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Horizons, v. 6, issue 3, whole no. 22, March 1945

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Included in this mailing should be the final issue of The Southern Star, all forty-odd pages of it. Trouble it, some of those pages are very odd, and a word of clarification might prove helpful. About half of correction fluid, and presumably tossed aside and forgotten in some Columbian corner. When I started the mimeoing work, I found to my horror that wherever the correction fluid had been applied, the stencil was virtually glued to the cardboard backing. Matter of fact, stencil and cardboard adhered everywhere, and the o's had a tendency to drop out, irregardless of the presence of cf. But where the cf had been smeared __ugh. I'm not exaggerating, I'm stating the plain fact, when I say that it took more time to separate stencil from backing than it did to run off the entire 125 copies from that stencil , in many cases; ten minutes was good time for the separation process. Surgery was necessary on three or four of the stencils, and minor thin spots or small rips appeared in nearly all of the old ones. Here and there the result is therefore lousy, but most of the lines turn out readable. To make things worse, all the new stencils turned out to possess an occult and wondrous inclination to veer to the right. Irregardless of the care with which they were hooked onto the cylinder and smoothed out, after tje first couple of dozen copies the stencil would begin to stretch taut on the left side, and wrinkle on the right side. The result was accelerating crookedness of the lines toward the bottom of each page, remadiable to a certain extent by lifting up and refocussing the stencil every now and then, but not permanently curable. This phenomenon (obviously closely akin to the red shift of the spectrum caused by the alleged expansion of the universe) is in no wise identical with that which maketh the lines to veer askew in Horizons--this difficulty is caused simply by Macbeth which sometimes gets lazy and won't push up both sides of the stencil the same distance, in the process of starting a new line while cutting. Finally, half of one page of The Southern Star is totally illegible. Whoever cut it apparently knocked his typeribbon back into action half-way through. The result could not even be read from the stencil before mimeographing, so cutting a new one was out of the question.

On Dit

Ensign Joseph Gilbert, USMM, speaketh of Harry Jenkins, Jr.: "Harry left behind him a record at USC that is, without exaggeration, brilliant. Belonged to every committee and campus organization of importance; revived, edited, and practically wrote the defunct university magazine, The Carolinian, making a paying proposition out of it; and during his reign as editor of The Gamecock, the college newspaper went a-crusading against the USC powers of darkness with an intelligence and violence that made those famed small-town editors of the old west who, legend tells us, wrote with a six-shooter by their side, look like pimple-faced adolescents with pea-shooters in comparison. "...But fame and fortune came for Horatio Alger Jenkins just before graduation, when he blocked one of the very biggest political powers in the state (Sol Block, speaker of the South Carolina House of Representatives) in a proposal to spend several million dollars of the state's taxpayer surplus in moving USC from its convenient position in the heart of Columbia miles out into the country. The proposition didn't make sense but had already been railroaded through the house when Harry's editorial appeared." As a matter of record, this editorial made university history. It was reprinted throughout the state, and was picked up by Associated Press for publication throughout the country. The New York Times carried an item about it recently, among others. And ot brought the entire campus into a solid front against the proposition. The money will be used to improve, modernize, and rebuild the present university, and to increase the pay of the professors."

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Included in this mailing should be the final issue of The Southern Star, all forty-odd pages of it. Trouble it, some of those pages are very odd, and a word of clarification might prove helpful. About half of correction fluid, and presumably tossed aside and forgotten in some Columbian corner. When I started the mimeoing work, I found to my horror that wherever the correction fluid had been applied, the stencil was virtually glued to the cardboard backing. Matter of fact, stencil and cardboard adhered everywhere, and the o's had a tendency to drop out, irregardless of the presence of cf. But where the cf had been smeared __ugh. I'm not exaggerating, I'm stating the plain fact, when I say that it took more time to separate stencil from backing than it did to run off the entire 125 copies from that stencil , in many cases; ten minutes was good time for the separation process. Surgery was necessary on three or four of the stencils, and minor thin spots or small rips appeared in nearly all of the old ones. Here and there the result is therefore lousy, but most of the lines turn out readable. To make things worse, all the new stencils turned out to possess an occult and wondrous inclination to veer to the right. Irregardless of the care with which they were hooked onto the cylinder and smoothed out, after tje first couple of dozen copies the stencil would begin to stretch taut on the left side, and wrinkle on the right side. The result was accelerating crookedness of the lines toward the bottom of each page, remadiable to a certain extent by lifting up and refocussing the stencil every now and then, but not permanently curable. This phenomenon (obviously closely akin to the red shift of the spectrum caused by the alleged expansion of the universe) is in no wise identical with that which maketh the lines to veer askew in Horizons--this difficulty is caused simply by Macbeth which sometimes gets lazy and won't push up both sides of the stencil the same distance, in the process of starting a new line while cutting. Finally, half of one page of The Southern Star is totally illegible. Whoever cut it apparently knocked his typeribbon back into action half-way through. The result could not even be read from the stencil before mimeographing, so cutting a new one was out of the question. On Dit Ensign Joseph Gilbert, USMM, speaketh of Harry Jenkins, Jr.: "Harry left behind him a record at USC that is, without exaggeration, brilliant. Belonged to every committee and campus organization of importance; revived, edited, and practically wrote the defunct university magazine, The Carolinian, making a paying proposition out of it; and during his reign as editor of The Gamecock, the college newspaper went a-crusading against the USC powers of darkness with an intelligence and violence that made those famed small-town editors of the old west who, legend tells us, wrote with a six-shooter by their side, look like pimple-faced adolescents with pea-shooters in comparison. "...But fame and fortune came for Horatio Alger Jenkins just before graduation, when he blocked one of the very biggest political powers in the state (Sol Block, speaker of the South Carolina House of Representatives) in a proposal to spend several million dollars of the state's taxpayer surplus in moving USC from its convenient position in the heart of Columbia miles out into the country. The proposition didn't make sense but had already been railroaded through the house when Harry's editorial appeared." As a matter of record, this editorial made university history. It was reprinted throughout the state, and was picked up by Associated Press for publication throughout the country. The New York Times carried an item about it recently, among others. And ot brought the entire campus into a solid front against the proposition. The money will be used to improve, modernize, and rebuild the present university, and to increase the pay of the professors."