What a curious departure the editorial of the last issue turned out to be. While "Salient" must be open to student opinion surely future aspirants to the editorial column will be required to present those opinions in a coherent manner. I gather that the writer wishes to avoid "sex and grime," he objects to the Association sponsoring "a mag, and show of smutty repute." he wants some moral policing on the campus—he tosses in the cable-car affair (apparently believing the "Evening Post" exaggerations) as an unrelated side-issue. He seems to think those who produced "Cappicadc" and Extrav. were a corrupting influence, as well as wasting their time. We can hardly accept all of this. Consider these two productions as they are, not as seen by the writer. I fear he has been misled, as he suggests subsequent generations will be, on very tenuous grounds; (he added that the smutty reputation was not 100 per cent, justified, himself). He has made, in fact, the sweeping assumption that license means depravity—a supposition as suspect as the conjunction of "sex and grime".

I suggest that he considers the idea that, far from having some benevolent despotic authority (he mentions the Association—does he mean the Exec.?) to discipline these riotous proclivities, thus removing license (which means freedom, but not usually lust) he should remember that in order to grow up it is necessary to find out our own standards and to accept discipline, not of an arbitrary and imposed nature, but from within? It is not by accident that the Association has only ever disciplined such few offenders who have been unable to accept such a premise.

He suggests that "Canpicade" be modelled on "Punch" and the "New Yorker". (An odd juxtaposition: it leads me to believe he can never have read either or at best only one; as their styles are most dissimilar.) I, for one, should most certainly refrain from reading "Cappicade" if its humour was modelled on that of "Punch", which is either so precious as to elude many people, or presents the opinion that the man who slips on a banana-skin is funny, but if he breaks his neck while doing so, it s simply side-splitting.

On the other hand, the "New Yorker" is not always meant to be funny, a-ha. I would remind "SAL" that that model of strained (and distinctly un-funny) reporting. Hersey's "Hiroshima" first appeared in, and was in fact commissioned by the "New Yorker". True, there are cartoons—but so are these cartoons in the "Auckland Weekly News"—not normally quoted as a humorous periodical. Some of the cartoons in the "New Yorker" actually have men and women in them too. It also has columns of criticism devoted to the arts: it has articles: it prints better-than-average short stories.

And finally—what of "Cappicade" Fifty-seven? (I should state here and now that I do not suffer from the delusion that sex cannot be funny). I thought there were fewer than average sniggers behind the hand and more honest laughs. (I liked "We hope its a boy." best): I found three articles modelled on one of America's most delightful humorists—I must remember to look up his answer to the query "Is Sex Necessary sometime. I was delighted to meet an old friend of mine from the "Saturday Evening Post" at a football match: I agreed that beer in cubesh is a good idea—in fact, the more I consider the sweeping editorial statements, the stronger become the conclusions that this may well be a similar case to that in the story of the Army psychiatrist and the private (you must have heard it—the catch-line goes "But I always think of sex") or more charitably, that perhaps he hasn't read "Cappicade" either.

May I amend J. T. Devine's penultimate sentence (with no apology) "Let this editorial be the last"—of such a standard.—T.P.

Graduate Employment Scheme

The New Zealand government has officially approved in principle the N.Z.U.S.A. Graduate Employment Scheme, according to a letter received from Mr. G. C. Burton of the Department of External Affairs, at a meeting of the Resident Executive of N.Z.U.S.A. in Wellington on May 29. The letter indicated that the department's representative in Djakarta. Mr. Hull, would investigate practical aspects of the scheme before full approval would be given. It is believed the Indonesian government will readily approve the scheme once the New Zealand government has done so, and there seems to be no reason why the scheme should not be in operation by next summer.

The scheme provides for New Zealand graduates to work in Indonesia with the object of assisting the Indonesian people to build their war-ravaged country into a fully developed and prosperous nation. Graduates working under the scheme would live in the same manner and receive the same rate of pay as Indonesians in similar positions.

N.Z.U.S.A. believes this is an important part of its inter-national activities: it is one of the two specific schemes through which N.Z.U.S.A. hopes to give practical aid to South East Asian countries. The other scheme is the S.E. Asian Scholarship under which an Indonesian student. Wasisto Surjodiningrat is at present studying at A.U.C. The improvement of relations and mutual understanding between New Zealand and Asian countries, particularly at a student level (the student of today is the leader of tomorrow) is a cardinal point in N.Z.U.S.A.'s international policy.

At the Easter Council Meeting of N.Z.U.S.A.. president Des. Dalgety told delegates that the association had been ready to put the scheme into operation for many months; an impressive number of applications had been received, and delays on the part of the New Zealand and Indonesian government in approving the scheme had been most frustrating. The scheme proposed by N.Z.U.S.A. is closely modelled on one which has been successfully operated by the Australian national student union for some years.

Sixth World Festival of Students.

N.Z.U.S.A. would not contaminate itself by associating with I.U.S. or granting observer status to anyone going to a festival in a Communist country. But the Student Labour Federation in New Zealand is doing a great deal of work preparing for the 6th world Students Festival in Moscow this winter. The S.L.F. can be contacted through the Exec. Office.