- 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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