College news, November 19, 1941

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VOL. XXVIII, No. 8

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Cowles Calls For )
U.S. Aid As Vital
To German Defeat



Russian Resistance Weak,
Will Fail by Spring,
She Declares



Goodhart, November 18. — For
England, peace with Germany is
impossible, said Virginia Cowles.
But if Britain wins the war, it
must be with the full aid of the
United States. Russia is disor-
ganized; there is no basis for op-
timism there.

Two and a half years ago, Rus-
sia’s army was inefficient. Now,
although it is bigger than the Ger-
rans’, it is being forced back.
Probably by late spring, Miss
Cowles said, Russia will be out of:
the war. The United States can
have no false sense of security.
The psychological and material re-
sult of an immediate declaration of
war is necessary.

The Royal Air Force, which
from August first to September 15,

1940, shot down over two thousand
Continued on Page Three

Forum Will Feature
Debate on U. S. Press





Calendar

Thursday, November 20
Thanksgiving Vacation, ~ ~

Friday, November 21 ie
Freshman Hall Tea,
Rhoad Showcase, 4:30.
Freshman Plays: The.Man
in the Bowler Hat, The
Inca of Perusalem, Happy
Journey. Theatre Work-
shop, 8:30.

Saturday, November 22
French Club Benefit,
Wyndham, 7:30.

Monday, November 24
Arthur Menken, Battle of
Pacific,, movie. Goodhart,
8:30.

Tuesday, November 25
Mass Meeting, The Alli-
ance, Goodhart, 7:30.







MISS COWLES

Said “I went to Spain to see why
people went to' war,” “I had been
taught that war was never neces-
sary. I didn’t even know the differ-

ence between democracy and Fas-

cism. I went to Europe and found
out.”

She said: Women correspondents
have a future. They take more
trouble over tracking down stories,
they write the comprehensive arti-
cles that men, intent upon straight

news reports, do not attempt. “Beg,



and War Censorship



The Forum will hold a discussion
on The U.S. Press in Wartime on
November 27, in “the Common
Room. The speakers plan to con-
sider voluntary censorship, govern-
ment department press bureaus
and the Office of Facts and Fig-
ures. They will attempt to deter-
mine what. form of censorship
would be preferable at present.

A study will be made of wartime
censorship in Great Britain, and
of the opinions of editors, the press
and the public. The industrial or-
ganization of the American press
is also a subject of research.

The Forum hopes to hold this
discussion in debate form, since it
believes that this. will probably

lead to a more satisfactory exposi- |

tion. Organized by Ellen Stone,
42, are approximately twelve peo-
ple working on the program, and,
although they will not all speak,
the large number is of great use
in making for more rapid and ef-
ficient research.

(borrow, or steal the money. Tell a
| newspaper you will write a series
| of articles, get to Portugal or

France, and write.”

$4400 Fund Allotted
To Varied Activities







The $4400 fund raised by the Ac-
| tivities Drive will be distributed
‘among the various campus activi-
,ties in the following manner. The
| Hudson Shore Labor School and
|The Bryn Mawr Summer Camp
‘will each receive $1200. -$500 has
been allotted to The Refugee Schol-
| arship Fund while The Bryn Mawr
‘League and Players Club will ben-
efit by $200 and $300 respectively.
The board of hall representatives
has not met as yet to apportion
the $1000 fund reserved for For-
eign and Domestic Relief.





Swarthmore Ties Owls in Heartbreaking Game;

Second Team Triumphs With Brilliant Victory



By Jacquie Ballard, °43

Bryn Mawr, November 18. — A
disappointing game_ in which
Swarthmore was outplayed by the
Bryn Mawr Varsity ended in a 2-2
tie.

It looked like a victory for Bryn
Mawr at the end of the first per-
iod when the team held a lead of
2-0. Lydia Gifford had made both
goals in a period in which she
showed her brilliance. Her second
goal was breathtaking. Foiling all
opposition, she made it by dribbling
the ball all the way from the
_, twenty-five yard line. —

Otherwise the first period was
slow. In the beginning of the sec-
ond period, however, the Owls ap-
peared revitalized.

had also improved acquiring such
speed that its opponents were con-
tinually kept on their toes.

The Bryn Mawr defense swiftly
freed the ball, while fullbacks were
especially notable in defense of the

goal.

Nevertheless, Swarthmore

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‘twice broke through with a goal
one made by the right inner and
another by the left inner, thereby
crushing Bryn Mawr’s possible
chance for a shutout.

At the same time on the adjacent
field the Reserves of both teams
| were playing a game which ended
with a 8-1 score in Bryn Mawr’s
favor. Ty Walker literally won the
game with her three goals, and
Chellie Chester shone with her clear
passes and excellent stickwork.

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Officers Elected to
Executive Board of*

B. M. Defense Group

Need of Defense Blood Bank
At B. M. Hospital Stressed
By Dr. Leary





The Defense Group of the fac-
ulty and staff met for elections on
Tuesday evening, November 11.
The following new officers were
elected:

Chairman, Mrs..de Laguna; Sec-
retary, Mrs. Nahm; Treasurer,
Mr. Doyle. \

Other members of the Executive
Committee: Mr. McClure, Miss
Northrop, and Mr. Soper.

According to the organization of
the Defense Group, the Executive
Committee may add to itself the
chairmen of important sub-com-
mittees. Additions to the list of
officers will therefore be made soon.

An important announcement was
made at this meeting concerning
the need of blood donors for a ci-
vilian defense blood bank at the
Bryn Mawr Hospital. Dr. Leary
explained the method of plasma
blood banking, in which Dr. Stru-
mia at the Hospital is an expert.

A civilian defense bank would take
Continued on Page Three



Dr. Fieser Lectures
On Roots of Cancer
At Memorial Lecture



Dalton, November 15.—Since Dr.
Louis .Fieser synthesized his first
cancer - producing hydrocarbon in
Dalton Hall, it was fitting that he
should return there, as the first of
the Tennent Memorial lecturers, to
give an account of his subsequent

progress in the chemical field of,

cancer research.

Cancer may be defined as an un-
controlled growth of cells. What-
ever the mechanism is, which, un-
der normal conditions, determines
the limits of tissue growth, it is
lacking or rendered impotent in the
cells of cancer. Is there any indi-
cation in chemical studies of a
cause which might set cells off on
their uncontrolled career? This is
the question which Dr. Fieser’s
experiments have tried to answer.

Carcinogenic Hydrocarbons

Skin cancer, as an apparently
occupational disease among coal-
tar workers, has prompted the in-
vestigation of the possible carcino-
genic (cancer-producing) proper-
ties of certain hydrocarbons. In

1926, while teaching at Bryn Mawr.
Continved on Page Four

Mr. Chew to Speak
At Exhibition Opening

Mr. Chew, head of the English
department at Bryn Mawr, has
been invited to deliver an address
on “The Web of English Culture”
at the Pierpont Morgan Library in
New York on November 25. The
occasion is the preview of the exhi-
bition, “The British Tradition,”
which is to be held there from No-
vember 26 to March 30. This ex-
hibition presents a literary history
of Great Britain in a comprehen-





ell | sive collection of rare manuscripts

dating from the eighth century up
to Kipling’s own draft of Captains

z Courageous.

Mr. Chew has just published a
volume of Representative Poems of
Tennyson, edited with introduc-
tion; and notes, in the “Odyssey
Series of Literature,” in which his
volume of Byron appeared several
years ago.

Conference at Vassar Weighs
Our Responsibility to Draftee



How to Lese a War Titles
Hypothetical Textbook
Of French Fall



Vassar College, November 15.—
How to Lose A War, the textbook
written by the fall of France, was
described by Hans Habe, Hunga-
rian author of best-seller, A Thou-

sand Shall Fall. “This valuable
| book of defeat was edited by Laval
and published by Petain.”

Chapter I in How to Lose a War
is entitled, “We want a Pacifist
Army.” Chapter II is called “Rich
and poor alike-are not allowed to
steal bread and _ sleep under
bridges.” The French doctrine of
“equality” ‘tried to perpetuate the
status quo, forbade promotions and
killed all ambition,

Chapter III, “The Army must
not think, only obey,” discusses
French refusal to give its army an

objective to fight for.
Continued on Page Three

Milne, Shaw, Wilder
To be Presented by
1945 Friday Night





Pembroke East and West and
Rhoads South will give their
Freshmen Plays in the Cornelia
Otis Skinner Workshop Friday
evening at 8:30. A. A. Milne’s

The Man In Fhe Bowler-Hat-is—be-
ing directed by Ann Denny, as-
sisted by Jeanne Marie Lee, in
Pembroke West. Diana Lucas is
Stage Manager and Louise Walker
is in charge of Properties.

Carla Adelt is directing Pem-
broke East’s play, The. Inca of
Perusalem by ~George Bernard

Shaw. Kitty Rand is assistant di-
rector, and Helen Eichelberger is
stage manager.

Thornton Wilder’s Happy Jour-

Continued on Page Four

Facilities Offered Army
Benefit Communities
And Soldiers



Vassar College, November 16.—
“The Nation’s Responsibility to the
Draftee’’ was the subject of a con-
ference héld at Vassar on Novem-

ber 15 and“ 16.
were represented.

Mark McCloskey of the Federal
Securities Agency and Hans Habe
were the key speakers. Morale
and its problems were discussed in
round tables, lectures and commis-
sions.

Attending the conference from
Bryn Mawr were Catherine Clem-
ent, ’43, and Barbara Cooley, ’42.

Mark McCloskey calls ours “the
washing-est army that ever was.”
Mr. McCloskey, Recreation Direc-
tor of the Federal Securities
Agency, described how he is giving
draftees on leave not ogly a place
to wash, but to shop, write letters
and play.

He first accomplished the tre-
'mendous job of convincing Con-
gress that “Americans can’t work
well unless they can play, too.” By
the time funds for recreational fa-
cilities were included in the bill
which provides for water, sewage,
schools and hospitals in defense
crowded areas, the recreation
commission was ready with plans.
Their aim was to improve the or-
ganization and‘ capacity of small
communities near draft camps or
in large production areas.

Town committees were organized
to provide information, rooms for

Continued on Page Three

Twenty colleges



Smoking
The Self - Government. As-
sociation wishes to remind
students that they are liable
to suspension if they smoke
in their rooms.











In 1917, 3 Days Before U.S. Entered War,

Students Rejected Preparedness Courses



By Barbara Hull, ’44

The “Undergraduate Association
Votes Against Substitution of Pre-
paredness Course” is the heavy
type, full page” headline for the
COLLEGE News of April 4, 1917,
published three days before the
United States—declared war against
Germany. The conditions under
which the faculty were willing to
substitute preparedness courses
for academic work were
that the undergraduates should
practically unanimous in desiri
it, that they should give up to it
the time now spent in dramatics
; . and extra athletics, that
the courses should be registered
and advised as usual, and that they
should follow the line of work al-
ready taken and be along one sub-
ject only.” The substitute courses
offered were “ . . . . a course-in
farming, one in weights and meas-
ures . . , and one in colloquial
languages which would fit a-stu-
dent to act as censor. Also...
motor repairing, banking, dietetics
and home care of the sick, a Red
“Cross “course, anda course.-i
emergency aid.”

“Those for the substitution ar-
gued that, although the courses
would necessarily be much con-
densed, they would still fit those
who took them to fill the minor
positions of men called to service.
As these courses would be in con-

“cc



nection with a student’s major,”

‘they. urged, ‘they would not seri-
‘ously damage her academic work,

only give it practical ‘appligation.”

“The negative argue yrged
‘that only those who are’ leaving
college this year will be able to ap-
ply the tfinin received in these
courses. Furthermore,” they. said,
“such courses would be only a
temporary digression from the life
work of most of the students and
that a completed college course
would out-weigh such values,”

Previous to the voting, President
Thomas called a special chapel to
assure the students of the faculty’s
sympathy with whatever decisions
the students made. Miss Thomas’
speech, in part, stated: “I always
think of you, and of all students
properly protected in their aca-
demic work as gold fish swimming
around in a great glass globe, en-
tirely- free to move as you wish
within the globe, but protected by
the globe from outside activities
that will kill you, as the outside
air will kill goldfish, if you come in
contact. with it.”

and responsibility. You must think
for yourselves. This is the one su-
preme thing that we women must
learn . . I should lose much
of my profound love for Bryn
Mawr if I did not believe that you,
her students, are learning here to
be free.” - fs



f

.-“The.one. thing. that, we want, to _
create in you is a spirit of freedom .

Mpa nage


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Union Shop
4 The recent decision handed down by the National Defense
Mediation Board provoked a labor crisis of tremendous significance.
The controversy precipitated. into conflict the question of all-out
defense and the problem of labor’s status in this country. This is
the situation’s most unfortunate aspect, for there need be no dis-
parity between labor’s interests and all-out defense production.

The statements of leaders like Murray and Hillman, the strong
pro-war sentiment registered in union journals, the enthusiastic
passage of. pro-administration resolutions at the CIO: Convention |
demonstrate labor’s whole-hearted support of the President's |
emergency program.

John L. Lewis has not demonstrated his. His record cannot |
be defended. , Yet as President of the United Mine Workers and
key actor in the drama, the public bared its teeth against him—and
against labor as a whole. The press fastened on Lewis’ spectacular
personality, his news-crashing personal hatred, and cartooned him as
a blustering despot whose antics were little short of treason.

In this thundred of cat-calls, the pressing issue of the union
shop is lost in near-hysterical tension ; and the threat of drastic and
unnecessary anti-strike legislation hangs over the entire labor move-



ment.

The union shop is not a new demand; it is the logical end of
any mature unionism, Coal operators have since 1933, recognized
the union shop formally, in the Appalachian Agreements with the
United Mine Workers. The opposition of a few steel producers,
owners of the so-called “captive mines,” to the union shop is not
new, It has been long and notorious.

This clash of principals cannot be simply resolved. The area
of compromise is slight, and the NDMB faced great strategic diffi-
culties But as a judiciary organ of government, it should not have
allowed the issue to flare into polifics. “It should not have allowed
the Lewis-Roosevelt battle to figure in its decision. It should not
have hesitated to: follow the precedent established in the Kearney
decision in which it granted a closed shop in the Kearney ship yards.
If the Board were not ready to set the precedent of the union shop,
this would have been made clear in the Kearney case.

Yet, the political growling in Congress, the defiance of Lewis’
attitude, the flag-mad press and the public’s irrelevant mistrust of
Lewis’ foreign policy were permitted to constitute what the Board
termed “the peculiar and exceptional conditions of this case.”

The NDMB let itself in for a showdown. Perhaps one long
overdue. But it has done no more towards settling the immediated
dispute than’to toss the contestants back into the arena where the
battle will continue without the aid of peaceful and useful govern-
mental machinery. In denying the union shop it has dealt a sharp
and disheartening blow to the labor movement in this country.



Forget the Daisies



OPINION

°
Early Chinese Awareness of
| Impending Crisis Denied
! By Virginia Dzung
iTo the Editor of THE COLLEGE
‘NEWS:
| Your reporter has kindly given
ithe Chinese educated class the
' credit of having been aware of
'“the world wide issues at stake in
| the battle of democracy and totali-
| tarianismn” before 1930. I fear it
,is a compliment that my country-
|men dare not accept. As I recall,
if pointed out in the discussion on
| Tuesday that the Chinese educated
‘class feared European (especially
British) imperialism at firstg then
Japanese imperial'sm, and finally
world totdlitarianism. Like the
rest of the world, China did not
see the significance of German
Nazism and Italian Fascism until
the. last moment.

I apologize for not having made

this point clear.

Yours respectfully,
VIRGINIA DZUNG.



Material and Style
Of Article Criticized

To the Editor of the COLLEGE
NEWS:

“Now is the time for all good
men” to protest against cluttering
THE COLLEGE NEWS with material
of such limited interest as that
which appeared on the editorial
page of the November twelfth is-
sue. Even if the writer felt it in
good taste to burden the student
body with her personal disappoint-
ments, she might at least, in com-
posing the-article, have respected

lthe standards set by the English

Composition course. Both private-
ly and publically we are sorry it
was published—more sorry it was

for Scheduling

Group

Appointed by Council



A report from the Entertainment
-Committee was the chief business
of the November meeting of the
College Council. Scheduling, as
usual, is a big problem. To help
avoid conflicts, the pre-Christmas
rush, empty’ week-ends, and too
many events during mid-semesters,
a new Planning Committee was or-
ganized, consisting of Miss Ward,
Mrs. Chadwick-Collins, Miss Mac-
Donald, the chairman of the Enter-
tainment Committee, and the presi-
dent of the Undergraduate Associa-
tion and the head of the Player’s





By Rebecca Robbins





On Friday, November 14, Phila-
delphia’s City Council voted $100,-
000 to help supply free lunches to
the city’s undernourished school
children. The attempts of pro-
gressive pressure groups in Phila-
|delphia to feed underfed children
is a three-year-old story. But in
the last’ torrid month of the elec-
tion campaign the question was
‘brought to the point of action. or
else.

Under the new program 8,100
children are designated as under-
fed. But it is not quite certain
how many children ‘are undernour-
ished. The Board of Education’s



Club. . At a meeting in the spring | medical department looked into the
this committee will draw up a/™atter and came out with 20,000.
/A special committee appointed by

rough plan forthe coming year.

Every event will be scheduled with
due regard for all the factors in-
volved, instead of by the present
“first come, first served” system.

The Players’, Club, in addition to
its regular activities, is. carrying
out an experiment this semester.
The Freshmen of each, hall are pre-
senting a one-act play. Directed
and produced by members of the
Players’ Club, the plays will be
judged by faculty, who will award
a prize. The Club was pleased to
announce the final arrival of cur-
tains, lights, and gelatins for the
Theatre Workshop.

In response to the general feel-
ing among undergraduates that
they must get together to discuss
and formulate a policy correspond-
ing to that of the faculty defense
group, a six-point program has
been-drawn up. for the Alliance, an
organization, which will co-operate
with the Faculty Committee, and
cofordinate the work of the Forum
avid the defense courses. The col-
ldge has been made part of the vil-

written. ldge of Bryn Mawr’s organization
r Air Raid precautions, and will

e notified in case of action.

Two JUNIORS.
Editor’s note: The Second Column
of THE NEWS’ editorial’page is al-
ways written by individuals, and
from an individual’s viewpoint.








The editor welcomes letters of con-
structive criticism.





Habe and Mark McCloskey, watched a Living Newspaper, learned
from_each_other“The—Nation’s Responsibility to theDraftee.”

Every debate bogged down over the question of morale. “The
soldier has no interest in current ‘events; he prefers dance music
to news broadcagts; he thinks something is being put over on him,
that he’s getting a raw deal; he’s bored, unhappy, unpatriotic,”
most people agreed. But they did not agree on what should be
done. “There should be more athletics to create a spirit of team-
work, which is more satisfactory to Americans than patriotic zeal,”
said a boy from NYU. “Morale depends on knowledge; a soldier
is good in ratio to the amount he understands what’s going on,” de-
clared West Point Cadet, Sam Wagner. Major Nelson added it is
important to inform soldiers, then convince them this action agrees
with traditional American opinions and then convince him its suc-
cess depends on him.”’ Congressman Eliot believes, “morale can be
raised by having the soldier believe he’s getting as good as the camp
can provide and the work he’s doing is-necessary-even-if-its KP. But
as long as we’re not being attacked, we'll have this problem of low
morale.” And in contrast, Margaret Mead of the Museum of Na-
tural History, asserted that “morale at this period of marking time
ts as good as can be expected.” Some argued the soldier must de-
velop his own morale, some that morale must first be built up in the
country.

“Don’t forget this is a.different army,” added Mrs. Roosevelt.
“We've never had a civilian army before.” She urged college girls
to take defense and first aid courses in the summer (not during the
winter, because education. is more important—‘‘you can’t realize
how often I’ve wished I could trust my mind’’) as a preparation for
the crises which devolve on any mother in war-time.

The army defended itself from accusations of discouraging free
‘discussion and encouraging race prejudice. “We can’t give the
soldier the education he didn’t get as a civilian,” said its representa-



‘Forget the daisies, consider the draftee,” screamed posters |

outside dining rooms, in soap palaces (show Cases), on fence rails
and bike racks. This was the official welcome to the Vassar - ISS
_conference held this weekend.
Gathered together were students from twenty colleges; NYU,
Penn, Harvard and Yale, Barnard, Radcliff, Wellesley and Bryn
Mawr; two West Point Cadets, a private from Fort Hancock,
Thomas A. Eliot, Congressman from Massachusetts, ISS’s Louise
Morley, Mrs. Roosevelt, Charlotte Crump of the National Associa-
tion for the Advancement of the Colored People, Captain Weitzel
of West Point, Jesse Butcher, USO official. All sat on the floor
of Vassar’s Common Room arguing, listening to speakers Hans

tives, “nor can we attempt to get rid of instituted customs. The
jarmy ‘has to be practical, not pioneering. There is to much to be
done in a short time.”

The Vassar-ISS conferees agreed college students have a tre-
imendous responsibility toward the draftee. They can do a great
\deal of clarifying their own ideas and then presenting them to the
‘public by means of radio programs, community projects and pres-
sure on Congress. The conference began with theories and ended
its thirty hour session with some definite projects and an increased
awareness of the problems of morale on the part of all who attended.
We forgot the daisies.

Sic,

4.

\Barpara Cooxey, 42.





Dr.. Alexander J. Stoddard, super-
intendent of schools, and A.B.
| Anderson, secretary of the board,
determined that 22,500 Philadel-
'phia scHool children are ill fed.
At one point in the negotiations,
Stoddard spoke of the 30,000 to
40,000 children to come under the
plan. Meanwhile, Dr. John P. Tur-
ner, a member of the board, nted
out that there are no hungry hoo!
children in Philadelphia: The dis-
tinction between hunger and under-
nourishment must be considered.

Red Tape Diet

Even putting the figure -at a
conservative 20,000, approximately
12,000 children will be left eating
red tape. These children, said Dr.
Walter S. Cornell, medical director
of the public school system, were
undernourished because of “inex-
perience, ignorance or: indifference
of parents in respect to proper diet
for children.”

The actual program is. still
vague, as well as miserably inde-
quate. It is clear, however, that
the Federal Surplus Marketing Ad-
ministration is to supply part of
the food without cost to the board.
Labor is to be supplied by the
Works Progress Administration
and the National Youth Adminis-
tration, also without expense to the
Board of Education. Neverthe-
less, City Council was asked to ap-
propriate $100,000 to help defray
expenses. vee

Distinction in Food

Of the 8,100, 4,200 children are
to get hot lunches and the remain-
ing 3,900 shall have to content
themselves with milk and sand-
wiches. This distinction was neces-
sary because of the city’s 281 ele-
mentary schools, 200 have no cafe-
terias or lunch room facilities or
room in which to build them. The
seriousness of this situation be-
comes obvious when you realize
that the most undernourished chil-
dren and consequently those most
in need of hot foods are registered.
in these~ 200° poorer schools.

The problem of the rising cost .
of milk is also hitting the school
children. The many women’s or
ganizations. and defense groups
who have been uniting to bring
the school board to action are now
mobilizing to bring the cost of milk
in the schools down to last year’s
three cents per half pint. (The
Philadelphia price is. now four
cents. In New York City the price
is one cent.)

Opposition to Plan

One organization was notable. in
its opposition to the plan to feed
the illfed school children. The
Philadelphia Home and_ School
Council, representing 171 parents’
organizations, opposed the plan
unanimously on the. grounds that
“it was not the function of the
Board of Education” to feed the
students in the city schools, and
that if such a program is adopted,
free lunches “should be served to
both rich and poor alike.”

Despite predictions that after
the election the social ardor of the
Board of Education and City Coun-
cil would cool rapidly enough to
prevent the passage of the plan,
free lunches have come through.






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College Nescives Loan |

Of Ancient Greek Art

An unusual collection of Greck
archaeological specimens has, been
lent the collere by Miss Helen-
Young of the Shipley School. The
group, consisting of pieces cover-
ing many periods, was sent to Miss
Young by William N. Fraleigh,
formerly of the American Legation
in Athens and present Vice-Consul
at Istanbul.

Noteworthy in the collection, is
a pair of gold earrings of the Hel-
lenistic period, wrought in the
shape of doves, and a Mycenaen
gem. On this is carved a hybrid
- animal with the wings and head of
an eagle. Included also are three
bronze. animals, a horse, ‘a stag,
and a bull of the Geometric Period,
a small black figured saucer with
a border of dot rosettes of the 6th
or 5th century B.C., and a white
ground lekythos, or funeral jar, of
the 4th century.

The display can be seen on the
third floor of the West Wing of
the Library.

Cowles Calls for U. S.

Declaration of War







Continued from Page One
German planes, is the most effect-
ive British unit now fighting. Af-
ter September 1940 the Germans
made no daylight raids on Britain.
Because of this comparatively little
damage has been done to industrial
sections of England.

This failure of Germany to dis-
rupt the country by bombing does
not discourage British efforts to
disorganize Germany, for within
the next two years the English
hope to keep two or three thousand
planes over Germany constantly,
whereas the Germans have never
had more than 500 over England.

Bombers sent to Germany have
considerably less chance of return-
ing than they did a year ago. The
trip takes seven hours. Germans
have tripled their anti-aircraft de-
fenses and have searchlight belts
over 100 miles wide. Because of
the darkness and unfavorable
weather over England, landing is
difficult for those who do return
although the Air Force employs
girls to guide planes within a ten
mile radius from wireless towers.

The duties of R. A. F. pilots,
especially those who fly fighters to
protect merchant shipping, are
more dangerous than those of any
other branch of the service. A
single fighter pilot, on a merchant
ship, is catapulted to attack a
bomber, but cannot return to the
ship, since it is impossible to land.
Few of the pilots survive. This is
not a volunteer service, but an ac-
cepted duty.

Forty-eight hours before the
German entry into Paris, Miss
Cowles said, the- inhabitants be-
lieved that the army would defend
them. The morning before the
Germans came, the «declaration
that Paris was an open city was
posted. Throughout the South of
France people were without com-
munications and equally ignorant.
While refugees spread panic, the
fall of Paris was not known for
five days.





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B. M. Defense mind Will be Financed by



Continued from Page One
care of accident cases in defense |
ingustries. Lack of adequate blood
for treatment can cause death in|
many cases.



Bryn Mawr is a ce
area including’ Philadelphia and|Saturday, November 22, at 8.30.
smaller industrial cities. A de-i Receipts will be sent to the Coordi- |
fense blood bank here is urgently |nating Council of Freneh Relief |
needed. Friends or relatives of an | Societies in New York City by
injured person are always willing | which they will be used to buy
to give blood for transfusion; but} much - needed Christmas packages
the direct transfusion method re-ifor French war prisoners.
quires special types of blood. | The entertainment will begin

The plasma method with dried | with the reading of a short French
blood can be used without this li- | play by C, Puget, Les Jour Heu-

ee |reux. Miss Brée, Therese Exton
mitation and consequent delay. | : :
Withdrawals from the bank could

|Toni Michel, and Francois Pleven
later be made good by donations

will take the female parts, while |
f P the male roles will be read by Mr.

from the friends of an injured per-

son. The requirements for donots

Guiton, Mr. Jolly, a student at The
University of Pennsylvania, and

are:, ages 18 to 45, physical fitness,

adequate weight. Dr. Leary of-

Mr. Manena of Wilmington. Re-
fered to make all arrangements for







ful cases. This appeal for volun- | Fal] of France Makes
teers did not apply to students.





freshments and an informal dance ,
will follow the perfomance. |
volunteers and to advise on doubt-

\Christmas Packages ‘Advantages for Army

French Play Reading a ig6m Page One

A so:rée will be held, under the | poor get poorer and offizers’ w:ves
auspices of the French Club and|live at camp and privates’ wives

: ithe French House, in Wyndham on|/Stay home. I’ve never understood
nter for the | : i
| why,” he added.

‘water and public toilets were the
| searcest necessities.. Tiny village

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Miss Petts States
Value of Exercise

Continued from Page One
Another chapter discusses tech-
nical ways to lose a war. One
| method to insure defeat is to train
specialists and use them in the



Rhoads ,Show Case, November



13. — In an informal talk on |¥%0ng Places.
“Games for your Clubs.” Miss | The last chapter was called
: ‘ i“Germany is’ Invincible.” All

Petts stressed the import
th ee oe OF | Franch troops were told that the
e less dramatic sides of women’s Ss
ie National Tad Germans had been training for
De ene or enne. She | cight years and were irresistible.
pointed out the value of teaching | oppo French were beaten.” Mr.
children “how to play” as a vital Habe believes, “Not by stukas,
part of building up a healthy psy- panzers or Fifth Columnists, but
chological state in the coming gen- by their own phrase, ‘il n ’est pas
eration. “The Second Line of De-jnecessaire a comprendre’.”’
fense,” was the name which Miss
Petts gave to the job of laying



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down a sound social order in un- Manr
ce oie 0 — Who _realized_one day-with-a
Games which will produce a ro- jar

bust quality in the children are
the most. valuable.” While a cer-
tain amount of competitive games
is a necessity; Miss Petts stated,
they cannot take the place of the

Her room looked so bare
With no flowers there
So she went to a place not too

far. 4



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Origin of Cancer is
Probed by. Dr. Fieser

Continued from Page One
‘Dr: Fieser synthesized dibenzan-

|thracene. Four years later, to his

Greek Art Uniformity
Discussed by Richter
In Last Flexner Lecture





Goodhart, November 17. — In

a ee . lastonishment, it was declared by
summarizing her six iectures, Miss

; : : other chemists to be carcinogenic.
Richter pointed out the amazing ssa .
5 page Benzpyrene, another cancer - pro-
homogeneity of archaic art
throughout the Greek world. There

is no way of placing this art b ; i
A . vd vid important carcinogen yet identified
style other than by a general dis- |!

eer ‘is methylcholanthrene. The fact
tinction between the softness of the' ae :
that it is obtained from the degra-

easter : the vi ‘ i ;
Jaze ag aa ela AcHiOn | sation of bile acids and other body

fluids leads to the significant hy-

ducing hydrocarbon, was isolated
The most



‘from coal-tar in 19338.

of the western. The transition from '

conventionalized design to natural-|
ism received parallel treatment in pothesis that methylcholanthrene

‘all parts of the empire; artists ad-| might be produced inside the body
vanced in unison. Miss Richter , bY some kind of abnormal metab-
attributes this phenomenon to the olism.
universal recognition of genius. In Compounds. Tested
spite of the continuous political | In order to determine the rela-
strife between the different nations tionship between the structure of
of Greece, art was international. ‘hydrocarbons and their physiologi-
The late archaic art of eastern cal effects, a series of compounds
Greece and the outlying Greek set-| was made in Dr. Fieser’s labora-
tlements ‘was réviewed by Miss tory at Harvard and injected in
Richter in her final lecture. The mice to test for carcinogenicity.
' Cyclades, although defeated by the | Benzanthracene was found to be
Persians under Darius, suffered no the fundamental unit of the hydro-

collapse in prosperity, until after |carbons which were .cancer-produc- |

the Ionian revolt when they were ing. Although benzanthracene it-



anihilated.

Samos, because she betrayed the
Greek cause by withdrawing her
fleet at a crucial moment, was
treated kindly by the Persians.
Marked eastern influence is seen in

ene has no carcinogenitic effects,
|
‘the addition of just one methyl
group, is one of the most. potent
carcinogens. There seems to be
lone key position, centrally located,

a compound differing from it by}

the sloping eyes of the late sixth jin which that methyl group is most
century facial types, and in the effective.
realistic fleshiness of a statue of a

youth. Miletos, “the chief orna- 4+ Salamis, helped to save Hellenic

ment of Ionia,” was totally de- art by turning back Carthaginean
stroyed by Persia after the Ionian; ,vasions.

revolt. A statue of a seated |
woman remains as witness of her
former opulence.

During this time, so perilous in
the east, Sicily and South Italy
enjoyed an upswing in- prosperity.
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Hydrocarbons combine with other
substances either by addition or by
substitution. In carcinogens addi-
tions tend to take place in areas
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reactions. carcinogens exhibit sus-
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