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THE COLLEGE NEWS

Wednesday, December 5, 1956



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U, S. Immigration Policy

Hard-principled men who change their tune are an_end-_|

Jess source of amazement to us. . Most recently it has been
Representative Francis Walter who has felt the need to re-
examine, perhaps only momentarily, the strength of his con-
victions. Mr. Walter, who, as co-author of the McCarran-
Walter Act’ (Public Law 414) has frequently feared for the
nation’s ‘homogeneity” of population, now appears in the
forefront of those urging the easing of immigration restric-
tions for the entrance of a larger number of Hungarian refu-
gees. We are happy to see the Representative’s change of
mind. Weare only sorry that his new attitude is almost
solely the result of his recent on-the-scene experiences with
Soviet oppression of fleeing civilians. We can only hope

that Mr. Walter’s as well as all of Congress’ sympathies will
not stop: with the problem of Hungarian immigration but will

cause considerable reconsideration of the whole of U. S. im-

migration policy. cs

President Eisenhower has announced that the original
number of Hungarian refugees to arrive in the U. S. has
been’ raised from 5,000 to 21,500. U.S. admittance of
Hungarian refugees has been slow and troublesome, mainly
because of the blocs set up by the country’s immigration
law. The emergency Refugee Relief Act of 1953, due to ex-
pire December 31, and the “parole” provision of the McCar-
ran Act have been the measures invoked for the Hungarians’
admittance. The first is not part of basic law, the second
leaves the refugee with an indefinite status. Both were call-
ed upon as a matter of expediency. Neither is to be consid-
ered a beneficial precedent for future and similar situations.
Briefly, today’s refugees have not ben allowed to enter the
U.S. on a regular immigration basis. Why?

Because of the McCaran-Walter Act. Based on the dis-
criminatory national origins premise favoring Northern and
Western Europe, the Act, by its quota system; has always
worked against ~immigration from Southern and Eastern
Europe and other parts of the world. The present total.an-|
nual quota has been fixed at 154,657——-r 1/6 of 1% of the
population figures of the 1920 Census. This total figure is
absurd—the 1920 Census not only considered a population’
smaller than today’s; it also did not include the American
Indian and the Negro. Yet the authors of the Bill knew
that the 1920 Census as a base figure for a quota system
would favor a group obviously believed by them to be a better
class of citizens. The entire national origins premise has
been proven false anthropoligically and is unjust. Immigra-
tion to the U.S. cannot be wholly unlimited and certain re-
strictions should not concern themselves with a person’s

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Yet if he national-origin quota system must be employ-
ed, as seems the case—what with the strong anti-immigra-
tion sentiment of a country itself made up of immigrants,
the figures used should at least be those of the last. Census
(1950). In addition, the present policy of letting unfilled
national quotas remain unused is detrimental both to us and



unused quotas has been frequently proposed but never achiev-
ed. Thus, when emergency legislation such as the Displaced
Persons Act permits the entrance of new immigrants, the
number admitted is mortgaged against the quota provided
for in the McCarran Act. Due to these circumstances, Hun-
garians are not allowed to immigrate until 1985, Latvians
until 2274, Greeks until. 2013, Estonians until 2946.
~The United States, at one time, welcomed immigrants.

“The McCararn-Walter Act and its supporters work on the

theory of keeping immigration to the very minimum. We

urge Congress to seek revision of a discriminatory and harm-
ful Act. In the present Hungarian case, we are indeed labor-




under a misapprehension if we think that it is we who
doing the Hungarians a favor by admitting them. In

than a month, a brave people have struck more boldly
nt in Communism than the past few years of incon-
erican cold - war propaganda. It is only fitting

00 little—that we show our gratitude to these





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In



Sophomores! all you who con-
template braving the foreign wilds
in junior year, forget not the do-
lorous dilemma of,Brynda Mawron
who at mid-years flunked out of
the University of New Caledonia
where she was supplementing her
major in ancient Sanskrit with
courses in modern Hindustani.
Alone, destitute in a foreign land,
she, eked out a scanty living as a
governess teaching Beowulf, Chau-
cer and underwater basket weav-
ing until she had enough money to
purchase a small sailboat. Safe
again at her desk in the library,
she can only say with delight, ‘The
experience was broadening.”

On the home front we have found
that not even a barberry bush can
keep its roots in Bryn Mawr soil
forever. The new planting around
Taylor promises to be green both
in summer when we can’t see it
and in winter when we can. Gift
of a charitable, but anonymous,
alumna the new shrubbery was
Jandseaned by the hnushand of. an-.
other alumna. However great her
fondness for the architecture of
Taylor Hall, no one can help but
admit that a little ‘botanical gar-
dening will alter ‘the “Wuthering

Media | Res

By Ellie Winsor

Heights” atmosphere of the cam-
pus in mid-February.

One lamentable lack noticeable
with the onset of winter: no one
on campus is yet wearing “Sava-
face”, No one has yet discovered
that “Savaface” is the answer to
the “Rudolph nose” problem? This
little nose cover, which comes in
full (eyes and nose) or Bikini
(nose .only sizes, is all wool), ab-
sorbent (for tears or runny nose)
equipped with eyebrows of any
color and with a “glamorous ‘sta-
fast tassel, and can be dressed up
or down with glasses.

Only a few of the many possi-
bilities are advertised. “Masked
banditry, sqairrel hunting (Sava-
face looks remarkably like a squir-
rel face),—time and usage will
discover more. Imagin the surprise
of a professor, meditating an oral
quiz, and suddenly confronted with
a row of identical Savafaces.

written on a slip of paper attached
to..the. display, .which-incidentally-
is located on the right hand door,
first floor, main entrance Taylor.
‘As Eudora du Maurier, famous
novelist says, ‘Now my nose knows
no cold’.”



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Dedicated to the good old days
before a College and Hall Book-
shop—before Pay Day (that grand
old institution.) wae iF

“To the Editor of the College
News: (dated November 29, 1916)

“The College Tea Room will not
open at all on Sundays until fur-
ther notice.. As the students. have
gotten into the habit of coming
all Sunday at intervals of fifteen
minutes to ‘purchase _ supplies
amounting to five, fifteen or twen-
ty-five cents for use in their rooms;
(sounds familiar, doesn’t it? “No
Charges Under 25¢”) the opportun-
ity is taken through the columns
of your paper to announce that no
such orders will be filled hereafter.
Such supplies must be purchased
on Saturdays or not purchased at
all,

“There seems to be some misun-
derstanding on the subject of
charge accounts and a lamentable
failure to pay on the date promised
(That is lamentable) when through
courtesy and a touching trust in
Human Nature (Isn’t that poetic?)
the Tea Room has allowed an ex-
tension. of time on a written prom-
ise to pay. .

“Students owing the Tea Room
small sums, or even: large sums,
will kindly heed these words and
{Take them to heart? Search the
depths of their inner souls? No,
just... ) settle their accounts or
submit to being posted (As an ex-
ample to others, no doubt) on the
Bulletin Board as is done in all
clubs.”

Oh, humiliation!!!

Israeli Problems
_ Mr, Max Voron, Israeli consul in
the United States and visiting con-
sul in Philadelphia, gave a lecture,
sponsored by the Bryn Mawr-Hav-
erford International Relations
Club, in the Common Room, on
Monday, December 3.
Using maps to illustrate his. talk
on “The Israeli Viewpoint”, Mr.
Voron traced the development of
the Jewish state, from its incep-
tion in Palestine, as a haven and
homeland, gradually created with
the help of agricultural science.
who had long ben restricted to
- World War Il and its gas cham-









Pruett Speaks On
H-Bomb Problems

Noting that he is no longer cer-
tain that nuclear bomb tests should
cease, Mr. John Pruett, physics
professor, spoke on the hydrogen
bomb problem at Current Events
December 3.

There are, Mr. Pruett said, four
issues concerning the problem: the
moral, the political, the military,
and the health. The major health
issue concerns “fall-out,” of which
the greatest danger is Strontium
90, an element which loses only
half its radio-activity in forty
years,

In the explosion of larger nu-
clear bombs, radio-active debris,
including Stronium 90, rises into
the stratosphere as .a hot, vapor-
ous gas bubble. There it disperses
until it falls slowly—perhaps only
fifty per cent of the debris may
fall in a decade—over the entire
earth.

The most complete data on
Strontium 90 was found by the
Atomic ‘Energy Commission in its
very recent and extensive “Project
Sunlight.” After it has fallen,
there is no known way in which
Stronium 90 can be removed from
soil. It is transferred into the hu-
man body through food. After a
few generations, it may pfoduce
a genetic effect, but, more impor-
tant, it acts like calcium to enter
the bones where ‘its radio-activity
may work to destroy the bones,

By 1970, if there are no more
bomb tests, the average human will
have absorbed from past tests one
half of the amount of Strontium 90
he can hold safely. However, if
present tests continue and more
nations begin them, the \dahger
limit can be surpassed.

But, Mr. Pruett said, whatever
the health hazard, it must be bal-
fanced against the hazards of dis-|
continuing hydrogen bomb explo-
sions. Scientists may now be test-
ing to find a “clean” nuclear bomb,
which may be exploded without the
danger of Strontium fall-out or nu-
celar anti-aircraft weapons. The
two hazards, of health and of not
making -vital discoveries because
tests are discontinued, must be
weighed in any consideration of the
hydrogen bomb.

CHAPEL SPEAKER

' Chapel speaker Sunday, Decem-
-ber.9, is the Reverend. Theodore
Logothetis of St. Demetrios’ Greek
Orthodox Church, Philadelphia.
His sermon topic will be: “A Stu-

Orders for the Savaface can be j

Letter To The Editor

To the Editor of the News:

Once again students will be ask-
ed to fill out questionnaires con-
cerning jobs held and money earn-
ed during the college year. Ac-
curate and full information con-
cerning students’ earnings is vital
to any meaningful evaluation of
our program of scholarships,
grants, and loans. Lie

The College urgently needs the
requested information, which is
called for on-many occasions, and
requests full cooperation from ‘the
undergraduate students. No fur-
ther questionnaires will be sent.out
this year.

Sincerely yours,
Dorothy N. Marshall,
Dean of the College
and
Annie Leigh Broughton,
Dean of Freshman

~ Movies:
Friendly Persuasion

By Jana Varlejs



Warm, home-spun humor, a re-
lief from the common | slapstick,
type, gives Friendly Persuasion a
charm which sets it apart from the
usual Hollywood “productions.”
This charm, however, is achieved
at the loss of forceful development
of theme. :

The story centers about a Quak-
er family faced with standing firm
on their pacifist convictions at the
cost of their home and lives, as

approaches their farm. The con-
flict in the film itself is well de-
veloped, but instead of conclusion,
contradiction is evident, and the
characters do not appear to have
been much affected by their ex-
periences. Everyone “lives happily

ever after,” an anti-climax which
is a little disappointing after a few
dramatic war scenes.
Nevertheless, a fairly even bal-
ance between comedy and attempt
at a more serious overtone is
achieved. At times the “friendly
persuasion” is quite obvious, dem-
onstrating the Quaker renunciation
of fighting and their “other: cheek”
theory. Fortunately, the humorous
incidents do not. interfere with this
aspect, nor does the very “Holly-
woodish” scenery, which make the
modest Quaker homestead look like
a French landscape by one of the
old masters.

Gary Cooper

Gary Cooper, as the father, man-
ages to convey a boyish sheepish-
ness along with mature honesty.
He admits that his faith is weak,
but when he has the opportunity
to kill a rebel, the strength of his
Quaker convictions finally comes to
the surface.

As his wife, Dorothy McGuire,
although a stricter Quaker than
Cooper ,is often won over by his
“friendly persuasion.” Her love for
him makes her yield to some of
his un-Quaker-like whims, such as
buying an organ or racing to Meet-
ing. This very human susceptibil-
‘ity and warm affection, convincing-



tion from being austere and color-
ess.
The romantic team does not hold
the appeal it might have with bet-
ter casting or more effort. Phyllis
Love overdoes the teenager in-dif-
ficult-stage part and gives no indi-
cation of development of character
and maturity as the story unfolds.
Her suitor leaves no impression at
all, except that of being too old for
her,
Newcomer Tony Perkins seems
to deserve all the publicity he has
received. His portrayal of a Quak-

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the battle-front. of .the—Civil. War _.

Lly.depicted, saves the characteriza-

er youth (Cooper’s son) torn be-_







dent and His God.” —