. K. Nair ( Malayan-Indian ). mocracy. In an earlier letter to Craccum, I crit­ icised certain views put forward by Mr. Nehru's frequent outbursts against Wot! No Dinner? Britain and the U.S.A. are well founded Michael Jackson. It now appears that he and sincere. These two “champions" of Sir. democracy frequently indulge in acts which can hardly be called democratic. It has been stated in Craccum that It is only because these two countries floats will have to be of a higher stand­ have proclaimed to the world their belief ards this year if Procesh is to be con­ EAT 1st NGDRAEDNEJ 0 Y in the high ideals of democracy and then tinued. (27/4/59). The inadequate prizes A.M.C. MEATS have forgotten to observe them that Mr last year were certainly no incentive for Nehru has had his "frequent outbursts". the tremendous amount of work required MONARCH In all the occasions that he has had these to construct a good quality float. Pre outbursts, we believe that Mr. Nehru has suntably, as the prizes for this year have not been published, they will be no more BACON, HAM and SMALL GOODS been right. Open attractive than those of last year. If QUALITY PRODUCTS As for the accusation that Mr. Nehru this is so, there is at least one club that is out to secure the largest possible in­ will not be putting the same effort into OF fluence in the wrorld for India, we would a float as in previous years. Nobody will like to point out the fact that every work without incentive. country, nowadays, in its ow-n way, is T H E AUCKLAND MEAT CO. LTD. 3 ■ trying to do the same for itself. Even — J. Charles Watt (AU Field Club). this country, New Zealand, is trying to ( Don’t be Editor of Craccum then,— Ed. ) i>59 Friday, 5th June, 1959. CRACCUM Page 5 it in ■ thiiii' 1 E G G A

)llt f.l hoult column, for YACHTIES. tght" ;it the atpHiinted hour for the Exec, read N AC H I ikS. : that meeting on 4 May, and sat in solitary >ther< splendour for an appreciable time ac­ The 1Cven so, didn’t you think it was an ob­ havi cumulating doubts as to whether this jectionable effort? Supercilious, hyper­ ji'fls in fact the appointed place and/or critical, space-wasting ? Why didn’t you the appointed hour, until sufficient of the guiiif Easy Way protest ? Until the time copy closed portfolio holders arrived for the gath­ (Tegga Roncay is invariably written after I not ering to declare itself quorurned. with Basic Conversational French, German and Spanish are copy closes) there was not a single it. In In detail of all principles of good enter­ the new twentieth century language courses. Combined with letter demanding that we be purged, that tainment. the best and in fact only : tli,it textbooks teaching the latest advances in language study are we apologise and withdraw, that we he did I worthwhile item was first. Air. Bindon sued for £2 ,0 0 0 for unfairly influencing wanted his name in Revue programme, two long-playing (33;\ r.p.m.) records embodying the latest ss or union elections, or even that we be forced and Mr. Broughton did not put it there. s as technical advances in sound recording. From these the lan­ to confine ourself to that more brilliant It was contended by Air. Br. that import­ ienti guages may be learnt quickly by imitation of native speakers. type of witticism which is such a delight­ ant matters of principle w;ere involved, •ed in ful characteristic of us. Shame on you! and hv Mr. Hi. that as far as he was The courses are most modern. 'tipat- Standard's reaction to the result at ■ concerned he did not really mind that Only £6/-/- per set. The cheapest and best language Hamilton was interesting, especially in ■ (click!) much. Nothing resulted, but teaching records available, from:— view of its earlier stated supreme con­ Mr. ■ half an hour was spent including di- fidence. (see Craccum 3). In its report, s di­ |"ressions such as The Business Alanag- the affair was shucked off as ‘not unex­ ce of cr’s rotund complaint regarding the ‘ab­ pected’, and the result itself was suitably d eat solutely pitiful’ organization around the W H IT C O M B E Cr TOMBS LTD. buried at the foot of a column on Page doing place. Actually Mr. Firth was in splendid 19. For the first time in goodness knows cause sweepingly critical form throughout his Queen and High Streets, Auckland how long the paper dispensed with an eed"; brief sojourn at the meeting, comment­ editorial, and the biggest headline of the can- ing at another point about the incompe­ week was not concerned with nasty pol­ erson tence which had let ‘thousands’ of things itics at all, but was ‘YOU, TOO, CAN elf in regarding Capping go wrong, and refer­ HAVE ATTRACTIVE HAIRSTYLE.’ ad of ring (in tones of utmost disdain) to a > the gentleman on Revue Committee with Ouote and re-quote : grea' whom he had had a financial disagree­ ‘ Placed at the door of Learning, youth that ment as ‘that / . . . person’. He was very to guide. i pro concerned about the detailed arrange­ W e never suffer it to stand too wide g »1' ments for the reception of the Governor- Presumed motto Professorial Board, better General at the Playhouse, following the from Dunciad Bk. IV by Alex­ as tin alleged ‘shambles' on the Saturday night, ander Pope (1745). when the Mayor came. 'Shambles’ seems Periodically there is a good deal of ack - to be a favourite term for Exec meet­ ings, though reserved exclusively for de­ talk around Varsity about the nature itive" and particularly the alleged defects of scribe scribing the operation of other people's portfolios.. the system under which prospective post­ ■ ; let primary school teachers receive their thing After fifteen months and much quib­ University training. Aluch of this is ill— t “in- bling, Exec agreed more or less under or uninformed, and it is now proposed ilking protest to pay £6 / 10 /- towards the re­ to attempt to inform it. don't placement of the bombed school-building 367 students at AU are this year Post- infer" at Sakiet. Tunisia. The suggestion that Primary Teacher Studentship holders nply' this was an important symbolic gesture and are collectively called Division ie use was generally considered amusing by the Certain Departments in this Institution are in the habit of conduct­ U(niversity) of the Auckland Teachers’ /oollv meeting. College. They are all full-time University Grants to various student organizations ing, on their own initiative, invigorating little field trips whch, they students, 161 of them freshers, 10 0 in ’• were approved: there will be some very their second year (‘U2’), 84 in their third __ disappointed committees around when claim, are absolutely indispensable to one's healthy education. and 31 in their fourth. Although a break­ diey discover what they have been al- down by faculty for 1959 is not yet avail­ lotted. Mr. Strevens explained that it was Unless one is an utter fool, one conforms to this attitude and even able, Air. A. R. Havey, Senior Lecturer 'N > h obviously not desirable to encourage so­ becomes wildly enthusiastic when it is learnt that the excursion is to Div. U., said there was no significant cieties to s|>end, and the obvious way to change in proportion from last year, when : you |)revent this is to deprive them of the the North of Northland; it being very winterless up there 209 of the 290 students were in the Arts ed by necessary. faculty, 65 were taking Science, 11 Fine Mr. Strevens then made a major prac­ Arts, 3 Alusic and 2 Commerce. There It isn’t winterless you know. It’s cold legs that moved as a hull. i bed tical objection to the corrugated nature are Div.U students at all the four Uni­ of the new stools in the Caf. In its — and windy — and wet. ( I don’t care One slept at nights on a mattress, versities, Auckland having about a third own unpadded chair Craccum winced per­ what the banana trees say). One of our round the warm glow of a kerosene of the total. pretci- ceptibly. It was blooming cold, and it main functions in the place was to make heater, in the wide open spaces of an Mr. Harvey declined to go into de­ started to |>our outside. a land use map of the district, which in­ empty classroom, with a sagging plaster tails of the academic performances of The meeting concluded with some justi­ volved tramping into every single, water­ ceiling right up above you. It was Hell Div U students compared with those of pub- fied moralising by Air. Young about Execs logged, goddam paddock, seeing what in there, especially w'hen the blasted other full-timers, because, he said, he ; with getting irresponsible in their old age and breed of grass, scrub, bush, or weed fleas started coughing. Thank God for did not wish to create any ill-feeling be­ not attending meetings. Then there was thrived in it. and colouring the appro the pub! It wasn’t exactly Heaven in tween his charges and; the rest of the priate area on the map in the appropri­ there either, but it Was exhilarating. The tedd\ a brief flurry of competition while every­ student body. He did however volun­ one tried to outdo one another in put­ ate colour. B oy! This was livin’ ! ! ! idea, was to be in the near vicinity when teer the information that on a national one of several, large, rotund Alaori ting the next meeting off as long as pos­ It was a relief to go interviewing farm­ scale a full two-thirds of the first intake sible. ers. though it had an element of risk. gentlemen vigorously hurled a fiver at into the scheme, that of 1956, had com­ Craccum was the first out the door, at The patriotic pioneers in the backblocks the bar and roared: ‘Drink that out!” pleted bachelor degrees or diplomas in 9.3 p.m. had an unfortunate habit of being hostile One then immediately started drinking, that the overall pass rate (units passed to anything hinting of Income Tax In­ and talking to a man who had been an over units sat) had throughout been spector, and several regrettable cases of historic old gumdigger. Apparently he mistaken identity occurred. Of course had stopped digging gum because all the maintained at over 80%. "LAUTREC" there were other forms of excitement gum had been dug up. (Anyway that Mr. Harvey denied any suggestion that dotted over the landscape — after one was the story he told, which seemed the procedure used amounted to mere harrowing experience, I believe one young reasonable enough). Thank God for the unit-farming’, saying that students were lady classed anything whatever on four Pub ! ! ! encouraged to get the most possible out of their Varsity years in all fields by par­ ticipate fully in the life of the University. In fact, he said, 30 Div. U students last year held positions on Exec., or as of­ ficers in one or more student clubs. He Daring Political Heading >tated firmly that there was no attempt to interfere with the independence of the ( Unkle Fav. regrets he did not think one up uncensorible enough— Ed.) individual Div. U student and that he I never thought I would be able to pass comment on the S.C.M. and Social­ was not spoonfed. And he stressed once more that the policy had consistently been > ist Society in the one breath. But it has happened. Aly thanks to Air. Ibsen who thought up these lines. to discourage the idea that Div U stud­ ents formed a corporate or privileged “The only revolution I recall group within the University. Coffee Lounge. That was not altogether a cheat and fraud. Freezing workers at Ngauranga rec­ Play Chess. One that out-gloried all of its successors— That, of course, was the great Deluge. ently stopped work and forced the man­ Open 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. But Lucifer was cheated even then, agement to put the price of a cup of For Noah, on the Ark, became dictator. tea in the works cafeteria back to what "LAUTREC" So— let us try again, friends, radicals. People's Voice called the ‘reasonable level’ of 2 d. for the first cup and 1 d. for 57 Lome Street And to do that, let us have fighters, orators. Yes, bring about another world-wide Deluge, refill. Perhaps we could go one better 3 mins, from Vorsity And I — I’ll gladly torpedo the A rk!” and demand Danger Aloney for the •—Unkle Fav. trouble of drinking the local brew. Page 6 CRACCUM Friday, 5th June, 1959 Social Scepticism ? New Zealanders, notorious for conserving the worst points of British UNIVERSITY BLAZERS traditionalism, are now in the even greater danger of having their culture saturated with the worst features of Americanism. Comparatively little of New Zealand culture is original, that which is being mainly degenerate COLLEGE and unattractive (except for traditional Maori culture), customs, fashions and conventions being imported (about twenty-five years late) from other REP countries. The politicians of the past, and the present day elderly genera­ tion of parliamentarians, were largely concerned with following British policies. The burst of originality social reform at the beginning of the BLUES century was lost in a sea of public complacency. Since then, the pioneering spirit has been replaced by a glib acceptance of anything which is fed MADE TO MEASURE or READY-TO-WEAR to the populace, and over the latter parts of this century the main source of material has been not Britain but the larger more influential English- ALSO FOR ALL YOUR MERCERY & SUITS speaking country of America. The average New Zealander’s pattern inate the males. In more and more radio of behaviour and thought is governed programmes and comic strips, the mother THE HOUSE OF FLACKSON LTD. very rigidly by the normal social atti- is the dominating figure in the home, the tudes which are made up of what the father being just the fool who brings KARANGAHAPE RD. Appointed by Stud. Assn. public is conditioned into accepting via home the money. The boys grow up and the press, radio, films and any other form marry a dominating mother substitute. of external stimulus which impress their In many cases the situation is presented senses. The press is a powerful influence as humorous, but its effects in real life as far as political opinions are concerned are far from such. Throughout all this is hut patterns of social behaviour are the pervading, unnatural glorification of transmitted more effectively by films, the female form, in the typical Holly­ INDONESIAN radio programmes and popular magaz­ wood style. In receiving these impres­ ines. These patterns are modified in cer­ sions uncritically, New Zealand youth is tain directions by religious influences and conditioned into considering this as the New Zealand Victorianism, but in normal state of affairs. There is evi­ DELEGATION spheres where there is no conflict be­ dence that in America itself, there is a During the hrst three weeks of May New Zealand universities wen tween the incoming suggestions and al­ reaction at the present time against the ready strongly established beliefs, the matriarchal situation by Amrican men, hosts to a delegation of Indonesian students. They came here after a suggested social behaviour, if repeated but conformist New Zealand has the seven week tour of Australian universities, at the invitation of consistently with little contradiction, be­ potential for such circumstances to de­ N.Z.U.S.A, and with financial assistance from the N.Z. Government and comes accepted as normal. These are the velop to greater heights, before we re­ the Asia Foundation. mechanisms by which certain facets of alize what is happening. There is less American social behaviour are being im­ likely to be the male reaction in New First direct contact between N.Z.U.S.A. Local Indonesian students met the dele­ posed upon us. It is not as if American Zealand, with 14,000 more males than and the National Union of Indonesian gation privately and received a message behaviour was being accepted in entir­ females, resulting in a shortage of avail­ Students (P.P.M.I.) took place early from the Indonesian Ambassador in ety. in which case the trouble would be able women, compared with the large ex­ in 1957 when Mr. Peter Gordon visited Canberra. less acute; the problem is that we have cess of women in U .S.A .; while our Indonesia in the course of a goodwill Throughout the tour their most strik­ a particularly decadent form alone pre­ New Zealand Puritanism facilitates the tour of South East Asian universities. ing impression of New Zealand was the sented to us as typical. American cul­ exaltation of feminine virtues. The Am­ About the same time Mr. David Stone courtesy and hospitality of New Zea­ ture is very diverse according to geog­ erican male has already become a joke of the N.Z.U.S.A. Press Council vis­ landers, whether students.or others. Their raphy and class status, but the form of in European circles, and at the present ited Indonesia on his return from an in­ hosts, taxi-drivers and others they came Americanism with which we are assailed, rate it is likely that New Zealand will ternational student press conference in in contact with showed a great deal of is the type which the film and radio in­ be an even bigger one. The development Manilla. The recent visit to New Zea­ interest in them and did everything they dustries care to present. This single rep­ of triarchy can already be seen in New land is the first by an Indonesian stud­ could to help. People even stopped them resentative of American cultures is be­ Zealand’—j ust look around us. The con­ ent delegation, and is the direct result of in the street to ask after them and wish ing taken on its own, and combined with sequences in U SA have been a large in­ the earlier contacts. them well. Bv the time they arrived in New Zealand conformist attitudes will crease in juvenile crime, homosexuality There is already some co-operation be­ Dunedin the New Zealand autumn threat­ eventually put New Zealand in the ludic­ and general disharmony in homes. New tween the national student bodies of ened to spoil the whole tour so the Red rous position of being more American­ Zealand, with its present high rate of both countries, whereby a scholarship is Cross Society provided them with warm ised than America in some respects. homosexuality, sex crimes and mental awarded an Indonesian student to study clothing to see them through the rest of The particularly decadent ideas with illness, due to our puritanism and con­ in New Zealand, and also the Gradu­ the tour. This general friendliness went which we are overwhelmed are methods formity, cannot afford to have this addi­ ate Volunteer Scheme provides New a long way to making the tour such a of individual behaviour, of family life tional influence upset her social stabil­ Zealand graduates with an opportunity success. On their own admission they and of sexual and marriage relationships. ity. Our women should be allowed their of working in Indonesia. However closer were not sure before they arrived how In the first place. New Zealand youth rightful position in society, but this is co-operation is desired especially with they would be received. They found it has as its model the shaggy-haired, col­ not one of dominance. regard to Asian regional activities of difficult to imagine a European country oured- jeaned, effeminate looking charac­ The problem of checking the decay is the International Student Conference, to friendly towards Asians. Discussions with ter of doubtful sex, moaning some grave- immense. One could give up hope for which both national bodies are affiliated, Res. Exec, in Wellington were most yard-type theme about his ‘baby’ leaving New Zealanders and say that they were and the recent tour was arranged with cordial and agreement was reached on bim. This overemphasis on heterosexual always meant to follow and be spoon­ these considerations in mind. most points. romantic love and the type of behaviour fed, but to see one’s country degenerate New Zealanders who met the party portrayed are accepted as quite normal into a bigger sociological mess than it is While in New Zealand they visited the were equally impressed with their friend­ and there is an unbalanced over-import­ at present, is not pleasant. The trouble four universities and two agricultural liness. All the members spoke good Eng­ ance attached to this particular psycho­ is more immediate than is generally re­ colleges, conferred with the Resident lish so there was no language difficulty. logical abnormality. Even the cowboy cognised. It deserves urgent attention Executive of N.Z.U.S.A., met our pol­ Consequently, relations between the two heroes have lost their masculinity. They from those in control of the public mind; itical and civic leaders, and Indonesian groups were very good. leave their guns at home and go chasing- publishers, broadcasting officials and the­ students studying in New Zealand. They It was clear to New Zealand observers after a lecherous wench who dominates atre companies. These people should put also had a look at our industrial and that anti-colonialist feeling is still very them all the way. The worst aspects are social welfare before the amassing of agricultural development and scenic at­ intense in Indonesia, and this is reflected perpetrated in the portrayals of Ameri­ money. (This is probably too much to tractions. in the great interest in political matters can middle-class family life. From child­ ask). Finally it is for the person with The tour opened in Auckland and in the of most Indonesian students. Attitudes to hood onwards, New Zealanders receive intelligence to observe these influences three days they were shown as much of colonial countries influences the policy of impressions from film and radio as to and recognize the insidious trends, copy­ the university and university life as pos­ the P.P.M.I., so it was important that what is normal family life. In these fea­ ing only the better features of other coun­ sible. They met the vice-Chancellor, Mr. a favourable impression of New Zealand tures the female is put on a pedestal to tries and developing some original form Maidment, members of the Association and Australia be left with the delegation. the extent where she is allowed to dom­ of New Zealand culture.— J. D. Beggs. Executive and a large number of stud­ As the tour had begun, so it ended ents at a cocktail reception arranged by in Auckland. At an evening at the Auck­ Students’ International, and at the Maori land U.S.A., the delegaton was pre­ Club coffee evening where they were sented with a banner bearing the inscrip­ given a Maori welcome. O'Rorkeites had tion of the P.P.M.I. Kwa Khay Tuan an opportunity to meet them when they expressed the thanks of the delegation to visited O’Rorke Hall. Opening night of the N.Z.P.S.A. and the A.U.S.A. and Revue gave them another facet of student all those who helped to make the tour life which they hadn’t expected to see. pleasant, profitable, and memorable.

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fe u ifs F adu M o a * jfarf LIM ITED ÊĒm The “Box Office" 192 QUEEN STREET, AUCKLAND (and at Hamilton) ENT^iday, 5th June, 1959. CRACCUM Page 7 L O O K BACK IN A NGER exalt;i "Look Back in Anger" is a play about ( even Jimmy, the type of the New States­ The Auckland Drama Council’s pro­ out." Both women fail him. Alison leaves appear lie individual and society — about the man intellectual plus the type of the duction of ‘Look Back in Anger’ is the him because she wants peace, and Helena )rld a: Wicked Husband From The W ife’s attempt of a group of very different in- best piece of work we have seen from because she wants a sense of moral well­ he 1111 iividuals to find some place and mean­ Viewpoint), but in intellectual terms —- n, and ing in the society they live in. As such, that is, in terms of our guesses as to Ronald Barker so far. It was flawed, being. But when Alison returns after ved at it is important: for it is not until the what they are intended to be thinking. however, like ‘The Playboy of the West­ having lost the child, she has found the advent of the Angry Young Men that the Alison is not a stock character, admit­ ern World’ and, to some extent, ‘The strength that Jimmy needs. It is this sirapli theatre has dared to be so direct about a tedly : she is only a personality— less Chairs’, by his failure to understand the alone that provides any hope for the problem with as many important implica­ automaton whose actions are controlled it plffy. In Act One the action, which lies future. The Alison of Act Three is a 1 pe tions as this. The Auckland Drama Coun­ by two conflicting impulses. This means nglii cil is, therefore, to be congratulated on that “Look Back In Anger" lacks one in the relationship between Jimmy and different person from the Alison of Act :: our producing a play of such moment and dimension — it has conflict of ideas hut Alison, was obscured by an over-em­ One, hut Helen Stoupe remained the This impact. no conflict of personalities. This makes phasis on incidental dialogue, and conse­ same throughout. The unfortunate fact that the play as interpretation difficult, since we have no t faith quently. though never boring, it was God'. presented is unlikely to have the effect non-ideological clues to what is in the Karen Bell was miscast as Helena. She the author intended is not the Drama mind of the author, and have to fit the certainly static. The fault lay in the in­ is physically too gauche for the part, and Council's fault. Their casting was ex­ action into intellectual schemes of our : me- effectiveness of Helen Stoupe as Alison. lacked Helena’s slight authoritativeness cellent, with the exception of Karen Bell own— a process that fails completely of Admittedly it is Jimmy Porter’s play, that commands respect. Jack Reiman is at- ac Helena Charles, who seemed rather effect if one is lacking in intellectual >f tlii. unsure of herself, while Peter Morgan honesty. but nevertheless Alison is a far more turned Redfern into a heavy, stock-type hy to as Jimmy Porter gave a virtuoso per­ Osborne makes this more difficult by definite person than Helen Stoupe made ex-soldier, instead of being a tired, rather er the formance. Any failure in the play is the making his central character, Jimmy her. Throughout Act One she is so tense irist— bemused old man who is no longer responsibility of the play’s author more Porter, inconsistent. In the first act, that she can barely keep herself from needed and who cannot adjust himself to isdom. than anybody else: and John Osborne as we have said, he is represented as an better extremely obnoxious character: but we screaming, and the audience should be the world in which Alison and Jimmy cannot be exonerated from the charge of live. Graeme Eton gave a very sound 2 and slipshod workmanship, and, to some ex­ are later brought to see him as the aware of a vital conflict between he and and sensitive performance as Cliff. There s I)r tent, confused thinking in this play, raisonneur of the play. He is proved right Jimmy. His vituperative speeches about are two moments in the play — the ed to which is flawed dangerously by its open­ all through: by Helena’s rushing to his her family are not aimed at enlightening more arms at the first opportunity, by Col­ slap and embrace at the end of Act II ing act. The stagecraft is shoddy in the the audience hut at provoking Alison. As and Alison’s return in Act III — which y of extreme: apart from the brilliantly con­ onel Redfern’s character, which is exact­ it was, Helen Stoupe, instead of pro­ ly as Jimmy would have portrayed it. require good production for their suc­ trived repetition of the opening act of viding any opposition to Peter Morgan’s cess. Unfortunately Mr. Baker failed with y, the the play in the third act, the play tries The very affection Cliff, Alison and very strong and effective Jimmy, merely both. The first was perhaps not entirely Helena all feel for him tells totally pre- to say something extremely new and im­ wilted. There was no conflict, and so no his fault, but he cannot be excused for portant in terms of situations that were against the early image of him as the - l pre- action. the second. laims, dramatic cliches when Shakespeare was husband - the - nice - girl - would - feel in short pants. The scenes, for example, - most -easy - about - divorcing. In the Search for Strength On the whole, however, the produc­ [between Cliff Lewis and Alison Porter end this play with a thesis — as it very tion had a quality of youthful dynamism might have been taken word for word obviously is — fails completely to get The fundamental point of the play is that made up for most of its faults. We from a 1ZB soap opera. This means that its point across to any but those pre­ Jimmy’s search for strength, first in thank Mr. Barker and the Auckland radical changes in the behaviour of char­ pared to look hard for a very harsh crit­ Alison and then in Helena. “You’ve got Drama Council for at last letting us see acters cannot be interpreted in terms of ique of modern living and prepared to to be really brawny to have the strength and judge for ourselves the best of con- our knowledge of their personalities, for accept it as such when thev find it. to relax,” he says. “And in order to re­ temporarv English theatre. they are very largely stock characters. — O.J.G. lax, you've first got to sweat your guts F.J.M. id lie anisii, tneas- Book Review eperi- rposc I tudy- S p i n s t e r THE INTELLIGENTSIA MOON most atiou, First novels are frequently experi­ eator. mental, but rarely is the experiment as of Auckland University are regular depositors ercy; successful as it is in ‘Spinster'. The plot SECTION idard is simple and the characters are few. A of the AUCKLAND SAVINGS BANK. lod is spinster teacher at a back-blocks school i God is dissatisfied with officially-approved One of the main features of the cur e, in- teaching methods and sets out to re­ A R E YOU? place them with ones that are ‘natural’ rent Festival is a play by a Senior given Lecturer in English, Mr. Allen Curnow. that and ‘organic'. The apparent indifference and even hostility -of the Inspectorate, The fruit of several years thought and ige"; Anna sublimates her intense sex-drive in the vvell-meaning but imperceptive ‘Head’ plus the frustrations which she, a pas­ writing, ‘Moon Section’ is a tragedy re to teaching; Paul has not yet found such of her school, the effeminate teacher And sionate, yet intelligent ‘old maid’, suffers, drive the teacher, Anna Vorontosov, to an outlet. Jn spite of Anna’s much-wanted Percy Girlgrace and Anna’s assistant with its setting in New Zealand. Per­ n the knowledge of men, she is unable to under­ Sandy, are all secondary to a novel that haps some indication of the play’s con- , night daydreaming. She is cut off from the other members'of her profession by her stand Paul (and thereby move toward is strictly a study of one person, an old cern may be gathered from the author’s , in no comforting him in his self-appointed task maid. Although the novel is set in the : val- non-conformity in education and by her note in the Festival programme foreign birth. She day-dreams continually of ‘speaking to the world’). When he world of teaching, the background is ns of kills himself, Anna approves. ‘That was never obtrusive. Anna Vorontosov’s prob­ it has seemed to me for a long time, :o do about a one-time suitor with whom she had refused intimacy. Her present right, lad. that was brave’, she quotes. lems are those of all spinsters, indeed they that New Zealand— both in its founda­ lonely life makes her regret that she did His suicide appeals to her sense of the are shared by all people who are celi­ tions and its short history— is a remark­ most dramatic, for, as is common with lonely bate against their will. Anna tries art, satis- not accept Eugene, (her ex-lover), with able instance of mankind’s attempt every­ or without marriage. She lives in hope people, she loves to dramatize both her teaching, poetry, music and religion in stub- own actions and those of others. The her search for a sex-substitute, but none where in our world, to overbid its hand deep of a letter from him, and when it finally comes she quits teaching and unhesitat­ possibility of his having killed himself is really satisfactory, as one letter from against the fates that decree work, suf­ g for ingly boards a ship without even opening because of her hardness does not seem the man she previously refused is fering and death to be the conditions on : re- the letter. However, when she does open to reach her completely. For she is hard enough to outweigh them all. which life is enjoyed.” When questioned this it, she finds it contains the hoped-for without realizing how hard, and more orth- M.G. on the relationship of this play to his proposal of marriage. The use of the first physically attractive than she imagines. person and an introspective style are by Her prolonged spinsterhood has con­ other verse works, Mr. Curnow guard­ no means uncommon in New Zealand vinced her of her ugliness. edly suggested that in ‘Moon Section' literature. Both Janet Frame and Ian Anna Vorontosov attempts to substit­ FOR the themes dealt with are perhaps sim­ ute music, poetry and her career for a Cross, to name two, have made use of ilar to his earlier poems, rather than these methods with varying degrees of husband, but she cannot wholly elimin­ WINTER SPORTS GEAR ate her desire for marriage. those in last year’s publication, and al­ success. The character of Anna Voron­ GOLF — HOCKEY — RUGBY tosov is admirably suited to such a style. She needs to be always busy, or her though a very different kind of play, ‘The She is lonely, both mentally and physic­ celibacy will weigh on her. She thus has LEAGUE — SOCCER — BADMINTON Axe' (1947) was concerned with similar an air of dedication about her that only ally, she talks to the flowers in her BOXING — BASKETBALL questions. “They have something to do garden, and is nagged continually by indicates the magnitude of her desire for self-doubts. Yet self-knowledge is not a husband. She hopes, in time, to become Call and inspect our range of with what happens to people when they denied her. She is aware of her long­ married to her profession and thus be Selected Equipment. are out of step— adrift, as it were— from ihrisf ing for a man, any man, but she has independent of sex, (which she fears in tradition or history.” sufficient self-respect to keep young bach­ all its forms and is reluctant to name). Remember . . . We ore Sports Goods elors at a distance. This she partially achieves, for she is Experts and render a complete Repair One interesting point is that the play is As a study of a lonely life, ‘Spinster’ able to put her work before Her affec­ Service. in a verse form which conveys a distinct tion, (born of pity), for Paul Vercoe. ihrist is commendable. Here in Anna is the New Zealand speech idiom. To anyone typical introvert’s self-preoccupation and However, when her long-awaited letter lack of insight into the characters of from Eugene appears, she dismisses the WATTS who had the misfortune to see last year's others. Thus Anna rashly promises com­ teaching profession, (the shadow of her Festival play, Bruce Mason's neo-mild fort to Paul Vercoe, a young, unstable love), and chooses Eugene, (the sub­ SPORTS DEPOT LTD. Victorian domestic mummery, “Birds in gift bachelor teacher, who, like herself, is stance of her love). the Wilderness”, this aspect of Mr. Cur- The other characters in the book are Exchange Lane, 95 Queen Street, a foreigner unable to find his niche in now’s play is something to be looked New Zealand society. In his case, how­ somewhat ‘typed’, and are never fully Auckland, C.l. ever, the reason is different. Anna is developed, indeed it would be unneces­ forward to. sary to do so. W. W. J. Abrcrombie, the P.O. Box 2330 ------Phone 45-412 handicapped in her work by an unimag­ The play is running at the Concert God, inative education administration; Paul is senior inspector, who has real kindness handicapped by a lack of self-knowledge. under a layer of professional kindness, (Chamber from June 9th to 14th. Page 8 CRACCUM Friday, 5th June, 1959 Friday 1%'r Oscar's latest dream ON SALE Minister Cogloose w as adamant. Pro­ ably in your daily lives. But be sure that fessors didn't really need leave; excuses for the intermediates are many and varied, lor holidays they were; what use were little in history one authority exists to counteract New Zealanders in the research game? Let another. Urizen must counteract the seep the profs read the very good textbooks ticism of Ho-Yung and Enicharmon, I must that were available, if import restrictions myself counteract the impetuosity of Gutch, allowed, and get on with the job of teach­ You who listen to me are in a better pos ing. After all, with no additional appoint­ ition to judge about the French Revolution ments for a decade or so, every lecturer than I am. Your descendants will be even had getting on for nine hundred students in a better position than you, for they w ill Vac to mark essays for, give lectures to, set and learn what you think. I think, and yet an check exams for. other intermediate will be added to the on banc And even the lecturers acquiesced when chain. And in time '—his voice rose—' there suggest they found that a lecture was none the less will come a generation that has got beyond a task ^ C stimulating when compiled out of other facts, beyond impressions, a generation lectures that had already been delivered absolutely colourless, a generation "free AUDI on the same subject. Here was New Zea­ from taint of personality", which will see dog-eat-< land's contribution to methods of scholar­ the French Revolution not as it happened, ship. 'Beware of first-hand ideas!' exclaimed nor as they would like it to have happened factoring one of the most advanced of the lecturers. but as it would have hapepned had it reviewed 'First-hand ideas do not really exist. They taken place in the days of this great sys V principle are but the physical impressions produced tem of learning.' which is by love and fear, and on this gross found­ Tremendous applause greeted this lecture ation who could erect a philosophy? Let which did but voice a feeling already lar. one < your iedas be second-hand, and if possible latent in the minds of New Zealanders—a that thei tenth-hand, for then they will be far re­ feeling that inquiry into sordid fact w a s pany vvh moved from that disturbing element — wicked, and that the abolition of leave w as direct observation. Do not learn anything a positive gain. It was even suggested that be contii about this subject of mine — the French further import of books by foreigners should there wo Revolution. Learn instead what I think be stopped, so that New Zealand scholars the ban that Enicharmon thought Urizen thought could concentrate on getting their chain ol a u d i o ; Gutch thought Ho-Yung thought Chi-Bo- oi commentaries under way. The import including Sing thought Lafcadio Hearn thought books was not stopped, however, because Carlyle thought Mirabeau said about the for obscure reasons overseas countries in nt serum French Revolution. Through the medium of sisted on their publications being received. succe these ten great minds the blood that was New Zealand w as too small to object. But shed at Paris and the windows that were year by year the books were used les, and The p o u broken at Versailles will be clarified to an mentioned less by thoughtful men. ii idea which you may employ most profit­ —Adapted from Forster, It is ; circies tl more int The Thames Rotary Club would like the Rotary to organise the trip. frequent-; to entertain a party of overseas stu­ The Auckland Presbyterian Women'5 sort of dents during 1959. If any students are in­ Fellowship have forwarded the nanus terested in availing themselves of this of four families interested in meeting that prrn wonderful offer they are urged to con­ overseas students and inviting them tu tact the Student Liaison Officer as soon their homes. Any student interested should as possible so that a party can be ar­ contact the Liaison Officer. BEETHOV ranged. The Rotary will arrange all Minor, transport and billeting so that no cost We strongly urge you to take advant age of these offers of hospitality. HI, ES OUTLINE will be involved. It is necessary to make harmon arrangements well in advance to enable — Liaison Committee. fried, s An independent literary periodical published b\ Auckland Students Haeflig include short stories, articles, poetry, b.; St. Conduc +-».— - SLPM 1 NUCLEUS It must Stereo rec Soccer Nucleus number 3 is bigger and better apt and memorable metaphor. V. O’Sul convention than number 2 which was bigger and livan’s poem is unpretentious but it car to be the The fortunes of the three Varsity soc­ better than number 1. The format is ries the trade-mark of the genuine article cer teams have been somewhat mixed of stereo. PAUL'S not unattractive and none of the con­ Both A. J. Gurr and Max Richards dis It is a t this season. The Senior team led by tributions is worthless. In case this play a high degree of technical com Stock New and Second­ Club Captain Jock Irvine have lost two marred bj should seem like damning with faint petence. “Homily” maintains an easy which sou out of five games and will need to show praise, it may be pointed out that the conversational tone within a restrictive hand University Text Books. better fitness and ball-control if they ian 78. Tl same thing could not be said of at least rhyme pattern. It perhaps lacks tin type whic want to be in the picture when the twenty-five per cent of New Zealand lit­ emotional motivation which would have championship and the right to play the ise the pk erary periodicals published during the given it coherence. Max Richards, wlm of the ore promotion-relegation are decided. Two last year or so. has written some admirable comic and players have earned 2nd Division rep­ full, solid, The editors allow themselves two mildly Satirical verse, contributes an as if it w resentative honours - - Langon at half pages to dispose of a few remarks by amusing squib, and two more serion> OUR STAFF and Sue, a fresher, in the forwards. two boxes Peter Bland. What they say makes sense, pieces handling social themes in a man is the mi MAKES The “glamour" Varsity team is un­ and although it has been said before, ner which suggests Auden as an influ­ human vc doubtedly the 2nd Division Reserve team, bears repeating. B. G. Faville’s short ence. Denis Glover’s name adds stature Fischer I BUYIN G A which has wôn all five competition games story succeeds in capturing a situation to the magazine, and his contribution sounds as so far played this season, the closest and has some nicely observed detail. The raises a smile. room witl PLEASURE game being a 3-2 win over Blockhouse other prose contributor is Dr. Cameron A cartoon, which is no funnier in If vou Bay. This team looks certain on this who crams a good deal of hard-won Nucleus than it was in Craccum, de­ (See Capping Book* fine early season form to have the 2 nd information into his article on Auck­ tracts somewhat from the tone of the Reserve championship well in hand. land’s first printing press. volume which costs and is well worth The 3rd Division team has about S About the surest sign of poetic talent one bob. regular players, and although on only is the ability to organise experience by — MacD. P. Jackson, FOI one occasion has it played short, not ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦<♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦<♦♦♦♦♦♦ much teamwork can be built up in a PAULS team which is never certain of who is playing or where. This position is mainly « Applications from graduates, or from those who expect to» Phone 43-515 due to the loss of both the captain and the vice-captain as the result of injuries H complete degrees this year, are invited for the 1960 Professional p 28 Shortlond St. suffered during the first game of the H Course at the Library School in Wellington. This is the only H season. Nevertheless, the team has shown considerable improvement. The first three :: full-tme course in librarianship offered in New Zealand, and:; games were all lost by one goal— 3-4, 4-5, :: it prepares students for work in public, university and special j: 6-7, — often after leading for most of The annual CORSO money the game. The fourth game was drawn :: libraries. :: Stu :: collection will be held on the 3-3 the opposition scoring right on Students will receive payment to cover living expenses« morning of Saturday, 13 May. time, while in the fifth game the team defeated Ponsonby who had only been according to a scale based on that applicable to Division C » This year, CORSO is making a defeated once previously, 3-2. H students of Teachers' Colleges. jj special effort on behalf of The improvement in all teams is largely ♦♦ ♦♦M We < Refugees. It is a worthy cause, due to the Monday evening practices in Application farms and further information may be had H th and one which needs your help. the Rugby shed. These practices under the leadership of Jock Irvine are a wel­ :: from the Director, Library School, National Library Service,:: If you can help, please ring come innovation, which could not only Miss Anderson at CORSO :: Wellington, and the Librarians of the University Libraries and:: help Varsity in the local competition 49 Headquarters, Phone 44-606, series, but may also help us to emerge :: the Public Libraries in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and:: or contact Michael Bassett, from the wilderness into which our Dunedin. Tournament teams over previous years Phone 85-042. have apparently wandered. — Barry Gustafson. , 1959 Friday, 5th June, 1959. CRACCUM Page 9

Clyde Scott's voice and rhythm in recording technique should be able to “Gravedigger’s Rock”, combined with exploit this ensemble well. Mike Eaton's guitar backing offsets the 'Flic record appeals both to those inter­ ie sure th at RECORD rather stereotyped arrangement of the ested in better-than-average rock, and l varied, tor number, in which the writers have to those who seek something with a 3 counteract couched a lyrical lunacy which would he “Varsity flavour". Audion’s initiative in :t the seep the envy of a hit-writer searching for a this attempt bodes well for their next re­ non, I m ust gimmick. lease, a scheduled two-volume selection, ty of Gutch, REVIEWS The reverse, “Cool’n’ Crazy" features of Elizabethan verse-readings. better pos a “discovery” vocalist in Ron Maxman W. S. B. i Revolution His style, though not distinctly “big- R ev ie w s by W. S. Broughton, F. 5. Gnurche, A. D. Hammond. rill be even beat” has considerable promise, and the or they will Vacation conditions have meant that tew of our reviewers have been merit of suggesting adaptability to a Reviewer's Xote : and yet an number of currently popular styles. Per­ ded to the on hand, so that this issue contains few reviews. I would also like to haps the most effective part of the en­ As a pendant to my review of Tom ose—' there suggest that various members of thi * Jazz Club could review jazz discs, tire record is the backing of ‘Cool'll’ Lehrer’s songs in the last issue oi got beyond a task which has so far fallen on Mr Curnow's overburdened shoulders Crazy”. The Martians have produced Croc cum, I should like to recommend a generation an interesting effect with two guitars, 10“ Vanguard L.P. of “Songs I taught ation "free aged stylus. The inspiration for one of which is unamplified, as well as my Mother", sung by Charlotte Rae, A I'D ION is a newcomer to the which has a similar appeal, and is simil­ ch will see these remarks comes from the fact the usual piano-rhythm-bass combination, happened dng-eat-dog world of record manu­ and are fortunate in that they possess arly splendidly done. In particular, the * happened facturing. and its first product is that 1 heard recently a set of Beet­ that rarity in rock’n’roll music, a really “ Merry Little Minuet” is perhaps the fin­ red had it reviewed here. This company’s hoven's 9th Symphony which had good drummer whose presence is an as­ est thing of its kind I have ever heard i great sys* principles are higher than most, been played on a gramophone whose set and not merely an addition. Improved F.S.G. this lecture which is all to the good; in particu­ (sapphire i stylus had not been re­ lg already lar. one of the directors assured me newed for over four years. The dis­ anders — a that theirs would be the only com­ tortion throughout was intolerable; i fact was pany whose records would always more, the record flatly refused to fhantber 1 leave was tgested that he continuously available, i.e., that track, and every few grooves the ners should there would he no deletions, one of stylus would jump. 1 think it verges nd scholars the banes of record collecting. on the criminal to treat records Music dr chain ol AUDION plans a large catalogue, this way. One can bv cynical about import oi GSRLS sr, because including long playing stero records high fidelity, and call it a fad if one ountries in of serious music, and we wish them has the temerity, but ignoring the Treat g received, all success in their venture. basic principles of record-playing is Did you know?— that 10% object. But quite another thing. The average Seldom is the University, or anybody ed les. and The p o in t o f flic m a tte r else, treated to such a music delicacy as in. life of a well-made-New-Zealand that provided in an after-church recital discount is given to om Forster, It is a well-known fact in audio artificial sapphire stylus is not more in the Hall on 10 May. Taking part were circles that introduced distortion i.> than 20 hours, and if you play on Ruth Pearl and Nora Whitehead (vio­ more intolerable than limitation of the average only one 12” L.P. a lins), Winifred Styles (viola), James Whitehead Ocel'lo), Janetta McStay University Students on I»- frequency range, and that the worst day (a low average) the stylus will Women - (piano), and Terry Wilson (baritone). sort of introduced distortion is need at least a check at the end of lie names The recital commenced w-ith Mozart’s Clothing at i meeting that produced hy a worn or dam- each month. Piano Quartet in G minor, K.478. The ; them tn atmosphere of this work is one of jubil­ ted should ance and gaiety (in spite of the key of BUDGETWEAR BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 9 in D one is obviously for you. As a perform­ the first movement) and I fear that in :e advant- Minor, Op. 125, Overture Leonore ance it is good if not exceptional, per­ their anxiety to capture this feeling, the ility. III, Egmont Overture. Berlin Phil­ haps just a little stodgy in places. It players sometimes became rough. An harmonic Orchestra, Irmgard See- exception here was Miss McStay. whose The Store for Girls tnmittee. does not have the virtue of cheapness fried, s.; Maureen Forrester, c.; Ernst that makes the excellent Vox version perfect control of tone was a feature of Haefliger, t.; Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, (PL 10.000) so popular, nor does it the recital. Miss Pearl’s style, unfortun­ 364 Queen St b.; St. Hedwig's Cathedral Chorus. capture the brooding depth that makes ately, is not conducive to the finest Moz­ Conductor, Frenc Friscay. D.G.G. for me Furtwangler’s performance the art playing, while some of her running SLPM 138002/3. 2 12" L.P. £4/10/-. greatest 9th on records. But neither of quaver passages were very uneven. Al­ It must be emphasised that this is a these have stereo, and whoever buys Fric- though the work made pleasant listening Stereo recording, and is not playable on say’s can be assured that it is a worthy on the whole, it was marred by inse­ V. O’Sul conventional equipment. It also happens performance. The two overtures on the curity in the ensemble work— and apart >ut it car- to be the writer’s first real experience reverse of the second disc are splendidly from the second movement, the execution tie article, of stereo, and as such quite a landmark. done. Leonore especially though again I tended to he colourless and unpolished. hards dis It is a magnificent recording, but is miss the depth of Furtwangler who hap­ In the Prokofiev 'Cello Sonata (op. Savoyard ical com­ marred by an atrociously heavy surface, pens to find these two works the most 119) we were reminded once again what an easy which sounds in places like an antidiluv- congenial Beethoven for his own kind an extraordinarily fine musician James restrictive ian 78. The stereo is of that naturalistic of genius. Whitehead is. This testing work demands lacks tin type which does not attempt to emphas­ F.S.G. extreme efficiency in every facet of 'cello ould have ise the placement of the various sections WAGNER: Die Meistersinger, Prelude; technique — Mr. Whitehead showed him­ irds, who of the orchestra, but rather to achieve a Tannhauser, Overture; Tristan und self equally at home at either end of the Paaic omic and full, solid, sound, which does not sound Isolde; Prelude and Liebestod. Berlin fingerboard, while the range of feeling Lutes an as if it were coming from two holes in Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor, (from the sombre opening and fugal •e serious two boxes. Coupled to this solid virtue Herbert von Karajan. Columbia 33 middle section of the first movement to n a man- is the most lifelike recording of the MCX 1496. 12" L.P. 42/6. the finale, where the influence of Rus­ At the moment we are hearing a an influ* human voice I have ever heard, when A splendid record : playing, conducting sian folk music is strongly felt) was good deal of speculation from Gilbert is stature Fischer Dieskau, in his opening solo and recording are all superb, and heard subtly brought out by both pianist and and Sullivan fans about the effects which intributioi! sounds as if he was right out in the on a stereo gramophone the sound is 'cellist. the expiry of the libretti copyrights may room with you. quite magnificent. Those acquainted with iiave on these works. (Under English A setting of Matthew Arnold’s “Dover law' all copyrights expire fifty years iniiier in If you want a stereo 9th. then this von Karajan’s whirlwind playing of the Beach” by the American composer, :cum, dt- Meistersinger prelude in the complete after the writer’s death— Gilbert died in Samuel Barber, proved the most thril­ 1911>. ie of the Columbia recording of some eight years ling item of the recital. The incorporeal ell worth back need not fear: this conductor has string quartet is the perfect medium for matured to be one of the most reliable and the conveying of the atmosphere of this I he general feeling seems to be a , Jackson. FOR THE BEST sensitive all-round conductors in the poem, and this group was superb. The rather pessimistic one .— a society has world, and his judgement here is impec­ baritone was Terry Wilson — an Exec­ even been formed in England to try and m n cable. Nothing earthly can prevent me have the operas nationalised, thereby pro­ 8M utant Diploma Music Student. His per­ IN BOOKS from becoming bored in the eternal and formance combined extreme sensitivity of tecting them from desecration ! act to I; endless Tannhauser Overture, nor can feeling with beautiful tone. Mr. Wilson prevent me from longing for a soprano What a stupid attitude! Surely these sional •• THE MINERVA seems to have developed an almost ex­ in the Liebestod, but if you like this cessive vibrato though, and once or twice works will for the first time have a chance to prove themselves. No longer i only H BOOK SHOP this sort of thing, be assured that it has this threatened to lapse into a “wobble”. never been done better. bound to the dictates of the D’Oyly I, and:: A. D. H. The recital concluded with the Faure Carte family, producers and designers Piano Quartet (Op. 15). This was will have their opportunity for wider pecial H CLYDE SCOTT: Gravedigger's Rrock; marked by superb musicianship and sound RON MAXMAN: Cool 'n' Crazy, with and more original interpretations; there 8 Study and ensemble work rather than by glittering will of course be some butchery, but on ♦♦ "The Martians". Audion A -l. 7" S.P. pyro-technical display (and there is room 6 / 6 . the other hand there may be revealed in tenses8 Recreation for the latter in this work). It is diffi­ these works a newer and fresher charm The Audion label is the result of a ion C :• cult to decide which feeling this per­ than ever. ♦♦ collaboration between two students and formance captured mast perfectly— the a radio technician, who are aiming at humour of the scherzo, the lyricism of 8 We Specialise in Books for those parts of the market in which the the “adagio”, or the boisterous beauty Undoubtedly American show business 3 had :i the intelligent reader. larger companies have not yet interested of the finale. will come forth with some revolutionary ♦♦ versions of the operas, but the thought themselves. Though their first attempt, The appalling acoustics of the Hall trvice, 8 wisely aimed at the "pops” market for the of ‘Pin-up Pinafore’ or ‘Gondoliers on 8 were a noticeable feature of the even­ Ice’ need not be too alarming. If these s and jj sake of publicity has met with some op­ ing’s entertainment. They managed to 49 Customs Street East, position trom the NZBS, and, it is hinted, works really are classics, and have any h and 8 interfere with everything from the bal­ 5 Beach Road, from the H.M.V. monopoly, it is never­ cultural and artistic value at all, they ance of the ensemble (the viola suffered will withstand such treatment. theless a very acceptable offering of good most here) to Mr. Wilson’s diction. Auckland. entertainers and reasonable quality re­ 8 — G.W.J.D. cording. — G.W.J.D. Friday, t Page 10 CRACCUM Friday, 5th June, 1959

policy stems to suggest that no such du tinction exists. It assumes, that .Westen values are as attractive to the presen: (lay Asian as to the present day Euro­ pean ; that a Korean peasant values free dean of the press when lie cannot yet read and that he is willing to do so. We should he doing a hundredfold more \e\ good for the World were we to re-direct asking' t our energies spent bolstering unstable gov enintents in unstable countries to the this polit ANITY 1 lettering of the things we are ashamed in Asia, of iii our own eyes; to the racial prob­ lem in Africa and the United States; the conditions of our cities and our genera' Vdi environment and education. A nation of the A that is responsible for the suppression of the Madagascan revolt in 1947 (will unreal) st the loss of at least 1 1,0 0 0 lives) or ha> condoned it lias no right to condemn tin at a Chinese in Tibet or the Russians in Hun­ gary no matter how indefensible these A lari latter actions may be. Quite apart from peoples < th e moral issues involved there is the lies in i question of expediency. Our sanctimoni­ It is coi ous approach to certain Soviet actions people in i.- essentially sterile because it is not ing that i combined with any positive policy to pre­ with ours vent a repetition of the action. Condem­ plight of PREMIUM nation of Russian suppression in Hun Japanese gary was universal in the West whicli A quest is as much as to say that we believe the has a rigli Russians should have taken the hint and ing right \ moved out. NATO forces were of course ard of livi In a recent edition of C ra ccu m , J. Orbell drew our attention to the widening gulf that separates the to retain their present positions in Cent­ ard, to c<>- ral Europe. This -was surely tlie time to The aiiswt East Germans from the West Germans and stated that the tendency because the Germans are becoming at offer the Russians a scheme of disengage Xo man c least partly resigned to the division of their country and not because they did not want re-unification. These meat in Europe, whether on the Gaits who has t( kell, Rapacki or any other plan — none has and i observations are no doubt true of Germany, but (much more tragically) they are, when we substitute the however, was forthcoming. General Nor- him. tad. of course, does not like disengage word "peace" for the word "re unification" rapidly becoming true of the overall World situation What is meat, hut who has ever heard of a gen­ It may ] eral who has been in favour of a with­ phrase, 1 drawal without compulsion ? Hungary must hav< must be looked at as an effect of an proper me alien occupied Europe where the prob­ It is, of course, not possible to say that ond most powerful of all the worlds na­ some prominent official (in New Zea­ lem of German re-unification is the cen­ the reason for the antagonism between tions and that if we are to have under­ land qs likely as elsewhere) refers to the tral issue and for which our intransig­ East and West is the partition of Ger­ developed countries within our sphere of “threat to our very existence" and the ence has been at least partly to blame Firstly > many. tlie partition of Korea or any influt nee Russia is similarly entitled. Be­ necessity of the free world presenting As Mr. Orbell rightly said "since West to the As other specific bone of contention between cause wc are not attuned to thinking in a united front to the infiltration. If an­ Germany lias been allowed by the West align oursi tlie two blocs. Nor does it in essence these terms we find it inconceivable that other Asian state “goes Communist" tlie to re-arm it is almost certain that Rus­ those we t lie in the ideological differences and if the Soviet leaders should have anything event may eventually prove to be a sia has come to regard the division ui of course the Capitalists and tlie Communists learnt to fear from e.g. a capitalist India. If tin eat to our security and it may prove the country as a vital necessity to tlit from the to tolerate each other'-- systems, I be­ however we were to ask an impartial not to be, but whyr do we persist in auto­ security of herself and tier satellites.’ and the d Secondly ■ P s lieve the situation would be very little observer to what extent and on what matically assuming that it wall be? In She cannot be blamed for doing so. It is grounds he thought Russia feared Indian doiitg so we may be causing irreparable not long since Russia was last ravaged on the pi different to that which exist- today. The exist". H< ideological struggle is the motivating capitalism, he would answer “to much harm to ourselves and our future rela­ by German militarism and though a n factor rather than the cause, which in­ the same extent and on the same grounds tions with these states. It mayr be that emergence is unlikely the thought of s with peop as the West fears Indian communism” virtually the whole of Asia wall be Com­ re-armed Germany is not pleasant to Riis can only sofar as it can he attributed to any one iiave one thing, can he blamed simply on the exist­ and his answer would be essentially cor­ munist within thirty years and if the sians with memories. rect. Thus a statement by Mr. Kruschev probability becomes a fact we cannot do lem, creat ence of two large power blocs in one greater ti World. Assuming that Communism has concerning what he calls Capitalist and a great deal about it. The fear neurosis from which we suffer Imperialist infiltration is relegated by us with their come to stay and that Capitalism and renders us unable to distinguish between are contin Communism can co-exist (there not be­ to the level of political clap-trap withoui Our stupidity lies not in backing the Soviet policy that is genuinely detrimental seas mark ing much alternative) we must do our considering whether Mr. Kruschev really wrong Asian horse but in seeing the has fears in this direction or not. When to our security and that which is legitimate our prodiu utmost to make long term co-existence necessity to back any horse at all. In this gest that possible. Co-existence implies co-opera­ however Mr. Nash or Mr. Nixon speaks connection we should realize that the Soviet competition. Undoubtedly the Rus of Communist infiltration in some area to Asia as tion and the first steps toward co-opera­ difference between a Communist coup in sians do not see it in this w ay at all and many peoi of the world we may perceive that this tion lie' in the hearts of individuals. A Thailand and the launching of little Asian direct all their foreign policy to the same is: "What man whose mind is steeped in a brand of also has propaganda value but we don’t boats in the direction of Australia and New end but that is not to say that from our fanaticism (whether it he Communist or question the reality of their fears. In Zealand is not merely one of degree but point of view the likely effects are the Capitalist) can he sure that he can talk fact, the fears behind Mr Kruschev’? of kind. ■ » » » I co-existence and co-operation for the statements are probably as real as those same everywhere and that must be remainder of his life without ever being of the latter .statesmen. Our inability t< When we couple these thoughts with countered in a similar fashion. The result a good elt likely to achieve much of lasting value see this is not due solely to our realiza­ tlie fact that Tito is a communist (and is that we do not know which comprom moralizing because, whether .he knows it or not, he tion of the fact that the ultimate goal so was Imry Nagy for that matter) and ises we can afford to make and conse should ha- of Soviet Communism is World Commun­ has not even acquired the desire to co­ that he is no more antagonistic toward quently make none at all. Suez. The operate. ism but also to our inability to see us than say Nehru, and that no neutral little to s It is my contention and the aim of this Mr. Kruschev’s apprehension, of a World bloc state in Asia has more in common might hav article to show that the large majority Capitalism. I am not suggesting that Mr. culturally and economically with the Sov­ No one can deny e.g. the value ol tionality \ of people in the West, including many Kruschev believes all that he says hut iet Union than has Jugoslavia, the folly NATO in Europe but its effectively swer to tl in influential positions are no more cap­ we would, do better to give him the bene­ of our policy becomes clear. I think leads us to approach the Middle and Far of a hot ( able of looking clearly at the problems fit'of the doubt in these cases and adjust that to a certain extent an anti-Western blast in a similar way. A firm assurance of the Cold War than tlie masses in the our actions accordingly. animus would be there wdiatever we had from tlie United States that she would The Co Soviet bloc. The reason 1 believe lies done but these are tendencies in our be­ immediately oppose the entry of Soviet many mini chiefly in our main news source — the haviour which show that we are not do­ troops in the Middle East is of more fanaticism Press. This aspect is discussed briefly Defence? ing anything to improve the position. It value to us than four Baghdad PacP find oursel toward the end of this article and suffice could of course he pointed out here that and it lias the added advantage of not the same I About five years ago a British police placing tlie Arabs on the other side of of a just it to say here that if the political propa­ van was travelling alongside the creek though those states may hiavfe weak ganda issuing from the Peking press is bonds with the Soviet Union they have- the fence. more rem which forms’ the border between Hong When a more blatant than that in most Western Kong and China proper when it left the much in common with Communist China. These are some of the attitudes we vviil periodicals it is probably only because This is certainly true but if their friendly have to discard before any major steps say, as o road, entered the creek and slowly drifted (and here the educational background of most West­ to the Chinese bank where it came to relations with China lead them away forward can be made. Something a littk from us. it is only because of the hos­ saner and more dispassionate will haw put to tak< erners precludes acceptance of blatant rest with only the roof showing above made ever tility between the Chinese government to he substituted by people in the West propaganda. water. The British authorities sensing curity the trouble, called out a few platoons of and the West, which situation has been generally. A prerequisite to this is a dictated rather more by United States completely free, impartial and unhamp­ hostility ai Ancient Attitudes British troops which thereupon lined the bloc’’ one hank on the Hong Kong side. The than by Chinese policy. To argue for ered press. In every case wdiere the truth is suppressed (e.g. the Formosan rebel­ as well a Our attitude toward Asia is sympto­ local Communist commander was asked instance that the American State De­ partment’s action over Formosa is not lion against Chiang-Kai-Shek in 1947) that stage, matic of bur general approach. It is, in to allow the retrieval of the van but he and in every case where a distortion ol held on ei a sense, a product of our past. Without refused and requested that the British intervention in a Chinese internal affair do no goc is to argue that Fidel Castro’s Cuban the truth is published, a corresponding exception the major Western nations have troops be withdrawn. When this was disservice is done to us by people who that they at some time in the past been colonial done a body of Communist militia ent­ government has no sovereignty over Cuban offshore islands previously claimed have both the knowledge and the intelli­ The patl powers with , stakes in this part of the ered the water, raised the van and im­ gence to know better. If we believe that world. On the other hand Russian terri­ mediately handed it back to the auth­ in Batista. followed q some aspects of Western policies and case there torial claims here have been small. A l­ orities. The incident was a small one and Communism ideas need to be condemned then we must though we have had to relinquish our there were no repercussions hut in that have the courage to speak up and show former colonial ]>olicies we .still cling the attitude taken by the British was both The distinction is often made and quite rightly so. between Communism in un­ people where we have gone astray, even tenaciously to a somewhat vague con­ defensive and provocative it was anal- if in doing so we to some extent lose '» » » > ception of spheres of influence. What we agous to our overall Asian policy, In­ derdeveloped countries and Communism as it exists in more complex Western face. Propaganda is not less dangerous do not seem to remember in this connec­ variably when Communist influence ex­ because it is subtle and always contains tion is that the Soviet Union is the sec­ erts itself - in yet another Asian state cultures. We make the distinction but our Friday, 5th June, 1959. C R A C C U M Page 11 e, 1959 no such db tat Westeri the presen! CO EXISTENCE THE Bnz day Euro- values free cannot yet to do so, edfold more New / ( ‘aland politicians have in recent years been pursuing a policy CAN ESPECIALLY to re-direet tsking for Peaceful Co-existence’’ with Asia. The general scheme of ustable gov ries to tin- this policy i- that on condition that we let the Asians live as they wish re ashamed in Asia, the Asians should let us live as we wish in Xew Zealand. HELP YOU racial prob- States; the Join the many girls who balance their our general Chough we notice some attempts towards a deeper understanding budget the easy way. A B.N.Z. cheque A nation ot the \sian peoples by our Politicians, this policy as advocated is very account gives you a complete record of your suppression unrealistic finances. Makes payment so easy too . . . 1947 (willi just slip a cheque in the mail . . . no more •es) or ha? wasted lunch hours making payments. ondetnn tin ins in Hun­ ts ihle these A large difference between the pared to pay and indeed able to pay for apart from peoples of \sia and New Zealand our produce?” When we compare the- ere is tin lies in their economic circumstances. consumer of our goods in Britain with With a cheque account you can benefit from many other sanctimoni It is common knowledge that most his counterpart in Asia, it is apparent b.N.Z. services. Ask for details from the local B.N.Z. Branch or Agency. net action people in Asia have a standard of liv­ that the Asian will not he able to give it is Jim ing that is not in the least comparable us for our produce what the European licy to pm with ours. We have long known the has in the past. We may be able to ii. Concleni plight of the Chinese peasant and the make up the price by accepting goods n in Huii- Japanese industrial worker. from Asia manufactured at a lower cost. Vest which A question which I think any Asian This condonement of sweated labour is Bank of New Zealand believe the has a right to ask is this : “Are you do­ another problem here. The Dominion’s Largest Trading Bank — M ore than 370 Branches and Agencies in New Zealand■ ie hint ami ing right when you, with your high stand­ Thus it seems that if any meaning ;s e of course ard of living, ask us, with our low stand­ to be placed on the word “co-existence” is in Cent- ard, to co-exist with you on your terms?" we must make an effort to raise the liv­ the time tnl The answer to this must surely be “No". ing standard of Asian countries and ac­ disengage- No man can be considered in the right cept any lowering of living standards the Gaits who has ten times as much as his brother enforced upon 11s. an — nom has and asks his brother to hear with Indeed it would appear that mere ac­ students’ international ierai Mors him. disengage- What is the solution to this problem? ceptance of any enforced conditions is of a gen- It may perhaps he contained in the not enough. If we really want to make File first A.G.M. of "Student Inter­ Press and our own members were pres­ of a with- phrase, "peaceful co-existence" hut we friends with the Asians, it is up to 11s national” was held in the W.C.R. >n ent. The Club’s Chairman, Mr. Nath, Hungary must have a greater emphasis on the to make a sacrifice. In other words, it Monday, 6 April. The following officials welcomed the Indonesians to New Zea­ Feet of an proper meaning of the term. is up to 11s to voluntarily lower our were elected : land and their leader replied, conveying the prob- standard of living so that vital goods Patron : Sir Leslie Munro. the greetings from students in Indonesia is the cen- Course of Action and money can be sent to Asia as a President : Professor F. Chong. to those in New Zealand, and asking the intransig- relief. It is something that any New New Zealand students to look after the Firstly we must not talk about “peace" Zealander could do and it would appear Cice-Presidents: Mr. W. M. Milliken, small number of AU Indonesian students. to blame Dr. Satyarand, Mr. W. T. Roy. Dr. since West to the Asians and then turn around and to be an essential for peace with Asia. align ourselves with other nations against W. H. Pearson, Dr. G. Bartocci, Dr. Die last function of the term was a the West But is the New Zealander willing to Nairn, Mr. W. F. Pollard. Dr M week-end camp at Knock-na-gree at the that Rus- those we require peace with. This means accept this change? If we study the of course. New Zealand’s withdrawal Winiata, Dr. B. G. Biggs. end of Capping Week. On the Saturday, di vision ui platforms of the political parties, which a panel discussion was held on the sub­ ity to tin trout the ANZUS and SEATO pacts do presumably reflect some of the atti­ Student Chairman : Cyan Nath. and the denouncement of all such pacts. Student I 'icc-Chairman : Bob Cater. ject of “What can "Students Interna­ satellites’' tudes of the people, it is obvious that tional" do to promote exchange of cul­ ig so. It is Secondly there must be more emphasis a policy far from that advocated here is Secretary: Miss Margaret Mackenzie. on the prefix ‘‘co-’ in the term "co­ ture and intellect between N.Z. atid over­ st ravaged actually carried out. Treasurer: Miss Teh Pain Lian. seas students?” The panel consisted of >ugh a re- exist”. How can we expect to co-exist with people in Asian countries if they We find both Labour and National Committee: Miss Patricia Gaw ( S. E. Bob Cater (Chairman), Miss Bev. ■ tight of a fighting to win votes. The evidence of Snook, Genius Procuta, Vincent Chow, tnt to Kits can only just exist at all? We already Asia). Muktair Singh ( S. E. Asia). have one possible solution to the prob­ the last election shows that the surest Bernie Kernot (N.Z.), George Ului- and John Hooi. The speakers, coming lem, created by the poverty of Asia— way to win votes was to appeal to the lakiba ( S. Pacific), Harry Frederik- front different parts of the world and greater trade in our primary produce voter’s selfishness. The party that offers sens (Europe). having been brought up under different i w e suiiei with them. At present, we see that we the most material gain to the voters is Auditor: l.eoitg Wing Hon. cultures, had many different ideas on ;h between are continually losing sales on . our over­ bound to win. how this, could he achieved, and al­ detrimental seas markets. Britain is slowly rejecting How can this he reconciled with the The meeting also dealt with a consti­ though no general agreement was reached, tutional amendment and the name of the the discussions were very fruitful in ; legitimate our produce. It seems reasonable to sug­ attitude required to live peacefully with gest that some of our produce be sent club was changed from “International that they showed the many difficulties the Rus Asia? The plain truth is that it cannot. to Asia as has indeed been advocated by The New Zealand way of life requires Students Club" to “ Students Interna­ that trouble overseas students in their at all and many people. But here the big question a basic reassessment. tional". relations with N.Z. students and the vari­ i the same is: “What are the people of Asia pr^- ous governments. — P. Lorimer. The inaugural general meeting having ;t from out been held last September, the present From the discussions it was apparent s are the meeting can be regarded as the real be­ that overseas students could do a lot to m ust be ginning of the club, as last year the club broaden the outlook of New Zealand stu­ T h e resull a good element of truth. The vociferous was not very active. This year, with dents. either by publishing a magazine, comprom moralizing editorials we read on Tibet more than 70 active members, promises or by holding more “national weeks” ind conse should have been matched by those on to be very busy, with many functions ar­ (such as a Malaya or Fiji u;eek) and Suez. The fact that they were not does ranged for the coming months. having exhibitions or lectures about the little to strengthen any convictions one various countries, their people and tra­ might have that our intelligence and ra­ On Tuesday, the 14th April, the first ditions. value of tionality will eventually bring the an­ regular monthly club evening was held m fectiveuess swer to the Cold War and dispel fear- the Caf.Extn, attended by more than 100 Besides these more serious aspects of e and Far of a hot one. overseas and New Zealand students. This the week-end camp, there were some assurance was a Malayan evening and the members more informal functions, such as an inter­ die would The Communist process has twisted were entertained by Malayan students national soccer game, a glow-worm ex­ of Soviet many minds hut if we continue to meet with talks on Malaya, colour slides and pedition (at 3 a.m.) and continuous free of more fanaticism with fanaticism we shall soon items. This was followed by supper entertainment by Genius Procuta. lad Pacts find ourselves looking at the world with (with Chinese delicacies) and informal the same lack of reality and the chances discusions. In the second term will be held, in the ge of not second week of June a Fijian students ?r side ni of a just settlement will become even more remote than they are at present. On the night of 30 April, some of evening, and in July, a Lithuanian even­ When a prominent local politician can the Committee members went to YVhenua- ing. A tramp to the Cascades is also es we will pii airport to welcome to New Zealand contemplated. Members and others inter­ ijor steps say. as one did in Auckland recently (and here Mr. Vyshinsky would be hard the Indonesian student delegation. The ested are requester! to watch for the ig a little following night, an informal social even­ club’s notices on the Liaison Notice will have put to take the cake) “that the West has made every overture for peace and se­ ing was held for the Indonesian dele­ Board. the West gates in the W.C.R. Exec. Members, the -H.I.F this is a curity the only stumbling block being the unhanip hostility and unco-operation of the Soviet the truth bloc” one is tempted to believe that we san rebel- as well as the Russians have reached in 1947) that stage. Such uncompromising beliefs tortion oi held on either side of the Iron Curtain CONTEMPORARY PRINTS esponding do no good and it is in our interests ;ople who that they be dispelled. JOHN LEECH GALLERY he intelli- The paths of political fantasy can be dieve that followed quite unconsciously and in this licies and case there may not he a way back. l we must "Craccum” is published by the Auckland 50 SHORTLAND STREET PHONE 45-081 and show — J. Phillips. University Students' Association, Princes St., tray, even Auckland, C.I., and printed by the Acme xtent lose Printing Co., 126 Vincent St., Auckland, 0.1. dangerous s contains Page 12 CRACCUM Friday, 5th June, 1959

cheap black labour, because the wage.- the colour bar. the movement has ben the\ pay, though not enough to provide reduced to utter helplessness by its pel a human standard of living, are better itical castration and compulsory division SOUTH AFRICA than those offered on the white farms; Stripped of any executive authority, tin and the farms are kept more or less sat­ coloured unionists have lost control over (Continued from Page 1 isfied, because anything is better than any real organisational decision. And iso­ starving with one’s family in the stark, lated, in many cases from the bulk oi lem’. and the Native Trust and Land seven such jails dotted the district. overcrowded Reserves, and because the the workers in their particular occupa­ Act led to opening up an additional 74 Staffed, maintained and guarded by the prisons provide what poverty cannot. tion, the white unionists will find it in­ million morgen (one morgen is about Prisons Department, these house con­ The sluice-gates of service contract and creasingly difficult to take effective action two acres) to African use. With the Re­ victs hired out to farmers at two shil­ labour bureaux permit entry to the es­ against intransigent employers. It is tin serves, this made some 171 million mor­ lings a day. And parallel to this, is the sential worker alone, leaving his family Fascism of apartheid unmasked. gen in all. or just over 12 per cent, of Prison Department’s system of hiring out to survive as best it can on the wages he A final amendment to the Industrial the whole area of the country. Comparison short-term offenders for work on the is able to send back to the Native Re­ Conciliation Act in 1956, entitled ‘Safe is stark. Today, some 124 million mor­ farms at only 9d. a day. Still the demand serves. guard against inter-racial Competition', gen are owned and occupied by 700,000 for farm labour remains unquenched. And created job reservation, or the limiting whites, while just over six million Afri­ the labour bureaux, run by the govern­ No Collective Bargaining of a particular occupation to the mem­ bers of a special racial group. And in cans are crowded into 174 million mor­ ment’s Department of Bantu Administra­ Hand-in-hand with pass legislation gen ; or, put differently, 85 per cent, of the tion and Development, use the machinery October 1957, Senator Jan de Klerk goes the country’s industrial code. \\ hite Minister of Labour, declared the cloth tota1 rural population owns 12 4 per cent, of the Pass Laws to squeeze what they workers, of course, are free to organise of the land, 15 per cent, of the popula­ can from the urban labour force. But it ing industry’s main categories of employ­ TH trade unions, engage in collective bar­ ment reserved for whites. tion owns 874 iter cent.— the total addi­ is never enough. For the average fam­ gaining, sell their labour without restric­ tional land acquired for African use since ily income in cash and kind on the white tion, and resort to strikes to pressure Two laws are doing perhaps more than 1936 constituting a fat one-half per cent. farms is £9 a month, according to a sur­ their employers. African workers may any other to forge the united non-white A? vey published this year by the Institute front of suffering— the Group Areas and But this is not the worst of the picture. not engage in collective bargaining, their un Only a minute fraction of the land of Race Relations; and £9 a month all trade unions are denied legal recognition, Population Registration Acts. Act No 'allotted' by the Land Acts is privately told, without the opportunities for aug­ and all strikes are prohibited under heavy 30 of 1950 established a population reg fic owned, and such ownership is likely to menting income that exist in the towns, penalties. When disputes arise with em­ ister in which the race of every human disappear altogether in the next few provides little inducement to leave even ployers, the workers are represented by being in South Africa was to be entered rears. The bulk is Native Reserve, the the Reserves. government officials and have no choice and fixed for as long as the insanity oi Nationalist rule lasted. For some six ownership of which is vested in the Nat­ The hinge of labour control and con­ but to accept the results of negotiations ive Trust. Consisting of some 260 scat­ in which they have played absolutely no years, the Ministry of the Interior busied sequently of white supremacy in South itself with establishing headquarters and tered areas of varying size and quality, Africa is the ‘pass’— that document which part. it is vastly overcrowded and sick with The maximum penalty for strike ac­ accumulating files, and then suddenly every African over 16 years must carry burst out with a crop of investigations soil erosion. The Africans working it with him wherever he goes in order to tion by African workers is six months’ have no security of tenure— they are little imprisonment or a fine of £50, and the Coloureds who had ‘played white’ almost prove that he has received permission all their lives came under cold-eyed more than tenants of the Trust and so. from the proper authority to be where dividing line between a strike and a dis­ ultimately, of the government, and can pute is so blurred in law that even a scrutiny and 'found themselves con­ he is. From 1797, when they were intro­ demned by their birth certificates or the he evicted at any time with compensa­ duced by proclamation at the time of protest during working hours may lead tion only for the huts that they them­ to summary arrest for stopping work. gossip of their neighbours to carry the the first British occupation of the Cape, identity cards of inferior citizenship. selves may have erected. The traditional the Pass Laws have acted, in their vari­ No wonder, then, that. African workers size of an arable allotment is five mor­ grit their teeth over the resentment well­ There can be no record of the families ous forms, as colossal human sluices, broken up, the jobs and homes lost, the) gen, but as pressure has increased, many channelling African labour on to the white ing up inside them, rebelling only when allotments have dwindled to much less conditions become utterly unendurable; no lives irreparably blasted. The horror was farms and into the white cities in quan­ casually dismissed by Dr. Donges, till than this. And since these are sucked tities consistent with the competing needs wonder that, where white wages jumped dry for the last ounce of sustenance they from an average £37 a month in 1957 recently the Minister of the Interior, of employment and security. ‘The Native with the pronouncement made in Febru- can give— worked usually by the wives should be allowed to enter urban areas, to £68 in 1957, African wages during m -.. and children of migrant labourers for the same period crept from £9 a month ary 1957 : ‘To many, a certainty has been which are essentially the white man’s given that they had never had before.’ most of the year— it is only to be ex­ creation, only when he is willing to to £13. There were 33 illegal strikes in pected that the already exhausted land enter and minister to the needs of the 1954 and 73 in 1955. Yet in only 15 The Laws of Fear and Force should deteriorate to a point of suffo­ white man, and should depart therefrom cases— during a period of industrial boom cation. , when he ceases so to minister.’ Such was — did the Africans gain higher wages or But dwarfing the effect on individual the excuse used by the Transvaal Local better working conditions from their em­ has been the effect of the Act on the col­ Since it is, of course, impossible that oured people as a whole. For the most their shrivelled farms should support so Government Commission of 1921 to deny ployers. urban Africans the municipal franchise, When next a statue is raised in Eng­ important barrier of privilege between many millions, the Africans survive by- coloured, and African has been destroyed; e exporting their able-bodied males to the and such is the policy which has all land to the memory of Smuts, it is to along framed those laws of denial and be hoped that someone will bring to the the coloured too, is having to 'carry a n t white farms and urban areas, subsidis­ pass. True it is not the pass of the Afri­ ing their crops with the cash wage of compulsion making up the body of ‘pass' attention of the British public that it legislation. was a United Party government, under can. compacted of service contracts, cur iM migratory labour. And should diligence few permits, tax receipts— at least for and luck make it somehow unnecessary The Nationalist government began Smuts as Prime Minister, that broke so juc brutally the back of the 1946 strike, ex­ the moment. But it is a brand of inferi­ to many of the men to desert the Re­ tightening up pass legislation soon after ority, unalterably permanent, that the o b serves, the poll tax levied on all African its accession to power. By an amend­ hibiting that bi-partnership in the poli­ tics of white supremacy that marries the coloured must carry with him wherever 2S males between the ages of 18 and 65 was ment to the Natives (Urban Areas) Act, he goes. The new pass serves notice upon increased by a minimum of 75 per cent, the government required an African to spirits of General Smuts and Dr. Ver­ woerd. Perhaps, too, when next Mr. coloureds, Africans and Indians alike, of nst last year £1 15s. Od. a year. Thus, what get permission from the labour bureau the unbridgeable gulf that will exist, be­ re land hunger cannot accomplish, is ach­ in his area, as well as from the muni­ Harry Oppenheimer talks in London of his reputation for liberalism, a member tween ruler and ruled, white and non- ieved by the government itself. cipality, before seeking or accepting a white, for as long as white supremacy ode- job. Apart from making it considerably of his audience will remind him that Inevitably, the Reserves have become conditions on the mines are substantially lasts. And lest any doubt remain over 'res homes for the aged, the infirm, the infant, more difficult for families to join their what the Nationalists consider suprem- husbands and fathers in the urban areas, the same as they were in 1946, though and the wives. The natural passage for the vigilance is considerably more vig­ acy to mean, the Minister of Transport, the men is to the towns, where wages the new law has also placed African Mr. Ben Schoeman, defined the doctrine tv labour at the mercy of the labour bur­ orous. and living conditions are at least better The whole misshapen body of South beyond illusion at an election meeting ot than on the farms. But in a country eau officials, since anyone regarded as last year. ‘Supremacy,’ he said, ‘means a ‘trouble-maker’ may be sent to the Africa’s industrial legislation is much where the aristocrats are the Africaner more the creation of the United Party that you have the political power in your a: farmers, the government makes every ef­ silence of a farm compound as soon as hands and that you can be overthrown he loses his employment. The number of governments— backed by the English- esu fort to channel African labour into the speaking industrialists, mine-owners and only by a revolution.’ white rural areas. And there, labour Africans in the urban areas has never­ o a- theless continued steadilv to increase. white workers— than it is of the Nation­ The Group Areas Act of 1950 is aimed conditions are medieval at best. T wo alists. The peculiar contribution of the first at reducing the whole non-white ad case histories illustrate this starkly. Then in 1952 Dr Verwoerd, as Min­ Nationalist government has been the per­ population to the status of a cheap, right p'P • j ister of Native Affairs, pushed through secution of the coloured worker through less, regimented proleteriat; and then a The Right to Starve? parliament the Natives (Abolition of various amendments to the Industrial splitting up the resultant helot front into oine Allonge Tembeni was sentenced to nine Passes and Co-ordination of Documents) Conciliation Act. Until 1956, coloured manageable political pieces. It provides Th months imprisonment and a compensatory Act. Apart from packing all the papers workers were free to organise them­ for the compulsory establishment of sep­ fine of £20 15s. 6d. for stealing three previously required singly into a new selves, form legally recognised trade un­ arate races and the separate sub-divisions f t sheep from his employer. He had a wife compact pass, now politely called a ions in company with whites, engage in of the non-white races in South Africa, he" w it ‘reference book’, the new law extended collective bargaining, and sell their la­ creating a patchwork quilt of ghettoes and six children— two of whom were e m b babies— yet received a wage of only £1 a the provisions of pass legislation to A f­ bour where they pleased— though con­ that will suffocate the emergent non­ month and a four-gallon tin of mealies rican women. The fury with which the vention limited their fields of employ­ white middle-class and Balkanise the ot women greeted this exploded in the Zeer- ment, especially outside the Cape. Then, workers beyond any effective unity of as his ration. ‘Comment on the inade­ The quacy of the appellant’s remuneration and ust and Sekhukhuneland uprisings and during its 1956 session, parliament am­ opposition. Its effect, however has been rations is superfluous. That they were the recent street demonstrations in Jo­ ended the Industrial Conciliation Act to quite the opposite of its objective so far, f b hannesburg, and though some million and impose apartheid upon the registered crushing together the Indians, coloureds hungry (the family ate the sheep at the tate rate of one a week) is a claim fully justi­ a half have been battered during the last trade unions. Unions were compelled to and Africans into a desperate sympathy fied’, Judge Jennett said in passing sen­ eight years into accepting the master separate their members into white and of loss, confusion and antagonism. nd tence. pass, the hostility remains unabated. Gov­ coloured branches, and only whites were The list of law's engendered by fear ernment policy is aimed at clearing the made eligible for election to the executive and dependent upon force that litter the Jim Meantsi, aged 54, with a wife and urban areas of all ‘unnecessary’ women, committees, whether the unions had, in statute book stretches from the opening five children, was employed by an Eng­ those not essential to domestic service or fact, white majorities or not. lish-speaking farmer in the eastern Cape session of the Union parliament to this industry who have slipped through ad­ year’s new' Act. The two most import for 25s. a month, plus a ration of 18 ministrative barriers to join their hus­ The Fascism of Apartheid pints of mealies and a little salt each ant and ferocious are the Suppression bands or help support their families. A further amendment then made it il­ of Communism Act of June 1950, and week. On the second occasion that he Passes provide the most effective means begged the farmer for more food, he was legal for any trade union to affiliate— or the Criminal Law' Amendment Act of of checking the black female urban pop­ February 1953. Together, they have ef­ roundly abused and told to clear off, so give any financial aid-—to any political ulation and screening the useful from the party. Ostensibly aimed at bleaching the fectively destroyed all legal activity by lie drew a knife and stabbed his em­ merely human. And the additional cost ployer. Sentencing him to death, the trade union movement and making im­ political or industrial organisations not in police and departmental personnel is possible a labour-subsidised political or­ dedicated to white supremacy. They judge admitted that his conditions of em­ more than met by fines and the gratitude ployment were ‘thoroughly shameful’. ganisation, the amendments have accom­ have served notice on the country that of the rural white electorate for cheap plished what was ultimately intended, the only the most superficial opposition to Ōn 9 September 1949, Mr. C. R. prison labour. Swart, Minister of Justice, opened the complete shattering of trade union power the Nationalist Party will be tolerated first private jail for farm labourers in It is a grim picture overall. Industry in the country. Already split into five and that any real political action must the Bethal belt, and by the end of 1950, and commerce are kept clumsily fat on separate federations by the conflicts of take place outside the law. 59 a,u. evangelical union CRACCUM S u p p lem en t 5 Dr. Howard Guinness I,

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trik- the Zea- heir :ame .1 of they hem wish d in University Student Body -eat- Red arm it of vent :h a they how d it On Sunday, 14th June there will commence a large-scale mission in the Auckland University. ntry with nost The visit of Dr. Howard Guinness, M.R.C.S., is sponsored by the Evangelical Union and the aim of his on week’s preaching will be the presentation of a reasonable faith. / arty end- ing- Dr. Guinness is not a stranger to the University of Auckland for in 1955 he conducted a similar mission, ilty. in which many of the students appreciated his forthright and balanced ministry. two

vers very Shortly after his Auckland visit Dr. Guinness will be addressing the students of the University of Singapore. cted :ters s to A university, it is often maintained, y of The sponsors of the mission, therefore, Nor, from such a man need A University mission should not be that as a secular institution, is entitled to bring ask their fellow-students for a hearing, any student fear that emotionalism, of considered incongruous or out of place. land religious dogma and belief into the field for a serious and open-minded attempt which the modern world has a justified, Such efforts are three-yearly events in don. of enquiry and criticism, and to test them if exaggerated horror. Oxford and Cambridge, where, rightly to assess the relevance and truth of what or wrongly, British University fashions ided openly as they stand. Dr. Guinness their missioner has to say. Dr. Guinness jck- are set. Dr. Guinness himself has con­ merely asks for the opportunity to do is a University man of experience in two pre- ducted University missions in many parts rip- so. The average student is too ready to great faculties. He is a Christian by of the w?orld. uan reject without examination any philos­ conviction, he has demonstrated that seedetails This invitation is made by the spon­ sors of these addresses in the confidence i to ophy or doctrine labelled “religious” or conviction by the sacrifice of the mode of and “orthodox”. Unaware of the power of his that every fairminded student will weigh tour own prejudices and innocent of the be­ life for which he was trained in the inside seriously the claims of the Christian faith. wilderment and lack of foundation of London medical schools, for a career These claims will be brought before us those whose authority he accepts, he of evangelism. His preaching will be by a man w7ho has for many years lived avoids Christianity as a discredited creed clear and reasoned; the religion he pre­ close to generations of students, who of no personal interest. The clear evi­ sents will be no weak, vague version of No one will be embarrassed by at­ knows the questions which are uppermost dence of breakdown in a society which the historic faith, but a 'Christianity tendance at Dr. Guinness’ meetings. ih their minds, and is well fitted to ex­ has moved from its Christian founda­ which makes demands upon the life with­ After all, he holds high office in a church, pound what he and the many other con­ tions, is itself a comment on this atti­ out calling for an abdication of the in­ which has an ancient tradition of dignity vinced Christians believe to be the an­ tude. telligence. in worship and in preaching. sw e rs .

" | \ 1 1 1 1 ( 1 4 » VIVIMIS VI\ 4 IMI S“ SUPPLEMENT CRACCUM Friday, 5th June, 1959 Fride

Dr. Howard Guinness 5 good reasons for not believing “The Devil's Advocate” is the title of a series of addresses which E4.R.C.S.,L.R.C.F |)r. Howard Guinness will give each evening at 8 p.m. in the'Cafeteria Kxtension. In these addresses Dr. Guinness will present the case first front I)r. Howard (.uimicss. tin guest >.) »f;i kt-i . i) Micklaud Unixersitx is the rationalist point of view, and then from the Christian viewpoint. xxidelx experienced in siudcni lilt and lias spoken to l hiixcrsities in nianx If the Christian belief is true, then there is nothing to he feared parts ol the world from this approach. This novel method of “bringing the devil along to put his case" is one that will arouse the interest of many students — both those who are against Christianity and those normally not interested. It will show In 1928 he graduated as a doetot I rom Si. Bartholomew's Hospital. Lon­ that Dr. Guinness is quite aware of the argument that can be raised don. During his undergraduate davs lie represented his hospital at (ticket against Christianity, hut that Christianity can more than meet these and at Rugby lootball. He also took a prominent part in student extra­ arguments. curricular actix'itics. Those who have discussed a matter only with those who agree with their ideas often become lost in prejudice and ignorance. Being then .aware of the plan and purpose of such meetings, and of the opportunities for discussion which they will provide, student- Alten graduation he traxellcd lot ten xcars lot the Inter-Varsity Fellow­ will find a congenial approach to matters of the Christian faith and ship of l'xangelicai Unions. He xisited Canada ;ind Australia three times, questions arising from it. and New Zealand twice. Dining those years he addressed meetings in even After the addresses, supper will be served. There will be the op­ unixersitx ol the British l ntpire. He also xisited and spoke in the Spain. portunity for students to discuss with Dr. Guinness, or his assistants Hungary. Norxvav. Sweden. Denmark. Finland. Belgium. Holland and the any matters that have been raised in the addresses, or any matters about o p U.S.A. the Christian faith which are of concern to the student.

In 1939 lie was ordained in the Anglican ministix. He was Chaplain t< the Roval Ait Force in Uanada horn 1942 to 191(1 TALK IT OVEH WITH

While there will be much of value to each individual student in the addresses Dear Fe that will be given, there may be matters which students wish to discuss personally, Alter the war Dr. Cuinness was appointed Chaplain to the Anglican or at greater length. Durin Howard Pastorate in the Unixersitx ol Oxford. Fits three years at Oxford were spent To give students this opportunity for a willingness to face student problem.- sity unc personal conversation Dr. Howard Guin­ After graduating he became a chaplain ical Uni in dose contact with the student, and he was a Ireqnent visitor to many of ness will be in attendance at the uni­ in the U.S. Navy until he left to do the Colleges. versity, in a room to be advertised, each student work, first in San Francisco and Beliex day, during mission week. Students may now in New Zealand as the General Sec­ Jesus C talk freely with Dr. Guinness and be as­ retary of I.V.F. ately m sured of a sympathetic hearing. There each st Dr. Michael Harry, a graduate in need be no fear of embarrassment or through in October 1 9 4 9 lie sailed I01 Ansttralia at the invitation ol Archbishop medicine from London University, was c o m m ita l. president of the Evangelical Union there and di Mowed, the Australian Primate, to take up work as rector of St. Barnabas' Whatever it may he — some matter during his student years. He is now in Christia raised in an address, some doubt that New Zealand to complete his years of to the li Church. Broadway, Sydney. Phis church, which is situated next to the Sydney has arisen in their mind, or some very personal problem or difficulty — students hospital practice and is at the same time A Un University very quickly became an unofficial University Church. Dr Guiness taking a great interest in students. will find that Dr. Guinness will do his Dr. Guii held monthly Student Serv ices there. He is now rector of St. Michael’s Church utmost to. help each person. Rev. Ayson Clifford, M .Sc., graduated the task in Vaurluse. If Christianity had no real help to in Chemistry from Otago University and in man] offer, then it would be a veritable myth. entered the Baptist ministry. After some Last yei As it is, if the individual takes this years he became the Vice-Principal of of pur ] opportunity and is prepared to play his the New Zealand Baptist College and has in most part, there is no doubt that he will find recently made a trip abroad during which In 1951 Dr Guinness led a mission in Sydney University sponsored by the answer he is seeking. he made a study of Biblical archaeology. As a students In the same way that a person who die Evangelical Union there. The Great Hall was packed to the doors every Mrs. Lewthwaite, a Canadian by birth, faith wi needs legal advice goes to a lawyer, so day, and the Vice-Chancellor spoke in the highest terms of the conduct of was travelling secretary for I.V.F. in invite y the person who needs spiritual advice goes Canada. Since her marriage to Dr. G. R. sage an the mission. Dr Guinness has also conducted missions in Canterbury Univer- to one experienced and trained in spiritual Lewthwaite she has maintained her inter­ sented c matters. All too often the answer that sitx College and Otago University ( 1 9 5 2 ), Melbourne University ( 1 9 5 3 ), the est in the student world. Christianity has to offer, has not been Rev. J. Deane. B.A.. B.l)., Dip. Ed., In Ch: Unixersitx ol Queensland ( 1 9 5 4 ), our own University of Auckland ( 1 9 5 5 ) and found because it has not been sought for. is a man who for many years has been gift of ( A number of other men and women the University of West Australia ( 1 9 5 8 ). After the Mission here in June Dr working and living \yith students and men. will be present at the various meetings, Guinness is to conduc t a similar one in the University of Singapore. who consequently is well suited to act as and will be keen to discuss then, or at an assistant missioner. some arranged time, any matters con­ cerning the Christian Faith. They rep­ M iss Josephine Dingwall has had con­ resent all the major Protestant denom­ siderable experience with girls as trav­ elling secretary of the Crusader Move­ Dr Guinness frequently broadcasts and is the author ol several books, inations and have been chosen from vari­ ous walks of life to be of the greatest m en t. 1 he best-known of these are “The Sanity of Faith” and “Sacrifice.” His book help to all types of students. Mr. J. S. Burt, L.L.M., w h o vxas “Sacrifice" was originally written for Christian students. It has been reprinted May we introduce, Graduate President of A.U.C.E.U. for a Rev. Warner Hutchinson. B.A., B.L).. number of years following its inception. many times, and over a quarter of a million copies have been sold combines an approachable attitude with He is now a vice-president of I.V.F.

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PLUNCH • HOUR ' ' ADDRESSES ‘ “ Knox devil in 1-2 p.m. University Hall m ake a "B eiiq no m o re Tuesday 16th: "The Moral Question" ing b o n a m o to r Wednesday 17th: "The Fight for Character" “ T h e nitig ot Thursday 18th: "Truth on the Scaffold" w isdom Friday 19th: "The Sanity of Faith" “ R eea w iser tl G od is s Friday, 5th June, 1959. CRACCUM SUPPLEMENT EVENING ADDRESSES 8 p.m. Cafeteria Extension Monday 15th: "Christian Sex Morality is out of Date" Tuesday 16th: "God is Irrelevant to Modern Life" Wednesday 17th: "The Bible is Full of Contradictions" Thursday 18th: "Christianity is Escapism" Friday 19th: "Death ends Everything"

o p e n THE FAITH that can change the world

Dear Fellow Students. — by Howard Guinness During the week 14th-21st of June, Dr. Howard Guinness will address our Univer­ I am looking forward to meeting the students of Auckland University again and of speaking to them sity under the sponsorship of the Evangel­ about the only faith that can change the world. ical Union. Believing that God has provided in For a new world you need new men and new politics — in that order. New politics are a waste of time Jesus Christ all that modern man deper- unless man can become the sort of person who can make them work. Inspire a man with love for, and trust ately needs, we desire to bring Him before in his fellowman and even a second rate policy will work. Leave him as he is and the best policy will fail. each student of our Univerdsity. Our aim throughout will be to present in a clear and direct w ay the central facts of Christ makes new men, tilling their to some particular besetting sin and them ask God to give them a deep sin­ Christianity, and to indicate their relevance hearts with love for God and their fel­ sometimes to the knowledge that we have cerity of purpose as they seek. God is to the life of a student. not very impressed by those whose search lo w s. treated God pretty shabbily; the restless for academic or athletic honours means quest of the human spirit for God of A University Mission is no innovation. This miracle in human nature has self sacrifice and disciplines, — long which St. Augustine said, "Our hearts hours, days, weeks, months and years of Dr. Guinness himself is also no stranger to been happening to student friends of the task, having conducted similar Missions are restless until they rest in Thee" ; the persistent and determined work — but mine ever since I seriously began to get whose so-called search for Him costs in many English Universities in past years. love of God revealed in Christ’s Cross Last year Missions were held in two other to know the student world 30 years ago them nothing. acting like a magnet to steel. of our New Zealand Universities and also as a student myself, and their accepted One of the early settlers in Austral­ in most of the Australian Universities. jobs that kept me moving among stud­ Some motives are not sufficient to get asia. Henry Reed, circled the world in As a result of a secular education, many ents for 24 years. A chaplaincy in the a man there. They must have a deep his search for God — he found Him sincerity of purpose. Among the many eventually on his knees by his bed. But students reject the doctrines of the Christian R.A.F. claimed me during the war. faith without properly examining them. We who responded to Billy Graham's appeal his knees were blistered! invite you to carefully consider the mes­ Can a leopard change his spots ? Of and who found God’s love and forgive­ With some of us what stands between sage and claims of Christ as they are pre­ course not. The question has only to be ness through Christ as a result, were us and God is intellectual, with others sented during this week. asked to be answered. A man can’t lift moral, with others social and with others some who lacked that sincerity. They s p iritu a l. In Christ man can live and triumph! This himself by his own shoe laces. came for a variety of reasons, but they gift of God demands a response from all did not arrive. 1 h o p e 1 shall have the opportunity men. But God can do what no man can. He of meeting many of you and of dis finds no difficulty at all in changing our That is not to say that they will not cussing your problems and sharing your Yours Sincerely, personalities, if we co-operate with Him arrive in the future — possibly during experiences. / don’t come among yon as BRIAN C. JENKINS. in getting them changed. this series of addresses — but simply an expert with all the answers. J come among you as a sinner who has discov­ that they have not arrived up to date. President. Fear, disharmony, frustration, self love, ered the wonder of God's forgiveness and "Seek and ye shall find," said Christ. pride, steadily give place to faith, hope, frien d sh ip , and who wants to share that MARGARET A. PARTRIDGE, Let them persist, and in particular let experience with you. love, humanity and a united personality Secretary. as we advance in the ranks of Christ’s army to see His Kingdom established on e a rth . Life with a purpose has begun. Church Services I have seen this great change occur in every type of student — religious and ir­ During his visit l)r. Guinness will conduct the following services Some Thoughts religious ; believer and unbeliever; moral and immoral; atheist, agnostic, com­ in Auckland;— “Knowledge can turn an ignorant munist and nationalist; Jew, Hindu, Mos­ devil into a clever devil, hut it cannot lem, Buddhist, Confucianist and Christ­ St. Aidan’s Church. Remuera— Sunday, 14th June, at 11 make a saint.” ian. All backgrounds, all faiths. For the a.m. Bible says, "There is no difference, for all have sinned and come short of the “Being born in a Christian community St. M an 's Cathedral. Parnell— Sunday. 14th June, at 7 p.m. no more makes you a Christian than be­ glory of God." And Jesus said. T am the ing born in a garage would make you Way, the Truth, and the Life, no man a motor mechanic.” cometh to the Father but by me." St. Andrew’s Church. Kpsom—Sunday. 21st June, at 11 a.m.

Men need a Saviour. Christ is that St. Paul’s Church, Symonds St.—Sunday, 21st June, at "The fear of the Lord is the begin­ Saviour. I’ve tried it and know. ning of knowledge: but fools despise 7 p.m. wisdom and instruction." Of course the motives that bring men and women to Christ are very varied. The evening service on the 21st of June will Be of particular Fear of failure, fear of loneliness, fear “Because the foolishness of God is interest to students. wiser than men; and the weakness oi of being found out, fear of hell; frustra­ God is stronger than men.' tion and boredom; a sense of sin, due Friday, 5th June, 1959. CRACCUM SUPPLEMENT Friday Is Man Making a Better W orld ?

This question has often been asked and many people firmly believe which He went back, as none else had pose of cutting out all possible exalta­ L o o k ever done. The unanswerable records of tions of self. The requirements appear the indiv that mankind, by his own wisdom and resourcefulness, is working to that His resurrection also state the purpose: to the perverted wisdom of the world a- attem pt c end. However, facts do not bear this out. Many great civilisations have “In Whom we have redemption through foolishness, but they come from the un­ divi du a ls His blood, the forgiveness of sins” fathomable depths of God’s wisdom, and ing in th been found to have existed in the past and all have fallen it would seem, (Eph. 1:7). must so come if we are to be saved at it is imp a ll. as a result of their own corruption and moral decay. The whole matter can have relevancy advent of for the individual, only when each ad­ The secret when considering the simple theatre h mits that he is included in the sinfulness offer of salvation is to realise that God problem 1 There is no reason to suppose that Just as the Bible points to our innate of mankind (i.e. that he as an individual imperfections as the cause of our unsatis­ is greater than man. The coming per­ turns a s t. our own civilisation, or any of the has sinned and come short of the Glory cil is, th variations of it existing or suggested, factory mutual relations, and as the fect world is His and He has the right of God), and when he has faith to be­ producing should have a greater chance of suc­ reason of our inability to better them, so to state the tests for entrance there: our lieve in the Atonement of Jesus Christ as impact. cess. We have reached unprecedented it also indicates the one way by which w is d o m sh o u ld be to h e e d th e m . This sufficient to overcome his inadequacies. very attitude of mind produces that faith T h e ui heights of scientific achievement, yet the the problems can be solved. It points It is this Atonement and only it that presented greatest single accomplishment of our to a way as much beyond human com­ which leads to the fulfilment of God', brings the Divine provision for the re­ requirements. the a u th i age is nothing less than that we now prehension as the problem itself has moval of our sins and- the reception of life proved beyond human solution. That is Council’s have the means of complete self-annihila­ everlasting within the entire race of It is not surprising then that the mes­ cellent, w tion, — what progress! why we cannot reduce this Gospel to humankind as nothing else could. It sage which the Evangelical Union is at­ human rationalism: it is, and must be, as H e le n Why is it that man has repeatedly comes from the mind of God. tempting to bring to the students of thi. unsure o fallen short of the visions and aspirations outside it. That God should send His The reason why the majority of the University is not a new philosophy to as Jim m y of the philosophers? Why is it that Son to appear in flesh and blood, ne­ “intelligentsia” of the world turn aside captivate frustrated minds, but rather dir cessitated a miraculoute incoming into torm ance civilisation has turned out to be nothing from God’s plan of salvation is that, simple Gospel of Faith in Jesus Christ- responsibi but a treadmill and mankind the slaves the human race. That Jesus Christ should while in its totality the plan is beyond the supreme example of Divine wisdom than a n y in s id e it? grow up absolutely without any of the human comprehension, the means of its W here man has failed to make a better cannot be faults or failings which mark and damn The writers of the Bible had the having individual relevancy has been world, to attain intellectual peace and slipshod ’ audacity to suggest that this is because humanity, belongs to His divine nature, made to be within the reach of every security then it is time he did as Dr tent, co n man is inherently imperfect and there­ and is so stated: “He knew no sin’ (11 person. This means involves a factor — J. V. Langmead Casserley was led tn which is fore incapable of rising above his own Cor. 5:21). He was condemned by men faith, which is outside human rational­ do, that is to “embark upon a more ing act. human limitations. Winston Churchill to death because His very perfection was ity and it is therefore that many of the prolonged and open-minded study of ex trem e: indicated that he had been forced to this unbearable to sinful nature. No human world’s leading minds, because they rely Christianity." trived rep conclusion when he said, “there lies be­ means took away His life; He expired on their own powers of thought alone, Jesus Christ says “I am the Way, the the play- fore man a golden age of peace and of His own volition (John 10.18). He find it impossible to accept the Gospel. Truth and the Life” — are you pre- say soi progress. He has only to conquer his voluntarily entered the death state, and 1 m However this very aspect of the plan is pared to put aside your intellectual pre­ portant ii last and worst enemy — himself.” How­ was buried; and God “laid on Him the divine. God “taketh the wise in their own conceptions and investigate His claims, dramatic ever revolting these suggestions are *0 iniquity of us all”. (Isa. 53:6). That was craftiness” (1 Cor. 3:19) for the pur­ openly, honestly and completely? sh o rt 1 our happy notions of self sufficiency and a transaction of God’s legal requirements between 1 perfection there seems' no escape from transcending human wisdom to compre- might ha- the fact that they are true. On every hend'; that is exactly what is needed. from a 12 side we see the sordid results of man’s These requirements were completed when radical ch own inability to rise above himself. Of Christ rose from the dead. The Bible acters c a r every remedy that man has devised ne condemned man to death because of ls study worthwhile ? our k n o w best have resulted in merely partial im­ his sin. To fulfil this penalty Christ, thev a re provements, and even many of these have who had no sin, died and then overcame later brought worse problems in their the bonds of death that He might then Is it leading to the goal we have set steadfast. Give man this security and lit train. It surely follows that if our prob stand as an adequate substitution for all ourselves ? Have we a goal ? Have we has everything, his earthly fears -vanish, lems are beyond our own powers of solu­ m a n k in d . an ultimate purpose in life upon which the Standard against which he meas­ Book R tion, that the remedy needed to overcome Well then, He died for a purpose of we can set our hopes? ures himself becomes a personal experi­ them would of necessity have to come the greatest significance to this human For if we have not, our study is pur­ ence, he will have an ultimate purpost from a source superior to ourselves. race into which He came, and from poseless. Perhaps we have. If so, can in life, he will have a purpose in study­ we be satisfied that we attained this pur­ in g . Spi Christianity has the soundest and most pose? This suggests that we are consci­ First 1 ous of some sort of a Standard against reasonable explanation of the creation, and of man’s relation to the Creator. mental, bi which we can judge ourselves. For with­ successful out such a Standard we could have no Our creator is a God of love, mercy: His attributes characterise the standard is sim ple EO TRIUMPHE ! sense of attainment. spinster t< we are seeking. M an’s relation to God is Few people measure up to this Stand­ affected by the very things of which God is dissati: ard. They try by all means; entertain­ teaching Fanfare for the E U. Mission in the University! is not characterised: a sinful nature, in­ ment, position, money, . . . such things herited by the wrong use of a God-given place th er And already I guess you're saying to yourself, "So what! Go ahead cannot and do not satisfy the inner long­ self will. We are told, however, that and ‘o r g a and have your Mission. I'm not going to let it bother me! ing and hopes of the seeker; for all men “God made man in His Own image' ; and even are seekers, seeking for something which and this is the reason for our desire tn plus th e After all this is second term — season of intellectual mists and satisfies, lasts . . . W hy don’t these things seek for this satisfying security. And sionate, y< academic fruitfulness. satisfy? W hy don’t they work? God, in His mercy, has broken down the drive th e b a r r i e r o f sin in o r d e r t h a t w e might daydream i I've neither time nor inclination for religious disputefulness." This w orld, formed, created, will one ether m e r day end, and all the worldly pleasures find this security. W e can find it in no Of course you would be fully justified in your attitude other way but by acknowledging the val­ non-confot with it. The earth will not last; conse­ foreign bii If Mission were just a vague rehash of bewhiskered argument and quently earthly things cannot last. W hat idity of this reasoning, and the claims ut man seeks is something lasting, eternal. our Creator, who has every right to do about a o p la t it u d e . had re fu This only will satisfy. This only can with us what He will. onely life BUT looking into the derivation of the word, any Stage I Classics give peace. And this eternal Hope is Is this not reasonable? For the most not accept scholar will tell you that Mission comes from the Latin verb found only in Christ the Redeemer of of us we are barred by pride, self-satis­ faction, and in a lot of cases, pure stub­ or w ith o u 'mitto' I send. mankind, the Creator of this world, the of a letter Ultimate Purpose, our Standard. For man bornness or indifference: while deep And someone with a mission is sent for a definite purpose; they don't is given peace only with security and we down, we are conscious of a longing for comes she just 'drift along' or 'incline' or 'tend', something more constructive, more re­ ingly b o a r can have no security in temporary things, the letter, things of this world, but security comes warding. We, of the E.U. have this As too many students 'tend' to do, it, she fit only with something which offers se­ “something” to offer you in our forth­ And never establish any basis or purpose to life but only incline to coming Mission. proposal o curity, something eternal, sure, and person am this or that point of view. no m ean s Now E.U. has a Mission and it's this — literature. Cross, to That every student in the University should know that there is a • • these m et purpose to life which they don't have to grope in the dark The Bible says success. T for, and probably miss. m r ; ' 5 tosov is ac And a purpose naturally implies a goal, She is lo r 1. "For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God." Rom. 3. 23. ally, sh e W hich could only be God since He alone can survey the end from the garden, a beginning an dLife as a whole. self-doubts denied hei But in case you don't take our word for it, we've invited Dr H. 2. "The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ ing fo r a Guinness from Australia, and he's an absolutely first-rate cur Lord." Rom. 6. 23. efficient s s p e a k e r elors at a As a st Ready to face any genuine question on Christianity from an intellect­ is com m ei ually honest seeker. 3. "But God commended His love toward us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us." Rom. 5. 8. typical int May we suggest that you come to his very first meeting because lack of ii once you've heard him speak others. Th .fort to P; There'll be no keeping you away for the rest of the week. 4. "For by grace are you saved through faith, and that not of yourselves it is the gilt bachelor 1 of God. Not of works lest any man should boast." Eph. 2. 8, 9. But perhaps you consider that according to your rating of importance a foreigne New Z eal; God is a minority. ever, th e handicappe Reflect again — Transient studies and sport, or a sure foundation 5. But as many as received Him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, f o r L if e — W hich is your priority? inative ech evertt to them that believe on His Name." Jn. 1. 12. handicappe <>] OVt' a i d isd b u lk »1 o ccu p a [ it in > action i s the, lu stria ‘Safe etition' it im itin» f K V J r / \ \ ^ * * * 0 mem \ n d i. volume two WEDNESDAY JUNE 10TH 1959 number five K lerk cloth mploy- THE UNOFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY STUDENTS. Price 5d re than i-w hite As the editor of this ^arer is also Its owner and publisher,it is highly a s and : t No unlikely that he w ill he f* red for expressing anv oninions.The editor m res accents fu ll resnonsibility for the contents of the rarer THH UNIVERSIT hum an altered OF AUCKLAND lity oi n e six busied r s and 1 2 iddenly ;atioib almost d-eyed LIBRARY con o r the r y the enship. imilie> s t, the >r was J :s, till terior. Febru- s been o re .' EDITORIAL ■ce actuals ie col- most Last'Monday night ,the AgSA voted itween t o dism iss Mp Hunt from his position -oyed; is editor of Craccum,They did. this on the ground that in .an editorial • trr y a A fri- it the last issue,he had made statements rre (iu d id al to the chances of a i, cur­ smdidate at the Presidential election.The I'-elevant 'pas sage Is as follow s: st for Luckllv the Presidency is being contested,hut one of the candidates appears inferi- t the obe working full-tim e7 for the Association,as his attendance at lectures erever as been,by his own words,p racticelly non-existentr.This ls something which : upon k e, of mat he guarded againstfThls ls a N niversity,no a business concern,and we s t, be- ire at U niversity,not only to he President'of this and that, hut to acquire 11011- emacy odeTulc q u a llf ica t 1 ons oThe ^ resid ent '3 job 'ls ,of course , im uortant, hut past over residents of the Association have managed a great deal else besides being prem- sport. resident .Apy position that looks like becoming too mulch for someone- and ctrine bv too much Is meant that h^s academic 'career is being endangered- should eetinp lot exist at ahy D rivers5tv . '' ' ' means . your are unable to see that'this editorial 1s prejudicial to the election lrown 'esrlts.lt ls a statement of pr^nci ^le ,pure and sim ple.lt should he obvious aimed anyone that Execds not meant to he a life-w o rk.If absolute efficiency white nd the' cold Impersonality of the present lot are wanted,then Ltt St Tight­ en at be-Assocla11 on hire a firm of. management ’consultants .But tne students expect t intn omething different from their Exec. ivide: : sep They don 't want perfection,nor cold e fficl ency,They want/ the best interests isions if the students catered, for .and the best interest of the- student ls not always frica. he sharpest business deal «So,let's toss out the 'professional executive ettoes non- nembers 7 ,and replace them w ith students- maybe not so b usinessllke,maybe the lot so e fficie n t,hut in fin ite ly more human. ty of been The editorial In Cra ccum was never intended to he personal,in the sense ) far, ureds of.backing one candidate against another- rather was It meant to be a ' pathy statement of principle applicable to past p resen t, and future elections, end It is 1n■ this sense that a ll reasonable students w ill have taken It. fear r the ening this port- ssion WRECCUM is edited by Phil Crookes,with the late 'Craccum' staff,and' and ls published by the Auckland Univers 1 tv Society of Independent :t of Intellectuals. ’ e ef- v by not r hey that WRECCUM was firs t published in 1952, when. four issues were produced. n to ated. It's raison d’etre then,as now,was a desire to make certain facts known must to the student body„We apologise in advance for typographical er^oPs, and crave the indulgence of /the reader for the illeg ib le rassages-ycaused by the age of the machinery on which the paper Is produced, . ■ ’ - PAG E '1 vvO }> k 1 jf ./■ i h ~ V"; 1 N MJIt H \ 'V. "} s t r o io m av A r e

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E 1 L ê'] r t i 0 MORI iat -he p has STAFF RESIGN IN PROTEST. ot p r? [IENDME AT A MEETING 0$ THE AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY STUDENT'S ASSOCIATION prim ? 'reyne> EXECUTIVE ON MONDAY NIGHT,MR. HUNT WAS DISMISSED FROM THE POSITION o tio n ' OF EDITOR OF 'CRACCUM' .hat i* At t h The editorial staff of the paper The Editor is bound to show matters t a t t immediately resigned en masse. re latin g to elections -to the r<£urnii^eT,p The motion-for Mr’Hunt 's dism !ssal officer in good time for him to. u ’^., was moved bv Mr Freyne (M-.A-.) -dnd pass them on to the persons affectel seconded by.M iss Snook.In sneak­ for reply .Mr Freyne m aintains that, P Jar! ing to the mot ion, Mr Frevne sa<$d while a right of reply is not Usuaujr M.w exercised in the same is sue, an elect- Rob that It was a very grave one, Cross and he 'had only moved it because Ion ls a special case. Mr Hunt,said Mr Freyne,was guilty Streve the circumstances Justifying it of "culpable neglect (see 'Latj a t t e r were also extremely grave.The Punt. G Day:Judgment',p 5)If he'did not Snocvk- Editor of 'Craccum ',said Mr Fryvne, know of these requirements. failed to fu lfill hhs responsib­ in th In reply to nuestIons,M r Hunt- said ilities.H e had failed in parMc- *r E u r he knew of the renuirements. ular in respect of the' editorial In the last Issue entitled SLICK Second the argument for the m otion... • TRICKS.In Mr Frevne's opinion,fthis Mi s s S (opinions expressed hereunder are! contained m aterial ore jud icial should those of Mr Freyne unless otherwise to the result of the elections the el s t a t e d ) id nrogress.:Mr Freyne ws not the ? "We have had a view that one part­ concerned,he said.,with the actual This 1 icular type of person shall hold of effect on the electIons .In oub- too > lishirig this material,he malntdned, °Eere shdu on gn c w tt .• . . ------h , . . 9 be a right of reply-not necessarifr Mr Hunt had not fu lfille d the asked in the same issue,but elections ape resro slb iiltles Imposed upon him card! < a special case.I^ £^is most recent by publishing such an editorial issue issue of 'Craccum ',if the letter! HE w a : at election time. the Student Journalistic Code haste WRECCUM DOES.NOT AGREE IN ANY WAY The m< been violated,the sp irit has.I(M r Pi WITH THIS CONTENTION. more / can not see that if you have -a ri$h that ' of ^ reriy,it Is any good at a ll unle Editorial Policy: S t r e v i it 's within the same 3 days- I.e.#. d u c ts * An editor of Craccum had his po­ same Issue. every licy set out in the following Mr Hunt baslamentably failed to livi fa t u o’ w a y s ; up to the, responsibilities of his He accepted the terms ofthe th at p o s i t i o n / l a i d Student Journalistic Code(reprint­ " (Freyne/I do not say that Mr Hunt ed in 'Craccum 1' was seeking w llfu llyand deceitful^ obvio He accepted the terms of his to influence the result of this eie t h e m appointment- (a) to be bound by & - although this is possible. to th the motion relating to 'Craccum' IN OUR OPINION,THIS IS A SHANEFUL Mr Hu passed at the AGM of 1956- that AND DISGUSTING THING To SAY ABOUT Messr the Editor undertakes to consult A MAN WHO HAS USED HIS RIGHT OF and A the President on any matter on FREE SPEECH IN THE COLUMNS OF THE Again which the-Association Is in proc­ STUDENT NEWSPAPER. Abst e ess of framing or has framed ap (Mr Freyne continued)"At best,his Abser p ^ l l c v . actions show extreme and culpable HOWEVER,WRECCUM CONTENDS THAT A negligence. CRACCUM EDITOR WOULD NOT BE BOUND WREC( BY A PRESIDENTIAL DECISION. * CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE THEM! WRECCTJM PACE -THREE

strong motion 1? called f*or , 1 n order to °et some sort of example- t-o-these !0 mav edit the pap^r in the futuer . .^trevens moved that Mr Hunt he given the right to sneak as rea-ftired .Passed,

E VOICE OP REASON SPEAKS, ' '

Bindonrose to oppose the motion in Its present form .Mr .Freyne had said iat he didn't consider that the- editorial was pre judicial to the election. jwever,hid remarks savored'bf his views a ll through his speech*1 two or three 'uci&l days ’ .fu n fa ir’, etc .The matter >sa id . Mr Bindon,was p lain ly one‘ of princ­ iple, as Mr Hpnt had obviously not stuck'to the code. IP AN EDITOR WBEB TO- OBSER IE LETTER OP THE'CODE HE'WOULD BECOME NO MORE THAN A .MACHINE,AND COULD HAVE 0 MORE OPINIONS THAN A PRINTING ■ PRESS .Mr Bindon continued.11 It 's q u ite ' obvious iat -he deserves reprimand,but he has not done anything to warrant dism issal, p has d efinitely, contravened his terms of appointment,but the effect was imb at p r e iud-1 c i a l ■jih» r e s u l t , o f f e e e l e c t i o n - . 1 lENDMENT -B Indon, That the Secretary white to the. editor of Craccum eprimanding him for his indiscretio. in w riting the editorial in V&l 33 no 5. reynO- point of order!'Is this motion a direct negative of the. substantive otion?(lf it w rre,it. would not be an 'adm issible amendment) .The chairman ruled hat' it was not a direct, negative. fcers At this staee in the proceeding1 fluent lauched like ā drain and moved ami: at t e meeting go into committee,because,he said, A stage has heen reached here discussion w ill be easier in committee .M 3 cte airburn ^hat difference does the nresence of these people (Graccum staff Wrecc- nat, m managers,and other Interested parti)make?M 9 3 U āl t'r M,withdrew his motion. 3lec v Robinson concurs with the sentiments of Mr Bind.on,above, moss Questioning began: . • by Strevens-Was It intended that this article should appear earlier in the week? 3T Hunt .Qraccum could not c o m ^ out before two-- o'clock on Pridav. a* Q u i d vou have considered it desirable for Craccum to appear as earlvA in the week as possible? „ . a* 1d • v Hunt refused to answer this question* IN 01IR OPINION,RIGHTLY SO.

Seconds into the P ra y... ■-iss Snook: I feel It's 1 portant in a discussion of this matter that we r e t wise should distinguish two issu es.First,did thp appearance of 'Craccum affect the election resu lts.I (Ml3s Snook)would sav it did not.This is backed up by rt- the action of Messrs Bayley and M iller h not calling for a reelection. This is relevant to objections raised,1n that we must not criticise Mfc Hunt too harshly for top results of the ed1 tor * al .The o riginal motion was. brouglo on grounds of pollcv^ principle,and 'editorial responsibility.H as the Editor, °sked Miss Spook,the right to rubbish an editorial which could preludice a candidate s chances,and not give thp t candi^atp a right of replv»,In the same issue.WE CONTEND TIL-T AN EDITOR CANNOT HOLD UP PUBLICATION OF HIS PAPER WHILE HE WAITS FOR A REPLY TO CRITICISM-. HE SHOULD ■ OFFER SPACE IN THE NEXT ISSUE. I S DOJ The mepting dragged its- sorry wav along-' snace does not allow that we sav nore.Spfice it to record that' Mr Maidment laughed like a drair twice more, that Mr Firth attempted to have the meeting mov° 1nto- committee,as did Mr mlej Sfcrevens, that Mr Bindon's amendment was d ecisively lo st,th at Mr Maidment con­ ? . m ducted cross-exam ination in the best Aj^eri can-courtroom-scene stvle,and lovbd everv moment of 1t,that Mr Bindon moved a motion that was so astonishingly fatuous it lapsed for want of a"second,that Mr Maidment laughed like a drain, that Mr Strevens attempted to have 'the meeting ’adiourned for supper;the motboi laid upon the table-anvthi.ng to prevent an immediate vote,that Mr Frith had obviously made up his mind ages ago,and displayed an opposite tendency,that the motion was ,f1nal.lv,put,and,he 1t shamefacedly said,carried,by eight votes to thre^.with four abstentions and one absentee(known to be a supporter of Mr Hpnt .Voting was as follow s ,F©r tbp motion that Mr-Hp.pt be dism issed: Messrs Hreyne,Maidment ,X|£^ $$£§treV ns ,F irtht,Pavi es ,Moorhead ,and M iles Snok and Akudder. IE Against the motion:-Messrs Bindon,and Robinson and Miss Fairburn, Abstention record.e&tM essrsYoung,Bayley,M iller and Thorburn. Absent from the meeting:Mlss W ilson.

WRECCUM IS SURE THAT THOSE MEMBERS WHO VOTED FOR THE' MOTION ARE PROUD OF THEMSELVES.IT 'S JUST AS WELL- NOBODY ELSE COULD BE. WRECCUM PAG E POUR

Lhe following 1 ,9 th e text of an editorial intended to be published tn Crac cum Issue 6 ,.

When the votes were cast and fin ally counted for the Presidential IT HA elections,It was seen that onlv 660 students bad bothered to register their vote,That reuresents about.16$ of the student population,W hile F IR S T anpreclating the fact that there were no burning issues at stake and that publicItv for the election was extremelv poor,it s till ffi. s registers a great victor^ for, apathv at this university. If the same thing happens at the election for portfolio holders which 7L DP is being held this weak,then the exnense in nre-naring- the ballot papers and hiring the fa cilitie s for a secret ballot w ill anrear wasteful extri 'RI^T vagance,and a move for selection,not electIon,would be in order. . If the or dinap v student does not cast hds vote and then adcuses the CT. Txec of being a narrow little clioue,h.e has no leg to stand on.The Executive is the mouthpiece of the Association- what it ^avs,the Assoc­ \E AP iation must do,as them are the elected representatives ~f the. Associstioi The only wav for a student at this university to register his protest O il IL at what could or could not be a narrow little clique at this University Is for h’m to vote in the forthcoming, portfolio elections. p u : LI

TO JON. HUNT

Let US not quell t h e voice he a l of freedom's strength m m and suffer dvlng bodies to stretch their length \s’AS P unon the living word with outrage absurd. ■ D IT O L»t the fearless voice stand as the-word of Jonathan, GUTTE and be heard in the land.

Herman GTadwin

The poems which follow were orig inally submitted to 'Craccum',and were intended.for publication in Issue 6. c ASHES,TWO ASHES' The He was like the fire on his- own hearth • To 'No need, for coal Just vet' he said. ’ The And so they tottered near extinction A Apd imperceptibly dropned,dead. . - D a i POKER FiC E • - > . . • O ff By A -rough diamond cardsharp I know i j i d . j i Mustn't be Judged at face vslue- O f By d 1.ssem bling and shuff 11 ng and show He - He '11 .. (by more than an-ace) g u ll vou. I n To HH1 s manners bv craft mav be swayed I n And his language mav waver,to boot: W h i You mam like to-put it this wav He calls a snade A s u i t . > P P PHONEY LAST WORDS She N o t T h e My dear,how can vou leave a Who Man. so c r u e l l y l i k e t h i s And At, least give the receiver Before vou hang up,a kiss. Oscar Hammerklavier VRECCUM P A G E F I WE

LATTER DAY JUDGMENT- APOLOGY

L a i II HAS BIE.FH SO IN TED OUT TO 0 A - AT AN' ARTICLE CONTAINED IN /TiEE R 3 T FIRST THIRTY I SUES OF VRECCUM CONTAINED PERSONAL ^FEREN CFS TO i ; * - * ••• MR. ATREVEN WHICH CERE CAPiiiLE OF V MOST UNIO RTUN A T E "TN T ER P R E T ^ T I ONE

3h AE DEEPLY REG HIT THE INCLUSION OF THIS J-E..TER I AL ; AND HOULD S T A T E , D erg 3xtri iiiAT TO OUR CERTAIN KNOWLEDGE TAE REFERENCES H ,V: NO FOUNDATION IN

the FACT. AJ , A, ' * C ' ; J ,

3(DC- EE APOLOGISE MOST SINCERELY TO ;:ffivSTIpVB3G -FOR ANY UNPLEASANTNESS • istioi 3 1 OR ILL-FEELING WHICH BY HAW ARISEN TOUARDS- HIM BlOAUSR OF OUR ; 3 i t Y PUBLICATION 01 THIS ARTICLE..

EE ALSO WISH nO EXTEND OUR SINCERE APOLOGY TO MESSES FREYNE AND MAIDMENT

AND MISS GNOr$#fOR PERSONAL ICLE,WHICH

VIAS PUBLISHED WITHOUT DUE CONSIDERATION,AI1D WAS, IN TA OPINION OF rvIF

DITOR 01 VRECCUM ,ND HIS ASSOCIATES,A MOSP. UNFORTUNATE: EXCUPSTOI! INTO

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SHADE S 0 F ANIMAL FARM

The piss retreated to the sty Another, in a hurry, nagged To consider the choree. For motions to be put. The forum was tc? ^.f ihd /out^wiiy. ../Arriving late, another polled, a journalist, in ^phrases iar0e, Not knowing wUt had been afoot Dared exppess a truthful principle Or what the panel had been told. Offending tae lords of Exec, invincible. By showing gr^ftinfe tô the aordes Voters,note the names of those «nd faithithfully tryin0 to seek Contained, in the report; *j i in s is t to the methods Examine ones vou find XXXX that Of the tight executive clique, c ..o s e He roused the little Herods To be the despot sort. In the chambers of bureaucracy Exec, is there to speak for YOU To yet another step ilhd handle YOUR a ffa irs, In destroyin0 our-democracy— Not there for prestige to accrue While Freedom wept. .aid show officious.^ airs. The person who wasf’wronged, re c a ll, A nd when the vote was cast, Put him in a position. appearance of u -sc h is m , To k ill bureaucracy and all Shnupr)S k 9 W:ed:,although a l -Kh nnrrVi thef '.'.r .mmotion, n + -i n n papsed., This type of inquisition. Not’’a ll' believed Me. Carfkyism . There were those of: a jus ter ‘course J.B. B e g g s . Who -thought,'".while the procedure drwg0ed, And one of species guffawed hoarse.

.aeev.. ?*GS? SIX / 0 1

G U IL D S F R B Y X d 3oth intellectuals and bureaucrats Foregathered this night, not to read tracts But to cross-examine with words and eyes The guilty editor editor accused of lies. The upright oh ilda of executive renown Had hurried here and- forgotten gown So spent that fateful evening meeting assorting vice in cunning greeting Whenever another supporter rose And spluttered out words like a dripping hose. Without a bible to swear him in merit The terrible chilae began his sin A sso used And speaking of grave responsible things-- * part Soon was the puppeteer pulling the strings, While the disjointed puppets of commerce-wood. Absorbed his words as a ll dummies should. mea "Through the many obligations he flouted . £2 7 The accused has breached a code", he pouted "And carried on with swollen pride tion: The heart within him slowly die tiom Until around the tittering table \vt The damning word finished the facie. ne' In Stree Mass The Famous Fling Of Bev Revere was Build now Listen ail students and you shell hear provi main Of th3 groat fulfillm ent of a self-made dare; U n Open your eyes and you shall look prese [lities (The past participle of sneak is snook) even On a woman who lo v e d a m in u te book must Stuck And counted the seconds in every move The s In order that her last fling should prove ing: i 1957 History in the varsity, preps Ever proclaiming the glory of she dictic highe oho in an ordered formalized manner (Tab Unfurled her self-made executive banner actua 1,000 To gain control of a meeting, fought dictic uith the weapon of correct and formalized thought, we ci And d is re g a rd e d th e human s o u l 7.000 W i dhieh she had laid in some pigeon hole. be s1 of t t ernm - hiehael Jackson. City -<* 4* ******* *********** *** **************** ************

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* ! Q\T rfTr~" fTEa -!T OF ViONHiY JUNE EIGHTH MO.1 X t- Craccun died.Verdict of this paper U i s s t r a n g u la ti o n by p e rs o n s Inhuman, voo.c . h Its loss w ill be felt by many- not Vi the least of whom w ill bo the extra t !• r e a d e r s who w ere a t t r a c t e d t h i s yea* St „ / h . p h for the first tim e,to a student papoi unafraid of having its own opinions SVv » LA w T R Ug J and exprsssing them.

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