College news, December 9, 1942

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VOL. XXIX, No. 11

BRYN MAWR and WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1942

Copyright,

Sryn Mawr College, 1942

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Alliance Sponsors
War Aims Survey

After Year’s War

Cameron, Manning Stress
Working Peace; Aim is
Survival





Common Room, December 8.—A
survey of the war aims of the
United States after a year of con-
flict was presented by Mrs. Man-
ning and Mrs. Cameron in a meet-
ing sponsored by the Alliance. Mrs.
Manning noted the realization by
the United States of its responsi-
bility in establishing a peace with
not merely a written basis, but
éne that will provide for people
actually living and working to-

Continued on Page Five



Anti-Russian Feeling
Shown by Delegates
From Many Colleges



Five Bryn Mawr students at-
tended the International Relations
Conference held at Princeton last
week. These were Rosalind Wright,
’43; Nancy Chase, ’43; Marie Was-
serman, ’46; Leila Jackson, ’46, and
Doris Brucholz, ’46. The Interna-
tional Relations Conferences are
sponsored by the Carnegie Endow-
ment for International Peace.

At this Conference, which was
the annual meeting of the Middle
Atlantic group, seventy-two. col-
leges were presented by about four
hundred students, Round Tables
were held on Anglo-American rela-
tions, the Far East, Russia, India,
and the problem of Germany after
the present war. ’

Rosalind Wright was chairman
of the Round Table on the Far
East. As the object of these Round
Tables is discussion alone, no reso-
lutions were drawn -up, but all

Immediate Post-W ar

Planning Is Favored
By Students In Poll

The recent NEWS poll on interna-
tional issues discloses that a large
portion of student public opinion
favors immediate post war plan-
ning, and considers isolationism



|for the United States after the

war a foolhardy policy. The sur-
vey also reveals that a majority of
the campus believes that the Unit-
ed Nations will win the war.

231 votes for post war planning
during the war were tabulated. 20
thought that we should win the
war before considering the peace,
and 13 believed that the broad prin-
ciples for the treaty should be es-
tablished now-before post-war leth-
argy sets in, and the details should

Continued on Page Five

French Club to Give
Pageant at Wyndham





The French Club takes pleasure
in presenting its annual Christmas
Play, to be given at Wyndham on
Saturday, December 12, at 8.00.

The cast is as follows:

MORODH oj ce pce M. V. More
Marie os. .c ee cce ees E. H. Tuck
Perode sso 616 i T. Exton
J. Dulebohn

LCC, re eee N. Saltsman
L. Schlageter

Balthazar 6085 ou wae I. Doll
Melchoirt -i.5 sa:c0 5. N. Garsoian
JASVAL oc eee lis » L. Pirrung
_ Ez .Dallam

Chevaliers «:se05.0 ne cares H. Dunn
E. Harriman

Crere: Src L. Chamberlin
Messager... 6. sso. J. Barber
E. Boudreau

BOYeern GA cee iret. E. Schweppe
F. Parrish

POUDIO coos eoig ees M. Alexander
Prologue and Epilogue .. M. Ellis

The Play is directed by Florence
Senger, and costumes are by Nina



Continued or Page Three

Garsoian,



Bryn Mawr, Haverford Choirs Will Present
‘A Christmas Oratorio of the 17th Century



Specially contributed by Mr. Alwyne

The fourth annual program of
“Christmas Music” by the combined
choirs of Haverford and Bryn Mawr
Colleges will be given on Sunday

evening, December 13, at 7.45 P.
M., in Goodhart Hall, and on Mon-
day, December 14, at 8.00, in Rob-
erts Hall. The choirs will be as-
sisted by an orchestra. of some
twenty-eight players from the two
colleges,

One of the most interesting fea-
tures of the program will be the
performance of the “Christmas
Oratorio,” by Heinrich Schuetz. As
far as can be ascertained, this will
be the first performance of ‘the
work in this country. Schuetz,
who has often been called “the
father of German music,” was born
exactly. one hundred: years before
Bach and Handel, studied in Venice
under .Gabrieli and later became
Kapellmeister of the Chapel of the
Elector of Saxony in Dresden. He
wrote a fairly large number of
sacred works, ‘ineluding several
“Passions,” Oratories and “Sym-
phoniae Sacrae.” He is credited
with being the pee ashes of the first
German opera, afne,” in 1627,
although it is probable that this
was largely an arrangement of
Peri’s opera of the same name in
a German translation, to which he
added some original portions, ~

The “Christmas Oratorio” was
written in 1664, but unfortunately
the score was lost and only the

‘part of the Evangelist in bass

recitative, with a preface contain-
ing specifications of ten ‘ other
movements for various voices and
instruments, was. preserved. How-
ever, in 1909 the manuscript. was
discovered ‘in Stockholm by Scher-
ing, who published the vocal score.
For this performance the accom-
paniment of the vocal score has
been orchestrated by Mr. Alfred J.
Swan, strictly in accordance with
the descriptions given in the origi-
nal preface. Only the choral por-
tions of the work will be sung,
but the text of the recitatives of
the Evangelist and of the Arias
will be read by a Narrator, thus
preserving the continuity and unity
of the Christmas story.

The progranf will also include a
number of Christmas Carols to be
sung by the congregation, and
Carols by Geoffrey Shaw, Vaughan
Williams, Gustave Holst and Er-
nest Willoughby by the joint choirs.

1}. Saturday, December 12

Exceptional Staging, Finished Performances

Distinguish Production of “Hotel Universe”



Fire

Because of possible. dan-
ger from fire, students ar-
ranging for dances or other
entertainments should con-
sult Mr. Smedley and secure
in advance his approval of
any decorations to be used.

Frank Will Speak on
Philosophy, Religion

In Flexner Lectures









Dr. Erich Frank, German schol-
ar, will deliver the first of six Flex-
ner lectures on Philosophy and Re-

o’clock in Goodhart Auditorium.
Following The Nature: of Man, his
first topic, Dr. Frank will discuss
The Existence of God, The Prob-
lem of Creation, Letter and Spirit,
Religion and Art, Religion and
History, on successive Monday eve-
ning'’s.

Having spent the first half of the
second semester in 1939-40 at Bryn
Mawr, Dr. Frank is well-acquaint-
ed with meixbers of the faculty and
student body. At that time his
lectures were so popular that they
had to be given in Goodhart audi-
torium instead of in the Music
Room as originally planned. He
also conducted a Seminary in Aris-
totle during his residence on camp-
us. From Swarthmore, where he
spent the second half of the second
semester of 1939-40, Dr. Frank
was granted a professorship in the
Philosophy department at Har-
vard.



Play For Christmas



The German Club takes pleasure
in inviting everyone to its annual
Christmas play in the Common
Room on Friday, December 11, at
8.00. Refreshments and- Christmas
earoling will follow in German
House.

The cast is as follows:
Evangelist

Mary Sue Chadwick, ’44
De enh ees Janet Hoopes, ’44
Continued on Page Five

Calendar

Thursday, December 10
Spanish Christmas Play.
Alliance Discussion. Com-
mon Room, 7.30 P. M.

Friday, December 11
German Christmas Play,
‘Common Room, 8.00 P. M.
Maids’ and Porters’ Dance,
Gym, 9.30 P. M.



French Christmas Play,
Wyndham, Music Room,
8.00 P. M.
Maids’ and Porters’ Carol-
ing.

Sunday, December 13
Christmas Service. Good-

hart, 7.45 P. M.



The Carol by Mr. Willoughby, “Jo-
seph Came Seeking a_ Resting-
Place,” was written for the Bryn
Mawr choir and has just been re-

corded by the Westminster Choir

of Princeton.

The Schuetz work will be con-
ducted at both performances by
Mr. Alfred J. Swan and the re-

mainder of the program by Mr.'},,

Willoughby at Bryn Mawr and ‘by
Mr. Lindsay Lafford at Haverford.
The Narrator at Bryn Mawr will

be the Reverend Dr. Andrew Mutch |!



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and at Haverford Dr. Rufus Jones.

Monday, December 14
College Council, Presi-
dent’s House, 6.30 P. M.

Tuesday, December 15

|... Christmas Dinners in
Halls, 6.00 P. M.

Student Caroling.

Wednesday, December 16
Christmas Vacation begins

-| Goodhart.

ligion-Monday,February 8, at-8:30-



Few Stags, Many Uniforms
Grace College Dance
Saturday



The College Dance went off ac-
cording to schedule following the
presentation of Hotel Universe, by

Haverford and Bryn Mawr in
The dance moved
smoothly to the tune of music
which was better than usual fur-
nished by Tom O’Connor’s orches-
tra, and amidst decorations which
were sufficiently inspired to make
the gym look positively youthful.
Much greenery disguised its harsh
contours, soft lights flattered its
withered grayness—and—a--master-
-piece-of plaited streamers draped
its uncompromising ceiling.

There was an abundance of dash-
ing, uniformed manpower and a
comparative scarcity of predatory
female stags, with the result that
everyone seemed blissfully content-
ed. One girl even insisted that
three male stags appeared out of
nowhere to cut in on her, but then
this may be only idle chatter.



Dr. Lowe to Lecture

On Old Latin Culture

On January 14, Dr. E. A. Lowe,





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High Level of Acting Set
| By Benn, Marsh, Upheld

| By Others
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By Nancy Evarts, ’43
Goodhart, December 4. — The
Varsity Players’ Club and the Hav-
erford Cap and Bells gave an ex-
ceptionally coordinated and finish-
ed performance of Hotel Universe.
All parts of the production con-
tributed to the impression of time-
lessness and unreality conveyed to
the audience. Although the acting
|itself was sometimes strained, it
was never entirely false, and es-
pecially well-sustained, moving
portrayals were given _-by.-Doris
Benn as Ann Field and. by John
Marsh as Pat Farley.

The play itself, a fantasy on the
|order of Dear Brutus, is one in
'which dim lighting, judicious use
|of music, many silhouetted poses
| and a strikingly simple set may be
| used to the greatest possible ad-
|vantage to produce an effect. In
|this production they were superla-
i tively well used and undoubtedly

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|



Continued on Page live



Student Conference
Discusses Possibility

Of Manpower Survey



distinguished palaeographer, will!
lecture on Roman Culture Before! ast weekend a conference of
and After the Carolingian Reform, |the International Student Service
as Reflected in Latin Manuscripts. ;was held at Hunter College in New
Later, Dr. Lowe will speak infor- | York City. Rosalind Wright, ’43,
mally to groups of interested peo-' attending the Conference as a rep-
ple on famous manuscripts and on | resentative of the International



German Club Announces.

Italy’s contribution to handwriting.

Dr. Lowe, formerly Reader in
Palaeography at the University of
Oxford, joined the Institute for
Advanced Study: at Princeton in
1936. He has written many books
on the history and influence of
handwriting, and spent years col-
lecting material in European li-
braries for his Codices Latini Anti-
quieres, -three—volumes of which
have already appeared.

| Relations Club, led a Round Table
|on the subject.of women’s services.
|in war time.

| Representatives of the Red Cross,
lIthe A. W. V. S., and the Waves,
took part in the discussion. They
considéred the possibilities of stu-
dents finding jobs in the civil serv-
ice, women’s services, and in in-
dustry. On the second day of the
Conference, three Round Tables

Continued on Page Three





U. S. 0. Dancing Keeps
Cards Are Abandoned

B. M. Girls on Their Toes;

for Women and Talk



By Patricia Platt, ’45

On Sunday Bryn Mawr invaded
the U. S. O. The first stumbling
block was getting in. In the con-
fusion of the moment many had
been unable to get duly finger-
printed, and Mrs. Chadwick-Col-
lins assured us that anything that
we did amiss would be on her head.
The resulting atmosphere of being
akin to a’ spy, or at least an ene-
my alien, made things a bit tense.
Fortunately the dominant male
came to the rescue. When stumped
by a. puzzle a Bryn Mawr girl
showed signs of hair-te@ring until
a five-foot-two private, placing his
finger to his lips with a distinctly
audible “Sh!”, disappeared: into a

easy puzzle which they both pro-
ceeded to do.

Bridge, the old standby, fell
through. Soldier and sailor, al-
most to a man, refused to play
“card” games. By the time mat-
ters reached the stage where danc-
sing was beginning to make feet
shriek, a happy—compromise was
made by poker. The game didn’t |

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12.45°-As-ME:
Wednesday, January 6

Christmas Vacation ends

2.00 P. M.









Ra eee

break: up, either, until the last
mndte. :

The U. S. O. is far too intellec-
tual for Bryn Mawr. While sol-.
diers and sailors chatted of this



and that, the Bryn Mawr students

juggled ‘“‘chow” in what. they hoped
was expert cafeteria style. That is
to say, nothing got spilled, and
more than one jealous remark was
made about the quality and quanti-
ty of the coffee.

Next to jitterbugging the most
popular sport of the evening was
conversation. This was no cinch
after the terrifying experience of
the rogue’s gallery. If a poll were
taken on general topics, it would be
fair to say, 1. The Army .does not
like the Navy (purely in theory).
None of the girls back home will
date a gob (says the Army). 2.
They all like women and all wo-
men, except perhaps career women,
but there really aren’t any anyway.

closet and emerged with a very | 3, They are very critical of women’s

underwear. 4. They are perfectly
contented although they feel like
suckers (they are very. modest on
occasion). So much for that. At
the moment they are much more in-
terested in perfume.

The dancing was of the most
fantastic sort. You had to like it
‘¥ get stepped on, or most often
both. The only way to pass this
| off was to make a game out of it—
and we ended by teaching them a
thing or two anyway. After a
spirited entertainment where an

energetic man managed to play the
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Wages
“In the coming months the need for women workers will exceed

enormously the highest peacetistié employment of women this coun-

try has ever seen,” wrote Mary Anderson, Director of the Women’s |

Bureau of the Department of Labor, in a recent report to Secre-

tary of Labor -Frances Perkins. More and more industries are

affording women the opportunity of replacing men in vital jobs.
Formerly only men’s work, the operation of heavier machine tools
such as lathes, grinders, and automatic screw machines, is now

entrusted to women. There are few war industries which do not

employ women for positions previously held by men. And women
are proving their ability to replace men. Their output equals, and

often exceeds, that of their male predecessors. Reports show that

they are more careful than men of tools and materials, thus cutting

down on damage and waste.

Although women are successfully performing men’s work, they
are not paid on an equal basis with the men whom they replace or
work-beside._In-onelarge factory-women-instructors--are-paid 60
cents an hour, while the men whom they instruct receive 70 cents.
Entrance rates in nearly all plants making small-arms and artillery
ammunition are at least ten cents higher for men than for women,
although both sexes perform the ‘same jobs. Even for experienced
workers, sex differentials are maintained in many industries.
Wonten’s Bureau has found beginning rates in various plants rang-
ing from 60 to 75 cents an hour for men, but only from 43 to 45
cents for women. The Bureau further reports that on the same
machines in one industry, the experienced men’s lowest rate was at
least ten cents above the experienced women’s /highest rate.

Such practices must be abolished. Wage standard protection
can and must be obtained by union action and minimum wage laws.
Not only will such protection assure an adequate minimum to women
on war jobs, but it will also protect men’s wage standards, since
women may be used as a labor force to uridercut men,

As future wage-earners in industry, students at Bryn Mawr
should take a vital interest in the establishment of adequate protec-
tion to wage standards, .



Bottle-F ed

After a year of war, the Navy has at last released the American
losses at Pearl Harbor. During this year it has also followed a
consistent policy pf repression of news regarding our losses, while
publishing those of the enemy. ae

Such a policy of censorship, if it is calculated to strengthen
the morale of the American people, does not strengthen it in a way
which we consider to be permanent or fundamentally beneficial. A
policy of withholding the truth does not imply a very high opinion
of the public, and a public which is regarded as unfit to take the
news as it comes will not be encouraged by the suppression of facts.

The question of curtailment of freedom of the press in war-
time.is a delicate one. How much should be revealed? The answer
would seem to be, as much as can be revealed. Obviously, there
are good reasons for suppressing information in wartime, but if
suppression is necessary, the reasons should at least be given. It
would not seem to be an established fact that the American public
must be sheltered from every unpleasant truth. The censorship-of
the Army, much less rigid than that of the Navy has shown us that
facts may be released, so far as we know, without seriously under-

“mining morale in this country.



evsitord Joins B. M.

In College Orchestra



What’s all this rumor about a
Bryn Mawr Orchestra? Of course,
no Bryn Mavr institution can ex-
ist nowadays without the assist-
ance of Haverford men, and this
one is no exception. The woodwind
,and brass sections consist almost

entirely of these versatile crea-
tures, one of whom plays the bas-
soon with a clarinet in his lap.
Bryn Mawr, however, has two
freshman harpists to its credit—



The |

j both without harps.

The Orchestra has scraped and
‘blown under a variety of conduc-
tors. Mr. Stanislas Dabrowsky
from Philadelphia was the first to
bring a semblance of order out of
chaos, but lately it has played un-
der the directors of the Christmas
Concert to be held here on Sunday
and Monday at Haverford. Plenty
of amusement is provided by Mr.
Lafford’s running commentaries
calculated to embarrass the unfor-
tunate violinist whose pegs have
come loose just before the. opening
| beat and by Mr. Swan’s attempts
to give a lead to the soprano sec-
tion under the impression that they
are altos. Meanwhile Mr. Wil-
loughby performs on an organ the
size of a cracker box, borrowed
from the Psychology Lab for the:
occasion. In fact the College Or-
chestra is at last a reality.

OPINION

‘Clarification of Acceleration
About Acceptable Credits
Is Asked











To the Ed'tor of the COLLEGE
NEWS:

In view of the present war emer-
i gency, it seems particularly vital
;.to those of us who wish to acceler-
ate that the present confusion
about the acceleration program be
cleared up. Many of us who were
told last year that we could accel-
erate, and that we would be given
credit for work at other colleges
during the summer, have discov-



ester are over, that this credit is
not to be had. While it is under-
standable that there should be dif-
ficulty in granting the credit, we
|should have appreciated being told
| sooner in order that we might have
taken extra courses this semester.

After having spent three months
at summer school, and after having
advanced this far into the college
year with the expectation that we
should graduate early, we find it
difficult to adjust ourselves to the
sudden change in our plans. With
comprehensives to worry about, the
prospect of an additional course
second semester is not welcome.
Although perhaps nothing can be
| done in our case, we should like to
suggest that in the future students
, who wish to accelerate be notified
earlier in the year if they are not
to receive transfer credit.

A FRUSTRATED SENIOR.





American College Can

Aid Chinese Students

Released by the World Student
Service Fund





lege can now be borne by a Student
Service Center in-China, announces
the World Student Service Fund,
,_ the student war relief agency lo-
|eated at 8 West 40th Street, New
| York City. The Centers can be
operated for approximately $600 a
| year; and if an American college
. Wishes to send that amount to Chi-
|na through the World Student
Service Fund, the4center can be
named for the




their universities on ast coast,
they trekked across hundreds of

miles of rough terrain to reach
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The name of an American col- |

In Print



Vivid Scenes, Lagting Unity,
Weaken K. Boyle:s Novel of
French Defeat



By Lenore O’Boyle, ’43

The main fault of Kay Boyle’s
Primer For Combat lies in its
structure as a novel. Occasional
brilliant and revealing pictures of
the individual: Frenchman’s reac-
tion to defeat cannot altogether
make up for this fault.

Miss Boyle has perfected a su-
perb technique in the short story.
No writer in this field, Katherine
Anne Porter included, can invest a
single action with such _ signifi-
cance, or convey an emotion with
sueh intensity, and her work has,
as a result, a peculiar driving force
and impact. It is for these very
reasons that Miss Boyle is apt to
be unsuccessful in the novel. She
sometimes presents merely a series
of complete moments, each equally
vivid, equally tense. A walk up the
mountainside assumes the same im-
portance as the meeting on the top
of the mountain. The. proportion
essential to a novel is absent, and a
sameness that resembles monotony
takes its place.-—.-

Parts of Primer For Combat
have been published in different
magazines as short stories. And as
short stories they are far more suc-
cessful than set side by side in a
continuous narrative. Accumula-
tion of one effect upon another,
leading to a total effect to which
each story has contributed distinct-
ly and peculiarly, is lacking.
Rather the stories nullify each
other, for the reader cannot see
them as separate entities, nor can

he give each its definite place in a
meaningful framework.

In Death of a Man and Monday
Night, two former works, Miss
Boyle had at least a plot to rely on.
Here the only plot lies in a series
of letters from Phyl, who tells the
story, to her lover, a character who
never appears until the last chap-
ter, and a character neither partic-
ularly real nor particularly attrac-
tive. Actually in his choice of col-
laboration as opposed to resistance
he serves merely to focus the real
story, the people of France in de-
feat.

And Miss Boyle frequently suc-
ceeds in magnificently conveying
the feeling of France during the
summer months of 1940. Particu-
larly good is her presentation of
the wave of defeatism culminating
in an almost hysterical self-abase-
ment before the victorious super-
man of the Nazi mythology. J’ai
honte d’etre francais aujourd’ hui.
But also, in her description, are re-
vealed the peasants, the shopkeep-
ers, and the returning French sol-
diers who were given nothing with
which to fight. They can only
state over and over the fact of
their betrayal, but their silent re-
fusal to collaborate is unshaken.
Phyl must, and does, make her
choice among these people. ‘For
years one goes on believing that
everything is complex, one gives
everything a thousand different in-
terpretations; but in the end you
come to see that there are only two
interpretations: there is the inter-
pretation of life in which you be-
lieve, and the interpretation in
which you do not believe, and there



is nothing else offered.”



Christmas Tradition Blooms in Four Halls

But Withers in the Wilderness of Rhoads



Adapted from an article by Barbara
Cooley, ’42, in the News of December
17, 1941

Tuesday, December 15, is a hec-
tic night. The envied few are on
the train for home. Others are
pressing a last blouse or rushing to

L
ecard. Still others (need we remind
you?) are writhing before the
typewriter Think again,
Tuesday night — oh, yes, Christ-
mas dinner.

Traditions for Christmas dinner
vary from hall to hall. In Merion
it means a wreath on the door,
toasts to the faculty, a horseshoe
dinner table and Freshmen mutter-
ing lines in a corner. Denbigh is
greeted at dinner by a king and
queen, ermine-clad in rabbit’s fur,
is served punch by a page, and

the village for one more Christmas

toasts the king and queen, page
. and punch bowl.

The Pembrokes get together in
a “hollow square” with all avail-
able exits closed by Christmas
trees. Rock is noted for its cooper-
ative spirit. It is the only hall
where the work isn’t palmed off on
the Freshmen and Sophomores;
the play, this year a dramatization
of readings from the Bible, is a
combined effort, and “anyone who
is sucker enough to do it” trims the
tree and decorates the dining room.

“The unique charm of Rhoads is
that it has no tradition,” its last
year’s president is quoted as say-
ing. If they had a tree the Sopho-
mores would decorate it. If they
had a play the Freshmen would
give it. If they had punch the
seniors would drink it. Rhoads is



also noted for its hors d’oeuvres.



Change of Emphasis Seen at Bryn Mawr
During First Months of World War Il



Looking back over Bryn Mawr’s
activities in the first year of World

War II, we see a great change in
emphasis has taken place. New
organizations have arisen, and
those already existing have di-
rected their efforts away.from mere
campus activity to that connected
with the war effort. —

December 8, 1941, was quite dif-
ferent from December 8, 1942.
Faculty students and graduates
gathered in Goodhart to hear the
President’s war message to Con-
gress... The. meeting was silent,
motionless, during the long de-
scription of historical precedent, of
{the Presidential escort, and during
the speech itself. Impressive was
the unanimous restraint of the col-
lege and its quiet reception of the
National Anthem at the end.

That was the night of the his-
toric Sheean speechwhose state-
ments seemed over-dramatic then,
but whose truth has become in-
creasingly apparent. He intended
to make us realize the full impact



of the attack on Pearl Harbor.

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“In 36 hours we have lost more
ships (warships) to the Japanese
than England has lost during the
entire war,” Mr. Sheean said. The
recent announcement of the Navy
Department of the loss -of eight

warships substantiates this. His
statement that “Guam, Wake
Island, and Midway Island, our

stepping stones to Japan, have all
been captured and with our pres-
ent naval forces in the Pacific we
are unable to capture them,” proved
true.

Continued on Page Five



War Emotionalism

The Alliance will sponsor
a discussion’ on War Emo-
tionalism in the Common
Room on Thursday, Decem-
ber 10, at 7.30. There will
be no main speaker, but Sally
Matteson, Catherine Clement
and Betty Nicrosi will form
a panel, which will be fol-
lowed by discussion from the
floor.








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Miss Fairchild Shows

Problems of Women
In War Industries



Speaking at a forum on Wartime
Problems. sponsored by the maga-
zine Science and Society on No-
vember 28 in New York, Miss Mil-
dred Fairchild, Director of Social
Economy at Bryn Mawr, discussed
the problem of women in industry,
with particular reference to their
position in trade unionism, and the
social problems that arise from
their employment.

Women have been used in fac-
tory. work since 1890, Miss Fair-
child asserted, but the vast increase
that is necessary to speed up our
wartime ‘ production is limited by
three factors. Women are not be-
ing trained fast enough to fill
skilled positions. The employers
and male workers have not become

accustomed to accepting them on|,

an equal basis. Wages and hours
legislation has not been adjusted
to allow women to work the -full
week, although most states are be-
ginning to change their laws, Miss
Fairchild said.

The union attitude toward women
must also be overhauled. They
must demand>that-women-#eceive
pay that is equal to men’s for the
same amount of work. Not only
will failure to recognize this prin-
ciple throw the country’s wage
scale out of balance, but also the
employment of women at lowered
wages will undermine the whole
trade union movement, Miss Fair-
child maintained. Women should
be encouraged in joining unions
or these will suffer from the “di-
lution” of union labor with woman
non-union labor. Women should
also, Miss Fairchild added, be al-
lowed to become active in the
unions, for if they are not, it will
mean that the unions will be car-
rying dead wood.

Miss Fairchild also discussed the
social problems that arise when
women go into the factory. Fifty-
three per cent of the women who
are expected to work in the present
emergency are between 25 and 45,
or of child-bearing age, she stated.
Therefore, the government must

tory kitchens and public dining
rooms where food can be consumed
or taken out. With similar public
services, Russia and England have
maintained health standards before
and during the war, Miss Fairchild
said. In Russia, where the experi-
ment.has_ been going on for a long
enough period to evaluate it, fam-
ily relations have not broken down.
Miss Fairchild said, that although
it is hard to make valid compari-
sons, there is no reason why_ care
of workers’ children by the gov-
ernment should be any worse than
the supervision of those of the
wealthier classes by governesses.



Choir Record

The Carol, “Joseph Came
Seeking a Resting - Place,”
written for the combined
Choirs of the College and the
Church of the Redeemer,
Bryn: Mawr, was first sung



U. S. O. Dancing Keeps
B. M. Girls on Their Toes

Continued from Page One
banjo and harmonica at the same
time, a square dance was initiated
by the outsiders (us). It took the
sailors awhile to get their sea legs,
but once they did they were ter-
rific. They never did catch on to
the fact that the Virginia reel was
meant to have some kind of form.
Creative spirit was rampant, and
the armed forces certainly came
out on top.

One particularly appealing pair
was a red-headed chap from the
merchant marine, and his Bryn
Mawr “date.” He rumbaed for
four solid hours, with hand in a
particularly vertical position, and
the most noticeable features defin-
itely horizontal. He was just be-
ginning to warm up and show Miss
Yeager how it was done, when we
had to leave.

WHAT TO DO

Wanted for the U. S. Steel Cor-
poration in Pittsburgh: women who
have specialized in accounting, eco-
nomics, statistics, or business ad-
ministration, for industrial ac-
counting positions.

The Turbo Engineering Corpora-
tion in Trenton, New Jersey, has
openings for graduates in mathe-
matics. The training need not go
beyond the fundamentals of calcu-
lus, trigonometry and algebra.

Transcontinental and Western
Air, Inc., Kansas City, wants wo-
men for air hostesses.

The Bank Street Schools in New
York urges any Seniors who are in-
terested in work with children to









visit the schools during Christmas
vacation. The schools will be clos-
ed from December 22 to January 4, ,
but during that time students may
have interviews if they would like
them.

Curtiss-Wright Corporation is
offering a ten-month engineering
training plan for students whg,
have had two years, including one
year of mathematics. This starts
in February. Further information
can be obtained from the booklet in
all the halls and on the bulletin
board of the Bureau of Recommen-
dations.



Round Tables Held on
Three Vital Problems



Continued from Page One

were held on the economic, social,
and political problems. of the war.

All groups agreed that the Pep-
per-Kilgore bill and the Toland Re-
port should be supported. These
provide for an overall survey of
manpower and a definite statement
of where, and:what kind of, man-
power is needed throughout the
country. The student could best
prepare herself for a job when she
knows where she is most needed.
If this survey were made, college
students coyld make definite plans
for the future, and the country’s
war economy woilld be that much
more efficient. .

Speeches were made by Mr. Han
Simons of the New School for So-

in Goodhart Hall at the Carol
Service in December, 1939.
The words were written spe-
cially for this service by the

Reverend Ernest C. Earp, .
Rector of the above Church. ||
The Carol is sung by the
Westminster Choir of Prince-
ton and is recorded on Colum-
bia 10-inch record No. 17351
D. It may be purchased from
E. Foster Hammonds, The
Record Shop, Bryn Mawr.







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| velt, who discussed the problems of
| the English student in the present
war.



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Philosophy Lecture

Mr. Weiss will lead a dis-
cussion’ group on “The Na-
ture of Religion” in the Com-
mon Room on Friday, Decem-
ber 11, from 6-7.30.. Those
wishing to attend should:
speak to Rebecca Wood in
Pembroke East.

All—College Combine
Defeats Phila. Team

On Sunday, December 6, at the
Philadelphia Cricket Club for the
first time in its two-decade history
the All-Philadelphia Hockey Team
was defeated. The victorious eleven
was the Middle-Atlantic All-Col-
lege girls’ field hockey team, on
which Margie Perkins and Franny
Matthai played left and right half-
backs-~

The Middle Atlantic All-College
team was chosen at-Bryn. Mawr on
October 31. Every year the best
players from colleges in this region
are elected to the All-College
eleven. Matthai and Perkins played
on the First Team; Nancy ~Scrib-
ner and Connie Lazo were wings
on the Second Team.

The All-College First Team won
4-1;..the. Second Team was de-
feated 5-1.

Margie Perkins displayed her
usual speed and skillful stickwork.
Franny Matthai fed the balls to
Anne McConaghie, of Temple Uni-
versity, for her three brilliant
goals.

Both games were fast and hard-
hitting, with both teams playing
first-rate hockey.











Anti-Russian Feeling
Shown by Delegates



Continued from Page One
agreed that a revision of colonial
policy in the Southwest Pacific was
necessary. As in all the other dis-
cussions, the need for international
organization was stressed.

The Round Table on Russia ¢re-
ated the most interest. Princeton
and Bryn Mawr were the only pro-
Russian groups. Other representa-

‘tives emphasized the anti-religious | Z0ing to do later.”

policy of the U. S. S. R., and the
untrustworthiness of Russian for-
eign policy in the past.

Edward Mead Earle, of the In-
stitute of Advanced Studies, spoke
to the delegates on the subject of

Germany after the present war.|

Germany, he said, has caused three
major wars in the last seventy
years, and she must. be shown that
she can never cause another. Her
leaders must be punished severely,
and the people must be disarmed
and forced to rebuild devastated
areas in Europe. The last must
be done in a specified length of
time, probably no more than two
years, by German labor. Thus the
mistake of 1918, the demand for
astronomical sums of money to be
paid over an indefinite period of
time, will be avoided.





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on Coeducation;

| Deplores B. M.’s Marriage Possibilities



By Virginia Belle Reed; ’44

An interview with Dr. Edwin B.
Newman, prominent psychologist
and Swarthmore professor giving
a course in Experimental Psychol-
‘ogy at Bryn Mawr this year, quick-
ly evolved into a discussion of co-
education. More specifically, it
centered around the relative merits
of social life at’ Swarthmore and
Dr. Newman is well
equipped to be an authority on this
subject, as he has been on the
faculty of both institutions and is
obviously, well informed about un-
dergradyates.

Dr. Newman’s views are refresh-
ing and in some respects quite un-
usual. He thoroughly approves of
coeducation, which, however, “he
calls “not an unmitigated blessing.”
The end result, he asserts, is “so-
cially desirable.”

The differences between Swarth-
more and Bryn Mawr are qualita-
tive ones, according to Professor
Newman. “Bryn Mawr girls are
used to doing things in compart-
ments,” he states. They work in-
tensively during the week and off-
campus recreation is strenuously
pursued on the weekends. He finds
weekending~in~-the~sense~ in~ which
it is known at Bryn Mawr totally
foreign to Swarthmore. There
both things are combined and
neither are pursued as thoroughly
as they are here. Dr. Newman
thinks the Swarthmore system is
more healthy and, although he be-
lieves many Bryn Mawr girls do
hit a happy medium, he thinks it
is easier under the other system.
In a coeducational institution it is
taken for granted that men and
women will work together, and he
finds this quite an improvement
over. an arrangement in which the
presence of a single member of
the opposite sex in a group will
result in complete disruption. The
adjustment to “co-educational liv-
ing” is less severe for those who
are accustomed to the same at-
mosphere. “College can’t be con-
sidered by itself, but only in refer-
ence to what the individual is

This led inevitably to a compari-
son of the number of Swarthmore
girls who marry with the number
| at Bryn Mawr and the “Quaker
Match Box” naturally comes out
ahead. We asked the professor if
he thought it was a function. of
hat college to get its students

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matrimonially disposed. of, and he
answered coolly that “in terms of
what it means to society, yes.”
He believes that people, of the
caliber of Swarthmore and Bryn
Mawr students should marry, and
that it is therefore very detrimen-
tal to take them out of the field.
As Bryn Mawr girls take part in
less activity, do more work, and
are not exposed to the same num-
ber of men as are Swarthmore
girls, they are at a decided disad-
vantage. However, he modified this
slightly with the statement that
there “are some girls for whom it
is a’ very good thing to have a cer-
tain amount of insulation or iso-
lation. . . and they aren’t all at
Bryn Mawr!”

When asked if. he had acquired
his sound knowledge as a result. of
the closer contact between Swarth-
more faculty and students than is
tHé*rule at Bryn Mawr, Dr. New-
man admitted that this was true
and explained that it was a result
of the Honors System at Swarth-
more. This system provides an
opportunity for about three-eighths
of the Junior and Senior classes to
do all their work in seminars and

to_take one set of examinations-at~

the end of four years for a degree
with honors. It involves very care-
ful selection of the students per-
mitted to do this, and the faculty
knows the undergraduates well as
a result of the extensive discussion
which must take place before those
students are chosen.

Professor Newman was an in-
structor in the psychology depart-
ment here in 1930 and 1931, and
later took his Ph.D. at Harvard in
1934. Since 1935 he has been teach-

ing at Swarthmore, experimenting’

in problems of vision and sound
and, more recently, learning. When
asked if he found Bryn Mawr un-
dergraduates very different from
those ten years ago, he replied
rather definitely that he didn’t.
We must have looked rather pi-
qued, for he added gallantly that
it was no reflection on the present
student body and indeed that they
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Rhoads’ Men Appear
In HockeyStruggle
And No Holds Barred

A mighty battle took place Sun-
day, and it is probable that the
lower hockey field will never re-
cover from its effects. One thing
is certain, it was like no other
struggle in history; it certainly
resembled nothing as yet devised
in the way of athletics. There were
elements of wrestling, ice hockey,
baseball and guerilla warfare, how-
ever; and one ambitious player
placed the ball neatly over the
center of the goal, an unfortunate
two feet above the cage.

The occasion was the Denbigh-
Rhoads hockey game, a violent is-
sue; and it was complicated by vi-
ciously inclined Rhoads and Den-
bigh dates, celebrating the College
dance weekend. Rhoads men coyly
turned up in red tunics and bloom-
ers, in addition to other gaudy,
garbled costumes. The whole ef-
fect was picturesque, especially af-
ter their caperings had resulted in
several lengthy skids across the
muddy their scarlet-clad anatomy.

All rules were off, and no holds
barred among the male contingent,
who were almost entirely unac-
quainted- with the noble art of field
hockey anyway. They were de-
lightfully polite when they knocked
the fair sex flat, even picked them
up and handed back their sticks
before knocking them down again.
The fray became even more inter-
esting for the blood-thirsty spec-
tators when the girls
dropped all pretense of hockey
form and joined the mad scramble
for the ball. Any way, every way
at their disposal was used by the
contestants; and the additional fac- |
tor of slippery mud added fascina-
tion, as no one could stop or start
without unbelievable antics and
contortions. A few crack ice-
hock2y players glided on the sur-
face of the mud while they dex-



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OPINION

Thompson Wants More Light;
Finds Chairs Comfortable
If Squeaky

To the Editor of the
NEwWs:

In an institution of higher learn-
ing, especially one with the re-
nowned facilities of this college,
one would naturally expect to find
the lights a help rather than a hin-
drance to reading and studying.
The chairs in the library study-
rooms are so comfortable, though
squeaky, and everything else is
provided to make the study hours
as painless as possible.

It is no economy to save money
by keeping study lamps that are
doing more harm than good. This
may also be said of the lights in
our rooms. My fluorescent lamp
from home stands idly on the desk,
with the little tag “A. C. only” still
tied around it, as a symbol of hope-
lessness of finding a decent study
light within this college.

I have heard friends express
these same opinions so I don’t feel
that it is a personal grievance on
my part alone.

Sincerely yours,
HONORA THOMPSON.





COLLEGE



terously controlled the ball with
both sides of their sticks. They
were golfers to a man and swung
at the. ball with an abandon that
was truly magnificent.

Cheering sections for both sides
shouted enthusiastically until near
hysteria; and cheers were nothing
if not original. Each team scored
three incredible goals, and thus the
tie gave both a glow of satisfac-
tion; all retired triumphantly.
Amazingly enough, there were no
casualties, and in spite of floun-
dering on the snow, everyone had
succeeded in dodging everyone
else’s treachery and murderous





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Women in War Work
Denounced by Spritz



« Germantown, December 2.—Wo-
men are becoming increasingly im-
portant in production for victory,
and must fight through Unions for
equal rights in war industries, said
Irma Spritz, speaking to the Indus-
trial Group at the Germantown Y.
W.C. A. Many plants are employ-
ing women at lower wages than the
men whom they have replaced.
Amounting to a wage cut, this can-
not be explained by a détline in
output, as women’s output equals
that of men and in some cases ex-
ceeds it. Women are often.more
careful than men of tools and mate-
rials, causing less damage and
waste. There are instances of no-
table decreases in accidents and la-
bor turn-over with women workers.

| Miss Spritz pointed out that main-

taining a sex differential for expe-
rienced as well as beginning work-
ers is bad for morale, and danger-
ous for victory.

Realizing that women give direct
competition, men workers have re-
sented equality of the sexes in
Union policy. Recently, plants
have had increasing managerial
control and, as in the case of Gen-
eral Electric, the men, afraid of
women as an undercutting labor
force, have begun to comprehend
the need for cooperation of both
men and women workers in obtain-
ing and maintaining unions which
are undivided by internal strife.

Opening the meeting with an ac-
count of the Committee for the
Care of Young Children in War-
time, Jane Leflar, ’44, told of the
increasing necessity for child care
centers in Philadelphia and vicin-
ity. At present there are facilities
for only 750 of the 2500 applicants

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To the Editor of the COLLEGE
NEws: ;

We think that the campus dis-
tinctly needs some informal place
for entertaining boys so that we do
not-have to go into Philadelphia or
desert the campus entirely over
ordinary weekends. It is too bad
that the fun of a college dance and
play is limited to twice a year. The
Soda Fountain ought to be crying
for an annex, if it isn’t, where
there can be vie-dancing, ping-
pong, singing and general sitting
around after ten-thirty. There is
no such place in Goodhart as yet.
The Common room is regularly
used for meetings, and, we think,
should not change its character.
The May Day room is still bare. It
has been suggested that the big
- downstairs Rhoads smoking room
be open until 12.30 for weekend
nights, especially, Sunday. There
are comfortable chairs, a victrola,
bridge tables, a ping-pong table,
and exactly the right amount of
room for such an occasion,
hope that this may be given a try-
out after Christmas, so that it can
be used until another place is de-
veloped.

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WIT’S END.

I’m dreaming of a sane Christ-
mas and think how many war
bonds you could buy. Our plan is
to wear only the amount of war
stamps equivalent to the cleaners’
bill for removing the turkey on the
intended long dress. This will not
only boost the morale of the guests,
but also prevent the wearing of the
same dress four years in succession.

We would like to introduce the
custom of wassailing to Bryn
Mawr, but this, no doubt, would in-
terfere with the existing one of
paperwriting. This is not only-a
test of manners but of will power.
To be able to toss a toast into the
teeth of the professor who knows
darn well you'll be up all night
writing That Paper, is no mean
thing.

We would also like to submit the
report of the Paoli Conductor’s
survey of, ee or on
Christmas vacation. The Publicity
Office has only allowed us to reveal
that 95% had scorched evening
dresses hanging out of suitcases,
70% still clutched pieces of type-
written papers between their teeth,

and 1% could talk coherently about
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CITY LIGHTS

By Jessie Stone, ’44

We can’t speak authoritatively
about the thing in itself, but the
war is doing much to change. the
face of Philadelphia. One year of
war and the city is swinging into
position.

For example, almost'‘all of the
Philadelphia liquor stores were en-
tirely cleaned out of American
whisky and gin. In recent weeks
you couldn’t always get your fa-
vorite brand, but now you can’t get
any. According to the papers, the

“State Liquor Board and the Dis-

tillers are blaming each other for
the bare cupboard. The new liquor
store slogan is “Let ’em drink cor-
dials, rum, wines, brandies, etc.”
Then there’s the story about Mrs.
Stotesbury’s fabulous estate in
Montgomery County,_Whitemarsh
Hall. In 1921 the Stotesburys

built a $65,000 fence around it to
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Haverford Defeats -

B. M. Team in Hockey

While a blizzard raged last Wed-
nesday afternoon the Haverford
soccer team downed the Owls 2-1
in a very cold hockey game. Regu-
lar hockey tactics were impossible;
players slid on the slippery white
field, you couldn’t see your oppo-
nent, and most difficult of all was
locating the ball, which resembled
another lump of snow.

Each team ploughed through
the drifts in a semi-frozen state,
while the cheerers and reporters
on the sidelines gave up cheering,
huddling together to avoid com-
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College rapidly swung into action
and formulated a complete plan for
air raid precaution. Mr. Cameron
was made chief air raid warden
with two senior wardens, fifteen
regular wardens and two wardens
from each hall under him. At a
general meet:ng on December 10
Mr. Cameron gave the instructions
for day and night warnings. The
plans have had success which, Mr.)
Cameron said, was determined by
the efficiency of our air raid war-
dens and the intelligent response
of the whole college community to
the directions of the wardens.

At a joint meeting of the Alli-
ance Executive Board and _ the
Board of the Faculty Defense
Group a faculty sub-committee was
created for cooperation with the
students in defense activities. The
result was the organization of a
number of war courses whose large
enrollment was indicative of the
great enthusiasm. Courses in sec-
retarial work, child care, business
management, Nurse’s Aide, and
First Aid were started.

Minor activities also proceeded
with great energy. A Red Cross
chapter was organized by Miss
Cornelia - Meigs which produced
many necessary garments. Stu-
dents knitted for various organiza-
tions such as Bundles for Britain.

At the beginning of the academic
year, ’42-’43, the Alliance adopted.
a new constitution and name. Call-
ing itself the War Alliance, it set
out to organize and direct the ac-
tivities of the student body to-
wards winning the war. It started
drives for the sale of war bonds
and defense stamps and the collec-
tion’ of scrap metal, rubber, and
silk. The Alliance has presented
movies and speakers for the com-
memoration of International Stu-
dents’ Day and the attack on Pearl
Harbor.

Although enrollment in defense
courses has decreased in compari-
son with last year’s, it is compen-
sated by participation in other de-
fense activities. New courses have
been added to the college curricu-
lum as a result of the national
emergency. One is photogram-
metry which has a large enrollment
from outside as well as withirfe
campus. Courses in Russian and
Post-War Reconstruction are also
being given. The effect of war on
curriculum is shown by the fact
that the decrease in faculty has
caused an increase in the coopera-
tion of Swarthmore, Haverford,
and Bryn Mawr teaching facilities.

Bryn Mawr, after a_ small
amount of emotional excitement
following the outbreak of. the war,
seems to have settled ‘and deter-
mined rather clearly the part it
will play inthe, war.

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German Club Announces
Play for Christmas

Continued from Page One
Moria: ....<. Marguerite Frost, ’46

Angel .... Carol Wildermuth, ’45

First Shepherd
Lois MacMurray, ’46

Second Shepherd

Caroline Manning, ’46
Third Shepherd

Katherine Franck, ’44
First King... Virginia inomas, ’45
Second King .. Britta Ericson, ’45
Third King.Nina Montgomery, ’45
SiN ye. Mary Jean Hayes, ’45
Wirtin .... Irene Spiegelberg, ’45

The play is directed by Hilde
Cohn and produced by Penelope
Smith, ’44, and Sally Alexander,
°43,

The chorus includes Sally Alex-
ander, ’43; Harriet Case, 43; Mar-
tha DeWitt, 48; Virginia Fulton,
’43; Mary Hardenbergh, ’43; Mar-
ian Logan, ’44; Sally Matteson, ’43;
Sylvia Palmer, ’43; Penelope Smith,
’44; Margaret Spencer, ’44, and
Elizabeth Watkins, ’44,

Violin: Mary Alice Woolever, ’46.

Flute: Rosamond Kent, ’45.



Immediate Post-War
Planning is Favored



Continued trom Page One

be filled in later. Confidence that
the United Nations would win the
war ran high. Only three people
believed that we would be defeated,
while 238 expressed degrees of
hope, ranging from an emphatic
“There’s no doubt about it”, to a
gloomy warning that we would
only win if we pulled ourselves to-
gether and that we should remem-
ber the classic fact that Sparta
beat Athens with inferior re-
sources.

Isolationists proved to be few
and far between. Only _ seven
thought that the United States
should keep out of foreign affairs,
while 262 considered. that only
through our active participation in
world affairs after the war, could
a lasting peace be mainta‘ned.

Opinion was divided as to wheth-
er the defeate nations ought to be
policed, althcugh 168 people felt
that they should and only 54 con-
sidered it wise to leave them to
their own devices. One of the lat-
ter thought that the defeated Axis
countries might be “irritated and
annoyed” if they were policed,
while four of those who agreed to
policing, preferred that it be a
“guiding rather than a punitive ac-
tivity.” Various plans were sug-
gested concerning the nature ‘and
duration of policing. “Eight people
offered the idea of a world police
commission composed of all na-
tions. Others believed that polic-
ing should only be temporary and
be conducted by the victors exclu-
sively. Three thought it should
end when the danger of revolution
had passed, while 30 believed that
once adequate machinery for politi-
cal and economic stabilization had
been set up, armies of occupation
might be withdrawn. Programs of
reeducation were suggested by sev-
en. Three people believed that this
process should continue until a
new generation would be educated
“to democracy.” Eight thought
that policing should never end.
Three people suggested 20, 10, five,
four, three and two year periods
respectively. One person suggested
that the whole policing problem
would be solved “if the Germans
and the Japs were cut up into lit-
tle pieces.”

India’s freedom was believed not
to be essential to winning the war
by 157, although 13 considered jt
consistent with our war aims
ideals, if not our military stra
and 14 demanded that she be p
ised her freedom no
war. Nine were undecided and 40
believed that Indian autonomy was
an important aspect of the conduct
of the war. a

There was strong feeling that
the leaders of the United Nations
have not adequately expressed our
war ae 149 believed this to be
trug.,..Of the 95 that disagreed,






WITS END

the ritual of signing-out.
there was a girl who boarded the
train with a typewriter, finished
her paper and sent it by pigeon
from Overbrook.

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Continued from Page Four

Then

People have compared our de-

sire to destroy these traditions to
Goebbel’s abduction of Santa Claus.
We. do not like this for we believe
we are helping our country. We
have added up the following items:

the cost of the extra dinners, the
pseudo-punch, the copyright fee
for the toast-mistress’s jokes, the
electricity consumed by staying up
all night, and the price of tickets
bought for the wrong trains.
money@we could save by abolishing
such expenses could build 2,552
corkscrews and the energy con-
served would turn them 665 billion
times. We would also relieve rail-
road congestion by travelling with
relaxed and normal minds, thereby
decreasing the duties of. the con-

ductor. If this appeal appeals to
you, join immediately Christmas
Now!



Cameron, Manning Talk
About U. S. War Aims

a ae from Page One

gether. Mrs. Cameron discussed
the problems’ confronting -the



Good Performances
Distinguish Production



‘Continued from Page One
contributed more to foster a gen-
eral emotional feeling among the
audience than did the acting. Even
in a made-to-order setting, the dia-
logue was often monotonous and
the play dragged.

On the whole, however, the act-

the characters were well projected.
Especially polished and varied was
John Marsh’s performance. Doris
| Benn gave a warm and sympa-
| thetic conception of Ann. Mariam
Kreiselman, as Lily Malone, al-
though she seemed unnatural at
first, gave an increasingly effective
characterization, culminating in a



The; powerful execution of the dramatic |

;scene in the second act. David
Mallory’s attempt at Stephen Field
was perhaps too obviously an at-
tempt, as almost any portrayal of
an old man by a young one must
be. He overworked the faltering
gesture and the quivering voice to
| the point of monotony, but his

equately indicated. The only un-
convincing relationship presented
was that of Lynn Haden and Ed-
ward Irving as Hope and Tom
Ames. Tom’s youthful outbursts
and Hope’s mat ernal complex
seemed forced.

The most essential element for a



successful presentation is a good
| director. In Mr. Nusbaum Hotel

‘ t : °
ing was remarkably convincing and
1

| changes of impersonation were ad- |



City LIGHTS

Continued from Page Four

keep out the curious. On the basis
of an agreement to replace it with
|@ wood one, Mrs. Stotesbury has
|offered the fence to the Govern-
ment. They say it contains 395
tons of steel and can make 18,000
machine guns.

| Another development is in the
meat markets. Five-percent of the
| city’s meat stores, 175 to be precise,
| were forced to close because there
\isn’t enough meat to go around,
| and housewives, in general, are re-
|acting as they have to scarcity in
| other products before they’re ra-
|tioned. They buy more than ever
before.

| City Hall, constant butt of the
| minority party’s jokes, has begun
'to dim its lights. Its quota of fuel
oil was cut by the ration board.

| What is more, the entire’ city,
| which has never been a very, bright
one anyway, is due for a d‘m-out
\for the duration. Four surround-
|ing counties will also be included
|in the dim-out, which is to begin on
| December 15.

| But where does the man in the
-street-come in, you ask?” The an-
‘swer is that it’s the man in the
| subways, trolleys and buses who’s
| been feeling the war for some time
‘now and is due for even more con-

|gestion. Signs in the transporta-



United States in fighting two kinds! Duiveres had Gna who-used hie wae tion vehicles glare down on the

of war, political and military. We
must not allow the political aims to
become subord'nate to the military.

“Our only aj
serted Mrs. \ anning. The respon-
sibility of winning the war rests
with the United States. This
makes the position we will hold af-
ter this war different from that
which we held after the last war.
In the last war we did comparative-
ly little fighting, but our position
in the settlement of this war will
be irreproachable because we have
done our share. It was unfortu-
nate that Wilson coined the phrase
“Self-determination,” for it led to
each country working for itself
and not common ends. The lesson
of people living and working to-

gether must be learned this time. |

Mrs. Manning expressed her be-
lief in the necessity of an inter-
national police force and the pre-
vention of immediate demobiliza-
tion after the war. It must exist
until the problems of food admin-
istration and of economic and po-
litical conditions are solved. “The
United States must be: prepared to
contribute disinterested and states-
men-like people to cope with these
problems,” Mrs. Manning con-
cluded.

Mrs. Cameron continued with a
discussion of the political problems
instigated by the war. She em-
phasized that it was essential not
to allow the importance of mili-
tary tactics of one situation sub-
merge the entire political problem.

“Our problem is to build up the
morale of conquered coyntries,”
declared Mrs. Cameron. The state-
ment of war aims which they feel
are worth fighting for is the only



many felt that it was not the place
of the statesman in war time to
bring up any controversial subjects
that might impede the progress of
the war.

115 students felt that some sort
ofinternational organizationshould
be established after the war al-
though they couldn’t suggest the
form. 110-put their faith in a
League of Nations and 17 of these
demanded modifications based on
past experience. 47 were opposed
both to the idea of a League and to
of Union Now, while 35 were
unqualifiedly in favor of ‘the Streit

‘|plan. Three thought it might work

on a hemisphere basis and two of-
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is survival,” as-!

| terial well. He integrated not only
| the various elements of the produc-
ition, but the parts themselves so
i that a coordinated whole was form-
ed out of what might well have
been a mass of heterogeneous im-
pressions. The effective use of
business and action is also to his
credit.

All the acts within the second act
and the impersonations in the first

ing for, the development and form
of the scenes. The entire produc-
tion, which might have been, con-
sidering the choice of a difficult
play, either confusing or ludicrous
'or both, conveyed an impression of
| unity as well as of emotion, and
| was executed with a professional
| finish above the usual standard of
Haverford and Bryn Mawr.





solution.
ing of aid to the common man such
as the social security plan pre-
sented in the Beveridge report. By
presenting a plan for such reforms,
we would parallel the Nazi claim

ciple in their New Order.

In building up morale, we must
be wise in our moves of temporary
political expediency like the ac-
ceptance of Darlan. Darlan has
assumed the position of political
head of French forces in Africa.
The military advantage of this
move for the United Nations must
be weighed with its effect on the
sentiment of underground move-
ment in. France and the tension
created in Anglo-American rela-
tions.

The recognition of the Hapsburg
Pretender as a medium of recruit-
ing an Austrian Battalion in the
United States was cited as another
example of the political problem.
Mrs. Cameron quoted Kgsanovitch,
Minister of State of Jugoslavia,
who stated that such actions would
lead to the rehabilitation in post-
war Europe of reactionaries of
whom people were as much afraid
as they are of Hitler.

| were done with change of ,pace, ;
‘mpl'cation of atmosphere and feel- |

An example is the offer- |

to such measures as the first prin-|

| sardine-packed crowds and implore
‘them to “Ride Off the Peaks.”
'Forty-three buses have already
| been .taken out of service because
itheir tires were completly -worn
‘down. The subways, which in Phil-
-adelphia have always been a very
| simple affair, are initiating a revo-
|lutionary change. During rush
/hours, every second or third train
| won’t make every stop. The great-
‘est load of passengers “on the
| peaks” seem to be the ship-yard
workers. The composition of PTC
| travelers is changing rapidly as
more and more people put up their
cars for the duration. There never
/was much chivalry on the city’s
transport system, but there’s less
lof it now.

' On the subways the tight-packed
‘crowds have become pretty tight-
‘lipped. They’ve put away their
|newspapers because there’s no
‘room, and they conserve what en-

| ergy they used to spend in convers-

|ing with their neighbors in order
| to “maintain their hard-won stand-
‘ing room. In the buses the situa-
‘tion is different, because the driver
|is there. The other night the driver
| was a fiery Irish chap and every
| time a new horde tried to enter the
bus he’d shout, “Move to the r-r-
rear or I won’t move this bus.”
The familiarity becomes contagi-
ous on buses and new arrivals vie
with veterans in trying to be fun-
ny. “Walk over their heads,” sug-
gest the boys -in’ the back. “Just
kneel a little lower, ladies,” comes
the reply, and sure enough, the
breathing is a little harder.

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Unequal Wages for
Women in War Work

* Continued from Page Four

for school age children in this area.
A Child Care Week is being plan-
ned to launch the drive for badly
ne funds. Unions are not yet
recogrfizing women workers’ ' re-
quests for care of their children
during working hours.



Giving accounts of particular
plants in certain industries, of
Bendix, General Electric, and the
Government Arsenal in~Philadel-
phia, women employees dégcribed

working conditions, Union \influ- |
* ence, and women’s contribution to |
The Government mittee in China, the administering

the war effort.
Arsenal employee representative |
revealed conditions and standards |
inferior to either General Electric
or Bendix.
meal periods,
days each month, and very inade-
quate rest-room facilities.

One girl employed by Bendix in
the luminous dial-painting depart- |
ment described satisfactory wages,
a 48-hour week, and ideal working
conditions in her plant.
resentative agreed that inefficiency,
decline in output, and ill health
were the inevitable result of shifts
exceeding-eight-—hours--and--weeks
longer than 48 hours. Women must
have more ‘active representation

and recognition in their unions to'
gain equal rights and opportuni-;

ties, thus boosting ‘morale, raising

living standards, and promoting |
the best possible production for |
victory.



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She told of 20-minute |
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American College Can
Aid Chinese Students

Continued from Page Two

west China. There they set up new
universities so that they could con-
tinue their education which is so
essential to Chinese resistance, as
well as to their future.

These refugee universities have
been most inadequately equipped.
In ‘many cases the dormitories for
students were make-shift affairs,
set up in the space used for class-
rooms in the day time.. There were
no social rooms, libraries, etc.

One of the projects sponsored by
the National Student Relief Com-





| body of the World Student Service

Fund, has been the creation of stu-|)

dent centers which would make up
for some of the deficiences‘in the

| ters have served as places where,

| among other things, students could

| take baths. This has been a serv-
| ice badly needed because of the in-
adequate dormitory facilities,

Another function for the student
center has been to serve as a place
| where news could be received and
| read. Copies of the few newspa-
pers available in west China are
generally found-in the student: cen-
ters.





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