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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 21, 1942)
The Oregon Daily Emerald, published daily during the college year except Sunday, Monday, holidays, and final examination periods by the Associated Students, University of Oregon. Subscription rates: $1.25 per term and $3.00 per year. Entered as second class matter at the postoffice, Eugene, Oregon. HELEN ANGELL, Editor Ray Schrick, Managing Editor Jack Billings, News Editor FRED O. MAY, Business Manager Betty Jane Biggs, Advertising Manage* Helen Rayburn, Layout Manager Lois Clause, Circulation Manager Elizabeth Edmunds, National Advertising Manager UPPER BUSINESS STAFF Helen Flynn, Office Manager Connie Fullmer, Classified Manager Lee Flatberg, Sports Editor Erling Krlandson, Assistant Sports Editor Fred Treadgold, Assistant Sports Editor Corrine Nelson, Mildred Wilson, Co-Women's Editors Herb Penny, Assistant Managing Editor Joanne Nichols, Executive Secretary UPPER NEWS STAFF Mary Wolf, Exchange Editor Lois Clause, Circulation Manager Duncan Wimpress, Chief Desk Editor Ted Bush, Chief Night Editor John Mathews, Promotion Editor . Joanne Dolph, Assistant News Editor Editorial board: Puck Buchwach, Chuck Boice, Betty Jane Big js, Ray Schrick; Professor George Turnbull, adviser. Represented for national advertising by NATIONAL ADVERTISING SERVICE, INC,, college publishers’ representative, 420 Madison Ave., Nef YodO-Chicago—Boston—Los Angeles—San Francisco—Portland and Seattle.__ Editorial and Business Offices located On ground floor of Journalism building. Phones 3300 Extension: 382 Editor; 353 News Office; 359 Sports Office; and 354 Business Office. __ __ 1941 Member 1942 Pusociated Golleftiate Press CloAe ol Volume 43 0 • • TldTELL, Ray, the Emerald is yours! With ” tonight’s final rattle of the shack’s be-' draggled typeVm’tie'rS,"Volume 43 of the Ore gon Daily Emerald goes to the bindery to be preserved for posterity, and the little hole in the wall that we’yo called home this year be longs to you. / It is gratifying to be able to write one’s editorial “swan song” with another coveted All-American Rating certificate to indicate that, the 1942 Emerald has been rated one of the seven best college dailies in the nation. It is good to know that the Emerald has up held the record of “tops in the country” which it has maintained for the past six years now. For it was not easy last spring to think df frying to follow in the footsteps of those past All-American editors. Their ghosts re minded ns of what a big challenge the Em erald held for us. There was Mattingly, Deptsehman, Nelson, Jermain ... all of whom left! fine records. ) * * # . JFjWF could Imve known, this 1942 staff, A that not only \Wre we to be challenged by the (past, hut by a bigger and newer problem, we ishould have been even more tremulous. Bull who could know, a year ago, of the pro found change that December 7, 1941, was to malje on the University Qf Oregon? Whopould knojw that b^31 ldsiipl'i'ng so many of the Em erald gang’s hardest workers would be in tlie.jservice of Uncle Sam . . . tradition-lov i)ig|Assoeiate Editor Hal 01n*y, colorful John nie |Kahananui, dependable "Bill Iiilton . . and; how many otkef's* would be filling im portant civilian shoes left empty by those who wont to war . . . Bob Frazier, Art Litchman, Wally Hunter, Ruby Jackson, Ted Goodwin, ■ > Krling Erlandson ... n * * # A FTER December 7, too, the Emerald staff had to revise its approach to the student body. No longer were they dealing with ado lescents half-way between high school and the world beyond. Their readers had suddenly grown up, and the world problems had come close to them. The Daily had to grow up, too, and take on a less playful, more serious coun tenance. The Emerald knew that its biggest job this year was to help develop a firm mor ale, a high I’esolve, among students of the University and to keep them united. This had to be in addition to the usual attempt to build student government and better condi tions from within. Through all these ups and downs in en rollment and outside problems, the Emerald staff has consistently stayed “on the job” . . . and whenever one has dropped out for the armed forces or a downtown job, always there lias been another willing and able man to fill his job. The staff stood the test of war, and came through Avith an Emerald that rates as one of the seven best in the nation. * # * JT’S A great bunch of people you’re going to work with next year, Ray, because most of this year’s staff will be back on the job. The Emerald’s task will be bigger than ever in 1943, as you move into the second year of the Second World War. Good luck . . . and to all of you reporters, copy desk wrorkers, night staffs, as wrell as the upper news staff '-. . . let me say again, thank you for every thing. The Emerald is All-American for only one reason, because you made it that way. o I1. %tb, jbosi't Stout 'em . . . 'y'WO or three University men planned a 7harmless joke" Tuesday. Instead of spik ing -a rumor a day, they would start pne. Thh story was good.-Oi*e Iseveiavl versions ran this; way: d4piii$se submarines have landed off ‘Monterey, OalifimiijH . . . the troops are unloading . . . the announcement Mas jusW. flashed by radio . . . nothing was said as to the! size of the foree. The story Mas short, but lit carried far. Like so many practical “•jokes” it misfired. ■ Five months ago the first flash of Pearl Hatt)or sounded like an Orson Welles drama to millions of Americans. The attack was impossible, a “joke,” too daring for the lit tle -Japanese of the Orient. But the millions soon realized differently. The United States m;i< at car. Anything was possible. Hoisting on the Mar scene came rumors of ; ttaek, destruction, victory, and rationing, most of them accidental misstatements. Na tional. state, and local administrations com bined to avert ami squelch these dangerous dams to the war'effort. This is the first of t hi e strikes against the even more dangerous practical joke. .—. ''jpiIE Tuesday incident liad its by-product iu the added expense to downtown papers, which were warned by the combined efforts of innocent victims and the perpetrators. Hur ried calls for added help to put out the pros pective “extra” and query wires to Port land, .i&an- Francisco, and other cities put thein bn the spot for complete details of the “news. ” The greatest harm reflects back to the two thousand six hundred-odd University stu dents who were innocent of the prank that was pulled. Let one uniformed man wobble drunkenly down main street and a thousand civilians hold the same opinion of the entire Army. Tuesday it was a minority of two or three students, who might have hurt the whole University. Modern warfare is no joke. Lieutenant Robert Clever, University student of last year, who bombed Tokyo last month, is one of many living witnesses. College men and women have a place spiking rumors, not starting them.—li.J.S. 'Bnafi' jjudxftn&nt By DON DILL, Weather—good for exposure. As a last note for this year it vould probably be best to give >ut with a review of the meager lit of pix information we may lave or may not have imparted. Cameras are important—es lecially if one thinks he is going ;o take a picture. So what hap iens? We loan them to a friend vho goes to the coast over the veekend. It comes back looking ike the bottom of the Normandie. Ihe sweet young thing quaintly isks “What’s this?” as she press 's the button holding the back lover or film pack onto the body tame and subsequently exposes he whole damn works. Flop Our camera is set up on the :ripod, it’s focused for a change, :he model is ready, we are ready, :hen comes Stubby Jones charg ing enthusiastically into the scene. It is o.k.—pick it up. You ;an get it set right again, and you can straighten the trip leg tvith a hammer. Which is all pointing to the fact that, as we have often said, :heck your equipment from time to time during the year. Summer especially. Be certain that the shutter is working correctly, that there are no light leaks, that the lens is clean and scratch free. How to Plan What about the pix we are go ing to take ? First, make them tell the s^y -—so you don’t have to when showing them to friends. Do this by getting in the main details in the frame of the pix—don’t let it wander out. Like little Audrey —it might not come back. Use imagination. Don’t be afraid to try something different but use common sense. Know what your camera is capable of doing and then use it to its full est extent. But then again, it isn’t wise to push it too far and thereby be dissatisfied with your equipment when it is your own fault. Also remember to be sparing and saving so as to make film, equipment and supplies last long as possible. The main thing to do with pho tography this summer is to have FUN with it. See you in the dark room. Pasvade ol OfUnixut (By Associated Collegiate Press) Democracy's Alternatives Unless the United States establishes a post-war international order—with peace as a guarantee of its existence—to prevent a recurrence of the militant fanaticism that has arisen today, a University of Texas government professor believes democracy is doomed. Pointing out that America’s other foreign wars have been insignificant, Dr. C. P. Patterson declares that “for the first time in our history, a contest has evolved in which the very existence of American democracy is challenged by foreign powers.” Unless Americans accept the challenge to assure a lasting peace when this war ends, democracy as it is known in this country faces death, he says. “The rise of totalitarian doctrines has challenged democ racy to improve itself. _ Our democracy is not perfect. In <*ir present economic, political, and social systems, there must be changes which will point to higher goals and greater happiness for our people,” he emphasized. “After the democracies stem the present threat to their survival they must so strengthen themselves by curing present ills that never again will totalitarianism be able to seed in the soil of democracy’s failures.” Yhb Total value of the 3000 fraternity and sorority houses in THE U.S. IS <95,000,000. THE AVERAGE HOUSE IS WORTH * 28,116.04 / 1 r Fraternity house FURNISHINGS ALONE COST *11,000,000 (•TUE^iRAfiE HOUSE HAS 24 ROOMS SORORlTES, 19 ROOMS. — 70% OF THE HOUSES HAVE TABLE TENNIS SETS- 44% HAVE GAME ROOMS/ Every FRATERNITY HOUSE IN THE COUNTRY POSSESSES AT LEAST ONE CHAPTER OWNED RADIO/ A-C.R