College news, October 24, 1956

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VOL. XLII, NO. 4

ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 24, 1956

© Trustees of Bryn Mawr College, 1956

PRICE 20 CENTS



U.S. Campuses Divided On Politics;
Students Wage Campaigns Actively

by Rita Rubinstein

By way of report on the elec-
tion writing on college campuses,
it was noticed that few of those
papers which are received in the
News office editorialized about the
candidates or the issues.

Numbering among the non-ob-
jective publications was the Har-
vard Crimson that came out for
Stevenson. This ‘undergraduate
daily which backed the same man
in 1952 said, “we believe that Adlai
Stevenson will provide “the leader-
ship demanded by the ‘next four
years—to move forward out of the
current disease-like complacency
toward a new America and a new
world.” The editorial went on to
say, that the Président, “has failed
to utilize his great prestige and
his commanding respect to grapple
with tHe urgent problems of the
day.”

The Vassar Misceliany News ‘ob-
served voter apathy in its canvas-
sing of the Poughkeepsie area.
“Most of the voters are strongly
partisan and apparently have had
their minds made. up for a long
time. Very few watched the con-
ventions this summer and even
fewer listen to campaign speeches
now. Evidently the GOP argu-
ments have made a profound im-
pression on these people for the
"majority. opinion was that Pough-
keepsie would vote Republican
along with the rest of Dutchess
County. While some concede that
the questions of Hisenhower’s
health and Nixon’s personality
have switched some Republican
votes, most feel that these factors
are far outweighed by the prosper-
ity they are enjoying.”

In The Mount Holyoke News, the
printed results of a campus straw
vote: indicated a sweeping GOP
victory. This year, however, only
15% of the student body supported
Eisenhower and Nixon as compar-
ed to 79% in 1952. “The opposite
situation. is reflected in faculty and
administration. votes. In ’52 Ike
and Dick won by only 58%, in ’56
their share rose to nearly 61%.”

And The Swarthmore Phoenix
reports the existence of three par-
tisan political organizations on
their campus, at least for the dura-

The Students Republicans Associa-
tion, The Students for Democratic
Action, and The Students for Stev-
enson, Kefauver and Clark.

The Barnard Bulletin which sup-
ported Stevenson and the Demo-
cratic Party had the following to
say about the general subject of
campus politicking. “Barnard stu-
dents have welcomed controversy
to the campus. In an unofficial
survey whose purpose was to sound
out student reaction to our recent
editoria] the Bulletin discovered
that most students believed ‘it is
important to take a stand on the
coming, election.” Also ‘on that
campus as regards electioneering:
“From a table in front.of Low Li-

spread the gospel via free litera-
ture and campaign buttons. They
have also, prompted Barnard din-

The News is happy to an-
riounce the appointment of the
following members, to the edit-
orial staff: Betsy Gott ’58; Su-
san Harris ’60; Gretchen Jes-
sup ’58; Helene Valabregue 58;
Jana Varlejs ’60; and. Susan





-| zonsidered.

ing hall cashiers to hand out but-.
tons with the change.” On the
Democratic side: “The latest activ-'
ity of this organization is a motor-|
HOG 0.0
the corner of 125th Street and 7th
Avenue where Mr. Stevenson him-
self will address his supporters.”

Finally the Daily Pennsylvan-
ian’s explanation of its objective
position caught our attention. “The
Daily Pennsylvanian has decided to
advocate the election of neither
candidate. . We believe that both

{the Republican and the Democratic

Parties have nominated men cap-
able of filling the office of Presi-

dent of the United States. (How-
ever) we urge students, as individ-
uals, to actively campaign for the
candidates of their choice. We be-
lieve that intelligent political ac-

|tivity should be cultivated by col-.

lege students.” —

its. destination will be|



Professional Nature Script, Acting, Costuming

Of ‘Pristina’ Praised-With Some Reservations



A stene from “Pristina Perplexed”



Biologist Conner, Physicist Pruett

Tell Of Effects Of

by: Robert Conner
and John Pruett

When asked to write an article
concerning the question of whether.
the H-bomb tests should be con-
tinued or discontinued, we consent-
ed with the understanding that it
was not to be political in scope.
Further, we felt a “Coordination of
the Sciences” was necessary be-
cause the problem of the H-bomb
is complex and has- many ramifi-
cations.

In arriving at an answer which
satisfies one’s conscience as to
whether the hydrogen bomb tests
should be pressed or whether they
should be discontinued without full
scale disarmament or bilateral ac-
tion a number of factors may be
Individuals will differ
concerning the relative emphasis
placed on the moral implications,
military security, preservation of
idealogy, contribution to funda-
mental knowledge, and the possi-
bility of serious damage or extinc-
tion of the human race. _ In this
article we wish to confine our at-
tention to the last two points.

A physicist considering only the
possible contributions to fundamen-
tal knowledge and ignoring the last
point would like a continuation of
the tests. However, if the last two
points are considered together, ev-
eryone must give careful consid-
eration .to the following evidence.

When a H-bomb is exploded a
variety of radioactive debris is
thrown into the upper atmosphere
and distributed over the entire
earth. Of the several long-lived
radioactive materials in this debris
the one which must receive the se-
rious consideration is Strontium
90. Strontium enters the body via
the food which we eat and is re-
tained in the bones. It has been
‘reported by Dr. Libby that the re-
sults of recent measurement of];
Strontium 90 concentrations in hu-
man bone show that the eventual
accumulation of this substance re-
sulting from H-bombs exploded to
date will be 1%% of the maximum

rmissible concentration (MPC)
which is presently accepted. This
figure is forty. times larger than
that given by the, Atomic Energy

|Commission. This discrepancy has

been shown..by Dr..R.E. Lapp as







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an error in calculation in the paper





H-Bomb Radiation

on which the. AEC still bases its
optimistic reports.
' While considering thé implica-
tion of the above fact, it should
be noted that the MPC of any ra-
dioactivé material is still doubtful
and is constantly being revised
downward. The medical profession
has lowered the maximal permis-
sive dosage of X-rays three times
in the last 25 years. It is known
that medical X-ray men who gov-
ern their radiation exposure by this
standard suffer an incidence of leu-
kemia which is 10 times greater
than the rest of the medical pro-
fession, suggesting that the level
needs further downward ‘revision.
The British medical council has re-
cently set the maximum permissive
dosage at a level one-tenth that
designated by the AEC. The Eng-
lish figure takes into consideration
a whole population including chil-
dren, a factor neglected by our own
commission. Using this figure we
find that every man, woman, and
child in the world has been sen-
tenced already to an ultimate con-
centration of strontium 90 which
is” 15% the maximal — permissible
dosage. In other words, explosion
of 7 times the fissionable material
used to date would place the world
population over the ‘safety limit
and endanger the survival of the
human race.

There is still another factor to
be considered from the biological
point-of view. The discussion thus
far has been concerned only with
the possible radiation effects of the
individual or what might be re-
ferred to as the immediate health
hazard. This does not include any
of the possible genetic effects of
the irradiation.

Dr. H. J. Muller, Nobel prize
recipient for his work in radiation
genetics, _demonstrated_.that.-.the
mutation rate or amount of change
Lin the hereditary material increas-
es.as radiation increases. Further,
he has demonstrated that a very
large proportion of. these effects
are deleterious resulting in a weak-
ened progeny and often death.
These effects are cumulative and
often times require several genera-
tions before the effect becomes ap-
parent. Certainly, these results are
based on information gained using

Continued on Page 5, Col. 5

Hugh Borton Is
H’ford President

Hugh Borton, a leading scholar
in Japanese history and Director of
the East Asian Institute of Colum-
bia University, has been appointed
president of Haverford College.

When Professor Borton takes of-
fice in June he will be Haverford’s
fifteenth president. He will suc-
ceed Gilbert F. White who termi-
nated nine and a half years as
president last January to return to
the University of Chicago.

Mr. Borton, who received his
early education at Moorestown
Friends School and at Westtown
School, was graduated from Hav-
erford in the Class of 1926. Dur-
ing three years with the American
Friends Service Committee in Ja-
pan, teaching English and study-
ing the language, Mr. Borton was
inspired by the leading occidental
authority on Japanese language
and culture, Sir George Sansom,
Counsellor for the British Embas-
sy. Mr. Borton took a Master’s
degree in history at Columbia Uni-
versity in. 1932, then went to Ley-
den, Holland, and to the Imperial
University in Tokyo to get further
work in his field of Japanese lan-
guage and history. He received
his Ph.D. from Leyden in 1987.
That Fall Professor Borton started
teaching at Columbia, where he
has since been except for a six-
year period (1942-48) with the
United States Department of
State.

While with the State Depart-
ment, first as a*specialist in East
Asia, then as Chief of the Division
of Northeast Asian Affairs and
later as a member of the State-
War-Navy Coordinating Committee.

on Legal and Constitutional re-
forms, Professor Borton was called
on to help draft official policy to
govern postwar Japan and Korea
and to work on problems connect-
ed with the peace treaty.

In addition to being a contribu-
tor of numerous articles in his
field, Dr. Borton is the author of
the following books: “Peasant Up-
risings in Japan,” 1938; “Japan
Since 1931, Its Social and Political
Development,” 1940; “Japan’s

Modern Century,” 1955, an inter-|



pretive history of the past hundred

years.

By Marcia Case

The excitement generated by the
opening -of Prisina Perplexed or
The Lady’s Not for Learning in
Goodhart Hall was comparable to
that created by the opening of My
Fair Lady at the Mark Hellinger.
No class show in'recent years has
been so heralded, and few have
been so enthusiastically. received.
The feeling here is that in its con-
‘ception, script, acting, costuming,
and in its professionalism through-
out, Pristina was an excellent
show, And yet...

The juniors restored the script
to its rightful position as the most
important ingredient of any class
show. The terse verse was often
clever and always intelligent. After
the -most recent class productions,
it» was refreshing to find a show
whose humor was derived for the
most part from its own plot and
characters, rather than from al-
fusions to standard or current Col-
lege jokes. It was good to see a
show whose musical numbers were
the highlights of, rather than the
excuse for, the scenes, and where
the personalities
were subordinated to those of and
characaters.

The acting was of an haath
high quality throughout. Again,
it is to the lasting credit of the
juniors that they were content to
create a few major, clealy-defined
characters. There were no “one-
song” characters, no excess per-
sonalities on stage bearing little
relation to thé plot or to each oth-
er,

The two leads, Princess Pristing
and the Duke of Bombast-Savant,
were superbly played by Linda
Hampton and Dodie Stimpson, re-
spectviely, Linda possessed the
looks, voice, self-assurance and the
air to make her a completely be-
lievable princess.

In the difficult role of the Duke,

the attention of the Princess and
the audience, whether lecturing on
logic or brooding in dark corners.
Her stage presence and magnetism
were essential to the success of the
show.

In the - ohiicnbivties of the Duke;
by the way, the juniors raised a

problem of how to have romantic
male interest without having a
romantically interesting mal e,
Their. solution. might be called the
Theory of Substitution, that is,
because of certain resemblances of
looks, gestures, ete., the audience
forgets the undergraduate actress
and substitutes—but the possibili-
ties of such a plan are limitless. —

. Unquestionably one of the high-
lights of the show was Margaret
Goodman’s performance as_ the

}Priovess:—Her~portrayal Was a ~

perfect blend of humor and re-
straint, and well-deserving of the
show’s only encore.

_ All the performances indeed were
extremely good. Pat Sugrue ag
the lovable King, Anne Schaefer

Judy Robertson as the genial Host,
and Tulsa Kaiser as a slightly
bored Herald are deserving of par-



Continued on Page 6, Col. 1

of the actors

Dodie Stompson managed to hold-«

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Wednesday, October 24, 1956



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G. O. P. “Prospirty”

Last week, the News concerned itself in this space with

the first half of the’Republican war cry of “Peace and Pros-

rity.” Today, the second aspect, an economic one, comes
into consideration.

The Eisenhower Administration lists a high level of busi-
ness activity as one of its prominent: achievements. Yet the
financial nrognerity taken. credit for, does not take into ac-
count the large segment of the American population still in
poverty nor the increasing amount of small business failures.
At the same time, the means to,and underlying principles of
this economic “prosperity” are obscured, as is the contrast
between Republican economic thinking and that of the Dem-
ocrats.
The traditional Republican concept of economic devel-.
opment is formal, impersonal and governed by the assump-
_ tion that unrestrained, rather than regulated, freedom of
action accorded to economic enterprises will bring results
beneficial to all society. These ideas, close to nineteenth cen-
tury conceptions of capitalism, are rather unsuitable (espec-

_ ially when seen in the light of the ’30’s) to a complex econ-
omy characterized by a high concentration of wealth.

The Democratic tradition, on the other hand, calls for
government intervention in economic processes and attempts
to correct them, when the situation necessitates such aid.
During the Depression years, the Democratic Party mobil-
ized the material and spiritual resources of the country, in-
F cluding the authority of the government.

Today, the Eisenhower Administration has displayed
little departure from basic traditional Republican economics.
This fact is not apparent because the GOP has preserved
many of the economic checks and balances developed under
the Roosevelt and Truman Administrations. To destroy them
would be a political impossibility. Yet, by reducing the role
played by the government in economic affairs, the Adminis-
4 tration has created conditions favoring large.corporations,
which have. benefited from the increased neutrality of the
state. Since 1952, big business profits have increased by
61% and small’ business profits declined by 52%. The rate
of small business failures rose by 46%. On the other side of
the counter, the consumer will not benefit from conditions
eB favorable to monopoly and higher profits.

F The fiscal policy of the Eisenhower Administration has
4 been in line with its attitude towards big business. Taxes

were reduced by the Republicans. Yet approximately 90%

of every dollar in the tax cut went to the upper income brac-

xets and corporations. This is not only unjust but bad econ-
; omics. Under expanding production, the long-run interest
z of the country calls for an increase in purchasing power in
4 the hands of those who spend the greatest part of their in-
come as well as of those who save the most.

Another aspect of the government fiscal policy working
for the large corporations and against the small businessman
as well as the taxpayer, is the Administration’s policy of

: “tight” or “hard money”. The results of this policy are the
- difficulties of small firms in obtaining loans and the high in-
terest rates paid for them. Als. pointed out by Walter C.
Louchheim, Jr., a former S.E.C. official, in a letter to the New
York Times, October 19, the Republican claim that the high-
interest policy as a “restraint on inflationary measures by
reducing borrowings from banks and financial institutions”
has not proved true by the fact that bank loans to business
ave increased, and “consumers have continued their heavy

the public or Federal debt which has increased by $1.2 billion
since 1952... The government’s continued borrowing at the
present high interest rates will cost the taxpayer more.
In a related field, the Administration’s management of
yuntry’s natural resources has not been in the interests
tant financial source for the nation’s educational
given away to private interests. = =:
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Although the moral pointers and
precepts inculcated by Pristina
Perplexed or The Lady’s Not For
Learning are with us still (espe-
cially with one individual who
seems to have taken the lesson of
the Duke to heart!) the last echoes
of “Pristina” and “All Hail We
Sing” are being replaced by those
of “Sophias” and “Pallas Athena.”

In thé midst of this tuneful at-
mosphere resound the cries of the
embattled supporters of Eisenhow-
er, Stevenson and Pogo. (There is
even a small faction for Peanuts!)
We should like to state that we
are disassociating ourselves from
the editorial policy of the News
and supporting the last-named can-
didate.

As for the state of the Pogo

Dearls Before - - -

By Patty Page



Campaign on campus—it has had
a surprising degree of success.
Somewhat optimistically we order-
ed 600 buttons from national head-
quarters which miraculously disap-
peared in a matter of days and at
present 50 lafge-size buttons are
putting in an appearance on more

enthusiastic supporters!

We are not too sure how this
compares with campaign results at
Haverford whose manager reports
(and we quote) “The campaign is
pushing along with the enthusiasm
of a roused billiard ball.” Not be-
ing an authority on that most in-
teresting game, we have no way of
evaluating the statement but we
would hazard a guess that a “rous-
ed billiard ball” is the “sine qua

non” of enthusiasm!







From The Balcony

By Ruth Rasch





The Sleeping Prince—By Terence Rattigan

“What possesses distinguished

actors to work with enthusiasm on}

plays that could never have distinc-
tion, even if they were well done?”

puzzled Brooks Atkinson in his
theatre column in the New York
Times on October 14. I’m afraid
that Mr. Atkinson will repeat that
question to himself, in disgust and
boredom, when he sees Terence
Rattigan’s “occasional Fairy Tale”
The Sleeping Prince.

Michael Redgrave, star of one
of last year’s finest plays, Tiger at
the Gate (a play in which he gave
a magnificent performance) and
Barbara Bel Geddes, well remem-
bered as a star in Tennessee Wil-
liam’s great play Cat on a Hot Tin
Roof (her performance as thé un-
happy wife, especially in the first
scene of that play, will long be re-
membered) combine their talents
with those of one of the great la-
dies of .the stage, Cathleen Nes-
bitt—and perform in one of the
most mediocre “comedies” to re-
ceive full scale Broadway produc-
tion in a long time.

This play whose “scene through-
out is a’ room in the Carpathian
Legation in London” takes place in
June, 1911. Michael Redgrave plays
the role of the regent of Carpathia
and Barbara Bél Geddes is the
beautiful show girl Mary Morgan,
known on the stage as Elaine Dag-
enham; whom he invites to late
supper at the Legation. The re-
gent, whom Michael Redgrave plays
with monocle, a swagger, and over-
exaggerated, even repulsive ges-
tures, does not believe in love. The
American show girl, played by
Miss Bel Geddes with good taste,
does. She wins. .

‘At the end of ‘the play he is
converted to her way of thinking.
The final scene in which this mag-
nificent conversion occurs seems to
have almost the opposite effect on
the members of the audience.

Cathleen Nesbitt. fits into this
fiasco as the Grand Duchess, wife
of the regent, who married her to











further the alliance between Car-
pathia and Austria. Maybe it is
because she is in no way committed
to believing that love will win out, ” =
and is thus slightly disassociated
from the play, that Cathleen Nes-
bitt is one of few members of the
cast who acts without embarrass-
ment and without embarrassing the
audience. She is humorous, spirit-
ed, and funny. She does not re-
main on the stage long enough to

save the play.

- The major-domo and the first
and second footman are the other
members of the cast who act with-
Their accom-
plishment does not match Miss
Nesbitt’s, for they do not have to

out embarrassment.

say a word.

The play is set against the back-
ground of foreign intrigue in Eu-
rope and trouble in the Balkans.
The actions. of the King of Car-
pathia, played competently by Ron-
ald Welsh, also absorb the audi-
ence’s attention when love is not

forestage.

Letter to the Editor
To the Editor:
In the last issue of the News, I
was quoted, in the election poll, as
saying: “The distinction between
the Democratic and Republican
parties is becoming more tenuous
every day.” Since last Thursday,
I have had a decided feeling of re-
jection — at home, by my _ col-
leagues, and even by our dog,
which died several years ago.
The reporter, I admit, quoted me
exactly, but what she wrote was,
of course, the unofficial version. I
reserve the tight to amend, repair,
reverse, or completely to deny any-
thing, or nothing. Really, if the
reporter had been more astute, she
would not. have written what I
said, but something I didn’t say,
and in that way she might have
come closer perhaps to what I
meant to say. I shall consider send-
ing in the official version later.
L. Dryden.

From the October 17th is-
sue of the Bryn Mawr Cor-
LEGE NEws:

“Lewis Wright lectured in Good-
hart all last night on ‘Civilizing
the Frontier.’ Dr. Wright, Direc-
tor of the Folger Shakespere li-
brary in Washington, is an expert
on middle class culture in Eliza-
bethan England.”

Special permission for overnight
signout to Goddhart was granted
by. self-gov for the occasion.





Alliance’s Campus-wide mock
election is scheduled for Mon-
day, October 29. The results of
this vote, by every member of
the college community, will be
published in next week’s News.





















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be based upon broad principles
and furthering

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must be reduced to a state of eco-
‘a0mic and political warfare agabuatl
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of the Democratic party ‘has in the
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“By Marilyn Frankel and
In all, fairness: to: any. :worried

‘do’ we! manage} Republican readers of the Newa,

we must confess that. we will not
be, able to vote in the forthcoming
election. If we could vote, how-
ever, (our, choice for . president
would be Adlai Stevenson. ..

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ie ,,Party’s, platform... Candidate}
Stevenson’s ‘work as Governor of
Hinois and. his record in both cam-
naigns,‘show that he is a master.
at. utilizing. his personnel, the ¢x-
perts who surround him. However,
he is never, dominated by them;
he is a leader, not a figurehead;
he is kept. informed by them, but
the decisions are his.
In addition, we feel that Steven-
son recognizes the present need for
‘unity within the nation} he under-
stands the many-sided situation



nation’s wage earners and farmers,
and will expand the school aid pro-
gram to meet the increasing short-
oe Ml sages

I Lama Democrat. Since Septem-













, have been deluged with ques-
ons about my reasons for being
Democrat. I can cite. many. in-
uding the current issues of farm
alicy, civil rights, the ability and
jealth of the. President, foreign
ey and. Democratic, ideals.

Ei have seen and read about the
ywing distrust and hatred of
merica’ in Europe, the Middle
} and Asia. Qur globe-trotting
erétary of State has revealed his



















ie tk of foresight at Geneva and in
= |the Suez crisis; he has frightened

our allies. with irresponsible state-

enn he has undermined our for-

view of the world situation.

I’ am‘ wortied about the Presi-
deney. If we are to be a “great
power,” we most have a leader who
is _willing and able to assume a

= ee eee
Tuli-Unie; san

cannot afford to have a President
who spends’ eight hours in the of-
fice and the rest of his time at
Gettysburg or on the golf course. }
Of course, if we expected Mr. Eis-
fenhower to assume fully this great
gee al ge lg 0 ge
him to sacrifice his life. That

why 1, like 36 many others, pre-

ana peal? xp ged able,
sob my ats ga a Mr. Bis-

enhower’s sai

Leal ive many gine ran
on the basis of contemporary
|#ues, but basically, I believe re

people, farmers and laborers. T
want a government which is inter-
ested in trying to help the work-



‘ers, not in protecting the wealthy.

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Four, years of Republican admin-
istration. under the leadership of
Dwight. D. Eisenhower have. ¢x-
pressly demonstrated to the Amer-
jean people this administration's

belief: may be manifested in many
different ways, varying from. De-
partment to Department,.and Sec-
retary to Secretary, but I should
like to point out here that much
of this mal-administration comes
not only. from ‘the... Secretaries
themselves, but also from the. se-
lect army of Eisenhower appoin-
tees who contro] the. vital .“life-
line” commissions which command
such great powers.

Eisenhower, through inept and
inappropriate appointments, has

plying the nation with men who
are morally fit to occupy such high
positions of trust and. power... I

that. their moral standards are in
jconfli ct with those of the. coun-
ytry, bu
have, or have had, private inter-
ests which would, in ordinary. cir-
cumstances, make them ineligible
for the office which they now oc:
cupy,. Some of the prime examples
of this “ineptness” are to be found

is | will soon be ehown.
Eisenhower’s .record of appoint-
ments to the various . agencies

programs has been so infused with
men who are basically opposed to
8-ithe very programs which, they ad-
‘minister, that they“have been term-
ed “Repeals by Appointment,” To
head the most important Tariff

‘who has a record showing consiat-
ent voting against the Reciprocal

sistant he has appointed.
Hunter of California, who had
ed against Ike’s own hous’



habliby to cacky Jak oameaee 42,
benefit to the entire populace. This

}
prem Fd
i!

proved that he is incapable of sup-

do not mean. to infer, in any way..

t rather Way mee mie

in the most strategic positions, as ,

which administer tha New Deal.

Commission, he has named Joseph |
Talbott, a former Congressman.



































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At Peaceful World ©

attack on Formosa. This ‘made it{
clear to the Communists that they/
had more to lose than ‘gain ‘by’ at-|

by Pénny Eldredge

The Bisenhower foreign policy.
differs ‘from that of ‘the Truman
Administration on two is Da
points. ‘First, the. Eisenhower ad-
ministration states the policy of
the United States as one of in-
~jnvolves “a constant’ preparedness

to ‘meet any type ’ bec eyo
Second, ‘we must strengthen and
maintain a “collective security” of
the free nations, in Europe ‘and
Asia.

In 1950, Secretary of State ‘Dean
Acheson explicitly and publicly
“proclaimed “Korea “outside the’ “de-
fense perimeter” of the United
States; A few months later the
Communists moved in, The’ Eisen-

howér administration took office,
ae ome iarsngorn
tiated, after the stalemate that had
been: reached under the Pome
: lien. plan ‘und Bis-
~The Repa er
enhower is to make any aggression
80 costly that no aggressor ‘would |}
attack any area of the world with-
in the defense ‘perimeter of the’
United States; all free countries
aré within this defense perimeter.
The massive retaliation - principle
was applied very successfully in
the. Formosa ‘crisis of 1954, when
the Chinese Communists ‘started to
move against the islands of Que-
Oe ee ee
to place: them ‘within striking dis: | AX
‘tance of Formosa. At Eisenhower's
request, Congress by an almost
unanimous bi-partisan vote,* au-
thorized the President to use our
Sree covets. Fe cane et: Dauwenay







by Jan ndidibianin
~~ Eaupport Bisenhower for his ac-
“kniowledgément of the expediency
of & more j | social and econ-
- omie policy than the GOP ‘has ever|
before advocated, and for his pur-



i ree: Aims

tacking Formosa,

NATO was strengthened by: the

cifie' and one in» Southeast Asia |)

The second part of the Hisen-}
hower foreign policy ' differs ‘very |)
much from the weak “containment”)
|policy of the Truman Sdniinistra+)
tion; it is the establishment of a]
collective security of free tations. |

jaddition of the Federal . Republic}
of Germany, and the successful}:
‘completion of ‘negotiations for}
| Spanish air and naval bases. Two}
tréaties, one in the Western Pa-|’











were completed to consolidate the
freedom of the friendly nations in
these areas ‘of the world. The
Bagdad Pact was completed; ‘this
drew together Turkey, Iraq, Iran,
and Pakistan, which for 2,500 miles
lie ‘just ‘south of Russia’s borders.
Eisenhower ‘has played a great
lrole in the search for peace... His
atoms-for-peace proposal before
the United Nations General As-
‘sembly in 1958 led to a giant coali-|
tion. of .40 nations te:share.their;
information and material. No: less
important:i were the President’s
proposals of Open Skies at Geneva,
and the Education-for-Peace’ plan:
that‘ was _proposed this « spring.
Eisenhower is definitely the man
to lead the world to peace.



er tke’s Party ©
by Carol” Bradley -
Records of the agricultural econ-

administration are available ‘for
any one to examine. ae Die
capable fact that, when .
er. entered office . in

These pricés had declined 16%) un-
bder the final two years of Truman’s
term of office. . Huge surpluses
were glutting the make-shift stor-
age places, causing untold losses to
the farmer through rapidly falling

a ees ae ony eee ee

ee stock-piles -were
million



_\,ed ‘that the Republican Adminis-
4. | tration has been characterized and
_|controlied by “Big Business” at the

carpet . mB Pe
ate is prenelt Republica | 19

in’ 1962,” tate ness
prices. were at an. alarming low. ‘

Republican Party
“Aided Economy”

by: Louise ‘Cropley .

and Jan Thompson
In a country as diversified as the
United States, the Republican
Party has found it necessary to
reduce its many achievements to

uals business man is an integral
part of our nation’s economy and
as such has shared with large cor-
porations the stability of the Re-
publican administration. Converse-
ly the Democratic Party has alleg-

expense of small business and to
|the detriment of the nation.













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; . we

fgration has been ordered, Presi-
ident Eisenhower

| the first, officer in the armed forces
'|to attempt integration of troops.

J : by the President with the consent
of the Senate, “There will also be

Reduced Expenses

2 char

By Republicans
Praised

by Margé Tinkham

Equality of opportunity for all
citizens of the United States has
long been a tenet of the Republi-
can Party. It was under a Repub-
Tiean Administration that slavery
‘was: abolished, that the Negroes
were given the vote and that inte-

himself. has
end to second-class
‘will continueto. do
|so, He was, as far as he knows,

The record of the Administration
|from 1962 to 1966 concerning civil
rights is evidence of the progress
being made in this direction, Al-
though the Democrats had been in
power for twenty years and had
made many high-sounding prom-
ises, before 1952 the capital of the
United States:had been segregated.
Though Truman had issued an or-
der for integration in the armed
forces in 1948, they were still 40%
segregated. several years _later-un-
til President Eisenhower efficiently
and justly had to finish the job. At
the present, no facilities of the
armed forces, such as hospitals or
schools, are segregated. ;

The roadblock of Southern Dem-
ocrats concerning any arid all civil
rights legislation is something
that is readily and peony, meaales
ted. by. these.men,.-..

The Republican civil rights pro-
gtam for the next four years in-
clades a Civil Rights Commission
which ‘will be bipartisan ard will
consist of six members appointed

a Civil Rights Division of the De-
partment of Justice,

licans Claim



By Nina Auchineloss _

| ileal Cito itaded, thie, Deans
crats left.in Washington an adimin-|

Page istration ‘as large and cumbersome 4

ofthe “office of president,

produce any substantial arguments.

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Integrity During Term:
Shows President
Satisfactory
by Penny Eldredge

If 1. were.eligible. .to.. yote,. I
would certainly vote for .Eisen-
hower. The reasons for my choice,
and the choice of many others, are
set forth below,

First, one must consider the hon-
esty and integrity that President
Kisenhower has displayed through-
out his term in office. There is no
doubt that he is not a man to ex-
cuse dishonesty or disloyalty. I find
no reason to doubt his intellectual
abilities: We have seen what sort
of a president Eisenhower ‘makes,
and it is. more than satisfactory, —‘-

One cannot ignore the fact that
the President’s health is not per-
fect: It is, however, the opinion
of some of the finest specialists of
the United States that Eisenhower
has more than a “good” chance to
finish out a second term in office.
Eisenhower, moreover; would ‘not
have accepted renomination’ if he
did not fervently believe that ‘he
was able to dispatch all the duties











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Nixon Has Record
Of Work, Success

by Miriam Beames

As a former ‘Congressman-Senat-
or, and as the present Vice-Presi-
| dent: of. the. United. States, Richard: -:
M. Nixon should be well known. to
the country’s voters, His name ap-
pears frequently in all the leading
publications, and the articles about
him are.usually clearly atated with
reasons to back up the statements.
: Yet, in inquiring around campus,
one finds little information. Some
assert strongly that they distrust
Nixon, but, when questioned as to
their reasons, they evade with
vague charges of dishonesty, call
him “Tricky Dicky”, ‘and fail to

The next question ‘is obvious:
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‘Wednesday, October 24, 1956

Cd

THE COLLEGE NEWS

Page Five



HOCKEY

In the first hockey game of the
season, the Bryn -Mawr- Varsity.
tied the University of Pennsyl-
vania, 1-1. In a swiftly played

game here last Thursday, the wind-:

ed Bryn Mawr team fought hard
to keep the Penn team from scor-
ing. Center Forward Joan Park-
er’s first half goal put Bryn Mawr
ahead until the middle of the sec-
ond half when the Penn forward
line finally succeeded in breaking
through the excellent defensive
work of the Bryn Mawr backfield.

The second team game against
Penn was as much a battle of the
elements as between the two teams.
Wednesday’s rain left one Ralf of
the field in the state of a swamp,
through which the invading team
had to wade before any goals could
be scored. Fortunately, the first
half of the game was played in
greater part on the dry end of the
field, which Penn was defending.
Occasional ‘cries of “to the swamp”
gave way in this period to the of-
fensive. cry.of-“let’s not get our
feet. wet for a while,” In this
spirit and after several minutes of
passing up and down the field, the
Penn team scored the first goal.
Retaliation came with only a few



minutes to.spare in the first half
of the game, when Lucy Wales,
after missing previous attempts at
the‘ goal, finally managed to tie
the score,

The second half of the game
took on much the samé appearance.
Both teams carried the ball to and
from the “swamp,” and once again
Bryn Mawr teamwork resulted in
a score. But later, with only a few
minutes to spare in the game, Penn
retaliated to tie the score. Bryn
Mawr 2, Penn 2.

Chapel Speaker

The Chapel speaker this Sunday
evening, October 28, is Dr. Hans
Hofmann, Assistant Professor of
Theology at Princeton Theological
Seminary.

Some of his past activities in-
cluded the Deanship at the Uni-
versity Chapel of Zurich; lecturer
in systematic theology and psycho-
logy of religion at the University
of Zurich; member of the research
staff -in social and educational
psychology of the International
Red Cross and UNESCO. Present-
ly, he is teaching systematic theol-
ogy and psychology of religion at
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Discusses Differences And Similarities

The vital differences between the
two - political parties, and their
even more. striking similarities,
were the subject of Mr. Arthur P.
Dudden’s talk Monday evening, in
the Common Room.

The parties are not as different
as the stereotyped opinion of the
“anachronistic, ponderous G,O.P.”
and the “reckless, spendthrift,
dreamy-eyed .... donkey” would
make them appear. Nor are they
as different as they seem accord-
ing to the two platforms: the Dem-
ocrats’, which “points with pride”
to-20 years of achievement under
past Democratic administrations,
and the Republicans’, which praises
Eisenhower for saving the coun-
try from “further disaster” at the
hands of the Democrats.

There are, however, some points
of disagreement between the two
parties, which are brought out in
this year’s platforms. The* Demo-
crats promise to repeal the Taft-
Hartley Act; the Republicans, to
improve it. The Democrats offer
the farmer 90% of parity; the Re-
publicans, flexible price supports.
(Mr. Dudden pointed out that this

“difference” was hardly valid, how-
ever, as the administration is free
to set the flexible supports at as
high as 87% of parity.)

Both parties, Mr. Dudden said,
offer weak civil rights planks, The
Democrats’ statement that they
won’t use force to carry out the
Supreme Court’s desegregation,
ruling is slightly more ambigu-
ous than the Republicans’ promise
to support the ruling.

In general, the “prevailing tem-
per” in the Democratic party is
more willing than are the Repub-
licans to turn to the federal gov-
ernment for aid of all sorts. There
is also a difference of opinion as
to the position of the chief execu-
tive: Eisenhower views the job as
a personal, not a party, matter.

Mr. Dudden gave his own opinion
éf political parties as different
coalitions of groups within the
country. Although the fact that
the two parties are so inclusive
often makes “many strange bed-
fellows,” this is a ‘sign of the
healthy political life of the coun-
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Thursday, October 25

8:30 p.m.—Messrs. Conner and
Berry will discuss “Vitalism vs.
Mechanism” at the Philosophy
Club meeting. Common Room.
Friday, October 26 ¥

8:00 p.m. — Lantern Night.
Cloisters,

9:00 p.m. — Phoenix Too Fre-
quent, the first Bryn Mawr-Hav-
erford Drama Club production of
the year. Roberts Hall, Haver-
ford.

Saturday, October 27

8:30 p.m. — Phoenix Too Fre-
quent, 3
Sunday, October 28

4:30 p.m. — Chamber music
concert. Ely Room, Wyndham.

8:30 p.m.—Joe Aronson, Phila-
delphia folk singer, will present
a& program of international folk
songs at the first meeting of the
Bryn Mawr Haverford IRC.
Common Room, Haverford.
Monday, October 29 - °

5:00 p.m.—French Club Meet-
ing. Common Room.

7:30 p.m.—Debate between Re-
publicans and Democrats at the
traditional Current Events time.
Common Room.

8:30 p.m. — Ernst Buschbeck
will speak on “Monumental Art
of the Fifteenth Century.” Art

| Lecture Room.



H-Bomb Tests

Continued from Page 1 .

laboratory animals under carefully
controlled conditions and we can-
not apply these figures to humans
since we do not know whether we
are more or less sensitive to radia-
tion. However, if present level of
radiation is, appreciably increased
it would raise the mutation rate
to a point that the very survival
of future generations would be en-
dangered. Are there any odds on
which we would be willing to gam-
ble the future of the human race?

It is difficult to understand how «
the chairman of the Atomic Ener-
gy Commission, Admiral Strauss,
can consider these problems insig-
nificant. We prefer J. Robert Op-
penheimer’s phrase, “These figures
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ticular praise for their careful, hu-
morous characterizations.

It is this reviewer’s. belief. that
with a few notable exceptions, the
music and dancing were not par-
ticularly outstanding. A few of
the songs, however, were excel-
lent: \the duet, “He Is not the Man
for Me—You Are Decidedly in
Love,” “The Perfect Gentlewom-
an,” “What Scholar Can Explain,”
and “The Drinking Song.” . The
lyrics of all the songs were much
above average, and “Pristina” was
a hit largely because of the ingra-
tiating delivery by a noble barber-
shop quartet composed of Ellie
Clymer, Maggie Gordon, Sue Op-
stad and Gracie Van Hulsteyn.

The three dance sequences were
earefiilly integrated into, the action
of the show. The routine of the
kick-chorus was original and well-
executed, and the dance of. the con-
vent girls was effective and amus-
ing. Unfortunately, the dance in
the first scene was not as good as
it might have been, and as a result
the show got off to a- somewhat
slow start.

Pristina Perplexed undoubtedly |:

had the best costuming and sets

seen at Bryn Mawr in'many 4.year, |:
The success of the costumes’ Was]
due to the cooperation of, the thea-j;

tre groups at Swarthmore and
Bryn Mawr, but the success of the’
sets must have been due to astage |
crew which knew how to ‘use to;
the utmost a minimum of ‘scenery. |
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ticularly good were the convent,
tavern and banquet scenes. Pris-
tina was truly a beautiful show to
watch; its color and richness com-
pletely covered the vast gray
reaches of Goodhart Stage.

Perhaps the real star of Pris-
tina was its director, Martha
Bridge. Pristina was in every way
a professional show. It relied first
on an excellent script; this script
was enlivened, but never overpow-
ered, by song and dance. The act-
ing was first-rate. The costumes
and‘ sets combined to further the
illusion of the play, without. dis-
tracting from -the main action.
Pristina clearly showed that it had
been viewed as a whole, not as the
accidental result of the work of a
music director, a dance’ director,
the stage crew and several person-
able actresses. Pristina was bal-
anced, -well-paced, beautiful and
extremely well-polished, and the
credit must surely go in . large
part to Martha Bridge. ;

(What this reviewer felt was
missing .in Pristina, and what in
her opinion kept it from being a
superb show was its ability to es-



show built up to a climax in which
Pristina discovers the answer to
the Duke’s riddle, and yet there
was no growing excitement; the
climactic scehe with the Princess
and the Duke was not the high-
light of the show; and the show
came to an abrupt halt immediate-
ly thereafter. No individual scene
by itself, with the possible excep-
tion of the Prioress’ song, was a
“show-stopper,” and the main
characters’ had deliberately been
created as. rather un-appealing.
One was very impressed with Pris-
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