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October 8. 1958

THE PAPER

Fifth Coluinn By PAUL BURTON

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This Is It H ERE'S THE PAPER. Read all -about it. It's your paper . It's not ·the Administration's paper or the Academic Council's paper or the faculty's paper. It's yours, the Asso- ciated Student Body of the College for Men of the University of San Diego. You can make it or break it. By huge maj ority at an ASE meeting, you chose the name, The Paper. It's not a brilliant name. But it's no less brilliant a name than The Journal or The Record or The Mail or 'fhe Post or any of the hundred pr osaic name~ given to a paper. So you've called it The Paper. You figure t hat most folks say t hey "read it in t he paper ," anyway . This won't put The San Diego Union or Evening Tribune out of business but it will please our adver tisers to know that every San Diegan who doesn't talk in boldface is reading The Paper. It's not your money t hat makes t his paper possible. It's the advertisers'. You wanted the paper and you wer e asked to cooperate by getting ads. You didn't. (Correction : you got five inches, about 7 per cent of what it takes to produce the paper. ) But you say you will. Good. So our multiple t hanks go to our advertisers, particu- larly to Larry Sullivan and Lee Hunydee. These two Chris- tian gentlemen, unsolicited, have underwritten production costs for this first issue. The next is up to you . As for policy, The Paper promises to report the news, interpret the news and comment on t he news. Campus news: academic, athletic, social, religious. Accent will be on student government and liaison between student s and faculty in attaining the end for which we are here: Christian education. Ri3ht Think to A N eager young writer paid us a visit this week to get information for a prophetic article he was preparing for a national weekly magazine on the outcome of this year's elections in California. He didn't want us to deliver the "Catholic vote." What he wanted to know was what that vote would be. lt took a long time to convince the young man, not merely that we didn't know what that vote would be, but also that we would take one awful lot of convincing that there existed such a thing at all as a "Catholic vote." Apart from clearcut issues of injustice, such as the cur rent Proposition 16 to tax private schools, our own very vivid experience has been that a man has as much chance of forecasting how Catholics will vote as a blind amputee has of shoving a pound of melted butter into a wildcat's left ear with a red-hot needle, or maybe even less. There ar e two sides to some questions. There's only one side to a curse like communism, but there are plenty of issues on which thinking Catholics can take opposing sides. Take, for example, the right-to-work law, Proposition 18. Simply stated, a right-to-work law is a law that bans compulsory union membership. Some employer-employee contracts do not demand that employees belong to a labor union , either before or after hiring; this kind of outfit is called an "open shop." Some contracts demand that em- ployees must be union members before they can be hired ; this is a "closed shop." Some contracts demand that em- ployees, if they don't belong to a union, must join it after being hired; this is known as a "union shop" and t his is the kind of shop that t he right-t o-work law would outlaw. Organized Labor contends t hat the right-t o-work law is designed to destroy effective unionism. Employer or gani- zations, on t he other hand, maintain that the right-to-work law merely protects a worker's right to choose freely between joining and not j oining a union , while preserving his right

The r ounders season ends this week with what Art Bur- r owes calls "America's annual tribal ceremony," the World Series. Americans call it base- ball. It is a national passion . _ _. To Americans , baseball is even more pr ecious than the Con- stitution, the Statue of Lib- erty, Coca-Cola and the sepa- r ation of church and state. The fore ig ner never quite under- stands what baseball is all about. It seems to center on a character grotesque ly garbed in 19th-centu r y bicycle breeches who throws a five-ounce leather ball the l e ngth of a c~icket wick et at another character similarly cu stomed.

Any weekend cricketer cou ld clout th is ball into the next state. Even Blind F reddy could make a respectable stab at ii. But these baseballers get three chances. And they r arely connect. All hell breaks loose when t hey do. A man who misses only two balls out o( three becames a nation al hero. These two breeches boys a nd the seven other characters who make up a team receive higher salarie t ha n congr essmen and are far more highly respected. Immi grants Blu,h the bowler , throws this ball t-0 Character B , the batsman. Figuring he h as a couple more chances, the batsman lets the ball pass t hrough to Char - acter C, the w icketkeeper. A dig- nified gentleman in black, clothed in a Mae West lif e preser ver, raises a snappy finger and a polo- getically announces, " Strike !" The foreigner at the ball park doesn't know what " strike" means but he can see that t he d ignified ge11tleman in black is consider ed by many of the patrons t o be mor e than somewhat unreaso na ble and maybe even a little prejudiced. The gentleman in b lack is sup- posed to be the umpire. If the foreigner happens to be British and therefore brought up t o regar d an umpire's decision as infallibly sacrosanct, he blushes in bewild- ered shame . So Character A, umpi re's mother. batting team's supporters throw beer cans. The manager leaps out of his trench and shakes a na ughty finger . The umpire insults the manager's mother. The bewildered foreigner wonders whether any- body in t he whole stadium was born in wedlock. No Glovea for Grenades The bowler throws the ball again. This time t he batsman ta ps it to a fieldsman, hul'ls his bat after it a nd starts running. The (ieldsman sto ps the ball with gloved hand. Remember, that ball we ighs five ounces. On Iwo Jima in 1945 t hat same fieldsman caught grenades with bare ha nds. Now he pirouettes, gavottes and tosses t he little ball to another white piece of canvas. The batsman charges feet first into this gla diat or. His spiked shoes g ouge gaping holes in the gladiator's face. They roll on the canvas in a f lurry of white chalk. The mob yells, t he chalk settles and t he umpir e's mother is ba ck in t he script. And so it goes on. This for three or fo ur hours a day from April through September. October comes around, and t wo teams chosen from t he best in l l states and t he District of Columbia stage a series of ga mes to decide the champion- sh ip of " The World ." Goo d clean American fun. You never get to understa nd wha t it's all about, hut you can't help lovin g- this childlike, bighearted people. The gloved gladiator sta nding on a The batsman t hen insults t h e

FIRST & FOURTH ESTATES UNITE DEAR SIR Out at the Fiesta Room of the \ Bahia last Friday night, Montana inferior. Last year, the Pioneers State football coach Herb Agocs held Montana state, who were swilled some liquid from a frosted NAIA defending champs, to a 21-7

score. This year, Montana is sup- posed to be 4.0 to 50 per cent better than last year. The question is, how much better is thls year's USD squad? It's not as good, says one man who ought to know. USD is in the second year of a costly foo t ball-building program, and it seems only reasonable that the team should improve. This yell.r's schedule has been strength- ened with the addition of the Uni- versity of Montana and Idaho State. Idaho State was undefeated last year and expects the same record this year. If the Pioneers ;,,in the rest but lose those two, the result will be another winning season- but not neee~sarily a successful one. Those three are the ones that count and should be this year's success cri- terion. We're supposed to beat the oth- ers. Last year's team probably could have. A fan, however, wants to see a game in which either team can win and the loser will go down fighting. If we plan to schedule teams comparable to Montana State, Ida- ho State and Montana University, then we should be able to beat those teams. Or we should at least be getting close to being able to beat them. Are we? One team player dis- gustedly says we're not. Another doesn't care. And maybe that's t he whole trouble. Time will tell whe- team morale will produce football that will make us proud of a fighting team or indifferent towards an indifferent team. Yours &c. DON GWALTNEY ther

glass and commented, "This is the great est thing I've ever seen in football. " Press - Coaches pre-game party thrown by Boosters Larry Sullivan and Mike Lownc, a couple of former Mon- tanans striving to match the hos- pitality given to last year's Pio- neers in Bozeman, Mont. In Bozeman, the Pioneers wer e t reated as if they were a group of Nasser's amba ssadors in Mos- cow. Coach Bob Mccutcheon , be- decked by a welcoming party of voluptuous song-leaders in cowboy boots, a pep band and a cheering company of fans, received a huge golden key to the city from the Bozeman mayor. The Montana group didn't get the key to this city. But they did enjoy the luxuries beyond its por- tals. Pioneer assistant coach Frank Murphy took the Bobcat assistants to Tijuana and kept them out quite late for the night before a ball game. Meanwhile, Agocs and his No. One aide, Tom Parac, enjoyed the Bahia atmosphere with their wives, and the next day Pioneer fullback Dave Cox chauffeured the wives around San Diego and the USD campus. Which brings us up to the ball game and the reason for the visit. Here the Bobcats really had a ball, winning 31-6. The occasion was a

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Was the hospitality offered by the University of San Diego bet- ter? A more important subject, however, revolves around the cali- ber of football offer ed to coach Agocs and his crew. At first glance, it seems to be somewhat

to work. On t he one hand, some say that a worker's being forced t o join a union does not un justly interfere with his rights -unless t he union is cor rupt. According to this opinion , if a union is really secur ing just benefits for workers in a particular plant, membership in the union can be made a condition for continuing ~to work in that particular plant. In other words , t o share in benefits a worker must share in obligations. On the other hand, some say that it is not a good thing to give a monopoly t o a union. According t o this opinion, the union that has t o go out after its members will make sure it has something t o offer them; but the union that has a utomatic membership and captive monopoly can fast de- generat e and st art poking its lobbying nose into matters unconnec ted with the welfare of the worker. So you pa y your money and you take your choice. You h ave a right to an opinion if you have paid for that right by thinking. Then vote- not because you have a constitu- tional r ight to, but because you intelligently think you have a conscientious obligation t o.

THE PAPER PUBLISHED BI-MONTHLY DURING THE SCHOLASTIC YEAR BY THE ASSOCIATED STUDENT BODY, COLLEGE FOR MEN, UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO, ALCALA PARK,

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