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To the News:

The problem of fire ‘drills is par-
ticularly relevant just now by the
current article on school fires in the
Reader’s Digest. In Pembroke there
has not been a maid’s fire drill since
the.fall of 1987, At.that drill, no one
etook attendance, there was no list of
the maids in the hall that night, and

the subject was dropped, The maids
live at the top of the building, in the
place of most danger. It is'a niatter
of their own foresight if they know
where the exits are, and how to ope¥=
ate the extinguishers. Before Christ-
mas this year, a drill scheduled for
lunch tite “was ealied of TOF fear bf.
panie among the majds, but nothing
has been done to guard against this
in case’ of real fire, It:is a question
how well the. students could control
themselves if. the maids became hys-
terical. | vo ar panes

As students, we spend a large part
of our time in Taylor, The corridors
and stairs’ are: particularly narrow,
the fire escapes long, and slow to get
down without practice. There hag
been no fire drill-in Taylor this year,
There, was nonglagt year erakhe. two
years before that, which means that
no undergraduate on campus has the
faintest idea of how to get out.of. the
building, unless she has found out for
herself. There is no provision for
any sort of roll-call, ox system. of
runners to make sure the building is
empty, If-there.are adequate fire. ex-
tinguishers, as there must be for in-
surance purposes, I am sure the girls
neither know how to use them, or
‘where to find the nearest one,

The reading room in the. library
is another possble fire trap. The one
stairway is wooden, built ‘over the
junction of three drafts, and would
collapse leaving no exit from the read-
ing room, if the door on the south end
is locked. It seems to.me that door
should always be open, and some spe-
cial protection should be provided for
the-main-stairway. —

It seems to me that the student fire
committee should be efficiently checked
on by some informed and responsible
part of the college.administration. It
is not a matter for self-government
alone; but concerns every angle of
the college as a whole. If, in a bad
fire, lives were lost on campus, the ex-
isting negligence would be to blame,
and ‘the heavy responsibility of fire
precaution should not rest on the
shoulders of only a few girls.

We have had a fire on campus once
in each of the last ten years; it is
no remote possibility. Considering
that the college is larger than most
secondary schools, its »uildings more
subject to a serious fire, the relative
state of fire prevention on the campus
is a menace, and a disgrace. It could
be remedied by- prompt and energetic
action, and I am sure we would
rather co-operate before than after a
disaster.

Very sincerely,

‘Marrua C, Kan.

~ PUBLIC OPINION 4

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‘Jud ge Allen Discusses
_ Wear Power of Congress



Continued from Page One

powers without the consent of Con-
gress more for the purpose of impos-
ing a strong country’s will upon a
weaker one than for the legitimate ne-
cessity of pratecting a nation’s citi-
zens on foreign soil and on the high
seas. This socalled ‘Dollar . Diplo-
macy” arising out of a misconception
of the Monroe Doctrine has been the
chief reason for the antagonism to
the United States in South America.

_In the Good Neighbor Policy, begun
fir y President Hoover and _ Sec-

ary Stimson, but carried much fur-
the President Roosevelt and Sec-
retary Hull, the Monroe Doctrine has
at last been f#estated on its original
basis, This doctrine protests against
further colonization over here by
Europe, enforcement of foreign sys-
tems on American governments and}
any other infringement on the inde-
pendence of states in the western
hemisphere. .

Thus the recent Pan-American Con=
gress and the two resulting treaties
recognize that the independent integ-
rity of all the states of the western
hemisphere is of the utmost impor-
tance to international law, As yet
the latter is non-existent but before
‘eourts and police can be formed, Judge
Allen insists, the standards must be,
written. At Geneva the mistake was
made of creating the machinery first.

The United States still is, Judge
Allen’ pointed out, the only important
country in which the establishment
‘and maintenance of peace is the privi-
lege and obligation of the people.

vention, this Congressional power has
done much towards preventing our
executives from taking drastic action
in various instances such as the wished
for Mexican intervention, during the
conflict under Coolidge over the rights
of property.
Congress demanded an investigation
and learned that the Mexican customs
were justified by the old Spanish

Yet, through the misconception of
the Monroe Doctrine, the sole power
of the people to declare war was less-
ened. As two, examples of this Judge
Allen pointed to Theodore Roosevelt’s
action in encouraging Panama’s re-
bdellion from Colombia in order to gain
the Panama Canal and Hugh Wilson’s,
the American ambassador, instigation
or at least public approval. of the
Mexican rebellion to get rid of ‘an
undesired president.

Besides these cases our intervention

Despite the misuse of armed inter-}|

Instead of intervention|}

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and second best one-act plays on one
or more aspects of civil liberties in
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be 750 dollars and the second, 250 dol-
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Among the subjects suggested are
defense ‘of freedom of speech, censor-
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us and, Judge Allen said, there. is still
a long road to go before the interna-
tional law, the elements~of-whieh-ean
be seen in the Pan-American Congress,
can be written. Yet Judge Allen be-
lieves that we may be able “to show a
misguided ‘Europe that victories of
peace are far greater than victories
of war.”





in Nicaragua, Santo Domingo and
Haiti were also against the principles
of the people’s rights and the Monroe
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Unprecedented gaiety besieged the

campus last week-end with four ‘hall’

dances scheduled in Rockefeller, Mer-
ion, Renbigh, and the Common Room
(for graduate students). Blares of
music disturbed the peace of a Satur-
day night in Bryn Mawr until one A,
M. The Cinderellas in Rhoads and
the Pembrokes gazed at the festivities
through the windows and went quietly
home to bed at 10.30 with somewhat
envious feelings,

The non-resident dance on the pre-
vious Saturday. night was an impor-
tant preliminary. for the gala week-
end. It was also held in the Common
Room, and the orchestra was so good
that members of Denbigh promptly
engaged it for their “shindig.” This
was the first non-resident dance in
the history of the college, and was a
good omen for the success of future
ones. Some of the resident students
attended by invitation.

Mr. and Mrs. Watson seemed ‘to be
the popular chaperones of the evening.
They attended -three of the’ halls,
Rockefeller, Merion and Denbigh. We
feel deeply for them and for the
strenuous evening they must have
spent between dancing and rep
trips across the campus. However,
your reporter spied on them when
they were on one of their flying trips
to Rockefeller, and our esteemed ge-
ologist and wife were obviously hav-
ing a good time.

Merion was the scene of several
attempts at “crashing” by some Hav-
erford lads, and even some lassies



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from other parts of the college. Their
efforts were firmly repelled, however,
by locked doors and no attention from
within. One of the features of the
evening was-a-dance with balloons,
in which the participants tried to
save their balloons from an avenging
pin in the hand of Jerry True.

Denbigh also had balloons, but hung
from the ceiling. The dining room
looked gay and the dance proceeded
at a fast pace, with much cutting
according to our female stag system.
The Nahms and Mr. Steele were
among those present.

Rockefeller carried out the Wash-
ington’s Birthday motif in its dining
room, and the results were striking.
Mrs. Washington, in cotton batting,
presided sedately at one end of the
room, but whité streamers and bells,
hung from the ceiling, proved slightly
reminiscent of a wedding celebration.
We’ve never seen such an attractive
h}group of males at a college dance as
we saw through the windows of the
dining room that night. A buffet sup-
per was served beforehand, and the
music stopped at 12 o'clock, so ‘every-
one could go out and have more to eat.

The graduate students were above
any sort of decoration, and used the
Common Room in its own ~ guise.
The week-end was. considered gener-
ally to be unusually successful. Rhoads
and the Pembrokes are now planning
their dances for the late spring.

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