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VOL. ohh No. 23

BRYN -MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 1938

Copyright TRUSTEES OF
BRYN MAWR COLLEGE, 1938

PRICE 10.CENTS





Apes Grasp Issues
In Problems, Never
Repeat Same Error



Dr. Kohler Shows Anthropoids
Unbewine Causes, Though

earn by Imitation

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FOOD LURES MONKEYS
- TO ANTICS IN MOVIE



Music Room, April 20—Dr. Wolf-
gang Kohler, author of The Mentality
of Apes, gave a lecture of the same
title, illustrated by a brief moving pic-
ture. Dr. Kéhler’s aim was to prove
the intellectual behavior of anthropoid
apes. Intelligence, he said, has to do
with insight, which is an awareness of
relationships in a problem and an
ability to recognize the principles in-
volved. The anthropoid ape has this
insight.

As an example of the difference be-

_ tween the reaction of an ape and an-
other animal in the same situation,
Dr. Kohler cited an experiment in
discrimination made by Yerks in his
Yale laboratories. The most stupid
animal used was! the hen. The error
curve per unit group of hens dwindled
ultimately but very gradually to zero.
When it was the turn of the anthro-
poid ape, represented by Julius, an
orang utang, to perform the experi-
ment, Julius preferred to turn somer-
saults. His error curve, which began
about like. the hen’s, stayed consist-
ently “f a high error level. Yerks,

“who had éXpected quite different re-
sults;qwas almost,.ready to prove that
cay oe actually stupider than hens,
when Julius discovered the correct
way of performing his task, and made
no more mistakes.

An ape must first know ehed he
is working for, and must recognize it
as an agreeable stimulus. Then, if

he cannot solve his problem, he must
be shown how to. His use’ of this help
is significant. Just as the student has
himself to comprehend the relation-
ship of.a cause and its effect before
his teacher’s use of the explanatory
“because” means anything, so the
ape’s accurate copying of his instruc-
tor’s actions involves a preliminary
awareness of their relevance.

A chimpanzee accustomed to re-
trieving bananas from outside his cage
with the help of the stick, was given

a coil of wire in place of the stick.
Continued on Page Four



Haverford, Bryn Mawr
Present Wilde Comedy

Importance of Being E(a)rnest
Shows Excellent Acting





When a comedy has become a class-
ic, can it remain a comedy? The an-
swer — when-the comedy is the Im-
portunce of Being Earnest and given
by the Haverford Cap and Bells Club

»|—is unreservedly yes.

Even in a year remarkable for tech-
nical excellence, their production was
outstanding in its sound acting and
thorough craftsmanship. Except for
one rather lurid garden-scene—when
has there been a good garden-scene?
—the sets were not only handsome,

but firmly constructed and smoothfy |

run, in spite of the innumerable prop-

erties and the quantities of food re-
quired by the action. From the tech-
nical point-of-view, too, the acting was
excellent; not a line was slurred or a
piece of business unconvincing, except
for Ernest and Algernon’s rather un-
fortunate belief that. confusion and
alarm can be expressed:only by run-
ning an index-finger violently around
the inside of the collar.

Algernon, played by William H.
Reaves, Jr., was easily the outstand-
ing character of the play. Strongly
resembling the younger Oscar Wilde
in appearance, slim, drooping-shoul-
dered and detached, “Algy’” varied his
expression between a remote snigger
and a poignant look of martyred in-
nocence. He was the one character

who seemed perfectly at ease in the} ‘isu

languid rambling satire and the deli-
cate perversions of the cliché that
make “up the Importance of emg
Earnest. As his friend and fellow-hero
John. Worthing, Wilfred Simmons
could not quite attain his supreme
abandon, but made up for it by his
vigor and enthusiasm.

Unfortunately, however, Wilde’s
elaborate and epigrammatical style is
hardly so well suited to the other
characters of the play. It is particul-
arly inappropriate to the two heroines,
Gwendoline and Cecily, who are sup-
posed to be young girls in love with
John and Algernon. Caroline Shine,
39, as Cecily, played intelligently.
steadying her part. greatly by making
Wilde’s blasé observations with an air
of innocent unexpectedness. Elise
Ruhl, ’41, however, had a hard time to
keep Gwendoline from swerving off
into over-self-conscious coyness.

The style of the play showed to bet-
ter advantage in the benign speeches
of S. Allen Brown as the Rev. Canon

Chasuble, and_the fine fluttering per-
Continued on Page Four



First Year Geologists Make. Merry
~-Crinoids_and_ Corals in Spring Field Trip

With



COLLEGE CALENDAR

Friday, April 29—Glee Club
performance of Patience. Good-
hart, 8.30.

Saturday, April 30 — Glee
Club performance of Patience.
Goodhart, 8.30.

Sunday, May 1—Camera Club
Exhibit begins. Common Room.
Lecture on Russian Folk Music
by Prof. Alfred J. Swan. Dean-
ery, 5 p. m. ‘Leslie Glenn to
speak in chapel. Music Room,
7.30.

Monday, May 2—May Day.
Fifth Flexner Lecture by Dr.
Edwin Gay. Goodhart, 8.20.

Tuesday, May 3 — Current
Events, Mr. Fenwick. Common —
Room, 7.30. A. S. U. meeting,
Sol Rosner will speak. Common
Room, 8.15. Two-piano recital
by Edward Steuermann and
Michael Zadora. Goodhart, 8.36.

Wednesday, May 4 — Indus-
trial Group Supper. Common
Room, 6.30.

Thursday, May 5 — Dance
Forum. Gymnasium, 8.20.

Friday, May 6—One-act Plays
given by the Players’ Club.
Goodhart, 8.30.

Sunday, May 8 — Hampton
Quartet, Deanery, 5 p. m. Dr.
Donald Aldrich to speak in cha-
pel,/Miisfé Room, 7.30.

Monday, May 9—Sixth Flex-
ner Lecture by Dr. Edwin Gay.
Goodhart, 8.20.

Tuesday, May 10 — Current
Events, Mr. Fenwick. Common
Room, 7.30. International Club
Meeting. Common Room, 8 p.m.







Six Colleges Attend

German Entertainment



Goucher, Haverford, Princeton,

Johns Hopkins Are Guests

At Bryn Mawr



Goodhart Hall, April 23.— Bryn
Mawr was host to members of six col-
leges at supper and an evening of
German entertainment. Princeton’s
scene in a Bavarian Wirtshaus star-
ved in a program which included a
play by Swarthmore and one given by
Bryn Mawr and Haverford in collab-
oration. There was also skillful folk-
dancing by John Hopkins, and dia-
logues and scenes front Snow White
by Goucher.

Miss Marion E. Park welcomed the
colleges and introduced Mr. Max Diez
who proposed the formation of a per-
manent ‘central committee for Inter-
collegiate German Days. The need of
such an organization was apparent in

{the program, for although each per-

formance was well executed, the total





Led by, Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln Dry-
den, Mr. Edward Watson, Miss Lois

» Schoonover, ,and, Tonto, the Dryden’s.

spaniel, the first year Geology class

took off for its annual long field trip
at 8.30 a. m., Friday morning, April

22. The: streamlined Greyhound bus,|

with Mr. D. Martyn, later christened

_“Darwyn”, at the helm, was surround-
ed by former geologists shouting con-
flicting bits of advice on how to com-
bat the motion of the bus, or how to
find Life in Stroudsburg, Tamaqua,
and points west.

The bus was followed by a contin-
gent of four Haverfordians, who were
handy later in tracking down Barbara
Bigelow, ’89, after her attempted de-
sertion at Chestnut Hill. With Dar-

. wyn, they also lured a number of the
less sleepy members of the party off
to a coal miners’ barn dance in Tama-
qua on Saturday night.

The Penn-Stroud Hotel in Strouds-
burg, “metropolitan center of the Po-

’ conos,” housed the expedition Friday

night, and required: ‘two hours to feed
.a dozen of the hungrier geologists.
-Mr. Dryden had some difficulty. in
persuading the management to give
him an unopened bottle of ‘milk to, so-
lace Tonto’s canine hunger next morn-

bes pA native. of ee Tonto is}



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already beginning to live up to his
name and station. When unleashed
and unwatched he nayrows avidly for
fdtks “and’ eats them. ° PP PRP

Saturday morning the bus set off
along back roads to tKe strains of:
“What shall we do with a bouncing

breakfast,

What shall we do with our prancing
prunes,

What shall we do with a flouncing
fried egg—

Early in the morning.
Hooray, up she rises... . etc.”

The fossil localities disclosed a
quantity of finds, but no major dis-
coveries. Eleanor Emery, ’40, stum-
bled upon a large Crinoid, almost two
inches in diameter, and a number of
tribolite parts were found. At Weiss-
port the search was distracted for a
time while Miss Schoonover recovered
after having a potential museum piece
rolled down the bank upon her.

From Stroudsburg to Tamaqua the
route lay through a succession of over-
turned beds, plunging synclines, and
pitching anticlines, which left every-
one in a weakened condition. At the
Majestic Hotel in “Tamaqua a good] r
bath was had by all, though some re-
ported that the water was a deep grey
before they. started. After dinner,

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numbers the lighter elements should
predominate, so that aspects ‘of every
performance could be appreciated by
those with a slight knowledge of Ger-
man. The presence of two pretentious
plays.on the program deprived each
of the emphasis it deserved.

The Princeton German Club is an
organization which meets weekly for
beer and German singing. Four days
ago the need to present a skit on Sat-
urday inspired Bier Her. Disguised in
pillows and a ‘barténder’s apron, Phil-
ip Davidson, ’89, only officer of the
club, served beer in the Bavarian
Biergarten to three natives in Leder-
hosen with pipes and to three Ameri-
cans in checked coats with how ties.
(The beverage, although poor of its
kind, was the first beer officially re-
corded on the Goodhart stage. Ed.).)
The foreigners, shown by their clothes
to be “Princeton Men, ” attempted to
organize a pleasant evening with the
natives which resulted in puns, songs
and horseplay.

One reason for the enthusiastic re-
ception of Princeton’s skit may have
been that no knowledge of German
was ; required. Wilder Penfield, ’41,

recounted the #aust Saga in intelligi-
ble Pennsylvania Dutch. -No\ one
could misunderstand the crude, de-
ightfully. German parlor trick with





Continued on Page Three _

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‘ment.

Steuermann, Zadora
To Give Piano Recital



Compositions of Late Ferruccio

Busoni. Will be Played



Under the auspices of the Busoni
Society the College Entertainment
Committee will present a program of
the compositions of Ferruccio Busoni
for the piano on Tuesday evening,
May 3, in Goodhart ‘Hall. Michael
Zadora and Eduard Steuermann, the
artists of the program, have both

| studied under Busoni and are among

the leading interpreters of his work.

The society has been formed to stim-
ulate public interest in Busoni’s. work,
which, ‘its members feel, “definitely
exemplifies certain high and new
aesthetic principles for the establish-
ment and understanding of which
Busoni was an active pioneer.” Dur-
ing his lifetime, he received little -un-
derstanding and many harsh notices
from critics in this country.

Michael Zadora, president of the
Busoni Society, was born in New York
City, but has spent most of his life
in Berlin, where he was at one time
the teacher of Horace Alwyne, direc-
tor of the Bryn Mawr Music Depart-
Zadora studied under Lesche-
tizky in Vienna, and later became a
pupil and intimate friend of Busoni.
After playing in many important
cities of Europe, South America, and
the United States, in 1913-1914 Za-
dora was head of the piano depart-
ment of the Institute of Musical Art
of New York.

Originally known as a middernist,
Eduard Steuermann has often broken
away from this group and concen-
trated on the classics in his recitals.
Mr. Steuermann was born in Poland
and began giving recitals at the age
of nine. After working under Busoni
in Basle, Switzerland, he was intro-
duced by \the master to Arnold
Schoenberg, with whom he studied
composition in Berlin; later, he be-
came an active member of the group
of modernists gathered around Scho-
enberg.

The program for the evening will
be:

I. Fantasia Contrappuntistica

Michael Zadora: and

Eduard Steuermann
Carmen Phantasy
'Paganinesco

Michael Zadora

All'Italia
Turandot

Eduard accmeeaan

II.

IIL

IV.
Clockwork
Busoni-Mozart: Duettino Con-
certante
Michael Zadora and
Eduard Steuermann

Busoni-Mozart: Phantasy for a



Internal Friction
Caused Breakdown
Of Craft Industry

Restrictive Gild Organization
Made Industrial Progress
Impossible

GAY TRACES GROWTH
OF CONTRACT SYSTEM

Goodhart, April 25—In his fourth
lecture on Industrial Organization in
England during the Renaissance, Dr.
Gay pointed out that the method of





trade developed during the sixteenth’

and seventeenth centuries was the be-
ginning of free competitive industry
and of our modern capitalist system.
The development proceeded slowly, al-
most imperceptibly, until the differ-
ence between the first and last steps
finally appeared so gr€at as to give
the two systems separate names.

Dr. Gay showed that many parallel
cases could be found between the agra-
rian disputes and the industrial con-
flicts. Both the open-field system and
the handicraft method, based on the
principle that every man should have
an equal economic opportunity, fell
chiefly because of internal weaknesses
and not only because of the enclosure
movement in one case or the new in-
dustrial organization in the other.

In his examination of the records
in the Court of Requests, Dr. Gay
found that out of 700 legal agrarian
disputes approximately 50 dealt with
enclosures and 80 with copy-holding
rights; a much larger number between
a lord and his tennants or tennants of
a neighboring manor dealt with the use
of waste land. As the continual nib-
bling off of this land upset the main-
tenance of fertility, it became a pri-
mary cause of the failure of the open-
field system. _ :

The handicraft system, Dr. Gay ex-
plained, depended on a limited local
market and specialized labor. The in-

efficiency of this specialization, along:

with the government’s attempt to eli-
minate the chaos of overlaping crafts,
resulted in a movement to amalgamate
many gilds. The new system led to dis-
tinction between the rich and poor
members of the same organization, an
increased number of country crafts,
and a large working class that pro-
duced for wholesale merchants and
carried out their operations through
the new class of middlemen.

Although the handicraft system -ex-
isted long before the gilds and contin-
ued long after the latter’s elimination
in the middle ages, the gilds provided
a social sH@l in which the handicraft

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Cornelia Otis Skinner Makes Recording;

Gives Impressions of American Speech

was too long. In an evening of somany}|— MJ





The latést achievement of the voice-
recording department, headed by Miss

Mary. Henderson, is Ge commence-
; Ci
ment of t a series ‘of re recordings of fam<

ous voices connected with Bryii Mawr.
The first of the series is Miss Cornelia
Otis Skinner, who covered one and a
half 12-inch records with her mono-
logue Times Square, and gave sfew
of her impressions of American
speech.

The process of recording is familiar
to the freshmen and to various mem-
bers of the English Department who
have heard their speech immortalized
in aluminum. Miss Skinner went
through the routine preliminaries by
making a test remark in front of the
microphone. Miss Henderson then ad-

justed the machine, started it hum-|’

ming and waved her-arm as a starting
signal.

Times Square is really a cross-sec-
tion of national speech, the most inter-
esting that Miss Skinner could have
chosen both to illustrate the enorm-
ities of the American language and
her facility in imitating them. At the},
same -time, it has an extraordinary
emotional range, which is as much
‘the result of situation. as. of accent.
The first character is a querulous old

Italian woman, chiefly remarkable for





the ferocity with which she curses her
bambino, in contrast to a calculated
whining sales-talk. She is followed
by a succession of» different Aypess
the sogiety woman, fanée and affected,
who is the ne plus ultra of bastard
British, with a trough-tongued fr
(Waquet: Club) thrown in for good
measure; the Southern girl who is
best characterized by her pronounc-
iation of “scared to death” as “scayad
to dayeth;” the tough chorus girl and
the ingénue working-girl. Then there
is the sailor’s moll and the opium
addict, and the heroic wife who is
sending her husband out to Arizona
to be cured. At the end, the circle is
completed by the reappearance of
the Italian woman, her voice trailing
off into the distance.

dience,.was instinctively moving her
hands in character with the part she
was portraying. When she-had fin-
ished the monologue’ she ed the
record with a stylus and handed it to
“posterity” by proxy three undergrad-
uates: Julia Grant, 88, Eleanor Taft,

’39, and-Mary Meigs, ’39, while the

press flashed in the background. When

Miss Henderson asked her if she

wanted to hear herself, she said, a
Continued on Fagen Four

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During the recording, Miss Skinner, ©
with her back towards her\small au-:

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Pippa

Passes

The commonest kind of nostalgia is for the good old days; every-

body over thirty fs old enough to remember them.

Those were the

days when it was impossible to pry students loose from college over
the weekends, when home made one-act-plays were given in the gym-
nasium, when the third floor of Taylor was used as a chapel instead

of as a storehouse for old busts.

They were the days when anybody

who missed the Swarthmore-Bryn Mawr. basketball game was a social
pariah ; when even the College News partook of the spirit of enthusiasm
and covered its whole third page with sports write-ups.

The undergraduates, commonly supposed to be under thirty, have

a much more pernicious influence.

Instead of reminiscing, we growl

discontentedly ; we hate the good old days, but we. hate our own days

even more.

If we are given a Library Wing, we look up truculently

and ask for another, and if we are offered a Theater Workshop, we use
everything we have learned in first year philosophy to argue against

it.

If we happen to approve of anything, we are almost as secretive

about it as Russian spies would be in Germany.

The News is not the apostle of sweetness and light; the fact is,
that after protracted thought, it could find nothing to complain about.
For once, perhaps because of the ‘weather, all seemed right with the
world, at.least with the small world which furnishes material for edi-

torials.

The Science Building is being painted, slates are growing like

fish scales on the roof of Rhoads Hall, the Keep Off the Grass signs have
been uprooted, and everybodyknows how we feel about the Orals.
The destiny of the hoops was settled without. any major casualties in a
senior class meeting; and the modern dancers refuse to believe that
they are lowering their I. Q.’s and morale by keeping time with a tom-

tom. Most of us do not realize our

good fortune. In spite of it, with

the coming of spring, we have moodily put on dark“glasses actually and

metaphorically, because the sun has become so much brighter.

News recommends polaroid glasses
light and none of the glare.

The
(no advt.), which let in all of the



In Philadelphia

Movies o-
Aldine: Continuing The Adventures
of Marco Polo. The typical American,
Gary Cooper, becomes Italian. Also

..George Barbier, Alan Hale, Binnie

Barnes and Sigrid Gurie, Coming:
Beloved. Brat, a comedy with Dolores

—— Costello, —Denald- -Grisp—and- -~Bonita

Granville.
Arcadia: Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife,

\ . in which the Persian Bluebeard be-

comes a typical American. With Gary

» » Sooper and Claudette Colbert. -



* Boyd: Joy of Living, comedy. about
an actress, with Guy Kibbee as an ex-
Shakespearean actor. Irene Dunne
and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., star with
Alice Brady and Eric Blore. Coming:
Four Men and a Prayer.

Earle: Battle of Broadway, Legion-
naires in New York, with Louise
Hovick as the siren. Also former
academy award winner Victor Mc-
Laglen and Brian Donlevy. Begin-
ning Friday: Nurse from Brooklyn,
with Sally Eilers and Paul Kelly. On
stage, Guy Lombardo and his Royal
Canadians.

Europa: Austrian film, The Charm
of La Bohéme, story of Puccini’s
opera, with Jan Kiepura and Marta

Eggerth. English sub-titles. Com-
‘ing: Storm in a Teacup, English com-
edy, with Sara Allgood and Vivien

Leigh.
_ Fox: Continuing In Old Chicago,

Karlton: Second week of Jezebel,

| with Bette Davis.as.an 1850 New Or-

'fYeans belle. -Henry Fonda and George
Brent fre her suitors. Beginning
Saturday: Monastery, a film depicting
monastic life, sanctioned by the Catho-
lic church. :

Keith’s: Mad About Music, Deanna
Durbin _in Switzerland, -with~Herbert |
Marshall,Arthur. Treacher,..Gail. Pat-
rick and Marcia Mae Jones.

Palace: Snow White and the Seven
Dwarfs.

Stanley: Clarke Gable, Myrna- ito
rand Spencer “Tracy” in’ Test Pilot,
thrilling air drama. Beginning Fri-
day: Robin Hood, adventures in Rich-
ard the Lidfthearted' s time, with Errol
Flynn as the outlaw and Olivia de
Haviland as Maid Marian.

Stanton: King of the Newsboys,
from rags.to riches, etc., with Alison
Skipworth, Helen Mack. and Lew
Ayres. Beginning Saturday: Women
Are Like That.

Trans-Lux: Popeye cartéon, Fowl
Play, Dionne quintuplets short, news
and travelogue of Palestine.

Theater
Chestnut: Pins and Needles, musical
revue offered by labor, with the orig-
inal cast of International Ladies’ Gar-
ment Workers Union workers.
Forrest: Ruth Gordon and Sam

#.

2 for two weeks. This is Thornton
-Wilder’s new acting version of Ibsen’s
play. I Married an Angel, with Den-
nis King, has been cancelled for. this
season.

Locust: Second week of You Can't |
Take It With You.



Walnut: Brothers Ashkena: with
Maurice Schwartz and the Yiddish

'Billie Burke and Patsy Kelly. Begin-

Jaffe open in A Doll’s House on May

~~|Faye and T



|WiT's END
. DON JUAN
(Canto XVII continued)

But first,—I quite forgot to @ay
before, a
Juan took something called the Ei Eng-
lish placement,
Which placed him (temporarily, they
swore)
In a far corner’ of the Pem East
basement,
Circled by soundproof walls, a sound-
proof floor,
Strangest of all, a soundproof Goth-
ic casement,
A room not fit for breakfast, lunch,
or tiffin,
Presided over
Gryphon.

“Now, Mr. John, in deference to your
station
And to my interest in old Spanish
noses,
Which may or may not be the habita-
tion
Of- er- excuse me, vocal halitosis,
(I hesitate to say in conversation
What no one scientifically opposes)
Since our Department’s rules will not
be broken,
Your test, instead of written, may be
spoken.”
Miss Gryphon ceased. “Just step in
here,” she said.
“* PWhat shall I do?” asked Juan all
agog.
“Isn’t there something that you’vé
heard or read,
Shakespeare or Katharine Mans-
field or James Hogg?
O visionary gleam, where art thou
fled?”
“Oh well,” said John.
decalogue.”
And with the merest soupcon of a
“groan
He took his place before the micro-
phone.

“Tll say my

“Thou shalt believe in Milton, Dryden,
Pope;
Milton’s the keystone of philosophy.
Thou shalt stretch hands of faith and
lamely grope
Towards Dryden’s system of geol-
ogy.
Thou shalt have charity and faith and
hope

ty-three.”
Miss Gryphon raised her arm to give
the sign,
“All right, Professor John,” she said.
“That’s fine!”
(To be continued)



Art Theater which he founded.

Suburban Movies

Ardmore: The Adventures of Tom.

Sawyer, in technicolor, with Tommy
Kelly, Jackie Moran and May Robson.
‘Mark Twain turns in his grave. Be-
ginning Saturday: Constance Bennett,
and Brian Aherne in Merrily We Live,
another farce, this time about a
chauffeur. Also Allan
ning Wednesday: Girl of the Golden
West, a super-western musical, with
Nelson Eddy and Jeannette Mac-
‘Donald. ?
» Seville; The Girl Was,Ypung, Eng-
lish mystery with Novg Pilbeam, di-
rected by Alfred Hitchcd Thurs-
day: the Jones Family in Love on a
Budget. Friday and Saturday: A
Slight Case of Murder, gangster com-
edy that is really funny, with Edward
G. Robinson. Sunday and Monday:
Arséne Lupin Returns, a good mys-
tery, especially if you like Melyyn
Douglas and Virginia Bruce. Twes-
day and Wednesday: No Time to
Marry, with Richard Arlen and Mary
Astor.

Suburban: Sally, Irene and Mary,
and a host of names, Alice Faye, Tony
Martin, Fred Allen, Gregory Ratoff,
Joan Davis and Marjorie Weaver.
Beginning . Tuesday: Rebecca of
Sunnybrook : Farm, with Shirley
Temple. | F ae

Wayne: Start Cheering, adapted
from-a Corey Ford Saturday Evening
Post story, with Walter Connolly,
Ernest Truex (ex-assistant Marco
Polo), and Jimmy Durante. Thurs-

day through Saturday: Sally, Irene

and Mary; with Fred Allen, - Alice

Martin.. Sunday and
Monday: A t Case of Murder, a

by a dark Miss}

When Pope gets back another nine-| -





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_ Art Club to Exhibit .

The annual exhibition of the
Art Club is being given jointly
with the Camera Club exhibi-
tion, starting Sunday, May 1.
The pictures are done by mem-
bers of the Art Club and will
be -sold for the benefit of the
Theater Workshop.









Movie Review



Deanna Durbin’s new picture, Mad
About Music, does not differ, in essen-
tials, from*her last one. Her hundred
mer’ have been reduced to two: Herb-
ert Marshall and Arthur Treacher.
Instead of having a poor musician for
a father, she adopts a wealthy com-
poser. In this film, her mother is not
dead, but is a famous movie star who
tries to hide the fact that she has a
fourteen-year-old daughter, at a
school in Switzerland. eee

Aside from these minor differences
of plot, however, Mad About Music
follows the familiar Durbin routine.
Deanna is again a sensitive and over-
imaginative -child, confronted by an
overwhelming problem—this time not
of ‘getting her father a job, but of
providing herself with any father at
all. Alone at school, foPbidden to men-
tion her mother, she. makes up an
ideal explorer-father for the benefit of
her schoolmates. She is finally forced
either to produce him or to admit her
lies. Her efforts to find a way out
of this dilemma, as usual, disrupts the
lives of several adults, whose affairs

'she"thepages to straighten out before

the end of the picture. She forcibly
adopts a visiting Englishman to take
the place of the non-existent explorer.
When Mad About Music closes, she
has married him to her mother.

In the course of the action she sings,
also aS“usual, one semi-classical ar-
rangement, two new popular songs
and one piece of sacred music. Her
acting remains as naive and starry-
eyed as ever.

Admittedly, the Durbin picture is
rapidly becoming a formula. But it is
certainly a much pleasanter formula
than. the cycles of frozen operettas
and lunatic comedies that follow gach
other monotonously across the screens
of the nation. With deft handling of
the lines and-.a.splendid supporting
cast, it is still worth two hours of
anybody’s time. . E. M. P.



Theater Review



The drama critics of New York
again proved themselves able judges
when they singled out John Stein-
béck’s Of Mice and Men as the best
play of. the season. In its literary
form, Of Mice and Men is excellent.
As a play it towers above most of the
current. Broadway productions.

Wallace Ford and Broderick Craw-
ford seem to have been destined to
play George and Lennie. There is

not. very much that can be said about

their acting, but any one who would
like to see two really great perform-

yances—should—go—down-to—the Music}

Box Theater.

Ruthless and protecting in turn,
Wallace Ford does full justice to the
part of George. Claire Luce and
other members of the cast throw them-
selves wholeheartedly into ‘the’ Stein-
beck tale of the love of a little smart
fellow for a big helpless tramp. Pos-
sibly the only performance which
misses fire is that of Sam Byrd, “who,
as Curly, flashes on and off stage in
his black and silver boots and is thor-
oughly objectionable. True, Curly is
the villain of the piece, but somehow
he never seems as convincing as the
other actors.

Of Mice and Men has been success-
ful for several’ reasons. Most im-
portant, the novel was well written
and the script is of the same quality
as the book it dramatizes. Even if
the actors and author were less good,
the - play would probably be remem=
bered for the way in which it is staged.
Every detail is given the best possi-
ble setting.

For éxample, when George i is forced
to shoot Lennie he swings his arm
back just before he pulls the trigger.
The back drop is a dusky blue, and
framed against it is an unforgettable

silliouette, the dazed victim obediently ||

staring off into: the wings while his
friend and executioner stands above
him. The outline of the revolver can

PUBLIC OPINION

To the Editor of the College News:

In spite of the removal of the plea
for suggestions and criticisms from
the News, I am sending a number of
suggestions. They are as follows:

1. An editorial suggesting a remedy
for the crowd on Taylor steps be-
tween classes.

2. A°column. in which interesting
facts about students and faculty are
given. For example: Alice—, ’39,
was shipwrecked off the coast of
South China at fourteen. Dr. Blank
of the faculty was ‘present at the
assasination of President Doumer, of
France, in 1932, etc.

3. More feature articles abott such
topics as: Old traditions no longer
extant (such as breaking of senior
hoops), the Oral when it was oral,
class Statistics (the average heights,
weights and relative ages of the four
classes) , etc.

4, Book reviews of the new books
(not textbooks!) which. are in the
Bookstore. This was done in the re-
view of The Arts by Hendrik Van
Loon, but as it has not been done
since, I gather it was a coincidence.

5. More news about informal events
and unscheduled occurences such as
the latest broken leg, the picnic: of
freshmen which was, precipitously
broken up by an angry bull, the Holly-
wood movie contract offered a senior,
ete.

All thest suggestions may have oc-
curred to the editors and been. found
impractical. But having considered
this I am nevertheless writing this
letter to tell what one subscriber .
would like to read about in the News.

Mary ALICE STURDEVANT, ’40.

Dr. Hu Shih Elucidates

Sino-Japanese Outcome











Chinese Philosopher and _ Editor
Guest at Radnor Tea



Radnor Hall, April 24.—Dr. Hu
Shih, “Father of the Chinese Renais- ''
sance,” and dean of the College of
Arts and Letters of the University of
Peking, was guest of honor at an in-
formal tea in the showcase.

“T think Japan will lose in the end,”
gently stated the Chinese philosopher,
when asked about the Sino-Japanese
War. He explained that there were
only two possibilities for the-outcome.
If foreign countries intervene, Japan
will be forced. by. economic.or- military
pressure to cede to China and return
all Chinese territory and possessions. ,
If there is no intervention, Japan will
eventually exhaust her econome and
financial resources, and will be forced
to’a peace without victory.

Dr. Hu Shih, who has been making
an extensive survey of the situation
during the last year, insisted that no
European country would interfere in
Japan’s_ behalf. ---“No,---Hitler. won’t
help Japan. Germany is helping
China,” he declared. “On the docks
of Shanghai, and everywhere, you see
cases of.-munitions from Germany,
shipped to the Chinese.”

Agnes Chen, Chinese graduate stu- ©

dent, introduced the eminent Chinese,

who spoke for a few minutes on the

friendship between the United States

and China. He believes that one of
the reasons for this unique relation-
ship is the influx of Chinese students
to América, at the rate of walle }
thousand a year.

Dr. Hu Shih himself came to Cor-
nell in 1909. He received his Ph. D.
from Columbia, and has since received
an honorary degree from Harvard.
One of the most famous living
philosophers, Hu Shih is the editor of
a Chinese daily paper, The Indepen-
dent Critic.



7

has been fired, there is a brief tense
interval before Lennie heavily crashes
sideways into a few scrubby plants on
the edge of the stage.

Of Mice and Men has a certain mor-
bidity. Still, it is one of the most
beautiful and moving productions of
the year. Its power lies in its. sim-
plicity; painfully true to life it is
worth the sordidness of the characters
and setting. 0. K.

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Hoops Given Privately
The: senior class has deeded
to give out hoops and_ sticks
privately. Therefore, on Little
- May Day, class singing will fol-
low immediately after hoop-—
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Miss Ward Names Néw
Courses for 1938-39



, Only Seniors Excused en Last
Day of Classes, May 13



Music Room, April 22—Miss. Ward
spoke in chapel on the courses to be
given in 1938-39, including new
courses and those which are given al-
ternate years. She also said that con-
trary to rumor, the last day of classes
this year is on Friday, May 13. Only}
seniors will be given excused cuts on
this day. “

Courses offered for 1938-1939
which were not given in 1937-1938: ~
Hiective!

(Fen-

Economics and Politics:
Rolitics—Elements of Law
wick), % unit, T., F., 12.

English: Second Year — Drama
from the Beginnings to 1642 (Chew),
1 unit, M., W.,-Th., 10.

Advanced — English Poetry from
Spenser to Donne (Sprague), 1 unit,
T., F., 12; W., 5.

Advanced — The Seventeenth Cen-
tury (Stapleton), 1 unit, M., W., Th.,
2p. m.

Elective — Modern English ‘Drama}

(Sprague), % unit, M., Th., 9.

“Elective — Prose Writing (Cora
Hardy Jarrett), % unit, Tuesday at 2.

French: Advanced — French Prose
from Rabelais to Montaigne (Guiton),
1 unit. To be scheduled.

Advanced—Modern French Novel
(Brée). 1 unit. To be scheduled.

German: Advanced — The German
“Novelle’ (Jessen), 1 unit. M., W.,
THe, hs

History: Second Year — Continen-
tal History (Robbins), % unit, T., F.,
10; We, 8:

Advanced — English History in the
19th Century (Robbins), % unit, T.,
By, 42: W.;.6;

Elective — Civilization of the An-
cient World (Broughton), 1 unit, M.,

oA Th, 2h

History of Art: Second Year—His-
tory of European Painting after 1600
(Sloane), 1 unit, M., W., Th., 9.

Elective — Art of the Far East (E.





FLORENCE ALLEN WILL
GIVE SHAW LECTURES



: Presfdent Park announces that
Judge Florence Allen has definitely
accepted the invitation of the College
to give the Anna Howard Shaw Lec-
tures in 1938-39.. The title of the series

jhas not been chosen but the lectures

will deal with the development of con-
stitutional power. The first of the six
will be given on October 24, 1938, the
dates. of the others will be announced
Tater,

President Park also announces that
Paul Green of the University of North
Carolina, author of a number of plays,
“including two which have won Pulit-
zex¥ Prizes, In Abraham’s Bosom and
Johnny Johnson, will give the Ann
Sheble Lecture next year and will re-
main at the college for three or four
days for conferences with students
interested in play-writing. The date
of the lecture has not been set, but
Professor Green has suggested me! lat-
ter part of November.



Diez), % unit, Tuesday, Friday, 12.

Latin: Advanced — Early Latin
Literature (Broughton), % unit, Mon-
day, 2 to 4. .

Physics: Advanced — Geometrical

and Physical Optics (Patterson), 1
unit, to be scheduled.
New Courses

Biblical Literature: Elective—His-
tory of Religions (Lake), % unit,
Tuesday, Friday, 11.

Biology: Advanced — Microbiology
(Doyle), 1 unit. To be scheduled.

English: Elective—History of the
English Language (Herben), % unit.
Offered 2d sem. Oral English (Hen-
derson), % unit, Tuesday, Friday, 11.

French: Advanced Advanced
Composition (Gilman, Mari, Rey), %
unit. To be scheduled: This course

‘must be taken by all students major-

ing in French who do not spend the
junior year in France, unless they
are excused by the department.
Physics: Elective—The Application
of Physics to Biology and Chemistry
(Patterson), 1 unit.
Social Economy: Advanced — The



Six Colleges Attend
German Entertainment



Continued from Page One

the funnel, penny and beer. Outstand-

ing among the intermittent songs. was
Suss’ Adeline.

A couple from Johns Hopkins, in
lederhosen and dirndl, performed a
group of lively and intricate folk
dances. Their final number was a for-
malized fight between two men in
which insults and apparent blows were
delivered in time to the music.

Swarthmore’s Der Kammersdnger
was the tragic story of an operatic
baritone who drove his love to suicide
for the sake of his career. His con-
tract bound him “not to marry or tra-
vel in the company of women.” A
natural expectation of frivolity inthe
first number combined with the humor
of the opening episodes to handicap
the effect of the final tragedy. Miss
Marjorié Lawson, director, should be
congratulated on the finished per-
formance and excellent casting. The
extreme solicitude of the star for his
numerous pairs of nicely creased
trousers was highly amusing. One of
the frequent women to invade the
singer’s bedroom was a freshfaced
seventeen year old who announced
herself: “Ick bin Miss Coeurne ouse
Minnesota.”

Goucher’s scenes from Schneewitt-
chen differed from the orthodox Dis-
ney. The dwarfs, in crepe paper hats,
returned to find traces of S. W. in
thetr dining room. “Somebody has sat
in my chair, somebody has used my
cup, somebody is in our bed,” ted to
the discovery of the lost princess. In
another scene, staged effectively

against the red curtains, the desperate.
queen consulted a draped mirror. The}

easy rhymed couplets translated liter-
ally into the customary “Magic Mir-
ror, on the wall...” The two dia-



City (Miller), 1 unit. Prerequisite: 2
units of Sociology or the equivalent.
De Wis 0, Waa ce

Elective — Anthropology (F. de
Laguna), 1 unit. M., W., Th. 18.



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PEACE RESOLUTIONS
PUT IN FINAL FORM



‘Conunqn Room, April 25.—At the
last meeting of the Peace Council, the
resolutions for the April 27 Peace
Demonstration were drawn up in final
form. Hildegard Hunt, ’41, presented
a minority resolution expressing in
part the Isolationist. point of view.
Sections of this motion were incorpor-
ated into the Collective Security
measur already before ‘the Council.

Margaret Le Foy, Graduate stu-
dent; brought up a resolution con-
demning the forthcoming war games
in New England on May 1. At that
time, all electric light power will be
extinguished, air raid sirens will be
used, all civilians will be affected
and the atmosphere of attack will be
simulated to the best of the War De-
partment’s ability. The resolution will
be presented at the meeting in con-
junction with these on the foreign
policy.



logues, for which Johns Hopkins
provided the men, were abbreviated
love scenes, one ending happily, one
less favorably.

Bryn Mawr and Haverford’s eigh-
teenth century satire of feminine edu-
cation, Die Stumme Schénheit, ended
the program. The acting was consist-
ently good and clear enough to enter-
tain those who could not understand
the German or the intricate plot. The
title role of the gold digging Dumb
Beauty was played almost convincing-
ly by Ruth Mary Penfield, ’40. Her
assumption of an idiotic voice and
affected mannerisms
plausible the doubtful figure of a girl
: can cerebrate only about clothes

winning money for more clothes.
Her ultimate husband, the wizened
philosopher Lakonius, was made comi-
cal by George Allen, ’41. He looked, as
one observer remarked, like an Eng-
lish sheep dog, and spoke the way a
sheep dog would.” Martha DeWitt, ’41,
was charming in the quiet role of the
Cinderella foster sister. Although the
other parts gave less scope for—spec-



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Tennis Squad Defeated
In Match With Ursinus



Harshaw, Star of Visiting Team,
Defeats. Kdith Lee, °41
il Ta

The Bryn Mawr Tennis Team was
defeated by Ursinus in the first match
of the season on Saturday, April 23,
with the score of three matches to
two,

Ursinus won the first and second
singles. Harshaw triumphed over Lee,
41, G3,-~ 6-4, and Ware defeated
Auchincloss, ’40,. 6-4, 6-3. The third
singles*match went to BrynpMawr as
Whitmer, ’39, won handily from Von
Kleeck, 6-2, 7-5. -

The match between Lee and Har-
shaw was easily the most interesting
of the singles. Both players were hit-
ting hard and steadily, but Lee yield-
ed to Harshaw’s superior placements.

Ursinus won the first doubles and
Bryn Mawr, the second. Lee and
Whitmer were defeated by Harshaw
and Von Kleeck, 9-7, 6-4. In the sec-
ond doubles match Laughlin, ’40, and
Auchincloss were finally victorious
over Shoemaker and Robbins, 1-6, 6-1,
7-5.

Although neither team had had
practice as yet this spring, Bryn
Mawr seemed to show a far greater
need of it. The Bryn Mawr players
won more shots on placement than
Ursinus, but made a great many
more errors. With practice, therefore,
Bryn Mawr may have a more reliable
team before next Saturday.



tacular comedy, they were performed
smoothly. William Harrington Clarke,
Jr., ’38, closed his career. on the Bryn
Mawr stage with his competent por-
trayal of the elderly Richard.
Between the performances on the
stage Dr. Ernst Feise of Johns Hop-
kins led the audience in German sing-
ing while Gordon Grosvenor, 739,
played the piano. At eleven the sevér-
al German Clubs joined in the Gym-

nasium for informal dancing.

E. M.



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‘The Gold Missus,

Page Four

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BOOK REVIEW

Katherine Fowler-Lunn, author of
is a Bryn Mawr
graduate, and this fact must be borne
in mind when reading her book. A
geology major in her undergraduate
days, she carried the teaching of that
department over into her later life;
she climbed impossibl¢’mountains, sur-
veyed in wild country, and married an







English ‘ geolégist of His Majesty’s

Goveg#thent. Miss Fowler-Lunn seems
imbued with the “Old-Bryn-Mawr-
Spirit” which made the graduates
want to go out and do things in the
world, the spirit imbued by Miss
Thomas, burning with Woman’s Aim
In The World. With all due respect
to Miss Fowler-Lunn, she has. carried
out this spirit in the modern manner
and has been a real pioneer, but
nevertheless, she has the imprint of
the Emancipated Woman, that strange
product of the Suffragist Movement.
Be that as it may, Miss Fowler-
Lunn has written an extrenfely inter-
esting story of prospecting for gold
in Sierra Leone in Africa while her
government-employed husband was on
an official expedition somewhere else
on the continent. It is a rule of the
British Government that its servants
do not take their wives with them on
“business trips.” To circumvent the
British Foreign Office, she took her-
self to Africa on her own mission.
Although she had done geological
research before, this trip was her
first contact with the Gold Coast. She
had much to learn, arid much more to
endure. Her training on the Alpine
peaks of Switzerland and the rocky
crags of Canada, plus her “Bryn Mawr
Spirit” carried her through the ar-
duous first trip into the brush. Coping
with recalcitrant natives, unpredic-
table wéather, governmental red tape,
and jungle dangers made her first
trip perilous, but educationak Her
second trip, under official auspices,
was much easier. She was an “old
hand” at the game, and knew all the

‘ various ramifications of living com-

paratively comfortably in the African
wilderness. Furthermore, she actu-
ally struck some new gold claims.

By far the most interesting part of
the book is not the actual geological
work, but the contact with the natives,
the narrow escapes from wild animals,
_and the descriptions of the African
towns. With the so-called American
sense of speed, Miss Fowler-Lunn ex-
pected to go into the brush—a few
days after reaching a little African
town. To her dismay, governmental
red tape required three weeks to
clear her luggage .and_ provisions.
Impatient at first, the climate and
English friends pursuaded her to be
more leisurely.

When she finally set out accom-
panied by a motley group of natives,
she had not the vaguest idea how to
control cooks with penchents for poi-
soning food, sudden torrential rains
that soaked all equipment, porters who
suddenly took French Leave, and lo-
cal mining engineers who did their

utmost not to tell her. where the rich-
est gold veins were.

Her first safarai was far more in-
structive in the art of being com-
fortable amid utter discomfort ‘than
in definite geological accomplishments.
However, her second ‘Vif, sponsored}

by a mining concern, resulted in the]:

staking” of new claims, after a rush
to the vein reminiscent of the forty-
miners: » Working with untrained na-
tives, her methods of panning. the
gold were primitive, but effective.
Modern machinery was practically
unheard of in the sectors in which she
worked. 4

Miss Fowler-Lunn’s book is well
written. Here is an easy style, with-

out the sejé-conscious coyness of the

average woman relating her Work In
The World. She has accomplished
something definite in her field, and
tells her story simply and amusingly.
She admits that it was this sense of
humor, coupled with the newly
learned habit of leisure that kept her









Monkeys in Movie
Jump for Bananas



Continued from Page One

Without even attempting to reach the

+banana, he realized thatthe colled M

wire was too short and gave up. Dr.
Kohler took the wire, uncoiled it into a
straight piece, coiled it up again and
handed it back to.the ape. In a very
short time he had. the banana.

Stupid apes are extremely valuable
because they show how difficult ‘the
process of imitation really is. If a
banana is suspended from the ceiling
of a cage, beyond the ape’s reach, and
a box is placed in one corner, a slight
push of the*box will often suggest
to a clever ape the solution of his
problem. One of Dr. Kéhler’s chim-
panzees, however, had to be shown
three times what she should do, and
even then was not successful. Only
after the third time did she realize
that moving the box had any relevance
to the situation at all, and then she
merely pushed it aimlessly about.

The solution of a problem has an
emotional effect,on an ape just as it
has on a man;~Dr. Kohler said. He
once had a chimpanzee, “an awfully
nice girl”, whom he was trying to
teach the trick of joining two sticks
together to form one long enough to
reach a distant banana. She was often
made to watch an- ape who could do
this trick, but she never caught on.
One day, dismissed from an unsuc-
cessful lesson, she retired to a tree.
The clever ape kept on retrieving
bananas. Suddenly Dr. Kohler noticed
the “girl chimpanzee” leaping up and
down with excitement. Allowed to try
again, she demonstrated that she had
at last solved the problem.

People often dismiss conclusions
based on this type of experiment with
the theory that the mimicking ability
of apes is axiomatic. Dr. Kohler said)
that this attitude springs from an at-
tempt to explain the numerous human
mannerisms of the apes, whose hu-
manness is. native, Their mimicry is
either a kind of serious game such as
children play, or has relevance to the
achievement of some end.

Since the film included no additional
material, the audience for the most
part enjoyed the chimpanzees per se.
Some of them would balance a pole on
the ground, scale it, catch a suspended
banana and climb down before the
pole fell. There was ‘one large chim-
panzee who could not resist clutching
the pole when his friend was about
half way up.

The picture also showed most di-
vertingly the apes’ inability to build
a stable pile of boxes. Xpparently one
thing they cannot learn to do is to
associate boxes in space so that they
will stay where they are put. An ape
can accomplish things by insight, but
he cannot learn by the trial and error
method. pa

BASKETBALL ELECTIONS

Common Room, April 20.—At the
annual dinner of the Varsity Basket-
ball squad, emblems were presented
to those members who played on the
first team during the past season.
They are: Mildred Bakewell, ’38;
Connie Ligon, ’40;~Catherine-Norris,
"40; TerrySFerrer, 40; Mary Meigs,
"39; -“and-Jvullia_Martin, 40...

There were elections of next year’s
officers. Sarah Meigs will replace
Mildred Bakewell as capt tain an the
position ‘of manager. which was held
by Mary and Sarah Meigs, will be
filled by Mary Whitmer.





sane in the solitary jungle. We can

‘|}recommend Gold Missus as good read-

ing, and as a perfect example of what
the Bryn Mawr Woman Really Can
Do. L. J..8.

Lunch

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CAMERA CLUB EXHIBIT
TO BEGIN. THIS .WEEK

The Second Annual Exhibition of
the Nucleus Camera Club will be held
ay 1 to May 9, in the Common Room
in Goodhart Hall. Miss Ida Pritchett,
14, and Mr. and Mrs. Stephen J. Her-
ben will judge the, exhibition on Sun-
day afternoon.

Among the pictures hung will be
some especially contributed as a cour-
tesy exhibit by the following photo-
graphers: Miss Pritchett, ’14, Mr. and
Mrs. Herben, Miss Euretta A. Simons,
36, and Mr. Philip Livingston.

Some of the pictures may be ordered
by undergraduates and may be put
on pay day. Part of the proceeds will
go the Theater Workshop. Students
are requested to order their pictures
as soon as possible after the opening
of the exhibition, to facilitate their
preparation and delivery.

Haverford, Bryn Mawr
Present Wilde Comedy

Continued from Page One







formance given by Rosemary Sprague,
41, in the part of Miss Prism. Susan
Miller, ’40, in the unsympathetic role
of Lady Bracknell, played well, but
rather stiffly, while excellent minor
performances were contributed. by
Robert Aucott and Amos Leib in the
parts of the men-servants, Lane and
Merriman.

The Cap and Bells Club is to be

congratulated resisting the temp-
tation to modernize or speed up the
action: he result was somewhat

leisurely, it was also entirely in ac-
cord with the spirit of the play and
the intention of the author.

E. MP.



Geologists Are Merry ‘.
On Spring Field Trip



Continued from Page One

there was a fairly general exodus to
see Test Pilot.

Confusion about Daylight Saving
time, combined’ with the recalcitrance
of 4 cold bus, delayed departure Sun-
day morning until ten o’clock. The
first stop. was at an open-stripping
coal mine, the Mammouth seam near
Coaldale. The pressure of the overly-
ing rocks is so great, it was reported,
that by the time a steam shovel has
picked up a load of coal, emptied it,
and swung around again, enough coal
has been pushed. out to fill the prev-
ious hole.

The last site, Slatington, was left
at about three in the afternoon, and
the long trek out of the great north-
west came to its conclusion under
Pembroke Arch at six. The. return
was marked chiefly by somnolence
and song, and a discussion in the fore
part of the bus, which finally came
to a deadlock on Socialism vs. Capi-
talism. The theme song of the expedi-
tion, which was sung under the arch,
was ‘to the tune of Thanks for the
Memory and dealt with:

“Thanks for the memories

Of anticlines and rocks, :

Of coal dust in your socks,

Of-pegamite-and dolgrite and faulting
sandstone blocks.

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I don’t like to,—it haunts me when
I’m acting.”

The nucleus of Miss Skinner’s im-
pressions of American speech, was a
record of what Miss Henderson called
“bastard British.” Miss Skinner list-
ened thoughtfully to the tired voice
reciting Arthur the Rat, nodding
every now and then and _ imitating
certain words. ‘‘Foxcroft,” she said,
“Very young, very snobbish, very
Park Avenue.” She thinks that this
manner gf speect is above all affec-
tation, like the now-deceased debu-
tante slouch, which is shed eventually
by everybody except women who make
annual trips to Palm Beach. Unfor-
tupately, people class good English
Ath bastard British, and think they
fare being affected when they speak
well, though they are not at all sen-
sitive about adopting other affecta-
tions. The stage does not require a
special kind of speéch, as is sometimes
thought, but people who have marked
regional accents are usually given
character parts. “Personally,” said
Miss Skinner in conclusion, ‘I like the
western 7, that, as my father says,
gathers force as it rolls across the
American continent,”

The record is in Pembroke. East
basement now, and may be heard at
almost any time. Miss Henderson has
charge of thé recording room and is
official manager of the machine.



BRYN MAWR WILL PLAY
VASSAR IN BASEBALL



For the first time-in the history of
the college, the Bryn Mawr baseball
team will play Vassar. The game is to
take place on Sunday, May 1, on the
upper hockey field.

Julia Martin, ’40, is managing the
team and with the cooperation of the
Athletic Association has made all nec-
essary arrangements. There have been
practices every Monday, Wednesday
‘and Thursday at five o’clock, and
Tuesday at four. It is hoped that this
venture. will establish baseball as a
regular varsity sport,

« The Vassar team and their manag-

er, Valerie Vondermuhll-are going to
spend the day at r. The
game is to be very informal, since

Vassar has expressed the desire to
make the trip for social contacts as
well as to display its skill at bat.

All students are urgently asked to
come and support the Bryn Mawr
baseball team at two o’clock, Sunday,
May 1.

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LO aed

Emlen Etting’s exhikjtion in the
Common Room intersperses Titanic
men and women with tastefully ar-
ranged oranges and lemons. All ex-
cept two pictures, which have a faint-
ly mystical character, and are done in
charcoal and pastel, are painted with

oils on paper; an unusual method, .

with the fluidity of water-colors and
the opaqueness of oils.
gives his work the hard strength
which water-colors never have by out-
lining objects and faces in black, and
the vacancy which oils never have by
leaving some of his paper unpainted.

In general, women are better
than his men One in particular, a
large head which more thgn fills the
picture, has a kind of / interesting
grandeur because she is /not bounded
by a piece of paper. Mr. Etting relies
almost entirely on his outlines for
form, and the shading which he has
used in Young Man, for instance, de-
tracts from, instead of adding to the
effect of the picture. Personally, we
dislike young men with such heroic-
ally proportioned chins, and think
that they are more in the Arrow Col-
lar tradition than in that of true art.
We are much more interested by Isa-
mu Noguchi, who is anatomically
plausible, and has a sensitive face.

We do not have much to say for
Conversation on the Beach. The wom-
an is convincingly enough drawn, but
the man is painfully topheavy. Pil-
grim has the same troubles, and the
picture also lacks Mr. Etting’s usual
quite forceful clarity. The third Nude,
who is seated On Beach, does not seem
quite sure of her interesting position.

Mr. Etting’s oranges and. lemons do
not arouse in us that criterion of art,
aesthetic pleasure. If we must choose,
we prefer Cabbage and Lemons to
Lemons with Pitcher. Still Life with
Bowl.comes in a poor third. We have
not been able to identify Twenty-One,

unless it is the other young man with’

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Power House is Fraug

ht With Scientific

Mysteries and Double - Barrelled Boilers



The sun was bright, the grass green,
so we decided it was about time to in-
vestigate the sterner side of the cam-
pus at the Rockefeller Power House.
_ This large stucco building, concealed
from general view by the trees, and
more especially, by the new Science
Building, was a gift of John D. Rocke-
feller. Built in 1903, it was entirely
renovated in 1926 with equipment
costing 150,000 dollars. It furnishes
the College’s 31 buildings with heat,
hot water, electricity, and the rest of
its power.

As we approached the grim build-
ing, a slim youngish man began chuck-
ing hunks of iron and pipe out the
door. He said his name was. Carter,
he. was the engineer of the establish-
ment. Not.only did Mr. Carter make
no objections to our tour, but he con-
ducted*us around himself.

He first explained that the power
house has a machine room (a work-
shop), an engine room, a pump room,
and a boiler room. The boilers in the
boiler room expand water into steam,
send it to the engine room, where by
going through different pipes, it gen-
erates electricy. From the engine room
the steam continues to the pump room
where it is piped to campus basements.
There, motors run by the electricy
generated in the engine room of the
power house, fan air through. heaters,
and up to all rooms through the ven-
tilators. Part of the steam is con-
densed into hot water, the rest returns
to the pump room to go back to the
boilers again.

As the engineer continued his dis-
course, we investigated the machine
room on the second floor. Its walls
were of sombre red brick. This large
dusty room contained a lathe, a drill
press, and a pipe threader with which
to cut and fit pipe lengths. In the mid-
dle of the room was a pile of scrap
wood and pipes. One wall was lined
with shelves for screws and bolts and
tools. Besides the orthodox furniture,
we noticed a bathtub, an abandoned
stove, a packing box marked Carley—
85 per cent Magnesia, several lawn
mowers and a broom.

Leaving this sombre atmosphere, we
descended to the engine room, resplen-
dent with a red linoleum floor, yel-
low and black walls, shiny brass and
black fixtures, and three large, bright
‘ green steam driven electric generators
in the middle of the room. There, un-
der Mr. Carter’s tutelage, we learned
how to run our fingers along various
dangerous looking, rapidly spinning
wheels of the largest generators, with-
out getting them cut off or ourselves
electrocuted. It is a feat.> —

At one end’of the engine room is
the control board, with gleaming lev-
ers. Rhoads will tap electricity from
the large cables that go to Goodhart.
Besides -levers, there are numerous
regulators and meters on the control
board. In- fact we counted thirty-nine
indicators in the whole building.

Finally we wandered into the small
pump room. It has. white walls and

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covered’ pipes of 4 ‘delicate bistre
shade, but nothing else of interest. We
noticed, however, a leaking pipe and
a chain, which Mr. Carter proudly
told is, is the whistle we hear every
day at one o’clock. He didn’t know
why he was supposed to blow it at
one every day.

. The boiler eiestiiee 46: two thirds
of the power ‘house, and is two stories
high. It has rectangular boilers in it,
all painted black, and having white
brick sides. Near the top of each

boiler is. lettered in gold Bryn. Mawr

College. :
Impressed, but not mechanically
minded, we liked best of all the beau-
tiful view we had from the top of the
boilers. Standing on a ladder between
two boilers, we saw below us.a deep
lake of shimmering water in which
glowed the reflection of a round yel-

low moon. The water was only~a shal-

low puddle of oil and water, and the
moon an electric globe.

Before we left, Mr. Carter gave us.

the power house statistics. In the
winter two boilers and two generators
keep going; in spring and autumn on-
ly one. In summer the power house
shuts down, except for a little Scotch
marine boiler to heat hot water, and
a motor generator for the electricity.
Now, the college is using about 25 kil-
owatts of electricity and 20,000 gal-
lons of hot water a day!



DUNCANITES WITHDRAW
FROM DANCERS’ . FORUM

A lecture-demonstration of the
Modern Dance will be presented in the
Gymnasium on Thursday, May 5, at
8.20. The Forum originally planned
by the Dancers’ Club was scheduled to
include similar ‘demonstrations of
Ballet and Duncan dancing. Since
there is no representative Ballet group
on campus, professionals would have
had to be imported for. this part of
ai, program. At a meeting of the

ub this was voted down. As a re-
sult the Duncan dancers withdrew.

The members of the Modern Dance
Group participating have been. se-
lected from Miss Doris Humphreys’
class which was given on campus this
year. Miss Humphreys is herself a
famous American dancer and teacher.
Ethel Mann, ’38, president of the
Dancers’ Club and trainer of the
group, will present a lecture on the
modern viewpoint.

‘Mary Wood, ’389, and Emily Doak,





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‘time, the Chinese armies have defeated ly formidable in the west. Moreover,

{{ Commencement and the summer
vacation.





‘CURRENT EVENTS

(Gleaned from Mr. Fenwick) |

President Roosevelt has asked Con-
gress for a law making federal and
state bonds liable to the income tax.
Under the present ruling, fixyst defined
by .Chief Justice Marshall in 1819,
a state cannot tax a federal agency
or the government a state agency. Al-
though the repeal of this measure
would mean a substantial increase in
tax returns, it has never been aban-
donned, partly because gt is easy to
market tax-exempt bonds and partly
because officials are reluctant to make
levies on their own incomes.

The President is trying to get a new
law without resorting to a constitu-
tional amendment, since his proposal
would have little chance of passing the
state legislatures. He believes that it
is possible for Congress alone to make
the change, under a broad interpreta-
tion of the sixteenth amendment. This
states that Congress has the power to
tax incomes “from whatever source
derived.”







In Czechoslovakia, the German mi-
nority, under the leadership of Hen-
lein, has delivered an ultimatum to the
government. It declares that unless
the French and Russian alliances are
abandonned, the Sudeten Deutsch
party will start a revolution. This
leaves the government in a dilemma.
It cannot afford to break its foreign
treaties, while a revolution would give
Hitler an excuse for an immediate in-
vasion of the country.

A few weeks ago, it was predicted
that no such invasion would be made
until Hitler had consolidated his posi-
tion in Austria. The new Chinese vic-
tories in the Far East, however, may
precipitate his plans.,.For the first

the supposedly invincible Japanese.
Their victory was made possible large-
ly by Chiang’s treaty with the Chinese
Communists. This has given China
new forces of trained men and stores
of modern’ equipment from Russia.
The resulting gains have largely re-
stored Chinese morale and reduced
Russia’s dread of Japanese aggres-
sion. Hitler, therefore, may think it
necessary to move before the Soviet,
rélieved of the Japanese menace on

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39, are in charge of all arrangements.
Publicity is being handled by Lucille
Sauder, ’89, secretary of the Dancers’
Club. It is hoped that a large pro-
portion of the students will attend the
Forum. Coffee and discussion will
follow the lecture-demonstration.

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Mlle. Nadia Boulanger, with her
group of three singers, presented a
musical program in the Deanery.
Mlle. Boulanger introduced her singers
and interpreted their selections.

The concert fell naturally into three
groups, the first consisting principal-
ly of religious songs. A selection by
Schutz, the celebrated “Master of
Bach,” representing the appearance of
the resurrected Christ to the two di-
sciples on the road to Emmaus, was
sung in German by M. Cuenod, tenor,
and M. Doda Conrad, bass. They were
surprisingly successful in communi-
cating the feeling of remorse for hu-
man. blindness:

The voices of these singers blended
well, but in the solos their tones lacked
fullness. The first group was conclud-
ed by a trio rendition of a benedictus
from Haydn in which the soprano,
Mme. Giséle Peyron, appeared for the
first time. The dominant feature of
this part of the program was the deep
fervor and reverence of the perform-
ers, which “one could not: help feeling
Mme. Boulanger had inspired in them.

The second ofthe three divisions
consisted of a song from Debussy’s
Pelléas and Melisande. This was in-
cluded in spite of the fact that it was
“nerhaps too serious for young peo-
ple,” because it is representative of the
truly great compositions which mod-
ern musicians have produced.

The last group of songs was the
most delightful. It included two songs
by Eric Satie, a poem: of ‘Ronsard’s
set to music by Poulenc, and three
little duets by Jean Frangais.

SAS LS As



her western frontier, can become real-

the new’ English-Italian treaty made
by Ciano. and the Earl of Perth has
weakened th ome-Berlin axis.

In the past wéek,~Britain has also
signed another treaty with Ireland.
It opens the mutual markets of both
nations and provides that three Irish

ports will henceforth be fortified by.

Eire instead of England. This insures
Great Britain against the danger of.
an enemy nation’s using a hostile Ire-
land as a base for operations in the
event of a future war. It also ends
the 700-year-old feud between ,the twe

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Patience Fines Rise

At Final Rehearsals



As Patience goes into its final re-
hearsals, and fines reach the inexcra-

ble high of one dollar, praises for”

those who are responsible for this
year’s Gilbert and Sullivan presenta-
tion are becoming more audible. Hor-
ace Alwyné is directing the acting,
and Ernest Willoughby the choral
work as in previous productions. Ver-
non Hammond has been accompanist
for the past few rehearsals, and as a
result, the general atmosphere has
perked-up considerably, various mem-
bers report.

Huldah Cheek, °38, is the guiding
spint of the production. » Having is-



on the campus.\Ex-officio member of
all committees, her presence has been
of incalculable worth. Future produc-
tions will miss her. The excellent
scenery was designed by Margaret
Bell, ’39. Margaret Davidson, ’40, won
the poster award.

The cast is as follows:

POUGHOE fic ieic cee Anne Kidder, ’41
BRGY CONG: i ih cn Camilla Riggs, ’40
BUNtHOrne .:. 15.6 os Terry Ferrer, ’40
Grosvenor .... Constance Kellogg, 39
PBUGGR acu e Mary Newberry, 740
ME iscwisiee ee Helen Lee, ’40
Were eee ewes se Marian Kirk, ’40
CelOnel 6 Ruth Stoddard, ’39
DERIOY bee elias Ellen Matteson, ’40
DRO 660545 Chas Mary. Wickham, ’40
BGlCItOY 653 si ve cy Pricilla Curtis, ’40
Stage Crew

Promoters .¢) 5065 Pricilla Curtis, ’40
Call Boy ...Mary J. McCampbell, ’40
Lighting: ..... ane Ste. Miller, ’40
Scenery: Chairman..Mary Wood, ’39
Desiwnine ise. Margaret Bell, ’39
Construction ..... Dorothea Peck, ’39
Stage Crew victr Jane Jones, *40

Anna Dewey, ’39
Dance Assistant ....Ethel Mann, ’38
Costumes ..... Amne Louise Axon, ’40



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THE COLLEGE NEWS







Gay Traces Growth _.
Of Contract System
Continued from Page One 3

system could best express itself. The
crafts built around the household were
intimately bound up with the appren-



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ticeship system, primarily an educa-
tional method, but later used to keep
competitors out of the market.

By the sixteenth and seventeenth
centuries the gilds aiming for a social
stability with equal economic oppor-

ity for every man, formed strict
rules covering the marketing and man-
ufacture of goods, the provisions for
wage earners, and protection against
other gilds. These organizations also
required a cutting off process of labor
which generated innumerable difficul-
ties.

As the jurisdictional disputes be-
tween crafts increased, the govern-
ment continually attempted to pré-
serve the sanctity of trade. by limiting
every man to one craft. The funda-
mental trouble lay chiefly in the con-
tinual redivision of. labor groups
which was inherent in the system it-
self; therefore, the government’s in-
tervention proved almost completely
ineffective in making order out of the
chaos. With a growing population the
perseverance of the static handicraft
system would have meant a stagnant
industry. :

Another weakness in the craft sys-

tem is, the distinction between the

rich and poor members of. the same
gild or of like gilds. The rich could
buy raw materials at first hand and
cheaply; but the poor, being unable
to collect the necessary cash were
forced to buy from “hand to mouth”
and often from other poor who would
hold up. the prices.



sire for the old gild principle.
The amalgamation of the gilds
meant still weaker enforcement of the

gild rules. Along with amalgamation
came the, extension of markets. The
small gilds increased their control] un-
til finally under Charles II, prompted
by the desire for’ order, gave several
crafts jurisdiction over the whole of
England.

The beginning of free competitive
industry first broke through because
of the attempt in the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries to. preserve in-
dustrial peace by gild rules and later
by amalgamation of gilds. These craft
societies became subject to steady
pressure from outside competitors ex-
emplified by the struggle between the
towns and the country.
Decrees were made to prevent the
growth of country crafts and rules
made against~strangers coming into
towns or taking part in local markets.
But step by step, the locally controlled,

self-sufficient, monopolistic markets
were breaking up. The leakage of: out-
siders could not’ be stopped, and this

coupled with internal conipetition de-
stroyed the system. Country artisans
sprang up, using their industry as a
by-occupation to the small scale farm-
ing of their holdings. New towns such
as Birmingham, Leeds,. and Manches-
ter grew rapidly and a whole new
type of industrial organization devel-
oped.

Soon an increasing number worked
for the larger, more distant markets
and became dependent on the know-
ledge of the distant wholesale mer-
chants..The middle men organized and
found markets for the small produc-
ers, supplied raw materials, and col-
lected the latter’s goods for the whole-
sale merchants. Thus, a series of ap-
parently independent contracts made
the workers in all the various stages
more and more interdependent.

The piece workers on the putting-
out system did their work on material
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League Elections
The Bryn Mawr League takes.
‘great pleasure in ahnouncing
the election of M. Gill, ’40,-.as
‘ Secretary and _ Treasurer; J.
Russell, ’40, as Head of Chapel;
and T. Tyler, ’39, as Assistant















Head of Chapel.



bese

the largest division of the working]

class, the others being the gild mem-
bers and the independent wholesale
handicrafters.. The putting out sys-
tem ¢reated many evil-frauds and op-
pression on the part of the employers,
temptations: to the workers to keep
back or weight their products, loss of
time, and wastage of material due to
the lack of machines.. Yet this inad-
equate organization of .labor repre-
sented progress and. shows the first
expansion of capital organization to
meet a growing market.



RUSSIAN MUSIC TOPIC

~ SOF SWAN’S LECTURE

_ Professor Alfred J. Swan, Director
of Music\at Swarthmore and Haver-
ford Colleges, will lecture on Russian
Folk Music on Sunday, May 1, at 5
p. m. in the Deanery. A

In the summer. of 1936 Professor
n led an expedition to Pscov
rly a part of Russia) where he
é first victrola records of an




anci edding rite sung by the pea-
sants. illustrate his talk he will
play the s and. show slides of

the peasants\Mme. Maria Kurenko,
soprano, will sing the modern version
of the rites, accompanied by Professor
Swan.



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All students are urgently asked to
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In all the large towns this distinc-
tion became increasingly important
and, in the sixteenth century, mattered
more than the difference between the
traders and craftsmen. Under this
oligarchal control, the rules-of appren-
ticeship fell into disuse. To increase
their output the rich wanted more
than their allowance of journeymen.
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Mrs. Dean Demands
Cooperation, Not
Emotional Pacifism



In Next War Democracies Will
“Only Seek International
*. Dictatorship



WE MUST STRENGTHEN
ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY



Goodhart, April 27.—Louise Mor-
ley, 40, president of the Peace Coun-
cil, welcomed students of Bryn Mawr,
Shipley, Baldwin and Harcum, to-
gether with college faculty and out-
siders, to the Peace Day demonstra-
tion at 11 a. m. this morning. Similar
demonstrations were held in colleges
and schools all over the United States
at the same time.

Vera Micheles Déan,; who spoke on
Europe’s Hour of Decision, is a prom-
inent research editor for the Foreign
Policy Association, and was unsuccess-
fully sought after for today’s meeting
by Princeton. and Amherst. Con-
demning an emotional approach to in-
ternational problems because “public
sentiment for peace is too apt to be-
come sentiment for war,” Mrs. Dean
concluded that “we must find a for-
mula for co-existance with the ag-
gressive, dictatorial powers whose sys-
tems seem repugnant to our own.”

During the last 20 years, the
democratic countries have failed to
Supply a means for peaceful change;
they have also failed to build a strong
collective force that can stop actual
aggression. As a result, said Mrs.
Dean, Europe is now confronted with
a “resurgent Germany, whose foreign
objectives of expansion to the east
are remarkably similar to the Imperial
policies of 1914.

Discarding the theory that the
German people are “inherently mili-
taristic,’. Mrs. Dean declared that
Hitler’s appeal _is_to_the nationalism
of the Germans. They associate the
Weimar Republic with their humilia-
tion at Versailles and willingly sub-
ceribe to the program of: (1) reunit-
ing all German speaking peoples, and
(2) ‘expanding into regions like the
Ukraine to get sufficient agricultural
land. It is dangerous, believes Mrs.
Dean, to minimize or misunderstand
these objectives, or to think that they
are impossible of attainment.

Two courses of action were advo-
cated by Mrs. Dean as constructive
efforts to maintain peace. First, by
strengthening our own democratic in-
stitutions, particularly to provide eco-
nomic freedom and security for all,
we can best meet the fundamental
challenge of dictatorial ideology.
Second, Mrs. Dean demandéd that we

“utilize every effort to alleviate abroad

the “economic and social grievances
on which dictators ride to_power.”

“T am not a pacifist,” declared Mrs.
Dean. ‘Force may have to be used
in imternational affairs.” However,
she warned, if we advocate war to
check the present aggressions of Ger-
many and other dictatorships, it is
imperative that we know what we are
fighting for. It is Mrs. Dean’s opinion
that force would not permanently
safeguard democracy or thf oppressed
national minorities.

A war today, she affirmed, will be
another contest of power-politics, in
which “the alliances are only truces
in the final struggle for supremacy.”
The issue cannot be cloaked under the
pretext of democracy vs. dictatorship,
for “in the international field, the de-
mocracies have the same dictatorial
objectives that Germany has at home.”



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Peace Council Program

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Advocates Education as the
Preventative for War

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dergraduate Association, gave a short
discussion after Mrs. Deans’ speech to

explain the resolutions drawn up by
the Peace Council. These resolutions

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were distributed and voted on by the]

college at the end of the meeting.

There was a fundamental difference
of opinion in making the program. A
minority stressed the futility of an
active Student Program for peace.
Experts have tried to do this and
failed.

However, because we are interested
in America, in America’s peace move-
ments, and particularly in Bryn
Mawr’s place in these movements, the,
Peace Council feels that we should
at least endeavor to support such a
plan. They advocate the. observance
of Peace Day because it has educative
value for. the students and because
peace can be attained only through
education.

The first resolution favoring deci-
sive action was opposed by a minority
because they believed that America
has no right to pass judgment on the
breakers of the Kellogg-Briand Pact.
The Peace Council was agreed on the
fact that this pact had been violated.
The majority supported it on the
grounds that doing nothing to vio-
lators would only prolong aggression.

The council was unanimous on the
third point in the program, accept-
ance of the Hull trade pacts. The
second and the fourth resolutions
support discrimination against ag-
gressors by the government. They
also advocate the power to apply em-
bargoes on these nations.

The last four resolutions urge the
reduction of war expenses. Money
spent on armaments is much needed
for relief. Number eight attacked
specifically the war manoeuvers to be
staged in New England. The council
believes them to be contrary to. the
best interests. of peace because they
will falsely intensify a fear of war.



This is the ethical challenge to those
who say we.must check Germany.

Those who denounce war as a means
to check forceful aggressions are of-
ten equally hazy about what their
course of action involves. Said Mrs.
Dean; “unless we are prepared to fight
the dictatorships, we per try to exist
with them as they are’. Therefore,
condemnation of. “deals,” such as the
recent Anglo-Italian pact have HOG
logical justification.

Vague gestures of sympathy with
attacked nations such as Austria and
Ethiopa were stigmatized by Mrs.
Dean as “dangerous emotional out-
lets.” Since they have never been
followed up in practice, they only de-
lude these’ nation8 into prolonged’and
costly resistance which fails in the
end. Acceptance of dictatorial ag-
gressions cannot go hand-in hand with
an attitude of pious. disapproval.

‘Declaring that a variety of tno-
litical evolution” can take place, Mrs.
Dean cited the acceptance of Russia
into diplomatic _ circles, although that
country was ostracized during the
period immediately after the revolu-
tion. If some of -Germany’s griev-
ances were settled, the same process
of_international realignment might be
possible. A continual “humdrum at-
tempt” to reach compromises is a far
more difficult program than. stiff-

this principle.—



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College Supports
Resolutions Made
By Peace Council



Take Stand Against Isolation;
Back Economic Cooperation

With Europe



MINORITY: OPPOSES
STEPS VS. AGGRESSORS



“In view of the threatening danger
of World war and America’s partici-
pation, we; the students of Bryn Mawr
College. favor the decisive action of

America in behalf of World Peace. We :

believe education is the most impor-
tant factor in the attainment of that
peace. We, therefore, wish to go on
record as-having discussed, and passed
the following resolutions.

1. We urge American leadership
in extending immediate offers of eco-
nomic cooperation to all nations who
are willing to reaffirm their faith in
the Kellog-Briand Pact which provides
for the renunciation of war as an in-
strument of national policy.

YES 200 NO,13

“9. If this fails we urge American
leadership in naming aggressors and
applying embargoes to aggressors
which shall incluude munitions, raw
materials, loans and credits. We urge
that the United States Government
cooperate with other nations to sup-
port the proposal for a world anti-ag-
gressor conference for this purpose.

YES 158 NO 53

“3. In order to encourage the free

flow of goods among nations, we: en-
dorse the Hull Recipiocal Trade
Agreement policy.

YES 214 NO 29

“4, We urge the repeal or modifica-
tion of the Neutrality Act in order
to discriminate between aggressors
and victim. Specifically, we urge up-
on our Congress the immediate pas-
sage of the O’Connell Amendment to
the Neutrality Act which embodies

YES 150 NO 38

“5: We condemn the May Bill and
urge its defeat as a menace to dem-
oeracy, since it provides for the draft-
ing of all civilians engaged in industry
for any purpose whatever by Presi-
dent‘al proclamation in time of crisis,
peace as well as war.

We favor drastic reduct‘ons in arm-
aments which are prepatory steps to
war, and therefore, oppose the Vinson
Bill, which provides for increased mil-
itary and naval expenditures.

-YES_172 NO 46

“6. We believe that compulsory R.
0. _T._C. should be made_optional in
schools and colleges as a step towards
its complete abolition. We therefore

favor the passage of the Nye- Kvale

Bill. pos
YES 190 NO 22

“7, We wish to register our opposi-
tion to teachers’ and students’ loyalty
oaths and other efforts to restrict the

freedom of opinion of teachers and —

students upon current issues of pub-

dic importance.
YES 201 NO 8

“8. We believe that the war man-
cuvers in New England are contrary
to the best interests of peace. Instead
t will falsely intensify a fear of
war) We, therefore, urgently demand
that\'the war manoeuvers be can-
celled.”. ——-s

YES 183 NO 41 ~

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