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Bryn Mawr Students
Endorse Youth Act

Anmlie Bill Designed to Ensure
“Maintenance arjd Increase ~
of N. Y. A. Posts



54 HOLD CAMPUS JOBS



On March 21 five undergraduates
and two graduate students from Bryn
Mawr went to Washington to add
their endorsement of the Amlie Amer-
ican Youth Act to that of some thous-
and other students from colleges and
high schools in the eastern area. The
bill, if passed, would provide a pro-
gram for the maintenance. and in-
crease of aid given to students during
the past year under the National
Youth Administration. The Adminis-
E: tration, which expires in June, has
Hy provided’ jobs paying normal wages
x for the work done in both public and
private educational institutions
4 throughout-the country. In some cases
these jobs have been the sole condition
t. n which the students have secured an
. cation; in others, as at Bryn

Mawr, they have helped students al-

ready in college to continue their
ze. work there. ‘
¥ On the Bryn Mawr Campus ap-
proximately 54 such jobs are being
a held. There has beeti some fluctua-
tion in the numbers working as a re-
sult of withdrawals from college and
inability to carry on additional work,
but at the present time 23 graduate
students and 31 undergraduates draw
regular pay checks under the provi-
sions of the Administration.

The work* done ranges from the
“Care of Swiss Mice with Tumors” to
operation of the switchboard when the
regular operators are off duty. Three
undergraduates work in the Library.
Two have been employed in the Alum-
nae Office arranging an occupational
file from information obtained in a
card. questionnaire sent to every grad-
uate of the college. The piano play-
% ing for regular folk dancing and spe-
q cial May Day rehearsals is an N. Y.
- A. job. One freshman who is an ex-
pert swimmer acts as a life guard
during plunge periods.

The majority of the work, however,



is done in specific gcademic depart-
ments. Students, on majoring or:

4 intending to major jn he subject con-
cerned, do clerical work and other
i work previously done by the instruc-
a tors in the department, or not done at
i all.
4 Under the provisions of the Admin-
a istration each science in Dalton now
ji has a student assistant employed to
aid either in preparation for labora-
Bs, tory work, in cataloguing collections,
or in caring for the animals used for
dissection and experiment. One chem-
istry major has been making slides
for the department. The Department
of History of Art has been having its
photographs catalogued; work on the
a preparation of bibliographies has been
done in the Department of Social
Economy and in other fields. One
undergraduate has been taking an in-
ventory in the Department of Physics.
oe Another has been compiling statistics
a for use in the Department of Social
a Economy. In addition to the above,
students have been employed at one
time or another during the year in the
' Departments of Psychology, English,
French, Politics, Latin, German and
Philosophy.

In the graduate school there is less
secretarial or assistant work and
more independent research carried on

in the department in which the stu-
Bs. dent is seeking her degree. One grad-
uate student in the Department of
History has been employed to compile
statistics for a general “depression
collection.” Another has done research

in Syrian Pottery. A candidate for

the M. A. degree in the Department

a of Education has been making a
bibliographical study of “the agres-
sive behavior of pre-school children,”

a in addition to checking statistical ob-

servations and interviewing nursery
school directors for case histories.

Mile. Paquerette Nasse, the European

exchange fellow in French, holds con-

versation classes attended by members
of the French Club.
Since the Administration fixes the

‘wage scale to correspond with that
: of regular college employment serv-

_ fices, the wages paid vary from job to
"job and from the undergraduate to the



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Miss Meigs Wins Prize
In Child Life Contest

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son, author, and assistant professor
of English at Columbia University;
Dr. Eunice Tietjens, poet and author,
and member of the faculty at Rollins
College; and Miss Barrows, Editor of
Child Life, and also a poet, playwright
and author of many books for
children.

Miss Meigs. is wellvknown for her
splendid books for boys. and girls.
She was born in Illinois and brought
up in Iowa, but her ancestors were
New England sea captains. Her
mother’s family were pioneers from
Vermont to Illinois. In 1927 Miss
Meigs won the $2,000 prize offered by
the Beacon Hill Bookshelf with her
book Trade Wind. In 1984 the Ameri-
can Library Association awarded her
the Newberry Medal for Invincible
Louisa, a life of Louisa May Alcott,
and in recognition of her noteworthy
books for young people.



Home-Fire Mothers Startle
B. M. With Torch Parade

Continued from Page One



ficient and popular body something
constructive can be done.

Peter Rushton endeared himself to
the hearts of his hearers by saying
that Princeton had made but one mis-
take: they began at Vassar. Besides
the classic slogan already mentioned he
produced others, assuring us that what
is lacking in logic in the arguments
of the V. F. W. is supplied by Con-
gress. The women in the audience
were much encouraged by his pointing
out that the duty of the Home Fire
girls was to “knit the noble socks of
patriotism.”

One of the many attacks leveled
against the organization is that it is
Communist, and so_it is, for as Con-
gressman Fuller of Arkansas said
(quoted by Mr. Rushton), it will wel-
come both Fascists and pacifists.

Mr. Barnes—before he received the
layette—announced that whereas the
United States-Government is one of

‘organized minorities, the V..F. W. is

now an organized majority, with some

35,000 members in 412 posts all over
the country. He also said that plans
are being made for a national conven-
tion to be held in the Middle West in
July.

Another aspect of the question was
touched by Laura Musser, ’87, when
she expressed the hope that something
would be done for the unborn orphans.
Mr. Rushton had already spoken of
them as being no longer “little strang-
ers,” and discussed a way to determine
whether or not they were “little men-
aces.” [If they are definitely pink in
their infancy, it is a féregone conclu-
sion that they will be red in later
years.] Miss Musser suggested that
their maintenance may be provided for
by taxes of 300 per cent on certain
undesirable objects, such as grapenuts
or dirty white shoes.

Sparkle and Rhythm
Delights Audience





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cuted to musical accompaniment. The
first half of the program ended with
Del Rocio. In its gayety, fire and
technique"this was probably the most
effective dance of this portion of the
program.

By the opening of the second group
of the dances Senora Carola had
gained even more confidence and the
three dances of this part were con-
sistently better and even more appre-
ciatively received. Even Mr. Hrenoff
seemed to catch this heightened spirit
and he played Malaguenas_ so _ skill-
fully that the audience demanded an
encore. In the. nocturnal, mysterious
Fandanguillo Gitano, Senora attained
that subtle ripple of body with a quick
bob of the head which is so strikingly
characteristic of Spanish dancing.
The Moorish dance, De la Vega Grana-
dina, danced with Chinchinas, small
cymbals, on the fingers, was so well
received that Senora Carola was
forced to repeat it. The flowing move-
ment accented by rhythmic contrasts
in the Moorish dance was in striking
opposition to the short, choppy
rhythms of the last number, Alegrias,
in which Senora gave her impressions
of a fiery bullfight. This also was
repeated after much applause.

Since most of the dances of Spain



range upwards to a dollar. The total
payroll for the college in one month
ranges from 500 to 550 dollars, ap-
proximately 300 dollars going to the
graduate school‘and 200 to 250 dollars
to the undergraduates.

The maximum hours per week that
may be worked under the provisions
of the Administration are 30; per
day, eight. For undergraduates the
maximum amount of aid per student
in any one month is 20 dollars, pro-
vided the monthly average for the en-
tire period does not exceed 15 dollars.
For graduates during the first year
of their study the maximum in any
month is 380 dollars provided the
average for the entire period does
not exceed 25 dollars per month. In
the second year and for Post Doctors
the maximum is raised to 40 dollars
and the average to 30.

Time cards stating the hours and
fractional parts of hours worked each
day are turned in weekly except on
the 26th day of each month, the card
for the period including the 26th
being turned in at the close of that
day. The cards are filled out by the
student and signed both by him and
by the faculty member under whose



supervisor his work is being done.
They are then handed in to the Ad-
ministration supervisor on the campus
(Marion Greenbaum, Radnor), who
makes out in triplicate a time report
for the entire college. This report is
signed by the time keeper and by Mr.
Hurst, the comptroller of the college,
and sent to Harrisburg, the State
capital. From Harrisburg a check is
sent to the college covering the entire
amount due it, and separate paymas-
ters for the undergraduate and gradu-
ate schools distribute the wages to in-
dividual. job holders.

Two-thirds of the undergraduates
holding N. Y. A: jobs hold either
Alumnae Regional or College Scholar-
ships. Those who attended private
preparatory schools, however, are
about equally distributed with those
prepared for college in public high
schools. As far as it has been possi-
ble to ascertain, no undergraduate has
come to college solely because it was
possible for her to obtain an N. Y. A.
job, but a large proportion of those
so employed would have found it dif-
ficult to remain in college were it not
for the financial aid received in this
way.









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mal, the content of the compositions



are representational rather than for-

is inclined to be fairly light and com-
pletely comprehensible to the specta-
tor. The design of the movements,
where only one dancer is concerned,
is limited to the configurations in
space which that one body can make.
In Spanish dancing, the origin and
purpose being erotic, the predominant
design is that of the curved line,
emphasizing the natural curves of the
body. In her compositions Senora
Carola achieved some rather interest-
ing designs in space. There was no
timidity in approaching emotional ma-
terial, and Senora Carola combined a
sensitiveness for the subtle sparkle of
Spain with commendable heel and
castanet technique to present a strik-
ingly interesting program.



Charles Fox Lectures
On U.S. Criminal Rate



Linking of Politics and Crime Most

Important Cause



Taylor, Room §, April 22.~—-The ex-
tremely high crinie rate of the United
States in comparison with that of
foreign countries is in large part due
to the interrelation of politics and
crime and the inefficiency of criminal
procedure, the Honorable Charles E.
Fox, former assistant district attor-
ney of Philadelphia, told the first year
politics class. The homicide rate per
100,000 people Was 10 per’ cent in the
United States, as compared with the
one-half of one per cent in England;
the American rate is 30 times that of
the Netherlands and three time that
of Italy.

Two fundamental causes of the dis-
graceful slowness of criminal pro-
cedure are the let-alone policy of
American public opinion—“the maud-
lin sympathy for wrong-doing until
it comes right into your own front
yard’—and the close connection of
crime and politics which arises from
this.

The first two steps in criminal pro-
cedure, the police and the magistrates,
are usually influenced by ward leaders
and committeemen. The magistrates’
courts are particularly corrupt; in
Philadelphia, “out of their uncon-
trolled and unrecorded acts come 180,-
000 cases touching on the poor and
underprivileged.”

In the higher courts, the juries are
sources of leakages in orderly crim-
inal procedure because of tie-ups be-
tween jurymen and division leaders. |
In many cases the judges are strong
politically and would never have been

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COLLEGE SINGERS TO



A group of Bryn Mawr singers will
leave here Friday on. the 12 o’clock
train to New York, where they will
broadcast several May Day songs.
The program will be heard on station
WOR from 3.15 to 38.30.
Skinner will also speak on the Bryn
Mawr May Day; and Emily Kim-
brough Wrench, ’21, and Sophie Yar-
nall Jacobs, ’23, will give a dialogue.

The following students under the
direction of Mr. Willoughby will be
heard: First sopranos: Agnes Hal-
sey, 36; Maryallis Morgan, 86; Doris
Russell, 88. Second sopranos: Esther
Hearne, ’38; Lois Marean, ’87; Eleanor
Shaw, ’38. First alto:. Cornelia Kel-
log, ’389. Second alto: Helen. Kel-
log, ’36.

The selections they will, sing are:
Now Is the Month of Maying, To the
Maypole, Down in the Leafy Dell (to
Gathering Peascods); from Robin
Hood: The Baliff of Islington (Alan-
a-Dale’s song), Follow, Follow (a
round), What Shall We Have That
Killed the Deer and The Courtiers.



professional criminal lawyers “who
work mischief to the discomfiture of
officials and the embarrassment of the
law,” are a vicious type developed in
America and unknown to England,
where lawyers are not specifically
prosecutors or defense attorneys.

Artificial judicial barriers between
counties and States, together with the
mixed population, help explain the
discrepancies between American and
European crime rates. Whereas the
United States has no one body of law
governing interstate crime, European
countries usually have one series of
criminal statutes covering the entire
country.

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