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- INTERRACIAL PROBLEMS

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VotumE X. No. 22

‘BRYN MAWR; PA.; WEDNESDAY,

APRIL 16, 1924

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DISCUSSED AT SWARTHMORE

Opportunities in Educational and
Economic Matters Essentially

Needed by Negro '

BRYN MAWR SENDS DELEGATES

 

 

Colored and white delegates met to dis-
cuss interracial problems at a conference
held last weck-end at Swarthmore; under
the auspices of the Bryn Mawr Liberal
Club, the Swarthmore Polity Club, and
the University of Pennsylvania Forum.
Other‘ colleges represented” were Haver-
ford, Virginia Normal and Industrial,
Hampton, Lincoln, City College of New
York, Union Theological and West Vir-
ginia Col@giate Institute. Attending from
Bryn Mawr were: E. Briggs ’24, F. Begg
24, M. Rodney ’24, P. Fansler ’24, R. Mur-
ray 24, F. Briggs ’25, H. D. Potts ’25, E.
Baldwin 25, H. Hermann ’25, D. O’Shea
26, H. Hopkinson ’26.. ~f

The problem was approached through
the historical background of the negro and
his present social status. As regards any
contact with the white race the negro, with
few exceptions, such as DuBois, has no
standing at all.

Discrimination against negroes exists in
varying degrees throughout the different
states, ranging from~discrimination in the
use of tram.cars and restaurants to dis-
crimination at the polls and education.
Segregation, especially in the matter of
schools, was generally acknowlé@dged not
necessarily to mean discrimination. It onfy
became such when the negro was forced
to attend decidedly inferior schools. Edu-
cational facilities for the negro, however,
are improving throughout the South, ac-
cording to Mr. H. Brown, of Hampton
University, though they are still far from
good. In South Carolina, for example,
for every eighty dollars spent on the edu-
cation of a white, seven are spent on that
of a negro. .For the South the problem
does not hinge around the question of sep-
arate schools, but around the necessity of
obtaining well-equipped colored schools.

Discrimination in matters of education,
the Conference felt, should be made on the‘
basis of intelligence.and not of color
Delegates from colleges where there were
both white and black students felt that
the contact obtained: in this way lead to
mutual understanding and esteem.

Mr. E. Corbie, of City Coflege, New
York, felt that the negro had a very defi-
nite, contribution to make as a race, afid
that its identity should not be lost. The
only way in which the colored race can

ing knowledge of itself and of its con-
tribution to the world from the time .ol
Hiram to that of Hannibal the Phoenician.
and of Egyptian civilizations; even to the
time when the cotton seed was brought to
America. -

- What the negro race needs more than

‘delegates, is opportunity ‘in-all.fields of life,
but especially in education. Present preju-
dice can never be overcome unless the
negro is giyen the opportunity of self-

-meet to discuss common problems of na-
tional and international importance ; unless
journalism, writing and teaching cease to

 

 

 

 

“qualities and passing lightly over any at-
_tainments of the race. :

foster prejudice by emphasizing the bad

- The question of amalgamation, it was
‘general felt, was a minor issue and one

JUNIOR MONTH TO OUTLINE
_SOCIAL SERVICE WORK

Chapel Speaker Explains Program

and Its Significance

 

Miss Clare‘ Tousley, Secretary of the
Charity Organization of New York, and
Director of Junior Month, talked in chapel
last Friday morning on what Junior Month
stands for and ‘what the delegates accom
plish. :

Junior Month is a conference on socia’
work held at the Finch School, New York
City, during the month of July. A dele
gate is sent from each of twelve prominent
eastern colleges. for women,* including

| Wellesley, Smith, Mt, Holyoke, Vassar and

Bryn Mawr. The aim of the conference
is to give college undergraduates who are
interested in social work a glimpse inte
every phase of it. .To do this, each week
of the conference is divided into three
days of casework, and two and a half days
of lectures and trips.

Some time is spent’on every field of so-
cial work, from the* various problems of
housing and health, to Americanization.
The best speakers obtainable in cach sub-
ject give informal talks followed by dis-
cussions. Among the speakers last year
were Dr. Gordon Hamilton, a graduate of
Bryn Mawr, and specialist in feeble-mind:
edness, and Dr. Kirchwey, an authority on
criminology. Each lecture is followed by a
trip to some institution. Last year the
Children’s Court of New York City was
visited, where several cases were heard and
the judge interviewed. After a talk by Dr
Katherine Davis the Juniors inspected Bed-
ford Reformatory for Delinquent Girls
An opportunity was also given for com
paring the excellent reformatory at James:
burg, New Jersey, where the boys have a
form of self-government, and are allowed
to play baseball, with a similar institution
the so-called House of Refuge, where sen-
tries pace outside the cells and the rule of
silence is imposed during meals.

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SIGNIFICANCE OF STUDENT
ORGANIZATION EXPLAINED

Bryn Mawr May Join in _Ffforts
for International. Understanding

 

The Confédération Internationale des
Etudiants (C. I. E.) is a federation of
National Students Unions formed for the
purpose gf developing international bonds
of fellowship between students, co- -ordinat-
ing their intellectual activities, and pro-
moting their common educational and so-
cial interests. It is an association of stu-
dents without political.or religious discrimi-
nation.

The students of twenty European coun-
tries are affiliated to the C. I. E. and those
of the British Dominions are meeting in
England this summer with a vid to par-
ticipation.

The educational aims of the C. I. E. and
its more general purpose*of promoting in-
ternational understanding and good will
have been furthered during the last three
years by “various practical activities car-
ried out through the head offices of the
various National Unions. Students going
abroad are given assistance in arranging
their itineraries and are furnished With in-
troductions to Students with common in-
terests in. the countries they are visiting.
Correspondence exchanges, visits and tours

CONTINUED ON PAGE 6

 

the Undergraduate Association elected
A. Johnston, ’26, Secretary, and V. New-
bold, 27, Treasurer, at a meeting last

 

that wou! d settle itself along natural lines.

‘Wednesday. |

SF RT RS

SELF-GOVERNMENT -PASSES
NEW RULES AT MEETING

Permission to Motor at Night
Unchaperoned Still Questioned

 

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Announcements were read, amendments
made and motions: passed at a meeting of
the Self-Government Association, in Taylor
Hall, a week ago last Tuesday.

in regard to reporting infractions of Self-
Government rules, Miss Coyne. ‘This
is one. of the subjects to be discussed at
the Intercollegiate Self-Government Con

ference'to be held at Bryn Mawr next fall.
The feeling of the college is to be ascer-
tained-now because the matter has been
often discussed this winter and 1s more
clearly in the public mind than it may be
next fall. Other announcements were made
to the’ effect that stockings must always
be worn, on campus and a™skirt and coat
must be worn over a classic dancing cos-
tune in the Library and the'Inn. By -an
Executive Board decision head proctors are
o~be called Hall Presidents. The new
Hall Presidents are to be provided. with a
slip on which those who have heen proc-
tored more than once in one evening may
sign. The Self-Government Administra-
tion is to have an offfte in the Pembroke-
East Music Rooms for the filing of its
records.

Miss Park has asked for further and
careful consideration of the “motoring at
night with a man, unchaperoned” amend-
ment. She has discussed this with several
women on the Board of Directors and
agrees with them that this is not a wise
amendment to submit to them at this time.
Cars are heing searched constantly for
liquor, and_if the fact-that- anyone had been
stopped and searched reached the papers
it might bring -discredit-on~ the college’
There is the further danger of accident and
of being left alone in the car when the
man goes for help. In addition, the irre-
sponsible girl is likely to change her plans

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DR. ROSS EXPLAINS CHANGE
IN MEANING OF RELIGION

 

Ecclesiastical Authority Overcome

Today by. Personal Belief

 

Some changes in the essence and embodi-
ment of religion since he discussed them
at Bryn Mawr fifteen years ago, were cited
by Dr. Johnston Ross, Professor of Homi-
fletics at Union Theological Seminary, in
Chapel last Sunday.

Formerly it was generally objected .to
preaching, that it was all right for those
who liked it, but that its institutions were
provincial, partial, sectional, and conven-
tional. To this, Dr. Ross, trying to over-
come the objection, opposed the fact that
the essence was universal. In the time that
has intervened, the former unquestioning
way*in which people went to ‘church, even
though it was odious, has ceased. People
are better able now to discriminate _be-
tween the essence and embodiment of re-
ligion because in most colleges there are
courses for this purpose.’ Another differ-
ence is that religion is more inescapable.

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The Dramatic .Club of the University
of Pennsylvania is giving “R. U..R.,” at
the Plays and Players Theatre, Seven-
teenth and DeLancey Streets, on the
evening of May 5, for the benefit of the
Bryn Mawr Summer School. Tickets
may be obtained at the Summer School
Office, Pembroke East

 

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A questionnaire will be put on the doors

|THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS

HERE, SAYS MR. SIMPSON

A. Speaker ‘Calls Marriage and
Property Obstacles to Finest

Spiritual Growth

 

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ONLY LAW IS THAT OF LOVE

 

Mr. William Simpson, pacifist and mystic,
spoke in Taylor last Wednesday night about
the way ‘of life which he practises.

After graduating from Union Seminary,
MrsSimpson went to a‘small church in one
of the ‘worst industrial. districts of New
Jersey. “He was forced to resign from his
chirch in 1918 because of his. pacifism. In
order to realize the trials of a laboring man
he worked for six weeks. in mines, rail-
road gangs, and labor camps, attending So-
cialistic and I. W. W. meetings. He came
back opposed to capitalism but unhappy at
the materialistic methods of the workers.
He gave up all hfs private property and
now works with his hands for anyone who
desires his labor, making no charge for his
work, £ =

He prefaced his speech by reading sevy-
eral verses from the New Testament,
among which were, “Know the truth and
the truth shall make you free”; “Love your
enemies’; “Seek ye first. the kingdom of
God and His righteousness and all these
things shall be added unto you.” “Jesus,”
said Mr. Simpson, “usually meant what he
said and tried to. put his teaching into
practice.”

“We are living,” he went, on, “in the
decay of civilization. The tree is prone
and-the grubs-are burrowing in it.” Proph-
ets cry “Away with capitalism,” but capital-
ism is only “a symptom of the world’s
rotteness. We can no more affect the. sys-

tem’by changing its clothes than we can °

change a man by changing kgs attire.

Most of us-are trying to put “salve on
the sores” by means of social service work.
But the money which pays for such work
comes from the rich Who havé taken it
from the poor. People who do such work
do it with an-attitude of superiority. Such
activity does not bring the Kingdom of
¢: any nearer. What is asked for is all
that we are. We must have a sublime in-
differerice to results and the faith to leave
everything to God. We must see that God
is, that man is eternal, that the efoundation
of all the universe around us is love, that
there is no sin, no death, no evil. “In_all
of us is the capacity of living in that con-
sciousness, and as man comes to that con-
sciousness. we. shall build here a society
where these is no hate, greed, or pain, no
masters, presidents, or courts,°a world en-
tirely of love. The Kingdom of God is
here and can be entered now.” . For. society
there is no short-cut, and for individuals
the climb is painful and bloody.

To enter into the joy and peage of such
consciousness, one must be nin with

nothing less than “the perfection of God..

In the Bhogovotgftas, God is pictured as
saying, “Whenever dewn through the ages
righteousness has declined and un-right-
eousness is enthroned, I manifest myself
again.”
bodied in human lives, as it was embodied
in Buddha or Jesus. The price is our all,
every whit of selfishness. We are conscious
of'a division within us between two selves.
There is a little self, which makes for
separateness, making us think that our
good is apart from that of others, a chok-
ing, strangling, crucifying power. Then
there is the true self, expansive, reaching
out. to all, a love which leaves out no hu-

man being and makes for growth, whole- :

ness, and harmony.

 

 

 

 

 

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