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Salient. The Newspaper of Victoria University College. Vol. 19, No. 8. July 1, 1955

[Letter from Conrad Bollinger to Salient Vol. 19, No. 8. July 1, 1955]

Dear "Salient,"—Why don't you behave yourself and stop making your old" uncle keep taking you to task. Last time it was for inaccuracy—a serious fault in a student newspaper, though it was in my favour rather than otherwise. This time it is for plain bad manners, and not at all in my favour.

As a footnote to an article by C.B. (whose identity I hereby reveal as being identical with my own) in your issue of May 5, you state: "The correspondence will close next issue with Mr. O'Brien's reply." Now, though Mr. O'Brien's reply did not eventuate in the next issue as prophesied. It was apparently your intention to publish it, and to put full-stop to the controversy on IUS. Let me remind you that it is the time-honoured practice of all journals of standing, and of "Salient" in particular, to allow the person who made the first contribution on a subject to have the last word. In this case, that was C.B. Moreover C.B.'s first article was written and sent Co you not at his own instigation, but at yours.

There are a couple of other points in your footnote which call for comment.

You state that "This verbal debate appears to concern only Messrs. O'Brien and 'CB." I don't know what sort of debates one CAN have other than verbal ones—unless the sort with gestures only, described by Rabelais—but any way, a considerable number of persons about the college have deduced by some lngenious process that I must be "C.B.", and have started oral continuations with me of the debate that appeared in "Salient."

Your cheap sneer about Congress motions having no significance to the people who pass them merely assures me that you have never been near Curious Cove.

With avuncular affection.

Conrad Bollinger.