College news, February 17, 1943

THE COLLEGE NEWS

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VOL. XXIX, No. 15

BRYN MAWR and WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1943

Copyright,
Bryn Mawr

Trustees of

Trustees of | PRICE 10 CENTS







Kazakevich Says
Russia’s Weapon
Is National Unity



Absence of Fifth Column,
Cultural Independence
Stressed





Goodhart, February 11.—Vladi- |
mir D. Kazakevich, speaking un- |
der the auspices of the War Alli-|

ance on What Makes Russia
Fight, cautioned against the over-
optimism which has arisen from
the recent series of great Soviet
victories. ‘‘The Germans are not
wasting these months while they |
are retreating,’ he said. ‘There
will be a third German drive.”

In order to explain the basis of
the Soviet Union’s fighting power,
Mr. Kazakevich compared the sal-
ient features of Soviet life with
the prevailing system in Czarist
Russia. The two most important
superficial differences between the
__two regimes, he said, are the a

degree of literacy achieved since
the Revolution and the compara-
tive youthfulness of the new Rus-
sian executives.

Turning to the more fundamen-
tal aspects of modern Russia, Mr. |

Kazakevich pointed out that in|
1914 Russian industry was con-|



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Calendar

Thursday, February 18
Miss McBride, Mrs. Mac-
Intosh. Vocational Con-
ference. Deanery, 4:30.

Friday, February 19
Swimming Meet. Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania. Gym,
4:00.

Saturday, February 20
Freshman Show. For
Whom the Sirens Scream.
Goodhart Auditorium, 8:30.
Hall Dances. Denbigh,
Pembroke, Rock.

Sunday, February 21

Hampton Quartet. Dean-
ery, 4:30.
Rev: Robert Wiks. Chapel.

Music Room, 7:30.

Monday, February 22
Dr. Erich Frank. Flexner
Lecture, The Problem of
Creation. Goodhart, 8:30. .

Tuesday, February 23

Current Events. Common
Room, 7:30.

Wednesday, February 24

Industrial Group Meeting.
Common Room, 7:30.
Dr. Karl Evang. Nutri-
tion Lecture. Public Health
and Nutrition. Dalton,
8:00.



centrated almost entirely in the |
East, while now great industrial |
centers exist in the Urals. This, !
coupled with the practice of evac- |
uating industries from territory
threatened by the Nazis, has great-
ly enhanced the defensive power |
of Russia. The productivity of |
Russian labor has increased also. |
In 1928 Russian efficiency was
about 14% of American efficiency ; |
in 1937 it was 40% as great.

In the field of agriculture, an in- |
dication of Soviet progress is the |
fact that peak harvests before
1933 became average harvests af-
ter that time. The collective farm
organization has proved to be an
excellent unit for civilian defense
measures, said Mr. Kazakevich.

Perhaps the greatest weapon of
the Soviet Union against the Fas-

cists is its national unity, said Mr.
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‘Undergrad Officers’
Election to be Held
In Halls Next Week

The election of officers for the
chief undergraduate positions for
'the year, 1948-44, will start next
week to continue until spring va-
cation.



After nominations a’ description
.of the duties of the offices will ap-
pear in The News, along with pic-
tures of the candidates and brief
write-ups of their college activi-
ties. The following week elections
will take place in the halls directly
after lunch. Voting will be by
ballot, and all undergraduates will

be required to sign their names as
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Mr. Weiss Presents Plan

for International

Understanding in New “Contracted” World



By Jessie Stone, ’44
For several days we had been
hearing sketchy references to a
new course or a series of lectures
from which we could learn about
our new neighbors, the Chinese,
the Indians and the Russians. Mr.
Weiss has been working on the
plan for some time, and he invited
us over to hear about the plan to
date. According to Mr. Weiss no
university or college in the coun-
try has anything quite like the
plan he would like to.see instituted
at Bryn Mawr.
The plan is intended to fill a
pressing necessity. It has long
been a commonplace that the
world -has -eontracted. “The
force of historical events,” in Mr.
Weiss’ words, has made this more
evident. “What is wanted today,”
said Mr. Weiss, “is a mind which
expands when and as the world
contracts. A civilized man ought
to know who his neighbors are.
_ Now our neighborhood is as wide
as the globe.” In particular, Mr.
Weiss continued, “one of the great }....
tasks of the post-war world will be
for us to understand the rhythm,
temper, background, values, . aspir-
ations, psychology, and religious

and social mifieu of the peoples. of |



Russia, India and China.”

Mr. Weiss said that we should
attempt to do in a broad way what
the government is doing hastily
and on a small scale in giving
handbooks to our soldiers sent to
foreign lands. The course is not
going to be in geography, history,
geopolitics, economics, philosophy,
psychology, etc. It will be a ma-
trix idea,” said Mr. Weiss, “of
which these are facets.”

Mr. Weiss feels that such a
study should “serve as a nucleus
for a curriculum.” It will help to
step the reckless rush to courses
which seem to fill pressing and
practical needs. Its value will not
be limited by this particular per-

‘iod. Speaking of Russia, India and

China, Mr. Weiss said that “A
comparative study of their cul-
tures, customs and conceits, their
history, language and economy
will make it possible for an Amer-
ican to learn something of the cut
and flavor of what is and will for
a long time continue to be most

alien and yet most_relevant.”
~Akevordingly kere the support

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eBride and the full co-
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up its collection of |

Freshman Show Features Haverford, Legs,
Biology; Measles and Sophomores Interfere



By Alison Merrill,

The Freshmen aren’t saying
anything this year. Particularly,
they aren’t saying anything to a
Sophomore. But we go to the re-
hearsals and we hear the typical
screaming around, with fifty peo-
ple doing nothing but getting in
the way and two people working
awfully hard nailing something
that has already been nailed.

The Freshmen remain unper-
turbed, however. Says Director
Pat Castles, ‘Mother and child are
doing nicely.” In spite of the
Mezsles coming in every now and
then, things are working out
ahead of schedule. They’ve enough
nails, enough paint, enough scen-
ery . . that is, they did until
the director walked on the scenery

in her bare feet. The scenes are
rather vague and shall we say im-
pressionistic, with any resem-
blanee to the Bryn Mawr campus
purely intentional. Says Barbara
Rebmann, in charge of the stage
crew, “The whole thing is queer.”
We think so too, but then we’re
‘Sophomores.

Biology, Haverford, and legs
are to be featured, as they have
been in Freshman Shows since
time immemorial. The war lends
a new note, particularly in the
case of the shortage of manpower.
The Fifth Column invades the
Bryn Mawr campus. Unsupersti-
tious Freshmen boast of 13 songs.
Enthusiasm is high; Goodhart is
cold; the Freshman Show is hot,
they tell us.

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Mass Meeting Held
To Discuss Possible
Required Assemblies



Goodhart, February 15, Monday.
—The need for undergraduate as-
semblies, the possiblity of news
content, and means of ‘assuring at-
tendance, were the main subjects
of a heated debate at the Under-
graduate mass meeting conducted
by the War Alliance under the
chairmanship of Betty Nicrosi. A

be held every two weeks. The fact
that there is a need for measures
to increase the* students’ informa-
tion of the war was accepted by a
large majority. The emphasis in
these Assemblies,
Stone, will be on the content, rath-
er than the fame-of the speaker.

cerned largely with the United
State’s point of view. Speakers
will include faculty.

Lydia Gifford presented the |
view that attendance, at least 90% !
attendance, at such Assemblies is
a private obligation, while Cathe-
rine Clement stood for enforced
attendance and asked for a three-
fourths vote of approval for a sys-
tem of compulsion. Barbara Sage
brought out the indisputable point |
that not enough people have at-!
tended lectures and Current '
Events, and that there have not
been sufficient discussions or Cam-
pus evaluations of presented ma-
terials.

The plan proposed by the Exec-
utive Board of the Alliance for a
morning schedule running from
8.30 to 12.30 and 45 minutes of As-
sembly was presented by Jessie
Stone. The subjects of the As-

tion to one another; they will be a
series dealing with background
material for war information
which will further a better under-
standing of daily issues. The crit-

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Marriages
Lila Labowitz, ’44, to Har-
vey Satenstein.
Mary Mitchell, ’43, to Wil- ;
liam Kester.

Engagements

Niles Rumely, ’43, to Mi-
chael Newton. |

Patricia Murnaghan, ’44,
to Lt. John J. Jackson, U.S.A.

Eleanor— Borden, 46, to
Robert Dickson, U‘S-N.

Peggy Tuckerman, ’44, to
Lt. Commander Draper Laur-
ence Kauffman, US.N.







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plan was proposed for the hour’
for these assemblies which are to:

stated Jessie |

They will present pertinent ma- |;
terial of immediate interest, con- pased on doubt with a belief only|adelphia, and teacher of Econom-

sembly lectures are to. have rela- |

icism of former lectures centered |
tparound their lack of ‘a sustained

History of Theories ?
On God’s Existence
Traced by Dr. Frank

Goodhart, February 15.— The
proof of the existence of God is
found by attempting to deny his |
existence, explained Dr. Frank in
his‘ lecture on The Nature of God,
the second in the series of Flexner
lectures. Dr. Frank showed that
this proof is the result-of modern
scepticism, developed from theories
of the Greek and Medieval phi-
losophers on the existence and na-
ture of God.

The Greek philosophers placed
more emphasis on determining the |
essence of God than on proving |
his existence.





To the medieyalists |
the problem was one of existence,
not essence, for God’s nature was |
a fact known through faith. tn |
contrast, modern philosophy is|



‘in the evidence of thought.

The Greeks based their belief:
in the existence of God on the co--
| mological proof. The medieval
‘philosophers used the ontological |
argument. The Christians believed
that God exists as something be-
lyond which nothing greater can
| be thought. Anselm showed that
'God-exists by His very nature, for
‘if He were a product of the imagi-
jnation, something greater could be
i;known. This argument fails to
satisfy those without faith, for it
presupposes a faith in a God of
such a nature.

As a result of this failure, mod-
ern philosophy, starting with Des-
cartes, is based on doubt of estab-

lished beliefs. Descartes believed
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‘collected in each hall.

Undergraduates
Subseribe 100% to
War Chest. Drive

Faculty, Maids and Porters
Also Subscribe 100%
To Drive

The results of the War Chest
drive total $3655. 100 per cent of
the undergraduates, organized by
Jane Smith, subscribed. The maids
and porters andythe faculty also
unanimously contributed to the





Chest. 99 per cent of graduate
students. were reached, but three
non-resident students could not.

The staff subscribed 95° per cent.
The missing 5 per cent had sub-
scribed, but not at the college.
Miss McBride, appointed Mrs.
Chadwick-Collins as chairman of
the drive. She appointed the lead-
ers of the sub-divisions, and ob-
tained the cooperation of the Un-

\dergraduate Association and the

War Alliance. They appointed
Jane Smith chairman for the un-
dergraduates. Volunteer solicitors
The chair-
man for the faculty was Mr. Nahm,
for the graduate students Miss
Neper, for the maids and porters
Miss Howe, and Mr. Smedley for
the staff.

Jane Smith deserves great credit
for getting a 100 per cent under-
graduate subscription. This is an
almost unprecedented record.

Mr. Bishop Will Talk
To Industrial Group





Mr. Merlin Bishop, Educational
Director of the Almagamated
Clothing Workers, C. I. O. of Phil-

ies at the Hudson Shore Labor
School, will lead the discussion at
the Industrial Group Meeting on
February 24.

“ry, Bishop will speak on the
geneial principles of trade union-
ism and the particular problems
that unions have had to meet as a
result of their voluntary surrend-
er of the right to strike for the du-
ration. This month’s meeting will
be held at Bryn Mawr, in accord-
ance with the plan to hold meet-
ings alternately at the German-
town Y. W. C. A. and at Bryn
Mawr.

All interested students are in-
vited to attend. Dinner will be
served in the Common Room at
6.30 and the discussion will begin
at 7.15.

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‘Mysterious Faculty Show Reveals Need;

| Know Any Stray

Horses, Piano Players?



By Ann Aymer, ’45

“WANTED: -a_ fairly tame



horse . . . some gold tassels from
a fancy curtain a piano
player . . . a medium size diver’s
outfit . . . a moose head.” These

| disconnected requests are the only
| pieces of information to seep out
from behind the impenetrable veil
;of secrecy cloaking the faculty
|show, Standing Room Only.

Miss Yeager, when questioned
on the subject, smiles mysterious-
ily, begins a highly interesting
| sentence, then stops abruptly with
| “I can’t really tell you that.” She
|refuses to divulge information as
‘to which of the faculty is in the
| show, doing what and why—the
nearest thing to a list of the actors
being a statement that “nearly
| 100% of the faculty have parts in
| the show.



As far. as your reporter could
surmise from the afore-mentioned
unfinished sentences, and from a
few hints here and there, Stand-
ing Room Only is an original
play, written by the faculty of
Bryn Mawr College. It is mainly
serious, covering’all dramatic pos-
sibilities from;-quote, great pathos
to humor... . we hope, unquote
Miss Yeager.

Although they are most reticent
about thé subject matter, of the
show, one thing the faculty wish
publicized is that it is for» Allied
War Relief, and is part of the
faculty’s contribution to the war
effort. The lure of moose heads
and tame horses to intrigue al-
ready aroused curiousity, coupled
with the fact that the benefit is
for an excellent cause, should
bring crowds to Ggodhart on Feb-

ruary 27 for Standing ggRoom Only.










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A koue!

As the sophomores prepare for a carnival to raise money’ to

pay for the freshman lantefns, it
long-standing tradition.

have lanterns it seems advisable

instead of letting the sophomores break themselves in the process.

If the college is unable to pay for the lanterns, but feels that!
they are’an attractive or essential part of Bryn Mawr, the seniors | fice, - Wash'ngton,
could leave their lanterns for the use of the incoming class.

The custom of the students buying the
lanterns was started when metal was cheap and each lantern cost
only fifty cents. This year each one costs four dollars. If we must

seems a good time to question a



that the College pay for them, |

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Aside |

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THE COLLEGE NEWS







| .
| Nutrition Lecture

| The. Nutrition lecturer on
i} February 18 will be Dr. M.
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M. Winthrop. in place of Dr.

WIT*S END
r E, B. McCollum.

* Multa Stiffia Bellapuell |

Shuddering moans of Boreas :
mixed with wails of trail blazers. |
Frosted sausages contact chilled |
translux paines. Swift swells and |
eddies of. atmosphere paralyze |
pedes, stabbing heaving heart. |
Omnes kaltes, omnes freezimus in- |
cludibus aqua tubae. Power house |Mrs. Cameron spoke tonight on
Oh where is the heat | the State Department’s policy. to-
of yesteryear! Sweater. upon | wars Vichy. She showed our my
sweater, strata upon strata, only | t lits-- Semiane “ack anid ae

the nose to be bare. | lati
ah | the formulation of our North Afri-
Sliding slippery paths





y
Cu rrent Lien bs

Common Room, February 16.—







over

bowled by blasting bluffs of wind. | ©@ policy, leading up to the be-|

South of the knee uh’s, down Ar-| ginning of plans for our North

tica way. Sail on and on, the port | African campaign.
is yet to come.

Crisp crystals on | Tracing. our’ relations with
wool crunch on wooden knob. France, Mrs. Cameron reviewed
Visions of heat waves dusting | the attitude of Ambassador Bul-

desks dance in cranium. A flash’ jitt towards the French. She dis-

of Kleenex, stumble into barren | cussed the close cooperation and
room peeling off strata.

Tenderly | friendship between Mr. Bullitt and
the icy streamers wrap simple|i,, Pyench government, and the
souls in solid sparkling cocoons. | former’s knowledge of the military
Numbly dumbly beseech nonpotent | situation before the fall in June,
thermostatum. Faint whisper, | j940. Having handed over the
Clunk! ‘Miseracordia, — toe | city of Paris to the enemy at the
yuh, miseratotia mea: — Marble | request of the French government,
statues grasp Parkers stiffly. Im-| 4) ambassador returned home
mobile crew.





“ ;our policy towards Vichy.
Dr. Evang to Discuss | It was at this time that. our

. sc 4 | North African policy was formu-
Topic of Civic Health

| lated to isolate the French Empire
In Nutrition Lecture our South Atlantic flank, which

: _ | would be menaced if the enemy
The next in the series of Nutri-| haq control of Dakar. It has been
tion lectures and the last to take) .aiq that the decision of the French
plac2 at Bryn Mawr will be on. the Empire to lay down arms was
subject of Public Health and Nu- ‘aided by our Pro-Vichy policy, but
trition. It will be given on Wed-| this is unfair judgement accord-
nesday, February 24, by Dr. Karl) ing to Mrs. Cameron, although it
Evang, of the Norwegian Surgeon’s | did have ‘an affect on morale.
formerly D:-| In the fall of 1940, General
rector of Public Health in Norway. | Weygand was appointed Delegate-



from the consideration of saving in war-time, this plan would be | Nutrition in relation to Public) General in North Africa, and un-

practical, and, no doubt, gratefully received by future sophomores. |
We suggest that any senior who felt too attached to her |

antern to |

part with it should be asked to pay for it.

The forthcoming carnival may prove a success, but it seems as | population.

Health is a vital problem and cov-| dey him there were attempts to re-
ers the task; which confront Pub-| sist Axis influence within the Em-
lic Health Organizations in secur-| pire, although it was growing in
ing an adequate nutrition for the) power. Robert Murphy was then

Dr. Evang has first-' in close relationship with Wey-

if such activities should be directed into more realistic channels, | hand information on the conditions gang, and this French-American

We do not advocate abandonment of tradition in war-time, but we

believe that in all times it should be organized in a more practical

way.

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Exhibition of Manuscripts, Typography of |
Kelmscott, Doves Press is Library Display



Printed in full in an article in
The Alumnae Bulletin by Mr. Chew
The Ninth Exhibition in the

Rare Book Room is devoted to ex-:

amples of the fine typography of
the Kelmscott Press and the Doves
Press. Supplementing the books
on display are some original man-
uscripts. Books and manuscripts
come from the collection of the
late Harold Peirce and have been
put on view through the courtesy
of his daughters, Mary Peirce,
1912, and her sister, Miss Marg-
aret Peirce.

The history of the Kelmscott
Press and of its successor, the
Dove Press, is so well known that
it need not be repeated even in
summary fashion here. Examples
are shown of all three types—the
“Troy,” the “Chaucer,” and the
“Golden” —employed by Morris.

The glory of the exhibition is, of |

course, the monumental Kelmscott
Chaucer (1896), Morris’s greatest
achievement in typography and
the most famous of all modern
finely printed books.

-Contrasting with the richness—
not to say flamboyanc2—of the
Kelmscott Press is the grave dig-
nity of the work of Cobden-Sand-
erson ‘and Emery Walker at the
Doves Press. On display is the
great Doves Bible in five volumes.
That volume is opened at the first
_ chapter of Genesis. The initial
“I” of “In the beginning” strikes

a note of grandeur unparalleled

elsewhere in modern printing.



as does the Kelmscott, because the |
same type was used throughout. |

All members of the college com- |
munity and any alumnae who may
be so fortunate as to visit the)
campus while these books and!
manuscripts are on view are in- |
debted to the owners for their)
generousity in lending these valu- |
able and beautiful objects to the
library.

Further exhibitions are in prep- |
aration for the last two months of |
the current academic year and the!
opening months of the next. © |

SAMUEL C. CHEw,
For the Committee on
the Rare Book Room.

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| Red Cross by Miss Gardiner.

in Norway since its invasion and)

coma ‘cooperation was a forerunner of
the effect of a greatly. diminished | 54, North African campaign.
food supply upon a nation.

|_-Mrs.-Cameron—stated thatthe
The general importance of nu-| gtate Department had not been
trition and knowledge of it has! cyeeessful in keeping the French
never been more recognized than trom collaborating with Germany.
it is now, and in view of this a fyen after the dismissal of Pierre
course in nutrition is being given | Laval in 1940 from the position of
for the’Main Line Branch of the| Foreign Minister, Darlan carried
Al-| on his predecessor’s pro-German
though offered primarily for peo-| work, and also was an important
ple from outside the college, it will | figure in economic collaboration
be open to students who wish to) with the enemy. The United
take it. The course will cover ten gtates protested strongly to this
weeks, starting February 22. The| in attempts to prevent further col-
lectures will be in Dalton on Tues-! japnoration—she objected to the re-
days from 11:00 to 1:00. ‘moval of Weygand from North
Africa: and, after Pearl Harbor,
| to the transportation of supplies
,from North Africa to help Rom-
/mel in Libya.
| In February, 1942 the United
'States decided to deal with local
| French authorities everywhere in
/order to get them to put up resis-
| tance against Nazism. We pre-
|pared to recognize Free-French
‘eontrol of New Caledonia and



Swimming Meet

A swimming meet with
the University of Pennsyl-
vania will be held here Fri-
day, February 19, at 4 P. M.
Ty Walker broke the record
for the woman’s 50 yard
back crawl when we met at
Penn last year.









‘Campus Anxiously Anticipates Nickleodeon,
Z | bean.
Open House at Rhoads The reason this country kept up |

Looks Forward to

French Equatorial Africa. A neu-
“tralisation policy was negotiated

| relations with Vichy were two-



By Mary Virginia Mare, °45
We chose an unfortunate week-
end—otherwise we would never
enture to suggest that Rhoads
and the soda fountain suffers from

delusions cf grandeur. We are
‘tempted to leave the matter here,
but won’t. Did you go to open
house at Rhoads? We did. The
house was open. So far, so good.
In the smoking room two pairs of
blue jeans lounged on the sofa.
Otherwise everything was_ spot-
lessly clean — uncontaminated by
human presence and the usual
cigarette butts. We took our
daily hour of meditation, the. spot
being unexpectedly choice. We
finished our last cigarette and left



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at least, had a new nickleoden—a | fold: to keep the French fleet and
new incéentive—,and we were in|empire out of Nazi hands. This
the mood. We could even stand, reason is, according to Mrs. Cam-.
being jostled a bit by the crowd.) eron, fallacious in view of the fact
The silence as we climbed the | that Germany could have taken
stairs was so unbroken that we,them, but it was cheaper for the
failed to notice it. We came to | Naktis to keep them neutral.
the daor and all we saw was weal She then drew some conclusions
.quoise and red and the campus! on the State Department’s policy,
'sceptic eating a sandwich. “Cus-; saying it was callow to be critical
tomer!”” we were greeted with| of the 1940 policy, because it can
weary excitement. It didn’t take | always be argued that we were not
much insight to see that the nic-/ ready to fight then. It would ap-
kleodon wasn’t exactly . . . well| pear that the State Department is
wasn’t. : against General de Gaulle, but this’
We felt subdued — perhaps it|is because the underground move-

and was influential in determining |

'from the Axisg in order to protect
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with Admiral Robert in the Carri- |

current,” the sceptie volunteered.

might be out of place to say any-
thing. We just looked. “Wrong

Ah well, tomorrow is another day





dv t)e

ment in- France forced the Free
French cause out of the realm of
the idealogy of its leader. France
could not keep fighting with pa-.
Shottens “eb tex Only ata







PENN POINTS

By Jessie Stone, ’44

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State Wood-
ward has introduced a_ bill into

Senator George

the Pennsylvania legislature the
response to which is resulting ina
degree of labor unity hitherto un-
achieved in the Keystone State.
The bill is of the kind that has
been recommended on a national
scale by anti-labor diehivds such

as Congressman Howard Smith of
Virginia. Briefly, the bill would
give the Secretary of Labor of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,
as. well as the general public, ac-
cess to the financial records and

membership lists of all trade
unions in the state.
There has been a_ powerful

storm of protest against the bill.
James L. McDevitt, President of
the Pennsylvania Federation of
Labor, said of the bill: “Clearly
this is a piece’ of class legislation
and if passed would succeed in
tearing organized labor to pieces.
We are forced to:preserve the in-
tegrity of our membership list for
the safety of our unions. Much of
\the other information which
Woodward claims should be a mat-
ter of public record is already
available.”,, The A. F. of L. in
Pennsylvania has over a half mil-
lion members.

John Phillips, president of the
State Industrial Union, CIO, rep-
resenting over 300,000 war pro-
duction workers has joined forces
with the AFL in:promising a con-
certed fight against “this anti-





American class legislation.” The
Railroad Brotherhoods and _ the
United Mine Workers, the two

large independent labor organiza-
|tions in the state have also joined
j the campaign to defeat the Wood-
; ward bill.

| The protest has been so strong
that public hearings on the bill,
scheduled by the Senate Commit-
tee on Labor and Industry, have
been postponed.

Labor protests the publication
'of its membership lists for obvious
reasons. It is opposed to pen
books for another reason. In
peace time, when trade unions de-
mand higher wages, shorter hours
or better working conditions, they
hope to achieve these aims by ar-
|bitration. However, the trade
union always has, by the law of
‘the land, the right to strike. The
success or failure of a strike is of-
ten conditional on the financial
‘status of the union. If the em-
| ployer has knowledge of this stat-
us he knows in advance how long
the union can hold out. This bill
would thus render labor virtually
powerless in its struggle for bet-
ter conditions.

One clue to the reason for the
introduction of the bill at this time
may lie in the fall elections for
mayor of Philadelphia. In the
| gubernatorial elections of last fall,
ithe Republicans were very suc-
cessful on a state-wide basis. But
in Philadelphia, the Republican
vote exceeded the Democratic by
only 157 votes. This vote was a
‘partial indicator of the strength





|of organized labor in the city, for
|labor has for several years op-.
‘posed the state Republican ma-
chine as the center of anti-labor
forces. A blow at organized labor,
such as this bill would constitute,
»woeuld serve to weaken a powerful
force militating against a Repub-
lican city victory in the fall elec-
tions.



Teachers!

Miss my Abell Watson
of the Cooperative Bureau
for teachers will be in. the
second floor office of the Bu-
reau of Recommendations,
Friday afternoon to inter- |
view students interested in
teaching. Schedules of ap- |}
pointments are posted on the |
‘bulletin ‘board outside this |}

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THE COLLEGE NEWS



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Miss Fairchild Opens |
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Librarians

A Voeational Conferénce
on Librarianship will be
held in the Art Gallery of
Drexel Institute of Technol-
ogy on Friday, February 26
at 3:30 p. m. Juniors and
Seniors interested in library

New Lecture ic
On Personnel Service’



Statistics Laboratory, February |
11.—Recently put under the War |







|
Manpower. Commissian, the || work are particularly in-
United States: Employment diol vited to attend.
ice has been organized to coordi- |
nate all state employment activi- ‘History of Theories
ties and bring th der it -
sa ing them under its su Traced by Frank

pervision,», stated Miss Mildred |

Fairchild in the first of a series of | Continued from Puge One

lectures on Personnel Administra-|G0d existed as the author of his
tion. This service is charged with | thoughts and that the truth of His

supplying the much needed labor | thinking was the assurance of His
force in our war industries, she existence. The weakness in this
continued. {theory is that such log'cal thinking

Prior to the Wagner-Peyser Act ; Will proceed t# a point where it
of 1933, there were not more tan |(iscovers its own illusionary char-

150 employment offices in the 48 | acter and a necessity for faith will
be created. The belief of another



states. The aims of this act, Miss |
Fairchild said; were “to direct, mcdern philosopher, Kant, was
coordinate and supervise state’ based on moral will, but this was

employment services and to give|Unsatisfactory, as it accepted the
grants in aid to states on a match- |'dea of personal sovereignty.

ing basis.” The three functions} Modern scepticism and psychol-
of the Overall Employment Serv-!°gy has proved that human reason-
ice it created she added, were to|ing is not dep2ndent on the indi-
promote and assist in the main- | Vidual consciousness, but on prem-
tainance of State Employment | \ises which come from a deeper con-
Services, to determine elegibility | sciousness. In practical experi-
of states for federal grants, to | ences we cannot always wait until
prescribe minimum standards of | theoretical aspects are cleared by
efficiency, to approve detailed reason, therefore we must believe
state plans, and finally, to.main- that ovr actions are based on true
tain a system for clearing labor | reasoning.

among states. This last duty, said; This faith has entered the idea

Miss Fairchild, is now of prime Of personal sovereignty.. Each man
importance. While the United;believes in his own subjective
States Employment Service was World and his belief in God is

under the Department of Labor based on hig own subjective think-
from 1933 until 1939, its main con-|ing. By doubting his own think-
cern was unemployment. The So- ‘ing, the doubt of the truth of his
cial Security Act of 1935 provided God arises in the mind of modern
that claimants for unemployment Man.

compensation apply to United) By realizing that what can be
States Employment Service. This, comprehended is not God, man is
said Miss Fairchild, widened the denying the existence of God. Goal)
scope of one service, but confused |Should be defined as non-existent

its function. beanie 3 far above objec-
With the amendment of the | tive r



Kasehavich. Says Russia’ s M ass Mie eeting H eld
Weapon is National Unity,



Continued trom Tage One

Kazakevich.

great factors.
tionalities policy, pers
shaped’ by Premier Stalin.
Soviet Union has within its bor- |
dérs 180 nationalities.
nationalities policy is in sharp
contrast to the Czarist policy, said

Mr. Kazakevich. Old Russia was

This is due to two plan.
The first is the nas, 'to enforced attendance at Assem- |

To Discuss Assemblies



Continued from Page One
Opinions varied greatly as

sonally' I blies, and some students even re-
The | tracted their approval of Assem-

blies in the light of such a system. |

| A small audience of really inter-
The § t |
» nore ‘ested students was declared pref- |

| erable to a larger and less enthusi-

watts one,



marked by severe persecution of they now hold in the army, -said |

Poles, Jews, and Baltic peoples. |

Under Soviet power cultural auto-
nomy has been extended to all the

‘Mr. Kazakevich.
Mr. Kazakevich devoted the re-

/ mainder cf his talk to a discussion

‘of American- Soviet relations.

peoples of the U.S.S.R., said Mr. |

Kazakevich.
The

¢

second important factor

| other is very meagre.”

contributing to national-unity is !

the absence of a “fifth column.”

The extinction of the “fifth col- |

umn,” said: Mr.

Kazakevich was | that the Czar refused to recognize

largely accomplished by the fam- |

ous treason trials... Mr. Kazake-
vich was. in Moscow at the time of

the trials and said that he could)

not understand all the to-do about
them in this country. He said that

| the

when on_his return he was asked |

how the trials affected him he re-

plied that “since he hadn’t been | Eenment. which

‘well in this crisis.
fear that Russia will try to spread |
| Communism in the United States |

tried they didn’t affect him.” The
Nazis, he said, have not been able
to find enough “fifth columnists”

to set up.a Quisling government in |

the conquered territory.

Another factor
armed power is the planned econ-
omy. In the twelve years since
the operation of planned economy, |
said Mr. Kazakevich, the Rus-|
sians have made many errors, but
“learned a lot.”

The democratic spirit of the Red
Army is very important in ex-

plaining its great fighting quali- |
Voroshiloy, ,

ties. Under the Czar,

He
said that “our knowledge of each |
He briefly |
sketched the
American relations to show that!

“collaboration is possible between,
countries

ot
rovernments.”’

altogether
He pointed. out

the new American republie for 32)
“unnatural |
United |
im- |

years because it was
and contagious.” The
States, he said, showed an
provement of 50% by recognizing
U.S.S.R. after 16 years. He
said that it is nonsense to expect

| Russia to change the form of gov-

He said that

is foolish. “Communism,” he said,

| “is like the Kingdom of Heaven.

in the Soviet.

|

|

|

a former factory worker and Tim- |

oshenko, a peasant,

could never)

have risen to the high positions



cial Security Act in 1939, the r

os |
organized employment service wast So ‘emalee Diunenite All Usual Attempts

transferred from the Department |
of Labor to the Social Security |
Board. On December 31, 1941, the |

At Thwarting Freshman Dramatic Efforts.



United States Employment Serv- !
ice was ordered to take over for|
the duration all state employment |
services, giving greater federal|0ozing forth at show rehearsals,
control over all manpower. After | but it is being coached into the
the war the problems of reestab- | spotlight by the Sophomores. The
lishing state supervision over em-| latter contributed sporadic attend-
ployment services will arise, and | ance at rehearsals and are enthu-
it will not be easy to sacrifice posi- siastic to the point of chaos. Li-
tive efficiency of the federal meth-| belous comments are interspersed
od, the elasticity and autonomy|with alarm clocks and lusty songs
of the state, Miss Fairchild said.; from 45’s own recent endeavor,
but the singing resembles. the
sound from the bar room floor.

By Virginia Belle Reed, *44
The Freshman talent is not only





Sop homores Win in In addition the Pembroke soph-

Interelass Swimming ores made a concerted demand '&

for entertainment while - dining, | %



ae which practically amounted to a}!

An earnest spirit of class com- floor show, the spectators decided; |
petition reigned last Thursday af- | Rock, too, called upon’ its new tal-'|
ternoon, February 12; at the first | ont for interesting definitions and |
non-Varsity Interclass Swimming | explanations .of such unnatural |
Meet. Rooters and swimmers alike | | phenomena as the Dewey Decimal |
turned out in large numbers to ' system
cheer for their respective classes. ' Wania Was atrielk wits ke eee
The following were winners in the | plained ‘disappearance of Fresh-
bas see orn: man bathrobes, which became ex-
ie tinct Sunday. With the advance

of glacial weather it promises to
be a hard week for ’46. The lock-



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Breast Form
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Rhoads Sophomores maintain

that a great thing is coming out of |

this perennial struggle, for they
are promoting excitement in their
Stoic dining room. ’Tis even said
that Rhoads is acquiring tradition

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| Uaileniond Officers
Election to be Held

| Continued from Page One
they cast their votes.

If any candidate receives fifteen
more votes than the sum of all the
| other votes cast, she is elected. If
no candidate gets this plurality, a
|second poll will be held the next
day.

Schedule of Nominations

Repruary 18 — Nomination for
| pent of Self-Government (by
Junior Class).

February 22 — Nomination
President of Undergraduate
Junior Class).

February 25— Nomination for
, President of Bryn Mawr League
(by League Board).
| March 1—Nomination for Pres-
ident of Athletic Association (by
Athletic Association Board).



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(by

March 8 — Nomination for
Chairman of Alliance (by Junior
Class).

March. 9—Nomination for Vice-
President of Self-Government. (by

Junior Class).

Mareh 9—Nomination for Sec-
retary of Self- Government (by
Junior Class).

March 9 — Nomination for

| Treasurer of Self-Government (by

Freshman Class).

March 15 — Nomination for

| Vice-President of Undergraduate

(by Junior Class).

March 15—Nomination for Sec-
jretary of Undergraduate (by
Sophomore Class).

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Elections
The Science Club _ takes
pleasure in announcing the
election of Ruth Alice Davis, |
‘President, and Mary Sue

Chadwick, Secretary.
The Stage QGuild an-
nounces the election of Pa- |)
tricia Brown as President:









Mr. Weiss Presents Plan |
For “Contracted” World|

Continued from Page One
Barton laid the foundation by pur-

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chasing basic classical

about twenty years ago.

Meanwhile it is hoped that stu-
dents will find the reserve that is
being set up in the Quita Wood-
ward Room of interest. The re-
serve is far from complete. So
far, however, there are some inter-
esting books on oriental civiliza-
tion. They range from Lin Yu-
tang’s The Importance of Living
to the Koran. One of the books |
best illustrative of the common |
elements in various peoples’
thought patterns is the Cinderella |
book, which contains 345 variants |
of that folk-tale as it has been told
all over the world. There is a
book, of the poetry of Li Po, “the
best-known Chinese poet in the
Orient for the last 1000 years or
more.” The book is translated by a
Japanese who wrote: “I have been
all my life a student and lover of
Chinese poetry.” There are nu-
merous books on Buddhism. There
is a volume called The Panchatan- |
tra, translated from the Sanskrit.
It is said that “it contains the
most widely known stories in the
world,” and that it was one of La
Fontaine’s most important sources.





Miss Park Presents
College Library With
Autographed Letters



Condensed from an article by Mary
Woodworth in The Alumnae Bulletin
Miss Park has generously pre-

sented the Library with a group of |

dutographed letters written by
statesmen, poets, and scholars who
have lectured at Bryn Mawr and
whose comments about their visits
to the campus, especially their con-
tacts with the students and ‘the
faculty, should be preserved among
the records of the College. Although
the collection begins properly with
the year 1923, there is one item
of particular interest from an
earlier period—a_ letter from
Woodrow Wilson in. which he dis-
cusses arrangements for a house at
Bryn Mawr.

These letters are being depos-
ited in the Rare Book Room. It is
hoped that alumnae and friends of
the College will either give or leave
to the library supplementary mate-
rial so that Miss Park’s gift may
be the nucleus of a large and inter-
esting collection of autograph let-
ters at Bryn Mawr.

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