Charge

Dear "Salient."—I should like to draw your attention to an abusive and in my opinon. unwarranted attack on your journal. It was made recently in an unsigned editorial of the Auckland undergraduate paper "Creaccum."

An excursion in red-baiting. It is written in the manner of the Hearst yellow press, with its appeals to patriotism, its facist ideology, and its emotional tone. There is a distinction, however. Hearst publications usually make a charge state a case, and ask for somebody's head. After reading and re-reading the northern thunder, the only charge I could find was the one that "Sailent" has given too much prominence to leftish and liberal articles and has had itself quoted by the "Workers" Weakly." Surely the first charge looks foolish when one considers that "Salient" gave first-page prominence "Sailent" gave first-page prominence to a 'hostile report of Dr. Sutch's lecture on Spain. The second charge is no charge at all, but a compliment. That an outside paper has noticed a College journal is no doubt an event, but to those who hope for more realism in the University outlook it is a happy event. We are coming down out of our [unclear: very] towers.

It comes as a shock to find that the paper of a sister University should ask for the suppression of our paper especially when we have at last established a journal that is vastly superior in every way to the now defunct "Smad" or to other College papers in the "Smad" category. The motives of the Auckland editor way not have been entirely unmixed. At all events there is no excuse for attacking "Salient." as he has done, with a cleaver.—Yours, etc. D.R.J.

[A reply has been sent to "Craccum."—Ed.]