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VOL. XX, No, 5







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BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1933



Copyright BRYN MAWR
COLLEGE NEWS, 1933

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PRICE 10 CENTS











Nazi Revolution Ends
Policy of Fulfillment
Allied ‘Concessions to Germany

Have Always.Been Too
Late, Says Mrs. Dean

REVISION IS INEVITABLE







“Despite the overcharged atmo-
sphere of Europe at present, there is
no immediate prospect of war,” said
Mrs. Vera Micheles Dean, beginning
the second of her lectures, The New
European Balance of Power, in Good-
hart Hall, Monday evening, Novem-
ber 6. The Hitler government is not
yet ready for a major conflict, but
if the demand of the vanquished for
the revision of the Versailles Treaty
fails to provoke satisfactory, peaceful
adjustment, war or a series of wars
will beyond doubt eventually result.

The Nazi revolution nas created
profound changes in Europe. It has
crystallized tendencies implicit there
since the World War, and has precipi-
tated developments which may lead
to a new political alignment in Europe.
The Hitler government is the most
successful Germany has ever had: it
has successfully antagonized, at home,
the Communists, Socialists, liberal
Lutherans, Jews, and Pacifists;
abroad, France, Great Britain, Italy,
Auscria, Russia, Czecho-Slovakia, Po-
land, and, most surprising of all, its
old friends, Sweden and Switzerland.

Europe today is in a ferment, for
the disputes over the war treaties
have. been steadily growing ever since
the Paris Peace Conference of 1919.
The draconian terms of the Ver-
sailles treaty were dictated by hatred
of and revenge for German militar-
ism. It was impossible, that they
should long be practicable. The ideal
of creating. a basis for permanent
peace in Europe, which found fullest
expression in the Covenant of the
League of Nations, has in actualiza-
tion fallen far short of what was ex-
pected of it.

Since 1919 there has been no at-
tempt to reconsider the Peace Settle-
ment as a whole—it was modified in
1930, when France evacuated the
Rhineland: five years before the time
agreed ; it was modified again at the
Lausanne \Conference in 1932, when
Germany’s \ reparation obligations
were practically wiped out; and in
1932, when Great Britain, France,
and the United States recognized Ger-
many’s right to arms equality. But
always the crucial question of terri-
torial revision has been avoided, and
until this question is settled, Europe
can never be at peace.

On the subject of territorial re-
vision Europe is at present divided
into two camps. There ‘are on the
one hand the Revisionists,. Germany,
Austria, Hungary, and Bulgaria, sup-
ported by Italy; on the other, France,
Poland, and the Little Entente, who
wish to preserve the status quo. While
the revisionists, in case of war, could
throw an organized force of nine mil-

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Awarded Fellowship
at Brown University



Honor C. McCusker, of Providence,
R. I., has been awarded the Miss
Abbott’s School Alumnae Fellowship
at Brown University and is studying
English at the University of London.
Miss McCusker received her A.B. de-
gree from Brown University in 1930
and her M.A. degree from Bryn Mawr

College in 1981.
~~ ~Adelaide M, Davidson, of Provi-
dence, R. I., has been awarded the
Arnold Archaeological Fellowship at
Brown University and is now study-
ing Archaeology at Bryn Mawr Col-
lege. Miss Davidson received her
A.B. degree from Brown University
in 1938.

The Graduate School of Brown
University has awarded fellowships
and scholarships to 48 graduate stu-
dents for the academic year 1933-
1934. Fellowships range in value
from $500 to $750, in addition to tui-

tion of $300. Scholarships cover
tuition.





CALENDAR

Thurs., Nov. 9. Shaw Lec-

ture conference. 2.00 to 4.00
P. M., in the Deanery.

Thurs., Nov. 9.. Wanamak-
er’s Fashion Show. 4 to 4.30
P. M. Common Room.

Fri., Nov. 10. Sir Wilfred
Grenfell will give an illustrat-
ed lecture on Labrador. Good-
hart, 8.15 P. M.

Sat., Nov. 11, Varsity hpak-

key tenn vs. Swarthmore,
10.00 A. M. :
Sun., Nov. 12. Chapel. Rev.

Thomas Harris will present the

address. Music Room. 7.30
r. we .
|. Mon. Nov. 13: Mrs. Dean

-and Miss Fairchild will speak
on “The Soviet Union—at the
End of the First Five Year

“Plan.” Third of the Shaw lec-
tures. Goodhart, 8.20 P. M.
Mon., Nov. 18. Second Var-

sity hockey team vs. Main Line
second team. 4.00 P. M.

Tues., Nov. 14.. The Varsity
Players present the Hedgerow
Theatre in a performance of
George Bernard Shaw’s Heart-
break House. Goodhart. 8.00 .
P. M.

Tues., Nov. 14..Shaw lecture
conference. Deanery, 2 to 4.







Fascists Have Vague

Economic Principles



Italian Labor is Organized ‘in
_ Syndicates—Corporative
State is Goal



STRIKES ARE PUNISHED



Speaking in the Deanery Library
Thursday on the Economic Principles
of Fascism, Mrs. Vera Dean. said,
“It is the great weakness of Fascism
that no broad economic program
has ever been given out.” In Italy
agriculture, banking and electro-hy-
draulics have benefited piece-meal
from the Fascist regime, while other
branches of national economy have
been completely neglected.

At present a better study of
Fascism can be made from Italy
than from Germany for the German
economic program has not as yet had
a long enough time to develop fully.
The Italian Charter of Labor stresses
the. -principle that, although the in-
terests of the state are paramount,
subordinating the interests of all
economic groups, private initiative is
not to be discarded,

There is a marked similarity be-
tween the recently developed Swope

plan for the NRA and the Italian un-,

written law that labor corporations
shall regulate themselves. The gov-
ernment limits itself to employing a
sort of auto-suggestion of its wishes
upon labor-groups. By a very close
system of statistics the government
gains, also, a knowledge of what is
occurring in every industrial field.
The Italians would, nevertheless, like
to give the impression that every
samployer and worker is so enthusi-
astic about Fascism that he is will-
ing to make any sacrifice in its in-
terests. Since all strikes, lockouts,
sabotage and boycotting interrupt la-
bor, \punishment for them is very
severe, Fascism shows its power,
and gives a reason for its existence
by its prompt action in emergencies.

In place of complete independence
of the worker, Fascism has substi-
tuted Syndicates. Syndicates °need
only include ten per cent. of the
workers in order to.make valid deci-
sions. :

Every syndicate officer must be
morally capable and interested in the
highest good of the state to be-con-
firmed in his office by the govern-
ment. The government retains at all
times the right to oust inefficient em-
ployers and to appoint others to fill
their places. This really amounts to
selection by the government. Fascist
employees and. employers form sep-
arate syndicates. The syndicates in.
turn form federations.

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pretation;



rata
Amateur Players Show
Talent for Dramatics



Choice of Play is. Debatable;
Atalanta in Wimbledon
Requires Tempo

MORE DIRECTION NEEDED





’ The performance of Lord Dun-
sany’s comedy, Atalanta in Wimbledon,

by the candidates for the Players’
Club, last Thursday night, was a seri-
ous attempt to do highly tempoed,
light, difficult acting. The attempt
was not quite successful, but it is im-
possible in four rehearsals to achieve
high tempo and lightness of inter-
they are achieved only
when the director has time to finish
drilling the cast in action and stage
business, and then to start training
them in inflexion, gestures, charac-
terization, picking up their cues, and
building the successive scenes to an
increasingly higher pitch.

Since highly tempoed light comedy
is very seldom successfully done. by
amateurs after any number of re-
hearsals, the candidates for Players’
Club cannot be validly criticized for
not having.done it well, but their wis-
dom in choosing a play which depends
mainly on its tempo to carry its point,
is debatable. The play itself is not
one of Lord Dunsany’s best: some of
its- people are ,uncharacterized; many
of them are on the stage for only a
very short time; and their motiva-
tion on and off the stage is poor. The
exposition is too long, and when the
ping-pong game, on which the girl’s
whole future depends, is off-staged, it
carried the interest of the audience
off with it. The anti-climatical dis-
cussion of their younger days, which
takes place at the end between Dawk
and the Constable, ruins the pitch at-
tained by the climax and gives the
play a flat. ending.

Some of the acting was good. Miss
McCurdy, as the typical farce Eng-
lishman, provided a pleasant excite-
ment in contrast with the level mo-
notony of the other performances.
Miss Canaday was an attractive and
graceful heroine; she has excellent
calm and. self-possession on the stage,
but both she and Miss Terry played
all their scenes with almost no
changes of tone in their voices. Miss
Terry, as the father, portrayed very
well a philosopher gently speculating
about modern love, but her ineffectual
pacing to and fro, and her failure ever
to. abandon her gentleness made“her-a
subordinate character in all of her
-eenes. Miss Porcher, as Bill, was a
properly earnest young lover, and
showed great ability. in conveying
emotion through the inflections of her

voice. The Sergeant, played by Miss
Simpson, should have carried with

him the entire majesty of the, law; in
the beginning he did so, “but when
he was the central figure, forcing the
situation upon all the other charac-
ters, he did not convince the audi-
ence that he really had any control
over the other actors. This was the

| result partly of their failure to evince

any fear of him, and partly of the
amazing ease with which he was
overpowered. The role of Mr. Leon-
ard, acted by Miss Kellogg, was ade-
quately done, but. it was too small
to permit. of criticism..

The set was extremely good. The
room was attractive; fully furnished,
and looked as though it had really
been lived in. The lighting gave the
bright effect suitable for light com-
edy, although the audience would
have realized more easily that the
play took place in the morning if a
flood of sunlight had been sent
through the terrace door. The cos-
tumeés, thanks to the faculty and the
police department; were perfectly
authentic.

The direction of this play was its

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~ Freshman Elections
Eleanor Smith has _ been
elected president. of the Fresh-
man class. ne



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President’s Notice

In behalf of the speakers of

this year may I ask the stu-

not ‘to knit. Knitting (and I
know, for I am a devoted knit-
ter) is a slight but pleasant
drug for the expert and for the
amateur a matter of feverish
action, alternating with pro-
found research. Neither expert
nor amateur listens with real
attention.

Please attend without nit-
ting or knit at home.

MARION EDWARDS PARK.







President Park Attends
St. Louis Alumnae Dinner



President Park was one of seven
Eastern women’s college presidents
who attended a dinner in St. Louis
given November 2 by college alum-
nae. The occasion was intended to
center public attention on the common
need of the seven women’s colleges
for greater endowments.

Walter Lippmann, giving the prin-
cipal address, did not make any speci-
fic plea for funds, but pointed out
that men’s colleges received about
thirty times as much money in 1932
as women’s colleges. Mr. Lippmann
emphasized the value of privately sup-
ported colleges in giving diversity to
American education, as contrasted to,
and prewenting the stagnation which
would result from, a government mo-
nopoly of education. Women col-
lege graduates, he declared, have
made notable contributions in many
fields of activity.

The other guests of honor at the
dinner were Miss Virginia Gilder-
sleeve, Dean of Barnard College; Miss
Mary E. Woolley, president of Mount
Holyoke; Miss Ada _ L. . Comstock,
president of Radcliffe; William Allan
Nielson, president of Smith; Henry
Noble McCracken, president of Vas-
sar, and Miss Ellen Fitz Pendleton,
president of Wellesley.

dents who attend their lectures |,

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Miss Park Considers
Autos Distracting







Students Are Forbidden to Rent,
Drive or Own Cars in
Vicinity



RADIOS PERMISSABLE



“Those questions which arise in
connection with the use of victrolas,
radios, and cars by students resident
in the college are in the hands of
the administration and of the admin-
istration’s representatives in the
halls—the wardens,” said . President
Park, speaking in chapel Tuesday
morning in an attempt to clear up the

in the undergraduate mind. concern-
ing these subjects.

Since the purpose of the rules
made in connection with radios and
victrolas has been to reduce the noise
in the halls and make them as well
adapted to the needs of those who wish
to study as is possible, in the past
radios have been allowed, only if-they
were of the battery variety and equip-
ped with ear-phones. The regulation
concerning the ear-phones is still in
force, for no matter how softly a ra-
dio plays the sound is penetrating.
and very: distracting—the more-so if
it is not clear, since the casual lis-
tener strains every nerve to catch the
words or the tune and pieces in what
cannot be heard. However, it has
been found possible to allow the in-
stallation of battery sets if they are
used in place of one of the lights
which the student has in her room.
The rule réads that no student shall
have’ more than two lights in her
study, a regulation made necessary
by the enormous load which the pow-
erhouse is carrying,-and by the dis-
astrous effects’ which would result
from serious overtaxing. Anyone de-
siring to install a plugged-in set
should see. her warden and have ar-

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Faculty Contribute Selves and Goods
to Scavengers for Hallowe’en Frolic



Hallowe’en night the Seniors gave
the Freshmen a_ scavenging party

}that had the better elements of Re-

straint Necessary and a dog fight, At
9.30, the deadline for the return of
the scavengers, a collection of objects
poured into the Common Room that
will make every future function there
seem very pedestrian. In fact, it is
probable that such a rare collection
will never be assembled again in the
college or in the world.

Mrs. Chadwick-Collins, in evening
dress and baby bonnet, was the sen-
sation of the evening and»gave the
Hardenberg-Jackson-Muller - Seltzer
team its winning score. Not only did
she give herself, but also presented
the scavengers with a mousetrap,
Princeton freshman cap, dog, frater-
nity pin, rubber boot, empty beer bot-
tle, and tried to procure Lady Chat-
terley’s Lover.

This generosity was rivalled by
the good-will and immolation of selves
and goods by other members of the
faculty and administration. The pro-
fessors who appeared sporting red
ties, as specified in the scavenging
list, were a smal] army: M. Canu,
Dr. Flexner, Dr. Nahm (paie pink),
Dr. Miller, Miss Taylor (her tie a
gaudy check), Dr. Crenshaw (cap-
tured in dinner jacket), Miss Gard-
ner (who also contributed Molly and
a worm), and Miss Lograsso. °Miss
Hawkins was there to keep tabs: on
her contributions—a potato, for
“something . suggested by ‘Lazy
Bones,’” and a Flit Gun. A “Long-
sleeved nightgown (not silk)” was
entrusted to the searchers by Mrs.
King,. and» Mrs. Manning’s hairpins
were handed out wholesale by Mr.
Manning, who took advantage of the
occasion to play cheerful Lord Boun-
tiful.

Jill, the Manning dog, did not_es-

|| cape the general conscription of “live

dogs” which swept a canine horde







into the May Day Room. Some of





them got down into the Common
Room, where cookies, hot dogs, coffee
and cider were being freely handed
about, and we only hope they didn’t
regret it the next day.. But most
of them stayed upstairs along with
the rest of the loot, which ranged
from “special deliveries from New
Haven” to cigars Altogether the
May Day Room looked like a dog
pound and second-hand ‘store | coms
bined. |

There was a strange lack of exhib-
its’ for “the funniect thing’; but
there were some original. bits: Grad-
uated Exercises in Articulation; an
implement from one of the hall bath-
rooms, and the President of Seif-
Gov. Yet the comparative dearth of
“funniest things” was.made up for
by the teams which produced “an eye-
lash curler,” two “sophomores in gold
lame evening dress” (Poke Hoyt and
Pauline Manship, who added
touch of elegance to the Comm
Room gathering). *y

At one point in the evening a fresh-
man scavenging party came into con-
flict with a murky group of small
boys from the village, whose aims
were quite different. They were scav-
enging for three kisses, for which
they were to get a quarter from a
nameless donor at an unknown party.
They were. coldly refused.

After several hazards and exhaust-
ing sprints around the campus, the
members of the winning team, led by
Hardenberg, were rewarded by a cor-
sage apiece, and the second best, led
by Steinhart, with diminutive orna-
ments. Anita Fouilhoux, who ar-
ranged all this fun and frolic, hand-_,
ed out the prizes, and. announced that=
the dogs could go home to their own-
ers. The evening ended, for the
freshmen, in a mad scramble to re-
trieve their borrowed collections, and

for everyone, like the Rover Boys, .

with a vote that “they had had a
bully good time.” |

obvious confusion” which~has~existed~

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