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Oregon w Emerald
MARJORIE M. GOODWIN
EDITOR
ELIZABETH EDMUNDS
BUSINESS MANAGER
MARJORIE YOUNG
Managing Editor
GLORIA MALLOY
Advertising Manager
ANNE CRAVEN
News Editor
Norris Yates, Joanne Nichols
Associate Editors
Betty Ann Stevens
EDITORIAL BOARD
Edith Newton
Mary Jo Geiser
Betty Lou Vogelpohl, executive Secretary
Warren Miller, Army Editor
Carol Greening, Betty Ann Stevens
Co-Women’s Editors
Betty French Kobertson, L.h:et Nignt Editor
Elizabeth Haugen, Assistant Managing Editor
Marguerite Wittwer, Exchange Editor
Mary Jo Geiser, Staff Photographer
Published daily during the college year except Sundays, Mondays, and holiday* and
final examination periods by the Associated Students, University of Oregon.
Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice, Eugene, Oregon.
*7a the Smetedd Stajj:
Kvcry year a long succession of Emerald editors have sat
down at their typewriters for the last time, or the next-to-the
last time and tried to tell the Emerald staff how grateful they
were for their loyalty, their hard work. It isn’t a hard task, the
business of thanking this year’s Emerald workers—we doubt
if it ever lias been. The students who have come down night after
night to write headlines, to pick up cuts from downtown, to proof
pages and “put the rag to bed” have proven over and over again
that they are some of the University’s most valuable people.
It lias sometimes been discouraging this year to come back
to work after dinner and find the “shack,” which used to be filled
with noise and smoke almost empty except for the few students
who stuck through to the finish, night after night, month after
month. The old Emerald, date bureau and bull session centeri
was gone. And the men who gave the place vitality, were doing
other jobs, jobs far more important than the Emerald's front
page makeup. t
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But these few standbys have added another certificate to
the walls of the editor’s office which reads “In recognition of
merit . . . All-American Honor Rating, the 1944 Oregon Daily
Emerald.” The awarding of this certificate, which signifies that
this year’s Emerald was one of the top ten college papers in the
United States indicates that about 20 people knew how to do a
good job, and how to serve their school.
Last year, the 1942 editor for spring term, Jack Billings, wrote,
“I know that you and the members of your staff (staff to be dom
inated by women, God bless ’em) can and will carry on the Em
erald tradition and the Emerald spirit until the rest of us can
return to become members of the old crew again.” And that is
what this year’s staff, depleted and sometimes very tired, at
tempted to do.
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Next year when Marjorie Young, Norris Yates, and Eliza
beth Haugen take full charge of the Emerald they will find that
new problems of another war year at the University will plague
them and challenge them. But in the Emerald they will have
a nearly perfect organ for free expression of opinion and thought.
They will not be controlled and cajoled into any compromises
with what they see and what they believe. They will never be
forced to forget their obligation to the student body for an honest,
sincere journalistic production.
Any paper, anywhere, is only as good as its staff. As this ed
itor gets ready to close Volume 45 of the Oregon Daily Emerald,
she knows that Volume 4(> is in very capable hands.
—M.M.G.
to- • • •
As tin* year draws toward its close it seems a good time to
make a few appropriate remarks concerning the "extended”
portion of the University of Oregon’s student body. W'e mean
the khaki clad fellows now overseas who, but for the war. would
now be walking to and from classes carrying books, or chuck
ling over cokes in the Side as of old.
We like to think back here that we are lighting the war on
the intellectual front, that we are. in a small way, helping to win.
Hut all our sotl-soaping of our consciences doesn't change the
fact that we have a pretty soft and easy time of it while you fel
low s do all the hard and dirty work. What is the effort of raising
a few thousand dollars tor a bond drive compared to slogging
ahead through Xew (duinea jungles or digging into Italian hill
sides? \\ hat hardship does a slightly curtailed academic program
due to the war put upon us compared to the fact that vou men
have had to give up college altogether and try to laugh off a two
to four year’s delay in your educations—a delay which is taken
right out of the center of the best years of vour life?
At least, however, you have kept your self-respect. Only in
our most smug moments do we manage to free ourselves from
the uneasy sense of being the pri\ ileged few whose soft existence
Globally Speakin
By BILL SINNOTT
Some 375 Oregon students will be voting for the first time in
next Friday's primary election. The successful nominees will
battle it out next fall for the honor of representing their states
and districts both at Washington and at Salem.
We are concerned mainly with the men who are running for
federal office. In this district Congressman Ellsworth merits re
election. Stockman has been an able representative from the East
ern Oregon district. Congressmen
Mott and Angell are at least bet
ter than their opponents.
Ex-Governor Sprague should be
elected for the four year senatorial
term. Sprague was a quietly effi
cient governor of Oregon. He does
not seem to possess that back-slap
ping, hypocritical charm that seems
to be the only asset of many office
holders nowadays.
Sprague Talks
We shall quote Sprague’s reply
to the questionnaire sent to all can
didates by the League of Women
Voters as to their views on matters
of major importance.
“Support Moscow and Teheran
declarations. Price control neces
sary. Subsidies needed now as emer
gency measure to control inflation;
must be abolished as soon as pos
sible. Opposed to patronage.”
The contest that has caught the
interest of the electorate is the bat
tle royal between Rufus Holman
and Wayne Morse for the six-year
senatorial term.
We are for Morse. Anyone
knowing our economic views can
not class us as a fellow traveler.
We look upon this race between
Holman and Morse as a sort of ref
erendum of Oregon republicanism
on the policies they wish their sen
ator to pursue both during and af
ter the war.
The struggle between Morse and
Holman to wear the senatorial toga,
is a series of contrasts to us: be
tween statesmanship and its op
posite, between internationalism
and isolationism, between judicial
fairness and extreme partisanship.
Holman Dissected
Senator Holman did not make a
good record as a county commis
sioner of Multnomah county. His
tenure of the state treasurership
was chiefly distinguished by his
feud with Julius Meier. In 1938 he
ran for the senate. He was elected
because his New Deal opponent,
Willis Mahoney, “The Klamath
Falls Carpet-Bagger,’’ was less
suited for the job than was “Rau
cous Rufus.”
His senatorship has been copped
by his inclusion in “The Illustrious
Dunderheads,” a book containing
zany quotes from speeches deliv
ered by isolationist senators on the
floor of the senate.
Holman seemingly was unaware
of the Axis peril; that England was
our first line of defense against
Nazi aggression. On Oct. 27, 1939,
he voted to continue the arms em
bargo. On March 7, 1941, Holman
voted to limit the use of our armed
forces to the Western Hemisphere,.
On March 8, 1941, he voted against
the Lend-Lease act.
Holman's Argument
His plea for re-election is based on
two premises: His committee posts
and the “gravy” that he has secured
for Oregon. Holman has as much
influence in his committees as his
friend Bob Reynolds has in his. Hol
man claims the credit for the in
dustries and jobs that the wartime
boom brought to Oregon, which is
fantastic.
We are for Morse because he is
efficient and fair. We quote Morse s
reply to the League of Women Vot
ers’ questionnaire: “Former mem
ber WTar Labor Board. Formulated
the “Little Steel Formula” in 1940.
Advocates international organiza
tion to be built on sound interna
tional law, continuous conferences
on international law and economics.
Favors price control, rationing,
wage control to curb inflation.”
Clips and Comment
By MARGUERITE WITTWER
Attending college on war de
partment scholarships which pro
vide for fees, textbooks, room,
board, and medical care, 90 ASTP
reserves will be enrolled for the
summer quarter at Louisiana State
university. These ASTPR students
are civilians under 18 yeai’s of age
who will attend classes until
they are 18. The boys will take the
regular heavy schedule including
mathematics, chemistry, English,
history, geography, engineering
drawing, physics, biology, etc.
i
The ultimate in absent-minded
professor stories is this one:
“If this lecture has gone over
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is being" preserved at the price ot blood and mud tor you who
were once our fellow students.
\\ e can do at least one thing for you though. Our education
is supposed to give us a broader and more enlightened view on
the forces and causes which shape our social order and mold and
remold our country. We, the college students of the countrv, are
the logical ones, and the ones whom you and your companions,
are depending upon, to preserve the way of life for which von
are fighting. Even more, it is up to us to discover just what it is
you are really fighting for. We know you wonder. And we wonder
too. Education consists in investigation. It is up to us to investi
gate to the best of our ability, and although some of the things
which we will find may not be pleasant, we owe it to you on
foreign shores to keep alive the spirit of "eternal vigilance” which
has been said, and rightly, to be the price of liberty.
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A e realize that there is going to be a grand accounting when
you come back. You are not going to be satisfied with common
place generalities and catchy slogans about the "American tra
dition." You are going to hit at some of those who try to feed
you this pap with all the force with which you licked the Ger
mans and the Japs. And it is up to us to stand by you when you
are right and help put you, in the right in case you should be
wrong.
—X.Y.
Miss ,,
Mars
By MARY JO GEISER
It is interesting to know the
viewpoints of the dean of women
here on the campus, concerning the
present war and its many compli
cations, the ensuing peace and the
life after the war, which most of
America’s young people must live.
She has been thinking, and very
clearly, about the problems of col
lege women.
Dean Hazel Schwering asks: “H
is possible to draw up a blueprint
for individuals? What would a blue
print show for a college girl’s fu
ture? The opportunities for women
tomorrow have been given to wom
en by another war. Woman has be
come essential in industries where
siie was not even welcome before
the war. It is ironic that women's
freedom and opportunities to ad
vance always came through the ca
tastrophe of war. Women's real
advance will be measured, not only
by their contribution to the war
effort, but in the end will be judged
by their planning of the future.”
There is that question in the
minds of most women: ‘‘Will thejs*.
(and it is probable) be cast aside
like an old shoe, when there is no
longer any need for them ?
expressing a aeep concern, mean
Schwering remarked that Ameri
can women will work in foreign
countries helping women of other
nations to rebuild a new world and
will have the opportunity of the
“undoing of hate.” “Women have
always hated war,” the dean ac
knowledged. “Here, then, is an op
portunity to unite all women’s ef
forts for permanent peace. How
ever, peace could soon become an
idle mockery if women who have
done such a good job in wartime,
return to the old ways of bridge
games, bargain sales and reducing
courses.
“In a great democracy, women
should carry their share of the re
sponsibility. They have served ad
mirably in the armed forces and,
have been found dexterous and
competent to a high degree in vari
ous W'ar jobs. College Ph.D.’s and
rebutantes have worked next to
“Rosie the Riveter” and have been
thrilled to do something with their
hands. They have felt that welding,
making precision instruments and
packing parachutes was the next
thing to being in the front lines.
“If these same women’s industry*,
patriotism, enthusiasm and skill
could be translated into active par
ticipation in solving postwar prob
lems, a magnificent achievement
would result.
“The technical accomplishments
are at hand. Just as much could be
accomplished in the field of human
relations if college women had
their blueprints engraved in their
hearts and minds; blueprints that
showed a broad education, energy
and purpose, women giving their
best to a high goal. Blue prints with
intelligence, intelligence to distin
guish truth from propaganda. Blue
prints with sound convictions and
the strength of character to live uu
to those convictions. Blueprints
with dignity, sympathy and toler
anace toward all races.
gins, wilt) nave nau ev
ery educational opportunity, have
a definite obligation to society.
They must see that we do not be
come a “push-button” civilization.
They must hold fast to that which
is constructive, and preserve our
true values. They must exert
their influence to accomplish as
much in the realm of human re
lationships as has been accom
plished in our material progress.”
How many girls on the campus
will measure up to the expecta?”
tions and hopes of the dean of
women in the inevitable final anal
ysis that is life?