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THE COLLEGE NEWS

(Founded in 1914)



Published weekly dur. the College Year (except during Thanksgiving,
Christmas and Easter holidays, and during examination weeks) in the interest
of Bryn Mawr College at the Ardmore Printing Company, Ardmore, Pa., and
Bryn Mawr College.



The College News is fully protected by copyright. Nothing that appears
in it may be. reprinted either wholly or in part without permission of the
Editor-in-Chief.



Editorial Board
ALISON MERRILL, *45, Editor-in-Chief ‘
Mary Vircinia More, ’45, Copy Patricia Piatt, °45, News
APRIL OuRSLER, °46 SUSAN OULAHAN, °46; News

- Editorial Staff

Naney MoreEnHouse, iy fs PATRICIA BEHRENS, °46
MarGareT Rupp, *47 ; LANIER DuNN, °47
THELMA BALpDASsaRR2, ’47 - Darst Hyatt, ’47
RosAMOND Brooks, *46 MonnNIE BELLow, °47
Marcia DEmMBow, *47 Rosina BATESON, °47
Cecitia ROSENBLUM, °47 Emity Evarts, ’47
E.izaABETH Day, "47 ZauRA DIMOND, °47

Sports Cartoons
Caro. BALLarD, *45 JEAN SMITH, °46

Photographer

HANNAH KauFMANN, ’46

Business Board \
Mica AsHopiANn, °46, Business Manager
é BaRBARA WILLIAMS, '46, Advertising Manager
SarRAH G. BECKWITH, '46 ANNE KincsBury, °47
ANN WERNER, °47 .
Subscription Board
MarcaretT~Loup, ’46, Manager

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Entered as second class matter at the Ardmore, Pa.; Post Office
Under Act of Congress August 24, 1912







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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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!