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Open the Doer, Bryn Mawr

The furor on campus for creative arts last year seems
to have died a slow, painless death. In a burst of enthusiasm,
the Skinner Workshop was opened and an instructor provid-
ed for those who wanted to paint and to draw, two experi-
mental drama groups were formed, and Arts Night estab-
lished. Today only one or two students amble down to the
Skinner Workshop, both dram oups have folded complete-
ly, and Arts Night has become a mammoth undertaking for
a mere handful of people.

Current Events

Common Room, March. ‘Discuss-
ing Reciprocal Trade Agreements,
Miss Mildred Northrop spoke of
them as “one of the most important
subjects under consideration now.”
The issue of the Reciprocal Trade
Agreements Act has again come to

|the fore since, renewed for the

fourth time in June, 1945, it ex-
pires next year. It has come to
be an integral part of the United
States’ economic foreign policy,
stated Miss Northrop, but it: has
previously been opposed by the Re-
publican Party, traditionally the
supporters of a high import tariff
policy to protect domestic’ infant
industries.

The United States has, through-
out its history, been a relatively
high-tariff country, she declared.
Our protective policy, which reach-
ed its peak in 1980, hastened the
world-wide economic collapse’ of
the early ’thirties. As a result of
that depression, emphasized Miss
Northrop, it became evident that
no one nation has the right to de-
termine tariff policies independent-
ly of other countries. The Recip-
rocal Trade Agreements Act was
first passed in 1934, bringing about
“a reversal of our tariff history,”
Miss Northrop stated. This act in-
augurated a national program for
economic revival.

The question of the renewal of

rthe Reciprocal Trade Agreements

Act takes on increased importance
now, because of the pending Inter-
national Tariff Conference, which
will take place next April, in Ge-
neva. At this conference, eighteen
nations will negotiate reciprocal
tariffs. Our ability to bargain in
that conference rests upon the re-
newal of the Reciprocal Trade
Agreements Act, Miss Northrop
feels. The State Department has
asked Congress to approve the ten-
tative plans drawn up at the Sep-
tember conference. Congress may
either make a decision now, or
wait until the actual plans have
been drawn up:and are submitted
to it for approval.

Directors Speak
Of Labor School

Common Room, Thurs., Feb. 27..| -

Opening the discussion on the Hud-
son Shore Labor School, Miss Mar-



The much-talked-about time element is the most import-
ant reason for this lethargy. The next is the lack of stimu-
amtahg Yoncereltip and good organization. The College Chorus
survives because it has set rules of attendance but its ex-
treme popularity is due to the personal charm, vitality and
excellent musicianship of “Cookie”. The Varsity Players
have produced a number of good plays this year through the
very able direction of Mr. Thon, who really knows the thea-
tre. Without this stimulation the students find it difficult to
accomplish anything.

The-waning enthusiasm could be: checked by making
meetings compulsory for those who originally signed up to
work with the various groups and on Arts Night, but creative
ness is usually the result of spontaneous action or thought.
We all complain because we find our minds continually in a
rut, but this is our own doing, because we have the chance to
create and we can, if we have the stamina to stick at what
we wert started.

The Meaning of Ipso F acto |

The fact that every student is “ipso facto” a member of
each of the five big organizations on campus holds a real in-
dividual significance. Membership carries with it both priv-
‘ilege and responsibility.

At election time this is especially significant. In choos-
ing the college officers for the coming year, the student has
both the opportunity and an obligation not only. to exercise
her present powers and individual initiative and judgment
but also to prepare herself for her ultimate ee as a vot-
er and a citizen. i

Filling outa ballot’ sould neb-be-~ ili job. Now i is
t time for each student to _—*

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the candidate she shoud make it her business to fnd|

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the history of the school from its
beginning on campus as the Bryn
Mawr Summer School to its pres-
ent status as a school for indus-
trial workers on the Hudson.—Only
since 1933 has it been co-educa-
tional, and it is hoped that now
students from men’s evlleges will
also apply for positions as under-
graduate helpers. The funds for
the school are raised by Bryn
Mawr, Smith, Vassar, Connecticut,
Mt. Holyoke and Radcliffe, by in-
ternational and local unions and by
individual contribution, and these
are handled by a‘° democratically
elected board of directors which in-
cludes Miss McBride, a represent-
ative of the students, and Pear!
Edmunds, the maid in Taylor.

A picture ofthe educational set-
up was then presented by Miss
Rhetta Arter. The students in-
clude workers from industry, serv-
ice occupations and agriculture, or-
ganized and unorganized labor; the
school is neither CIO nor AF of L.
The undergraduate helpers from
the various colleges are allowed to
attend classes with the students
and to help the teaching staff, al-
though they themselves do not
teach. The classes are mostly dis-
cussion. groups, not formal lec-
tures, and everyone participates in
trying to. solve problems of labor
and of democratic living by giving
information derived . es hair.



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Coleman: Explains
Dual Relationship
Of Man and God

Deanery, February 25. Father
Michael Coleman illumined many
truths and opinjons on man’s re-
lationship to his God, at an infor-
mal discussion with a group of
Bryn Mawr students. In beginning

modern instructors who belie

that the Universe can be taught
without any reference to the Cre-
ator behind the Universe. He
pointed out that this modern age,
divorcing all knowledge which
stems from God, is producing “able
minds but: moronic characters.”

To those who believe that a mor-
al code of ethics is sufficient for
the brotherhood of man, Father
Coleman says that history has
proved that ethics alone cannot
work without a religious power be-
hind them. We cannot, he con-
tinues, believe in the ethics of
Jesus Christ without believing in
His Personality and Self. Every-
one is attempting to be brotherly
today, but the world and its peo-
ple continue to be more divided.

Religion is a two-way process,
Father Coleman explained. Man is
searching for the Truth (God). At
the same time God is revealing
himself to man in terms of Per-
sonality. In the Bible, God used
the minds of human beings set on
him to reveal his Truth gradually
as man was able to absorb.it. The
Hebrews of the Old Testament ex-
panded their idea of God from one
who demanded sacrificial offerings
of a God of Forgiveness, Grace
and Love. The New Testament be-
gins with this new Personality of
God fully revealed to: man in Jesus
Christ.

Here, Father Coleman says, is
found the ‘whole of:the Gospel:
God of Perfections is trying to
show himself to man, but since the
finite mind cannot see into the in-
finite, man creates more imperfec-
tion. God, then, comes out of
Eternity into the finite of Time
and History, and in the form of

Christ experiences human agonies
Continued on Page 6

this talk, Father Coleman deplored be
the so-called “fair-mindedness?™ ese difficulties.

OIICA’s Problems

Speaking to members of ‘the.
Bryn Mawr and Haverford IRC, on
Tuesday, February 25, Mr. Bartow
Underhill of the Office of Interna-
tional Information and Cultural

ment explained some of the prob-
lems facing this office and attempts
t have been made’ to overcome

| Phé Office of International In:
formation and Cultural Affairs,
which grew out of the old Bureau
of Inter-American Affairs, the OWI
and the Cultural Affairs Division of
the State Department, has as its
main job to interpret to all peoples
of the world the American view-
point and th American way of
life. :

There are four operational divi-
sions in the Office.
Publications division distributed
printed material such as daily wire-
less bulletins to outposts of the
Office overseas. This division has
also been successful in collaborat-
ing on an American-Russian mag-
azine which is published exclusive-
ly for circulation in Russia. A
voluntary service center for the use
of foreign correspondents in this
country is also maintained.

The Radio Division of Mr. Un-
derhill’s office sends out daily
short-wave and relay broadcasts
in twenty-four different languages.
These programs are made up to be
interesting to the particular coun-
try on the receiving end and in-
clude interviews with Americans
popular overseas and American
music. Programs printed in the
various languages are also distrib-
uted.

“The Motion Picture division,”
said Mr. Underhill,..“‘tries especial-
ly to correct wrong impressions of
the United States by distributing
documentary films on phases of
life here. These include: films sucn
as “Rural Electrification,” “Lib-
rary of Congress” and “Bottle of
Milk.”

The fourth division of the bur-
eau is the Exchange of Persons di-
vision which arranges student and
professor exchanges as well as ex-
changes of doctors, scientists, -art-
ists, and cartoonists.





Five Federalist Groups Merge

Underhill Explains:

Affairs of the U.S. State Depart-.

The Press and *



Specially contributed by
Pamela Wahl ’50 and
Josephine Raskind ’50

The World Government Con-
gress held at. Asheville, N. C. Feb-
ruary 21-23, was a successful at-
tempt on the part of the five larg-
est Federalist groups in the United
States to merge into a single or-
ganization. The five groups, pre-
viously separate, but now «united
under a common name (United
World Federalists), common plat-
form, common treasury, and com-
man direction, were those formerly
known as World Federalists, Stud-
ent Federalists, Americans United
for World Government, World Re-
public, and the Massachusetts Com-
mittee for World Federation.

The policy statement of the
United ‘World Federalists, declar-
ing that “Peace is not merely the
absence of war, but the presence
of government and the institutions
of government”, cites the need for
“world law, universal and strong
enough to prevent armed conflict
between nations”. It stresses also
that “while endorsing the efforts
of United Nations to bring about
a world community favorable to
peace” United World Federalists
“will work primarily to strengthen
the United Nations into a world



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Into One Single Organization

by-laws the new merged organ.
ization. Whe activities of the stud-
ent branch will be supervised by a
National Student Council.

Norman Cousins (“Modern Man
Is Obsolete’) outlined three means
of strengthening the UN charter.
He suggested the following amend-
ments: 1. No nation may~ secede
from the UN; 2. There must be
control over all weapons of mass
destruction; 3. There ‘must be di-
rect jurisdiction over the individ-
ual in international matters.

It is little known that federal-
ist movements abroad are wide-
spread and have become strong in
recent years. In fact, the idea of
federalism was popular in Italy,
China, France, England, Austra-
lia, and New Zealand before it had
taken firm root in. the’ United
States. Even now, pite their
size, these countries e signifi-
cant numbers of federalists.

By making use of newspapers,
}pamphlets, radio, movies, et cet-
era, by circulating petitions, and
by interesting persons of author-
ity in the idea of world govern-
ment, United World Federalists
will get active support of their
platform in this country. One way
in which everyone can help to ac-
quaint people with the concept of



assure that the world government
method gain universal considera-
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