Page ‘Four ‘THE COLLEGE NEWS .; \ — Miss Lake Criticizes - Midwinter Lantern Continued from Page One pedantic, a “round lozenge” is a con- tradiction in terms. The secret of the modern writers on whom Miss Kirk has apparently modelled her work is not the substitution of an uncommon synonym for a common word, but the sharper definition of ‘perception by an4 increased accuracy of vocabulary. At the risk of being misunderstood, I must ‘say that I think it was a mis- take to include in the Lantern the items which were reprinted from the Summer School magazine. The Edi- tors should beware of the very common mistake of allowing their social con- science to influence their literary judg- ment. A Day at Libby-Owens-Ford and A Calart Day are interesting sociological documents; but from a purely technical point of view they are poorly written, and it seems to me un- fair to the Summer School writers to have invited odious comparison by put- ting them between two poems by Miss Corner. I appreciate the Editors’ in- tention but I fear that they have de- feated it by their lack of judgment. There are better ways than this of rousing people’s interest in the Sum- mer School. — Miss Corner has" again given the subscribers to the Lantern the rare pleasure of reading a new piece of genuine poetry. She has already a mastery of word and phrase which lifts her above the level of mere verse. Her poems, expressing thought as well as emotion, repay, indeed demand, sev- eral readings if we are to grasp their full meaning; buf she makes. things easier for us by the “intended crafts- manship” with which she chooses her words and the simplicity with which she constructs her poems. I suspect that the real reason for her excellence is that she knows exactly* what she is trying to say and is not struggling with a half-formed idea. Epistle is probably the best of the three in this issue, although personally I should have liked it even better if the last section had been kept. as a separate piece. It introduces a less abstract element which Is something of an anti- climax. The last poem, which the edi- tors have seen fit: to deny the dignity of ‘a title, shows her ability to handle rhythm. * My only criticism of her work is that she uses too much punctuation, betraying an unjustified lack of self- confidence. The better the writing, the less punctuation it needs. The Editors seem to me to be keep- ing the Lantern up-to the high stand- ards of their immediate predecessors. It is a pleasure to review work to which one can pay the compliment of real criticism. City:School Children Investigated by, A. S. U, Continued from Page One “ which will be in January, 1939. The situation is complicated by an- other law forcing. children to attend school until they are 18 years old. Yett State aid, which should be about 10 million dollars, amounts to.only two and a half million. In Los Angeles 45° per cent school funds are provided by the State, an example which tirges A. S. U. mem- bers to appeal for 57 million dollars for education, throughout the State, of which eight to ten million will be for Philadelphia. A loan of 250,000 dol- lars has kept open playgrounds and evening schools, but conditions within the schools are bad, involving unsani- tary roonis, forfeited teaching posts and the. closing of mary normal “schools.” “Although the State ‘insists that it carinot levy further taxes be- cause of the alarming exodus of bus- *” iness from Pennsylvania, the A. S. U. urges some taxes.and perhaps some Federal aid, justifying their request by the fact that other businesses, such as petroleum, are moving into .Penn- ~~sylvania. - Members of the A. S. U. are now _ — For the UTMOST in “SHIP and MATERIAL othe! *| anxious to begin educating the pupils themselves and their parents so that they can cooperate. A program has been recommended to individual mem- bers of the Board of Education, in- cluding Mr. Biddle, Mrs. Lewis, Mr. Walter Biddle’ Saul and Mr. Louis Nusbaum, to whom it was also sug- gested that they either borrow money themselves or suggest other possible sources for additional funds. The Thursday. afternoon meeting at the College will define the A. S. U.’s proposed program in more concrete terms, and an outside speaker has been asked to speak at that time. The A. S. U. is now trying to become affil- iated with the Citizens’ Emergency Committee on Education, and with the American Federation of Teachers” in the plan they have outlined. Eleanor Fabyan Gives Experiences in China Continued from Page One wild after capturing the city, or that retiring Chinese troops might cause looting or street fighting. The lack of tension in the atmos- phere, Miss Fabyan said, was best illustrated by the attitude of the United States Marines, when they ‘were-ordered to put up tents for thé American refugees. “We’ve been here since 1900, ” was the general response, “and this is the first thing we’ve been able to do.” Miss Fabyan was not compelled to live in a tent, because she received permission to stay.at the house of.a-friend living within the quarter. Little incidents in the set- tlement caused excitement almost every day. An example of this was when six Marines defended the Amer- ican Water Gate from a Japanese battalion which was probably only curious and not at all conscious of trespassing. The capture of the city was directed by Colonel Matsui, who lived in the house next to the one at which Miss Fabyan stayed. The pres- ence of Japanese. as well as other foreigners in the international settle- ments of large Chinese’ cities, espe- many complicated situations through- out the war, since the Japanese al- most always directed the attack from the settlements. Colonel Matsui’s house was always guarded by heavily armed troops on the grounds and on the roof. Across the street was the Japanese-owned ex-Austrian legation where camped Peiping’s 300 Korean citizens, many of whom had been maintained in the Chinese. city by the Japanese to do espionage work and drug trading. ’ At the beginning of the war, the attitude of the Japanese to the for- eigners was “we are protecting you from the. Boxer hordes.” They seized on any incident which could be interpreted to show that the Chinese were the real enemieg-of the coves. ans -and Americans, An example cited by Miss Fabyan was the incident of the accidental shooting of an American Marine by a Chinese, caus- ing only a minor wound. The Japan- ese soldiers killed the Chinese, and then sent a delegation to the American Embassy to explain that they were protecting the Americans. Later the Japanese attitude toward foreigners changed sharply, and pamphlets keep “Asia for the Asiatics” a promising that the Japanese would rid China of the “yellow-haired, green- eyed foreign devils.” of Peiping by the Japanes¢ occurred —j » RICHARD STOCKTON Bryn Mawr GIFTS Sporting Books and Prints oY ASignificant paper. cially Peiping and Shanghai, created’ started dropping out of the skies, ex-|. horting the conquered Chinese to nee 3 Fighting previous to the occupation | | Birth Mr. and Mrs. Karl Anderson have announced the birth of a daughter, Jane Louise, on Sun- day, February 6. mainly outside one of the southern gates. Most of the casualties were on the Chinese side, and could have been avoided if the army had not futilely ‘resisted the attack. General Sung Cheh-yuan was. responsible for the misunderstanding which led to this mistake, because he made up his mind to retreat so suddenly that he had left the city before most of his soldiers knew it. Peiping and North China in general was at first inclined to blame the Nanking government for lack of support. There is much the same feeling of distrust in China between the agrarian North and the industrial South as there is in this country, for example, between the agrarian West land the industrial East, Miss Fabyan feels, however, that facts have proved cooperation between the Nanking gov- ernment and Northern cities was im- practicable for two reasons: Nanking the Northern provinces completely, and Sung Cheh-yuan had previously not been backed up by Nanking in his 1933, and so did not believe in their promises of support. Thus, the gov- ernment had to ask the permission of Sung before it could send additional troops, and Sung declined its help. Newspapers were almost completely stifled as soon as the Japanese were in’ control of the city, and the foreigners came to depend on the British-owned Peiping Chronicle, previously an in- Even this was finally forced to stop printing non- partisan news, and taken over by a foreigner sympathies. Every hospital in Peip- ing was commandeered by the Chinese during the fighting for the wounded, and there was a serious lack of sup- plies. The Japanese army stopped welfare work by the Chinese, and for- eigners in the international settle- ment began to make bandages, pa- jamas, sheets, and blankets. After about six weeks the hospitals were well supplied. The argument of. the Japanese in forbidding the Chinese to help their own wounded was that they should be so grateful to the benevolent conquerers in freeing them from the dominance of the southern government that they should be will- ing to let the rebels die. With every city the Japanese took, they forced official rejoicing by the citizens of Peiping. First they sent up a balloon with streamers proclaiming the tri- umph of the great conquerers, then they~erected triumphal arches, and forced the Chinese to carry banners in long victory parades. ~The people would turn out at the point ofthe bayonet, and march down the city? streets, some with tears streaming down their faces. Although the fighting in Peiping was not serious, Miss Fabyan said, everyone knows that conditions in Shanghai were very bad.’ She was ture, but she said one of the,,most disheartening things she saw- in Cxine was the ruins, of the once beautifully equipped Nankai University there. Before giving her experiences dur- _ Yale University School of Nursing A Profession for the College Woman The thirty-two months’ course, pro- viding an intensive and basic ex- perience in the various branches of nursing, leads to the degree of Master of Nursing. 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Since the Tangku: Truce in May, 1988, a strip of territory in North China has been the basis for continued Japanese aggression in China.. The Tangku Truce provided for a “demilitarized zone” in eastern Hopei. . In December, 1935, Japan de- clared the Anti-Communistic? Au- tonomy Government of East Hopei under Yin Jukeng, a Japanese puppet. Anti-Japanese feeling grew increas- ingly strong in-Northern and Western China‘in animosity to the compromis- ing attitude of the Nanking govern- ment. Rebellion against this attitude was summarized in the Sian incident of 1936 when the Tung-pei army sent out against the Chinese red army re-|- volted, causing the “kidnapping” ‘or forcible detention of Chiang-Kai-shek. This episode prevented the continu- ance of the ruinous civil war which had been waged for 10 years and changed the Generalissmo’s attitude and policy toward Japan. At the present mo- ment, Miss Fabyan féels, China is quite unified against the aggressor. There is a possibility that the war, which threatens to be long and drawn out, will exhaust Japan. Japan is real wealth of China comes from the interior, and she sees that she will have to penetrate into the center of the country. Miss Fabyan feels strongly the moral responsibility of the democratic Western nations to op- pose the imperialistic policy of Japan. She is convinced that England and the United States could not easily Mrs. Kimbrough Wrench Speaks on ‘Publicity” Stresses Wide Opportunities for Women im This Field Common Room, February 7.—Mrs. Kimbrough Wrench, speaking on Publicity at a tea»given by the’ Vo-’ cational. Guidance Committee, empha- sized the wide opportunities for women in thts field. Almost all pro- ‘|ducts, even automobiles, are now ad- vertised primarily to attract women buyers. Therefore, women are par- ticularly valuable in “styling, ” and as a rule, Mrs. Wrench believess they are better at the publicity business than men. The field is as vet uncrowded. “Secretarial and journalistic train- ing is not necessary to enable one to get into advertising,” said Mrs. Wrench, though she admitted that many disagreed with her on this point. She: believes that a good college edu- cation should be’ quite adequate. “Also, those who take writing and sec- retarial courses are apt to be fixed permanently in these particular jobs and never get into publicity work at all. She advocated department-store work as the best starting point. From a beginning as a selling clerk, one may work into the advertising end. Department'sstore , publicity affords an excellent varied training, and may be a stepping stone to a higher paid advertising job in some special field. from~their naval bases,‘ but that they should exert other political and economic pressure against her. Note: Since 1927,-on the insistence of the Nanking Government, the-n: of Peking (“Northern Capital”) was changed ‘to Peiping (“Northern Peace”). 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