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THE COLLEGE NEWS

Wednesday, February 22, 1950





THE COLLEGE NEWS

FouNDED IN 1914



Published weekly during the College Year (except during Thanks-

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Editorial Board
Joan McBrwwe, ’52, Editor-in-chief

PAULA STRAWHECKER, 52, Copy JANE AUGUSTINE, 752
BARBARA JOELSON, ’52, Make-up JOANNA SEMEL, *52

, Editorial Staff

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Staff Photographers

FRANCINE Du PLEssix, ’52
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Business Staff.

BARBARA GOLDMAN, ’53
Joan Ripps, 52
Betty ANN SCHOEN, ’51

Lita Hann, 52
JANET CALLENDER, ’52
HELENE KRAMER, ’53
Business Managers
TaMa SCHENK, ’52 & Mary Kay Lacxritz, ’51



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Entered as second class matter at the Ardmore, Pa., Poss Office

Under Act of Congress August 24, 1912







To Avert Confusion

Last week, when. Freshman Show tickets went’ on sale,
the same situation arose, to a worse degree, as that which oc-
curred last year. The tickets went on sale at one o’clock; at
nine the line began to form. By twelve it had extended all
the way down the L-corridor. Students sat in the corridor
playing bridge; the self-government rule against smoking
anywhere’in Taylor except in the corridor by the water-cool-
er was broken repeatedly. A list was circulated, to be signed
by those purchasing tickets.

Several recommendations to eliminate these difficulties
before future college productions have been suggested. Tic-
kets could be ordered by mail, but that would perhaps result

- in ever. more confusion than when they are sold in Taylor.

If they were on sale in Goodhart the problem of the line and
the list would again arise, but it would avert the confusion
in Taylor.

,Another recommendation is that different prices be placed
on the seats, and a student could purchase. a ticket within the
price range she wants. The most practical suggestion that
has been offered is to put tickets on sale in the halls. If, for
Freshman Show, the seats for Juniors could be sold on Mon-
day, then a proportionate number of good and bad seats
gould be allotted to each hall,.according to the number of
students. This plan would not only alleviate the current con-
ditions, but would give every student at least an even chanes
to obtain a good seat.

Further recommendations to improve: the ticket-selling
situation will be metommed.

End of the Garden Path

' “Don’t hurry down that ‘corsage-bordered ‘ivy-shaded
path that is your college career—don’t hurry, you'll run into
a raincloud at the end of it. In four months—and one, two,
or three years, or just four months—dark days are pre-
dicted. Do you know exactly wha you will do when you get
out of college, taught, talented and twenty-two?

--You have specific interests, you know something about
your major subject, you want a job which you will enjoy. So

do hundreds of others just like you; how are you to get
that position?

_ or you, the individual with her own individual problem,
this coming Job Weekend is designed. Its most important
feature is the private interview you may have with any one
of seven career women, successful and prominent in different
fields of endeavor. In fifteen brief minutes you may receive
the hint which will determine whether you get the job you

- want or not. Other students’ problems are to be aired in

discussion; the picture of the world lying at the end
your sxnien pejh will eome into clearer focus.

ale eels oe Peon ap aR







Current Events

Common Room, Feb. 20: —

Miss Hertha Kraus, who will
leave shortly for a tour of Ger-
many, delivered last Monday’s
Current Events lecture on Ger-
many: Its Major Social Problems.
Of these problems, one of the most
pressing is the tremendous unem-
ployment; the housing situation is
equally desperate. Millions of
young people do not know for
what careers they should prepare
—the traditional occupations have
been discarded. Veterans now re-
turning from _ prisoner-of-war
camps were unprepared for a
smaller, impoverished and defeat-
ed Germany. They have not the
advantage of educational grants
A group of new poor, which Miss
Kraus calls the “ex-capitalists,”
has sprung up now that either the
war or the currency reform has
wiped out their investment income,
Purchasing power is very low.
Most families can buy enough to
live, but absolutely no more. There
is no starvation in Germany now.
The people are exceedingly im-
patient at the discrepancy between
the supply of things they should
have, and the low income which
prevents them from buying.

Organizations such as hospitals
and clinics, public health and wel-
fare groups are crippled by a lack
of personnel and physical facili-
ties, and the extremely heavy

Students Explore
Atomic Proposals

Last Friday evening at 7 p. m.
in the Union of Haverford Col-

international relations was spon-
sored by the College Student
Council of the Philadelphia World
Affairs Council.

With each of a number of col-
leges in this area representing one
country, a model United Nations
Atomic Energy Commission ses-
sion was held. The problems of
the country assigned were discuss-
ed ahead of time by a delegation
of three or four students from the
college, and resolutions were pre-
pared for submission to the ses-
sion by the one speaking delegate.
The parliamentary procedure for
conducting sessions followed the
rules set up by the United Na-
tions.

Approximately sixty students
attended. The nations represent-
ed, and the colleges which repre-
sented them are as follows:

Canada—Haverford College.

China—Bryn Mawr College, rep-
resented by Eva Romaine, Betty
Goldblatt, and Helen Woodward.

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Dr. Schrecker Dissects
Marx’ Planned Economy

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burden ‘they carry. They have only
a minimum of volunteers. People |
look back to the old days pxior to
1933, and want to reinstate the |
old traditions and methods. But
the old and the familiar no longer
fit; a new solution must be found.
An Integrated Approach

What then, asked Miss Kraus,
is to be done?) We must realize
that Germany is a torn country,
unable to move toward its goals.
We must visualize the scope of
the picture and deal with it real-
istically. All of these problems
interdepend, and any effort to
cope with them separately will be
ineffectual. An integrated ap-
proach in terms of millions must
be made. Family life must be re-
habilitated; homes must be built
for those. families ‘to live in, and
with that end in mind, Germany’s
tiny. remaining capital should be
invested. The labor productivity,
of women especially, should be in-
creased,

“We Americans have a contribu-
tory responsibility,” concluded
Miss Kraus. “We are partly re-
sponsible for the destruction in
Germany, and it is up to us to do

something about it. I believe the
time is now.”



Friend Reconstructs
Holy Apostles Church
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United States, was introduced by
Dr. J. C. Sloan, Head of the Hist-
ory of Art Department.

Professor Friend opened his Jec-
ture with the remark that since
the Church of the ‘Holy Apostles
was destrdyed: in 1456,. he would
have to start his reconstruction
from nothing,. which was just as
well, since if nothing came of it,
nothing would:.be lost. However,
much came of it, and with a series
pf slides of layouts, and old mamu-
scripts, he’ showed how the build-
ing was copied in later churches.

The church, destroyed to make
way for a mosque of Mohammed
II, was known as “the moon of
Constantinople’ where emperors
were buried; the “sun” was St.
Sophia’s, where they were crowned.
Then Professor Friend cited the
most important sources for his re-
construction. One was a poem in
hexameters, accurately describing
almost every part of the structure,
including the five domes, the center
one held up by twelve columns,
representing the Apostles. A cur-
tain could be drawn from column
to col » closing off the altar.

Tho/ econ source was a sort
of travelogue, written by one Pro-



depend on the theory that endan-
gers his existence.

If one assumes the hypothesis of
planning-false, (that the most im-
portant factor in man’s life is se-
curity), then one may conclude
that it is worse to have enslave-
ment to materialism. Planning
would “cure the symptoms, ignore
the malady.” Planning can be veri-
fied only if applied, and applied
only through coercion.

Two other weaknesses of the
system were also analyzed. First,
a master plan must be enforced on
the totality of men to be effica-
cious. Second, one must concede
the inability to see the effect. ‘of
free work under this master plan.
‘It can foresee only the processes
it_itself has coercively determin-
ed, whereas in the divine plan of
creation there is infinite fore-
sight.”

Eeonomic Prevision Fallible

Dr. Schrecker showed that “ex-
perience fails to bear out the in-
fallibility of economic prevision
even in planned economy.” From
the immense destruction and loss
of productive capital, one might
say the available knowledge was
insufficient. Power, alone of the
three capacities, can be actualized
to the desired extent.

In speaking of the third capaci-
ty, principles directing the will
Dr. Schrecker claimed that failure
might be due to malice. All eco-
nomics can do as a science is in-
vestigate and indicate means to
achieve a desirable effect. Plan-
ned economy claims omnipotence,
omniscience, and goodness. The
planner need not adhere to such
principles. Then “who will’ watch
the watchman?”

~ Another requisite of the master
plan is that it be kept unfathom-
able; only a few can know it. The
majority cannot know it, but. must
follow it.

‘ Dr. Schrecker concluded with,
this - statement about Marxian |
planning, that “The core of this
titanic project appears as a design
to do away with history, Philoso-
phy would: yield to economics,
thought to action. All human
aspirations would be controlled.
Satisfication would be predeter-
mined. Yet history has produced
a few things for whose continua-
the plan offers no guaran-

In the general discussion which
followed, Dr. Schrecker
that a syntehis of the two. ex-
tremes of economic planning,
‘which would come about by the
force of people wanting a mean
between insecurity and slavery,

lege, an interesting experiment in



Holyoke To Hold
UN Conference

The third annual Mount Holyoke
College Institute on the United
Nations will be held at South Had-
ley from June 25th to July 22nd.
The Institute is a marvelous op-
portunity for students concerned
with international affairs not only
to hear the speakers, but also to
meet and discuss current problems.
with them. The speakers include
UN delegation and _ Secretariat.
members, U.S. and other govern-.
ment representatives. Among last.
year’s speakers were Mrs. Roose-
velt, Mrs. Vijaya “Pandit, and Gen-
eral Carlos P. Romulo. There is a
weekly trip to Lake Success with
interviews arranged with leading
UN officials.

Tuition for one week is $25.00,.
for the full four weeks, $90. Free
room and board may be obtained
by acting as a student assistant.
The duties include waiting on.
tables, serving as ushers, meeting:
speakers and guests, typing and
office work. There are informal dis-
cussion groups for the student as-
sistants led by the visiting speak-.
ers. These provide an opportunity
to know personally many of the.
experts on international relations-
who come to the Institute. There-
are a few tuition scholarships.

This year the weekly topics will
be Building the Foundations: Tech-
nical Assistance and Point Four;
Extending the Community of
Nations: Germany and Japan; De-
veloping Regional Groupings: In-.
termediate or Final Step; and:
Prospects for a World Community:
A Five Year Appraisal of the UN.

The Institute is not limited to
students. There are many oppor-.
tunities for discussion and recrea—
tion. If interested, see Priscilla
Johnson, Rock, or Joan Piwosky,.
Pem East, for further information.



Program Planned

For Art’s Night

Art’s Night will be held ‘Aprik
28th in the Skinner Workshop.
This program is centered com-
pletely around the artistic endeav-
ors on campus, including original
plays, music, dancing, and art.
Since it is a student project, Art’s:
Night needs your support.

There will be a meeting Thurs~
day, Feb. 28, at 1:30 in Room A
Taylor for all those interested im
working on this program. At this:
time a business manager, publicity
head, and other officers will be
elected. All those who attend the
meeting can work on various com-
mittees.

Service To Offer
Tours to Europe

Group tours to Europe (cound
trip); for, students. ‘and. teachers,
$550.00 and ‘up are available



‘through Laborde Travel Service,

Inc., sponsored. by the Cooperative
Bureau for Teachers. . Prices. in~
‘clude university. sessions, accom-
revs meals, and sight-see-

- Most Laborde trips center
ia the International Summer
‘School conducted by the Universi~
ty -of. Innsbruck. and the Austrian
League of the United Nations at.
Mayrhofen in Austria. The trips.
are mainly for those interested in.
international relations. The pro~
gram at Mayrhofen also includes.
music (notably trips to the Salz—
burg festivals) and sports. An-
other trip gives a week in Paris
and four weeks at the University
of Caen in Normandy. . Emphasis:
is on the French refresher courses.

agreed|Those who wish to travel inde~

pendently after the sessions may~
do so, For more information, see-
Frieda Wagoner, Non-Res., or Eva.
Rosenbaum, Rock., or write to La
borde Travel flarsiees hat: 19%





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