College news, November 11, 1942

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BRYN MAWR and WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1942

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Sryn Mawr College, 1942



Poll Shows Work
Done in Summer

By B.M. Students

Secretarial, Clerical Jobs
Claim More Workers
Than Rest

A poll taken this week by the
Bureau of Recommendations





re-
vealed that secretarial or clerical
work claimed the majority of stu-
dents among the 288 undergradu-
In

paid jobs, camp counselling and
selling came next, while 44 under-
graduates were at summer schools.

Fifteen graduate students work-
ed at jobs ranging from clerical
work in an arms factory to actual
war work. Edith Emerson was in
a test department for precision in-
struments, and Jean Clawson was
a summer worker in a flag manu-

facturing’ factory.
Most )of the eight undérgradu-

ate factory workers were in war
plants. Even the company which
packed Elizabeth Arden cosmetics,
where Jackie Osborne was employ-
ed, was partially converted to man-
ufacture war materials.

Adelaide Burnett drove a truck
for a war factory in Louisville.
Not satisfied with that physical
exertion, she consented to work on
the night shift.

Taking advantage of a new de-
velopment in insurance, Louise
Horwood and Ellen Ustick sold war

damage policies.

' Fifteen girls took care of chil-
dren, but the girls weren’t all cus-
tomary nursemaids. Lois Mac-
Murray’s charges were delinquent
children.

Farming and U. S. O. work were
popular summer occupations. The
more unusual jobs included Alice
Hedge’s air raid spotting, Barbara
Herman’s factory inspecting, and
Ruth Alice. Davis’ guard duty at
LaGuardia Field.

Marion Thdmas was
college consultant” at a department
store, Montgomery—Fair,in-Mont=
gomery, Alabama. .

Sally Dodge sports an Army
Navy E, the result of her summer
work at the Berg Boat Co., Inc., in
Wilmington, Delaware.

ates holding jobs this summer.

“back-to-



J. Watson Reasserts
Need for Farm Help
In Talk to Students

Common Room, November 5.—
Mr. James Watson, county agent
of the Agricultural Department of
the U. S. Employment Service, re-
asserted need for farm help in his
talk to Bryn Mawr students inter-
ested in farming. Mr. Watson ex-
plained his work as director of
farming in Pennsylvania. His
main duties at the present time are
concerned with collecting and plac-
ing workers on farms suffering
from labor shortage.



Mr. Watson has organized large
groups of students from Swarth-
more College, Temple University,
and the University of Pennsyl-
vania for farm labor. The work
is harvesting and the picking and
de-hydrating of seasonal vege-
tables for shipment abroad in con-
densed form. The whole project is
executed on a large scale and auth-
orized by the Government. The
pay is a minimum of 30 cents an
hour and covers the time of trans-
portation well as the actual
work...

Mr. Watson’s suggestion of a
tractor school at Bryn Mawr was
enthusiastically received. The

Continued or Page Three

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Salinas Will Lecture
At Spanish Club Tea

Dr. Pedro Salinas will the
guest speaker at the Spanish Club
tea in the Common Room, Novem-
ber twelfth. Dr. Salinas is profes-
sor of Spanish at Johns Hopkins
University. He has been in this
country for five years, and is an
author, poet, and lecturer of great
European repute.

Before coming to the United
States, Dr. Salinas Was a professor
at the University of Madrid, and
a director of the well-known, Cen-
tro di Estudios Histéricos, and of
the Santander International Sum-
mer University. The list of Euro-
pean universities at which he has
lectured include the Sorbonne,
Cambridge, and Oxford. On this
continent he has been in Mexico
and the University of Southern
California. From 1936 to 1939 Dr.

Salinas lectured at Wellesley Col-
Continued on Page Four



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Local Rationing Board Found Busy Center
Of Distribution of Scarce War Materials



By Barbara Hull, ’44

The local rationing board is a
busy place. It rations sugar, auto-
mobiles, typewriters, bicycles, gas-
oline, tires, heating fuel, and rub-
ber boots to the 32,000 people liv-
ing in this~district.

Quotas for these goods, with the
exception of sugar, gasoline; and
heating fuel, are allotted monthly
-to each district. Distributing cer-
tain amounts to each county, the
state receives its quotas from the
OPA. The county, in turn, re-al-
locates according to districts. Cer-
tificates are. issued by the local dis-
trict for the purchase of rationed
articles. In order to qualify for
a certificate, applicants must con-
form to a strict eligibility code.
At the end of every month, each
local board reports its quota bal-
ance to the county board, and in
this way, articles can be efficiently
re-estimated monthly.

Unprecedented, fuel oil ration-
ing has presented a difficult prob-
lem, but has been worked out fairly
by oil dealers and heating engi-
neers.. Correlations between the
number of people in a household,
the square feet of floor space, and

“centro AF



last year’s oil consumption have
been compiled in the. Local Board
Fuel Oil Calculation Tables issued
by the OPA. A different table has
been made for each set of counties
having similar climatic conditions.
Households in this region are cut
to from 15 to 55 per cent of last
year’s amount.

Appointed by the State Director
on the recommendation of the
county director, the local board is
composed largely of volunteers. In
this area,-there are four members
of the local board and two paid
Civil Service employees. Depend-
ing on the need, the staff of volun-
teers varies from five to ten mem-
bers each day. Almost all workers
are members of the Civilian De-
fense Corps. After 50 hours of
work, a volunteer is entitled to
wear a uniform, pledging a mini-
mum of six hours per week for the
duration.

Local control of ration boards is
the keynote of the OPA rationing
programs. Neighborhood control
provides for fairer, more efficient
allocations to individuals, and lo-
cal ration problems are more ef-
fectively solved. |



~ Calendar
Thursday, November 12
Spanish Club Tea, Speak-
er, Pedro Salinas, Common
Room, 4.00.
Monday, November 16
Air Raid: Wardens’ Meet-
ing, Music Room, 8.00.
Tuesday, November 17
College Assembly, Interna-
tional Student Day, Good-
hart, 10.00.
Current Events,
Room, 7.30.
Wednesday, November 18
Non-Resident Tea,
mon Room, 4.380.
German Club Tea, German
House, 4.00.

Common

Com-







Bond Drive Gets
Pledges in Each Hall

Drive May Reach a Thousand
Dollars in First Month’s
Collection





The campus Bond Driye has re-
$818.95 from of

bonds to date.

ceived the. sale
War

Pem East leads with $173.05, and

and stamps

Pem West is a close second with
$143.45. $128.20 was pledged by
the Non-Residents, and Rhoads
North contributed $122.50. Den-
bigh gave $88.75; Rhoads South

$58.00; Merion, $47.55; Rock,
$41.20; Wyndham, $10.25; Ger-
man House, $6.00. Radnor’s

pledge cards are not yet complete,
and one of the Rock. agents was in
the infirmary during the last col-
lection. The final sales for this
first month of the. drive will, it is
hoped, reach $1,000. Merion
boasts the highest percentage
pledges, just under 90 per cent.

Collection day the fifth of
every~ month. Since a number of
students indicated that in the fu-
ture they would buy their stamps
and bonds through this souree,
more pledges are expected next
month.

Reports to date reveal the fol-
lowing sales: 442. ten cent-stamps;
1055 twenty-five “cent stamps, 96
fifty cent stamps, 113 one dollar
stamps,. five five dollar stamps,
seven $25.00 bonds, one $100 bond,
and one $50 bond.

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Air Raid Instructions

Thé following instructions
for “Air Raid Wardens were
received by Mr. Broughton.
They have been issued by Mr.
H. D. Harral, Chief Air Raid
Warden for the Lower Mer-
ion District, and especially

concern college air raid
wardens whose duties take
them outside the campus.

The bulletin, dated November
6; 1942, states:

“All wardens will remain
on duty, including street pa-
trol, for at least 15 minutes
after the all clear has been
sounded.

“This will enable wardens
to pick up incidents that can-
not be staged within a 15-
minute drill; to direct emerg-
ency vehicles through the
post to incidents under way
elsewhere; to cover the peri-
od when pedestrians and au-
tomobiles are starting out, all
at once, after the interrup-
tion of the drill; to give in-
formation to civilians gener-
ally who may be confused by
the various signals.

“Wardens concerned in in-
cidents under way will re-
main on duty until the inci-
dent is finally“cleared of all





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“Latch-Key Children”
Pending Bill, Acted on
By Industrial Group



Common Room, November 4.—
Mrs. Lelage Hood of the United
Electrical Radio and Machine
Workers of America, C. I. O., open-
ed the year’s first Industrial Group
meeting with an appeal for more
win-the-war activity and less inef-
fective discussion. Two concrete
proposals dealing with problems
affecting women in war industry
were offered by Mrs. Hood, and
were later adopted.

After a brief survey of the his-
tory of American women in indus-
try, Mrs. Hood launched into prob-
lems facing women in _ industry
now. With an ever increasifig
stream of women entering war
plants to release men for service
with the armed forces, people are
with several entirely new
problems and old difficulties are in-
tensified. Women war workers as
well as women in non-war indus-
tries still have to struggle for
“equal pay for equal work.” Un-
scrupulous employers are employ-
ing women where men are still
available in order to reduce their
wage costs. Mrs. Hood said that
because of have
never been in industry before, the
unions are faced with a large edu-
cational and organizational job in

millions women

The line up was as follows:
BRYN MAWR VARSITY PENN
Continued on Page Three



Bryn Mawr Defeats
Penn’s Hockey Squad

The
beat

Tuesday, November 3. —
Hockey Team successfully
Penn, winning by the score of 4-2.
Lydia Gifford, distingu'shed
herself with three goals, Mary
Rambo, 743, scoring the fourth
point. The play was fast, steady
and forceful.

"5,

The Owl teamwork, more than
anything else, caused Penn’s de-
feat. Defense backed up forwards,
playing an offensive as well as de-
fensive game. The forward line
used this advantage well and, be-
cause of a dependable backfield,
was able to penetrate deep into
Penn territory early in the game.
The score at the end of the first
half was 3-1.

The second half saw Penn tight-
ening up a bit and they began to
cffer more competition to the Owls.
They were beginning to break
down Bryn Mawvr’s stone wall until
Mary Rambo, playing right inner,
pushed an angle shot past the
Penn goalie. The game was secure
for Bryn Mawr from then on.

Continues on Page Four

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Couneil Discusses
Question of Cuts
In Second Session



Faculty Committee Must
Make Final Decision
On Monitors



In ite the

College Council discussed, among

meeting yesterday
other problems, the advisability of
the
Bureau

revising monitoring ‘system;
Recommendations
The Student
Curriculum Committee has consid-
ered the question of cuts, and
agrees that the present system is
inefficient, expensive and_ inaccur-

of

and the Farm Unit.

ate. It récommends as a_ possible
solution that attendance be un-

checked in all but first year courses.
The Council considered two aspects
of the problem: whether the cut
system should be abolished or
merely revised. No decision can be
reached until the Curriculum Com-
mittee has reported to the Faculty
Curriculum Committee.
Continued on Page Two

Philosophy Club Has
Discussion Following

e e e

Paper Explaining Evil

The Philosophy Club held its first
meeting of the year on Wednesday,
November 4, in the Non-Resident
Club Room in Goodhart. A paper
entitled “The Problem of Evil,”
written by Jean Potter, was read
and discussed. It represented an
attempt to justify the existence of
evil in a world with God as a good
creator.

The paper began with an analy-
sis and criticism of different meth-
ods employed to solve this problem.
The author chose the theory that
evil is essential for the existence of
good. Good is a process and kind
of growth, and it is through oppo-
sition to evil that this growth is
achieved.
~Moral evil-may be -divided— into
two parts—sensuality and selfish-
ness, The existence of certain vir-
tues depend on evil as a “medium
of resistance.” Such virtues as
prudence and perseverance are the
result of opposition to. sensuality.
The resistance to selfishness results
in tolerance and mercy.

An informal discussion followed
the reading of the paper. The
Philosophy Club will -hold similar
meetings every two weeks. They
plan to have guest speakers as well
as the reading of other student pa-
pers.







Rock Provides Glamor and Pseudo-Stadium

While Non-Res Enjoys Chaotie Informality



By Virginia Belle Reed, ’44

Saturday night the millennium
arrived when two dances graced
the campus simultaneously. There
was a truly festive look about both
Rock and Goodhart, due, no doubt,
to the decorative effect of real hon-
est-to-God MEN. Rock’s dancers
added tone to the occasion by for-
mal attire and their best brand of

glamor, while the Non-Res dance

was a chaos of people spilling, out
of the Common Room into the rest
of Goodhart and thoroughly enjoy-
ing their informal selves.
How the word got around is a
mystery, but a largish contingent
of Penn and Haverford Sophisti-
cates arrived on the Paoli Local
and provided men stags, (a phe-
nomena previously encountered
only at Junior Prom). The Hav-





erford Freshmen proved decorative
but stolid bystanders, but the up-
perclassmen’ circulated energeti-
cally. One unlikely looking chap

.carefully, took down the names and

addresses of all his partners.

The Rock dance glided along
against the background of a sta-
dium, with the additional note of a
dummy football player strung up
in the pseudo atmosphere. The
dummy bore an unfortunate resem-
blance to a corpse and as _ such
caused shudders among arriving
gentility.

An interesting scoreboard an-
nounced that matters stood R@gek-
ettes 0, Visitors 0, at the beginning
of the evening, but caused one to
wonder what the score was later
on. Anything to keep the under-
graduates gay!
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Offensive

We applaud the timely and effective offensive in Africa launch-
ed by American troops, and supported by British air and sea power.
Although it is not a full-fledged second front, in that it is not an in-
vasion of the European continent, it is clearly a precursor to an at-
tack at the heart of the Axis.

Meanwhile it is a real second front to Rommel, catching him
between tivo attacking armies and making his destruction merely a
matter of time. It lays the basis for driving the Nazis, Italian and
Vichy fascists out of Africa.

It provides the possibility of forestalling Nazi moves against
South America from Dakar bases. It promises to balk the obvious
Hitler strategy of effecting a junction with Japan in the Middle
East. It clears the way for destroying all the Axis power in the
Mediterranean.

But most of all it will open the way for unleashing massive at-
tacks on Southern Europe through one, or possibly several, routes.

It will speed the general disintegration of the Nazi coalition as
will every offensive move by the United Nations.

The invasion will encourage and strengthen anti-fascist forces
in Spain and will rouse pro-United Nations forces in such countries
as Argentina. It will act as a signal to all the conquered peoples of
Europe, especially the French people.

It will also strengthen our own national unity by drawing the
lines of the war more clearly, by beginning the end of differentiation |

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‘between. fascists: om?
It clearly marks the turning point in the war. We need now}

only guard against over-optimism.



Midstream

The widespread success of the Republicans in the elections of
last week is important because it may indicate what the trend will be
in 1944,

Although the value of midterm elections as a guage for the sub-
sequent presidential contest is debatable, as shown in 1938, these
results perhaps reveal that the country was not satisfied with the
administration’s conduct of the war, as of November 3rd. If the
African invasion had come a week earlier, if it had not appeared to
the voting public that Stalin’s and Willkie’s plea for a second front
were being ignored, perhaps another story might have been told at
the polls.

There are obvious gaps in this theory. Why was Hamilton
Fish, a known isolationist reelected in the President’s home county
if the country voted against the Democratic regime because it was
not aggressive enough? The same can be asked about Dewey’s
great majority in New York. The only consistent answer that can
be given is that in these and similar instances the electorate~ was
more concerned with local than with national or international issues.

The close race for House control has already made many a
Democrat look to his record. Representative Martin has resigned
as Secretary of the Republican Party to devote full time to his job
as minority leadet indicating that the “loyal opposition” will in-
crease in proportion to its numerical strength. ' Perhaps the political
pendulum which had begun to swing in 1938, and was halted by the
war, has started to move once more,



Farmers Wanted :

* Bryn Mawr has pledged its help in harvesting the crops of
three neighboring-farms. Since the work is needed on weekends, it
should not interfere with students’ academic programs, nor should
the fact that we are primarily being trained for war jobs be justifi-

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We

jiate press have been tearing their |

as isolationists Hamilton Fish and

Nuts and Bolts

By Jessie Stone, ’44



By Anne Nias 43
The November Elections caused
editorial fires in many colleges this
year — at least, pre-election fires.
The editors of some of the colleg-

collective - hair over the apathy |
among students on the subject of
elections. Even Swarthmore’s
Phoenix carries an indignant let-



ter to the editor deploring the

small attendance at an O’Rourke (4

meeting.

At Carleton College in North-;
field, Minnesota, approximately 20
per cent of the students were able
to vote. The Carletonian printed
an editorial discussing the impor-
tance of this “Election for Vic-
tory,” and imploring the students
to consider the records of the can-
didates. for Congress. The paper
lists three “friends of the Axis,”

Joseph Martin, and reactionary
John Taber of New York. Paint-
ing a grim picture of the conse- |
quences of election mistakes, the |
Carletonian said, ‘A defeat here in
America on Tuesday may be more
serious to the cause than the loss
of half of the North African Des-
ert.”

-Campus elections, too, have been
under discussion in. those colleges
where elections are held in the fall.
Swarthmore, after despairing over
the light vote in the nation’s elec-
tions, elected their own adminis-
trative council in a 338 per cent
vote, according to the Phoeniz.
An editorial in the Phoenix asks
why the campus “fails so miser-
ably in its own political affairs.”

The Carnegie Tech Tartan is |
asking for proportional represent- !
aton On the Tech campus there is
a.need for minority protection for
the various factions, a need which
obviously does not present itself in
a small homogeneous college like
Bryn Mawr. The elections there,
more comparable to regular elec-
tions than those at Bryn Mawr,
are a matter of more importance.

At Sarah Lawrence a Rumor
Clinic has been discussed, which
would print’ various rumors: and
the real facts behind them. Such a
rumor clinic can be found in the
Boston Herald, and in the World
Telegram. The clinic, it was stat-
ed in the Campus, would treat all
kinds of rumors, especially those
involving racial.predjudices and
other social problems. The Campus
is urging students to pick up ru-
mors and send them in to the ‘col-
umn where they may be examined
and .the original facts tracked
down.

OPINION

College Employment Bureau’s
Low Wage Program Stuns
Baby - Sitters







| To the Editor of the College News:

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| In face of the recent legislative
|trend in this country towards the
|improvement of the wage-hour sit-
iuation, the group of wage-earners
known as baby-sitters were stun-
;ned last week to receive an official
;communication ‘from College em-
| ployment authorities lowering eve-
| ning rates for baby sitting to 15
|eents an hour for the first hour,
20 cents for the second hour, with
a minimum wage of 50 cents an
evening. This protest is not be-
cause the baby-sitters fail to real-

Sophomore Elections

The Sophomore Class
takes pleasure in announc-
ing the following elections:

Vice - president, Jeanne- —
Marie Lee.

Secretary-Treasurer, Har-
ji Malik.

Song Mistress, Nancy
Sapp.

Delegate to the League,
Louise Bruce,



Crinead baie bs

Common Room, November 10.—
Miss Robbins, speaking at Cur-
rent Events, summarized and ana-
lyzed Stalin’s speech of Novem-
ber 6.

In 1914 the Central Powers had
220 divisions, of which 130 were on
the Russian front. Germany and











WITS END-.

E 1 F n’s Sin

- So Queen Elizabeth shifted her-
self around: in the noisy refrigera-
tor, slapped him on his broad and
brawny shoulders and pronounced
him Knight of the Garter. Gentle-
man Jim quckly reached over for
his Vitamin E pills. - Will- you
have rum in your milk or straight
rum, he cooed. But maid Marian
screamed, unhand. me you Sea Wolf
or you’ll be sorry in two years!

Yet above the maiden’s moans
and the refrigerator’s roar could be
heard appro&ching footsteps in the
dark. Click went the flashbulb,
and Life, conscious of the shake-
down to come, took the flight com-
mand.

On to God’s City cried the gen-
tleman bum, Robin Hood, and he
shot his poisoned arrow straight at
the Mexican Spitfire. Peggy my
love, he suggested, how brightly
shines yonder moon through the
porthole below. Goody, goody, let’s
see said Peg. Shake a leg.

What desperate journey brings
me to your cabin, Essex, interject-
ed the virgin queen as she adjust-
ed her black underwear and tossed
her pig-tails coyly. Sweetest Love,
I do not goe, he replied.









Council Discusses Cut

Difficulties in Meeting



Continued from Page One

The problem of estes was
discussed. The Council felt that
there is a lack of things to do on
campus, and it was suggested that
a fuller schedule be planned. Club
teas could be held then rather than
during.the week. The railroads
are anxious to have as little week-
end travel as possible,
were more to do here, more people
might stay, it was suggested.

The Council also considered the
Bureau of Recommendations. Mrs.
Crenshaw said that the student’s
problem now is to choose what job
she will take. College trained
women are in increasing demand.

The Bureau of Recommendations |

is helping to advise students as to



and if there |

her Allies were able to turn 240
divisions against Russia. Thus the
U.S. S. R. has faced a force nearly
twice as large as in the last war.
Stalin claimed that, contrary to
‘popular belief, Hitler’s goal was
not the oil in the Baku and Grozny
area. His intention was rather to
outflank Moscow from the east and
cut it off from the Volga. Cap-
tured German dispatches show that
Hitler had planned to reach Stalin-
grad by July 25, providing an in-
dication of how badly the German
timetable was upset.
The history of military opera-
tions was divided by Stalin into
two periods,—the winter of Rus-
sian initiative after the first as-
sault, and the summe’_ of German
gains. These gains. were made
possible by the lack of a second
front.
Stalin reviewed the three major
British offensives in Libya. In the
winter of 1940 the first offensive
got under way, with Benghazi
taken in February of the following
year. December, 1941, found. the
Eighth Army, after considerable
reverses, again on the offensive.
On October 23, after a series of
disasters resulting in the fall of
Tobruk and the German arrival at
El Alamein on July 1, the British
under General Montgomery began
their third and greatest offensive.
Miss Robbins discussed the Rus-
sian war aims in the present con-
flict. Stalin made a nine point pro-
igram of the aims of the Anglo-
| Soviet-American alliance, including
the abolition of racial hatred,.liber-
ation of enslaved nations, and de-
struction of Nazism throughout the
‘world. Stalin stated that the Rus-
'sians do not wish to destroy Ger-
;/many, merely the Nazi system and
‘its leaders.
| There is no question of Russian
‘ideology clashing with that of the
‘other United Nations, said the
‘Soviet leader. All are united by
| the common aim of destroying Hit-
iler’s rule of terror. Thus Stalin
denied last summer’s rumors of an
‘imminent split between the Allies.
| Miss\ Robbins pointed out that
‘the alliance with England is far
| closer than the alliance with the
| United States. Actually the Anglo-
|Russian treaty of May 26, 1942,





‘represents closer relations between :

‘the two countries than any that
‘have existed since the Napolenoic
| Wars.



whether they should receive fur-|

ther training or go into work at! . :
once. Miss King is the vocational {in Washington speak at the College
| was considered.

Alliance affairs were discussed



counsellor. There is a great va-!
riety of jobs, and places for all).
majors, either in war or in civilign/!” the Council meeting. The Farm
work. “~~ | Unit is an important part of its

The Vocational Committee is|W°"k this year. Three farms are
planning to have conferences with |CUnting on Bryn Mawr’s help to
two or three speakers at a time on | 8¢t their crops in. At the present
Saturday mornings. Interviews | te 475 bushels of corn are being
will be held in the afternoons. | usked, and the same amount of
Among these will be a Civil Serv- | @pples picked, per week. On Fri-
| day afternoon about 13 students

go, and on Saturdays about 21.
Some are learning how to milk
cows. The urgent need for work
and the cooperation of the farmers
was stressed.

The ‘failure of the Activities
Drive was considered. It was sug-
gested that this was due to the fact
"(that there are this year many

drives on campus.

ice Conference. The possibility o
having some of last year’s genes



ize that 50 cents an evening is 50
cents to the good. They submit
that the college employment au-
thorities are permitting them to be
in a sense exploited in the light of

certain factors of the present do-
Continued on Page Three



, cation for staying away.

twenty on Saturdays.

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The need for the work is obvious. The crops must be harvested.
Labor is urgently needed and will contiue to be throughout the year.

Swarthmore and the University of Pennsylvania are already
contributing large numbers of students to farm work. We are
asked for only fifteen students on Friday afternoons and about
The farmers are anxious to have us; the
work is enjoyable as well as essential. By doing. such work we, as
college students, gan make an effective contribution to the war

The reorganization of Cvrirrent
Events with speakers for different
phases of contemporary problems
was discussed and the possibility
of alternating meetings with those
of the War Discussion Group,
sponsored by the Alliance consid-
ered. :

The question of heating the The-
atre Workshop was_ discussed.
Bryn Mawr and Baldwin have ap-
plied for oil to last until Novem-
ber 27th. :

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Short Stories





By Lenore O’Boyle, ’43

A Curtain Of Green proves that
there are valid reasons for consid-
most
promising of American short story
writers. She has sensitivity, a tre-
mendous intensity, and an unusual
degree of objectivity. Her techni-
cal competence shows in her hand-
ling of suspense, in her utilization
of every advantage of the short
story medium.

None of the stories in this book,
whatever else may be charged
against them, can be ignored or
easily forgotten. At her best, Miss
Welty can write, with understand-
ing, a story as moving as Death of
a Traveling Salesman. At her
worst, she can spoil interesting
subject.matter_by—overdoing—her
distinctive approach.

That her work is concerned al-
most exclusively with the mentally
deficient is no criticism in itself.
Unfortunately this preoccupation
sometimes leads to undesirable re-
sults. More than once the author
loses sight of the borderline be-
tween the grim and the ludicrous.
Katherine Ann Porter, in her intro-
duction, speaks of Why I Live at

_the P. O. as a terrifying study of

dementia praecox, but to some
readers it could easily be confused
with S. J. Perelman’s work. Clytie
comes close to being a highly ef-
fective story, but it too frequently

goes beyond the point where the

reader can demand anything more
of his sermse of belief or of his
sense of humor.

Miss Welty at the same tint is
showing the reverse side of the
picture, the lack of understanding
and the cruelty that the normal
world shows towards these misfits.
Here she is frequently successful.
The Petrified Man is, as Mrs. Por-
ter claims, a brilliant analysis of





"“Latch- Key” Children
Acted’ on by Group



Continued from Page One

| order to preserve wage standards |

won in the past.

Thousands of Negro women an-
xious to work are unable to find |
jobs. Employers are able to evade

| the Fair Employment Act by re- | will casts: in the dete.

women on_ the}
are inexperienc-
It is undoubt-

jecting Negro
grounds that they
ed, said Mrs. Hood.

discriminatory

; to past

ence in her shop and pointed out |





that with the help of intelligent |
white workers new Negro workers |

ui J. ‘Wa Reasserts

Need for Farm Help

Continued from Fage One
course would probably begin in



January and be held once a week.

| At the start, the work would be

| theoretical and mainly blackboard
instruction. Actual work on farms
The pur-
of the course is to acquire
experienced labor for the

pose
more

edly true that a larger proportion | SPtng and summer plowings. If

| of Negro women are inexperienced | enough
j in industry than white women, due |
practices. |
= | The political nature of the war de-| representatives from Bryn Mawr,
| mands that these bars be lifted. | Jane Leflar
| Mrs. Hood drew on her own experi- |. Others were urged to attend as

students enroll for the
| course, it will be given.



and Grace Weigle.
non-voting delegates. The Confer-
ence will be held November 13 at

the Stephen Girard Hotel in Phila-



are soon accepted on equal terms | delphia.
by others in the plant.

A problem that has risen direct-|} danger of the so-called “Equal
ly out of the war centers around | Rights Amendment” sponsored by
the so-called “latch-key” children. | the National Women’s Party and
These are school children whose | now pending before the House Ju-
Pmoteres work in war plants and|diciary Committee. This amend-
| leave their children with only a| ment, which is opposed by most lib-
house-key on a string around their | eral women’s organizations, includ-
jinecks...__Many. of these children | ing the American Association of
merely wander around “the streets | University Women, sounds innocu-
after-school; some-of them: po Home! }ous on superficial reading, since it
Baste shift for themselves. Thi ses that women be on the
| prcblemyhas been met very meager- same foobing with men in every re-
ly by private institutions, said Mrs.| spect. In effect, said Mrs. Hood,
Hood. To be dealt with effectively, | who was supported “in this conten-
federal support is necessary. ition by Miss Fairchild, thé»amend-







Unchaperoned Dogs |
Are Campus worry, OPINION







Continued from Page Two

help situation. Someone
law and order has undoubtedly ob-! needing a responsible
served, with care and respect, the} woman to watch children for an
No dogs | evening who could not find a stu-/
ident, baby sitter available would

either be~unable.to..find..anyone to
‘tate on the job or have to pay 50
This sign has so far caused no ,cents an hour to whomever was
It is true | employed.

They submit that wage rates for |
comparable work at other colleges
‘are almost 85 cents an hour and

Every student with any sense eee

following campus sign:
admitted on campus except in the
company of adults.

one any serious worry.
that Mrs.
about what would happen

Grant expressed some
fear

young,

Mrs. Hood suggested that the In- | ment will invalidate all past legis-

;conference sponsored by the Com- | tion to women in industry and will
|m'ttee for the Care of Young Chil-! preclude the possibility of any fur-
,dren in Wartime, to launch a con-| ther gains in this direction.

certed campaign for immediate ac- :
{tion on this question. The meeting |
later discussed the proposal, ap-
| proved it unanimously and decided
to send as delegates for the work-
ers from the Y. W. C. A., Jean Lis-
|cavage and. Alice Liscavage, and as





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when her son, who is obviously no}
adult, appeared at the
brazenly leading her small dog. To
date the only news received about
the Dean’s little boy concerns his | 2S effectively as in the library is a)
entry into Taylor. Query: “Does a! fallacy from the viewpoint of the,
woman named Grant work here?”| 2¢tuality. |

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often 50 cénts an hour.
college

The assumption that the baby-|
sitter can work as steadily and just |



During the last week, however, The case of the graduate group
a new and ominous development! of baby sitters has been but before
has been reported. A small, under- | Alice Gore King of the Bureau of
fed, and misshapen animal has ap- | Recommendations. Miss King
peared in our midst. Why this dog plans to call a meeting of the grad- |
feels a spiritual bond with the in-| uate representatives and the oan
habitants of Merion cannot be dis-|dergraduate representatives of the
covered. It is true that his main; baby sitters to resolve the’ situa-
activity centers around Taylor;tion. The baby sitters submit their | ;
steps, but Merion is obviously his! case to campus publie opinion.
base of operations. If affection is| Lucy ALIMMOSA
what he’s after, a: grave mistake ELIZABETH GooK



has been made. Our personal sus- DINE Dori
picion is that one of life’s little; MADELEINE..DALY
tragedies is going to occur on the JEANNE DEBow

RUTH DOMINO
RACHEL FRANK
AGNES IRELAND
AUGUSTA LICHTENEGGER
ANNELIESE PULVERMANN

first cold day after Thanksgiving.



unrelieved vulgarity. Lily Daw |
and the Three Ladies is a success- |
ful study of the havoe wreaked by
those not always well-intentioned) #™ “fy
people who will not mind their own | New under-arm
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business. But even in this group |
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to defeat her own ends. epaioa
the Outcast Indian Maiden is un-}
doubtedly the most powerful story |
in the book. Here a peculiarly hor-
rible physical crime has been com-
mitted. To present the moral act
of repentance for this crime is
Miss Welty’s aim, but the reader
vemembers the physical, rather
than the _ psychological details,
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Salinas Will: Lecture
At Spanish Club Tea

Continued from Page One
lege and this summer he was at the



WHAT TO DO

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students for the following positions |} Middlebury Spanish School.
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for next year: | In Salinas has a

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Stenographers and Typists for! works, only two volumes of poetry
the Office of Alien Property Cus- | have been translated into English.
Those are Truth of Two, and Lost

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ford Hetreat. ; most recent works are Reality and

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A country boarding school has
an opening next year in its art de-
partment. They will consider =
beginner at a small salary plus
living expenses. Further details
may be obtained from the rege ter
Part-time jobs available to stu-
dents in College are as follows:

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delphia wants salesgirls.

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fer a new course on Person-
nel Management to be given
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