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College news, December 8, 1937
Bryn Mawr College student newspaper. Merged with Haverford News, News (Bryn Mawr College); Published weekly (except holidays) during academic year.
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North and Central America--United States--Pennsylvania--Montgomery--Bryn Mawr
Vol. 24, No. 09
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THE COLLEGE NEWS
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CURRENT EVENTS
(Gleaned from Mr. Fenwick)
The Supreme Court, reputed never
to have reversed its decisions, now
seems on the point of doing so. - To-
day it announced that a contractor
receiving a salary for the construc-
tion of a féderal dam is liable to taxa-
tion by the state in which the work
is done. This suggests that the court
may consider reversing its decision
held since 1819 that not only is the
Federal government exempt. from
state taxation, but that the officers
. of the state neéd not pay federal
taxes,
It was pointed out that approxi-
mately a million and a half officers
capable of paying taxes are exempt.
Furthermore, billions of dollars of
federal, state and municipal bonds
would become procurable. Chances of
@ constitutional amendment changin
this state of affairs is not likely as
few tax-free congressmen will sca
tax themselves. /
An editorial appeared in the ‘New
York Times of November 30 Jament-
‘ing™the fact that the United States
has lost its influence in world af-/
fairs. The world knows America will
not fight, and therefore ignores any
position it takes. Although the edi-
torial did not arouse much comment
here, it caused a great stir abroad.
Both Italy, and Germany stated that
it was none of our business to meddle
in foreign affairs./ They feel we are
perfectly right to follow the admoni-
tions of George Washingter’ and stay
out of entangling ances.
Would we on the side of the
democraties?/ England and France
are the only big democracies. Should
Germany, /Italy and Japan, already
closely allied, take over. Austria and
Poland, /and eventually all Europe,
and then conquer Great Britain,
would/we fight? There would not be
much point in opposing the tri-
umphant Fascist states. Should the
three big powers then turn to South
America, would we fight? At that
point we probably would, but against
'_/terrific odds without the hope of aid.
Such a prospect is depressing, but a
.good foreign policy is necessary to
avoid the catastrophe. The present
policy of isolation and increased arma-
ments is not the way to safety.
If some of the money for appro-
priations were. given to silk workers
suffering from the boycott, and if the
boycott were then pressed to the ut-
most, all imports and exports stopped,
Japan would be brought to her knees
in three months. Without government
action, it wiN take six months. By
then, Japan will have accomplished
her objectives. Japan’s taking over
the collection of customs at Shanghai
and Tientsien evoked a sharp note
from the United States, as the collec-
tions are pledged to Great Britain and
this country as payment of debts.
Following Lord -Halifax’s-visit to
» Berlin and the French delegation to
London, M. Delbos has been visiting
the capitols of Southeastern Europe.
He is dttempting to re-establish and
strengthen the Petite Entente which
aims ‘to restrain Germany. ‘At the
same time, Baron von Neurath, of
Germany, told..M. Francois-Poncet
that his country would not relax on
the colonial issue, but would- discuss
Central Europe. France, in turn, is
willing to concede to Germany, but
her concessions must be part of a gen-
eral settlement. She will not give
up colonies if itis only to further Ger-
‘ many’s unappeasable appetite. Ger-
-many does not want a: general, settle-
ment: She wants her colonies back
and is prepared to use force if neces-
sary:
~ Soviet Russia is having the first
national election of its life Sunday,
December 12. There are 1143 election
districts, but the ballots in 1119 of
them: only contain. one name. Yet,
the Soviet propaganda department. de-
clares the USSR to be the most demo-
cratic country in the world.
Founded 1865 Seventy-Third Year
BUSINESS TRAINING
Courses that offer
thorough preparation
. for young women who
intend to make busi-
ness a career.
—— and Three Yours
Second Semester, Janvary 31
Forinformation, address Registrar
PEIRCE SCHOOL
1475 Pine Street Phila., Pa.
Workers’ education.
g| preliminary struggle with less liberal
gan telephoning.
Frances Walker Praises.
Work of Summer School
Article Says Democratic’ Outlook
Is Secret of S
ummer School
The Quarterly,
An article on the
in the autuimn issue
publi¢ation of Con
Women, answers
attack on the school. Frances Walker,
88, editor of the magazine, was one
of the sent aide here last summer.
Her article, entitled Bryn Mawr Co-
operates With Labour, is a sympa-
thétic, vivid portrayal of the Indus-
trial Session.
She Speaks of Miss Thomas’ fore
thought ‘and consideration in desiring
to make some use of the college
grounds during the summer months
d her decision to use them for
She' tells of the
trustees, and of the suspicious hesi-
tancy of the first working girls to the
seemingly-capitalistic college sur-
rundings. But from that first class
came some of the industrial leaders
of today, and now, 16 years later, girls
bending over complicated machinery
work ‘harder to win a chance for six
weeks at Bryn Mawr.
Miss Walker then describes the in-
formal. conducting of classes, the
manner in which problems relative to
the girls are presented, the intensity
with which these vital questions are
attacked. Each girl is studying the
composition of the society in which
she lives and of her life itself.
The author in concluding her article
stresses the high degree of democracy
in the full sense of the word that
characterizes all the activities of the
school. No side of a question is over-
looked, no group is forgotten, every-
one must have representation, the
author finds. This strict adherence to
fairness is almost feverish in its at-
tempts. But it is this particular qual-
ity that is the unifying force in the
school and ensures its continued ex-
istence and success. L. 7. 8,
MAIDS AND PORTERS
TO SING TWO NIGHTS
On Monday, December. 14, the maids
and porters will sing Christmas
carols and spirituals at the Deanery
party, the following night they will
go around the campus singing. Those
who have heard them in previous
years will remember a beautiful per-
formance, and the rehearsals this year
show great promise. Camilla Riggs,
40, and Terry Ferrer, ’40, are direct-
ing the singing. Among the numbers
that will be sung are: Here We Come
A-Wassailing, O Mountain Pine, Si-
lent Night, The Twelve Days of
Christmas, I Got Shoes, Study War
No More, Deep River, Nobody Knows
the Trouble I’ve Seen, I Couldn’t Hear
Nobody Pray, Swing Low Sweet
Chariot, Little David Play on Your
Harp, Ezekial Saw the Wheel. The
program will finish with the negro
| national anthem, Lift Every Voice and
Sing.
Embryo Fire Attacks
New Scientific Building
Continued from Page One
n the meantime Joe
Graham, the night watchman, had
seen the fire and arrived on the scene
as the siren began shrieking.
The blaze originated in the base-
ment of the building when “salaman-
ders”. (buckets of. burning ¢goke). used
to keep fresh-laid cement from freez-
ing, set fire to tarpaulins covering
the windows.
JEANNETTE’S :
Bryn Mawr Flower Shop, Inc.
Flowers for All Occasions
. 823 Lancaster Avenue
Bryn Mawr 570°
From the basement the
PEACE COLUMN |
(Especially contributed by Eleanor
Taft, ’39.)
The Peace Council, representing
every group on the campus, exempli-
fies an effort to organize; educate, and
act upon college peace opinion. -It is
a subsidiary of the Emergency Peace
-| Campaign, which was initiated by the
American Friends’ Service Committee
on April 21, 1986, as the crystalliza-
tion of nation-wide pacifist opinion. It
has promoted a national coopera-
tive drive to achieve world peace by:
“(1) Strengthening _ pacific alterna-
tives ‘to armed .conflict; (2) bringing
about such political and economic
changes as are essential to a just and
peaceable world order; (3) recruiting
and uniting in a dynamic movement
all organizations and individuals who
are determined not to approve of, or
participate in, war; (4) acquainting
peace-minded people ‘with the. pro-
grams and policies of the member
organizations of the National Peace
Conference in other peace groups.”
It is cooperating actively with the
National Peace Conference in_ their
program of world economic coopera-
tion,
During the past 18 months it has
established a tremendous machinery
of popular support: Local peace com-
mittees. in.1200 cities. and on 400 col-
lege campuses; good working contacts
in 600 other communities; prospects.
among campus, fatm, and labor
groups; and finally a large group of
able speakers. There are no limits to
this vigorous organization whose es-
tablishment in the midst of so many
active “peace” organizations is justi-
fied by a two-year intensification of
the work these other groups are car-
rying out, They emphasize the neces-
sity of individual contributions
through thought, legislative pressure,
publicity in local papers, and discus-
sion. This fall they suggest a “day
to day policy” of non-participation and
non-cooperation. in war which starts
by the irivocation of neutrality law, | ~
evacuation of American citizens from
China, the setting of an official date
removing protection from American
lives, and withdrawal of our naval
and military forces.
Special student groups, prepared by
one .of three Institutes of Interna-
tional Relations set up 11 years ago
by the American Friends’ Service
Committee, are sent into rural areas
in all parts of the country to-carry
the cry of the Emergency Peace Cam-
paign. Three hundred and eighty-five
students have gone out in the last two
years to visit 29 states, and left 65
peace councils’or committees to con-
tinue their work? With the same
spirit of the Peace Caravans they urge
us to heed their daily challenge of
“Why not wage peace?”
fire spread to the scaffolding at ground
level.
The damage is estimated at under
250 dollars, which is covered by the
contractor’s insurance. No delay in
construction is expected as a, result of
the fire.
i BEFORE YOUR HALL DANCE
Have Supper at the
COMMUNITY KITCHEN
864. Lancaster -Avenue
Phone: Bryn Mawr 860
Please make Reservations— -
Supper only y ‘Appointment
THE LITTLE SHOP
| spattirs ta Commmnliy Kaichen
mn
Pullman Coats
Tweeds
~ Christmas Gift
Bags
MEET ae FRIENDS
The Boe Mawr College “Tea R
.. ee
SOCIAL CHAT AND RELAXATION —
Hours of Service: 7.30 A. M—7.30 P. M.
Breakfast . Lunch
Tea
For Special Parties, Call Bryn Mawr 386
education teacher among its faculty
Style Changes Shown in College Athletics;
Swedish Gym Replaced by Modern Dance.
Ah! for the good old days when
ladies were ladies—and Bryn Mawr-
ters trooped decorously into their ex-
ercise classes clad, as was befittingy
modest young women, in woolen
blouses, voluminous bloomers, and
ankle-length corduroy skirts! Thus
attired and armed with dumb-bells
these precursours of the modern Ath-
letic College Girl spent several hours
each week at “Sargent’s exercises,”
designed to develop their weaker
parts.
Bryn Mawr had made provision for
physical education at the outset when
it included a gymnasium among its
first buildings, and a full-time physital
members. After the first. few. years,
the value of individual development
of body parts began to be doubted,
and Swedish gymnastics, whose pur-
pose was bodily co-ordination, replaced:
the old system (1889).
Sports were included as extra-cur-
ricular activities and in 1891 the Ath-
letic Association was founded for the
purpose of keeping up athletic equip-
ment and running tennis tournaments.
It has since, in its day, made sev-
éral momentous decisions, , For ex-
ample, in 1894, it decreed:
“1, That in all sports requiring
short skirts leggings shall be worn;
“2. That the length of the skirt
shall be left to the discretion of the
captains of the teams.
“3. That in no athletic sports shal
sweaters be worn.”
But in 1898 it adopted as the offi-
cial uniform the flannel blouse and
corduroy skirt (with under-bloomers,
of course} which were used with little
Much like No Draft
olks take such things
add Knee-Action, the
GENERAL
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tion as a matter of course now that all-GM-
cars have this improvement. But when you - 1 eo
Turret Top, improved Hydraulic Brakes and
a steady parade of betterments—you see how
a great organization moves phadd-— onlay its
- giving greater value-aySeweio~ > “appa.
MEANS Goon MEASURE
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modification until the lent 15 years
or so.
The use of flannel shirts presented
some problems. For example, it was
found that the difficulty and general
infrequency of laundering them neces-
sitated a stringent rule that only clean
exercise shirts might be worn to meals,
and by clean, it was explained, was
meant “net previously worn.” But,
inconvenient as the corduroy-flannel
combination seems to us, there were
undoubtedly some advantages to it.
In hockey, it is said, balls could quite
easily be stopped and caught in the
folds of the skirt with just a slight ©
bending of the knees. The conserva-
tion of energy must have been enor-
mous!
In 1894, the swimming pool had
been built/ and swimming became part
of the > dl although it was not
until 1907 in the supervised curricu-
lum.
In 1910 a new gymnasium was
built over the swimming pool, and
gave impetus to the physical educa-
tion program. Aside from that, how-
ever, few innovatiofis” were made for
the next several years. But the war
evidently served as an inspiration to
the youth of our college, and in 1919
Bryn. Mawr students turned out in,
great numbers to participate in com-
pany drills and community singing.
Hockey was the favorite sport of the
college for many years—during Miss
Appleby’s régime—and_ during this
ime the college athletic spirit reached
its*peak.. But the universal modern
swing away from team sports to those
individual activities which can be
used after college has resulted in a
rather regrettable diminution of the
old fierce enthusiasm.
A coonskin coat, we've heard it said,
Wards off chill wittls from heel to head;
In which respect its chief vocation’s
Ventilation’s.
as No Draft Ventila-
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