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CloAe ol Volume 43
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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.
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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 ...
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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