» \ a #} ___ anything’ so"healthy asa moral,or a} 4 : . : _Dr. N.R. Maier’s Experiments “no solution” escaped from the field of the forces or test rat was only somewhat more re- tiring than 2-615 COLLEGE ~ MOL, XXV, No. 13 BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1939 BRYN MAWR Copyright TRUSTEES OF PRICE 10 CENTS COLLEGE, 1939, Psychologists Induce Animal Neurosis in Rats Judged Best Scientific Work of 1938 : PRIZE FILM SHOWN BY MR. MACKINNON Music ‘Room, February 14.—Th prize film, Experimentally Produce Neurotic Behavior in the Rat, by’Dr. Norman R. Maier, of the University of Michigan, was shown and discussed by Donald W. MacKinnon, of the psychology department. ‘When Dr. Maier gave. the film with its accom- panying paper before the American Association for the Advancement of S&ience in December, it was awarded the annual prize of 1000 dollars as the most worthwhile report at the meeting. ’ The importance of this achievement lies in. the successful production of strictly controlled laboratory condi- tions. This allows a simplification of the life story of the organism’ so that cause and effect can be scientific-| . ally analyzed. * In the rats so far used, “nervous breakdowns” have appeared in only four. In these the neurotic symptoms are brought on when the rat is in a situation where only negative forces act upon it. It has no learned mode of response and” the conflicting forces. upon it are some- where nearly balanced. The rats that developed no neurotic symptoms either showed some new mode of response. One of. the rats that “broke down” was shown using passive resistance in the baffling situation. Suddenly it jumped from its perch and raced about the laboratory floor with a curious hopping motion. Its behavior ‘was stiff, and quite distinct from that shown of the normal rats. When Dr. Maier picked it up it appeared to be quite oblivious of its surroundings. He-was able to-mold it into a ball or stretch it out into positions which it held. The film then showed that: brother rats which had not been through these experiences would not permit such treatment. The effects wore off presently. The its cage-mates. When again introduced to the situation, even after a month’s vacation, the Continued on Page Four Sophomore Presents Play for W orkshep M. Alston Writes and Directs Eighteenth Century Satire, ‘Premature Lilies’ © Wyndham, February 18.—Prema- ture Lilies, written and directed by Mary Niven Alston, 41, was presented Saturday night in Wyndham for the benefit of the Theater Workshop. A satire’ on the formality of life and manners in the eighteenth cen- tury, it showed a highly amusing pic- ture of a young girl pretending to pine away from love to satisfy a fam- ily who would have thought her “lack- ing in sensibility” had she behaved|]- otherwise after a broken engagement:} Mr. Chilton (Virginia Nichols), ar- ranges a sensible marriage for his daughter Isabella (Mary. Alston). She, however, not properly appreeia- tive of her good fortune, contrives to get rid of the young man, one Jere- miah* Somerset (Peggy Squibb), by confiding to him that she was a biga- mist although both husbands are now dead. He, much shocked, terminates] : : : : the engagement and flees from the| neurotic behavior in animals under}; house to avoid a duel with Mr. Chil- ton. Isabella pines for two days. A handsome doctor, Babs Black, ’41, who is called in discovers the ruse but} agrees to be an accomplice, providing Isabella with food and at the same time giving alarming reports to the family. Continued on Page Four Scholarships Benefit Outstanding Students Dean Manning Lays Emphasis On Scholars’ Contribution To Community Music Room, February 17.—Dean Manning, speaking in chapel on Scholarships, stated the college policy with regard to awards as simply to increase the number of outstanding| - students in the college. It is not a matter of charity, but an asset to both college and community. Different from the British practice, Ameriean colleges award scholarships not on a basis of supremacy in com- petitive examinations alone, but try to make the money go as far as pos- sible. The college investigates the need of the student, asking those who can pay their own way to do so, in order that the certain number of bet- ter students who need financial as- sistance can go ahead without too Continued on Page Six ” Midwinter ‘Lantern,’ With Saw Exceptions, Shows Decadence, Unhealthy. Subjectivity (Specially contributed by M. Di- mock, ’39.) The general mood of the creative writing in the Midwinter issue of the Lantern is cheerless. But since this despair is evidently caused by no ac- tual tragic situations, the writings appear as so many mournful, esoteric, slightly pathological _ hallucinations. The authors do not deal with subjects | confronting them, but spin lines and more lines around an amorphous sense of themselves. They seem in general to be reading their states of minds into any situation that comes along, in fact to be so absorbed in their own outlooks that they find it unnecessary sto treat these. outlooks in terms of remedy or a plot. é _ Hester ‘Corner’s Captions for Photo- graphs is simply that. It i worthy of note as the one eae aks in the Lantern. I find the little mono- logue Miss Corner directs to her idol at. the close of the poem slightly out of kéeping With the rest’ of the tone. But on the whole it is amusing. and unique. Miss Corner’s other poem For the People of Knossos, whether she intended so or not, comes. very os ee to being a satirical propitiation of the interminable critics of Lantern poetry. Its single theme, clearly de- veloped first, then summarized in the manner of the Reader’s Digest, “Therefore their: method of knowl- : edge Is to learn _ Objects by their limits,” leaves nothing, obscure. The repeti- tion of such non-visual words ‘as limit-and infinity give the whole Work the air of a thesis rather than a @ poem. . Dorothy Counselman’s Meeting and Identity is a slow-moving statement of the genesis of an unusual relation- ship. The strange union that trans- cends.space and time isvitself the in- teresging thing, and a. treatment of | the parting would—be_of greater: in- terest to me. than the itemized, chro- nological account.of how the parting came to be. Miss Counselmén has an idea of this relationship, but never attempts to convey it as such to her readers; she observes how and that it occurred, byt does not write ‘from withim either eharacter. The whole is a situation which is never made to seem possible, much less to have hap- pened. 2 COLLEGE CALENDAR Thursday, February 23.— Martha Graham in American Document, Goodhart, 8.30. Friday,’ Feb 24.—Mass ‘ Meeting on the Embargo> Good- hart, 1.80. .A. S.°U. meeting. Common Room,.8 _p...m. Saturday February | 25.— Freshman Show. Goodhart, 8.30. Sunday, February 26.—Don- ald B. Aldrich will speak in chapel. - Music Room, 7.30. Monday, February 27,—Frank A. Arnold will speak-on Oppor- tunities for Women in Radio. Common Room, 5 p. m. Judge Florence Allen will give fourth Shaw lecture. Goodhart, 8.20. Tuesday, February 28.—The “Philadelphid Story. Chestnut’ Street Opera House, 2.30, Cur- rent Events, Mr. Fenwick. Com- mon Room, 7.80. International Club Meeting. Common Room, 8.30. - Committee to Aid Refugees is Formed Permanent Group to Supervise Fund-Raising and Placing Of Students _ The Intercollegiate’ Committee To Aid Student Refugees has been set up in New York to “coordinate and extend the fund-raising work being done by colleges throughout the coun- try for the purpose of securing schol- arships and maintenance for refugee students. “In its first progress re- port, which has just been issued, the -committee-outlines*the work of-vari- ous colleges to date in raising schol- ‘arships for German refugee students. At. present, thirty-three.men’s. and women’s colleges throughout the United States are active in raising money, and many of them, including Bryn Mawr, already have one or more students on their campuses: The committee hopes to establish a National Fund to be raised from “interested organizations, founda- tions, individuals and colleges.” This fund would facilitate a reallocation of funds in those cases where a college can provide tuition, but not living expenses. Colleges which can. raise money, but which, for some reason, cannot take a student on campus, can be sure of having it usefully applied if they add to the National Fund. A number of colleges, the report continues, have, in order to help as many students as possible, budgeted very closely on tuition and living ex- penises. The Fund will therefore be prepared to meet such emergencies as ‘accidents, sickness, unforeseen trans- Continued on Puge Three ‘AMERICAN DOCUMENT?’ TO BE DANCED HERE BY MARTHA GRAHAM On Thursday, February 23, Martha Graham, assisted by her dance group and male partner, Erick . Hawkins, will present the dramatic dange se- quence American Document in Good- hart... This dance drama _ had _ its ‘premiere at the Bennington Festival of the Dance last summer where it had an amazing success, and at ‘a subsequent. New. York. production in October it broke the attendance record for .an American daricer. previously held by Isadra Duncan. The .work is loosely patterned after an American minstrel. show, and con- ‘Graham, to interpret the spirit ~ of America ‘through the centuries as .a we-affirmation of our democracy. ~The narrative, recited by Housely Stevens, Jr., taken from the speeches of Abra- ham Lincoln, the Bill of Rights, the Declaration’ of ~ Independence, and other.sources, serves as a background for the. dramatic movement of the dance. Lincoln Kirstein, commenting on it in the Nation, calls it: “the most important extended dance creation by * 1a living American.” Continued on Page Four ~ .Lsigts of five parts designed by Miss: |\Salerno Was Center of Medical Cures Ancient Traditions Were Basis Of Medicine in Middle Ages Says Dr. Corner Common Room, February 14.—The development of. medieval medicine, at Salerno in Italy was traced by Profes- sor George*Corner, of the University of Rochester, i in a lecture given by the Latin Journal Club and sponsored by the Department of Biology. Salerno, stated Dr. Corner, was the logical place for the great school of medieval medicine to appear. Situ- ated in central Italy, with a good cli- mate and healing springs, it formed a natural center for the Greek and Roman medical traditions surviving in Southern Italy as well as _ those remaining in the Arabic school’ from the South, the Arabic-Spanish school from the West, and the Byzantine school from the East. The. first. great Salernian scholar was Constantine the African, who lived in the eleventh eentury. He knew Latin, Arabic and. probably some Greek. Altogether, he trans- lated twenty Arabic medical works, in- cluding the Pantegny, an encyclopedia pf Galenic medicine. Although gar- bled and slightly degraded, it came as a revelation to the physicians of Salerno. They began to. teach and rewrite,. basing over fifty new text- Continued on rage Four String Quartet Gives Concert in Deanery Varied Program by Miss Rice Group Includes Mozart, ~~Haydn, Brahms ~ (Specially contributed by Helen Garth, graduate student.) Deanery, February 19.—Bryn Mawr again realizes its great good fortune in having Miss Helen Rice, class of 23 and warden .of Rhoads, on its campus this winter.. For besides her organization of groups of students for playing chamber music together, Miss Rice and three of her friends gave a- delightful concert of string quartet music last Sunday afternoon at the Deanery. The quartet consisted of Helen Rice and Florence Duvall, violins; Mary Fairchild, viola; and Ruth Mc- Gregor, ’cello. The first quartet played was the Haydn F minor, opus 20, no. 5, in which Miss Rice took the first violin part, and Miss Duvall the second. In the first. movement, the function of the three lower parts is largely ac- companiment for the florid and melo- ‘dious first violin part. The second movement of this quartet, a_ lively People, Through Congress, Must Hold War Power ¥ Judge Allen Finds Monroe - Doctrine Has:Been — Misapplied CITES GAINS MADE AT LIMA CONGRESS Goodhart, February 20.—‘Wars are the will to peace in the individual must be registered in and through the gov- ernment itself,” said Judge Allen in her third lecture here, On the War Powers under. the Constitution. For this reason she/believes ‘of the utmost importan e fact that in the United States, the Constitutional right to de- ° clare war is given to Congress rather than to the executive heads of the gov- ernment. For such propagation of peace Judge Allen emphasized the need for international law, and pointed out that the Pan-American Congress has estab- lished many elements more fundamen- tal to such a set of international standards than did the conference at Geneva. ' The restatement of the Mon- roe Doctrine on its original basis so as to acknowledge the integrity of all the states in the western hemisphere was«necessary, Judge Allen: feels, be- fore any such advance toward peace could take place. During the last thirty years, how- ever, the Américan people’s constitu- tional claim to the right of declaring war has frequently been‘ seriously in- fringed upon through armed interven- tions made use of by the executive Continued on Page Five PRESIDENT OF LONDON ROYAL SOCIETY WILL LECTURE HERE IN MAY Sir. William Bragg, noted British physicist, will visit Bryn Mawr in the spring. The department of physics announces that it has arranged for him to lecture here May fourth. Sir’ William is president of the Royal Society of London, and in 1914> won the Nobel prize jointly with his son, W. L. Bragg, who is director of the famous Cavendish laboratory at Cambridge. ‘As director of the 110- year-old Royal Institution, Sir Wil- liam i¢# Fullerian professor of chemis- try,a position that has been held by Davy, Faraday, Thomas Young and DeWar, Sir William will be'in this country to give the Pilgrim Trust lecture in Washington. This fund provides for exchange lectures between the Royal Society of London and the National Academy of Science of America. Continued on Page Six Sy nthetic Hostility Abounds on Campus _ As Sophomores Publicize ‘Devil Did Grin’ 1942 — been struggling frantic- ally for the past few weeks or so with the usual clutter and confusion of Freshman Show. Last Sunday night the exploitation campaign of the show began in earnest. with a parade of Freshmen who stormed through the halls singing and waving challenging banners. “1941 — Have You the Guts to Come to Our Show »Without Knowing. the Animal?” “Foxes, You Can’t Fool Us This Time, You Vixens,” and.“We Hate the Soph- omores, We Love the Juniors.” The encountered difficulties qe Peas, and Denbigh ‘when. aroused Sopho- mores tried to hold them in. They. rattled afound with great spirit in the echoic space of an empty Rhoads smoking room, but did a. little better in the French House, where Deborah Calkins was their sole victim.. Ger- man House greeted them with dis- tracted and anxious faces. Bigelow, with murder in her eyes, bellowed out the window, “For God’s sake, don’t wake Bimbo!” — The entourage hnaliy Seobe up, but not until quite some feeling for Fresh- man Show had been aroused. One upper classman stirred from her smoking room stupor long enough to murmur, “Oh, are they still giving Freshman Shows?” Since then the mutual harrassing between Sophomores and Fershmen has got. well under way, predominat- ing in Merion and Rockefeller. . The emphatic warning to leave personal property alone has, of course, been well ‘overlooked. Crumbéd and Y|drenched beds, tied doors, peppered | studies, and rooms. threaded. ed_in true | cobweb ° fashion are on the list ie ae light sports. One beautiful display in Merion is quite memorable for its artistic execution. A thoroughly dis- ordered roorh with ‘a bust of Beetho- ven on the bed musing under an open umbrella, surrounded with a flood of ,raisins and almonds, all look- ing most attractive under a spotlight. Perhaps Low Buildings will profit By alt this. ~The costume and property ‘situa- Continued on Page Six made by governments and, therefore, _ \ ‘= ww) ws) ees 4 J — “THE COLLEGE NEWS| . 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Graduate Correspondent Business Board Assistants Subscription Board - Manager ROZANNE PETERS, ’40 = 39 = ELLEN MATTESON, ’40 RuTH McGOVERN, ’41 JANE NICHOLS, ’40 ELIZABETH Pops, '40 VIRGINIA SHERWOOD, ’41 ‘Copy Editor MARGARET MAcG. OTIS, Music Correspondent LOUISE HERRON, ’39 Preccy Lou JAFFER, ’41 PETERSON Advertising Mosayer DoroTHY AUERBACH, ’40 LILLIAN SEIDLER, ’40 Nancy Sroussat, ’40 3 4 4 Betty WILSON, ’40 SUBSCRIPTION, $2.50 SUBSCRIPTIONS MAY ___ MAILING PRICE, $8.00 BEGIN AT ANY TIME Entered as second-class matter at the Wayne, Pa., Post Office - ooo Lift Up Your Heads, O Ye Gates “There are so few traditions left at Bryn Mawr that we falter}. evep as we condemn the hardiest of them, the exclusion of men from the Freshman Show. In this age of feminism, a campaign for men’s rights is to be expected, even, if it has to be conducted by women. “The rule was made when modesty was still rampant and when freshmen ‘choruses doubtless wore bloomers. For. some time it was rigidly enforced and a ‘mefnber of the class of 1914 was actually expelled for importing a man in feminine clothing. Since then, there have been annual attempts of the same ilk, each time with more intri- eate costumes and more short-lived hilarity. There is infinite attraction in this sort of challenge, but the amuse- ment it provides. is comparatively limited. We see nothing to recom- ‘being broken except inertia. been conditioned to immodesty by __mend the- tradition éxcept. its challenge, and nothing to prevent. its| Bryn Mawr’s masculine population has seeing several undergraduate gen- erations sunbathing in the Cloisters, and the average Freshman. Show is prudery itself compared to this. We take it for granted that the masculine population wants to come, however inarticulate it may forward to seeing a spontaneous have been in ey past. We look movement, overthrowing the. time- consuming objections of self-government, and accomplishing the ‘repeal of the rule in the space of two days. if it is impossible to cireumivent the usual red tape, we suggest a special dispensation for this Freshman | Show. The atternative may be an ugly picket line composed of editors of the College News. - swell in the audience and in the gate receipts. modesty! ‘This achievement of equal rights for men will be the glorious} finale in our feminist drama. Fling open the doors; if you do, you will see a Down with moribund 4 Conference to be Held © On Bryn Mawr League Informal ° Sessions Will Feature Education, Group Work The Bryn Mawr League is planning | & an afternoon discussion of its work in connection with social problems in an informal conference on March fourth. For those who have not been active in the League it hopes to pre- sent a description. of its activities; . and for those. who have been. active _ it will give an opportunity to discuss their experience with-people who know it frpm a professional point of view. By holding two brief general sessions and smaller discussion groups on three phases of League work, we hope to eombine: a broad picture of volunteer social work with some specific infor- mation on its actual tasks, The conference will be fro - in the aftetnoon until 5.30. At & half hour general session Miss F _ 2.30 ee hoa Newbold will speak on the pi -... tidn-of -volunteers in community work, Miss Newbold is the local director of 4 _ the Philadelphia Girl Scouts, and was cutive secre - delphia. . The meeting will divide into three _ discussion groups for an hour and a —— One will deal with adult educa- tion and will include discussion of the Maids’ and Porters’ classes, the. In- - dustrial group, and the Americaniza- ee ee ime chloe op work with children Lacodoagene in, the summer a Saeanie Community f ary of the). nae ‘Service Bureau in Phila-|~ Center. A third will discuss work for the blind. In the first two. cases smaller separate groups are com- bined under larger sections because the special elements of each seem relevant and illuminating to the others of the same general type. In each oup one or more speakers will de- scribe the background and problems of the people with which the work is being done ‘and then discuss: with the students their activity and what new possibilities it has. The afternoon. will close with a tea, at which représentatives of each sec- tion will, summarize. their meetings and dis¢uss their results. A full list Meanwhile, the League invites. sugges~ tions from students on specific ques- tions they would like to have brought up at the conference, In Philadelphia Movies Arcadia: Tempest (Orage), French Triangle drama, with ‘Charles Boyer, Michele’ Morgan. Fox: The Three “Musketeers, musi- eal comedy with Don Ameche, Ritz Keith’s: Gunga Din, adventure in India, with Cary Grant, Victor Me- Laughlin, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. - News: Viva Villa, with Wallace Beery as the Mexican outlaw, Leo Carillo, Fay Wray. sy Stanley: Honolulu, musical comedy- romance, with ar Powell, Robert Young. >>... 4 ~— of speakers will be issued next week. Sremeees.- anti-war Pieces with ‘Clark Gable, Norma Shearer. WIT*S END. DON JUAN ACanto XVIII continued) was feeling debonair. and mel- low, And strolled through Taylor, pre- fatory to - Visiting classes, when the sight of yellow Cards on each door transfixed his eyes like glue, , He rudely stared, and then a voicu said, “Hello,” Touching his trembling “They’ve all got flu.” “Who, Miss Lagoon?” asked “” limp as_chiton., “Lavender, Woodwind, Fisher, ou. beh, Guiton.” ears, wept, s And through his tears he sang 4 little song, “OQ baleful, beastly, bad disease tha: crept Behemoth-like among the busy throng, Striking them innocently. while they slept, Impartially, the weak and e’en the strong, Afflicting them with temperature ‘not paltery, Mourn now, on tabret, dulcimer, and psaltery! How are the mighty fallen! Right and left, They leave us pining tor belovéd| ; class Where once we listened: all enrapt V4 Bereft, We wander to the library en masse. And now the lizard lounges in the cleft, The turtle’s voice is heard upon the grass, But spring returning fills our hearts with gall ’n Wormwood, for still the mightiest are fallén.” |He ceased, and_looked_ at her- with) thus. although- philosophy is in one glad surprise, At Miss Lagoon, I mean to say, for she Was there. He said, “Can I believe my eyes, It’s you.” ’-“Yes,” Miss Lagoon said, “it was me Before.” Said Juan, “Wouldn’t it be nice To have some coffee at the Dean- ery? But. first Pll have to sing a glad: ca- denza Because you haven’t got the influenza. Sad is the lot of them who sore were stricken, Who had to swallow draughts of argyrol, But praiséd be the ones that didn’t sicken, Lagoon and Munch, Anderson, Woodrow, Koll- -Er, and the host that’s still alive and kickin’, Hoist up a fax of victory ‘on the pole, sanna America or the Star-Spangled Ban- ~ner.” _ (To be continued) — Stanton: My in is a Criminal, melodrama with Alan Baxter, Jac- ‘queline- Wells. Chestnut: The Philadelphia Story, with: Katharine- Hepburn, Van Hefflin. Forrest: The Women, Clare Booth’s comedy with cast of 40 women. Erlan, Golden Boy, Clifford Odets’ drama with Phillip Holmes, Betty Furness. Walnut: Boirookete Federal The- ater Project. Suburban Movies Waynie:: Thursday, Friday, Satur- day, Dawn Patrol, with Errol Flynn, Basil Rathbone and David Niven. Illusion. Seville: Puareday, Stage Door, with Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers. Friday, Slave Ship, with Mickey Roo- ney. Saturday, Swing Sister, Swing, day, Kentucky, with Richard Greene and Loretta Young. Tuesday, "Phe Good Fairy, with Margaret Sullavan 3 “Sinburben ‘Thursday, | and’ Frank Morgan. Kentucky, Then Juan lifted up his voice and. Then intersperse with heavenly ho- Sunday, Newsboys Home, with Jackie: }Cooper:—Monday.and Tuesday, Grand »azor——blades,—two—revolvers—and—ay * with Ernest Truex. Sunday and Mon-) Mr. yaa > S peak “Mr. Weiss will make “Jumbled .. Remarks ‘on God;the State and’ Man,” atthe. New York Bryn ‘Mawr Club on Friday evening, February 24. Buffet supper, at 6.30 p, m., in the clubrooms at The Barclay, will precede the lecture. » a am — 7 SS Required Subjects (This article is the first in a peries of interviews in which we hope to show why certain subjects are re- quired in the college curriculum,) Interview with Mrs. De Laguna, head of the Department of Philosophy, In general, gaid Mrs, De Laguna, |the purpose of required subjects is to initiate young people into the cylture time. This culture may be into the great fields of his- art. and philosophy. of literature, are required in second- ary schools; but this is not true of philosophy. Thus, if philosophy were not required at college one of the great fields of human learning would be left untouched. : But, to be more specific, while the student a¢cepts required English with- out question, he feels that a required philosophy course needs justification. First year philosophy is, in fact, optional in many universities. This justification, thinks Mrs. De Laguna, lies in the fact that philosophy oecu- bpies a central and connecting position ix human knowledge; it is closely re- lated with such different subjects as science, history, art and religion. At Bryn Mawr, a historical survey of philosophy is given because the history pf thought is an integral part of the whole history of culture. The great thinkers have not only influenced the course of: philosophy; they have provided ideals for science, theory for art and politics. It is impossible to undexstand the doctrines of the Christ- ian church without a knowledge of the history of philosophical thought. sense a specialized study, it has vital connections, Thus far Mrs. De Laguna had shown the importance of philosophy as a factor in the culture of the mod- ern world. But, she said, there is another aspect of the study of philoso- phy, more important, ultimately, than the first. Every one of us harbors beliefs and makes use of ideas of which he is un- aware. Some of these beliefs and ideas are fundamental, essential to sane living and valid thinking; some of them are mere traditional preju- dice. It is the business of philosophy to make us aware of these uncon- scious beliefs and ideas in order that we may examine them, It is only by learning to think philosophically that we become self-conscious and pen critical. M. O. RADNOR COOK HELD FOR PETTY LARCENY Main Line thanbek and rove of a eollege scaridal rose momentarily last week when Lower Merion police re- vealed the arrest for larceny of Wal- (ter Selman, Radnor’ cook: Owing to th¢%uspicions of pawnbrokers, he was aricsted in Philadelphia while at- tempting to pawn two bureau clocks, which were later found to belong to Hope Wickersham, ’36, and Jean Holzworth, '36, both graduate students living in Radnor. “ i Following his arrest and confession to Captain William Shaffer of the Lower Merion Detective Bureau, a miscellaneous collection of articles which have been missed by students within the last few years were found in his rooms at Radnor and in Phila- delphia, These varied from jewelry and a valuable knitted robe imported from Germany, down to name-taped towels: - Also found were several leather-covered lead ball.. - Selman, aged 37, has been employed by thé college for 16 years. “He was arraigned and held for 3000 dollars bail last Wednesday night, February 15,:and will appear before a grand jury in Norristown sometime in. the near future. with. Loretta Young, Friday to Thurs- day, The ere: * Cee. IN THE BOOKSHOP _ LENDING LIBRARY Grandma Called It Carnal, by. Bertha Damon. The casual reader of Bertha Dam- Qn’ Sy, childhood reminiscences is con- scious of nothing but sheer. delight in “the indomitable figure of Grandma Griswold.- She had to support herself, her daughter, and her two small grandchildren-°on an ‘insignificant penbion of twenty-seven. dollars a monthy. She had to live in 4 little New England village, aptly named North Stonefield, where 9 woman wag expected to-be a drudge and a gossip, an ignoramus and a cooky In the face of all this, Grandma Griswold refused to gossip, refused to cook, refused to drudge, and refused to install modern conveniences. She. insisted on living a life patterned as closely as possible on that designed by Thoreau, Ruskin, Kant and Saint Paul. It is this last fact that. makes Grandma Called It Carnal interesting to other than casual readers, The sociologist’ or the eritic of Thoreau and Ruskin’s thought will find in it the record of an earnest and whole-heart- ed effort to make that thought actual and significant, to base an entire life upon it. Bertha Damon’s biography shows almost cruelly the tragic flaws. in it: the “leisure” based on the hard work of every other member of the family, the “picturesqueness” won by — inconvenience .and back-breaking la- bor, the “frugality” that meant the absence of cooked food and fire in the bedrooms, Against. all this, she sets her grandmother’s serenity, her keen awareness of beauty and the in- tegration of her spirit. In this one particular case, the achievement seems to have been worth the sacrifice. BM. FP. CURRENT EVENTS (Gleaned from Mr. Fenwick.) President Roosevelt has left on an- other fishing trip, after his statement about the sale of airplanes to France. Airplane factories are now experi- menting and preparing for quantity production in an emergency. The President said that he would impose no more taxes on big business, and that he would balance the budget: if Congress would say what items of ex- pense to omit. He is watching man- oeuvers in the Carribbean where the fleet. is practicing to defend the Panama Canal and the East Coast: The Brazilian Foreign Minister this week visited Washington. He stated that Brazil is an ally of the United States. Mr. Fenwick described Bra- zil as facing the twofold problem of Nazi propaganda and a large export- able surplus of coffee. Germany will buy the coffee in return for Brazil’s purchase of German agricultural ma- chinery. These barter agreements, \however, are contrary| to the Hull trade policy. Mr. Fenwick then turned to Spain and the question of whether Franco’s demands for unconditional surrender will be met. We can only hope that moderation underlies Franco’s state- ment that he will punish common law crimes, In the Far East, said Mr. Fenwick, Japan prepares to attack Russia _ if Germany should go to war. A war with Russia and the occupation of Siberia would give Japan an excuse to withdraw from China. It would also rid Japan of Vladivostok, the air- plane base which causes Japan. ex- treme uneasiness. Mr. Fenwick concluded with a dis- cussion of the problem facing the College of Cardinals in the election of a new Pope. Will he be an Italian, © German, Austrian,-Frenchman, Eng- lishman or Canadian? Will he be a liberal, interested primarily in jus- tice, -liberty and -social reform?, Or will be be a conservative, placing law and order -ieadari a The obvious an- tion of thas slenaaie: pe it ‘will “a interesting to see who will provide the happy medium. In Memoriam Mrs. N. P. Schenck, mother of Eunice Morgan” Schenck. Died Saturday, February 18. PS ROVE kee we J af y THE COLLEGE NEWS -Page Three | PUBLIC OPINION February 20, 19389. To the Editor of the College News. More than three-fourths ‘of the American people, according te the Gallup Poll, hope for a Loyalist vic- tory in Spain. Yet they are not ex- erting their full pressure in the cam- paign for lifting the embargo, a meas- ure which would insure that. victory. Qne cause for their inertia is the at- titude of defeatism in the Democra- cies which has existed throughout the war, but has inereased since the loss of Barcelona. What has given rise to the belief that the Spanish Republic is doomed, that our help would come too late? Surely the facts point to no such:con- clusiofi. The strength of Spain is by no. means broken. “We are deter- mined to fight on. We still have ten provinces, five hundred miles. of coast, ten million anhabitants and a good fleet-—why should we ask for peace?” said a spokesman for the Spanish Embassy in London. General Moles- worth, British military observer and , member of the Non-Intervention Com- mittee, estimates’ that - the Central Front, around Madrid and Valencia, can. hold out for three or four years. The: Spanish people, their government and their army, welded into closer unity than ever before, are preparing” to make any sacrifice rather “than surrender. If the Loyalists are given their legal right to buy arms, they will not only hold the Central Front, but will drive the invaders out of all Spain. Such a defeat for fascism would mean new strength for de- moeracy throughout the world’: the: re- lease of France from imminent dan- ger of attack, the stimulation of pro- gressive forces in France and Great Britain, the retardation of fascist ac- tivities in the Americas, and the threat of collapse to the tottering) economies of Italy and Germany. A Loyalist victory in Spain would do But if the people of the United States are misled into. thinking the Eoyalist cause hopeless, they will ‘| make “no move te aid the Republic. This is. exactly what the spreaders of defeatism want; for they represent powerful sections of American finance capital, allied with German and Italian fascism,. Such men,as the Du- in the aggressions of, Hitler and Mus- golini; and Morgah is closely con- nected with British banking, which is linked with Rome and Berlin. In order to promote these interests, they make every attempt. to prevent the NMRmerican people from using their power to stop fascism. Through their ‘spokesmen—Herhert Hoover, Senators Vandenberg, Nye,. Johnson and others —the reactionaries. try to block every move of the Roosevelt. administration toward a, foreign policy of concerted self-defense by the democracies. They use pacifism, isolation and appease- ment as a blind. for granting unlimited concessions to .the aggressors. De- featism, which leads to complete pas- sivity of the democrati¢-forces, finds a logical place among these weapons of reaction. The influence of the press in foster- ing defeatism has shown itself un- =, during the past few weeks, when collapse of the Republic and surrender to France: were anticipated: daily im the headlines. Reports slurred over the unshaken resistance of the Central Front while they mag- nified groundless rumors of the defeat and disunity of the Loyalist forces. Now, when ~évents have disproved these rumors, it is -clear that the Daily Worker is the only paper which has given a consistently truthful ac- count of the situation in Spain. By accurately reporting the war, by ex- posing and analyzing the causes of defeatism, and by its campaign to lift the embargo, the Daily Worker is serving democracy in Spain and in America., more than any other single event to} safeguard our ewn democracy; and|' victory is: still possible. Ponts have an immémse economic stake The Loyalist army will fight till]. Committee. to Aid ‘Refugees is Formed| Continued trom —_— One portation costs and otKer items. The committe realizes that it has a “con- tinuing responsibility to the students |}. it brings over until they are reha- bilitated in this country. A National Fund is essential in meeting this re- |, sponsibility,” - The committee’s sponsors, in addi- tion to Henry Noble McCracken who is Honorary Treasurer, includes many prominent men. The committee has employed a full-time publicity director and it has urged all colleges ‘to keep her fully informed of their activi- ties and to make full use of her serv- ices. its last bullet is fired. But no army can continue without arms, without food. Spain must have both. We in the United States must redouble our efforts to lift the embargo and send material aid. At Bryn Mawr, bers the faculty mem- circulated and signed a pe- tition to President Roosevelt to lift the embargo deserve hearty congrat- ulations. The A. S. U. has also done excellent work in circulating petitions and collecting money... The.. Peace Chest, although it has worked on the principle of non-partisan relief, has made large contributions to Loyalist Spain. We hope that this good work will continue. Finally, we urge that every organi- zation, every faculty member and every student write or wire President Roosevelt and their Senators and Con- gressmen, urging that the embargo be immediately lifted. Only the strong- est and most persistent pressure on our government will force the ré- moval of the embargo on the Spanish Republic and defeat the pro-fascist bloc within the United States. Signed, EMILY DOAK, Secretary, Young Communist League of Bryn Mawr College. MEA MY. TAKE OF CONCENTRATION _—THAT OFTEN WORK S PLENTY. NS NERVE ELS SMOKERS. FIND— NEVER JANGLE THE NERVES Pn | Elizabeth Pope Proves Lying to be Justifiable Socrates” Contention Before Philosophy .Club Common Room, February 15.—At a meeting of the Philosophy Club, Elizabeth Pope, ’40, read a paper called The Philosophy of -Lying, writ- teri in the form. ofa dialogue between two students, with a Philosopher as arbitrator. Miss Pope proved Soc- rates’ contention, stated in the Repub- lic, that lying is justifiable under cer- tain circumstances, but only whert the lie is “the closest attainable copy of the truth.” Miss Pape’s first student, who is eventually worsted, maintains that lie is told to avoid unpleasantness. wire idealistically that the para- graph in which Socrates justifies some lies should. have been omitted from the Republic because it “expressed opin- ions unworthy of Socrates . .. and because it was irrelevant. to the aim of all philosophical discussion,, which is to identify and value not lies, but truth.” The second student proves that lying has a close relationship to truth as we know it, which, according to the Phaedo, is only an‘ approximation of absolute truth. Therefore, all truth is to some degree a lie, and if we wish to form a standard, we must select that which conforms best. to our notion of absolute truth. - It is permissible to lic when the lie comes closer. to this notion than the truth would. The second student shows that lying to one’s enemies. may be - righteous, by refuting the first studerit’s conten- tion that such a lie is told to avoid unpleasantness sto oneself. A man may permissibly lie to save himself, ror it is his duty to preserve his body, if the lie “does not involve the nega- ion of an absolute truth.” The philosopher concludes by saying that the principle of lying is not sup- portable but “only. the abrogation of Defended |. ‘... Mass Meeting on Religion On February 23, there will be a Youth Mass Meeting at eS Mitten Hall, at Broad “tnd Berks, Streets, as a preparatory for the World Day? of Prayer |: on February 24. Since all neigh- boring colleges will be repre- sented, the Bryn ‘Mawr League hopes that. some of the under- graduates will go in to the meeting. The meeting wil) be undenominational. - we S / r — factual truth to obtain a closer ap- proximation of absolute truth.” Both students agree and admit that Soc- rates was “entirely right.” : SPOTLESS FLEET CR Uv . SES BERMUDA on the popular : Volendam 6 Days $60 up Sailing from New York MARCH 11 and MARCH 18 MARCH 25 and APRIL 1 e Easter Crutse + APRILS - 6 DAYS + $65 up 2 PULL DAYS IN BERMUDA 5 Days $50 up ¢ APRIL 15 - 22 - 29 « | FULL DAY IN BERMUDA Complete entertainment program ...out- door swimming pool. . . famous Holland- America Line cuisine and service. SHIP YOUR HOTEL THROUGHOUT at no extra expense CONSULT YOUR TRAVEL AGENT, or HOLLAND - AMERICA LINE N. E. Cor. 17th & Walnut Sts., Phila. Offices and Agents in Principal Cities - a» < k | he i Mh % THE COLLEGE NEWS " Collége Moving Picture ‘Fo be Ready Next Fall Seen May be \Exhibited in Unfinished Stat by Next Spring Especially contributed by Barbara Cary.) The camera men, moving picture: apparatus’ and floodlights, seen .last week on the campus, were here to take the indoor scenes for the college mov- ing picture. The plans f ye. pic~ ture were announced early e faly after discussion with the college coun- cil. The film is being made under the supervision of the Publicity Office with the assistance of an undergradu- ate committee .whose members -are Cornelia "40, and Fifi The Ap is in full color both indoors and_ outdoors and will be about eight hundred feet in length on: standard sixteen millimeter film. It will take about forty mind to “show. #“Mr. Richard Hattje and his assistant, Mr. Tally,..of the National Bureau of Private, Schools in New York City, “489, -Jane-.Nichols, arbat, ‘at, “ * s. be « are doing the. photography. The Na- tional- Bureau has had wide experi- ence taking school and college films and has doné succéssful work recently for. Rutgers University, Wilson Col- lege and: Vassar College... The Bryn Mawr picture will not be entirely completed until next fall; but we are hoping to have it sufficiently finished to show to students and others interested . during , Commence- ment Week. This is not at all cer- tain, however. The collége plans/ to have one copy ‘made.from the original, which will be-kept at Bryn Mawr.‘The film is for use in schools to give pre- . college girls a glimpse of Bryn Mawr students on the campus and in the classroom. Story Contest® The American College Quill Club announces a fifty dollar short story prize. The rules are | posted on the bultetin-board-in- Taylor. Salerno Was Center Of Medieval Cures Continued from Page One books, such as the Codex Salernicanus, on the translations of Constantine. Internal-medicine-was-taken partly frdém Constantine, partly from Byzan- tium, and was based entirely upon the doctrine of the four humors: blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile. Health.was supposed to depend on the alternation of these humors. Sickness arose from too much or too little of one or: another, and medicine was devoted to.finding out the condi- tion and corrécting it. For excess of blood, bleeding was used; in other cases, drugs, cathartics, or special diets. In Salerno, at least, this sys- tem was remarkably free from vulgar superstition, and medication was sen- sible and not too Violent. Surgery was taken chiefly from classical Greek teaching. There was much military surgery, especially for removing arrows and healing frac- tures: of the skull. The skull was drilled, and the depressed area lifted. Operations on the eyes were also com- mon, particularly for cataract and ophthalmia. Tumors were removed if they were sufficiently evident, but there was no abdominal surgery, although the physicians knew -how to treat abdominal wounds and even her- mia. They could also - manipulate common dislocations, such as that of the shoulder, an@, deal with simple, or sometimes even compound, fractures. In this, however, their treatment never came up to the level of the ancient » 'Greeks. © ” = “ aia » . Cautery was derived froth the pure bic, and was used for metlaviog such i nesses As 4 ¢ || one, and the Norfolk Dance whose Dr. Kennedy Demonstrates Folk Songs and Dances English Ballads Sung Humorously, Audience Joins Dancing Gymnasium, February 16. — Dr. Kennedy, of London, head of the Eng- lish Folk Dancing and Song Society, gave a demonstration of songs and dances, in the gymnasium, to a large group comprised of folk dancing en- thusiasts from schools and clubs in vac” vivanty, Five songs sung in Dr. Kennedy’s = ‘and original manner were applauded. The first, J Gave My Love a Cherry, was sent to him. from Virginia during thé war to cheer him up. It is a version of an English song. He sang next a song in Yorkshire dialect about a man who went out on Ulklamoor without his hat, caught a cold and died. Men came ‘and buried him on the moor, and the worms came and ate him up, and the ducks came and ate the worms, and the men came and ate the ducks. ’ The ballad of Lord Randal was the only sad song of the evening. The dialogue of a mother and her son who has been poisoned by his sweet- heart.. Cheerfulness returned ‘with Lord Nelson’s Praise, a hearty sea song, whose tune serves for a jig, and for the hymn Mississippi as well. Hares on the Mountains, the last ‘song, was a series of similes compar- ‘ing young womén to hares -on the ‘mountains, ducks on the water, birds in the bushes, and advising the young men howW to capture them. In the second part of his program Dr. Kennedy first did an Oxfordshire medicine dance that is part of the spring festival at Easter time. It is strenuous, since the dancers are sup- posed to warm. the earth. The dances Dr. Kennedy taught were Hunting the Squirrel, a slow figure-dance; Bonnets so Blue, a fast tempo increased constantly. The repertoire of English: -folk dancers, Dr. Kennedy ‘explained, is made up. of old seventeenth century dances belonging to the many races of English, modern folk dances, and popular forms like the Virginia Reel brought from other countries. Most English dances come midway between hot, fast Spanish dances and the slow movement ina circle with which the Scandanavians accompany their singing. They have figures like the Northern chain dances, called “carols,” and quick hopping steps like the German “‘tanzen.” The treatment for insanity} -on- the other hand, was. incredibly. super- stitious. It consisted of trepanning the brain so that the evil spirits said te cause madness might escape. The midwives and nurses of Salerno were particularly skillful, and from this fact arose the tradition that there were women physicians in Salerno. Actually, only one feminine name ap- pears on all the records kept from the Middle Ages, and there is no evidence that the legend in general was true. 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Tea Diriner | Laitérnatives for persons caught in any +} but—why?———+-—— : M idwinter ‘Lantern’ Shows ‘Decadence Continued from Page One Miss Counselman’s poem, Idea for Action, a philosophical poem on the relative merits of isolation and con- tact, is another thesis-like work, kept from being poetic by such bare words as aspects, extension, and such lines as, ong 4 “The synthesis of both is. unity.” However, the poem has a point and in parts conveys very truly what emo- tion is involved in the problem, I fail to see the connection between her subject and the quotation from Hart Crane. , Mr. Jackson’s Tune, by .Joan Gross, is simply. a description of a man with a tuneringing in™ his ears. “Miss Gross has a good style and one wishes that she had something more signifi- «cant to say, or could somehow indicate the significance of what she does say. Marion Kirk’s' The Job is written so imaginatively that the actually meager subject has its maximum im- portance. I like especially ‘the de- scription of the skating-rink, in which Miss Kirk’s metaphors are clever and her picture clearly made. Elizabeth Pope’s Landscape in Win- ter, before storm,. has as a theme the panic-striking fatefulness’ of a storm;}——- |into which she has woven the possible powerful onslaught. Her words are strong, and her rhythm and rhyme- scheme well-knit with her subject. I feel myself unprecedently sympa- thetic with the “interminable Lantern critics” in attempting to criticize Miss Renninger’s poem. It is perfectly in- telligible, but, at the cost of a great deal of thought of the kind one does in handling a geometric proof. Her words eventually do convey a struc- tural picture, but that picture bears no. relation to the significance of what she is saying. The inflexible, tiring quality of the thought-process, which never can result in complete knowing, is described = analogy and directly, To Miss sea go the ai of this issue, and also the most pro- found criticism. Her story, The Ele-f ment of Beauty, is extraordinarily well-written. There is no break in the forward movement. She seems to have her characters so clearly created before her that she has only to watch them and there is no chance of her introducing an extraneous element. But her subject is unworthy of the color and Beauty that she reads into it. In attempting to give the. deca- dence she describes a vast significance, she has hung her characters on an abstract theme which the story in no way evidences. Miss Tucker’s ob- servation of and insight into detail should be extended to everything that confronts her, instead of being limited in scope and value to worthless: as- pects of the world. Of her poem I say the same, that- its “eolor and beauty are out of all proportion to its meaning. Her writing deals with nothing which is strong or important, and therefore takes on some of the decadence of her subject matter. Bryn Mawr Loses Twice to Ursinus Varsity and Second Teams Defeated 35-15, 50-33 Gymnasium, February 18—Bryn Mawr’s basketball team lost the game tc Ursinus on. Saturday, the score be- ing 35-15. Ursinus displayed strength in -shooting, guarding and passing. Their short passes were.accurate and effective. The concerted baskets of B. Har rg oP orward,ac- counted for 28 of the victors’ points. C. Norris, ’40, was high scorer for Bryn Mawr. The second team score was 50-33, in Urginus’ favor. Bryn Mawr Ursinus INOPTIS ys oe. esd fell een - Claflin Squibb ... ies . Von Kleck Ligon .. ae . Harshaw Ferrer ..... + Bai . Dougherty Meigs, M. oi. ici Rive ieae Snyder Meyer ...... ears 6 ow Shoemaker Substitutions: Ursinus: Mattis. for Claflin, Hogeland for’ Von Kleck, Schultz for Dougherty. Points: Bryn Mawr: Norris, 8; Squibb, 5; Ligon, 2. Total 15, Ur- sinus: Harshaw, 28; Von Kleck, 6; Claflin, 1 Referee: Mrs. Brown. Mrs. McKinnon; Umpire, Animal Neurosis Produced in Rats Continued from Page One symptoms reappeared immediately. When subjected to the test twice in the same day the convulsions were intensified the second time. This “no escape” situation was led up to by a process of training. The rat was set upon a perch such that if it knocked over one of two cards with its nose it could obtain food. One card was fixed and the other left free. A pattern discrimination. was soon learned between the markings on the two cards. The rat always chose the same card, in whichever ordey the —ttwo-were—placed: A second discPimination habit was induced to supplant this by a random arrangement of which card should be fixed.. The rat learned to. jump. in one direction consistently, assuming that this would ultimately prove suc- cessful. One rat jumped 200 times in a fixed direction, although without success. One persisted in a habit of direction discrimination, although the other card was already opened to the food. Rats thus trained are then present- |: ed to a single window. If the card is the pattern preference it may jump, but if, both direction and pattern dis- crimin&tions are negative, it refuses to move. Here is a “no solution” situation. It does not move until a blast of air forces it to. The first Phone, Bryn Mawr 252 We Deliver Charge accounts Vases of all kinds CONNELLY’S The Main Line Florists 1226 Langaster Avenue Rosemont-Bryn Mawr, Pa. economically and fas cal A HAPPY THOUGHT FOR THRIFTY COLLEGIANS nam SEND your weekly laundry home by handy Railway Express Right from your college rooms and return, conveniently, our local college agent when to come for the bundle, He'll call for it promptly—whisk it away on speedy express trains, to your City or town and return the home- done product to you—ail without extra charge—the whole year through. Rates for this famous college service are low,andyou can send. collect, youknow (only by Railway Express, by the way). It’s a very . popular method ahd adds'to the happy thought: Phone ouragent today. He’ $a good man téknow. : BRYN MAWR AVE. ‘BRANCH ~(R. R. AVE.) t, with no bother at all. Just phone ’Phone olay MAWR 440 oBRYN MAWR Lantern Elections - announcing the election of Anne Milliken, ’41, and Joan Gross, The Lantern takes pleasure in | ’42, to its editorial board. Sophomore Presents Play for Workshop ' BS b ‘ Continued from Page’ One When Jeremiah;* hearing of Isabel- - la’s imminent death, rushes to her bedside, Isabella: faints and is carried out by Dr. Ashburton, who. then mar- ries her. Jeremiah appears, begs for- giveness and asks Isabella to marry him. She refuses on the-grounds that |she does not want to be a bigamist twice.” The situatidn was fendi although conversation sometimes seemed stilted and. unnatural, even for the eighteenth century. Dr. Ashburton was as off- hand as any Princeton man in contrast to Isabella, who was coy in the ap- proved fashion and a “girl of spirit’’ as well. Peggy Schultz turned in a very good performance as one of the sweetly sympathetic’ and cousins who came daily to inquire for dear Isabella. A hilarious audience fully appreci-. ated the novelty of an unwed maiden claiming bigamy to get rid_of—a-fian- cée ahd to outwit a father who thought he knew best. B.. LB, rat shown in this situation did not become neurotic since it invented a different mode of escape, by jumping off. It was necessary to make the ani- mal face the problem without an alter- native of getting out of the field of repulsive forces, so the platform was enclosed. The rat was now in a thor- oughly negative situation. For a while it displayed passive resistance. Then all of a sudden it began to have convulsions. Approved Penna. 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NEW YORK'S MOST EXCLUSIVE HOTEL RESIDENCE FOR YOUNG WOMEN - ws eee a nm re a ai rt To the News: The problem of fire ‘drills is par- ticularly relevant just now by the current article on school fires in the Reader’s Digest. In Pembroke there has not been a maid’s fire drill since the.fall of 1987, At.that drill, no one etook attendance, there was no list of the maids in the hall that night, and the subject was dropped, The maids live at the top of the building, in the place of most danger. It is'a niatter of their own foresight if they know where the exits are, and how to ope¥= ate the extinguishers. Before Christ- mas this year, a drill scheduled for lunch tite “was ealied of TOF fear bf. panie among the majds, but nothing has been done to guard against this in case’ of real fire, It:is a question how well the. students could control themselves if. the maids became hys- terical. | vo ar panes As students, we spend a large part of our time in Taylor, The corridors and stairs’ are: particularly narrow, the fire escapes long, and slow to get down without practice. There hag been no fire drill-in Taylor this year, There, was nonglagt year erakhe. two years before that, which means that no undergraduate on campus has the faintest idea of how to get out.of. the building, unless she has found out for herself. There is no provision for any sort of roll-call, ox system. of runners to make sure the building is empty, If-there.are adequate fire. ex- tinguishers, as there must be for in- surance purposes, I am sure the girls neither know how to use them, or ‘where to find the nearest one, The reading room in the. library is another possble fire trap. The one stairway is wooden, built ‘over the junction of three drafts, and would collapse leaving no exit from the read- ing room, if the door on the south end is locked. It seems to.me that door should always be open, and some spe- cial protection should be provided for the-main-stairway. — It seems to me that the student fire committee should be efficiently checked on by some informed and responsible part of the college.administration. It is not a matter for self-government alone; but concerns every angle of the college as a whole. If, in a bad fire, lives were lost on campus, the ex- isting negligence would be to blame, and ‘the heavy responsibility of fire precaution should not rest on the shoulders of only a few girls. We have had a fire on campus once in each of the last ten years; it is no remote possibility. Considering that the college is larger than most secondary schools, its »uildings more subject to a serious fire, the relative state of fire prevention on the campus is a menace, and a disgrace. It could be remedied by- prompt and energetic action, and I am sure we would rather co-operate before than after a disaster. Very sincerely, ‘Marrua C, Kan. ~ PUBLIC OPINION 4 lawe ‘Jud ge Allen Discusses _ Wear Power of Congress Continued from Page One powers without the consent of Con- gress more for the purpose of impos- ing a strong country’s will upon a weaker one than for the legitimate ne- cessity of pratecting a nation’s citi- zens on foreign soil and on the high seas. This socalled ‘Dollar . Diplo- macy” arising out of a misconception of the Monroe Doctrine has been the chief reason for the antagonism to the United States in South America. _In the Good Neighbor Policy, begun fir y President Hoover and _ Sec- ary Stimson, but carried much fur- the President Roosevelt and Sec- retary Hull, the Monroe Doctrine has at last been f#estated on its original basis, This doctrine protests against further colonization over here by Europe, enforcement of foreign sys- tems on American governments and} any other infringement on the inde- pendence of states in the western hemisphere. . Thus the recent Pan-American Con= gress and the two resulting treaties recognize that the independent integ- rity of all the states of the western hemisphere is of the utmost impor- tance to international law, As yet the latter is non-existent but before ‘eourts and police can be formed, Judge Allen insists, the standards must be, written. At Geneva the mistake was made of creating the machinery first. The United States still is, Judge Allen’ pointed out, the only important country in which the establishment ‘and maintenance of peace is the privi- lege and obligation of the people. vention, this Congressional power has done much towards preventing our executives from taking drastic action in various instances such as the wished for Mexican intervention, during the conflict under Coolidge over the rights of property. Congress demanded an investigation and learned that the Mexican customs were justified by the old Spanish Yet, through the misconception of the Monroe Doctrine, the sole power of the people to declare war was less- ened. As two, examples of this Judge Allen pointed to Theodore Roosevelt’s action in encouraging Panama’s re- bdellion from Colombia in order to gain the Panama Canal and Hugh Wilson’s, the American ambassador, instigation or at least public approval. of the Mexican rebellion to get rid of ‘an undesired president. Besides these cases our intervention Despite the misuse of armed inter-}| Instead of intervention|} CONTESTS FOR. PLAYS AND. PICTURES OPEN has offered two prizes for the first and second best one-act plays on one or more aspects of civil liberties in the United States. The first prize will be 750 dollars and the second, 250 dol- lars. Among the subjects suggested are defense ‘of freedom of speech, censor- ship of films, literature, and radio, religious liberty, and the right of the unemployed to organize. Plays: must not be shorter than 20 minutes play- ing time or longer than an hour. The judges will be Brooks Atkinson, Sidney Howard, William Kozlenko, Archibald MacLeish, and We Rice. Manuscripts, typed and actompanied by return postage, should be addressed to the American Civil Liberties Union Play Contest, c/o The One Act Play Magazine, 112 West 42 Street, New York, N. Y., and postmarked no later than April 80, 1939. The Collegiate Camera Annual has also announced a photographie com- petition open to any American college student’ or faculty member. The prints, which may be on any subject, must be sent postpaid to the Collegia- ate Camera Annual, Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois. The best pictures will be published by the Annual, and judged by its subscribers. The winner is to receive a free tour to Alaska in the summer of 1940. For ,further information, write to the Annual, Speaker on “Radio” Frank A. Arnold, Vice-Presi- an, Gent in Charge of Radio of the Edwin Bird Wilson Advertising ies apy will speak on Op- portunities for Women in Radio on Monday, February 27, at five o’clock, in the Common Room. Tea will be served at 4.45. All those interested are urged to come. us and, Judge Allen said, there. is still a long road to go before the interna- tional law, the elements~of-whieh-ean be seen in the Pan-American Congress, can be written. Yet Judge Allen be- lieves that we may be able “to show a misguided ‘Europe that victories of peace are far greater than victories of war.” in Nicaragua, Santo Domingo and Haiti were also against the principles of the people’s rights and the Monroe Doctrine as it is now extended. Our past policy naturally colors unfavor- ably South America’s attitude toward E. Foster Hammonds, Inc. : Radios -- Music 4 Records WE MAKE RECORDS 829 Lancaster Ave. Bryn Mawr @ That's whe distance rates s THE * BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY OF. PENNSYLVANIA n most long are reduced: «¢ - @ The American Civil Liberties Union|’ (_ Paes Hearts Throb as Saxophones Blare From Four Points of the Campus Unprecedented gaiety besieged the campus last week-end with four ‘hall’ dances scheduled in Rockefeller, Mer- ion, Renbigh, and the Common Room (for graduate students). Blares of music disturbed the peace of a Satur- day night in Bryn Mawr until one A, M. The Cinderellas in Rhoads and the Pembrokes gazed at the festivities through the windows and went quietly home to bed at 10.30 with somewhat envious feelings, The non-resident dance on the pre- vious Saturday. night was an impor- tant preliminary. for the gala week- end. It was also held in the Common Room, and the orchestra was so good that members of Denbigh promptly engaged it for their “shindig.” This was the first non-resident dance in the history of the college, and was a good omen for the success of future ones. Some of the resident students attended by invitation. Mr. and Mrs. Watson seemed ‘to be the popular chaperones of the evening. They attended -three of the’ halls, Rockefeller, Merion and Denbigh. We feel deeply for them and for the strenuous evening they must have spent between dancing and rep trips across the campus. However, your reporter spied on them when they were on one of their flying trips to Rockefeller, and our esteemed ge- ologist and wife were obviously hav- ing a good time. Merion was the scene of several attempts at “crashing” by some Hav- erford lads, and even some lassies Hymns The Religious Committee of the Bryn Mawr League wishes to announce that it is placing a box in the Music Room where anyone may put by Thursday ~ the number of a. hymn to be sung at the next Sunday serv- ice. One popular hymn a Sun- day will be ‘sung. t P, Successor to ALBRECHT’S FLOWERS ARDMORE, PA. 12 Lancaster Avenue Tel. Ard. 2850 from other parts of the college. Their efforts were firmly repelled, however, by locked doors and no attention from within. One of the features of the evening was-a-dance with balloons, in which the participants tried to save their balloons from an avenging pin in the hand of Jerry True. Denbigh also had balloons, but hung from the ceiling. The dining room looked gay and the dance proceeded at a fast pace, with much cutting according to our female stag system. The Nahms and Mr. Steele were among those present. Rockefeller carried out the Wash- ington’s Birthday motif in its dining room, and the results were striking. Mrs. Washington, in cotton batting, presided sedately at one end of the room, but whité streamers and bells, hung from the ceiling, proved slightly reminiscent of a wedding celebration. We’ve never seen such an attractive h}group of males at a college dance as we saw through the windows of the dining room that night. A buffet sup- per was served beforehand, and the music stopped at 12 o'clock, so ‘every- one could go out and have more to eat. The graduate students were above any sort of decoration, and used the Common Room in its own ~ guise. The week-end was. considered gener- ally to be unusually successful. Rhoads and the Pembrokes are now planning their dances for the late spring. R. C. M. 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