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“Scott Nearing Attacks

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VOL. XVII, No. 5

WAYNE AND BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNBSDAY, NOVEMBER 5,



1930

PRICE.





System of ‘Capitalism



Sociologist Attributes War and
Unemployment to This
Growing Evil. _

ADVOCATES COMMUNISM



A goodly audience gathered in the
Common~Room tast-Friday: evening~ to
hear Scott Nearing, sociologist and au-
thor, speak on the subject of Communism
in. America, under the auspices of the

Bryn Mawr Liberal Club. Mr. Nearing’s |

extreme opinions and forceful presenta-
tion made his talk very interesting and
called forth a broadside of questioning at
its close.
system, which» necessitates» war’ and“ un-
employments, and then went on to relate
the history of American labor and to
prophesy its future.

The speaker began by telling of the
new relation of the worker to his job
since the Civil War. -With the growth
of the factory system has come a greater
and greater increase in the number of
wage .workers and a more and more
definite separation of production and con-
It has devéloped a mass pro-
letariat utterly dependent on capitalists
for their jobs and- utterly dependent on

yobs for their living.

Of the thirty-four million workers of
this proletariat, five or six million are

‘now unemployed. They ‘must go to the

bread lines for food for we have no. dole
or unemployment insurance in this coun-
try. They are dependent, it seéms, on a
system incompetent to care for them.

Capitalism can only produce unemploy- |
| carry. on

ment; and the more Capitalism> the
greater will be the unemployment. Cap-
italization has been increasing enormously.
In 1914 the year’s Dividends on, stocks
were $1,200,000,000, in 1930, a. bad year,
the dividends for January alone were $1,-
000,000,000. Some of these dividends go
for luxuries but the great part are rein-

“vested to swell further the amount of

American capital. In 1850 there was
$560 capital per worker; today there is
$6000. As capital per worker. increases
the: worker must produce more and more
to bring the manufacturer a profit. This
means more rationalization of industry,
more machinery, more exploitation of the
individual worker, more technological un-
employment. A time must come when a

’ tithe of the workers can produce all that

can be profitably distributed. The fault
is not that of the individual capitalist but
of a system in which production is for
profit. ;
To prove his statement that “the more
capitalism there is, the more unemploy-
ment there will be,’ Mr. Nearing called
attention to ~conditions in the United
States and in Great Britain. America’s
new industries, rayon and rubber tires,

for example, are running well, but in the |

old industries, such as coal and textiles,
where Capitalism has had its best chance,
there is unemployment and economic
stagnation. Similarly Great Britain, the
oldest capitalistic country, is economically
the sickest. Her new industries have
grown but the old ones are even less pro-
ductive than in 1913.

Not only is the ‘worker in cgnstant
fear .of unemployment under the capital-
istic system but he must also expect to
be called.out to die and kill in periodic
wars stirred up in the interests of the
ruling classes. It will probably be a war
and not unemployment that will be the
crucial test of the development of com-
munistic sentiment: . Since the French
Revolution the turning point in govern-
ment has been war.

At“ the third International Communal
at Moscow it was said that three things
were needed for the spread of commun-
ism ;., weakening of the power of the rul-
ing class, worsening of the conditions of
the masses (they are now worse than
ever before inthis country), and trained,
revolutionary leadership. This leadership
is needed because the worker is almost
inarticulate. eo, Bc,

The. American worker has ‘tiot always
been so docile, however. After the Civil

War the communistic groups were mostly |.

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|All Saints’ Day Spirit

He first attacked the Capitalist

Jonly goal of the first half.

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Interpreted-hy Dr. Mutch



“What shall they do which are bap-
tized forthe dead?” quoted Dr. Mutch
from the Restfrection. argument of
Saigt Paul, at Sunday night chapél in
Goodhart. The message of All Saints’
Day, a day full of significance and
spiritual value, contains the answer.

Although All Saints’ Day was last
Saturday, the atmosphere remains, per-
vading all November with ‘its “spirit
and message. First, there is the, sig-
nificance of the “great cloud of heav-
enly: witnesses.” Prior to the seventh

calendar for each great saint. By then,
because there was hardly a day left,
or perhaps because they were tired of
distinguished persons, it was decided
to. have-one day forall; not-only the
great and famous, but also for the un-
known good, “the shining host of those
who have passed on.”

Secondly, the heritage which we en-
joy ‘today has come down to us at
great cost. Reaping where we have
not sown,
are the result of the toil, struggles, and
sacrifices of past years. The Pilgrim
Fathers paid for the blessings and
privileges of religious freedom, truth,
and faith in God. The patriots of the
Revolution and the Civil War paid the
price of our political heritage. Effort,

ure arid success in experinsent, sweat of
mind, body, and soul, are all the cost
of the common conveniences of tod...

Our debt to the past calls for some
payment in the present. The dead
must not have died in vain. We must
grasp. the tools, seize the flag, ‘and
their tasks to completion.
“Whatever our patrimony, whatever
good, we are stewards, and it is re-
quired of stewards that they be faith-
ful.” “Be true to the past, to your-
self, to your home, and to God,” con-
cluded. Dr. Mutch, “unless we give
back to the world something costing
us blood and agony, we shall have
failed miserably to pay: our debt.”



Merion Cricket Club |
‘Defeated by Varsity



Before a handful of the ever faith-
ful, Varsity, on Saturday, defeated
Merion, 3-2.. A steady improvement
in the playing of the team has been
noticed from week to week and grad-
ually co-ordination is linking the play-
ers together.

The forward line played a scrappy
game, fighting back for the ball when-
‘ever ‘necessary. The wings were very
fast and passed in nicely. Sanborn on
several occasions carried the ball down
to the goal and then made beautiful
back passes which were net put in
because the rest of the line were not
quick enough on their shooting. -Allen,
having picked up her speed again, was
very much better on her passing but
it is still a little bit late. She was
continually attacking the goal and
rushing in on others’ shots and her
efforts were rewarded when she put in
a rebound from a nice shot by Long-
acre. Longacre with fast running and
clear dodging and passing several times
-got the ball down within the striking
circle but her shots- were too soft to
go in and were frequently stopped by
the goalkeeper; however, she made the
Moore,
although a little slower than the rest
of the line, was always in place when
a pass was made to her. Her shoot-
ing was undoubtedly the best of the
forwards, hard and fast. After a nice

made a hard shot for goal’ and then
rushed the rebound; in the ensuing
scrimmage with the goalerand-_a_full-
back, she managed to push the ball in.
_ Harriman, subbing for Woodward,
played her best game so far and greatly
hindered the attempts of the opposing
wing. Although Collier was missed at
centre half, Collins did a good job

and sure.
For Merion the wiiventiig player



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century, there was a special day in the

things most precious to us

labour, and painful-thought, mixed fail- |

carry in from the twénty-yard line, she:

in her place; Rothermel at full was fast

104 Students Enrolled
in Graduate School



Dean Schenck Compares~Hén-
ors Work of Undergradu-
ates to Graduate Study.



PH.D. HOLDS NO TERRORS

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The. graduate school this year has 104
members, as against 102 of last year, thus
maintaining its place among the various
student. groups, second in numbers only
to the Freshmen.

The number of resident graduate stu-
dents.-is. limited. by. the capacity of Rad-
nor Halt, fifty-nine all told. Of the re-
maining forty-five students, sixteen have
some official connection with®the college—
instructors, readers, demonstrators, ward-
ens,

Sixty-fivé of the 104 students are ‘giv-
ing all their time to graduate work.
Among the others who are giving part of
their time to other occupations, the teach-
ing group is naturally the largest, seven
being- instructors, two demonstrators, one
a reader, here at Bryn Mawr; two: teach-
ing at other colleges and thirteen at
schools in the neighborhood, _

The graduate students —come , - from
twenty-three- States, the District of
Columbia, Hawaii, Canada and five Eu-
ropean countries: France, two; England,
two; Germany, Holland and Hungary,
one. :

The States represented are: Pennsyl-
vania, thirty-six; New York,, thirteen;
Massachusetts, seven; New Jersey, six;
California, four; Indiana, four; Kansas,
three; Vermont, two; Ohio, two; Iowa,
two; Illinois, two; Maing, Connecticut,
‘Rhode Island, Maryland, South Carolina,
Alabama, Florida, Washington, Idaho,
‘Nebraska, Missouri and Arkansas, one;
District of Columbia, one; Hawaii, one;
Canada, two.

‘Ninety-eight American ‘or’ Canadian
degrees, B.A. or B.S., are held by mem-
bers of the Graduate School, six Euro-
pean degrees, The foreign universities
represented are:

Amsterdam, Budapest, Cologne, Lau-
sanne, Nancy and London School of Eco-
nomics. Forty-nine different colleges or
universities in America are represented
by graduate students. Of these, thirty-
nine are co-educational, fourteen are
women’s colleges, and three are women’s
colleges Affiliated with universities. Al-

‘though there are more than twice as

many co-educational universities repre-
sented as women’s colleges, whether indi-
vidual or affiliated with universities,
slightly more than half of the students
come from women’s colleges. The largest
block, twenty-three in: all, .received the
A.B. degree from Bryn Mawr. The num-
ber of students who received their first
degree from other institutions is as fol-
lows:

Mounty Holyoke, .seven; Smith, six;
Wellesley, four; Barnard, Hunter, Mills,
Vassar, Pennsylvania (University of),
three; Boston University, 3rown Uni-
versity, California (University gf), Pa-
cific (College of), “Randolph » Macon
Women’s, Northwestern, two.

Thirty-one other colleges and universi-
ties-are each responsible for the Bache-
lor’s degree-of one student.

In addition to the Bachelor’s degree,
forty hold Master’s degrees, eighteen of

ley, Pennsylvania (University of), Cor-

nell, 2; Brown University, California
(University of), Columbia University,
Florida State’ College for ,|Women,

George Washington University, Illinois
(University of), Maine (University_ of),

lin, Ohio State, Radcliffe, Rochester
(University of), Vanderbilt University,
one.

in the school this year have announced
their intention of becoming candidates
for the Master’s ee, twenty-four for
the Doctor’s degree. *



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(Dean Eunice Morgan Sthenck was
the speaker in Chapel on Thursday, Oc-.
tober 30.)

these given by Bryn Mawr, and Welles--

Middlebury College, Michigan. (Univers- |
Pity of),. Nebraska (University of), Ober-

Thirty-one*of “the students registered’

| ‘My Flight into Egypt’
Described ‘by Miss Park



“*My Flight into Egypt’ really only
resembled the original in its extreme
quickness,” explained President Park
in her chapel speech on Tuesday, No-
vember 4. She reached Alexandria in
less than two weeks after leaving bleak
New York. Here was the first glimpse
of the melodramatic: green. ‘cultivated
lands against their desert background,
an anomaly which is found throughout
Egypt. » The low-lying meadows. are
separated~by_ dykes, over which pass
the village roadss—From the train a
perpetual procession of~ anen__ and
animals in silhouette can be. s@en on
these roads.

Cairo is a: niodern, crowded, con-
fused city in the heart of an ancient
city. But» Miss ~~ Park's party found
Egypt again in a trip up the Nile past
the second cataract. In this country
the color effects are peculiarly inter-
esting—the rushing yellow river with
its curious colors under sunrise or. sun-
set light, the bright green on the edge
of the river with the brighter yellow
of the desert behind it. The country
leaves an impression of being com-
pletely alien, its landscapes are strange
to the Northern mind. There is no
place where one gains a sense of per-
petual tradition, for the only remaining
buildings are temples concerning them-
tselves with ‘worship and” death,
daily. life. These temples are really
the chapel of the tomb of. some rf
or noble, -and intimately connected Qithé
death. The buildings of course vary
in the extent of their preservation, in

‘| their. location on a bluff or near the

river, and in actual age some of them
being as late as the sie Augus-
tus.

The beauty of the country is largely
associated with the sky, which is not
detracted from by tall growths. There
is little color at midday; otherwise
from the early hours of morning until
sunset-there-is-afeeling—of-moving—in
strange lights, although there are no

brilliant cloud effects. Everything
takes on a red, yellow, or green. hue
from’ the sunset. Even under the

moonlight the color of the red cliffs
and green trees ig apparent. The stars
are large, low-hanging and amazingly
bright, and the Southern Cross, shaped
like a huge diamond, is visible every
night. Miss Park’s party visited the
temple of Abu Simbel which is entirely
built inside a eliff, with only the facade,
decorated by huge seated statues of
Rameses, on. the outside. She and a
friend spent the night outside the tem-
ple, watching the river and the moon-
light. The first tight of dawn passed
from the mountain tops to the facade
of the temple, which faced due East,
and the faces of the statues seemed to
change their expressions and move, as

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Earn a Trip to Europe
The Intercollegiate Travel Bureau
wishes to ‘find, a student organizer at
Bryn Mawr. Whoever is chosen for
the position will have an unequalled
opportunity to earn a trip to Europe,
a‘considerable amount of money,. or

both. The terms are as follows:

1. Free trip for enrolling ten mem-
| bers in any: one. conducted tour. proportionate part of the. trip free for
léss than ten, members.

2. A cash commission of 7% per
cent. for all members ‘after the first
ten,

3. Where you .enroll members in
various conducted tours, you receive
10 per cent. travel credit. a,

4. If you are not interested ‘in any
travel credit whatever, the Bureau will
pay you a commission of 7% per cent.

obtained by you.

5. These terms apply irrespective of
number. of members you enroll; that
is, there- is no minimum number re-
quired. ;

For further parucuias and for ap-
plication blank, see M. Bradley, 35
Pembroke East. The sooner you ap-
ply, the, better chance you have of
being chosen,..-— sera ae

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not],

in.cash for all conducted tour business

English Singers Give ‘
Brilliant Performance

Technique Make Series.

Concert. Success.



ENCORE. ‘THREE FAIRIES’



The Bryn Mawr Series began its
year with the concert of the. English
Singers on October 29. The perform-
ance was one of the most enjoyable
The Eng-

lish Singers are so well known,

ever heard at Bryn Mawr.
and
their fame is so widespread, that any
discussion of them seems redundant.

We. only

them,

praise. The~more. we_hear

however, the more signficant

becomes their success, for it seems

to us that it is due not only to the vocal
accomplishments of the singers. them-

selves, however great, but also to the
quality of the music which they sing.
It is only truly great music which seems
ever new. There is a freshness atfd spon-
taneity about this English music of the
sixteenth and early sevénteenth centuries
which make ‘its appeal everlasting. Then,
too, it offers ‘great variéty of mood, and.
this the singers are careful to empha-
size. Yet the, transition from one type
of feeling to another is made with such
pparent ease, and the singing appears.
to be'so without effort, that we gasp
in amazement at a technique so per-
fect that it may be forgotten. And so
it is that none of the spontaneity of
which we spoke is lost; and we see in
the English Singers the theoretical, if
not actual, descendants of those six-
teenth century folk with whom singing
was as-natural as eating or sleeping,
and played almost as great a part in
daily life. |

The English Singers began their
concert with three motets, the “Ave
Verum” of William Byrd, with its sor-
rowful “Misereres” being one of the
most beautiful-of his religious works.
In contrast to this group was the fol-
lowing of ballet and madrigals, ending
with the poly-rhythmed “Though
Amaryllis Dance,’ which shows that

a stunt need not necessarily sound ar-

tificial. As a matter- of fact, all the
music of this time is an example of
the beauty which can be _ obtained
through the use of polyphonic forms
and technical devices. “The Wassail
Song,” which is~ very. merry indeed,
brought the first: half-of the program
toaclose. In the second part the sing-
ers plied various trades—sweeping
chimneys, exchanging rags or. bones
for matches and selling chestnuts in
every form that cooking can give them,
all of which they did with not a little
humour. As for “The Three Fairies,”
their rather unkind. pinching was so
much enjoyed that they were obliged
to repeat it. Purcell’s “I Spy Celia,”
with its mock seriousness, was no less
amusing, and also very beautiful musi-
cally. In the last group was the famous.
“Silver Swan” of Orlando Gibbons,
and the scarcely less well-known “Now
Is “the Month of Maying’”. was pre-
sented as one*of the encores.

The audience was ‘an appreciative
one: it is inevitable that those for
whom the experience of hearing the
English Singers was new, as well as
those who know them well should
realize their Worthiness as interpreterg
ofthe works of the greatest period, in,
England's musical history,

1934 Elects; Chooses
Nichols, Rothermel, Gribbel

“Miss ae Nichol 1 ry Been elected
President of the Class of 1934 for the
coming year. Miss Nichols was first
Chairman of her class this fall.

Miss Josephine Rothermel has been
elected Vice President, and Miss, Kath-



ermel is on the Varsity Hockey squad
and Miss Gribbel was fourth Chairman



of ssid class.

arine Gribbel, Secretary. Miss Roth-

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