Oregon Daily Emerald
HARRY A. SMITH,
Editor.
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Member Pacific Intercollegiate Press Association.
RAYMOND E. VESTER,
Manager
ytfMtiate Editor ....Lyle Bryson News Editor.Charles E. Qratke
Assistant News Editors
▼elms Rupert, Elisabeth Whitehouse
John Dierdorff.
••porta Editor.Floyd Maxwell
Sports Writers
Kugene Kelty Harold Shirley Art Rudd
Night Editors
Wilford C. Allen.
Carlton K. Logan, Reuel S. Moore,
Kenneth Youel.
Statistician.Don D. Huntress
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Feature Writers .E. J. H„ Mary Lou Burton, Frances Quisenberry
News Staff—Fred Guyon, Margaret Scott, Pearl Harris, Owen Callaway, Jean
Sttaiban, Inez King, Lenore Cram, Wanna McKinney, Raymond D. Lawrence,
Herbert Scheldt, Florence Skinner, Emily Houston, Mary Truax, Howard Bailey,
Ruth Austin, Madalene Logan, Mabel Gilham, Jessie Thompson, Hugh Stark
weather, Jennie Perkins, Claire Beale, Dan Lyons, John Anderson, Maybelle
Leavitt, Howard Godfrey, Jacob Jacobs on, Alexander Brown.
Associate Manager ..Webster Ruble
Advertising Manager .....George McIntyre
Circulation Manager .Krohn
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0taff Assistants: James Meek, Jason McCune, Elwyn Craven, Morgan Staton.
Official publication of the Associated Students of the University of Oregon,
Issued daily except Sunday and Monday, during the college year. _
Entered in the post office at Eugene, Oregon, aB second class matter. Sub
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PHONES:
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THE EMERALD STAFF.
Tonight, 50 members of the staff of the Oregon Daily Em
erald will gather at the annual banquet. To these men and
women, this will represent the final touch to a year of steady
labor. , .
The Ertierald, entering the new field of a daily paper, must
extend its thanks to those students who have worked consci
entiously and untiringly to fill its columns day after day. There
has been no murmuring. It has been a cheerful task.
To some members of the staff, the Emerald “O” will be
awarded! in recognition of consistent service. They are to be
congratulated, not so much for the award, but for the gener
ous, whole-hearted way in which they have given of their time
and ability.
The last Emerald of the year has gone to press. “Thirty”
has been sounded on the copy desk, and the paper extends its
gratitude to those who have made it a success, anld' whose joy
in the work is the only remuneration for their efforts.
WHEN IS A MAN EDUCATED?
One of the largest graduating classes in history will receive
diplomas from the University of Oregon this month and pass
into the world as educated men and women. Of course their
education is generally regarded as something similar to a col
lege diploma.
Thomas !A. Edison, he who has caused so much talk among
people interested in college men and women, is of the opinion
that to be really and truly educated a man must have a very
strong acquaintanceship with that handy book of facts entitled:
“You may be interested to know that—*—.” And because a
^reat many college graduates who have applied for positions
in his employ have failed to answer correctly his list of 146
Questions, he has graded! them XYZ and pronounced them wpe
ully iguorant.
How many men who have made a success in this world can
close their eyes and put Mr. Edison’s questions to shame by
ready answers? If any can do so, they should be condemned
for wasting their time when they might be using it to a better
advantage. The educated man is not him who spend's liis time
looking up minor facts and figures which he may try out on
his unsuspecting fellow men.
The man who has taught himself how to think, who has
learned by acquiring knowledge how to acquire more and where !
to seek it, who has quickened impulses towards a progressive
life, who has improved his processes of thought so that he
has immeasurably increased his opportunities for material and
spiritual growth, happiness and success—this man is educated.
There is in the Congressional Record a story of the con
gressman who advocated care of “mammals” on a certain
island just as the other birds there were cared for. Another
legislator thought that Dante was a star fielder for the New
York Giants. But people generally concede that members of
congress are educated men.
If a man has learned how to think, iliow to apply the knowl
edge he has, and! how to obtain more, he has taken a long step
in tlie direction of education, regardless of the fact that he may
be woefully ignorant of the origin of shellac.
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HOW LONG WILL WOMEN BE NEWS?
“Many New Laureals Won By Gentle Sex, reads tne cap
:ion of a news story in a recent issue of a Portland newspaper.
Phis story and one or two other in the same issue tell of the
work of Mme. Curie, the celebrated scientist; Alice Freeman
Palmer, who was a college president at the age of 26, and Laura
Bromwell, who confines her soaring to physical realms and
succeeded in breaking several world! records in aviation. “Wo
men of Vilna Warlike,” is the announcement of another news
story in the same issue which reveals the fact that Polish wo
men have really shouldered guns against the bolshevik sol
diers, are in arms now and declare they will fight against the
league of nations. A good little filler for the editorial page
is the item which declares that women in Nebraska enjoy more
statutory rights than men.
Why should the newspapers give so much space to women’s
achievements? If the Polish men were warlike, would that
draw a column in a Pacific coast newspaper ? After all, what
is it that newspapers print? News, of course, you answer glib
ly. But wjliat is news? A modern journalist has summed it
up by saying that it is a departure from routine—in other
words, the unusual.
Mere man, and the world at large, regards the woman who
doe's things as unusual, a departure. It’s all very well, they
say, for women to .have their rights, but they will never excel
or be leaders in the world because—well, they never have.
V\ ben they do, it is regarded as so aside from the genral order
as to Ipe news. >
There are two conceptions of women in the world—man’s
and woman’s. For some time woman has had a growing re
gard for her own powers and a growing self-esteem which in
her own mind places her on a par with her brother. But man,
while he graciously acquiesces—when sufficient pressure is
brought—still regards woman’s achievements as news.
The recently dedicated! Woman’s building on the Oregon
campus was regarded as the achievement and the realization
of the dream of a woman. The scholastic honor society which
was organized on this campus last year has since elected 15
hien and 15 women. Women have honor and professional or
ganizations which flourish quite as wels as do those of the men.
Women have demonstrated what they can do with their
power quite as Well and in as many fields as have the men—
and yet they are regarded as news. But will we. say 25 years
hence, be reading papers which declare that the gentler sex is
winning new laurels?
“THIRTY.”
indications, the morning Emerald is here
to stay. How do you like it?
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The Emerald has grown to be an in
stitution. Whoever the editor may hap
pen to be, “the Emerald says this—” or
“that was in the Emerald—” or “accord
ing to the Emerald,” should be the war
Oregon students should take things print
ed in the columns on their undergraduate
daily.
Very few by-lines have been run. Thus
the institution gets the blame or credit
for news. No editorials have been signed
used in the law school and school of
Emerald being out on time. From all
and no one has taken individually the
blame or credit for writing them. They
conform to the policy of the Emerald as
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Strong for
Oregon
—iWie thank the students
of the University for their
patronage during the past
year.
—We shall look forward
to the return next fall of
many who were this year
and even more freshmen
than ever before.
“For a Greater Oregon”
Hampton’s
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what G. Whoosis, the editor, happens
to write.
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Gratiltude
That expresses our attitude
toward the University of Or
egon Student Body—. We ap
' preciate very keenly the liber
al patronage which you have
given us during this college
year now approaching its I
close. We hope you have been
pleased and satisfied with our
merchandise and our service.
May we see you again next
year. You may always depend
upon us for support in all
student body enterprises.