‘Page Four OK uw heehee @ hie me weave ah Mee PAT Pee Te ee ve Pa , 3 peohs cietiennee Minden itecumes marth) pacer ti tenets e TN eT : : ° THE COLLEGE NEWS = cas ae Bryn Mawr Students Endorse Youth Act Anmlie Bill Designed to Ensure “Maintenance arjd Increase ~ of N. Y. A. Posts 54 HOLD CAMPUS JOBS On March 21 five undergraduates and two graduate students from Bryn Mawr went to Washington to add their endorsement of the Amlie Amer- ican Youth Act to that of some thous- and other students from colleges and high schools in the eastern area. The bill, if passed, would provide a pro- gram for the maintenance. and in- crease of aid given to students during the past year under the National Youth Administration. The Adminis- E: tration, which expires in June, has Hy provided’ jobs paying normal wages x for the work done in both public and private educational institutions 4 throughout-the country. In some cases these jobs have been the sole condition t. n which the students have secured an . cation; in others, as at Bryn Mawr, they have helped students al- ready in college to continue their ze. work there. ‘ ¥ On the Bryn Mawr Campus ap- proximately 54 such jobs are being a held. There has beeti some fluctua- tion in the numbers working as a re- sult of withdrawals from college and inability to carry on additional work, but at the present time 23 graduate students and 31 undergraduates draw regular pay checks under the provi- sions of the Administration. The work* done ranges from the “Care of Swiss Mice with Tumors” to operation of the switchboard when the regular operators are off duty. Three undergraduates work in the Library. Two have been employed in the Alum- nae Office arranging an occupational file from information obtained in a card. questionnaire sent to every grad- uate of the college. The piano play- % ing for regular folk dancing and spe- q cial May Day rehearsals is an N. Y. - A. job. One freshman who is an ex- pert swimmer acts as a life guard during plunge periods. The majority of the work, however, is done in specific gcademic depart- ments. Students, on majoring or: 4 intending to major jn he subject con- cerned, do clerical work and other i work previously done by the instruc- a tors in the department, or not done at i all. 4 Under the provisions of the Admin- a istration each science in Dalton now ji has a student assistant employed to aid either in preparation for labora- Bs, tory work, in cataloguing collections, or in caring for the animals used for dissection and experiment. One chem- istry major has been making slides for the department. The Department of History of Art has been having its photographs catalogued; work on the a preparation of bibliographies has been done in the Department of Social Economy and in other fields. One undergraduate has been taking an in- ventory in the Department of Physics. oe Another has been compiling statistics a for use in the Department of Social a Economy. In addition to the above, students have been employed at one time or another during the year in the ' Departments of Psychology, English, French, Politics, Latin, German and Philosophy. In the graduate school there is less secretarial or assistant work and more independent research carried on in the department in which the stu- Bs. dent is seeking her degree. One grad- uate student in the Department of History has been employed to compile statistics for a general “depression collection.” Another has done research in Syrian Pottery. A candidate for the M. A. degree in the Department a of Education has been making a bibliographical study of “the agres- sive behavior of pre-school children,” a in addition to checking statistical ob- servations and interviewing nursery school directors for case histories. Mile. Paquerette Nasse, the European exchange fellow in French, holds con- versation classes attended by members of the French Club. Since the Administration fixes the ‘wage scale to correspond with that : of regular college employment serv- _ fices, the wages paid vary from job to "job and from the undergraduate to the pit le, BENG Soi Ree eee Was" F ste! a A a Wea ee aa eae \ cresorndapespel Seed oe oe) : Miss Meigs Wins Prize In Child Life Contest Continued from Page One son, author, and assistant professor of English at Columbia University; Dr. Eunice Tietjens, poet and author, and member of the faculty at Rollins College; and Miss Barrows, Editor of Child Life, and also a poet, playwright and author of many books for children. Miss Meigs. is wellvknown for her splendid books for boys. and girls. She was born in Illinois and brought up in Iowa, but her ancestors were New England sea captains. Her mother’s family were pioneers from Vermont to Illinois. In 1927 Miss Meigs won the $2,000 prize offered by the Beacon Hill Bookshelf with her book Trade Wind. In 1984 the Ameri- can Library Association awarded her the Newberry Medal for Invincible Louisa, a life of Louisa May Alcott, and in recognition of her noteworthy books for young people. Home-Fire Mothers Startle B. M. With Torch Parade Continued from Page One ficient and popular body something constructive can be done. Peter Rushton endeared himself to the hearts of his hearers by saying that Princeton had made but one mis- take: they began at Vassar. Besides the classic slogan already mentioned he produced others, assuring us that what is lacking in logic in the arguments of the V. F. W. is supplied by Con- gress. The women in the audience were much encouraged by his pointing out that the duty of the Home Fire girls was to “knit the noble socks of patriotism.” One of the many attacks leveled against the organization is that it is Communist, and so_it is, for as Con- gressman Fuller of Arkansas said (quoted by Mr. Rushton), it will wel- come both Fascists and pacifists. Mr. Barnes—before he received the layette—announced that whereas the United States-Government is one of ‘organized minorities, the V..F. W. is now an organized majority, with some 35,000 members in 412 posts all over the country. He also said that plans are being made for a national conven- tion to be held in the Middle West in July. Another aspect of the question was touched by Laura Musser, ’87, when she expressed the hope that something would be done for the unborn orphans. Mr. Rushton had already spoken of them as being no longer “little strang- ers,” and discussed a way to determine whether or not they were “little men- aces.” [If they are definitely pink in their infancy, it is a féregone conclu- sion that they will be red in later years.] Miss Musser suggested that their maintenance may be provided for by taxes of 300 per cent on certain undesirable objects, such as grapenuts or dirty white shoes. Sparkle and Rhythm Delights Audience Continued from Page Gne ~ cuted to musical accompaniment. The first half of the program ended with Del Rocio. In its gayety, fire and technique"this was probably the most effective dance of this portion of the program. By the opening of the second group of the dances Senora Carola had gained even more confidence and the three dances of this part were con- sistently better and even more appre- ciatively received. Even Mr. Hrenoff seemed to catch this heightened spirit and he played Malaguenas_ so _ skill- fully that the audience demanded an encore. In the. nocturnal, mysterious Fandanguillo Gitano, Senora attained that subtle ripple of body with a quick bob of the head which is so strikingly characteristic of Spanish dancing. The Moorish dance, De la Vega Grana- dina, danced with Chinchinas, small cymbals, on the fingers, was so well received that Senora Carola was forced to repeat it. The flowing move- ment accented by rhythmic contrasts in the Moorish dance was in striking opposition to the short, choppy rhythms of the last number, Alegrias, in which Senora gave her impressions of a fiery bullfight. This also was repeated after much applause. Since most of the dances of Spain range upwards to a dollar. The total payroll for the college in one month ranges from 500 to 550 dollars, ap- proximately 300 dollars going to the graduate school‘and 200 to 250 dollars to the undergraduates. The maximum hours per week that may be worked under the provisions of the Administration are 30; per day, eight. For undergraduates the maximum amount of aid per student in any one month is 20 dollars, pro- vided the monthly average for the en- tire period does not exceed 15 dollars. For graduates during the first year of their study the maximum in any month is 380 dollars provided the average for the entire period does not exceed 25 dollars per month. In the second year and for Post Doctors the maximum is raised to 40 dollars and the average to 30. Time cards stating the hours and fractional parts of hours worked each day are turned in weekly except on the 26th day of each month, the card for the period including the 26th being turned in at the close of that day. The cards are filled out by the student and signed both by him and by the faculty member under whose supervisor his work is being done. They are then handed in to the Ad- ministration supervisor on the campus (Marion Greenbaum, Radnor), who makes out in triplicate a time report for the entire college. This report is signed by the time keeper and by Mr. Hurst, the comptroller of the college, and sent to Harrisburg, the State capital. From Harrisburg a check is sent to the college covering the entire amount due it, and separate paymas- ters for the undergraduate and gradu- ate schools distribute the wages to in- dividual. job holders. Two-thirds of the undergraduates holding N. Y. A: jobs hold either Alumnae Regional or College Scholar- ships. Those who attended private preparatory schools, however, are about equally distributed with those prepared for college in public high schools. As far as it has been possi- ble to ascertain, no undergraduate has come to college solely because it was possible for her to obtain an N. Y. A. job, but a large proportion of those so employed would have found it dif- ficult to remain in college were it not for the financial aid received in this way. tie with a Duflex sole —~ a comfortable, trim ‘and perfect fitting sports shoe. Sor Acttwe Feet A soft tan calf Wales $50 Claflin i606 Chestnut ra 7+ a - BRYN-MAWR COLLEGE INN TEA ROOM Luncheon 40c - 50c - 75¢ Dinner 85c - #123, Meals a la carte and table Phote Daily and Sunday 8.30 A. M..to 7.30 P. M. + * Afternoon Teas Phi acic np nae mal, the content of the compositions are representational rather than for- is inclined to be fairly light and com- pletely comprehensible to the specta- tor. The design of the movements, where only one dancer is concerned, is limited to the configurations in space which that one body can make. In Spanish dancing, the origin and purpose being erotic, the predominant design is that of the curved line, emphasizing the natural curves of the body. In her compositions Senora Carola achieved some rather interest- ing designs in space. There was no timidity in approaching emotional ma- terial, and Senora Carola combined a sensitiveness for the subtle sparkle of Spain with commendable heel and castanet technique to present a strik- ingly interesting program. Charles Fox Lectures On U.S. Criminal Rate Linking of Politics and Crime Most Important Cause Taylor, Room §, April 22.~—-The ex- tremely high crinie rate of the United States in comparison with that of foreign countries is in large part due to the interrelation of politics and crime and the inefficiency of criminal procedure, the Honorable Charles E. Fox, former assistant district attor- ney of Philadelphia, told the first year politics class. The homicide rate per 100,000 people Was 10 per’ cent in the United States, as compared with the one-half of one per cent in England; the American rate is 30 times that of the Netherlands and three time that of Italy. Two fundamental causes of the dis- graceful slowness of criminal pro- cedure are the let-alone policy of American public opinion—“the maud- lin sympathy for wrong-doing until it comes right into your own front yard’—and the close connection of crime and politics which arises from this. The first two steps in criminal pro- cedure, the police and the magistrates, are usually influenced by ward leaders and committeemen. The magistrates’ courts are particularly corrupt; in Philadelphia, “out of their uncon- trolled and unrecorded acts come 180,- 000 cases touching on the poor and underprivileged.” In the higher courts, the juries are sources of leakages in orderly crim- inal procedure because of tie-ups be- tween jurymen and division leaders. | In many cases the judges are strong politically and would never have been ee COLLEGE SINGERS TO A group of Bryn Mawr singers will leave here Friday on. the 12 o’clock train to New York, where they will broadcast several May Day songs. The program will be heard on station WOR from 3.15 to 38.30. Skinner will also speak on the Bryn Mawr May Day; and Emily Kim- brough Wrench, ’21, and Sophie Yar- nall Jacobs, ’23, will give a dialogue. The following students under the direction of Mr. Willoughby will be heard: First sopranos: Agnes Hal- sey, 36; Maryallis Morgan, 86; Doris Russell, 88. Second sopranos: Esther Hearne, ’38; Lois Marean, ’87; Eleanor Shaw, ’38. First alto:. Cornelia Kel- log, ’389. Second alto: Helen. Kel- log, ’36. The selections they will, sing are: Now Is the Month of Maying, To the Maypole, Down in the Leafy Dell (to Gathering Peascods); from Robin Hood: The Baliff of Islington (Alan- a-Dale’s song), Follow, Follow (a round), What Shall We Have That Killed the Deer and The Courtiers. professional criminal lawyers “who work mischief to the discomfiture of officials and the embarrassment of the law,” are a vicious type developed in America and unknown to England, where lawyers are not specifically prosecutors or defense attorneys. Artificial judicial barriers between counties and States, together with the mixed population, help explain the discrepancies between American and European crime rates. Whereas the United States has no one body of law governing interstate crime, European countries usually have one series of criminal statutes covering the entire country. 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