The Elections.

The Students' Association elections are to be held on Tuesday, July 9, and it is therefore time to consider our candidates for the new Exec. If this matter is left too late, there will be a last-minute stampede in which numerous candidates will stand without sufficient justification. Overloading the ballot papers does nothing but spoil the accuracy of any system of recording votes—and we cannot forget how last year's returning officer, Sid Odell, trenchantly attacked the inconsistencies in the system when vast numbers were standing.

We agree with a recent letter in the Cockpit that electioneering is needed. This year "Smad" is going to endeavour to give good publicity to the election in an endeavour to place definite issues before the electorate. The essential qualifications for prospective Executive members are a progressive outlook, time to attend to the work, and a wide interest in University affairs. We will endeavour to place facts before students, to enable them to judge candidates in this light. And we warn candidates that the man with nothing to suggest but an idle conformity with the precedents of the past will not receive such support as he may expect.

The cry of the moment at Victoria is for constructive activity. Inactivity galls after a certain period, and we prophesy that the student electorate will demand constructive proposals from anyone who aspires to Executive office. Let Truth wail however hard it can, the time is ripe for a return to the hercer years, still a pleasant memory in the minds of older students.

With Dick Nankervis and Doug. Burns, at least, retiring—and probably others—there will be room for the newcomers to "strut and fret their hour upon the stage." Up with the curtain and on with the fight!