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VOL. XXVII, No. 5

BRYN MAWR and WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1940

Copyright, Trustees of
Bryn Mawr College, 1940





Vincent Sheean
To Give Lecture
As Series Opener

Sheean, Toured Europe
This Year

On November 6, at 8.30 in Good-
hart, Vincent Sheean will speak on
Personal Opinion. Mr. -Sheean is
the author of the well-known books

Personal History and Not Peace
But a Sword. In 1935 he abandoned
his cdreer as a war correspondent
and settled down to write fiction.
During this period he ‘produced
Sanfelice, Pieces of a Fan and Day
of Battle.__Last. January--he_re-
turned to newspaper work as for-
eign correspondent for the North
American Newspaper Alliance.

Mr. Sheean has just returned to
America from London. Through-
out the spring and summer of 1940
he has been in France and England
reporting the Nazi blitzkrieg. Mr.
Sheean’s lecture is the first ‘event
scheduled on the Entertainment
Series for this year.





Activities Drive

The Undergraduate Exec-
utive Board of the Activities
Drive, elected by halls, is as
follows:

Vivi
man.

Maisie Hardenbergh, ’43,
Treasurer, Pembroke West. °

Frances’ Matthai, 43, Pem-
broke East.

French, °42, Chair-

Margaret Shortlidge, 41,
Denbigh.
Eudora Richardson, ’41,
Merion.
Prudence Wellman, 42,
Rhoads.

Ellen Stone, ’42, Rhoads.
_ Mary Wilson,»’41, Rocke-
féller.

Kathleen Kirk, 41, Ger-
man House.
Teresita Sparre, 43,

French House.

History of Evolution
and Origin of Fossils.
Discussed by Dryden



Series to be Continued by
Gardiner Lecture Next

Week

Dalton, Monday, 28.—Mr. Dry-
den continued the series of history
of science_lectures—with—a—diseus-
sion of evolution and the organic
side of geology. Mr. Dryden traced
the history of fossils, correlating
Miss Wyckoff’s: points last Monday
on the history of mining and min-
erals, field geology;~and sediment-
ary beds. On Thursday, November
7, Miss Gardiner will continue the
discussion of evolution in,.the field
of genetics.

Fossils are organic and are
traces of animals or plants which
once lived. Theories of the origin
of fossils remained childish and il-
logical in ancient times and during
the Middle Ages. Some Greeks and
Romans believed that fossils were
formed by a plastic force, others
that the animal spawn were minute
enough to wriggle into the rock
where they grew. The written ac-
counts of the fifteenth and sixteen-
th centuries attach mystical mean-
ings to stones. In them we find
stones derived from stars or which
were imitations of animals, or pre-
liminary attempts at creation. In
1518 Magnus swore he knew of a
number of fossil birds, each sitting
on a fossil egg in a fossil nest of a
fossil branch.

Among those who _ interested
themselves in serious studies in the
nineteenth century was Cuvier who
influenced’ many through his teach-
ing at the University of Paris and
through his extensive writings.
Through his collection’ of modern
skeletons, Cuvier acquired a vast
and complete knowledge of verte-
brate anatomy. He discovered that
at different levels, different beds of
strata have fossils peculiar to each,
and explained that a series of
world catastrophes had made the

fauna of each bed extinct and on
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Roosevelt Sways Bryn Mawr Republicans;
Democrats Sing Praises From Front Row



By Agnes Martin, ’43 y)
The rafters in Convention Hall
rang again last Wednesday night
this time with Democratic cheers,
for “the Chief” was speaking to a
crowd of 16,000. If President
Roosevelt was able to see through
the accumulated-haze of blue cigar
smoke and floating shreds of news-
paper, he may have noticed in the
crowd some fifty, fresh, eager faces
which belonged, for the most part,
to the New Deal Bryn Mawrters.
Bongo the Bryn Mawr con-
tingent wore: white satin bands
across their chests labelled “Roose-
velt Courier”; canvassed the wait-
ing crowds for Campaign funds,
and sat in the extreme end of the

«chal holding colored cards spelling

“ei D. R.” These loyal supporters,
however, had arrived at Conven-
tion Hall at about four o’clock and

bynine-fifteen- had succeeded in|
worming their way by guile, smiles

or silver into the best seats. There
were those who calmly declared
that they had lost their press cards;
those who knew a Mr. Kelly, and.
those who blatantly collapsed in the
reserved section. One little group
made friends with an F. B. I. man
who winked them into seats in back
of the press box. When a girl with
Miss Ely was seen illegally leaping
on and off eae gsnap rane

'Ma’s trying to get her a seat.”

Straight-arm tactics proved use-
less in trying to hold seats for
trusting friends outside, for the
mob was “plenty tough” as it pour-
ed in. One delegate was stopped by
a tacky little Secret Service man in
a great long coat who asked
“Whatcha got in the bag, Goilie?”
The goilie and supporters had great
difficulty in explaining away the
menace of a knitting-bag.

The hall was completely filled by
seven o’clock although the Presi-
dent was. not scheduled to speak
until nine-fifteen. The interim
was taken care of by an orchestra,
a chorus of 75 singers, cigars,
whiskey and chewing gum. By
nine o’clock the crowd was stand-
ing onthe backs: of their chairs
and chanting “We Want Roosevelt”
in a dull-roar. (Not as euphoni-
ous as _
reffective.} | Suddenly Mr. Roose-
velt appeared on the stage and for
ten minutes the crowd cheered in-
cessantly with such volume that it
was considered adequate for broad-
cast. , After the President — had
finished speaking, even some of the
wolves in sheep’s clothing reluc-)
tantly admitted that his speech was
stupendous in humor, if not in
essence, although some others sat
through the speech mumbling “I
don’t believe it, I don’t believe it.”.



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Calendar
Thursday, Oct. 31.—

Main Line Forum: Alice
Iseman, ’43, Rosalind
Wright, ’44, Agnes Mar-

tin, *48;

Friday, Nov. 1.—
Industrial Group meeting,
Common Room, 7.30 p. m.

Saturday, Nov. 2.—
Latin Play, All This and

Plautus Too, Goodhart,
8.00 p. m.
Merion Hall Dance, 9.30
p. m,
Monday, Nov. 4.—
Undergraduate Assembly,

Responsibility in Freedom,
Goodhart, 10.00 a. m.

History of Science, Miss
Gardener, Dalton Hall,
71.80, De M.

TUESDAY, NOV. 5







Cooperative Group ~_
Plan Civil Liberties’
Play for November



A Living .Newspaper play on
Civil Liberties will be given in the
gym the night of Friday, Novem-
ber 15. The idea of the Living
Newspaper is to select and present
aspects of current affairs that are
of This the
main emphasis will be placed on

importance. year,
current problems arising from the
war Those
which become prominent at election
time, such as the poll tax, will also
be used. Ballad for Americans
will be presented after the play.

Different groups will take part:

situation. problems

workers from Germantown, gradu-
ates of. the Hudson Shore Labor
School, the maids and porters, and

undergraduates. Beatrice Sachs,
’41, and Bess Lomax, ’41, will
direct.



Latin Play Promises’
To be Wickedly Gay

By Olivia Kahn, ’41

“Wine, women, and woe is the
theme of the Latin play this year,”
declared Dorcas Donklee, ’42, who
has the lead and ought to know.
The play is Plautus’ Mostellaria,
an involved tale about a drunken
young man, his rascaity slave, and
his embittered father. Miss Lake,
an old hand in the production of
Latin plays, is directing the fes-
tivities which will grace Goodhart
next Saturday evening at 8 oclock:

As usual the play will be given
with a minimum of costumes and
scenery, just enough to set the
tone. Dorcas suggests that one of
the most entertaining scenes will
be where a game of strip poker is
staged; it should present the man-
agement with a tricky problem be-
causé the participants in the game
start out wearing only a bit of
gunnysack. ,

Under the grease, paint and
burlap “you may recognize. the fol-
lowing: * Dorcas Dunklee* ’42
(Tranio), Vivi French,~’42 (Theo-
propides), Mary E. Sica, 43



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"43

(Calladametes), Louise Allen,
(Philematium), Ann Denny,
(Simo), Rosemary Sprague, ’41
(Scapha), Barbara Bechtold, ’42
(Grumio), Carla Adelt, ’43 (Philo-
laches), Ginger Frank, ’43 (Del-
phium), Jerry Kirk, ‘’43 (Pina-
43
(Phaniscus), and the Burly Slavés’
(Margaret Kroele, ’42, Eleanor
Harz, ’42, Elizabeth Gross, ’42,
Judy Shenton, ’42, ane —
ton, ae

house.

42) Pennsylvania.



First Undergraduate
Assembly Scheduled

Responsibility in Freedom is the
title for the first of this year’s un-
dergraduate assemblies. The topic
will_be-diseussed -by—a-panet of five
in Goodhart on November 4 at 10
a. m.. After brief talks by the
speakers the forum will be open to
the floor for further comments or
for questions. Mary Meigs, ’39,
Louise Morley, ’40, Virginia Nich-
ols, ’41, Katherine McClelland, ’42,
and Susie Ingalls, ’41, are sched-
uled to be the speakers. Cuts will
be .given in all ten o’clock classes.

There will, be another assembly
later in November on Understand-
ing Our Time at which Mr. Kohn,
professor at Smith College, will
speak. ' Theré will be no assembly
after this until the middle term,





Shanley Advocates
Militant Neutrality



A policy of “militant neutrality”
—maximum defense of the Western
Hemisphere and aid to Great Bri-
tain—is the safest course open to

the United States in a world of

war, Representative James A.
Shanley, of .Connecticut, told a
Haverford College audience in

Roberts Hall this morning.

“If America makes herself com-
pletely invulnerable, if she insures
from outside aggression the con-
tinuance of democracy on at least
one continent of the world,” the

speaker said, “then—we—will have

fulfilled our destiny in history.”

Representative Shanley, who is a
Democratic member of the House
Military Affairs Committee,
stressed the immediate need for a
large standing army, preferably
divided into four field corps for
seryice anywhere in the Western
Hemisphere. He also advocated
turning Alaska into a “Gibraltar of
the North” and arranging with
Great Britain for the defense of
Iceland and the Falkland Islands.

“One week before election, the
American people are united as they
have never been since the last
World War,” Mr. Shanley pointed
out. ‘‘Whoever wins the Presiden-
tial election, there is no doubt that
the American people will give him
their wholehearted support.”

President Morley has extended
an_ invitation to all Bryn Mawr
faculty members and students to
attend this lecture as well as all
others in the series.

Wendell Willkie Wins Students;
Faculty Vote for F. D. Roosevelt



Democrats Tally Majority
Of Maids, Grads; Willkie
Nets High Total



By Ann Ellicott, °42
Election opinion, whieh has been
solicited, demanded and extracted
from the campus by both the NEWS

students during ‘the past two
weeks, has finally been recorded.
Willkie has won 314 undergradu-
ates from the 460 who voted. The

velt, 49 to 183 the graduates and
the maids are ‘also in the Demo-

19, respectively. A total of 779
votes were cast, and 130 people
were unwilling to. vote, due to in-
decision or to their being aliens.

For the record, of the“halls only
Merion, Radnor and the German
House are for Roosevelt, Merion
by three and the other two by
single votes.._There is a Willkie
majority in all four classes. For
1941 the votes are 68 to 38; for the
juniors, 62 to 39; for 1948, 99 to
34, and for the freshmen, 85 to 35.
There were 14 votes for Norman
Thomas, three for the dynami¢
Earl Browder, and a brave but
solitary ballot for Mr. John Zoehnd,
the hitherto obscure candidate of
the Greenback party.

Willkie voters were eager to in-
dicate their reasons and cast 480
votes in this section of the poll, as
against 198 from the Democrats.
Business conditions, national de-
fense, the third term, and foreign
policy, in that order, had the great-
est influence among them; while
Roosevelt partisans consider for-
eign policy and labor the two most
important factors. Family tradi-
tion was taken into consideration
by only 55 persons, or so they said.

Republicans are favorably im-
pressed by Willkie’s speeches, 86 to
70. Twenty were not impressed at
all. Roosev t voters were natur-
ally unsympathetic to this question.
Four people confessed that they
had neglected to register. All these
were Roosevelt voters.

glected to register, although eligi-
Continued on Page Five



Rejoice, Give Thanks!

Thanksgiving this year is
a one-day vacation, ‘Thurs-
day, November 28. Students
will have to sign for their
last class Wednesday, and
again for their first class on
Friday. This will mean no
Thursday to Monday—week-
ends for those poor Friday
fish.











Deceptively Dizzy Grads Unbend at Soiree
With Eager Penn and Princeton Soulmates



By pea Mason,,’42

Saturday, October 26, “the. in-
ternational set,” Radnor, held open
The soirée, starting at 8.30,
was attended by gentlemen from
Princeton and the University of
There is a mutual
feeling among graduate students,
both men and women, that they are
“excluded and secluded.” They
don’t like it and Saturday night
was the first of a series of such
medicinal events. —

The intellectuals lolled about on
the floors of Radnor listening to
the music of Haydn, Beetlioven-and_|
Schubert, drinking black coffee and
munching crackers and cheese. The
not too:small hours of the morning
found them at the Greeks and the



‘jis all right.

Cover anes. We hope they
were’sedate. The party was a géod

week-ends at Princeton and, espe-

cially important, “all concerned
feel that new life will flow into the
dissertations.”’ .

The grads like to travel. For
tke most part their advanced wis-
dom leads them to week-ends in

but they are pliable and Princeton
One grad student
‘takes her duty as a citizen very
seriously. She is considering driv-
ing eleven hundred miles home to
Missouri to vote. Perhaps we, the
undergrads, have been’ deluded by

be they’re- frivolous,



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and by Dr. Wells’ Political Parties .

faculty and wardens are for Roose- °

cratic column, 30 to 28 and 78 to .

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the Radnor bunch. Oh, Lord, may-

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, star when undergraduates stay at other colleges with no chaperones

- take the oral-until the last possible opportunity.

_and ’44 from the fate of ’41,

_ obvious solution of an unnatural ‘situation will be far as éver from
-}er and Linda Darnell.

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Chaperones

“What-would bring discredit on the college?” was a question
asked of freshmen on this year’s Self-Government exam. Week-
ends and where to stay now raise the question to undergraduates
of all classes. Bryn Mawr’s reputation does not receive a gold

but the friends of the boy she is visiting. This type of thing
happens generally through the girl’s neglect to consider how her
plans might look in the cold light of a future Bryn Mawr mother’ S
eye.

This is the ‘realm in which the Self-Government board should
act, for the college authorities have left moral behavior to our
care and we have chosen the board to execute’ our rules.

As the present ruling stands, we have to ask permission to
stay unchaperoned at any hotel or boarding house other than. the
Bryn Mawr Clubs or the Barbizon. The Self-Government board,
in view of the week-end problem, considered extending the inter-
pretation of the present rule so as to cover staying anywhere
unchaperoned. By “unchaperoned” would be meant hostesses one
never sees the whole week-end, friends of friends of friends, and
other boys. As the line between chaperoned and unchaperoned
would be difficult to draw, the board ‘felt it probably would be
necessary to obtain permission for staying anywhere but with one’s
family. Through the process of asking for permission, under-
graduates would think twice of their plans.

This broader interpretation of the rule was suggested at a
Pembroke West hall meeting. The general reaction was that the
suggestion would mean so wide a diversion from the present rule
that it warranted further discussion before becoming effective.

We agree that general discussion should be undertaken and
suggest that the Self-Goverriment board arrange a mass meeting
for this purpose. Undergraduates would become aware of the
problem through the discussion, and that in itself would be a step
toward the solution of the problem. Ifthe majority opinion was
in: favor of the new interpretation, we believe legislative action
would have to be taken for the rule to be inclusive. Fé



‘ ...A Hundred Mision From Now”

A system is only as good as its enforcement. The Eighteenth
Amendment, while it had a sufficiently lofty aim, failed in achiev-
ing it because violation of the spirit of the law was considered
fashionable in the best of families. The taking of orals, too, has
a worthy aim which fails in attainment largely because of: the atti-,
tude taken-against-the practice: Students yie with one another for
the greater number of failure cards or simply do not. bother to




- “Phe faiilt doe’ not “lie etitirely with the*stu Crammed
full of the technique of taking an oral and as much language as
will perhaps enable them to pass, they cannot help/ considering it
an exercise’in method rather than the testing of a useful knowledge.
This is especially true of German. The penalization of a student
for entering upon a certain language by forcing Iher.to forget: it
for three years also helps to foster, the public Mecieaia of the oral.

As every action brings its owii reaction, pressure from the
dean’s office will inevitably come to save the classes of ’42, ’43,
The percentage of those who pass
will be raised by this pressure. But the actual reasons for all
required non-credit courses and exams will—unless something revo-
Jutionary happens—remain unknown and unsung. The actual and

-lagainst Willkie’s nomination

ROOSEVELT

The fanfare of the present cam-
paign has not aided any clear defi-



nition of the real choice involved
inthis election. Word§ like democ-
racy, employment, and social re-
form are common to both the Dem-
ocratic and the Republican plat-
forms.

As the Presidential year ap-
proached it was evident that there
was no real cleavage in American
opinion regarding the aims of the
government. The Republican party
was in the market for a candidate
who could meet the New Deal.
American acceptance of the New
Deal’s objectives was recognized
and ably dealt with by the Republi-
can pressure men that spotted Mr.
Willkie as “‘possible Presidential
timber.” As head of Common-
wealth and Southern, Mr. Willkie
in popular magazines and on radio
forums as well as in the lobbies of

ment regulation. He was known as
the voice of business in its struggle
with government, and what solu-
tions he proposed for resolving that
struggle were not compromising.
The editors of Fortune, leading
off the April issue w:th an editorial
significantly called “Government
and Business,” weighed the magits
of Mr. Willkie as a candidate. They
listed and refuted the points
in
June. Among these objections they
noted that Willkie as a spokesman
of big business, with Wall Street:
connections, and President of a
giant utility holding company
would have difficulty in winning
popular support. But they had
great faith in Mr. Willkie’s inde-
pendence and appeal. And they
added enthusiastically that in these
days of radio and newsreels_a_na-
tional hero could be built up in two
weeks. Americans, they said, dis-
trust a political campaign “and
love an independent fighter,.so ‘if
they come to-know Mr. Willkie his
vote-getting power might be enor-
mous.” On the strength of his in-
dividualism and personal charm,
the old line Republicans at the con-



MOVIES



In Town
Now Playing:

ALDINE: The Great Dictator,
Charles Chaplin and Paulette God-
dard.

ARCADIA: Strike Up the Band,
Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland.

BOYD: Third Finger, Left
Hand,. Myrna Loy and Melvyn
Dougias.

FOX:

Spring Parade, Durbin

rand Cummings.

STANLEY: Hired Wife, Rosa-
lind Russell and Brian Aherne.

STANTON: ' Rangers of For-
tunef Fred MacMurray and Betty
Br

A Dispatch from Reuter’s, E. G.
Robinson. Fox, Friday.

The World in Flames, newsreel
review of the rise of the dictators.
Stanton, Saturday.

Suburban

ARDMORE: Thursday, Lucky
Partners, Ronald Colman and Gin-
ger Rogers. Friday to Sunday,
Wyoming, Wallace Beery. Mon-
day--to--Thursday; No. Time, for.
Comedy, James Stewart and Rosa-
lind Russell.

SEVILLE: Thursday and Fri-
bday; The Golden. Fleecing,. .Lew
Ayres. He Stayed for Breakfast,
Loretta Young and Melvyn Doug-
las. Saturday, I Married Adven-
ture, Mrs. Martin Johnson. Sunday
and Monday, Hell’s Angels and
Scarface. Tuesday, Mr. Smith
Goes to Washington.

“SUBURBAN: Wednesday « and
Thursday, Cross-Country Romance,
Gene Raymond and Wendy Barrie.
Friday and Saturday, The Lady in
Question, Brian Aherne and Rita
Hayworth. Sunday and Monday,
The Great Profile, John Barrymore.
Tuesday to Monday, Brigham
Young, Frontiersman, Tyrone Pow-











Washington was opposing govern- | -

;New Deal.



WILLKIE



political battlefield because

has, however, as Mr. e
pointed out confined himself to

ing us no concrete plans for the

Premed Students Must
Mr. Roosevelt has entered the! Take Ap titude Test
it!
seems he “loves a good fight.’ He!
illkie!

|

justifying past actions while offer- | i



All students who plan to apply
for admission to medical school and

;to enter medical school in 1941
should take the Medical Aptitude -
| Test. It will be given at 3 p. m.

future, except that as he said at Friday, November 8, in Room 203,

Madison Square Garden, ‘“‘we shall Dalton.

continue to go forward in peace.”
In 1932, Mr. Roosevelt said,
“High sounding phrases cannot
sugar coat the truth.” We agree
with Mr. Roosevelt on this 100%.
But in 1940 he says he is going to
answer major campaign falsifica-
tions with facts and produces as a
fact—that the government is co-



operating 100% with Mr. Knudsen, |
Mr. Stettinius and their board.

Those who support the Third|
Term ‘Candidate have criticized!
Wendell Willkie for being ‘‘incon-! |
sistent” and “unspecific.” Nothing
could be farther from the truth.



vention yielded: to background pres-
sure for Mr. Willkie.

Mr. Willkie’s first policy was to
be general. His later policy was to
criticise means employed by the
In the process of this
“me, too, but? platform he was
forced into contradiction and eva-
sion. . The inconsistencies of his
speeches have been listed many
times. There is one patent reason
for these inconsistencies. In his
campaign, Mr. Willkie must fill a
double bill: he must demonstrate
his liberalism, his love for. labor,
his reform crusade; at the same
time he is obliged to put business
back in the saddle.

Herein lies the real choice facing
American voters. Mr. Willkie is
the candidate of business. What-
ever his veneer of liberalism, Mr.
Willkie voices his paradoxical con-
viction that. business can govern
itself—and the country as well.

The American public does not
feel that the control of government
can safely be returned to, business.
This, beeause, (a) as repeatedly
stated, business has reached the
point where governmental regula-
tion is inevitable, and (b) the pub-
lic feels the loss of social reforms
should business ride again. Mr.
Willkie’s own fight against the
TVA was a fight against the ad-
ministration’s effort to bring low
priced electric power into Ameri-
can homes. The TVA _ produced
electricity at three cents per kilo-
wat hour while Commonwealth and
Southern operating companies’
price ranged from nine to 21 cents
per kilowatt hour. Was govern-
ment here more efficient than priv-
ate utilities, or are we to assume
that the attainments of private in-
dustry need never reach the con-
sumer in the form of low prices?

Whatever Mr. Willkie as a front |
man may say, he cannot break with
his allegiance to anti-New Deal
business any more than. he can
scrap his contract with the Repub-
lican party.

If the American public swallows
the Willkie myth, we. are- going, -in-.
to advertising. Batten, Barton,
Durstine, and Osborn:

MUSIC

The Philadelphia Symphony Or-
chestra will not be present this
weekend to give its usual Friday
and Saturday concerts. It has
planned a tour of cities including
Chicago, Cleveland and Toledo.
The next subscription concerts will
take place Friday, November 8,
Saturday; November 9 and Mon-
day, November 11. Beveridge Web-
ster will be guest pianist and the
program is as follows:=
Carl Goldmark........ Overture

“In Spring,” Opus 36
Beethoven Symphony No. 5-
in C Minor, Opus 67
Tschaikovsky .... Concerto No 1,
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We? isd 64: “Invitation to the
Dance,” Opus 65.

Wagner .... Entrance of the Gods
Into Valhalla, from “Das Rhein-
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Willkie has stated again and
again that he believes in unem-
ployment insurance, collective bar-
gaining, minimum hours and maxi-
mum wages. He has preached up
and down this country his doctrine
of increased productivity and its
importance in maintaining and
furthering our democracy. Again
and again he has declared that he
is against the New Deal party be-
cause it has suffocated the Demo-
cratic party and the things for
which it stands; it started as a
party of reform but has swamped
the effectiveness of its reforms by
overlapping bureaus and a super-
abundance of hidden taxes,

Mr. Roosevelt says “what if de-
cisions were left to Congressmen
Martin, Barton and Fish?” but he
does not consider what would hap-
pen if decisions were left to Bosses

‘| Hague, Flynn and Kelly on whom

he depends for the perpetuation of
his. tenancy. Nor when he says
that in August and September em-
ployment increased by 900,000 men
does he add that at the same time
WPA rolls increased by 150,000.
Those who criticize Mr. Willkie
for being inconsistent should _re-
member that it is their candidate
who said in 1932 “I ask you to
assign to me the task of reducing
the annual operating expenses of
your national government.” And
it is their candidate for the Third
Term who said “You and I know
that any family can for a year
spend a little more than it earns,
but that a continuation of that
habit means the poorhouse.”’

Sn

Famous People

‘A Treasury of the World’s Great
Letters. A significant collection of
letters which reveal the characters
of -the great figures of past and
present. Writings of Leonardo da
Vinci, Beethoven, Samuel Johnson,
Thomas Paine, Poe, Huxley, H. L.
Mencken, Thomas Mann and others.
Excellent for historical and char-
acter reference work. ‘!

Romantic Rebel, by Frances
Winwar, The revolutionary life
and ideas of George Sand, and



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Hiiwtir infitience on the arty~people

of her time. Interesting in its
analogy between the political situ-
ation of our time and hers.

America

The Wave of the Future, by
Anne Morrow Lindbergh. Mrs.
Lindbergh gives hope and fresh
courage for the American future.
She looks ahead to» the country
America will be after the:wave of
war has ‘passed over us, and-we are
on the upward path. _

Canada: America’s Problem, by
John MacCormac. A former New
York Times correspondent sees the
link.between_Canada’s fate and
that of the United States: A not-
‘so-new book reviewing the aspects
of the overwhelming issues that
confront us in our own hemisphere.

The Trojan Horse in America, by |
Martin Dies. The story of the
fifth-column activities in our own
boundaries by the head of the
famous Dies Committee. Contains
figures the debater _— like. to -














THE COLLEGE NEWS

Page Three





‘Opinion

.







Undergraduate Proposes
International Group



To the Editor
NEWS:

of the COLLEGE

Why doesn’t Bryn’-Mawr have an

international club for all the for-
eign students and a limited number
of Americans who wish to become
acquainted with those girls from
other countries? It'’seems to me
that it would be a very worthwhile

undertaking—for a group of this |

kind not only promotes interest in
the people and customs of other

lands but also encourages a friend-

ly feeling of goodwill towards our
contemporaries abroad.
MARJORIE FLOOD, '42,

me

Massine’s New Ballet Offers
A Program Highlighted
By The New Yorker

By Olivia Kahn, ’41

This year balletomanes may com-
pare the choreography and danc-
ing techniques of the two Russian
ballet companies formerly united
las the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo
and now under two separate direc-
tors. ~Leonide Massine’s division,
‘sponsored by Universal Arts, In-











{corporated, is already back in New

j

| York with a half dozen new offer-
‘ings. Although-these-are-not—uni-
formly successful, they do make
definite contributions to the ballet
repertoire.

Possibly the most unusual and



NUTS and BOLTS

completely satisfactory is The New





'Yorker ballet which derives its ti-



Soldiers Soon

Even though male students over |
21 and under 35 are exempt from
the draft uptil June, they had to
register along with everyone else |
In order to take |

on October 16.

care of the absentee registering, |
the various colleges set up their |
The ma-
jority of these proceeded smoothly
throughout the day. No picketing
was reported, and only a few con-
scientious objectors signed as con-

own registration offices.

scientious objectors.

In Princeton, where about 800
people registered, there was some
trouble with birthdays. Three sen-

tle and subject matter from the
magazine of the same name. Rea
Irvin collaborated with Massine in
the libretto and is also responsible
for the scenery and costumes, and
consequently the flavor of the origi-
nal is well preserved in the new
jmedium. The late George Gersh-
win contributed the score, and a
very good one it.is, too.

The New Yorker is a thoroughly
delightful creation especially for
those who know and admire its
source. The makeup of the charac-
ters who represent a Hokinson club
woman, an Arno stuffed shirt, So-
glow’s little king, and many others
irtluding Eustace Tilley, is superb.
:These characterizations by them-



iors barely got under the line.' The :
most peculiar case was that of a |selves would guarantee a delightful
boy who came into the world in evening. For those with even

China on October 17, 1919.

was October 16 in the

States.

rather than confuse the

board.

Amore complicated arrangement
was that of an undergraduate born
“In order to prove his
age, he needed his birth certificate,

in Japan.

Be-
cause of the date line, however, it
United
He worriedly wrote a law-
yer, and a lawyer hurriedly wrote
him—and. he decided to. be silent
draft

greater interest in the affairs of
The New Yorker. proper, the feud
with W. Winchell is highly grati-
fying. It is not true that the ball-
et has nothing more than this to
offer. There is some excellent
dancing by Tatiana Chamie, Miss
Hokinson’s fluffy friend, George
Zoritch as Eustace Tilley, Mare
Platoff in the role of the police-
man, and Frederic Franklin as W.
W. The temptation to enumerate
the amusing incidents building up

which is now in Japan. In order’ h h a b
to get his birth certificate he need- the tenuous theme is strong but
ed.a passpert to Japan. And ie suffice it to say The New Yorker

order to get a passport, he needed
his birth certificate’ (The Prince-
tonian). ‘Needless to say, he didn’t

register.

At Williams the work

dealt with’—so they say.

interpreter either.











home

it’s the
either

Bryn

went
‘ smoothly due to “the average high

intelligence of the group to be
The
draft board didn’t have to use an
..One terrible
mistake was discovered béfore the
ecards were handed in to the town



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followers of On Broadway.



registration board. One _ under-
graduate had been recorded as a
mulatto under the classification of
“Light brown” complexion.

But now the excitement is over.
Listen, girls, make the most of this
winter. Our boys are. safe till

June—and after that—we spend
our weekends knitting.





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Undergraduates Propose Aid
At Meeting in Goodhart
For Benefit



Monday, October 28.—In a mass
meeting held in Goodhart on Mon-
day at 1.30, Charlotte Hutchins,
president of the Undergraduate
Asséeiation, told: the assembled
student body that only forty dol-
lars worth of tickets for the British
Ambulance Benefit had been bought
by undergraduates.

In September the college had an
opportunity to buy for 1250 dollars

‘a lightweight ambulance for citi-

zens’—relief in England._Since it
was impossible to include it in the
already over-burdened Activities
Drive budget, a benefit was planned
for Wednesday evening, October
30, to raise.the money.

Miss Hutchins announced that
since 800 dollars had already been
raised from the sale of tickets out-
side the college, the ambulance
could not be given in the name of
Bryn Mawr College unless the stu-
dents would pledge to buy most of
the remaining tickets.

Four-fifths of the undergradu-
ates present agreed to support the
benefit and it was decided that any
small deficit would be made up from
the Activities Drive funds.



No new. ballet. approches._The
New Yorker in sophistication, but
Poker Game comes closer than any
other. It is, as a whole, less inter-
esting. Frederic Franklin is mag-
nificent as the joker and perhaps
one should see Poker Game if only
to watch him twist and curl around
the other performers. Mr. Frank-
lin is dancing even better this
year than:last and must be ranked
among the finest dancers in the
company. There is another happy
touch when the four queens dance
together. _Mlles. Danilova, Krass-
ovska and Mladova are wonder-
fully roguish -but Markova was
never intended for so ‘flippant a
role.

Aurora’s Wedding has been al-
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wretched readers. Blistered by
these cruel words we can make no
comeback, We can only weep
softly as we sew another patch into
our beloved blue jeans and listen
for the telephone that never rings.

“T wonder if you have seen the
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bears the title of that composition.
It is charmingly classical and the
small separate dances which are
limited in other current choreogra-
phy are present here. Petipa rein-
|troduces the dance of the Three
Ivans expanded into a Trepak for
five. The Chinese mandarins are
back as well as pas de deux by
Markova and Eglevsky which are
much like the Bluebird variations.
Some of the costumes are badly de-
signed and unpleasant in color but
as a whole the ballet is delightful.

This is only a partial list of the

new ballets. Serenade, to music by

Tschaikowsky, and Vienna- 1814
with music by Von Weber are also
on this season’s list. There are
not so many old ballets being given
as one would like to see, but Gaité
Parisienne is still very much in
evidence and other older works
help supplement the program every
now and then. The Ballet will be
coming to Philadelphia in a, few
weeks. It is still tops in the field,
and the sparkle of Danilova, the
perfection of Markova and the
grace of Massine are as magnetic
as ‘ever.



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weaker sex and dedicated, to the



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all-important question. The cam-
pus constabulary must refuse to
allow panted females neath the

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THE COLLEGE NEWS





B. M. Transfers Deplore Lack of Man Power:
‘Welcome Increased Liberty College Offers



By Patsy McKnew,. ’43 :

Many of Bryn -Mawr’s deadlier
rivals are represented in the col-
leges from which our eight new
transfer students hail. -Shirley:
Cruze went to Vassar for two
years, Marjorie Flood to Wellesley,
Louise Warner Lewis to’ Smith,
Barbara Haas to Wheaton, and
Anita McCarter to Wilson, The
West is represented by Dorcas
Dunklee from the University of
Colorado, Alice Judson from the
University of Chicago, and Ena
Borden Smith from Our. Lady of
the Lake College in San. Antonio.

Most of the girls seem to have
transferred either because they
wanted a change of environment
for their last two years, or be-
cause their families live near Phila-
delphia and they want to be with
them. Their opinions of Bryn
Mawr vary from “It’s the nearest
place to heaven!” to “I migs the

.men not being around.”

Size: and the _ co-educational
system seem to be the grounds for
the greatest differentes between
their former colleges and Bryn
Mawr. Student Government is less
strict in the larger universities,
where there are fewer rules but
more exclusive groups and cliques.
Except for the Universities, Bryn
Mawr leads in leniency of rules.
Vassar limits overnight permis-
sion; Smith is “too full of rules,”
says Louise Lewis; Wellesley de-
mands parental permission for ev-
ery overnight spent away from col-
lege. Self-Government is a univer-
sal organization, and most colleges
have self-organized political clubs

and public forums.

The larger colleges seem to have
more interest in campus news-
papers, because news really is news
on a big campus. This rule does
not hold however for the Phoenix,
of Our Lady of the Lake College,
which accepts contributions from
all students. ~

Bryn Mawr varies considerably
from the other colleges on the sub-
ject of required courses.. Most of
them require one language but
none have a system comparable to
our native oral inquisition, with
the exception of Smith, which de-
mands one exam in any language.
Only Our Lady of the Lake requires
philosophy. Some form of Eng-
lish must be studied at all other
colleges, either in composition or
literature, rarely both. At Wilson
College and the University of Chi-
cago two sciences are required, at

to be universally required, but the
method of presentation differs. At
Vassar, for instance, the course is
‘so frank that an average of three
girls a year faint and: have to be
carried out.

An interesting method for, re-
quired courses is used atthe. Uni-
versity of Chicago. Four survey
courses are required, one in a phys-
ical science, one in a_ biological
science, one in a social science, and
one in the humanities. Compre-
hensives are given in each at the
end of the year. They are all taken
during the freshman and _ soph-
omore years, and give the students
a wide survey of knowledge to aid
them in choosing majors.



VOGUE CRAZE
SWEEPS ROCK

By Marguerite Bogatko, ’41

Freshmen who have felt that the
canons laid down by Vogue and
College Bazaar are violated by the
Bryn Mawr campus, take notice!
Last Saturday night was the occa-
sion ‘of a spontaneous style and
fashion show in Rockefeller Hall.
It was a thing born out of the
night and inspired by a senior with
a new dress and time on her hands.

The whole thing was organized
by a ‘group of seniors who just
happéned not to be going out, They
bent all doubters and dissenters to
their will and the resulting produc-
tion was a glamorous line of
“Mimis,” “Madeleines,” and “Di-
anes” who sailed down the stairs
and-through the smoking room to
appropriate music. The large audi-
ence of non-participants was lured
by promises of feod and by sheer
disbelief.

Patty Spillers, ‘41 (Tamara),
wore a pair of red Dr. Denton’s
and swung a matching lantern.
Amid loud applause she circled the
room to the dulcet strains of
“Temptation.” Hooded house coats,
dinner dresses, evening gowns, ex-



traerdinary—hats, and spectacular.

day dresses all received their share
of attention. The models were
frankly well pleased with them-
selves and won the hearts of all
spectators with their friendly atti-

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Mr. Joseph Berry, new assistant
professor in biology, came to Bryn

Mawr from Texas. He received
his B.S. from San Marcos Teach-

the others only one. Hygiene seems |”

Junior Class Enticed
By Lure of Unknown

Of the girls who are spending
their junior years in other colleges,
or who have moved on to greener
fields, many have gone to Rad-
cliffe—Sheila Gamble, Mary Gum-
bart, Margaret Mason, Mary Sizer,
and Judith Sprenger. Barnard was
chosen by Sheila Cudahy, Thelma
Deck, and Helen Lyttle. The West
has called Naney Green to Leland
Stanford, Margery Minster to
Northwestern, Mary Williams to
the University of Wisconsin, Vir-
ginia L. Williams to the Univer-
sity of Chicago, and Theodora
Skoss to the University of Califor-
nia. Margaret Magrath is-at-Tor-
onto, Janet Meyer at McGill, and
Louisa Horton is at dramatic
school in New York. *

Gruen Watch Holds
Advertising Contest







Students of advertising, market-
ing, and merchandising may be in-=
terested in the second annual con-
test sponsored by The Gruen Watch
Company, Cincinnati, Ohio, a com-
petition which carries a first prize
of 500 dollars and many other
valuable awards.

In this contest, students may
submit a layout for a Gruen maga-
zine or: newspaper advertisement,
a-sketch-of a Gruen billboard or
car card, or a script for a Gruen
radio show. Any or all of these
classifications may be entered. The
contest closes December 31, and
official entry blanks may be ob-

tained from The Gruen Watch
Company, Time Hill, Cincinnati,
Ohio.



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He was awarded his Ph.D, from the
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top of each a new type o& fauna
was generated.

Sir James Lyell popularized ge-
ology and proved to pedple that
Cuvier’s theory on catastrophism

was wrong. After teaching for a
few years, he devoted himself en-
tirely to an individual study of ge-
ology and an examination of others’
work in the field. In 1880 he pub-
lished his Principles of Geology in
which he explained that, although
the great catastrophes like the ice
age had actually existed, the puny
forces which are now in action
cause the gradual changes of the
earth’s surface.

Lyell’s influence on Darwin can
be illustrated by Darwin’s depend-
ence on The Principles, of Geology.
During his trip in 1831 Darwin
studied Cuvier religiously and
rwhen he returned published his
book on the things he had seen and
their applicability to Cuvier’s the-
ory. Darwin followed the discov-
ery of different fossils in different
layers. He proved that the per-
centage of extinction of animals
grew less as the strata) approached
our time. Hence there must be an
evolution from one type of animal
to the next.

The Darwinian theory gave new
life to. geologic theories, _Geolog-

fossil. Proofs of evolution could
be proved; where there were only
five or six fossil primates, now
there are hundreds. Thus geology
has been no momentous change but
has gradually evolved to a new and
efficient science.



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Hunt for Ditter Complicated by ‘National
Guard; Ends Vainly at Dante Alighieri Hall!





By Barbara Cooley, ’42

hard enough in private life but in |
politics it is impossible.

of Dempertldse :

It was easy to get to the Third. ne
Keeping up with the Joneses is “Just take the subway to South | ters.

| Philadelphia,” a_ second lieutenant

A couple whispered between salutes, ‘but the|Sider to be the main issue?” pro-

LOS janitor at the Third Ar mory leaned |

NEWS board had interviewed the} jon his broom and said, “The rally |

Montgomery County candidate for
the House of Representatives.
found out that J. William, Ditter,
the Chairman of the National Re-
publican Congressional Committee,
is his opponent.

A slightly frantic secretary told
me that Mr. Ditter expected-to be
at a rally in. Philadelphia that
night. “Not the Norristown
_tally?’\I asked. But it wasn’t the
Norristown Rally.

A still more frantic secretary
at Republican Headquarters said
that she thought the rally was in
the Third Armory on Broad Street.
The policeman outside the. Subur-
ban, Station told us to go ‘four
blocks north, but after fighting off
a whole regiment of the National
Guard, we were told that we were
in the First Armory.

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I the street, to-night,” he added.



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OU TeLUTIeLT ete e Lette tT elit

lis Friday night.’”’ He sounded pret-

“There’s a rally across

The sign said Dante Alighieri
Hall —- Willkie Rally. Our toes
thawed at the sight of it, but it
was almost as bad battling our

way through the hordes of small:

boys in. front, yelling, “We want
Roosevelt,” as it had been to fight
off the attack of the NationaP
Guard. The hall was filled with
smoke and the clatter of a small
band playing Moon Love and lots
of men talking Italian.

We tried to look terribly com-
posed and nonchalant, but there
didn’t seem to be another woman in
the place. Someone handed us a
pamphlet describing in red letters
the qualifications of one John Da
Grossa, candidate for State Sena-

TEA DINNER

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Willkie Wins Conus





By Student Majority



Continued from Page One
All these were Roosevelt basal

The question “what do you con-



voked a superfluity of opinions. |
iOne harassed soul stated only that |
“the issues are unclear.” Several
dismissed the query, murmuring
“the state of the world.” Many ob-
jected violently to or heartily ap-
proved of changing horses in mid-
stream; others saw their candidate
as the lesser of two evils, and al-



tor. His chief merits seemed to be
that he had been an all-American
half-back at Colgate in ’26 and had
saved four boys from drowning
“at the risk of his own life.” After
the first speech it was fairly obvi-
ous that this wasn’t the rally Mr.
Ditter was attending, so we made a
dignified but -very rapid ext.

The corner drug’ store had a pay
phone which -when properly fed
with nickels told us that. the only
rally the Associated Willkie Clubs
were’ sponsoring was at Olympia
Hall where Joe Louis was speak-
ing.

From Dante’s’ Inferno to the
Green Pastures of Mount Olympus
was more of a journey than we
could face in one evening. We re-
turned to earth by means of the
Paoli Local, thinking in our lay-|
man’s ignorance that Mr. Ditter
would surely be home in the morn-
ing.

The harassed secretary sounded
even more frantic by morning, but
he managed to put an end to our
struggle by saying decisively, “Mr.





Ditter has left for Washington.”

most. too many to count wrote the

single, vibrating word, Democracy.

However it is apparent that’ do-
mestic affairs seems of greatest im-
portance to the majority. The
governnient’s relation to individu-
als, business, and labor are seen as
needing coordination, if defense is
to be efficiently carried out. The
size of the national debt, and par-
ticylarly what one girl labelled
“the President’s financial policy” is
alarming to many, who feel that “a
President. with some economic
sense would be a good thing for a
change.” Several fear dictatorship,
if Roosevelt is re-elected.

Aiding Britain as extensively as
possible is apparently the greatéSt
aim, in foreign policy of both par-



Page Five
ties. One person wishes, simply,
to “win the war.” There was no
statement of isolationist opinion.
Trade agreements, alliance with
South America and a maintenance

‘of prestige abroad are also advo-

cated; the “war with Japan” is a

consideration to two people.

One voter believes “Mr. Willkie
has an unguarded tongue. ‘I grant
him earnestness but he is not cau-
tious.. A selfmade‘business man to
guard the internal welfare of the
nation is what the Willkie-ites see,
but how about an _ experienced
statesman to guard the nation from
external ruin? America has a nat-
ural resiliency in business affairs
but foreign affairs must be
watched now.”








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THE COLLEGE NEWS



Democrats Interview

Eppstein and Report

Criticisms of: Ditter



Mr. Victor Eppstein, Democratic
candidate for the House of Repre-
sentatives from the 17th Congres-|
sional District, is a farmer living |
in Pottsgrove, Township. ‘Every!
citizen in a democracy,” said Mr.
Eppstein, “is in politics whether he
khows it or not.”

Mr. Eppstein is opposing Con-

gressman J. William Ditter, up for!
re-election for his fifth term. “T

am. absolutely convinced,” he told |
the News in “an interview, “that
if all the voters in Montgomery
County knew what Ditter has done
in Congress during his four terms,
I would be elected by an over-.

’ whelming majority.”

Mr. Ditter’s legislative record in
Congress has been that of a block
man. He voted against the Wages
and Hours Bill, which, more than
any other bill, prevented the shift

Current etal

Miss Reid

The conference of Laval and Pe-
tain with Hitler and Ribbentrop in
Paris may have important and far-
reaching results for the world. The
Vichy government assured. the
United States that no territorial
‘bases will be ceded to Germany
during the conference. This state-
ment was in answer to Mr. Roose-
velt’s message to Vichy that the
United States would be compelled
to take action in Martinique and
other ipossessions in this hemi-
sphere, if there was too much col-
taboration between the French. and
Hitler. Asa result of the growing
Pan'- American cooperation the
United States had the backing of
the Pan-American group in ex-
pressing this threat.

Another important conference
took place between Hitler and Mus-
solini in Florence. The fact that
Hitler should“journey to Italy is
signif@ant and can probably be
attributed to the Greek-Italian con-
flict.Hitler_ did not foresee new
expansion in the East, since ‘he has
already acquired Rumania and
other desired areas. Mussolini, on
the other hand, has apparently
realized that it is not safe to trust
the sponsorship of his territorial
desires to another country, and has
decided to do his own negotiating.
The Italians plan a drive through
Greece in order to gain a base for
attack on Suez and for action
against Turkey below the Dar-
danelles, which may include the
occupation of Crete. Germany,
however, has over a million troops
in the Balkans and must be plan-
ning more than a passive part.

In the East, Japan is pressing









her demands for oil from the Dutch |

East Indics, She has already
withdrawn her unsuccessful nego-
tiator from this territory and this|
action may forecast the use of more |
forceful: methods. Admiral Sosa,

under the auspices of the Japanese}

government, stated that British-
American. unity was seriously en-
dangering Japanese plans for
greater east Asia. He added that
if Japan is not able to succeed in
establishing an area of influence in
the Dutch East Indies she will be
forced to take some action, Our
state department is now following
out a vigorous line of policy in
this struggle for mastery of the
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By Agnes Mason, 742
The Willkie Rally Monday night
|put{ any good circus in the dog-
| house. Flares, bright
\signs, rattles, horns, and a two
hour automobile parade through
‘the Main Line, Conshohocken and
|Norristown indicated a fair amount
lof Willkie sentiment in this part of
Pennsylvania. The parade in which
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| of industry to the South. He voted

against flood control, rural electri-
fication, and the bill to insure bank
deposits. In short, Mr. Eppstein
said, “Ditter has opposed any meas-
ure that would. benefit labor, agri-
culture, and industry,” © those
measures which the Federal Gov-
ernment. fouyd necessary for pur-
suing the operations of government.

Montgomery County has long
been Republican. Landon carried
the county in 1936, although by a
slim margin. Mr. Eppstein feels
that Democrats, however, are en-
thusiastic this year, and opened our
interview by saying that he had

their part. Mr. Eppstein has been
speaking ateforums and _ political
clubs during his campaign. In
answer to our question about the
reactions of the audiences, Mr.
Eppstein said that they — both
Democrats and Republicans—were
“responsive and intelligent.” Their
applause, he said, follows not “af-
ter a burst of oratory, but after a
telling and a logical point has been
made.”

“T am conducting this campaign
without the benefit of the fourth
estate.” The press has refused to
give Mr. Eppstein a single notice,
and even extracts of his speeches,
which he submits to county news-
papers are refused. Mr.@itter, on
the other hand, publishes a weekly
commentary column.



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The main speaker of the evening
was Congressman Robert G. Allen,
a Democrat but “‘not for Roosevelt
this trip.” Mr. Allen stressed the
importance of this campaign in
which issues rise above parties. He
was greeted with cheers and the
blowing of horns when he said,
“Wendell Willkie is a good enough
Democrat for me and a_ good
enough Republican for you.”

Mr. Allen spoke of the Chicago
Convention as a farce and describ-
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bad case of “Presidentitis.”

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