College news, October 25, 1944

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‘VOL. XLI, NO. 5

ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1944

Prag + ny ‘Trustee: of
Bryn Mawr College, 1944

PRICE 10 CENTS





Dewey Defeats Roosevelt in Student Poll



J. C. Bell Discusses
Dewey’s Proposals
For Lasting Peace

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Free Enterprise Will Rule
Dewey Administration
Says Bell

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Goodhart, October 24. Present-
ing the second of two coordinated
war assemblies, the Honorable
John C. Bell, Lt. Governor of
Pennsylvania, emphasized Dewey’s
belief in the American system.
Stating that winning the war, ob-
taining a fair and durable peace,
and an effective domestic policy
are the problems that the next
President must solve, he attempted
to show how. Dewey could .be
more efficient than Rooseveit.

As for winning the war, Bell
asserted that the President is of
minor importance because that is
a problem which is and will con-
tinue to be left to the military and
navy personnel. He said that the
‘war can be prosecuted more effec-
tively, however, under a Dewey
administration where bureaucratic
hampering will be eliminated.

Negotiation of the peace does
not depend on one man, said Bell,
but it is dependent on the Presi-

dent and a two-thirds majority
of the Senate. Bell fears that
Roosevelt will “sell America’s

shirt” and betray the small na-
tions, whereas Dewey desires a
just peace to preserve small —na-
tions and an expression of the
ideals of the American people.

The domestic issue is primarily
a conflict between a_ Roosevelt-
centralized-planned-economy and
a Dewey-free-enterprise-economy.
A future Roosevelt administration
was cited by Bell as a system un-
der which millions of war workers

and soldiers will be jobless. Dew-
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Social Security Aid
In Full Employment
Discussed by Burns



Goodhart, October 23. “For
many years to come, modern so-
ciety will need social security as
a safeguard to insure full employ-
ment,” said Dr. Eveline. Burns in
the second of the Anna Howard
Shaw lectures on Social Security
in an Expanding Economy.

In the first place, said Mrs.
Burns, this program is needed as
a continuing’ safeguard against
times when full employment may
not be completely realized. She
warned against the optimism
which prevails in many circles to-
day concerning the possibilities of
expanded production in the post-
war world. This current spirit of
optimism arises from the presence
of a dammed-up consumer demand
backed by a considerable amount
of war saving, and the confidence
of the optimists in a large foreign
demand following the conclusion
of hostilities.

Optimism

Dr. Burns attributes-her guard-
ed and long range optimism to
several considerations. The total
amount of savings available is
much less than people generally
suppose, and a good deal of _ the
existing savings are in the pos-
session of large financial organ-

izations which are often very ‘re-
luctant to invest those savings.
In addition, the volume of for-

eign trade is likely to decrease 2
good deal when the foreign coun-
tries which are- accepting our
goods are in a position to repay
their debts.

Mrs. Burns also feels that “a
social security ‘program is an in-
dispensable’ mechanism to insure
a certain amount of purchasing
power in the event of temporary
dislocations.” The “vicious cir-

cle” of economic depression, re-
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Student Volunteers Scatter to All Points
To Fulfill Promises to New U.V.A:P. Program



by Marcia Dembow °47

The U. V. A. P. has gotten off
to a relatively roaring start on.
the campus since its inauguration.
Students are tearing off in all di-
rections to perform their various
duties.

Some are striding to the Bryn
Mawr Hospital moving noiseldss-
ly in their white, rubber heeled
shoes; their skirts swishing “mid-
way between the calf and the an-
kle.” The brawnier'crew is head-
ed for the farm lands, clad ‘in blue
jeans and shirts. Many other
_ large groups_are headed for Phil-
‘adelphia to work with the F. E.
P. C., while their friends run over
to Goodhart to roll surgical dress-
ings.

Most of the activities under the
_ new program have officially begun
- and are being supported by all of
those who previously signed up.
Twenty-three Nurses Aides. go
tramping off to the Hospital two
evenings a week, while sixteef
girls have already finished the
course and are working in near-
by hospitals. Also, a canteen class
is being taught by Miss Gardiner
for those who are interested in



such work. Another group is do-
ing cafeteria work at the Bryn
Mawr Hospital.

Newly organized, the Industrial
Group is going into Philadelphia
to work with the Ff. HB, P. CG;
These students are beginning with
clerical and statistical work and
then are going to visit unions
where they will study labor votes
and, labor views.

The farm group has_ already
been out to Newtown Square corn
husking and received remunera-
tion for its work. After spend-
ing three hours in the cornfield a
few Fridays ago, stripping the
corn from its stalk, it returned to
the hallg to find corn-on-the-cob
for“supper. As they hauled the
golden ears up to their hungry

mouths the farmerettes did not
appreciate the dietitian’s sense of

humor. <
Many of these volunteers are
serving dual roles in the U. V. A.

FP; combining several activities.
Many people are expected to give
blood when the Blood Donor Unit
comes to Ardmore, November the
sixth through the tenth.

Film of ‘Our Hearts’
Scheduled to Appear
InCollegeAuditorium



The movie production of the
book, Our Hearts Were Young
and Gay, by Cornelia Otis Skin-
ner and Emily Kimbrough, will be
shown at a special
in Goodhart Hall on Friday, No-
vember 10 following its Philadel-
phia premiere on Thursday, the
ninth.
Philadelphia Opening

‘Opening in Philadelphia at the
"Aldine Theatre, 19th and Chestnut
streets, the presentation of “Our
Hearts Were Young and Gay”
will be accompanied by personal
appearances of as yet. unnamed
persons. The seats are all re-
served, selling for $2.00 and $3.00,
and tickets can be purchased at
the Publicity Office here, at. Haly’s
on Chestnut street, or at the Al-
dine Box Office. The’ profits from
this performance will go to the
Special Scholarship Fund of the
College.

Tickets for the special perform-
ance in Goodhart, to be sold in
the Publicity Office, will sell for
$:85 (first four rows), and $1.00.
Paramount and Warner’ Bros.
have restricted the sale of tickets
to Bryn Mawr College, Harcum,
Baldwin, and Shipley Schools.
Students are, however, permitted
to bring guests.

Freshmen Compete
For Hall Play Prize



The Freshmen of Rhoads, Rock,
Pem East and West, Denbigh,
Radnor and Merion will again
compete for the plaque annually
awarded for the best one act play.
The performance will be given on
November third and fourth in
Goodhart, and will be judged by
a group of faculty.

Both Denbigh and Pem_ East
have chosen plays by _ Barrie;
Denbigh, Half an Hour, and Pem
East, The Lady Shows Her Metal.
Denbigh’s play will be directed by
Caroline Seamens ’47, helped by
the Freshman director, Jane El-
lis. Doreen Huritz ’47 is direct-
ing Pem East’s play with Eliza-
beth Cameron as Freshman direc-
tor.

Under the lead of Estelle Mor-
rison, who produced the winning
Freshman play last year, Merion
is putting on The Birthday of the
Infanta by Oscar Wilde. The
Freshman director is Jane Cod-
dington, and the head of costumes
is Vera Tozzer.

Rhoads is giving Trifles with
Pat Acheson ’46 directing, and
Janine Landau and Louise Shel-
don assisting. Shaw is the au-

thor of Rock’s play, Man of Des-
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Elections

The Sophomore Class takes
pleasure in announcing the
election of the following offi-
cers for the year 1944-45:

Emily Evarts, President.

Mary Lee Blakeley, V. Pres-
ident.

Ellen Sheperd, Secretary.

Ann Matlack, Song Mistress.









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‘Calendar

Thursday, Oct. 26
Main Line Forum: Robert J.
Watt: Labor in.a Free Dem-
ocracy, Roberts Hall, Haver-
ford, 8:15.
Friday, Oct. 27
Varsity Hockey, Beaver, Hoc-
key Field, 4:00.
‘Undergrad Movie.
Music Room, 7:30:
Tri-County Concert Associa-
tion: Julius Schulman, vio-
linist, Radnor _ High School,
Wayne, 8:30.
Saturday, Oct. 28

Latin Play, Double. Trouble,

Goodhart, 7:30.

Latin Department Party,

Common Room. .
Sunday, Oct. 29 ,

Interhall Hockey, Pembroke

vs. Rhoads, casa J Field,
3:30.

Monday, Oct. 30
Current Events,
Room, 7:15. Shaw Lecture:
Dr. Eveline M. Burns, Assur-
ance of Income: The First
Step Towards Security, Good-'

hart, 8:30.



Comision ‘



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German Club Ceases
Activity Due to Lack
Of Student Interest





The German Club has, for the
present, been disbanded by _ the
joint decision of its members. It
will continue to function to the
extent that its bi-monthly teas
will be held, but the Club will
merge itself into the activities of
the German house.

Discouraged by the scant re-
sponse to an opening tea and a
lecture, the president and vice-
president of the club, Dorothy
Bruchholz ’46 and Margaret Ur-
ban ’47, have decided to discontin-
ue club activities until attend-
ance by interested students justi-
fies a renewal.

It is hoped that the state of
disinterestedness from which pos-
sible German Club members are
suffering can be remedied in’ time
for the Christmas Play.

‘1110 Democrats,



Faculty and Staff Favor Roosevelt
With 48 Votes Against Dewey’s 18

Republicans Lose Heavily
In Graduate Landslide
For Roosevelt



Of 392 undergraduates voting
in the campus poll conducted on -
Monday, 198 students ‘voted for
Dewey, 177 for Roosevelt, and 18

for. other candidates. .Of these
only 388 are registered voters.
Among the faculty and_ staff,

Roosevelt received 48 votes, Dewey
18, and another, one, while two re-
mained. still undecided. In the
Graduate School, Roosevelt won
with 20 votes and Dewey trailed
with five.

Ttis interesting to note that in
the 1940 election, 314 students sup-
ported Willkie, and 146. Roosevelt,
a much greater Republican major-
ity ‘as well a%’a larger. response to
the ballot. The. faculty in. 1940
voted almost as they do'-in 1944:
49 for Roosevelt, 18 for Willkie.
Willkie was more popular with the
graduates than is Dewey; they
gave Roosevelt 30 votes in- 1940,

- | Willkie 28.

Party Affiliations

Broken .down into party affilia-
tions, the: poll indicates that 168
undergraduates are Republicans,
90 Independents,

't8 .Socialists, four »Communists,

and one belonging to no party. Of
the faculty and staff, 27 are. Re-
publicans, 27 Democrats and 15 In-
dependents. Of the graduate stu-
dents, nine are Democrats, eight
Republicans, seven Independents,
and two belong to other parties.
When analyzed according to
classes, the poll reveals that as
they go up, the classes prefer
Roosevelt. The Class of 1945 cast
35 votes for Roosevelt, 25 for
Dewey, and two. for others. The
Class of 1946 gave Roosevelt 37
votes, Dewey 83, and others seven.
To Dewey the Class of ’47 gave 62
votes, to Roosevelt 52, and to oth-
ers three, while the Freshmen reg-
istered 67 votes for Dewey, 45 for
Roosevelt, and six for others. Could

it be, we wonder, the influence’ of
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Roosevelt ‘Acts With His Ear to Ground’,
‘Makes Progress While Running’, Say Polls



By Patricia Platt ’45

The News poll found the prodig-
ious Mr. Roosevelt catching up on
Paul Bunyon when “he acts with
his ear to the ground,” mane,
“daring, visionary moves,” and
“carries weight internationally.”
One student even wants to vote for
him because of the Taree made
in his years of running.” With
such physical accomplishments, no
wonder that he has “gradually be-
come an ego-maniac.” How cynic-
al in contrast is the wistful reason
for voting for Dewey; “There is no
fool like an old fool!”

Dewey cannot evoke such pic-
Instead, reasons
for voting for Roosevelt on his ac-
count were usually terse. A mem-
ber of the faculty finds “Dewéy’s
mustache” sufficient justification
for being a Democrat. -A searcher
after truth complains that after
much trying she cannot find what
Dewey stands for, and another just
gives up and says “Dewey is prea
Perhaps the most in-



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teresting reason for voting for him
is that he has “the prettier wife.”
In addition he is a “damn. sight
more honest, even if he is ruth-
less—ad nauseum.”

The poll netted a fascinating col-
lection of little gems of charming
nonchalance. A Senior felt that
“Dewey is not capable of taking
over the reigns in this time of con-
fusion.” Even nicer is the opinion
“I’m agin’ age and self-perpetra-
tion in office.” The perplexing case
‘af a retarded prodigy came to light
when a student marked her; class
as 1942, then proceeded to state
that she was not old enough to
vote.

Mingling with more strident
voices were some sad souls and a
number of downright pessimists.
Pathos appears in the reflection
“Don’t like Roosevelt, Dewey, or

Fala.” From the faculty came
“Cannot stomach Ananias and
Sapphira.” Our hearts go out to

the unhappy dreamer with no par-
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Political Speakers

A campus outcry against the tone and calibre of the two
recent political speeches is too significant to be overlooked.
As they were intended to present the two major viewpoints
in the 1944 presidential election, students anticipated sound,
logical analyses of what each party had to offer. They came
to the assemblies in large numbers, discussed the issues, and
asked questions. The fact that the speeches, especially the
Hon. Mr. Bell’s, seemed superficial and opinionated consti-
sutes a severe disappointment to those interested in a cam-
pi. that is politically aware.

Mr. Daniel’s speech-had points to commend. it, but mak-
ing the PAC and the 1944 Election the only. subject for a lec-
ture in a consideration of the Democratic platform was gross-
ly unfair, There should have been a speaker to deal with
Roosevelts’ foreign and domestic policies, which undoubtedly
outweigh labor in the total picture. This was a serious error
of emphasis, and in no way a fault of Mr. Daniel’s. He, at
least, strove to present what he construed to be the facts im-
partially, but the students found that he did not know most
of the facts they wanted to know.

The growing discontent found plenty of ammunition in
the Hon. Mr. Bell’s address. Not only was there an absence
of any constructive platform for tle Republican party, but
criticisms of Roosevelt and the present administration rested
solely on superficial cliches. Questions, like that of isolation-
ism, were dodged or couched in completely ambiguous lan-
guage. The real issues of the campaign, and we suppose
BG be some, seemed confused and distorted. As one
Republican puts it: “I’m through with politics!” The dismal
failure of an idea as promising as that of presenting two

sides of a question of national and international importance!

gives us much to think about. Are we so divergent from the
public at large that we cannot stomach politicians’ methods?
If so, the majority of us would prefer to abandon the attempt
here and now. But speeches of the variety that we have late-
ly been subjected to call for more aetion than that. In the
future we feel that we must have speakers on controversial
subjects who understand why we are their audience if any-
thing is to be gained by bringing politics onto campus. We
hope that such people exist.





College Dance

There will be .a College
Dance in the gymnasium fol- |
lowing the Varsity Players
production on December 2nd.
Music will be furnished by
“The Debonairs”, the Junior
Prom orchestra of last. spring.
Tickets and programs will be
on sale in all the halls two
weeks in advance. Prices are
$2.50 per couple, and $1.50 for
a single ticket. The dance will |
last from 11; until 2 a. m. Snag
a man and. come!

War Stamp Drive

Results of the first 1944-45
War Bonds and Stamps drive
have been atinounced by Helen
Reed ’46, Chairman of the
Drive. 80 percent of the cam-
pus bought bonds or stamps,
contributing a total of $1030.55.
It is hoped that the

20 percent will contribute

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next month’s drive.













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Politically Speaking -







DEWEY

The Republican Party believes in
labor, but the Republican Party
believes primarily in America,
These two concepts, the welfare of
labor and the welfare of the
American people, conflict in their
aims only in so far as a small
group of men, the so-called labor-
leaders, are concerned. Organized
‘labor, if we may see in the PAC
the handwriting on the wall, is be-
coming regimented labor,

Labor comprises the majority
of the nation, but when the Amer-
ican working-man is told how to
think and vote, he ceases to ex-
press a majority. opinion, and be-
comes the instrument of a minor-

‘lity group smaller even than “Big

Business.”

On-the other hand, if America
is prosperous, the working man
must be prosperous. - If factories
are operating, the working man is
employed. If, however, business
has cause to fear a repetition of
the New Deal price-hoisting, crop-
destroying technique, of insuring
national prosperity, we cannot ex-
pect to operate at a maximum. No
manufacturer will staff his factory
to capacity, invest in new equip-

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WIT +S. END..

The curfew tolls the knell of
parting hey-hey, the moaning
horde winds grimly to the slaugh-
ter, as what was cut is cut away
from me. We love our classes so
that there are times when we
would walk among a_ thousand
blossoms, and not touch one—with
a ten foot pole.

Into this ecstacy, out of the
night, out damned spot, Othello’s
day_is done because the faculty
thinks we are excessive. Most
gorgeous thought, O scintillating
stratagem, .as over. the horizon
looms class after class while we
east our cuts as pearls before
swine because making up our
minds whether or not to go to class
induces nausea which -is better kept
at home to keep the home fires
burning.

Next will come the fact, too long
delayed, that I am _ superfluous;
then I can go and superflow all by
myself in a dark corner of the Lib
and everyone will think that I am
cut out about the whole thing. In
the Age of Enlightenment I used
to patter eagerly to classes be-
cause it was restful to sit in an
empty room in any seat I liked and
pretend that I didn’t have to go
home and make my bed. But now
I say to the powers that be “Make
me thy liar even as my notebook
is. What if its leaves go scatter-
ing with the breeze”. :

If I don’t go to class to learn
history I will be fiddling while
Rome burns which is what Nero
did which made history and is
much better than learning history
anyway. Excessive—ha! I will
gorge until my superego bursts
and dash, and dash until like the
warrior home from battle “they
bear me out on an exam book to
Dr. Stewart’s office.







|] Denbigh A. Gillilan

‘| Merion G. Wiebenson

'! Radnor N. Emery

‘| Wyndham . J. Mott

| Non-Res R. Gilmartin
Chairman C. Locke. =: »-

Cut Committee

Rhoads South E. Kaltenthaler
Rhoads North M. Schaeffer
Rockefeller D. Dame
Pembroke West R. Lester
Pembroke East J. Rutland







CONTINUING an effort to present two diamétrically op-
posed undergraduate views of various issues of the present
campaign, the News offers this week the question of labor.



ROOSEVELT

There is a difference between
real freedom -and legal liberty.
There is a_ difference between
“freedom” to work at starvation
wages fourteen hours a day, and
“restrictions” insuring decent
working conditions. We doubt that
anyone is anxious for the “right”
to pound the sidewalks, job hunt-
ing.

Yet this, in effect ,is the prospect
the Republicans offer labor when
they ask, in the name of “free en-
terprise,” such removal of restric-
tions on big business as would give
it virtual control of the nation.
They declare that this inequality
in power would guarantee full pro-~
duction and employment. Then
why. didn’t it work in 1929? Could
the answer be that the rule of a
single class, particularly a short-
sighted socio-economic class, is not
compatible with the interests of
the majority?

The Republicans fall into an
even more serious fallacy when
they attack labor unionism. If in-
dustry really has the welfare of
labor at heart, why does it oppose
any organized representation of
the working man so vehemently ?
Why does it oppose social legisla-
tion which alleviates his economic
vulnerability? Why do the Na-
tional Association of Manufactur-
ers, the Union League, et al, bris-

Schweppe Condems Bell
For Dearth of Facts
In Speech



To the Editor:

Mr. Bell’s disappointing speech
to the College, Tuesday, may have
lost some votes for the Republi-
can Party.

»» There probably was a_ reason
why Mr. Bell hadn’t read any
comment on Senator Ball’s swing
to Mr. Roosevelt:—But why
should anyone campaigning for
Mr. Dewey not have acquainted
himself with Mr. Dewey’s excel-
lent New York record, in order to
give the facts to his hecklers.
“straight from the shoulder’?

The Republicans are accused of
being vague—and they have no
excuse to tolerate such an accusa-
tion, because there are facts to
support every statement they can
make against Mr. Roosevelt—par-
ticularly against his foreign pol-
icy bungling—and the Republi-
cans should use these facts.

Has not Mr. Bell read Mrs.
Luce’s speech made in Chicago, a
week ago Sunday? Doesn’t he re-
alize that most Democrats agree
that Mr. R. is a poor domestic
administrator, and that they
merely need to have pointed out
to them how the stupidity at
home is repeated abroad? The re-
cent reports of New Deal “cross-
ed-purposes” abroad that have



}tle with horror at the thought of
labor participation in politics?

Labor unions are extremely dem-
ocratic organizaions. Their lead-|
ers are chosen only by formal ma-|
jority vote. They can take no
steps not approved by their mem-
bership, and if they try to they are
promptly checked (e.g.—John L.
Lewis’s unsuccessful attempt to
force Dewey down the mine work-
ers’ throats). Union books are
open at all times for inspection,
nor are union fyumds used for any
purpose not decided on by mem-
bers. Mr. Dewé¢y, who in his cam-
paign for District Attorney receiv-
ed finaycial assistance from the
Amalgamated Clothing Works of
America, headed by Sidney Hill-
man, has every reason to know
that.



managed to seep through Admin-

Te ; :
istration censorship, comments of

our Allies, and the pre-war knowl-
edge of Mr. R.’s_ lack of states-
manship, are facts which compile
the substantiated evidence on
which: Republicans have to draw
and aré. the facts which they
must drive home to those people
duped by the honeyed words of
Browder, Roosevelt, and Hillman.

Mr. Bell should have informed
himself of the ability of Bryn
Mawr Republicans to handle do-
mestic problems in campus _poli-
tical discussions, and_ realized
that the unfounded argument of
Mr. R.’s “superb” foreign policy
(what is it, incidentally?), par-
ticularly among some members
of our faculty: and of course the

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INCIDENTALLY ...





Alas, Pallas! Inclement weather |
played general havoc with Lantern
Night, but it appears that it was
not sufficiently inclement to deter
two Sophomores. They wanted to
have Lantern Night as scheduled
on Friday, and, determined ‘souls,
they did. They had it all alone. As
rain drizzled in the Cloisters, two
capped and gowned figures, each
bearing a. lantern, emerged, brave-
ly but weakly singing ‘Pallas
Athene.” They marched the length
of the Cloisters, reaching a fourth
rendition of the Greek Hymn as
they took their places in the line-
that-wasn’t-there, handed their
lanterns to Freshmen who weren’t
there either, ran madly to the cor-
ner to sing the last chorus, then
went home to get dry.

Where There’s Smoke. . . Fire
Captains, as a rule, are a sadistic
lot. Nothing pleases them more
than rousing some 50 or 60 deep-
sleeping females at 4:00 a.m.,
while they themselves, fully dress-
ed and repulsively wide-awake,
sit hard on the fire bell. The tables
were turned in Rhoads, however,
when two days after 4 fire drill,
the Fire Captain was roused from
her-bed at 6 or thereafter by two
happy souls who said they smelled
smoke. Having announced this,
they réturned to their beds, as the





half-awake and thoroughly-annoy-

te

ed Fire Captain donned coat, shoes
and towel and stumbled from the
third floor to the basement, snif-
fing the smoke. The fire was duly
put out and the Fire Captain re-
turned to her bed, too disconcerted
to take. advantage of the hour or
the realistic smoke-filled corridors.

We May Not Live Through It...
Anytime now, the News can fill up
space with a casualty list, at least
if the hotkey games continued at
their present no-holds-barred rate.
To a Junior occurred the most
ironic of the fast-mounting casu-
alties. Playing in a Shipley ver-
sus Shipley alumnae game on the -
Bryn Mawr hockey field, and, as
a Westover alumna, merely filling
up the team out of the goodness
of her heart, she met with a flying
ball and now struggles up Taylor
steps on crutches. Water on the
knee, the Infirmary declares. In
the second inter-hall hockey game,
‘Rock, it would seem, fared worst,
as one Junior carries her arm in a
sling and a Sophomore sustained
temporary internal injuries. Add
to this the years first war casual-
ty, a Rock waitress who burned
her arm trying to pour tea too
early in the morning.

And incidentally, the alumnae
visiting the halls during the Alum-
nae Council meeting were im-
pressed at how good the food is!


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Manpower shortages affected
Bryn Mawr dances not in the least
before the momentous year 1920.
-In fact, men never attended Bryn
Mawr dances before that year. In
the “Good Old Days”’—may they
rest in peace—undergraduates got
dressed in their newest finery, sent
each other corsages, and went off
to dance with one another.

New Regime

The Senior class in 1920, how-
ever, decided that this was a far
from perfect state of affairs. They
determined to inaugurate a new
regime and to introduce a few men
to the dance following their Gar-
den Party. According to Ann San-
ford ’20, other and braver souls
than she decided upon the follow-
ing dubiously legal plan of action.
Allowing no time for a reply pre-
vious to the gala event, they ca-
bled to President Thomas, who
was on a trip around the world,
asking for her permission to have
a mixed dance. Then they proceed-
ed to hold a dance—with men—on
Merion Green.

‘Such revolutionary action by the
class of ’20 as Seniors was heavily
foreshadowed by their behavior as
Freshmen. While still “adolescent
and new”, they were voted a fresh
Freshman class by the Seniors. Be-
ing voted a fresh class was consid-
ered the worst kind of disgrace
possible and 1920 was marked for
its college life.

Fist-Fight

This disgrace was incurred part-
ly by a fist-fight in which the
Freshmen battled the Sophomores
on Montgomery Avenue and in
which one Freshman lost her white
starched petticoat. It was also
caused by their encroachment up-
on the bathing rights of the
“Mighty Hel” Harris, then presi-
dent of the Senior class.

It seems that Helen Harris be-
gan to suspect that the offenders
who were leaving sand in her fav-
orite bathtub were all Freshmen.
For their benefit she posted above
the tub a notice reading, “Ladies
will and others must scrub the tub.”
In retaliation, Freshmen from all
over campus streamed to Rock to
take their baths in the famous
Harris tub. They left behind them
poetry as well-as sand. They cov-
ered the walls of the roomy with
insubordinate jingles, and one en-
terprising bather even designed
the “Harris coat of arms,” includ-
ing scrubbing brush and cleanser.

More legal but no less enterpris-
ing Freshman retaliation against
Senior tyranny, and it was tyran-
ny in those days when Freshmen
were required to: drop their books
and hold doors for all upperclass-
men, was manifested on Freshman
Night. On that night all bars of
reserve were let down. Morning
found the Seniors’ -toothbrushes
planted in careful rows along the
walks leading to Taylor.

Roosevelt’s Running
Preferred in Ballot

Continued from page 1

" ty affiliations who would vote for
Dewey, Norman Thomas, or Will-
kie’s ghost, and favors the “Pla-
tonic theory that pure intellects
should rule.” But saddest of. all
was the ballot across the bottom
of which “take typhoid shots”
stands out in scrawled capitals.

Bicycle
The Lower Merion Police
have held for a year an un-
claimed red bicycle with a

Schwim frame. They hope the
owner will identify it soon.







Merion Ghouls Beat
Rock’s Weary Team;
{de and Horn Score



The Merion Ghouls triumphed
2-0 over Rockefeller in the second
Sunday afternoon inter-hall hock-
ey match. The Rock defense put
up a valiant fight until the fourth
quarter when’ sheer exhaustion
prevented them from fending off
the Merion line.

Planning to conduct Rock’s fun-
eral, the Ghouls dressed in gowns
with white shirts and red bloom-
ers beneath and marched down to
the hockey field via Rock Arch
carrying a bier draped in black
on which was placed a large and
dirty rock.

The first half of the game was

characterized by. furious and
fruitless struggles in the Rock
goal circle. Whenever the ball

approached the other end of the
field, Merion’s warden and star
fullback, Miss Elly, skillfully shot
it back again. Rock’s goalie, Bet-
sy Graf ’48, remained impreg-
nable until the second half when
the weary Rock defense called in
the Army and Navy.

The game won, the Ghouls were
still eager for more, so they join-
ed forces with the referee, Betsy
Kaltenthaler ’47, and took on the
premeds of Penn for another
match. Under the direction of
Marce Gross ’47, the boys quickly
discovered that field: hockey was
nothing but a cross between foot-
ball and golf, and even the daunt-
less Ghoul team was forced to
yield them a 3-1 victory.

Schweppe Criticizes
Bell’s Lack of Facts

Continued from Page 2
campus New Dealers, is the one
twig to which the fourth-termites
have to cling.

Of course, Mr. Bell can’t manu-
facture Mr. Dewey’s opinions out
of the aether—no one should have
to! Mr. Dewey has given in his
speeches, and press conferences,
tremendous material for every-
one, especially his active; cam-
paigners, to quote as his views—
for example—‘tno secret diplo-
macy”, What is our duty to Stalin
as secretly avowed by Mr. R.?
In frequent meetings a lot has
been said: But we don’t know to
what Mr. R. has agreed, aside
from undoubtedly promising that
the Americans will “back down”
at the “right” time, as far as the
rights of Poland, Czechoslovakia,

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Speaking on The Netherlands
Today in Monday’s Current Events,
Mr. David Friedman of the Uni-
versity of Leyden and at present
with the Netherlands Information
Bureau, in New York, pointed out
that the principles of democracy,

for
are
ag~-

dominant in the Netherlands
the last four centuries and
treasured today despite Nazi
gression.

Planning for ‘the future, the
Netherlands government has de-
clared that it -will participate in a
world organization, with’ policies
guided by the principles of the
Atlantic Charter. It is ready. to
cooperate in a regional organiza-
tion with Belgium and: France or
any other country, and will return
to a planned economy in domestic
affairs. Autonomy will be granted
to the Netherlands Indies, and ter-
ritory will be demanded of Ger-
many at the peace table in compen-
sation for the damage _ inflicted
upon Dutch territory. The Neth-
erlands’ democratic principles will
be preserved under the Queen, and
together with the United States
and Britain she will continue the
war as she is now doing.

The spirit which inspired eighty
years of Dutch resistance against
the Spanish during the 16th and
17th centuries still prevails, Mr.
Friedman said, although the Neth-

Continued on Page 4

Colleges Will Discuss
National Scholarships



The Seven College Conference,
with Bryn Mawr as hostess col-
lege, will meet at the Cosmopoli-
tan Club in New York on Satur-
day, October 28. Representing
Bryn Mawr are Miss McBride,
Mrs. Grant and Miss Schenck.

The seven colfeges which com-

‘| pose the Conference are Vassar,

Smith, Wellesley, Radcliffe, Bar-
nard}; Mt. “Holyoke and’ Bryn
Mawr. Chief subject of the meet-
ing will be the Seven Collegé Na-
tional Scholarships, and a review
of the first year of the plan. Two
of these national scholars are in
Bryn Mawr’s Freshman class.

Various other topics will come
before the one-day Conference of
representatives from the _ seven
colleges, including a discussion of
women’s colleges in the post - war
period, with plans for curriculum
and the teaching of language in
relation to the Army language
programs. Also under discussion
will be the problems of admission
of returning service women and
faculty returning from leave, and
finally college and government



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Novel “Embezzled Heaven”
Lacks Vital Spark
On Stage



By Celia Rosenblum ’47

Ethel Barrymore stars in the
dramatization of Franz Werfel’s
novel, Embezzled Heaven. Unfor-
tunately; the performance falls !
short of what oné is under the cir-
cumstances led to expect.

The plot of the play is admit-
tedly not “rich”. It concerns the
devoutly religious old cook, Teta,
who tries to buy her way into hea-
ven by giving her nephew all her
money so that he can become an}
ordained priest. The nephew be-
comes a mountebank, and in her bit-
ter disappointment, Teta travels to
Rome, to confess her great sins in
an audience with the Pope. She is
forgiven and dies happily in the
arms of a young priest who is
everything that her nephew is not.

Miss Barrymore appears both
unconvinced and unconvincing, al-
though this is not entirely her
fault. In the novel Teta is a
scheming old woman who is not
entirely honest with her accounts.
On the stage she appears as a mis-
guided, relatively harmless _indi-
vidual for whom one is supposed
to feel sympathy in her great sor-
row. The last act,.in which we
see her before the Pope, should be
deep and moving, but the vital
spark is missing, and as the cur-
tain goes down the audience is left
unmoved.

Embezzled Heaven_reverses the
procedure followed by plays which

“Jare most often successful. The lat-

ter may start out slowly, and build
up to a climax. Conversely, in this
play, the prologue and first act
promise much, but the action and
the interpretation die a hard, slow,
death in the last two acts.

It is difficult to say who is to
blame for the disappointment. The
subject is difficult but the play-
wrights would have done better to
remain true to the novel. They
weakened the character of Teta to
such an extent that Miss Barry-
more seems to feel that she is too
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Social Security Act
Discussed by Burns

‘Continued from Page 1

sulting from temporary unemploy-
nent and consequent reductions

in demand, can be checked by the
provision of unemployment _ in-
surance which will provide those
who are temporarily unemployed
with the purchasing power to

maintain their demands, This will
be particularly important in the
reconversion —period;~.when the
number of temporarily unemploy-
ed is variously estimated at 12 to
18 million. ;

Unemployables

In addition to supporting full
employment and maintaining
purchasing’ power, social security
is needed to supplement full em-
ployment in the case of the unem-
ployables. There will be an _ in-
creasing percentage of the popu-
lation over 65 in the next gener-
ation, and these coupled with oth-
er frictionally unemployed, will
need a certain amount of public
aid . which be
through full employment.
Burns estimates that
about 2% million permanently

unemployed in the United States.

supplied
Mrs.
are

cannot

there

Expanded Economy

Finally, social security planning
expanded
of
Nonprofit services,

may serve to guide an
economy into the production
useful goods.
such as education, a more exten-
health and
are

system,
particularly

sive public
town planning
important in this ‘respeet, since
under an unrestricted profit sys-
tem they would be very much ne-

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Strains of ‘Mairzy Doats’, Maniacal Raving

Emanate from Odd Latin Play Rehearsals

There is a slight case of confu-
sion on Goodhart ‘stage
nights as something sounding dis-
tinctly like Mairzy Doats is ren-
dered into ‘Latin, a negligee passes
back and forth between the cur-
tains, and two people keep comb-
ing their hair in different ways
trying to look like each other. The
occasion, we are told, is mad prep-
aration for the annual Latin play,
to be given Saturday night in
Goodhart.

It may be that Plautus is turn-
ing’ over rapidly in his grave at
the thought of what ten amateurs
and a strictly slang translation will
make of the Menaechmi, but it is
certain that a prolonged case of
mistaken identity, a misled. wife
and a misled mistress will make,



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John Bell Discusses
Dewey as Candidate

Continued from page 1

ey’s system of free _ enterprise,
however, would offer jobs to all
those who are willing to work.

Although Dewey has not re-
nounced isolationist support, Bell
asserted that the Governor is a
truly progressive Republican. His
discreet silence is for purely poli-
tical reasons and his desire to
win the election.

On the other hand, Roosevelt
was condemned for supposed
Communist support, because Bill
said, the people don’t want Browd-
er at the back door of the White
House and Hillman browsing
around the front.

Dewey
Continued from Page. 2

ment, undertake the risks of buy-
ing raw materials, when a govern-
ment decree might tomorrow or
next week fix prices or wages that
will mean economic ruin for him.
Security is the prime factor in in-
suring full production and the
Democratic. program, once war-
time conditions are _ eliminated,
cannot offer security to anyone.

Labor’s needs and wants are no
different from the needs and
wants of any group in society. The
American working man wants a
job that will enable him to live
comfortably.

The American enterprise wants
an opportunity to conduct its busi-
ness according to natural economic
laws. The: interests of the busi-
ness man and the interests of the
working man here are in complete
harmony, and. together they will
be able to work out their problems
to the satisfaction of both. In the
field of industry, government can
only blunder and confuse. The Re-
publican Party guarantees to both
American business and American
labor a maximum of freedom to
make this adjustment.



thesés

i not a dramatic achievement, at
‘least a good long laugh out of
Double Trouble.

The doubles’ troubles begin when
Menaechmus II (Alison Merrill
’45) arrives in Epidammus, where,
unbeknownst to him, his long lost
twin (Mary Lou Miles ’45) lives.
His slave (Elizabeth Dow-
ling ’47) fast warns him of the
dangers that may turn up and im-
mediately a female (Betty Myers
’47) turns up, asking him, whom
she supposes to be Menaechmus I,
to come and see her etchings. This
is only the beginning; Menaechmus
II goes wild before it is all over,
while his twin is thrown into jail
and utter confusion. ~

Owls Defeat Ursinus |
In Season’s Ist.Game



Hockey Field, October 24. The
Bryn Mawr hockey team, playing
their first game of the season,
stormed to a 3-2: victory over Ur-
sinus.

Though undefeated in the past
two years, Ursinus was clearly
outclassed by Bryn Mawr’s per-
fect teamwork. Once ahead, noth-
ing could stop the Owls. Only for
a few minutes in the second half
was there any chance of Ursinus
taking the lead.

The Owls wasted no time in
proving superiority. Within the
first two minutes of play Lydia
Gifford ’45, scored the first goal
on a pass from Ty Walker ’45.

Ursinus went scoreless until the
second half when the red team got
control of the ball and Anderson,
the left inner, tallied. With eight
minutes left to play, Ty Walker
scored the tie-breaking goal and
Marge Richardson 746, put the
third tally across for the Owls.
Trying to recoup their losses Ur-
sinus made a futile attempt to
make two goals. Although An-
derson made a second goal for
Ursinus, the Owls’ defense thwart-
ed every attempt to score again.

Trailing at the half, the Bryn
Mawr Reserves scored two goals
in the second period to tie Ursinus’
second team 2-2,

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Carey LI Anderson
Gifford CF Secor
Walker RI Moyer
Richardson RW Harmer
Hedge LH Daniels
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GOP Tops Democrats
By Narrew Majority —

Contfhued from page 1

the Democratic faculty. The 1940
poll showed a somewhat similar
trend, although not so marked.

Of the halls, five support Dewey,
four support Roosevelt, and one is
split equally betwen the two, while
the Non-Residents favor Roosevelt.
In 1940, only Merion and the Ger-
man House supported Roosevelt.
Denbigh casts 28 votes for Dewey,
15 for Roosevelt, and four for oth-
ers, while Merion prefers Roose-
velt by a 25-21 vote, with one vote
for another candidate. In the
Pems, West supports Dewey 21-18,
and East supports Roosevelt.. 25-
21, with five votes for other can-
didates. In Rhoads, South pre-
fers Dewey by a 28-22 vote, with
one vote for. another choice, and
North votes 33 for Dewey, 10 for
Roosevelt, and one for another. By
one vote, Roosevelt wins in Rock,
with 31 votes cast for him, and 30
for Dewey. Radnor is Republican
only by a slight edge: Dewey sev-
en.and Roosevelt five. In the lan-
guage houses, Wyndham prefers
Roosevelt 9-6, while the German
House inhabitants are at a dead-
lock. Of the Non-Reses, 18 vote
for Roosevelt, six for Dewey and
two for other choices.

An overwhelming majority of
Bryn Mawr undergraduate vote as
their parents do. 263 students
agree with the political views of
their parents and 83 do not, while
37 may vote as do either their
mother or father, and four do not
record the political beliefs of their
parents.

Reasons listed by undergradu-
ates for supporting their candi-
dates are too numerous to list, but
they center largely on the familiar
arguments. Chief pro-Dewey ar-
gument is that we need a change,
that the present administration
has too much power. Many object
to a fourth term, while others be-
moan Roosevelt’s dictatorial ten-
dencies and his old age, blame him
solely for Pearl Harbor, and ex-
pect Dewey to save private enter-
prise and to put the country on a
more stable economic basis. The
pro-Roosevelt faction looks chiefly
to his foreign policy as the chief
issue, and next to his experience in
this time of. crisis.

The faculty, too, will vote for
Roosevelt chiefly because of his
foreign policy, his experience, his
support of labor, and his record of
social legislation. Roosevelt means
interest in the common man and
in constructive social legislation
as opposed to big finance interests.
Chief arguments against Roosevelt
are objections to a fourth term and
to his domestic policy, where he is
said to favor “dole economics.”







Lost

Lost—in Taylor Hall or the
Deanery: a pair of amber-col-
ored spectacles.. Please _ re-
turn to Mrs. Manning, who
needs them desperately.







Current Events
Continued from page 3

erlands are now facing problems
far greater than those that arose
during the four years-of German
occupation. The Nazi occupation-
al policy was one of subduing and
plundering a country to the ut-
most limit without reducing it to
the »point where it could ,no long-
er provide slave labor for the
Reich; now that the country is be-
ing liberated, even this small mea-
sure of protection is removed. The
Germans’ avowed intent is com-
plete and ruthless destruction of
the Netherlands through the con-
duet of ‘biological warfare’, so that
when Germany wages her third
great war she will have only weak
neighbors.

To accomplish this end, she is
flooding the country with sea
water, thereby irreparably harm-
ing the nation’s agricultural life
and sweeping away millions of
homes. The major cities are
threatened with the fact that un-
less the Germans are expelled,
food, gas, electricity, and sewerage
facilities will be cut off within a
few weeks.

Despite these hardships, and the
knowledge that the Allies will
have to’ supply their troops before
aiding the Nethelands, the Dutch
spirit is unbroken.



Political Clubs Plan
Debate on Election



The ‘Democrats and the Repub-
licans on campus will tangle in a
challenging debate on Wednesday
evening, November list. The res-
olution: That a Democratic ad-
ministration would be better able
than a Republican administration
to guide the nation through the
postwar period.

The teams will be composed of
four student speakers for each
faction, and members of the fac-
ulty will participate as judges
and as moderator., The event will
be preceded by a flashlight pro-
cession down to the gymnasium,
where the debate will take place.
Torchlights are desired to. provide
the rally spirit, but are impossible
to obtain. As yet, the _ political

clubs have not finally chosen the

speakers who. will defend and con-
test the resolutions.

Freshmen Compete

For Hall Play Prize

Continued from page 1

tiny, directed by Eleanor Borden
’46, The Non-Res. and fadnor
are giving The Four of Us Meet
Again by Lindsay Barbee, under
the direction of Nan Emery ’47.
Pem West plans to give the first
act of The Romancers by Rostand.
Director is Katharine Colvin ’46,
Freshmen Director Nancy Thayer,
and Stage Manager, Laura Mar;
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