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Copyright, 1922, oy Tue Cottece News

No. 12. °

bi VIII.

BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDA¥, JANUARY 18, 1922





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MISS HAINES TELLS OF
FAMINE STRICKEN RUSSIA

of the
Starving Peasants of -the — -
Volga Valley

LANTERN SLIDES ARE SHOWN
OS gees

More than 10,000,000 Russians are con-

demned to death by starvation during this

winter unless relief is brought, and 30,000,-



-000'in all will be seriously. affected by..the

famine condition, aceording to Miss Anna
J. Haines, ’07, who: spoke last Friday eve-
ning in Taylor Hall under the joint aus-
pices of the Christian Association and the
Liberal Club: Under the American Friends
Social Service Committee Miss Haines has
been a volunteer worker in Russia since
1917,

Many of the Russians with whom Miss
Haines. spoke alluded with a grim fatalism
to the fact that by spring they would not
be alive. “This month we eat sunflower
seed,”. said one village priest she ques-
tioned. “Next month we eat the grass pan-
cakes. In November we will. use up the
last of the reserve supply, and in December
people will begin to die. In March there
won't be afhy people left in the village at
all.” Parents are deserting their children,
says Miss Haines, feeling that the state and
other’ relief agencies gvill care for the child
if no parents are visible.

Made a member of the Educational Com-

mission sent out by the Health Department

of the government to investigate condi-
tions, @Mliss Haines had the opportunity to
obtain statistics and any other accurate in-
formation she desired from the village and
towh officials. Moreover, her knowledge
of Russian, gained during several years of

. work among them, enabled her to converse
_ with the Russian priests, towns-people and

villagers.

The country people are feeling the famine
most severely, according to Miss Haines.
Along the railroad it is often possible to

-buy grain in small quantities, but this is

inaccessible to all but the richest farmers,
not only because of-the exorbitant prices
charged for it, but because the horses,
which would convey them to thé railroad,
have nearly all died of starvation. Between
March and September 2100 horses died in

orfe village alone. All along the roads and.

especially on the hills there are bodies of
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BRAHMS’ HORN TRIO. PLAYED
AT THIRD “MUSICAL RECITAL

—_——

Characterized as Master of
Simplicity, Tenderness and Beauty

The Horn Trio of piano, violin and horn



“@Brahms’ Op. 40, was the subject of the

lecture recital in Taylor Hall last Monday
night. ;

Mr. Surette, director of the Department
of Music, began the recital by a short his-
tory of Brahms and his work. “Brahms,”

he said, “came at the time of a new type,

of expression in music—that of romanticism
—which in music-as well as literature is dis-
tinguished for its beauty and fancy, but
which in music is more detached from the
actualities of life. And at times the music
of the romantic period becomes even. too

fantastic and lacks that, quality which is/|}
’ necessary to all really great music—that is
- form and architecture grounded in com-
-mon-feeling and laws. Romantic music, ¢ at

the time of Brahms, was becoming, then,
too personal, too intimate, and was losing

ECONOMIC CONFERENCE

OF NATIONS DISCUSSED

Mrs. SmitlrTells Need of Distributing
| Essential Raw. Materials.

s = (Reported From-a nia Chopal Address )



Unless the question of the distribution of
the world’s essential rdw materials can Be
satisfactorily settled the other work of the
conference will be useless, and some such
settlement must form the foundation for
any association of nations that is to last.
At the conference of Genoa the three »prob-

lerfiS that ‘came up.in this respect were (1)

reduction. of German indemnity, (2) can-
cellation inter-allied debt, €3) exchange
without ruinous rates,

As to the first, the definite sum decided
in 1921 of Gérmany’s debt to the world-was
$36,200,000,000 ; the supplies of the Army of
Oceupation. have now credited her with
$500,000,000:" —The Reparation’ Committee
demanded $3,000,000,000 the first of last
summer and $9,000,000,000 the first of last
November, neither of which Germany could
pay.

As far as the inter-allied debt goes, Eng-
gland could pay her share and France, by



enormous sacrifices, could pay England and:

the United States. But Italy, the Balkans
and Russia canfiot possibly pay. There is
the possibility of remitting these debts, but
this seems * only” practical if they can be
made in some way gtlarantees against
future wars,

In the same way the reduction of rates
of exchange might be used as a pressure
to reduce armaments. And that these rates
must be reduced is shown in the fact that
where five lira were formerly worth a
doflar, twenty of them are necessary now;
200: marks are-worth- only what four marks
were before the war, ‘and it takes 200,000
rubles to take the place of two at their pre-
war value. Before anything can be done
to remedy these ills, Russia must be rec-
ognized as a commercial partner for raw
material, and Germany for industrial or-
ganization. - France is the nation most
opposed to this, as she holds many old
Russian bonds, and as she wants to. see her
old ‘enemy. Germany perpetually crushed.
Only so can a redistribution of the raw ma-
terials ecessary. for “industry be accom-
plished. Ohi, coal, iron, cotton and rubber
are raw materials of the first importance;
wool, copper, nitrate and potash of second-'
ary importance. The United States, China
and Russia have all of these but rubber; the
British Empire has all; the United States
has 70 per cent. of the world’s oil and 75
per cent. of the world’s cotton; Great Brit-
ain has 50 per cent. of the world’s wool
and 90 per cent. of the rubber. In some

way these materials must be divided! Four

plans have been proposed, an Allied Pur-
chasing Committee served during the war,
but was given up at the close: a permanent
international | board was suggested at the

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'| PRESIDENT THOMAS HEADS

WILSON FOUNDATION HERE

Plan Million ‘Dollar Fund -in Honor
: of the. Former President



President .M. Carey Thomas’ is to head
the committee at Bryn Mawr College to
assist. in raising a fund of a $1,000,900 or
more to be known as the Woodrow. Wil-:
son Foundation; according to an announce- |;
ment made by Professor Stephen P. Dug-
gan, of the Coplege of the City of New
York, chairman of the Educational Com-
mittee of the Foundation. Working with
President Thomas will be professors, in-
structors, and students, organized as a com-
milttee, giving to members of the College
fn opportunity to become founders of the
endowment from which annual awards will
be provided each year for meritorious
service to democracy, public welfare, libera!
thought, or peace through justice.

The Committee is about equally divided
between Democrats and Republicans, and
includes those who voted for and against
Mr. Wilson. They are serving on the Com-
mittee, Dr. Duggan said, “because of their
adhesion to Mr. Wilson’s ideals of human
freedom and international co-operation and
will work in a wholly. non-partisan spirit

‘to secure support among teachers and stu-

dents in colleges and universities for the
purposes of the Foundation, confident that
the appeal will be particularly acceptable to
that constituency.” ©

In replying to a News reporter about the
Committee, President Thomas called atten-
tion to the fact that Mr. Wilson began his
career Of teaching at Bryn Mawr in 1885,
when he organized the Department of
History. He was professor here for years,

In outlining the plans for the co-opera-
tion of the» Educational Committee~in-the
campaign, Dr. Duggan said: “A movement
in favor of exalting the work. of Mr, Wil-
son will appeal particularly to teachers and
educators. generally. Mr. Wilson was a
teacher almost up*to the time that he be-
came president, and he did not stop his
teaching even then. I think even his bitter
enemies will adntit «hat his explanation of
the ideals of the Allies during the war was
probably more potent than any other influ-|.
énce in keeping up the morale of the fight-
ing allied people during the war. ~

“The Educational Committee that has
been formed is working at the present time
in every college of the country wi com-
mittees of professors and students who will
seek, among college men and women,

founders of this endowment to ‘reward

meritorious service to democracy, public
welfare, liberal thought or peace through
justice.

“The kind of thing that the Foundation
will do is the kind of thing that will make
an appeal to these people. @#t does not ex-
pect to erect a monument of stone or
brass, that can be felt or seen, for, after

all, the things that are tangible and visible

are sometimes ephemeral, and the things
that are spiritual are eternal.”



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Text of the Bryn Mawr Resolutions
Resolved, that the conference does not adjourn until it has severally dis-
Cusssed and acted upon the following Questions:

. qd) Shantung, (2) Manchuria, (3) Siberia; and that the twenty-one ihe:
mands, as a possible cause of war, be also discussed. ,

Resolved, that the proposed econorffic conference of all nations shall ‘faclade
Germany and Russia, and that it shall consider not only the question of debt, but
also of the distribution of the world’s essential raw materials.

__ Resolved, that the 5-5-3 ratio be applied- to euxiliary and naval ant. and
ii] that * submarines ‘and the usé 6f poison gas be abolished, 3 o

_ Resowed; that the United States join the League of Natiosis.









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CHINA IS MOST CRUCIAL
PROBLEM OF CONFERENCE

Mrs. Smith. Outlines Action up’ to
Present Shantung Deadlock
* for Liberal Club iy”

RESOLUTIONS "ARE DRAFTED _

Impelled by interest “in the seciibaibiiae
issues facing the Washington Conference,
about thiry studénts attended an open

meeting of the Liberal Club, héld in Den-"

bigh: Hall, last Sunday, for the purpose
of suggesting resolutions to be voted ‘upon
by the College tomorrow. . _ These resolu-
tions, together with like expressions ‘of

student-opinion. from colleges ‘all over the :

country, are to be presented to President
Harding on February 1 by officers .6f the
Students’ Committee for the
Limitation of Armaments.

Before the business of framing the reso-
lutions was brought up, Mrs. William
Smith, professor of economics, gave a
detailed account of all the action that has
been taken by the Conference, reported

from full sessions committees, and private -

conversations, regarding the difficult ques-
tion of the Far East. A summary of: Mrs.
Smith’s account is as follows:

Two great questions confronted the

, Conference’ at its opening... The first group,
| with which it ha$ mainly dealt, had to do

with methods of disarmament and the limi-
tation of armaments. The second group
comprised the intricate Far Eastern prob-
lems, which, as causes of war, were in
reality the most important issues. These
questions were not taken up in full sessions
of the Conference, however, but carried on
by the Committee on the Far East, to which
they ‘were referred on the first day of the
Conference. ~~

On November 16 Japan brought forward
thirteen points tipon which she proposed
to base a discussion of the Chinese question.

In these Japan pledged support by all
pacific means of independence and integrity
of China, and the privilege of the open
door; avowed that she desired ‘neither a
protectorate over Manchuria, nor annexa-
tion, but recognition of her’ special rights
in that province.
self. to withdrawal. from. Kiow--Chow;~and
asked for “peaceful penetration in Siberia,”
agreeing to withdraw her troops as soon
as there is a stable government capable of

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SOPHOMORES GIVE THE MOST
BRILLIANT DANCE ON RECORD

Imitation Snow Scene Set Off by

Brilliant Colored Costumes

In a gymnasium which infinite care had
turned into a v
Sophomores received the Freshmen at an
ice carnival last turday night.

The dance was one of the most spec-
tacular ever given in College. The high



ceiling ‘of fhe gymnasium was completely.
|covered by orange
||| through yellow and cross-woven from —
| the

streamers shading
ning gallery. Cr paper icicles
drippe the walls and balloons floated.
everywhere. e guests of honor were
dressed in shad s of orange ranging from
the most brilliant flame to the palest yel-
low and represented characters from brazen
D. C. A.’s,“to mere infants with rag dolls.





| The hostesses and upper-classmen invited —
| wore white and silver.

Supper was served in the adjoining room
during tHe dancing, which lasted until 10



o'clock. -

She also committed her- ~

itable- palace of ice the .

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