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...papers. It wasn't. If last week's edition ran true to form, Editor Joiner's own column in the Banner would be excerpted or reprinted in full in much larger Southwestern newspapers. The reason: Ernest Joiner, as one of the most outspokenly devil-take-the-hindmost editors in the U.S., is always quotable, often blurts out the sentiments that the larger papers would like to say on their own but dare not. Excerpts from some of Joiner's rejoinders...
Partnership. "We have partnership. Modern developments in the field of communications have drawn nations physically together so that, as never before, what concerns one concerns many. It was always wrong to operate on the basis of 'each for himself and the devil take the hindmost.' Now it is also stupid. The United States now has partnership association for security with 44 nations. The result is to create a measure of security which no one, not even the strongest, could achieve on a purely national basis...
...third, is one of those Daisy-turned-Gridder things that can be funny only at high school football banquets. And then there's "The Peanuts Myth" that uses the reductio ad absurd to no great advantage. This particular one involves nineteenth-century Ivy athletes playing football in motorized wheelchairs. Hindmost in the magazine and in humor is "Informality at Yale," an ironic title because John H. Limpert says that the Yale men "Gothic town" do not have much informality. An "Old College Song" sings sharply of social pressure at Yale, and is notable as the one poem in this Lampoon...
...Howard's manager, feted at a city banquet last year as scion of gracious living and upright tradition, is today as purveyor of filth. This formerly honest family man is new a corrupter of youth, the incarnate devil who not only takes the hindmost, but swathes it in a G-string to waggle before adolescent eyes...
...storage space to hold around 140 million bushels, but three-fifths of it was already filled with 1948 wheat and grain sorghums. That meant there was only room for this year's first 55 million bushels, not even half the expected Texas harvest. The farmers feared that the hindmost half might go to the devil...