University of Montana ScholarWorks at University of Montana Associated Students of the University of Montana Montana Kaimin, 1898-present (ASUM) 6-1-1949 The onM tana Kaimin, June 1, 1949 Associated Students of Montana State University Let us know how access to this document benefits ouy . Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.umt.edu/studentnewspaper Recommended Citation Associated Students of Montana State University, "The onM tana Kaimin, June 1, 1949" (1949). Montana Kaimin, 1898-present. 2469. https://scholarworks.umt.edu/studentnewspaper/2469 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Associated Students of the University of Montana (ASUM) at ScholarWorks at University of Montana. It has been accepted for inclusion in Montana Kaimin, 1898-present by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks at University of Montana. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Well-Done Student Quarterly Offers Balanced Diet of Fiction well, for the still small voice that For any such artistic sauce. A sprightly edition of the Moun­ the title was responsible for the mean's East Lynne, that lampoons heart balm fiction to a fare-thee- plagues his hero bothers ‘the mas­ * * * taineer hit the stands yesterday, re­ only real flaw in the story. Connolly' had a genuine O’Henry well. Her execrably written piece culine reader, and returns him to After a frivolous start in a previ­ plete with light and serious fiction finish ’till he decided to say a few —cleverly, ingeniously, bad—was days, long since gone, when the ous Mountaineer, Reid Collins has articles that should win wide pop­ words about rehabilitation—to so much meat-and-drink to the worst calamity that could befall a settled down to write a good piece ular acceptance for the student square with title, we suppose—and editors who wisely decided that man of the world was to be forced* of fiction. His Seventh Post has an quarterly. the additional verbiage is anti- here was a fine vehicle for satire, to take one’s disgusting little sister authentic ring to it that is bound to climactic. and played it for all it was worth. to a show. impress. It is a well balanced issue. The As such a vehicle it is worth a An excellent story. Even so, it is refreshing to find Structure and style are just right aesthetes have their dole of poetry, great deal. # * =;: 4 the home-folks their standby an artist who is content to be a for the story of this kind, the old raconteur; who leaves the great Harry Nelson’s How Much Rube? sad refrain about barnyard mis­ childhood yarn, the sociologists is an interesting, if undistinguished, their race prejudice case history, workings of life-and-death to those Race Prejudice: Mississippi and behavior. who understand them; who isn’t Montana. Bill Rogers doesn’t raise little piece about a Knight of the “Poor little Elizabeth, stuck clear and all of us have the labored non­ Road who successfully resists the sense of G. Newton Buker . .. (who afraid to write an interesting story. any new question in the story of out here in the woods ...” is a This yarn will be well received. It racialism, nor answer any old ones, blandishments of the Golden rule. common type, but not so common must surely have his sane mo­ The story is well told and has no ments) . should be. but his straightforward tale is all as the man who seduces her, other­ the better for its lack of pretension. real flaws, but the time is coming, * * * wise stupid fathers of such stupid Those who have been lured into His best items are those which we hope, when the American read­ girls would not forever be on their Pat Connolly is an artist. He a Hearst newspaper serial and who raise sinister question about the ing public will turn away from stupid guard. It is difficult to do a takes a strand of landladyism, of have lived to regret the experience mixed-marriage laws of this state, pulp-fiction dialogue unless there good job on such a threadbare plot. veterans’ rehabilitation, of small (as who has not?) may now give and, for that matter, the entire is an original idea behind it. Conclusion: It isn’t the subject town snoopishness—splices these their offspring sage advice about legal status of Negroes in Montana. matter, but Collins’ treatment of'it, together in a sturdy little literary this business. And here is the ad­ Printing this article was a real The Adventures of Peter Rabbit, that wins the brass ring. structure—and manages to also vice: public service. Congratulations to ETC., by G. Newton Buker, is a de­ find a way to drive still another “Dear Children—before you ever Rogers and the editors. liberate trap for the journalist- Rather than bog down in a sea nail into the coffin of Do-Goodism. read such trash be sure you first critic. We don’t intend to fool with of obviously misused adjectives, we Bravo! read Irene Turli’s Abigail in the As genuine as Booth Tarkington it. Why should we . .? don’t intend to ‘criticise’ the poetry, The name of the happy product spring ’49 Mountaineer. Now go out is A. E. Pedersen Jr., whose Wait For words we are all at a loss all of which is good solid stuff, no of these labors is A Home for the and play.” for Me is a clever look at the A stone that will gather no moss, doubt, and shot through-and-., Conquering Heroes, but the title Miss Turli has given us a letter- schoolboy conscience. Pedersen Is good for a tomb, through with significance of every doesn’t matter; as a matter of fact, press soap-opera, a sort of poor must remember his own boyhood But we have no room, kind.—JWS. THE MONTANA It’s The Kaimin’s 51st Birthday; KAIMIN Hasa Evolved From Quarterly Montana State University, Missoula, Montana Volume L Z400' Wednesday, June 1, 1949 Number 119 To Professional Daily Paper The Kaimin is 51 years old today. He Put This Paper Together The student daily first appeared one month after Dewey destroyed the Spanish fleet in 1898, and has been going, in a variety of formats, ever since. In that period the newspaper Editoria has gone through the usual college cycle, from literary quar­ terly in the ’90s to a professional daily in 1949, with, it is ON THE W A Y UP hoped, some measure of literary merit. Andy Cogswell once re­ The Kaimin has been in all marked that at each Homecom­ shapes, come out in; varying fre­ ing the grads gaze in wonder at quencies. It has been a magazine, Greetings,’ Papers the changes in the physical plant a seven-, an eight-, and is now a that have taken place since their five-column newspaper. ■ It has Exchanged by time. The University publicity been a monthly, bimonthly, week­ director made the remark while ly, bi-weekly, tri-weekly, and now Montanans in Paris Referendums 51-52 were still to appears each Tuesday-through- Diana McNair, Great Falls, be passed. What will our grad­ Friday. From a shaky financial bumped into two well-known MSU uating seniors say five years venture it has grown to an enter­ grads during her tour of Europe, hence when they return? prise claiming $3,785 of the student friends report. Miss McNair’s Con­ They should be pleasantly budget annually. tinental junket took her through surprised. The referendums Large Staff Paris, where she met Vic Reinemer, will allow us to construct sev­ former Kaimin editor and Byron eral large buildings that will Thirty reporters write about 10,- 000 words per issue, or 40,000 per (Huge) Bottomley, another former fill out two of the quadrangles J-major who is studying at the suggested by architects years week, and each word is read by one of 10 copyreaders, set in type University of Paris with Reinemer. ago. If some authorities are According to the report, Miss to be believed, these buildings by one of six printers, and is proof - I read again by another copyreader. McNair met the two Yankee jourri- may not match the others as alsists at the Paris Officers’ club as they should, but match or no The editor, four associate editors, and a busines manager are expend­ they sat at a nearby table. Greet­ match, they will be welcome. ings and student publications were' In the next five years more Jim Emrick, Conrad, typifies generations of student copyreaders ing a lump-120 hours per week to get the paper out, and for their exchanged. construction will be started who have, in 51 years, built the Kaimin from a small literary Miss McNair had fresh copies of and finished than in any sim­ quarterly to a modern college daily. Jim is sitting ‘in the slot,’ I labors they make a total of $160 a month. Campus Rakings and the Sigma ilar period in the University’s traditional pose for the head deskman who determines what is to Chi handicap program, and Reine­ history. After a long sleep the At least two printers and a go in your newspaper. pressman work each night of the mer and Bottomley had the latest people of Montana have Kaimins. awakened to our need, and if four days to get the Kaimin in print, and to assist them there is a After her Paris stop the Montana the legislature can help us a girl went on to Madrid, then Italy little more— by giving us the English Department Will Offer completely equipped pressroom on the first floor of the J-school.