SCARLET AND BLACK Friday. May 4. I952 firarlki and {film}: GRINNELL COLLEGE Grinnell, Iowa A wcklily , by lhc (hunch hr 'evw Brown. cl b Na nul hurri- rescuihui scloml class in air or Mulch Busines Nous u Spoils Dilliors . CPW Edirni- Assislnnt Corr P 00! 1c. iic hurl Chief Pliorot eirciilarion i Lac-our Man . Snlcsmcn Burirrrss A nrwsnrncr pirblishru Committee a l'nLIn. ii: Service. no kind on Ale, lb i. ch i or or inc colic-co rudcm Piibli ltiolls. F Beniesenwd iol niririi (herllslll rod, eollccc Publlsncrs lico— New York N. ‘ lam cu Posc Ofllce an (ironic loi , iumcr siibsrrhrrioii mic $4n0 iici school .nni lumen George buck Judi i\linii Lcilnr siic rainics . (xiii il Drum. Lcslic iiiuslcircn Union plans it is likely that filial plans for the proposed new Stu— ‘dcnt UniOn will be made within tlle next few months. Fac- l‘liy and administration personnel lime been visiting other ic'lmpuses to see the latest thing- in unions. This, in itsell'. assurance that student needs are being considered before the blueprints are drawn up. But, nevertheless, it seems to us that Grinnell student (pinion as to what should be included in tlle building has ‘r-ot yet been satisfactorally polled. This is perhaps not the fault ol’ the joint strident- 'ieulty-udministrativc committee which is consideling‘ the lding plans. We remember ver well the meager attendance at a coffee hour during which President Bowen outlined exten- sively the plans of the college within the next few years i :- presentation which included discussion of alternative plans for a U11l01‘l.yHO\\'eVel‘, we still feel that the commit— tee has the responsibility {or determining student opinion (n the matter and that it has not completely fulfilled this responsibility yet. What we Suggest is this: that anothe ~ more publicized coffee hour be presented sometime within the next two weeks. And that the program merely he a meeting of the uildingplans committee during or following which quess lions and proposals may be entertained from the floor. This, we think, will help to resolve the qllestio 5 0t l 'hether or not to have studysdate rooms in the Union or ii'heth‘er to build the proposed Swimming pool as part of the Union or a field house. Better find somelhlnglo oppose I before its loo Iale, Vaughn urges by Bill Vaughan (with pcrmiss on or the author rid his paper, the Kansas City Star) The thing that worries most at us in the daily writing game is that We will run out of things i0 be against, M n terrible sword of Whoinevcr hanging cver us. > So many people are crowd. ing- the field. Fine writers with gorgeous vocabularies arc de~ nouncing the twist and neon lights and Southern cooking and atmospheric testing and rich c financing and method acting and intolerance and nepotism and iclcvision and installment buying and basket- ball'and spike heels-and ilic new Webster's Dictionary and progressive education and dir- ty books and the Weather Bureau and ivy Lcnguc clothes and communism and drinking- on nirlincrs and (he Birch So- oiety and work coffee. I’ll tell you, son, that if you came late to the denouncing business youill find all the big. fat targets have been taken, and even some little far-off ones. If you want lo build n rcpu. ration you‘ll have to find a spccialiy, something that nonc or 'the syndicated brains and maga- ne essayi, s and network com— mentators have ever thought a- bout being against. You hit away at it strongly cnough and you will wind your-sch up accepts ing a plaque loi- crusading in- dependence. Just as all ex'imple, buddy boy, and I don't i ant to coni- mit you lo nriyiliing, but you had better strike out something Pretty soon. How nbour breathing? Coming out against it, I menn. Even chlcr has never done that. That strikes Inc as an ideal iield. If 1 had lhc time I would go inio it myself. Almost every~ body brcalhcs. nearly every one enjoys ll. This means that there‘must be something \ll‘Ong wnh it and it is merely wait ing- for the cleft. deflniing (ouch oi ilic satirical typewriter. Right off. you have the cons iormrly angle going for you. Why do people breathe? Be- cause the parents breathed be fore them. and (heir grandpar- ents, it is something that has always been done. Scc how foolish you can make a man feel merely by pointing out that he br-eclhcs because n is (he thing (o do. Everybody on his block brealhes, especially in suburbia. You can do a wonderiully bits ter expose on how those pcpplc in the Crabgrcss Sci (or in lil- tle Greenwich Village pods. 'i you prcicrl wouldn‘i (hin ' gczring ihrcugh the day wilhoui breathing. What n hilarious takeoff you could do, possibly for a London newspaper. on the iv a. typical American ram spends its Saturdays, with cw erybody breathing in unison. You could tell about how, in Texas, pcoplc inkc great big breaths, and keep it up hour after liou if your desire 15 [0 take a pup ilical tack on can point out according to iir prcfcrcncc, rhar nol onli- P esldent Kennedy, but his cnli frimily are knoun to brcaihc. or that bolh Sens ator Dlrl ,cn and ncprcscnlniirc llallcck nrc habilual lbrcathers The only (hing is that ii you want [0 come out against breaths ing, you had beucr acl fast and get your denunciation in print. I'm surprised that the other deep ilrinkcr-s have overlooked it ilris long. apatite/'5 Smur/rer draws wrath of readers To ilic Editor: in (lic pus( icw clay ‘I hrrrc bccn Slapped on llic sircci. bulk in lpun and on campus, mid questionch as to lhc pr Sence or "dope,“ i.c, rirniipmna, bcn zcdrine, cic, in the Challcibox. This questloning has been flic PCS-ll? at an unsubstantlaied (eminent by Larry Smuckcr in l l ucck‘s Scarlet and Black. Perhaps (hc limc has ccmc im- an explanation of (be whole story. A numbel‘ of wccks ngp, I was asked by (he Dean cf Mcn a- bcui the possibility ot' “dope" distribution at my I‘ summit The hollow rg day I was obligate ed to discuss this noncislcni situaiion wilh the Chicr of P. lice in Grinncll, only the Chicl and I were pro lit at this meet ing, and there was no riccusril-roii of any soil, cnhcr by the ohm or by the Dean of Mcn. Mr. sinuckor should realize lhat “second hand” inforniniian is heal-Say. and that Merriam “’ebster‘s New Collegiate Dies tiouary defines “accused" as, “to he charged with an or— ieuse," in which case i would have grounds. for inlse arrest. ‘My lalk willi the Police Chief was no male than LI rouline questioning. as a result UK a rumor brought to his attention ihrougli ilic Dcrin ci Mcii, \Ml‘. Sli‘lllckel“5 statement lCilveS the Scarlet and Black open for sult. I do not know where siniirker obtc'ncd his lnfmmatlon, as ii \V not li‘Om me. *’ This srulcnicnl, though cori— ccirably without )nisintellt, has n rccrl both the Grilmcll For lice Department and inc pets sonrilly in n e lrcnrcly (lee grading posi Though danp age has already inkcn plnco, i should vpccr a public re— lmciion or this niorcmcmioncd simcnicnr by Mr. Smuckcr. ‘ Also. there is liulc ilrai criu s more unneeded rivalry bciwccn the collcgc and the (own people than (he use of the ccnnoiruircly dcrcgaiory word, “townie." This is nbscluiciy in bud cuslc. As (bore of us who have been involled in certaln lrappcnings oiilsidc or the college in rcccni d . well know. the Police Chief in Grinncll would be held to iniprovc upon as l'ar as the col- lege sludcnl is conccrncd. Duc -also to three "breaking and en- tcr-ings" at the Chullcrbox, 1 probably know the Police Chicf boiler llran most Students. He and his for-cc have apprehended the guilly parties on two out oi Mrs. Burkle tells of Grinnell grad who's buried in Red Square by Jeanne Burkle it was refreshing to me to remember a (lure when the United States was regarded as a, place or pblirical rcfuge for the Left! Katayama Sen was nor only one of the founders of the Japan Social 'Democratlc' Party (Socialist), but during c le ' (Ed. note: Jeriiinc B kle is the wife or Howard Bulkle (philosophy and religion) who L spending in hi the In- tcrrinlionnl Chrisiinii Univer- sity in Japan.) Amer a he helped 'iO round the Anici air Communist Party Herc arc the biographical iacts’ Katayalna Sun was born in 1858 of peasant parents. worked on a faim and studied at home uiilil 1332 when he moved to Tokyo There he worked at a printing plant 10 hours a day (for 71h cents a day) and studied Chinese classics at ni ht. In 1884 he ar- rived in Calitornia wnlr exactly one dollar in his pocket. He sludied English in a Chinese mission in Alameda and entered Johns Hopkins Academy at Oakland. From there he wcnl to Mnryville College, Ten- neesec. then in 1889, came to Grinnell. Three years later he graduated ivillr the class of 1392 Graduate work at Andover for two years and Yale icr one year complclcd his formal education. He returned to Japan in 1902 to found Kingslcy Hall and ihe Japan Socialist Phi-(y and to edit a union‘ newspaper. in 1904 he was a delegate to ihc Gth Socialists meeling m Ari‘rsr terdam. At ibis tinic the Russo Japanese War was in full till and the Socialists of both coun- tries. in opposition to me war nnd in e pression of niulunl comradeshlp. wroie letters to each other: “Dear Comrades: eminent nnd our govcrnmeni have bccn plunged into fight ing at last in order to sulisl'y uicir inipo alisfic dcsires, but to the sccmlisis of both coun. trie lhcrc is no bar or or rocc. ler-r-ilor-y or iiallonnllly. Wc c no: cricmics , . . Our circmics are mililarisni and soscallcd pri- ll‘lotlsm " During Your gov- all this time Katnynma worked for his living id tuition. The rcicrcncc book says (hot “this ordeal prcparcd him for the nciiviiy of a nrililnnf rebel." Tlic study of Socialism took him (o England ior work with Ferdinand Lnssallc. Katayama made a historic gcss lure at (he Geneva niccling by publicly shaking hands with the Russian representative, Plek» hanov. This indication of “in. (crnnlicnal proletarian solidar- ity” must have endeared them to their respective governments. Tlic Japanese authorities gave Kaiaynnia and his rcllow Socialists plenty of trouble, hilt he managed lo stay out oi inil until he liclpcd to engis ncer the tremendously success- ful streetcar strike which im» mobilized thc entire city of Tokyo for five days during the cspccially busy New Year sea- son or 1910. six thousand engineers and conductorS were involvcd anc managed to extract a one hun- dred (housand dollar bonus from the slrcet car company. When the strike was settled, the str '6 leaders were arrested, and Ka- laynin went to jail 1m- nine months. Upon his release he soughl sanctuary in the United States and worked in New York for the next ‘11 years uniil 1921 when he went to Russia as a member of the Execut 'e Com- mittee of the Communist Inter- nalionalc. He died in Moscow in 1933 and was buried Willi honors in Red Square. Proletarian bov mnkes good! Horatio Alger r isitedl Ashley poem 'Jo', Schif‘i sio three limes—a pretty good recs ord. Me has furllrcrniorc done more than his duty to help me in every way concci blc. ' ed M035 My intent was to' clridc Mr. Moss by communicating an amusing rumor, Thanks to Mr. lVloss ior partially veri ing lhc rumnr. The word. “Mcused” is inciually wiring and inicmpcmzc. This 1 gladly rclruri, LS. To the Editor: ~ Aflcr reading Larry sinuclrcr’s usual outpouring of garbage and finding it more poicnl than us- ual, I had in write this letter. His “Worsts” Awards of (he year are the word bunch of words cver put (ogolhcr and smiled into the Scarlet and Black. For cramplc, Lorry cried Paul oiirlvright's cartoon as the in t" of llrc year. i don't remember seeing any others, but. that is bcsidc the point. Some- onc dared lo criticize one of Larry's projccrs~narurally Lar- ry doesn't like him! it seems Larry is taking a parting shot at Paul before the year is ov— er. Larry next cited The Brolh— crs Four as the worst concert of the year. Is he so entrench- cd in his ultra-liberalism that he can't emoy a program de» signed for entertainment only? I enjoyed the program very much as did most of my friends It provided us with on oppor- tunity to iorget the cares of the world and gci a little fun out of life. The fallout shelter issue was next in line for Larry's blasts. Thc Administration didn’t agree with Larry; therefore they are wrong I think it is wonderful for us to concenlrnic our cfforis on the preveniion of war, but what if all our error fail and there is war? ii Lal' . had his way, we'd all die, Unlil a bet- (rr- alternative is found, fallout shelters are our best means or protection in the event of war. Perhaps Larry should have paid more heed to the "ol' rear ist" Maybe the world is going (o the dogs. but that is no rea- son ior us to spend our lives moaning about ii, i prefer to forget the world's troubles once in a while and get some fun out of life. Jim Porter (Everybody singli ' ’m sorry for ilic things I said. But Mr. Porter lost his head, if he'd put his longue in his cheek, He’d get more sleep, i'm sorry." L r"y take firsts in writing contests Reprinted below is the top prize-“inning poem submitted by Paul Ashley in this year's Whltco'mb poetry contest Contest judge was author Hollis Summers, featured sneaker and Clltic at the Grinnell Creative “Tiling Woi' Summers also iildged Ken Schlfi shop April 20. star, “Children of the best in the Henry YOlk-Steuier Short story contest JO I remember how she was. , Firm fcec had she. all ngrin, Fat pony tail (lead down her back Like dirty spaghetti she all a-El'ln Slashed across her Volcanic lace, (And I Saw her in the garden, Sucl llg struggling roses. Thrusilne her breasts among bloody thorns, issing cl-orrlses that turn brown Beneath her. she looking aside until All * unrl h the ground was And lhr ' ' black with blown And she iii to be among rock i lClllCl“ s Brown {‘01 uroy Slamed by lat lie bani; (ill 1: “Do you think I act sill, Perhaps I laugh me much. and But only lor hcaut, it And I knew how si iurrrpci- and empty ,ghw ) wide eyes had she. Spangled, \\hite blouse. , and her bad breath. bulges. and she sometimes. Paul" 'ld' '1) down hallways, , all so beautiful? hauled the chalice to love But could not; she didn't go with beauty. "Do "No, on thlnk I act Silly, sometimes, Paul?"