And Tomorrow Comes

In the world of paper and machines that surrounds us, nothing is more obvious than its shabby and wishful thinking.

We live in an age in which values and criteria are in a process of rapid and active decay.

On every hand stand the most blatant absurdities and injustices.

We live in a world of human devices. A world thick with vested interests, where privilege is backed by power.

To succumb is easy, to accept things as we find them regardless of the end to which the logic of events must lead.

Today opportunism offers a blood-price as never before.

The need for clear, untramelled thinking grows more urgent than ever.

Last year "Salient" adopted a policy of deliberate and active concern with the issues of the world outside the University. And despite its slender circulation did something to make the readers it encountered aware of what these issues were.

During 1939 this policy will be continued.

"Send out, 'Salient,' the swift satiric point
To smart the sluggard mind awake.
While Freedom anywhere in bonds is pent
No compromise with falseness make.
Those freed to-day to-morrow forth must leap
Some further outpost there to take and keep."

It is hoped that this year, even more than last, students will use "Salient" to say what they think. Let it be said once again that the sole qualification of any article, necessary to ensure its publication, is its readableness. Any well-expressed opinion will be printed.

The University, above all else, should be the [unclear: home] of freedom and intellectual honesty. In the past it has failed more than once. Let us determi[unclear: ne] that while we are responsible it will never fail again.