1949_10 The Daily Collegian October 1949

              Editorial: «
what's the use
Business at the board of publications
meeting last Wednesday bogged down on
discussion of the Caravan, Fresno State
College literary magazine.
Question before the board was the
possibility of discontinuing publication
of the magazine.
The Caravan has had a long and ser¬
ious history. It is usually placed before
the public at the end of each semester.
Editors are selected by the board of pub¬
lications upon receipt of written applica¬
tion. At present there are eight voting
members on the board, four faculty mem¬
bers and four students.
Some of the arguments against con¬
tinuation were lack of student interest
in the magazine; high cost of publication
—$1,400 is budgeted from the associa¬
tion funds to the Caravan annually; lack
of material and disinterest on the part of
writers, and sad types of material which
have been published in the past.
Those arguments in favor of the publi¬
cation were the advantage of the public
relations outlet for the college, experi'
ence for the editors and writers, and the
possibilities of improving the publication
to an eventual monthly issue.
Discussion on these points lasted until
after 1 p.m. when the board adjourned.
This leaves the problem more up to the
students than to the board. No actual
vote was taken on the matter, with about
half the board in favor of discontinuing
the publication and half in favor of con¬
tinuation.
We ask your opinion. Please write
letters to the editor, to Dr. E. V. Tenney,
chairman of the board, or just speak with
the various editors if you wish to see
the magazine again or not.
We recommend the above points be
taken into consideration when making
your decision. Remember the $1,400 bud¬
geted for the publication is taken from
n funds or reciepts from asso¬
rt card sales. This money would not
-The Fresno State College Cellegk
^ba^ett^ 2>i99in'6    Home ec society
By Did daggett initiates thirty
r working
Spent a lot of time last sum
with   an   old-time  huner.   He   —
enough, but after speeding even fifteen years
leading the kind of life miners do, in my book
he was an old timer. He had been engaged at
some time, in some capacity, in every major
phase of mining, and had some rare experi¬
ences to relate. He told us of difficulties with
the Javaro and San Bias  Indian tribes in
Colombia, picking up diamonds in a ~
desert (no, I'm not kidding; they
bait mining in Canada when urar
discarded as waste before the war, and gold
prospecting in South Africa.
Everybody at the mine got a
his stories for awhile, but every time he got
started he kept getting back to the same s '
ject: he had found the mother lode of
tungsten. It was in Nevada, inaccessible
cept by plane, but he had seen with his o
eyes hundreds of tons of raw tungsten ...
that  ran  better than 90 percent tungsten
lying right on top of the ground. It was a
Iwnanza that beat a modern Cibola all hollow.
I wasn't the least bit surprised when I
saved enough money to hire a plane and
finally got to show someone that there really
was some ore. One of the boys from
went over and came back jabbering to the
effect that there was millions of do]! .
of pure tungsten lying right on top of the
ground. He rolled his eyes wildly and scream¬
ed that Denny hadn't been dreaming at all.
It was all true! We asked him whv he was
so unhappy. He had bought into the thing
before he went to see it, and should be happy
over being rich.
H. mst moaned a little bit and said, "That's
just it. It all belongs to some damn' govern¬
ment bureau that hid their stockpiles from
eneBJ) action during the war! Not a dime's
worth of it belongs to us!"
II,; gave Denny his stock back, and punch¬
ed him in the nose. But Denny never gave up.
He saved a little more money, went back to
-Nevada, and poked around underneath the
tungsten. Sure enough, right under the
ground Denny found gold. Shows the value
'•''" Try, try again, and so on. And
Denny will be able to mine all the gold he can
si'll just as soon as the government' '■'' .
lease is up in 2049 A.D.
stand idle if found available for other
The problem may again be brought up
at the next meeting of the board Wed¬
nesday; student opinion may make a dif¬
ference in the final vote.
One question asked at the original
meeting was, "How many students know
that the magazine exists?" A report by
one member of the board disclosed that
he had questioned 25 members of the as¬
sociation; three had %ken a copy home,
Dogs go after second
conference win tonight
By DAVE Jl
Fresno State College's still Battlin' Bulldogs take to the
road again this weekend with a 38 man traveling squad to
~ their second California Collegiate Athletic Association
•   Santa Barbara, at the beach city's L» Playa
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