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VOL. XXIX, No. 21

BRYN MAWR and WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14, 1943

Copyright,
Bryn Mawr College, 1943

Trustees of

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Reporter’s Life

In Air Force Told
By Bourke-White

‘Life’ Photographer Relates
Story of Torpedoing
Off. Africa

Goodhart, April 13.—The photo-
graphing of American Air Forces
in action in both England and
North Africa, an escape from a
torpedoed transport, and a bomb-
ing trip over Tunis air fields, fig-
ured in Miss’ Margaret Bourke-
White’s: lecture on Tuesday eve-
ning. She described her life as
war correspondent attached to the
12th American Air Force during
Miss Bourke-
White is the outstanding woman
photographer of the present time
and her work is published in Life
magazine.

Recounting her spectacular ad-
ventures, she began with the early
difficulties of defining her Army
status, and reached the dramatic
climax of a flight in a combat mis-
sion over ‘Tunisia. Miss Bourke-
White left for England in July,
1942, and took many photographs
of Air Force routine and action
there. She told of the first formal
christening of a bomber, and her
shots of the first American combat

mission of Flying Fortresses.
Continued on Page Six

Faculty to Describe
Best Technique of
Reading Newspapers









Several facu]ty members in co-
operation with the War Alliance
will present a series of four lec-
tures and demonstrations on news-
paper reading. Mr. Miller, Miss
Linn, Mrs. Cameron, Miss Rob-
bins, and Miss Stapleton will con-
duct the lectures, which will begin
on Monday, April 26.

Mr. Miller will. lead the first
meeting with a discussion of. the
ownership and politics of the lead-
ing newspapers and news agencies.
The second demonstration will be
given by Miss Linn on reading eco-
nomic news. Mrs. Cameron will
explain the characteristics and
relative merits of various news
periodicals in the third lecture.
The last of the series will be a
joint demonstration by Miss Rob-
bins and Miss Stapleton on how to
read a newspaper.

The audience will be limited to
twenty-four people: Seniors who
are interested will register for the
course next week through the War
Alliance.

One lecture will be given each
day from 5:30 until 6:15, begin-
ning on Monday, April 26.



Iswolsky to Discuss

USSR and Catholicism

Miss Helen Iswolsky will speak
on “The Soul of Russia Today”



in the Common Room next Sun-.
day afternoon at 4:30 for the

Catholic Club. She is a _ free-
lance journalist and an author,
and has written two books: “The
Soviet Man Now” and “Light Be-
fore Dusk.” The daughter of the
late Alexander Iswolsky, the for-

“mer Russian Minister of Foreign
"Affairs and the Russian Ambassa-

dor to France, she is well qualified
to speak on conditions in Russia.
Miss Iswolsky lived in Paris and
worked with Jacques Maritain, the
famous philosopher. She is now
‘eonnected with the Tolstoy Foun-
dation in the United States.

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David Mallery’s Performance Exceptional



in Convincing Production of Saroyan Play

By April Oursler, ’45

The Beautiful People, by Wil-
liam Saroyan, was written to be
enjoyed, and the Haverford-Bryn
Mawr production did it full justice
in an understanding and well-
expressed interpretation, carried
along mainly by the exceptionally
well-finished portrayal of young
Owen Webster by David Mallery.
Under the judicious direction of
Anne Denny, the cast avoided the
obvious pitfalls of mawkishness,
over-rhetorical seriousness and
pure slapstick that beset all
Saroyan plays, achieving a con-
vincing atmosphere of naturalness
and simplicity. :

David Mallery, playing the part
of the fifteen-year-old monosyllabic
writer, struck the keynote of the
evening, with a sense of humor
and earnestness that characterized
the whole production. Eleanor
Borden, as Saint Agnes of the
Mice, was well cast as far as her
contrast to Owen Webster went,
for they both played up each
other’s main points, balancing the
mood:of the play well. Agnes was,
however, a little too saint-like, and
took herself too seriously for a
Saroyan character.

Henry Funk, as William Prim,
played to perfection the part of
the ineffectual bank vice-president
fainting over a mouse in his
clothes, and Edward Irving gave
the role of Dan Hillboy the proper
mixture of conviviality and pathos,
in spite of the slightly unconvinc-
ing drunken scene.

The other parts, taken individu-
ally, were not particularly well-
done, even though, altogether, they
made a more than adequate back-
ground for the two main charac-
ters. Judy Novick managed to
give her part as - Harmony Blue-
blossom the right touch of humor
to prevent the old lady’s golden
memories from becoming too senti-
mental, but there was an almost
monotonous lack of variety in her
acting, which may have arisen
from the difficulties before any
young person’s interpretation of an
older one. Although James Haden
did not have the bombastic and



Seven Colleges Meet
To Discuss Wartime
Activity Curtailment



Specially contributed by Patricia St.
Lawrence, °44, and Katharine
Tappen, ’44
The main point of discussion be-
fore the Seven-College Conference
this year was the question of stu-
dent activities in war time. Bar-
nard, the host college; Connecticut,
Mount Holyoke, Radcliffe, Smith,
Vassar, Wellesley, and Bryn Mawr
participated ina discussion of the
particular manner in which cam-
puses had met the challenge of

war problems.

This centered primarily in the
question of how much power the
chief undergraduate associations
had in determining student activ-
ity and policy. Bryn Mawr, with
its autonomous Alliance, differs
greatly from the other colleges,
all of whose student associations
are chartered, organized, and con-
trolled by a central college council.
Thus, many of the problems of
legislative power, conflicts of au-
thority, and policy formation did
not concern Bryn Mawr.

In the course of the discussion
each college presented its plan and
policy for. war activity. These
plans differed greatly in the degree
of curtailment and control of stu-
dent activity, varying from that of

Continued on Page Fiveeghy

pompous qualities of the father as
Saroyan wrote him, he handled the
role with the necessary
giving a rather subdyfeéd air to his
end of the play./ J. Bronson ,
Logan’s cornet-playing ability put |
a fine finishing touch on the per-'
formance. |

Taken as a whole, it was ex- |
'traordinarily well done in spite of |
inadequacies in many of _ the’
actors. The staging and lighting
contributed greatly in their sim-|
plicity, and the whole tone of the |
evening was one of sympathy and |
understanding for the real inten- |
tion of the play. The cast did not
make the mistake the audience
seemed to make, for they were not |
afraid to laugh at what was ree |
puted to be a serious modern play.
It was not a well-finished perform-
ance, but with an almost profes-
sional sense of interpretation the
Cap and Bells and the Varsity
Players have succeeded in a pro-
duction above the usual standard
of college plays both in aim and
achievement.

Miss Bourke-W hite

Answers Questions
About Soviet Union













“What about Russia?” was the
question uppermost in the minds
of everyone who adjourned to the
Common Room after Margaret
Bourke-White’s lecture on her ex-
periences as a war correspondent.
In her four trips to the Soviet
Union she saw the growth of the
country’s power. She spoke first
of the strong impression Stalin
made on her. After séeing im-
mense pictures and statues she
was surprised to find a small, pock-
marked man who “seemed to be
made of stone.” He is silent and
self-contained, a “leader who really |
does decide policies.” Only once
did his stern face change when he
burst out laughing as she crawled
around on the floor with her flash-
bulbs.

In her last trip to the U.S. S. R.
as the only foreign photographer
allowed in the country, she had to
get special permission for every
picture, but found the authorities
very reasonable. As a correspon-
dent she prefers definite censor-
ship, rather than running the risk
of letting out vital war secrets. In
her trip to Russia in 1930 to make
industrial photographs she was al-
lowed considerable freedom, but
could not investigate any military
preparations. Yet she felt then
that the Red Army was strong and
the people united behind the “
ernment.

Margaret Bourke-White has
great faith in the future of Rus-
sia. After the war they will only
want to regain certain territories
and then go back to building their
country. They admire the United

States and in many ways model
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Marriages

Natalie Bell, ’43, to Avia-
tion Cadet Samuel Houston
Brown.

Irma Pines, ‘44, to Arthur
Brisher.

Agnes Martin, ’43, to En-
sign Frank Ridley Whitaker,
U.S.N.R.

Engagements
Anne Aymer, ’45, to Lieu-
tenant Robert Lee Bullard,
Y TI, U.S.A.
-. Carol Herndon, ’46, to
Noble Burford, Jr.,, Haver-
ford, °42.'.











‘cised in Doris Benn’s editorial.



Calendar
Thursday, April 15
Henry James Centennial
Celebration. Deanery. 4:30
ry Mc
Saturday, April 17
Wyndham Dance.
Sunday, April 18
Catholic Club. Miss Helen
Iswolski. “The Soul of
Russia. Today.” Common
Room. 4:30 P.M.
Chapel. Rev. Malcolm Van
Dyke. Combined choirs of
Bryn Mawr and Haver-

ford. Music Room. 7:30
PM,

Monday, April 19
Mrs. Harriet Seymour.

“Music for Health Today.”
Deanery. 4:30 P. M.







Deanery Celebration
Honors Henry James



Henry James, noted novelist,
will be honored at a centennial

celebration of his birth. The com-

memoration will t
ake place at the stated, is over the question of par-

Deanery on Thursday, April 15, at
4:30 P. M. Speakers for the occa-
sion will be Mr. W. H. Auden, Mrs.
George Vaux, Jr., Mr. Leon Edel,

and Mr. Donald Brien.

Mr. Auden will read his own
poem, “At the Grave of Henry
James.” He is a noted contem-

porary poet and is now a professor
of English at Swarthmore. Mrs.
George Vaux, Jr., warden of Péiii-
broke West, is a niece of Henry
James and will relate her mem-
ories of him. Mr. Leon Edel, critic
and scholar, will speak on some
aspect of Henry James’ work, and
Mr. Donald Brien, a collector of
Henry James, will tell of his ex-
periences.

Henry James is the author of
“The Portrait of a Lady,” “The
Ambassadors,” and “The Turn. of
the Screw.” He received most of
his education in Europe and, after |
a brief time at Harvard Law
School, embarked on a literary
career. In his later life, he lived
in England and finally renounced
his American citizenship to be-
come a British subject.

Harris Diseusses :
Prospects of U. S,
Russian Relations



Allied Invasion of Europe
Will Eliminate Several
Problems

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Goodhart, April 7.—Mr. Thomas
L. Harris,. National Secretary of
the American Council for Soviet
Relations, asserted that an inva-

sion of Europe by the United
| States and Great Britain would be
more effective than any other sin-
gle action in cementing relations
| between the U.S.S.R. and the
United States. Speaking to the
third of the college War Assem-
blies, Mr. .Thomas said that we
must realize that the “causes of
friction” between the Soviet Union
and the United States are “mutual

difficulties,’ which can best be
overcome by “actual collabora-
tion.”

The chief cause for friction, he

ticipation. While the main ques-
tion in this country is “why the
Soviet Union is not at war with
Japan,” the Russian people ‘‘can-
not understand why we have no
second front.in Europe and why
we don’t. declare war on Finland.”
Both countries must realize, he
continued, that “the war is not a
matter of complete participation
for any one of the three United
Nations.”:.....““Boubts and suspicions
will be” enormously reduced whe
American troops go to Europe,”
because now the Red Army is bear-
ing eighty per cent of the burden
of war. They feel that they “are
isolated and that they are bearing
the war alone,’ while we’ have a
great sense of guilt.

Another cause for mutual dis-
trust, he added, is the question of
boundaries. There is no reason to
ittach any particular sanctity to
boundaries existing in 1939. Be-
fore the first World War the Baltic
countries and part of Poland be-
longed to Russia. In the matter

of the governments of the liberated
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Reprint From ‘Stack,’ North African Policy
Debate Give Welcome Variety to ‘Lantern’



Specially contributed by
Lenore O’Boyle, ’43 _

The new Lantern, despite some

poor short stories, does include

features of exceptional
Reprinting articles from the Hav-

erford Stack should be continued
as long as what islghosen is as
good as this selection, and debates
on current problems should cer-
tainly be encouraged. The Lan-
tern has frequently seemed little
more than a collection of poems
and stories contributed by a never
changing group. Discussions like
this on our North African policy
would at once bring in new con-
tributors and prove a welcome
variety, conceivably improving the
mental habits of the Bryn Mawr
student body so admirably criti-

interest.



The debate in this issue is on the
State Department’s policy in North
Africa, the adverse criticism by
Jessie Stone, ’44, the defense by
Madge Daly, ’42. Readers will dis-
agree on which side is more con-
vincing, but both articles are ex-
ceptionally interesting and well
written. Jessie Stone’s arguments
will be familiar to readers of the
liberal press—that the Vichy re-|
gime which we are supporting in
North Africa is undeniably anti-

democratic, and as a result is de-
stroying United Nations’ unity
and undermining confidence
among the oppressed peoples of
Europe. Madge Daly points out
the tremendous military ~advan-
tages of the present policy, the
promise of the United States to
allow France to choose her own
government after the war, and the
necessity of working harder to free
the subjected nations than to en-
courage them, arguments which to
many will seem more realistic and
sensible, and the validity of which
seems to be supported by recent
events. :

Helena Hersey’s The Scooter
Bike is disappointing. Individual
relations are never clarified, and
the story as a result loses point.
Mariam Kreiselman’s For Prom-
ised Joy is slick and unconvincing,
employing a totally inadequate
trick plotting device to support a
situation with genuine emotional
implications. For Promised Joy
shows up badly when contrasted
with G. F. Morse’s The Enemy, in —
which the simplest of plots is used
only to further the emotion, rather
than distracting from it. Mr.
Morse’s story is far from perfect,
but it does have an impact that the
more pretentious story does not
begin to achieve.






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Lantern

How important is it for a college to have a literary magazine?
This is a question which is of pertinent interest to us at the moment,
as there is some doubt concerning the existence of the Lantern next
year. The lack of support by contributors and subscribers may
make its continued publication impossible. If the magazine is
‘abandoned, the students will be left with no organ for the expression
of their imaginative and creative thought.

Apparently the students do not consider the Lantern to have |

great value for them. They do not take the trouble to read it, nor
do they take the trouble to contribute to it. Readers criticize the
Lantern for a style.that is too stereotyped and a range of interest
that is too narrow. The editors have answered these criticisms by
enlivening and varying the material, thus showing that the Lantern
has not become static in its form.

Neither the students nor the faculty realize how valuable the
Lantern is. It not only reflects contemporary trends, but it also
stimulates critical thinking. The writer, too, is able to evaluate his
own works through the criticism of others.

The prevalent attitude toward the Lantern is not sufficiently
experimental. Students should contribute their work whether they
feel it is in the “accepted” style of the Lantern or not. Readers
should take an interest in what. their fellow-students are thinking.
In order to maintain what is in itself a very valuable institution, the
adoption of this attitude is necessary.



The Study of History

Coinciding with the nation-wide celebration of Thomas Jeffer-
son’s bi-centennial anniversary comes the revelation of the insufh-
cient knowledge. of American history by college freshmen. The
results of the Times survey have provoked widespread discussion
and even the initiation of legislation to remedy the obvious failure
of our educational institutions in this field. We will confine our
comment to one phase of the controversy.

Whatever the defects ofthe examination were, the results were
so appalling that there is no doubt that Americans need to know
more about their country’s past than they do now. The examination
has been criticized, and we think justly so, for its emphasis on the
recollection of dates and facts in isolation. This was no accident,
for the day the-results were published there was also printed an
article of comment by one of the two authors of the survey, Mr.
Hugh Russell Fraser, who is an official of the United States Office
of Education. Mr, Fraser blamed the results on recent trends in
the methodology of history teaching. Speaking of teachers who
have adopted this new methodology, Mr. Fraser wrote: “The pit-
falls they have stumbled into has been due to a failure to recognize
that the structure of history does not lend itself to the technique of
social studies. . . . History, which is essentially the recording of
events, requires, in its elementary stages, a chronological time-se-
quence approach. . . .” Mr. Fraser obviously used his “chrono-
' logical time-sequence approach” in drawing up the examination.

We beg to differ with Mr. Fraser’s ideas on studying history.
Why, it may be asked, should we study history? We believe that
the study of history has first and foremost a utilitarian value, and
secondly an inspirational value which also can be useful. In order
to grapple better with present and future problems we must learn
their origins, and thus be equipped to strike at their causes. The
phrase, “history repeats itself,” has been loosely used. Neverthe-
less, few students of history will deny that within carefully defined
limits certain historical parallels.can be drawn. The ability to recog-
nize the recurrence of certain situations is a valuable tool for the

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WAR ALLIANCE

The Second War Loan Drive has
begun this week in an effort’ to
raise thirteen billion dollars. The
money is to be solicited over and
above the normal monthly bond
purchases. During the next three
weeks an effort will be made to
contact all members of the college
community, and to give informa-
tion concerning the various types
of bonds and the Government’s use
of the money raised.

Individuals will be able to sub-
scribe for the bonds on campus or
through their own banks. The
student drive will be sponsored by
the War Alliance through the Al-
liance representatives in each hall.
Additional subscription made in
the April collection will also be
credited to this campaign.

Clothes Drive
The Russian War Relief Society
has sent out an‘urgent plea for
clothing to be sent directly to the
fighting and home fronts in Rus-
sia. As warm weather comes to
the campus, the intense cold is still
setting the Russian armies back.
The troops do not have adequate
clothes to protect them on the
march, nor do the families who
have given up spare clothing and

blankets for the cause.

There is a collection box in every
hall for any old clothes that stu-
dents wish to donate to the Rus-
sian War Relief. Give what you
feel will be useful—scarfs, mit-
tens, red-flannels, sweaters, ski-
boots. They must be in reasonably
wearable condition.



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CITY LIGHTS
By Jessie Stone, ’44

For many weeks now the New
York papers, including the “staid”
Times, have been indulging in a
form of journalism commonly
called “yellow.” They have noted
a rise in the petty crime afid juve-
nile delinquency rates in Harlem.
The treatment of these manifes-
tations of social and economic pov-
erty has been such as™would tead
the average citizen to look upon all

‘Negroes whom they pass in the

street as “muggers.” The practice

Junior Prom

The Junior Prom, to be
given on May 8, will be sub-
stituted for the Spring
‘Dance this year. Underclass-
men may attend and_ the
Seniors are the guests of the
Junior Class.





OPINION

Physics Strain for Freshmen;
Math Considered Essential
By P. Stern









To the Editor of the News:

From both my own and other
undergraduates’ experience, I
think the Dean’s Office should not
allow students to take Physics
freshman year unless they are tak-
ing First Year Mathematics simul-
taneously. In fact, it would be
preferable to have First Year
Mathematics an absolute prerequi-
site for First Year Physics.

I suggest this because the con-
tent of the First Year Physics
course is not sufficiently compre-
hensible without at least a knowl-
edge of differential calculus and
college mathematical methods. The
only alternative to this proposal
would be a simplification of the
work which would reduce the pres-
ent excellent course to the level of
high school physics.

If this rule were instituted, it
would eliminate both failures and
nervous strain for most students
who take the course. It is a hard
course, but it is well worth getting
the proper background for it in
order to get the full benefit of it.
People who raise the objection that
they want the physics but not the
mathematics, have found that they
get very little physics.

Since serious students of physics
will need the mathematics anyway,
it will merely change the order in
which they take their courses into
a more logical form.

Sincerely yours,

PRISCILLA STERN, :’43:



tension in certain sections.

“The recent opening of The Met,
mammoth ballroom at Broad and
Poplar Streets, offered him a defi- |
nite challenge. f

is now being imitated-by-the Phila~ | —w«4—tew— score —Negro— youths +

delphia press, which is proving it-
self not so subtle as the New York
papers. It openly approves of
Jim-Crow practices.

I am referring, in particular, to
a news story in the Philadelphia
Record on March 20 by Orrin C.
Evans. Mr. Evans is a Negro,
who belongs to that ideological
group aptly called “Uncle Toms.”
They have their counterparts
among other oppressed minorities
and their basic function is to hin-
der the fight for equal rights by
urging. submission to injustice.
Mr. Evans’ story was about the
organization of “a squad of 25
carefully selected Negro plain-
clothesmen” whose job would be to
“concentrate on smashing Negro
muggers.”

Herbert E. Millen is another
“Uncle Tom.” He was appointed
Assistant Director of Public Safe-
ty in order to‘combat this alleged
“crime wave” among members of
his own race. Evans in his article
says of him:

“Millen has been conscious for
some time of increasing racial



sought admission. Because of an
unwritten police law which frowns
on mixing of races in such places
of amusement, they were barred.
A resentful youth hurled a bottle’
through a window. Before further
damage could be done, police dis-
persed’ the crowd.

“This unwritten law, incidental-
ly, governs the policy of similar
establishments conducted for Ne-
groes in Negro sections.”

This unwritten law is something
new. I have heard of “implied
powers” and the “unwritten Con-
stitution.” But these phrases are
used to denote certain practices on
which the law is silent and whose
existence rests on tradition. But
never has this terminology been
applied to practices which directly
contradict the statutes on the
books.

This “unwritten police law’ is
first of all. a direct contradiction
of the Bill of Rights. It contra-
dicts a law of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania which states that

it is illegal for any place of amuse-
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solution of present problems.

No better example of the inspirational value of the study of



history is needed than the way it is successfully used to build morale
in time of great national crisis. Interest in our democratic tradi-
tions, in the timeless writings of Jefferson, Paine, and Lincoln
should not depend on the occurrence of an anniversary oF a crisis,
but should be kindled in the history class-room.

History taught in the “chronological time-sequence. method”
will be neither useful nor inspirational, except by accident ; nor will it
be easily retained if unrelated to familiar notions, events or strug-
gles. We do not doubt that a partial cause of the bad showing made
by those who took the test was the character Mr. Fraser gave it and

| , Camenk Coents

Common Room, April 13.—In
her lecture on Congress, with Par-
ticular Reference to the Interna-—
tional Situation, Miss Stapleton
stated that the mobilization of pub-







lie sentiment and a declaration by

the Senate endorsing an interna-
tional organization must be the
decisive actions in 1943. . She ex-
bites: the belief that such a
declaration would be good political
strategy and that “it will release
a great amount of energy and con-
fidence in Europe and the Far
East.”

By quoting actual figures on the.
recent elections, Miss Stapleton
showed that the Democrats had
lost seats in Congress. Although
both parties lost votes in this elec-
tion that had one of the smallest
number of voters in recent times,
the Democrats lost a great many
more than the Republicans. One
of the factors in this change was
the migration of workers. A great
many people who moved for war
employment lost their vote because
they had not resided in the com-
munity for the required amount of
time. Another mechanical cause
for this decrease in votes was due
to the number of men who were
away in the armed services.

“The whole trouble,’ she said,
“is that Congress does represent
the people.” It has too many sec-
ond rate men who, although most
of them are honest and are truly
concerned in the welfare of the
country at heart, do not have any
great ability. Really able people,
Miss Stapleton asserted, often will
not run for Congress. The word
politician . itself -is considered —a
slanderous term. There is, then,
the problem of getting good peo-
ple to run for Congress and of
“raising the money necessary to
beat the political machines.”

There is also the question of
arousing voters to take a real in-
terest in the elections. There are
people who are willing to reelect.
a man with an opposite point of
view. from theirs simply because —
they think “he is a good fellow.”
Such people, she said, haven’t

really thought what—it—means—to
Continued on Page Six

ie ae

—- eo .
wits END.

é

At first wlanes nothing seems
the same. - There is no grass on
Senior Row and ivy grows untir-
ing. Students stumble to classes
carrying torches. ~Mine~was dipped
in water. For three hours we
listened to the brilliant young edu-
cator. We set out to reconstruct
—what was the price of land in
1862? There is the question of
our place in the world but let
Hutchins decide. One more draft.
and Hutchins would have raised
the torch. I must go to the smok-
ing room and talk about North
Africa, though I really want to
discuss free love. The Navy De-
partment wants a sweet young
thing to translate 50 lines of ele-
mentary German in half an hour,
two dictionary passages, one sight.
Ninety-nine per cent of the senior
class have jobs for next year.
Every time I turn the mattress I
am tasting of the sorrow, sweat.
and mediocrity. Hey nonny, non-
ny oh and where are the Ph.D.’s of
yesteryear. Perhaps we are too
humanized, too humanized—oh yes.
we are. A liberal arter is the
darter of Bryn Mawrter. And we
are vs.-ing the war!

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Self-Government
The proposed charges in |
the Self-Government regula-
* tions which were voted upon
are not yet in effect. They
must be approved. by the
Board of Directors. Students
are” reminded that, until
then, the regulations remain

unchanged.







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~“THE COLLEGE NEWS

Page Three













WOT NOT





A phenomenal range of opinion
exists about the recent article in
Fortune about Bryn Mawr. There
is a definite group which considers
the picture wholly accurate, un-
biased, and very flattering. At
the other extreme stand those who
maintain that the article was poor-
ly written, insipid, and inconse-
quential, that it proved no point
conclusively and _ presented no
worthwhile view, that it lacked
interest or was downright boring.
The latter are in the majority, but
it is possible to find almost any-

thing in the way of. opinion from |

someone on campus,

A rather large proportion ad-|

mitted they found the article dis-
appointing because “it didn’t touch
us at all—it was only the admin-
istrative point-of-view.” . The un-
dergraduates really hoped to hear
about themselves, one said, and
they “object to being written up
as an industry.” Others felt that
the write-up skimmed the surface
of Bryn Mawr without being in-
accurate, but without really touch-
ing thé essential aspects of it. It
is perhaps to be expected that the
students would be hyper-critical
about a thing so close to them and
presented to the world by people
outside the college; nevertheless, it
seems to be a fairly general criti-
cism that it was not Bryn Mawr
which was depicted, but some re-
mote opinion on Modern Education
in War Time. ;

Miss’ McBride. pointed out that
this was, after all, the purpose of
the article as far as Fortune

Magazine was concerned; that they

set out to portray the impact of
the: war on a woman’s college—
one maintaining liberal traditions
and one which had not violently
converted to war purposes. They
had their’ minds made up as to
what point of view they wanted,
and although, beyond that, they
were unbiased, they were really
collecting information on Bryn
Mawr only in relation to the war.
They were not attempting to give
a picture of the college itself, its
purposes, activities and interests
of the students, as they had in an
earlier article in 1936. Thus al-

though it isn’t all of Bryn Mawr.

by any means, and although it









4

dent found it sufficient for what
it was meant to be.

One of the most frequent criti-
cisms was that of the style of
writing, which a great many found
unbearably flowery, trite and over-
done—the “torch-carrying” aspect
annoyed quite a few. Several peo-
ple resented the remarks about
Miss Park. Mrs. Vaux, of the
Publicity Office, emphasized that
that particular style is typical of
the magazine, a definite policy and
flavor which pervades all their fea-
tures of this sort.

Exemplifying the different an-
| gles shown in the opinion were the
following classifications: it was too
flattering; it was biased against
Bryn Mawr; it was the truth and
not very flattering, but wholly un-
biased.
opposing ideas that it showed us
as not doing enough in the war,
and that it makes us appear to be
| doing more than we are. Against
{those that think it captured the
| spirit of the college are those that
feel it doesn’t capture the spirit.
Perhaps the most obvious conclu-
sion is that we aren’t too sure of
whagé the spirit of it is!

It seems that all hoped for some-
thing slightly different, however,
and probably those who were pleas-
antly surprised liked it, but a great-
er number were disappointed, and
| te a great deal was lacking in
the article.





Dance Club to Give
‘Goldspinners’ in May



The “Goldspinners,” with music

by Hans Schumann, will be pre-
sented by the Dance Club, May 20
and 21. The performance, directed
by Miss Josephine Petts, will be
given in Wyndham Garden.. The
soloists are:

PYInGess ....s.. Frances Lynd, ’43
Prince ..... Graham Hobson, ’44
Witeh 1.4... Lisbeth Feind, ’45
Witch 2 .... Estelle Morrison, ’45

Spirit of the Well ... Mary Dunn
Cat Margaret Browder, ’45
King’s Physician

S ‘Lois Townsend, ’45



“goes a littke beyond the college
for its interest” (Miss McBride
feels that bringing Hutchins in

had nothing to do with the college |

or the war), Bryn Mawr’s Presi-

WHAT TO DO -

A representative from Interna-
tional Business Machines will come
to the college on Thursday after-
noon, April 15, to see seniors and
graduate students who may be in-
terested in positions with Inter-
national Business Machines. Please
let the Bureau of Recommenda-
tions know if you would like to
see her.

The Naugatuck Footwear Plant





of the United Rubber Company is,

looking for students interested in
personnel work. Also, examina-
tions have been announced for
Junior Social workers and for Per-
sonnel Aides in Richmond, Vir-
ginia. These postions are open to
students of any major.

The following scientific positions
are open:

Naval Research Laboratory,
Washington—Physicists and Chem-
ists.

National Bureau of Standards,
Washington—Physicists and Math-
ematicians.

General Motors Corporation, De-

troit—Chemists, Physicists, Math- |:

. ematicians, and Statisticians.
Firestone Tire and Rubber Com-



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accounting, drafting, engineering,
laboratory work, and time study.

New York Ship Building Corpo-
ration, Camden, N. J.—Women for
training as drafters and expedit-
ers.

The Navy Department has an-
nounced a special intensive course
in the Japanese language, to be
|given at the University of Colo-
rado and lasting one year. Ap-
plicants must have a college degree
or must have completed three years
of college with a previous study
of at least six. months of Chinese
or Japanese. Those accepted will
be commissioned as WAVES.

The following banks have jobs
open to women: The Commercial
National Bank and Trust Company

in New York, and the Northern

Continued on Page Four

Similarly we found the!

and the Guaranty Trust Company | }

Guiton Leaves to Join
French African Army

M. Guiton has been granted
leave-of-absence to join the French
army. After several weeks’ train-
ing at Fort Benning, Georgia, he
will leave for Africa.

Mobilized in 1939, M. Guiton
has already seen action in this
war. While serving with the army
he did liaison work with the Brit-
ish. One of those evacuated at
Dunkirk in 1940, he was later sent
back to France, where he was de-
mobilized after the French-Ger-
man armistice.

M. Guiton and Mr. Soper are the
only members. of the faculty now
in the armed forces.

IN PRINT

Saroyan’s Love for Humanity,
Sympathy, Humor in
“Human Comedy”









‘ Specially contributed by
Ellen Harriman, ’46

William Saroyan must be the
only man in the world who, with-
out feeling like a sissie, can insist
that people are beautiful. Born
well before the first World War,
this American-Armenian has
grown up in one of the most un-
settled and disillusioning eras of
his adopted country. Where other
people pinned their faith on Wall
Street, Coca Cola, or the League
of Nations, Saroyan has consist-
ently believed in people.

The Human Comedy takes one
small, dumb-looking, freckle-faced
boy, one teen-age Western Union
messenger, one plumpish widow,
and one drunk, and weaves a tale
that we feel we have read before.

The long, silent moments of a
child’s life, the baffled wisdom of
middle-aged men, the details of a
home, a town, a long’ walk—we
recognize these things. And told
in Saroyan’s good if somewhat
bumpy style, they make a satisfy-
ing book. :

If you have read any of Saro-
yan’s work, his short stories, or
The Beautiful People — (Bryn
Mawr-Haverford Spring play),
you will recognize in this new book
his tendency to render attractive
the most improbable characters.



Wolf!
Beware the wolf!
it’s chasing Peter. Peter’s
gone, too. If found, please
return Prokofieff’s master-
piece, Peter and the Wolf, to
the Record Library imme-
diately. °

Maybe



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B. M. Radios to Carry ,
Broadcasts of WHAV

Evening broadcasts from WHAV,









Electricity, Plumbing
Taught by Workmen



War is doing strange things to
women in the world of today, and
with the generous cooperation of
the workmen of the college, Bryn
Mawr girls took a course in Home
Mechanics designed to prepare any
future housewife for all the trials
and tribulations of a handyman.
Electricity, plumbing, heating—all
are open books after a detailed

five-lecture course, including three-
dimensional diagrams of all their
points.

Mr. Mathews, lecturing on the
structure and care of coal and oil
furnaces, illustrated his talk with
a carefully prepared cardboard
model of a typical furnace, spe-
cially constructed for the occasion.
In a later class, when explaining
the intricacies of plumbing, he
handed out mimeographed copies
of the lecture, and gave the class
genuine practice in repairing the
washers and basins of the college.

An actual doorbell system and a
collection of irons and small stoves
in various stages of disrepair were
used in Mr. Dougherty’s lecture on
electricity, currents and the repair
of electrical appliances. Mr.
Dougherty also demonstrated the
method of welding, along with a
rapid explanation of the _ inner
workings of fuses.

Enumerating all the tools which
every well-regulated house should
possess, Mr. MacLure gave a prac-
tical lesson in.-carpentry showing
the effects of change in tempera-
ture on all wood furnishings, and
the quickest way to put a broken
window sash or a Yale lock in or-

the Bryn _ Mawr-Haverford radio
station, cah now be heard at 6:40
on the dial of any radio on either
| campus. The programs are pre-
sented from 7:30 to 10:30 P. M.
from Monday through Thursday.
Alice Minot, new president of the
Bryn Mawr -Radio Club, said that

since there will be fewer people at
Haverford next year, Bryn Mawr
will have to take over more of the
work. The club has_ introduced
a period of apprenticeship for all
members_interested in the techni-
cal end of broadcasting.

The evening broadcasts will ih-
clude a variety of programs from
7:30 to 9:30, and will play re-
corded music from 9:30 to 10:30.
A radio in the Soda Fountain will
broadcast the music program. The
transmitter which enables these
broadcasts to be heard on campus
was installed in Merion basement
during the vacation. The broad-
casting itself will be done from
Haverford as before.



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into the proper techniques of paint-
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The fanaticat tovefor—humanity;
the incredible sympathy and hu-
mor which borders on the mawk-
ish, are stronger here than ever.
The swift pace saves it; you can
read the whole story in little more
than two hours. Saroyan writes
his most ambitious work in a mat-
ter of days; the simplicity of lan-
guage is a testimony to this.

Here is an author completely re-
laxed, at home with his readers be-
cause he doesn’t care what they
think. All alone in his happy
philosophy, Saroyan lolls about,
repeating with a slow Armenian
smile, “People are beautiful and
sad and funny. I love them all.”

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THE COLLEGE NEWS







Alliance Officers |
The War ‘Alliance an-
nounces that the following
students are members of the
new Executive Board:
Secretary-Treasurer, Leila
Jackson, ’46.
Chairman of Volunteer
Drives, Lydia Gifford, ’45.
Chairman of War Courses,
Ann Fitzgibbons, ’45.
Chairman of War Infor-
mation, Jeanette Lepska, ’44.
Head ‘of Current Events,
Barbara Coe, '44.









WHAT TO DO



Continued from Page Three
Trust Company in Chicago. °
For further details of any of
these positions, see the Bureau of
Recommendations.

RCA Victor Corporation has
openings for graduates with
courses in aptitude and perform-
ance testing, Statistics, Personnel
Management, Economics, Purchas-
ing, Business Administration, and
Market Analyst. A representative
of the firm will come to the campus
to interview students if there are

enough who are interested. Please }-

notify the Bureau of Recommenda-
tions if you would like an inter-
view.

RCA also has openings for Elec-
trical, Radio, Mechanical, and In-
dustrial Engineers and Account-
ants. They have announced a
training plan for various Engi-
neering Aides. 80 applicants for
the course will be accepted and the
training will begin about the first
of May and last for 42 weeks.
Please notify the Bureau of Rec-
ommendations if you are inter-
ested in having an interview with
the RCA representative.

Curtiss-Wright is looking for
students with majors or minors in
Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry,
Personnel, and Business Adminis-
tration.

The following Civil Service Po-
sitions of special interest to col-
lege women are open: Administra-
tive Officers, Administrative An-
alysts, Foreign Country Analysts,
Public Opinion Analysts, Adminis-
trative Officers for Service in the
American’ Republics, Economic
Analysts, Geographers, Advertis-
ing Specialists, and Aerial Photo-
graph Interpreters.



Microfilm Reading Machine in West Wing
Shows That Library is Truly Modern in Spirit



By April Oursler, ’45

Ponderous, lengthy, musty
shelves of The New York Times
stretch along the south basement
of the library, symbols of an age
gone by. The modern. era has
moved into the West Wing—micro-
\film has come to stay. Fifteen
|months of the Times stored in one
‘foot of shelf space, compact and
permanent, safe from the deteri-
oration of age and use. As one of
the library staff put it, it could be
called a more lasting and smaller
version of the old Hebrew scrolls.

The real root of all this lies in a
large brown machine installed in
solitary glory in, the West, Wing
basement — the Recordak — or,
more formally speaking, the Li-
brary Microfilm Reading Machine.
The Recordak made its debut in
the college in September, 1941, but
because of a limited amount of mi-
crofilm material it has remained
unknown to the large majority of
the student body. It is only now,
as more references to recent issues
of the Times are demanded, that
the machine is coming into its own.

Thé microfilm itseif, the same
that the government uses for V-
mail, is about the size of/an ordi-
nary candid camera roll, wound on
spools resembling those of a movie
projector. Each page is thrown
on a large ground glass plate
placed at focussing level for a per-





son seated in front of the machine.
The film can be run, and the pages
turned in any direction and at any
speed by a simple system of han-
dles.

The main importance of the ma-
chine lies in the field of research—
no longer must bedevilled scholars
tear off to far-away libraries to
see and study the editions and
manuscripts necessary for their
work. Once located, any book or
manuscript, no matter how old,
can be copied onto microfilm for a
cost of less than a cent and a half
a page. All the large libraries in
this country, and a few in Europe
are provided with the necessary
photographing machines, and. ac-
cording to a recent listing more
than 5,221 books, manuscripts and
scrolls have been made available to
Recordak owners.

Our college library is rapidly
adding to its own collection, con-
sisting now of many Spanish
books, a few German and French
texts, and many original Latin
scripts from the Vatican vaults.
Students may have full use of
both these and the Times films by
consulting the librarian in charge.
Many of the professors have al-
ready requested films of certain
books for their classes, and it is
probable that the Recordak will
soon be an important part of the
classics’ reserves.





College Inn
The College Inn Associa-
tion announces the retire-
ment of Mrs. Sarah Davis as
manager of the Inn. Mrs.
Harold Ferguson, of New
York, will take her place.







B.M. and Haverford
Choirs to Sing Bach



The combined choirs of Bryn
Mawr and Haverford will sing in
Chapel on Sunday, April 18, in
Goodhart at 7:30'P. M. “Blessing,
Glory, Wisdom, and Thanks,” by
Bach, and the choral ode, “Blest
Pair of Sirens,” by Hubert Parry,
are the prepared selections. This
ode by Milton was set to music by
Parry in 1887 for an eight-part
chorus and orchestra. It was per-
formed for the first time that same
year by the Bach choir in London.

The Bryn Mawr College Choir
will also sing the sacred works
of Purcell, Palestrina, and Bach,
and in addition there will be Bach
chorales for Choir and congrega-
tion. 5

The speaker will be the Rev-
erend G. Malcolm Van Dyke, D.D.,



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Stressed by Nepper



‘Common Room, April 12.—“The
American people should under-~
stand the Spanish civil war before
attempting to understand Spain as
a nation,” declared Miss Dorothy
Nepper at the Spanish Club meet-
ing on Monday, discussing the war
problem in relation to Spain. Miss
Nepper, an instructor: in Spanish
and assistant dean to the Grad-
uate School, emphasized the ques-
tions of misunderstanding and
appeasement under present world
conditions.

Miss Nepper pointed out the
misunderstanding in the United
States over the Spanish situation.
The Spanish fascists have pre-
sented the war to the world in only

two aspects: as a war against
Continued on Page Five



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Smith, Tabor Prcanit
Hudson Labor School

‘Program for Summer



President McBride and_ the
Philadelphia Committee for the
Hudson Shore Labor School invite
undergraduates to a tea in the
Deanery on Thursday, April 22, at
4:30. Miss Hilda Smith, one-time
dean of Bryn Mawr, former direc-
tor of the Hudson Labor School,
and present chief of the federal
worker’s education program, will
speak. Mrs. Tabor, Bryn Mawr,
39, and new director of the school,
will be present to discuss ways in
which Bryn Mawr students can fit
into the new summer plan.

Owing to defense jobs that make
it impossible for industrial work-
ers to take a five-week vacation
this summer, the program consists
of three units. Two of these are
for two weeks each, the other for
one. The courses are to concen-
trate on war and post-war prob-
lems as they affect the workers
and citizens in the community.
The emphasis will fall on the Four
Freedoms.

The first two weeks will: deal
with “Freedon: from Want.” The
workers will study the social
security program as presented by
the National Plan Board and as-
pects of the productive system.
The second one-week unit is de-
signed especially for young women
with :children who are going into
war industry. The particular
problem is that of working women
as consumers. The course deals
with rationing, price control, and
methods of family care. The final
two-week unit, “Freedom from
Fear,” handles the subject of civil



Understanding Spain
Stressed by Nepper



Continued from Page Four
communism and as a war to save
Christianity. The Allied world
has accepted these aspects as the
only ones and has closed its mind
to further discussion.

Today appeasement with Spain
is the basic problem. Miss Nepper
believes that, if we decide on ap-
peasement, we should accept it be-
cause of military necessity, not
with the intention of separating
the Spanish people from “the lov-
ing arms of the Axis.”

The importance of Spain to the



Hall Presidents
The following have been
elected Hall Presidents for
the year 1943-1944:
Rhoads, Anne Heyniger.

Rockefeller, Ruth Alice
Davis.

Pembroke West, Diana
Lucas. ;

Pembroke East, Deborah
Cassidy.

Denbigh, Anne Sprague.

Merion, Marian Estabrook.

‘Wyndham, "Florence Sen-
ger.







Non-Resident, Edith
Schmidt.
liberties, collective bargaining,

and the basis of democratic gov-
ernment.

The purpose of the Hudson
Shore Labor School as expressed
by the late President ‘Thomas is
“better to acquaint young indus-
trial workers with their responsi-
bilities and problems, both as
workers and as citizens in their
community.” Founded as_ the
Bryn Mawr Summer School for
Industrial Workers in 1921, it
functioned at the college until
1939. In that year it moved to
West Park, N. Y., as the Hudson
Shore Summer School.

The Hudson Shore Labor School
is for girls 18 to 35 who work in
factories. Every summer six or
seven girls are chosen from dif-
ferent Eastern colleges for posi-
tions as undergraduate assistants.



Russo-U. S. Relations
Predicted by Harris

Continued from Page One
countries after the war, there is
another cause for friction. ‘“‘We
assume that Poland shall have the
kind of government the people
wish” but we also realize that the
“neople’s freedom of choice de-
pends on who feeds them.” They
will vote for the government that
first sends them food. Finally,
there is the difference in the ideolo-
gies of the two countries. But,
Mr. Harris pointed out, we have
often cooperated in the past with
countries whose political ideologies
differed from ours.

Dr. Harris, who was born in
England and educated at Cam-
bridge, also stressed the special
interests we have in common with
the Soviet Union. Both countries
have great advantages to be

*



Seven Colleges Meet
To Discuss Curtailment



Continued from Page One
colleges such as Barnard to that
of Smith and Bryn Mawr.

At the beginning of this year
the Barnard War Activities Board
announced that all student activi-
ties should be directed toward the
winning of the war and the peace.
This involved abolition of all de-
caying organizations and curtail-
ment by the student councils ‘of
lavish expenditures for social func-
tions: In addition, each club was
asked to turn all its efforts to one
main activity, preferably connected
with the war. Throughout, empha-
sis was placed on curtailment and
coordination which is made possible
because of the power of the central
council and the lack of class or club
autonomy.

At Wellesley, as at Barnard,
each organization was asked to
concentrate on only one activity
and the main efforts of the college
were focused on a weekly war as-
sembly. Elaborate social functions
were removed here also and each
girl was asked to contribute at
least two hours a week to some
form of war work, either in con-
nection with war jobs or war
courses. The student response to
this has shown remarkable spirit
and .energy and this interest is re-
| flect-d in their active participation
in a political forum.

Radcliffe, Vassar, and Connecti-
cut also reported that their at-
tempts to divert interest from
purely collegiate activities to ones
more directly connected with the

In contrast to this, Smith and Bryn
Mawr have made comparatively
few attempts to curtail, coordinate,
or redirect college activities. In-
stead, war courses and war organi-
zations have been superimposed
without any organic connection
with existing activities.

Academically, also, the colleges
have been adapted to the times.
Smith and Barnard have instituted
so-called war minors; courses for
those who have classical majors
not directly connected with the war.
Various colleges have- interdepart-
mental majors and war majors
comparable to those at Bryn Mawr.
Mount Holyoke has developed a
system of job classification in co-
operation with the faculty voca-
tional committee.

The second part of the Confer-



war had met with little opposition. |



Elections

The Self-Government As-
sociation announces the elec-
tion of the following stu-
dents tothe Board:-.Mary
Ellis as Senior Member,
Alison Merrill and » Mary
Jean Hayes as Junior Mem-
bers.







ence was conceragd with problems
of student government, particular-
ly in connection with the honor
system, library regulations, and
dormitory rules. Since each col-
lege has a system which seems

comparable in approach with that
of Bryn Mawr, the main topic of
the afternoon was a discussion of
the value of membership in outside
student organizations, primarily
the N.S. F. A. and U.S. S. A. It
was generally felt that the N. S.
F. A. was more valuable to large
universities and that the Seven-
College Conference served the pur-
pose of mutual discussion of com-
mon problems in amore efficient
manner than that body.

There was a discussion of mem-
bership in the newly-formed U. S.
S. A. In view of the fact that it
is a new organization whose policy
is as yet nebulous, the general
opinion was that each college
should consider the question of
membership independently before
and after the first assembly of the
U. S. S. A., which is meeting to

! determine its policy.

-Atlantie Charter.





CITY LIGHTS

Continued from Page Two
ment to discriminate against peo-

ple..for reasons of color or race.
The Commonwealth. of Pennsyl-
vania and many other states prob-
ably take great pride in seeing
these laws on their books.

This is the kind of thing that
our Japanese enemy makes good
use of in its propaganda among
our Negro citizens to the effect
that “Japan is the defender of the
darker races.” This is the kind of
thing that causes people to doubt
our sincerity when we speak of the
This is the kind
of thing that makes for “winning
the war but losing the peace.”

But, most of all, the mentality
that dictates such unwritten laws,
the ethics that approves of Jim
Crow in any form, is the mentality
and ethics that creates and fosters
the conditions in which “mugging”
is bred.





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Allied Nations, stated Miss Nep-
per, now lies in its much-needed
resources: iron, mercury, tung-
sten, and oliye oil, and in its use as
a gateway to the new world for
the fugitives fleeing from Europe.
On the other hand, we should
realize that the present govern-
ment is purely Fascist. If we de-
cide on appeasement, we should
clearly understand that what we
are accepting with one hand we
are fighting with the other.

Under the presidency of Manuel
Ethania, intellectual and thinker,
and the motto, “Pan, Patua, y Jus-
tica” (bread, motherland and jus-
tice), ham costs $1.50 a pound, the
Board of Health makes four de-
liveries a day to collect those dead
from typhus, and rice and bread,
the poor man’s diet, are almost un-
obtainable except in the Black
Market. With a complete under-
standing of the Spanish problem,
the Allied nations will have a
greater chance of winning them as
allies.

Miss Nepper spoke in Spanish
and afterwards answered ques-
tions in an open discussion.

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gained by the increasing import-
ance of air power and transporta-
tion.

“The Red Army,” he continued,
“is vital to the winning of the war.
Even the most reactionary com-
mentators agree that without the
Soviet Union victory over the Axis
is a remote and distant possibil-
ity.” Some people will agree that
it is “all right to meet together in
war. But after the war, the argu-
ment runs that we must separate
and prepare for a third war. In-
telligent people realize that this is
not an impossibility.” If things
are allowed to drift, the conse-
quences may over-ride “the cooper-
ation essential for victory and
permanent peace.” The best means
to prevent such a thing is for the
people of the two countries to ap-
preciate and understand the prob-
lems faced by the other.

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Miss Bourke-White

Answers Questions



Continued from Page One

their plans on our achievements.
They want to raise their standard
of living, with reward based on
merit and service to the state. In
accord with their “party line” they
criticize the existence of oppressed
minorities, but appreciate our
clean diplomatic slate with them.
They express their respect and lik-
ing in a universal curiosity about
America and Americans.





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Seymour Will Speak
On Musical Therapy

Mrs. Harriet Ayer Seymour, |

founder and president of the
National Foundation of Musical
Therapy, will speak on “Music for
Health Today” in the Deanery At
4:30 Monday, April 19. She for
many years supervised the use ‘of
musical therapy in a number of
New York hospitals.

After receiving her diploma
from .the National Conservatory
in Stuttgart, Mrs. Seymour began
her professional career at the In-
stitute of Musical Art in New
York. Later she founded the Sey-
mour School of Musical Re-educa-
tion, where she taught hundreds of
teachers the “Seymour Approach.”
In the last war she did therapeutic
work with wounded men in
military hospitals.

Mrs. Seymour was a lecturer for
seven years on- the New York
Board of Education, and had her
own program on the National
Broadcasting Company system for
five years. Two years ago the
National Foundation of Musical
Pherapy was. founded for the pur-
pose of training persons interested
in musical therapy...







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Current Events



Continued from Page Two

have a representative government.
~“The House and Senate,” Miss
Stapleton said, ‘must reform their
own affairs.” There are too many
over-lapping committees and they
should adopt the policy of joint
committee hearings... They should
also abolish the practice of having
the chairmanship of a committee
go to the senior member regardless
of who’ he is instead of choosing
the most able men. In order to
avoid a deceptive campaign in the
next election, it is essential that
Congress make a commitment on
an. international organization.

There should be no repetition of
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Miss Bourke-White related her
trip by convoy to North Africa,
when her transport was torpedoed
and sunk. She was traveling with
her photographic apparatus, which
was lost when her ship went down
in flames. She mentioned the gal-
lantry of Waacs and nurses in
abandoning the boat.
Miss Bourke-White described
her experiences in North Africa,
particularly those in Tunisia. The



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morale was high, she said; “the
closer to combat the boys were, the
higher their spirits.” She told of
the underground life in foxholes
in Tunisia, and the brilliant feats

of some of the. American flyers.
Miss Bourke-White recounted in

detail her preparations for a flight
and her voyagé in a bombing raid,

of bombers from all American air
fields, the tight zig-zag formation,
and finally the brilliant bomb scor-
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