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Hamilton Discusses .
Industrial Diseases



Common Room, March 14.—Cer-
tain trades are classified as dan.
gerous because of the presence of
injurious dusts in the air breathed
by the worker, of poisonous chemi-
cals in the material he works with,
or because of the fatigue produced
by the work he does, said Dr. Alice
Hamilton, speaking to the Indus-
trial Group Thursday night, on In-
dustrial Dts€ases. Dr. Hamilton,
now Medical Consultant of the Na-
tional Bureau of Labor Standards,
and formerly Assistant Professor
of Industrial Medicine at Harvard
Medical School, prefaced her dis-
cussion of specific diseases with a
summary of the aims of the United
States Department of Labor, of
which the bureau is a part... §

The Department of Labor recog-
nizes that it must serve as a model
to state departments. An investi-
gator may take a thorough exam-
ination of an industrial plant and
never discover the causes of the
most serious diseases unless he
knows what to look for. The
method now accepted for_reform-
ing dangerous conditions is not the
removal of the man from the job
at which he may be earning high
wages to a lower wage job less
dangerous for him, but the remov-
al of the condition itself.

Illinois in 1914 and Pennsylva-
nia last year were the first and
last states -respectively to pass
compensation laws requiring that
the employer compensate victims if
the conditions in his plant ‘do not
measure up to certain standards.
The Pennsylvania law has now
been modified to cover only cases of
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C. Hutchins Elected
Undergrad President



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whistle for blowing people off the
grass.

Despite failing three quizzes the
first semester of her freshman
year, Steve is majoring in Math.
Every night as her head touches
her pillow she Says to herself,
“What can a person do with
Math?” and every night. she comes
to the conclusion that she will have
to teach. Steve describes herself
as a “bicyclist enthusiast.” She,
was manager of the baseball team
last year and manager and guard
on the Varsity basketball team this
year. On the hockey field she has
been called “speedy Steve,” and
she also skis.

Maids and Porters
Give ‘Porgy and Bess’





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were wistfully hoping ‘for several
more.

From the minute she swept on
stage in a wonderful scarlet satin
dress, Hilda Green’s Bess held the
attention of the audience. At times
she seemed a little unsure of her-
self but her scenes with Crown on
Kittiwah Island and latér with
Porgy were excellent. John Whit-
taker was a gigantic, impressive
Crown, rolling out his deep, rich
voice in such melodic favorites as
Red Headed Woman Can Make a
Train Jump Off the Track. Rich-
ard Blackwell, as Porgy, caught
the feeling of a cripple remarkably
well and held the audience spel]-
bound as he pulled himself across

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“Porgy and Bess’

The maids And porters who
took part in Porgy and Bess
wish to express their sincere
thanks to the Faculty, Stu-
dent body, and others for
flowers, telegrams and other
expressions of “good luck”
received on the nights of the
performances. If the play
was a success, you played a
very important part due to
the exhilarating spirit your
Well-wishes . put us _ into.
Many, many thanks.













the stage to keep the buzzard from
settling over his door.

One of the most delightful per-
formances was that given by Car-
ey Crunkleton as Maria. She
showed — the poise which
marked: Sporting Life’s perform-
ance, and added to it a superb
sense of humor. Pipe facie she
strode through four S.enliven-
ing the spirit of the play, and get-
ting more approving murmurs and
laughs than any of the other’ ac-
tors.

Since it would take far too long
to enumerate all the other mem-
bers of the’cast who were notably
good, suffice it to say that the prin-

Same

Wadsworth, ’41, coached the sing-
ing extremely well and almost all

Summertime, sung by Anne White,

and sets enhanced the production
and the lighting also was well han-
dled. Now that the maids and por-
ters have established their reputa-
tion we expect continued large
scale productions from them.







of the voices were full and clear. |

was particularly lovely. Costumes’.







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| Former Bryn Mawr Student
| Publishes First Novel,
| A Stricken Field

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| A STRICKEN. FIELD
by Martha Gellhorn



| By Barbara B. Cooley, ’42
“Be careful,” Mary Douglas told



herself, “you’re’ only a working | -

| journalist. It is, better not to see too
' much, if no one will listen to you.”
All the things she could not put in-
to her newspaper articles about the
‘invasion of Czechoslavakia, all the
| things she saw which had meaning
for her but which she knew no one
would listen to, Martha .Gelthorn
has made the basis of this, her first
novel. The thing which troubled
her most was the fate of the Ger-
man Czechoslavakians who had
fought against Germany and so
were exiled from their homes by
| both Germans and Czechs. “I do
not have an address,’ one old man
said. He was sixty-two years old
'and he had always had a home,
and people had said to him on the
Street, ‘Guten morgen, Herr

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cipals were ably supported. Meg) Brecht,’ as should be said to a man

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| who owned property and paid taxes
and was always daintily dressed
| and sober. Now he slept in the
Street and knew he was dirty.”
Miss Gellhorn, the Mary Doug-
las of A Stricken Field, went to
Bryn Mawr from 1926 to 1929 and
has since worked for the United
Press in Paris,/the New Republic
and the FERA in the position of
relief investigator at large. From



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| this experience came a book of four
long short Stories, The Trouble
I’ve Seen, which was published in
1936.

Although Mary Douglas is a defi-

nel autobiographical character,
[it is Rita, the German refugee,
| who is really the heroine of the
|novel. Her efforts to escape , the
Prague police and to help in un-
derground anti-Nazi work culmi-
nate in the brutal torture scene,
which, is, artistically and emotion-
ally, one of the finest achievements
of the novel.
Miss Gellhorn’s style is clear,
vivid, often emotional, and always
very modern. There are descrip-
tions as. sharp and forceful as an
etching: of the blank/ faces of the
men and women waiting and fear-
ful as to what was to happen to
them; of a quick decay in a hither-
to busy ity. “She remembered it
as a pleasant, bustling street, and
the people on it had always seemed
contented, attending respectably to
their business. But when she had
gone down into the street, and was
walking along the curb-against the
stream of people, she knew it was
another city, and unlike any place
she had ever seen before. The
crowds moved slowly, as if they too
were strangers, uncertain of direc-
tions and having nowhere to go.
She could not find one face to re-
member.”

Mary Douglas once said to her
fellow war correspondents, “I do
not write news like you gents. I
write history.” It is a history of
people—of the unlucky ones, the
ones with no privileges, no pass-
ports, no jobs, no love. It is vital
and troubling for us, who can “just
buy a ticket and take a plane and
leave.”











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