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VOL. XIX, No. 15

BRYN: MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY,

MARCH 45, 1933

Copyright BRYN MAWR
COLLEGE NEWS,’ 1933

PRICE 10 CENTS

 

 

Regulation in Case of
Repeal is Discussed
Mr. Bohlen and “Dr. Kelsey
Argue Over Protection’
ef Dry States

 

ARGUMENTS ARE HEATED

Tuesday night, March 7, in Good-
hart Common Room, both sides of the
Prohibition Repeal question were dis-
cussed by two speakers, Mr. Francis
Bohlen, ‘proféssor of Constitutional
Law at the University of Pennsyl-
vania, and Dr. R. W. Kelsey, fo Hav-
erford College. Dr. Bohlen spoke on
“What the Repeal of the Eighteenth
Amendment Will Mean,”

“The question,” said Dr. Bohten,

 

“is what provision is to be made for

the dry States.” It has been abso-
lutely_demonstrated._that.._Congress
can protect any State against the
violation of State rules, a provision
of the Constitution which has been
made explicit by the Blaine Resolu-
tion. During the Republican cam-
paign, much was made of the state-
ment that the dry States would be
inundated by liquor from wet States,
but Mr. Bohlen thinks that these
States will be drier than ever, be-
cause the local police will have a di-
rect responsibility for the enforce-
ment of their prohibition laws,
“What we have quarreled with is
that Atlantic seaboard habits should
be controlled by other States. Each
group of citizens, the smaller the bet-
ter, should determine its own habits.
The larger the unit for which any
sumptuary law is enacted, the less ef-
fective is it likely to be.” The pro-
tection of dry States after the Repeal
is important, but more important is
the control of the liquor traffic in
the States that decide for Repeal.

_ “We do no want the saloon, but by

returning control to each State, suit-
able laws for every region may event-
ually be worked out. America is sick
of the dogmatism of the present law,
and.she will use the State option as
an experimental laboratory.” The
other nations of the world, especially
in Europe, are trying to limit drink-
ing to harmless light wines and beers
by different systems of restriction.

_ “Thank God, we shall no longer
Be. left alone to stick to a verbal lie.
Every other nation has abandoned it.
Well-meaning fanatics can do more
harm in ten years than people of tol-
erance can undo in a century. My
hope is that by limitation and raising
the price of spirits, as in Denmark,
drinking will be decreased. If. the
enormity of Prohibition is abolished
by repeal, we will have the power. of
dealing flexibly with the problem and
a chance of finally reaching the
ideal.”

Dr. Kelsey, who spoke next, pre-
sented the case for Prohibition. He
said that the Eighteenth Amendment
would undoubtedly be repealed, since
the pendulum was swinging in, that
direction. “To me it is almost im-
possible to understand people who

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Mrs. Breckinridge To Talk
On Frontier Nursing

 

Mrs. Mary Breckinridge will speak
on her work in the. Kentucky moun-/
tains on Monday, March twentieth, at
four-thirty in the Common. Room.
Mrs. Breckinridge is director of the
Frontier Nursing Service which she
established in 1926 to bring aid ito
the forgotten baék-woodsmen of the
mountain regions. Until recently these
people have been entirely cut | off
from the outside world and complete-
ly ignorant of the ways of our mod-
ern civilization. Mrs. Breckinridge
has done a tremendous piece of work
in showing the people how to} im-
prove their living conditions, ; and
through the help of her “nursés on
horse-back” has been able greatly to
reduce the rate of infant mo:
and prevent the spread of typhoid
fever. She will tell what the Fron-
tier Nursing Service is doing and il-
lustrate her talk with lantern 'slides.

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lity, |

 

COLLEGE CALENDAR

THURSDAY, MARCH 16
4 P’-M.--In the Common
Room, demonstration by Gas-

Quota System Kept to
py Prevent Class Halls

ton de Paris of make-up, per- |!Minor Reforms Instituted by
fumes, powders; ete: ~ Council: Hall Exchanges

FRIDAY, MARCH. 17 Mad :
: ade Possible
4 P. M.—Class Swimming ‘

Meet. 3
8.20 P. M.—French Play—Le |P EMBROKES COMBINED

Bourgeois Gentilhomme. | ;
‘ote Muse OA | The Quota Committee of the Col-

lege Council presented its recom-

he Sa ee ee a mendations for reform of the quota
: : : : ; last Wednesday evening, and the
speak on ¥rontier Nursing in long promised action on the question
Kentucky, took place. The committee, which
TUESDAY, Marcu 21 has been considering the problem since

thee Monin the Music Room; the beginning of the year, explained
Odyssey Cruise Movies. the obstacles in the path of any com-
| plete i sei of the grievances of
the pregent system, and presented the
following six resolution, which were
immediately passed by the Council,
calculated to remove minor irrita-
tions: 1. That Pembroke East and
West be combined into one hall under
the quota; 2. That no preference in
general draw be given _ either
| Bettws-y-Coed or Wyndham should

SYSTEM Is EXPLAINED | they reopen; 8. That the six “jun-
| iors in Merior be allowed to move to

(Specially Contributed by Gertrude| other halls regardless of the quota;
Parnell, Chairman Cut 4. That two people of the same class
Committee) living in nents halls may exchange
4 rooms without having to enter gen-
The. omission. of Freshman Week/ eral draw; 5. That within the year
the quota for each class shall remain
set, so that if a girl leaves at mid-
year’s she will leave a full vacancy,
instead of one-fifth of a vacancy; 6.
That there be a more even distribu-
tion of scholarship rooms among the
halls, and that some provision be
made for turning some of the Merion
many cuts per semester as she has | singles back into suites if the stu-
, dents desire it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Students. Advised to '
Keep Record of Cuts.

 

Omission of Freshman Week is'
Given as Cause of
Confusion.

 

 

 

this year is to blame for the lack of |

an adequate explanation of the cut |
The cut
committee feels that each student |
should \have exact knowledge of the!
cut system.

system to the freshmen.

 

Each student is allowed only as)

regular classes per week. Thus, in|
general, a unit course will allow three | It seemed to the committee that

| the quota system in its present form
i [is the lesser of many evils. It is
and a first or second year science) truly realized that the six changes
course five cuts, each laboratory hour) outlined above do not touch the great
cut counting as one-third of a cut. | evils of the ‘quota, which result in
Until the present semester, classes in ).Students being unable to leave a hall
! they. dislike, or obtain a room in the

| hall of their choice. But it is im-
increase the student’s allowance, -al-'ossible to reform the main evils of

cuts, a half-unit course two cuts,

required Diction and Hygiene did not

though they were recorded and count-

ed as in other subjects. Beginning |
this semester, however, two cuts will’ Portionments of the four classes

throughout the halls on a numerical
and impersonal basis is the keystone
of the, entire structure. If the nu-
merical system were entirely given
unlimited cuts within reason. If_any' up, class halls would be the inevitable
penalty is incurred by a student who | result, and the administration is op-
| posed to the developments of such a
| condition. President Park was her-
: self in Bryn Mawr when there were
All excuses, for illness, emergen-| class halls, and it was an unsatisfac-
cies, etc., aré obtainable from the! tory situation at best. Four classes
“Dean’s office. “never fitted into five halls, and the
A student taking excess cuts up to| xg “eg tg peck flung bt

: ; : | the 0 all. so having

ier Mitac 8 oe egal classes all together in one hall builds
on Student Probation. That is, the! ap the\demegracy and geheral socia’

| tolerance of which Bryn Mawr is so

number of excess cuts up to and N~ proud.

cluding one shall be quadrupled and, On the assumption that class halls

deducted from the student’s next se-| are undesirable, the Quota Committee

mes ter’s cuts. The number of rapa attempted to find some means of re-
cuts from one through two and two-| laxing the rigidity of the quota, but
thirds shall be tripled and deducted. |

E | it soon became obvious that there
: ee wiaksocne ane eos could be no compromise between abol-
nd two-thirds is recommended for

‘ . ishing it entirely and maintaining it
Senate Probation, and is allowed nO! ynder the present rules. If a slid-

} |
cuts for the next semester. A student | ing quota for each hall were institut-

= ris . er above _ . ed, the more popular halls would fill
owance is liable to be suspende 6s ‘out their quotas immediately and the
to have part or all of the semester's! ..me problems would result>~Any

work cancelled. Serious over-cutting | systém would be unsatisfactory which
more than five shall have their de- left the final decision up to an offi-

gree or an examination deferred—at cial. It is-necessary in the matter

the discretion of the Senate. of room assignments to deal imper-
Any student who over-cuts because| sonally and dispassionately, or the
she does-not-expect-to return to col-|-immediate “results- would. be- accusa-
lege the following year will be asked] tions of favoritism, or crime and cor-
to leave immediately rather than stay} ruption. The Quota Committee: ex-
and not attend classes. amined every possible detail of the
Students are advised to keep a rec-|-present system, and came to the con-
\ord of their own cuts, to be compared |.clusion that unless the. entire struc-
in case of error with the cut records| ture were to be destroyed and a new
of the Dean’s office. Unless this is (Continued on Page. Six)
done, no corrections will. be made
after the cuts are recorded at the
end of the month.
Any student who is not in her right
seat when attendance is being taken,
‘or who is out of the room at that
time, should report immediately after

be allowed for Hygiene and one-half
Students who
are reading for honors are allowed |

 

of a cut for. Diction.

is going to read for honors, the ‘pen-
alty is enforced for one semester.

 

 

Election -

The Business Board of the
News takes pleasure in an-
nouncing the election of Bar-"
bara Lewis, ’33, as ‘a member of
the Business Board.

 

 

 

Positions .
Miss Charlotte E. Carr, Dep-
uty Secretary of the Pennsyl-
vania Department of Labor and
Industry, will speak on oppor-
tunities for women in positions
associated with industry, in-
cluding: the personnel work now
being done by State depart-
-ments. The meeting will be
held on Tuesday afternoon,
March the twenty-first, at quar.
ter past five, in the Common
Room of Goodhart Hall. Every-
one who is interested is cordial-
ly invited to attend. Tea will
be served at five o’clock. -

 

 

the quota. without destroying the
foundation upon which it stands. Ap~

 

Varsity Dramatics’
Plans Are Complete

 

Men’s. Parts Are Cast From
Princeton Men for Lady
Windemere’s Fan~

 

PRODUCERS -ARE CHOSEN

 

Plans for the Varsity Dramatics
production of Lady Windemere’s
Fan are fast being shaped, now that
the casting has been completed and
the general outlines of the produc-
tion decided. The male parts are be-
ing taken by men from Princeton
University, who have been invited to
take part by the Board of Dramat-
ies. The cast is as follows

Lord Windemere....Charles Trexler

Lord Darlington....Tony Nichol, Jr. |

Lord’ Augustus Lorton,
William Gibson
Coeil Graham.... William Kienbusch

Mt; DUNDY. spas John Duboyse
Mats SOD per i aia Harry Dunham

Other small parts have not yet
been assigned definitely. Mr. Trexler
is well-known in Princeton for his
work with the Theatre Intime, as is
Mr. Nichol, who has just played the
lead in the undergraduate play. Mr.
Kienbusch has also worked with the
Intime, both as actor and as stage
manager. Mr. Dunham is well-known
for his work with the Triangle Club
and is also the vice-president of the
Intime. The other two members of
the cast have had less experience,
but are by no means novices.

The Bryn Mawr production staff
has just been announced and it in-
cludes the following names:

Bleanor Pinkerton, 33........: Sets
Sylvia Bowditch, ’33....Construction
Betsy...Jackson, 83.:.......4. Lights
Maria Coxe, ’34..... Stage Manager

Carrie Schwab, 34......... Costumes
Elizabeth Edwards, ’33,...Properties

The production plans are still quite
general, but it has been definitely de-
cided that the play will be done in
modern dress and in a very stylized
manner. Probably the set will be a
curtain set in black and white, while
the costumes will be black and white
in certain acts and blue and white in
others. In any case, much opportun-
ity for experimentation is offered and
Varsity intends to use that opportun-
ity as exhaustively as it can.

The Board is not able to announce
definitely its plans for a tea-dance
preceding the Saturday performance, |
but if financial conditions permit,
they hope to be able to sponsor such
an affair. This is, again, something
in the way of an innovation, as the
dance will be directly under Varsity
and not under the supervision of the
Undergraduate Board, which ; has
sponsored all dances at college in the
past. The change is due to the prox-
imity of the dates of the Varsity per-
formance’ to the Glee-Club operetta,

‘for which the Undergraduate Board

plans to give an evening dance,

 

News Candidates

a This week’s assignment for
all candidates for the editor-
ial board of the News is to re-
portthe class swimming meet
on Friday, write an editorial,
and a Wit’s End article, Please
report to the News office Mon-
day at 5.30 P. M., bringing
articles.

 

 

Mts. Smith Explains
Financial Situation

 

Three Crises Are Drops in
Securities, Commodities
and Real Estate

 

REFORMS NECESSARY

 

Professor Marion P. Smith analyzed
the ‘current financial situationin two
well-attended chapels, March 7 and 8.
Characterizing the present crisis as
the last of a series which began in
October, 1929; she declared that the
dozens of ‘constructive measurés
which have been taken since March 4
all point toward ‘a ‘permanent uni-
fication of the banking system and a
speedy resumption. of normal busi-
ness.

Although, for want of perspective
and_insideinformation,.it-is—hard—to
pick out the most significant aspects
of the depression, we are beginning
to realize that there have been three
acute crises in a long series of ealam-
itous happenings. The first sign of
trouble was a sharp drop in security
values, which began in October, 1929,
and became most pronounced a year
later. Also, over a period of two and
a half years there occurred a series
of shocks affecting different indus-
tries at different times. Commodity
prices were ‘deflated, first in raw ma-
terials and then in manufactured
goods. With the curtailment of pur-
chasing power, the American public
ceased to invest abroad. Germany
was unable to pay her reparations,
the Allies were unable to pay their
debts“ and by June, 1931, an inter-
national financial crisis had devel-
oped, which severely ‘affected’ British
creditors. England went off the gold
standard and forty-one other coun-
tries followed.

This deflation of security and com-
modity values was accompanied by a
corresponding deflation of wages and
salaries. The early policy of main-
taining the wage scales of employed
men even while thousands of others
were dismissed, was superceded in
the spring of 1932 by a movement
for spreading work among as many
men as possible.

The present emergency, Mrs. Smith
said, is fundamentally a real estate
panic which developed because (in
spite of the fact that business as a
whole had been spectacularly deflat-
ed) real estate men refused to lower
the interest rates on long term agree-
ments. The wholesale bankruptcies
and forecloslres caused by this in-
elasticity aroused vigorous protest
throughout the country. In Iowa,
sheriff sales were obstructed and one
auctioneer narrowly escaped lynch-
ing. In Philadelphia, certain five-
and-ten-cent stores actually went vol-
untarily bankrupt in order to cance}
their leases.

As a result of such difficulties in
both agricultural and metropolitan
districts,. bank credit naturally be-
came frozen, and, beginning last
spring, a wave of hoarding hysteria
swept the country. Although, for
some unknown reason, the panic was
temporarily checked last.summer, it
recommenced in August, and has con-
tinued until the recent climax. Even
on February 25, Mrs. Smith remark-
ed at the conclusion of her first talk,
there were a billion more dollars in
circulation outside the banks than
during the boom year of 1928.

Continuing her analysis the next
morning, Mrs. Smith attempted to de-
scribe the exact nature of hoarding. ,

‘Anyone who takes money out of a

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Wanted

Odds and ends of yarn, any
color, quantity, or quality, to
‘be knit into six-inch squares for
crazy quilts. These will be
used to cover the babies of the
South End, who are now being
wrapped in newspapers in or-
der to keep them warm. Please
bring any contributions to Miss
Grant at the Gym or to.Sylvia
Bowditch, Rockefeller, .

 

 

 

 

 

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