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THE COLLEGE NEWS





THE COLLEGE NEWS

FOUNDED IN 1914



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BarBaRA BETTMAN, 749, Editor-in-Chief

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Marian Epwarps, ’50

¢ Editorial Staff

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ANNE GREET, ’50 Pat NicHOoL, ’50
BLaikiE ForsyTH, ’51 Hanna Ho.sorn, ’50
CATHERINE MERRITT, ’51 ELISABETH NELIDOW, ’51



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Press: Liberty or License

“Army Warns Public to Keep Calm in Case of Atom At-
tack”, “Industry Gets Views of Army on Mobilizing”, “Army
Day Brings Preparedness Call”, “Russo-Finnish Treaty In-
tends to Deceive European Opinion” ... With newspaper
headlines at an all time anti-Russian high, we cannot help
but become aware of the power of the press and the tragedy

of its misuse. In view of the world situation, the press faces
a challenge of responsibility, a responsibility that must be
assumed if we intend to keep a free press and remain a pub-
lic of free minds.

The press is conscious of its power as an influential wea-
pon in moulding public sentiment and national character,
yet, regardless of consequences, it continues to revel reck-
lessly in the democratic principle that we call “liberty of the
press”. However, it cannot distinguish between liberty and
license; for liberty in the sense of freedom from all author-
ity—liberty that boasts complete irresponsibility and obedi-
ence to no principles—is not liberty but the worst of tryan-
nies.

The actions of the press today are as discouraging as the
news it prints. Rather than informing the public at a time
when understanding, unbiased information is the keynote to
emotion. Unfortunately, excitement is not the same as think-
ing, and when the mind stops thinking, falsehood takes the
place of thought. Likewise in the write-ups of political cam-
paigning, the press seeks to create converts rather than
thinkers. os

Our newspapers are not alone in producing this mass
panic, hysteria'and antagonism. The screen, radio, even ed-
ucation and religion are tainted with anti-Russian digs. But
the real problem is whether the press will realize its respon-
sibility and use its powers for the common good. Or will the
public be forced to sacrifice its freedom of mind in exchange
for a panic or pseudo-security based on emotional froth? Let

- the American people beware and save their intelligence from

Current Events

April 5.—“The overthrow of De
Valera in the recent Irish elections
was the result of a desire for
change and something new,” stat-
ed Mrs. Neel.in a talk on Ireland.
There were six opposing parties
which united against De Valera to
elect John A. Costello, an advocate

of internal improvements, as Pré-
mier. In explaining the outcome
of the elections, Mrs. Neel said
that even before this De Valera’s
party, the Fiannafail, had been los-
ing strength probably because of
economic discontent.

Mrs. Neel pointed out that when
Irish political parties were being
formed at the beginning of the
century, the great motivation tor
the Irish Nationalist group was
the desire for Home Rule. The sit-
uation was complicated, however,
by the attitude of Ulster and espe-
cially Belfast which is predomi-
nantly Protestant and would have
nothing to do with Southern Ire-
land if Home Rule were instituted.

Feins Replace Nationalists

“The Sinn Fein, a strongly na-
tionalist party advocating among
other things the return to the Old
Gaelic language,” Mrs. Neel con-
tinued, “appeared to take the place
of the Nationalist Party during the
last war.” Having won a sweep-
ing victory in the 1918 elections,
the Sinn Feins refused to go to
Westminster and set up the Dail,
the first independent Irish parlia-
ment in this _period._In-thelatter
part of 1920 a new Home Bill was
proposed which was accepted by
Ulster, while the rest of Ireland
signed a truce in 1921 giving Ire-
land the same status as Canada.
This truce was repudiated by De
Valera, who left Parliament and
set up his own party.

Several years later De Valera
left this group to set up another
party which has existed down to
the present time. The treaty made
with England in 1938 providing
economic agreements similar to
those of the Ottawa Agreement
was important because of the use
made of it by De Valera in later
election campaigns,-as-support for
his having kept Ireland out of war.

French Inflation

April 12.—“The devaluation of
the franc (approximately 44 per
cent) at the end of January is the
latest of recent measures taken to
check inflation,” explained Dr.
Hubbard, speaking on the Deprecia-
tion of the French Franc and
French Inflation. Because France,
unlike most other European na-
tions, did not take steps to prevent
inflation as soon as:the war ended,
her economic situation is extreme-
ly serious. A good wheat crop, a
reasonably priced coal supply and
economic aid via the Marshall plan
will be important factors in im-
proving it.

Many of the anti-inflation meas-
ures taken by other countries in
1945 were recently put into effect
in France, as were heavy taxes and
forced investment in government
securities. Inflation was inevitable
during the war, Dr. Hubbard con-
tinued,-since new. money_had to be
created to meet German demands
while at the same time the quan-
tity of goods decreased. Post-war.
shortages and the cost of recon-
struction made matters worse and
the government ran a large deficit.
This was further aggravated by
the fact that French import. prices
have risen since the war even more
than export prices and also that

large wage increases.

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Attention Faculty and Staff

Come to the Litle Gym Thurs-
day evenings at 8 p. m. for an
hour’s exercise. For further in-







the unfortunate depths to which their powerful press seek
to take it.



0947 ‘W.









‘and Eberstadt—and

the labor unions have received’

formation call Bryn Mawr ||

by Irina Nelidow, ’50

“Emily Greene Balch, Nobels
Fredspris for 1946 .. .,” so runs
the engraving on the Nobel Peace
Diploma, emblazoned at the top
with a red lion standing on a crag-
gy blue hill and holding an ax,
which forms part of the Library’s
Thirty-First Rare Book Room Ex-
hibit. On December 10, 1946, Em-
ily Greene Balch, Bryn Mawr, ’89,
and first holder of the Bryn Mawr
European Fellowship, was awarded
(jointly with John R. Mott) the
Nobel Peace Prize, thus becoming
the third woman to win this dis-
tinction. First given to Baroness
von Suttner in 1905, the Prize was
later awarded to Jane Addams.

The exhibit currently on display
also contains the large gold Nobel
Peace Medallion bearing in relief
the head of Alfred Nobel, founder
of the Prize, and with the simple

inscription “Alfr Nobel. nat.
MDCCCXXXIII. ob. MDCCCXC-
VI.”

Miss Balch was awarded the No-
bel Prize for her “extensive, efforts
in behalf of world peace,” and her



Prom, Soph. Carnival
Climax Big Weekend

Continued from Page 1

sale for $3.00 per couple and $1.50
for a reserved table which will
seat ten couples. There will be
pink lemonade and red and yellow
sheet cakes to match the college
and cfass colors and, incidentally,
the decorations. The College Quar-
tette—Loomis, ‘Geib, Henderson
the Tiger
Tones (Princeton of course) will
sing and there will be slow sweet
music by Harry Schwartz’s seven-
piece orchestra.

The decorations are the most
original. ever to hit Bryn Mawr
and are a real threat to the Mus-
eum of Modern Art. In fact they
are so impressive that the Art De-
partment is coming down en masse

and see Picasso, Matisse, and B. M.
creations under Gale Minton’s lead-
ership turn the gym into an art
collection—conducted tours leaving
every hour from the refreshment
room. And don’t worry about
faux pas; the paintings are label-
led—freely. Mobiles and huge
sculptured figures will complement
the paintings and the whole effect
will be colossal.

History Department
Sponsors Symposium
Continued from Page 1

Many alumnae and out of town
scholars will be visiting the cam-
pus on Saturday for this event.
Seating in the Deanery is limited,
and preference will be given to
Seniors in History, Art, English
or Italian literature who are in-|
terested. These students are ask-
ed as fellow hosts with the His-
tory Department to allow visitors
to the campus first choice of seats.
The Department will be very grate”
ful if those students who intend to
be present would let Miss Robbins
know by Friday, since arrange-
ments must be made.

Feng Will Discuss
Unification in China
Continued from Page 1

United States late in 1946, as chief
of the water conservation mission
of the Chinese Republic, making a
study of the TVA in order to draw
up similar plans for the Yangtze.
While he was on this mission, he
officially broke with the Chiang
government.

This opportunity to hear General
Feng is the initial step in a pro-
gram designed to bring the pro-
grams of the Foreign Policy Asso-



oa! to college campuses.



to see them. Don’t miss it! Come]: °: -

4 day.

Rive Book Room Exhibits
Nobel Diploma of Emily Balch

many books -on social, economic
and religious questions now on dis-
play in the Rare Book Room bear
witness to her unceasing activity
in this direction. At present Hon-
orary International President of
the Women’s International League
for Peace and Freedom, Miss Balch
has had a long career in the civic
field. Delegate to the Internation-
al Congress of Women at The
Hague in 1915, she was later sent
by this group to work in Russia
and the Scandinavian countries.

On her return to America, Miss
Balch became Professor of Politic-
al Science at Wellesley College;
where she is now a Professor
Emeritus. Formerly on the. edi-
torial staff of “The Nation,” Miss
Balch has written many magazine
articles in addition to her numer-
ous books.

“Women at The Hague,” written
with Jane Addams and Alice Ham-
ilton, “Public Assistance to the
Poor in France,” “Our Slavic Fel-
low Citizens,” as well as a book of
poems published in ‘1941, are
among her works now on display.
Also on exhibit is “Occupied Hai-
ti, being the report of a commit-
tee of six disinterested Americans.
representing organizations exclu-
sively American, who, having per-

*hgonally..studied conditions in Haiti

in 1926, favor the restoration of
the Independence of the Negro Re-
public,” edited by Emily Balch.

“IT... could not and cannot ac-
cept the use of physical force as
in itself the criterion of right or
wrong,” wrote Miss Balch in the
1933 Bryn Mawr Alumnae Bulle-
tin, and this earnest striving to-
ward peace is echoed in the most
recent item in the display, a letter
to the New York Herald Tribune
on March 28, 1948. Written by
Emily Greene Balch and three oth-
er women, this letter on America’s
role in the search for world peace
ends, ... “Not by competitive
armaments, universal military
training and war hysteria shall we
preserve our country. The
cry of the world is for bread and
peace and justice, and the nation
that answers that cry will save it-
self and others.”



Engagements

Amoret Chapman Bissell ’48
to

The Rev. Donald W. Mayberry

Joann Cohen ’48
to
Mark Melhado

Margaret ‘Beirne Waters ’50
to

Reginald Peter Rose







Price to Lecture

On Objective Ref.

Mr. H. H. Price, Wickham Pro-
fessor of Philosophy at Balliol
College, Oxford University, will
speak this Thursday evening in the
Common Room at 8:30. Mr. Price
is currently delivering a series of
lectures at Princeton University
which are very popular with the
Graduate School and the Institute
of Advanced Study. The title of
Mr. Price’s lecture here will be
“The Phenomenology of Objective
Reference”,

On Wednesday evening, April
21, Dr. Paul H. Shrecker, Visiting
Professor of Philosophy at Bryn
Mawr, will speak on “The Philoso-
phy of Civilization”, in the Com-
mon Room at 8:30.



Movie Stills

Stills from the movie “Bryn
Mawr” will be on display for
the remainder of this week
outside the Bookshop. They
will cost thirty-five cents each,
and can be ordered through Fri-
.. Profits will-«go to the



Drive.