tary. confinement. e THE COLLEGE NEW S ree ant —— we —_———— PERFECT NONSENSE This week’s contributions. seem to have confined - themselves to verse. A _ little prose, we think, would. be.a-change from-this_soli-|. Crazily enough, the anonymous winner of first hon- ors calls her animated piece : This Isn’t Nonsense! This college’s bane (They drive me insane) ’Tis those asking dumb questions Again and agane. To boast what they know Or Folly to show They murder our classes ; Let’s bash them to dough !* * Possibly there are better meas- ures, but: this one rimes. x * * You have forgotten no doubt, gentle reader, the stirring descrip- tion in last week’s News of the com- ing of darkness to the Library chan- delier. Ah! but all have not for- gotten, . That one remembers the red-rihbon- -winning poem bears wit- ness : The Last Light Bulb I stay; I shall not go Till jealous oxygen allay My slender filament’s glow. The time is: past, ah, long since gone When I was only one Of myriad gleaming circled lights That put to shame the sun. Where. are they now~the luminary souls That made. alive the tungsten and the glass? ° Over their light the last great nied ness rolls. Se-must—l pass... Each night, a click of switches in the hall, Stern Duty’s call \e Arouses me again—I anrawake. But still my comrades all Sleep on, alas! No more shall any calle Their slumbers ‘break, Fach-night,-each_night! shall. come a day When the’ pulsating current shall not awake, but slay! But. soon The last lone soul ‘shall flee hark, : The filament snaps--and after that the dark. I stay; I shall not go Till jealous oxygen allay My slendet filament’s glow. A.M. B: ee Me an’ Kellogg “The pen is mightier than the sword,” I said, but Kellogg ‘just looked bored. . “Come Jet us arm with fountain pens « And feel secure from hostile mens !”” “How awfully silly!” he deplored. The sword is mightier than the pen Or why have we a navy then? —Me. * * * Platforms Capitalism : catechism, Socialism : radicalism, Communism: cataclysm !— Anything but Feminism. —M. be Ne ee Prawn Pudding Precocious, I prattled prostrate in my pram, Previous prandial prawn pudding praising, “Gracious!” my _ gleeful great- grandmother gutturalized, “Rorty the rumpus -the rascal is | raising !” * But not as rorty as we are at the thought of all these contributions. Just the same there’s room for a lot more; we feel that in the field of undergraduate and graduate wit. we haven't scratched yet. a povertive * * * ‘to take the leavings of capitalism; ee Than either soprano or bass. She lets. everyone know All about so-and-so, With the sweetest of smiles her face. on a, act onan RY Sak She got o on Self aa But not through my love ; Her diction is tated correct. She gets twelve hours’ sleep And I’m ready to weep, For her Virtue’s her only defect. Scott Nearing Attacks System of Capitalism CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 small and religious but there were in- dividual unions and the Knights of Labor who fought the trusts bitterly and with guns. The Knights of Labor,.. whose membership totaled one million at one time, were at their height in 1886 and 1887. They met their defeat in the last big~ strikes against the trusts. In 1881 the American Federation of Labor was organized... Now it, the four important railroad # otherhoods, and the Amal- gamated Clothing Union are the impor- tant labor organizations in the United States.. The American Federation of Labor has, however, through its policy of trade agreements, become virtually a part of the capitalistic system and noth- ing will come of it. Only about 10 per cent. of. American .workers.are.organized, and those that are organized are willing it is necessary that American workers organ- ize and fight. The possibility of legal remedy for the worker grows steadily less. In the “muck-raking” period from 1905-1914 re- fd¥iners like Ida Tarbell had. an organ in such magazines as Colliers; McClure’s +and-the-American-tor-the-spread-of- their. ideas, It Was a period of romanticism and hope. Then the. buSiness interests bought the movement out and crushed it; the war finished the job. Now free speech is.denied Communists. For or- ganizing’ workers Communists are set on by thugs. or imprisoned fifteen years or more. In 1912—-New— York -passed- the Airst..law.. against, orggnization; now ‘thirty-seven States have similar Taws. In 1896, during Bryan’s campaign for free silver, the worker experienced a short period of hope, but this soon passed. There is now no educational or legal remedy for the worker; he is helpless and inarticulate. It is probable that the movement in. America will follow with fidelity that in Russia. Socialism is no remedy. Those who think anything can be achieved by legal means are chasing will-of-the-wisps. Economic conditions of workers under Capitalism travel. in a curve. At first, while industry is growing, labor is scarce and wages rise. Later the curve passes its highest point; there is unemployment and low wages and the standards of liv- ing of the worker are lowered. Great Britain has come to the low end of the curve and we are descending to it. Stand- ards of living of many American workers are lower than they were in 1913. : While the capitalistic system is ‘disin- tegrating it still wields such power that only revolutionary action will meet. the problem. A proletarian dictatorship like that in Russia will prevent another fall of Rome when the crash comes. A social economy rather than ‘an individual econ- omy. is needed. The next: forty. or fifty years wilt probably bring. it and the movemerft will probably be from Eurasia. In conclusion, Mr. Nearing warned | the audience that they must not allow economic textbooks or newspapers to lull them to sleep. Only 7 per cent. of the world’s inhabitants’ are. American, but one-third of the world’s unemployed are in this country, and less well cared for }than_in any other country except Japan. It is for this reason that the pressure towards Communism is so strong in the United States. - / ran in: thes ss College Is Bad For Girls “The girl whose ambition and aim is to charm is still the winner with men. And,. believe me, she’s rarely a college graduate,” declares Nina Wiléox Put- ~Jekege, Humor, “T am particularly. prejudiced against colleges run strictly for women, but feel that ‘there is a lot to be said in favor of co-educational institutions. In fact, I believe the worst that can be said against the latter is that a co- educational institution throws people of opposite sexes, who are still pretty young for the task, into a lot of grown- up situations which they are really not capable of handling. “But the purely feminine college, run by women for women, is a holy terror, to my mind. To me it seéms to do something awful to a girl. It’s a com- pletely false world to begin with, be- cause women are ‘basically rivals all through their lives and do not herd together naturally and impersonally as’ men do. Therefore a vast campus simply crawling with females who ape the independence of men_ without achieving the solidarity of men. isto me a false and pitiful thing. And at- tendance at such a college more often than not leaves a girl hanging midway between intellectual snobbery and a practical education in: living, without achieying éither. Of course in the case of a-girl who is deliberately planning a career to which a special’ course of study is essential, my verdict is entirely different. She must, of. course, go to college. “But for an average girl tends to make marriage her chief busi- ness—and, thank heaven, they are still in the majority—to waste four precious years that ought to be devoted to ro- mantic adventure, at a college which who. in- | offers contact only with her own sex; seems tragic. And, what’s more, the experience is often mighty unhealthy for her whole point of view on sex. “Some wise author, I’m not suffi- ciently educated to remembér his name, once. pulled a splendid gag to the ef- fect that a little knowledge is a dan- gerous. thing,..And.that’s how I feel about the knowledge a girl gets at a female university. What's the value of a smattering of the classics, a course in trig, or a sentefice or two ima dead language, all of which is soon forgot- ten, as against thé good, red-hot warm- ing-up for the business of life which a girl gets out of normal social con- tacts during the four years which she averages before marriage and after school? Why waste that precious in- terval by putting a girl-away in a sort of home for grown-up female orphans where life is artificial to the hth degree and bears no relation to her real future? “Let's keep college for the grinds and let our marriageable daughters strut their: stuff at home. And if a girl wants an occupation, let her get a job of work, Any. work, practically, will teach her more in a’ month that will be of real value to her than she’ll pull out of four years at Wreckem College.” Shorthand For Everybody Although most of the world’s output of shorthand today .comes from the pencils of women, John R: Gregg scouts the idea that there is anything effeminate about it. In an interview in the current number of The- American» Magazine, Mr. Gregg, himself the. inventor of widely used system, harks back to the masculine be- ginnings of abbreviated modes of writing. The first practical pothooks, he. says, were devised by a .young man named Tifo a in the first century B. C. Julius Caesar was an adept stenographer, and ‘other ancient and eminent Romans had_short- hand: systems’ of their own. Contests were held and prizes awarded, much as they aré today. In those sterner days, stenographic errors in reporting speeches CONTINUED ON PAGE 5 the home life and the social life of America. A permanent place on the living room table. The first thought in paying social debts. mu It has won a place allits own in ©S.F.W.& Son,Inc. Pat, Cian can stutter Ingenious questions in class. — She reserves all the books Days ahead, and she looks Like the — that won't wee on Bryn Mawe College S Beyn Mawr, Pa. ~ , Samp le b i ) A happy thought . the Sampler! el ND PELLET EOE A OOS LEE OLEAN LE ES aN ca NO _WHITMAN’S FAMQUS CANDIES ARE SOLD BY Powers & Reynolds ore Mawr, hess — H. B. Wallace Bryn Mawr, Pa. ' Bryn Mawr, Pa. Kindts’ Pharmacy . © Bryn Mawr, Pa. ~ Seville Candy Shop Bryn Mawr, Pa.