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. Student Industrial

Group Holds Meeting

Economic -System Held* to Be
Suffering From Three
Major Faults.:



YEAR’S PROGRAM STATED
(Spectally contributed .by
V’. Butterworth, °32)

The Student Industrial group, con-



sisting of Bryn Mawr students and

factory girls from the Germantown
¥W.--Ge A;

monthly® meetings. dn Wednesday,
tober 14.

held the first of their
Oc-
The program outlined for
Winifred

Anna Kutcher,

by
199

Jé,

this year
McCully,
alumna

the chairmen,

and an

of the Bryn Mawr Summer

School, is to be a study of the world’s
condition today and: possible ways of

improving it, as seen from different

viewpoints. “The spéaker at this meet-

ing was. Andrew Biemiller, formerly
of the Department of Economics at
the University of Pennsylvania, now

secretary ‘of the Philadelphia branch

‘of the League for Industrial Democ+

racy and a candidate for city office
on the ‘Socialist ticket.

Mr. Bieniller outlined “three major
faults in Our economic system. First,
the maldistribution of wealth and: in-
come, Forty-three per cent. of the
income —of...this..country..goes..to_the
property owners, and only fifty-seven
per cent. to the workers. Our aver-
age wage is $24.50 a week, ranging
between the printer’s forty-four dollars

“at the very “top and the three dollars of
_the Southern

textile worker and
three dollars and

the

two dollars, four

__dollars of the non-union. Pennsylvania

hosiery mill. On the other hand there
are five hundred and four people in the
country who have incomes. of
than four million a year. According

more

to Secretary Mellon three hundred and .

eighty thousand persons pay ninety-
seven per cent. of our income tax.
The -result_-of.-this--maldistribution
that the vast majority of us are too
poor to buy back the products we our-
selves have made. This is Marx’s
famous “contradiction of capitalism.”
One of its worst manifestations is the
number of people it leaves unemployed
—one million even in 1917-18, accord-
ing to a report edited in 1922 by Sec-
retary of Commerce Hoover.

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Competition, in conjunction with our.

unfortunate distribution of wealth, in-
evitably brings about recurrent depres-
sions. The one we have now brought
on -ourselves is the worst the world
has ever seen, and with the most far-
reaching results—the possibility of
revolution in England and Germany,
and the withdrawal of money from this
country by French investors to whom
a revolution here seemed credible.
Maldistribution of wealth means that
control also is centered in a few hands.
Last spring Senator Borah made the
statement that four per cent. of the
people of the United States own eighty
per cent. of its. wealth, and the re-
maining ninety-six per: cent. own
twenty per cent. According to a recent
study by Gardner Means, of Columbia,
two hundred corporations control sixty
per cent..of the nation’s business, and
those corporations are in thé control
of one thousand men. “This means
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Uncle Joe Grundy is head of the Re-
publican machine in Pennsylvania but
his chief henchman in the State. legis-
lature is Flynn, a Democrat——for
Grundy can buy out either party.

The third count against our present

system is its bad moral effect. We
measure success in money. This is
driven through our~ school system

where children are occa to be thrifty
and follow in the footsteps of Morgan,
Carnegie, Ford and Rockefeller, with-
out hearing how, for example, Rocke-
feller’s agents at his orders dyna-
mited competitors’ pipe-lines, or how
the elder Morgan founded his fortune
by buying a large quantity of «rifles
from the Government at $7.50 in 1860
and selling them back to the Govern-
ment for $22.50 in- 1861. . Teachers
more than the members of any other
trade are forced to sell their souls and
say they approve of things as they are.
As an instance of’ the working ,of our
system in this respect, Mr.- Biemiller
quoted this remark by a trustee of
Ohio- University, in reference to the
recent discharge of Professor Miller,
the sociologist: “In a State univer-
sity the taxpayers (i. a few rich
men behind ‘the party machine) ‘hire
the teachers—so they say what they
can teach!”

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Cambridge Rector Speaks
at Sunday Chapel Service



(Tryout specially contributed for ‘the
NEws competitton. )

The subject of the sermon given by
the Reverend Leslie Glenn in: the eve-
October 18,
was not previously announced,
Mr. ¢

Church in Cambridge,

ning service of .Sunday,
nor. did
Glent® who is Rector of Christ
Massachusetts,
announce. his text as he commenced.

He

with

spoke quite informally, starting

the story of Marco Polo’s ap-

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pearance in the court of Kubla Khan,

as a modern author tells it. The ex-
plorer was describing the life of
Christ, but when he had finished tell-
ing how the Messiah reappeared to
only a few faithful friends in an upper
room, he found his ‘story politely re-
ceived but with pity and contempt.
This, said Mr. Glenn, is just what
was meant by the Resurrection—the
“strengthening of a few” ‘in the face
mocking of the many. The
world has been amazingly polite in
listening to the story, and not accept-
ing it; it is left to a minority to have
the firmness of faith: Then he went

° e,
|on to quote from the Jesuit writer. of

old who said that “There are two kinds

of life,” pointing out that—-even— the
most pagan acknowledged another ex-
istence over and above mere eating

and breathing. | As illustration, he told

of a friend of his who was once called.

to a house where there was a case of

attempted suicide. And at the door,
one of the ambulance orderlies spoke
to the minister and said, “Where I
leave off, you begin.”

In this connéction also, Mr. Glenn
applied his generation’s experiences in
the War. Those men found a pur-
pose, he said, that was outside any
personal ambition; they were working
for something bigger than themselves.
They didn’t belong to themselves any
more, and the sensation was~-unique.
“Existence becomes living when we
catch hold of something that is bigger
than ourselves.” The power of God

is felt in such moments as this, of
when people are. divinely happy, as
when they are in great. sérrow. Even

a cynical person feels, it from time to
time, for human beings were made to
hope, were made to believe. And then
the quotation, “Fear not, only believe,”
as the last note to the sermon.

The although sincere was
not. in any. didactic or even reforma-

sermon



tive spirit.. The Rector spoke of more



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ed

Curriculum Committee.
‘Has Been Reorganized
Continued from Page One
bers of the committee in their hall or
in their major course.
This cominittee was. reorganized last
year because there was a feeling that
it could not keep in touch with student

opinion, constituted as it was. The

members of the new committee will

make every effort to keep the student
body posted on its activities by articles
in the News-as well as by talking. to
people. It only remains for students to
keep the committee informed of their
ideas and “complaints. Please look up
the committee members in your hall
(there are at least. two in’ each’ hall)
and give them your suggestions.
Harritt Moore, Chairman,



attitudes than one in life, but always
with great understanding, The pres-
ence of a spiritual life he emphasized,
but without specifying it; and only
once mentioned the presence of. God.
A sick man, he said, once advised a
friend never to let go_ his of
humor, for “God' who is perfect in all
things 8 also perfect in humor.”

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