College News, 1922-01-18, Vol. 08, No. 12

              Copyright, 1922, bjr The Collioi Nswi
Volume VIII.   No. 12.
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PRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1922
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Price 10 Cents
MISS HAINES THIS OF
FAMINE STRICKEN RUSSjA
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Gives    Vivid    Description    of   the
Starving  Peasants of  the
Volga  VaUey
( Reporffd From a Chapel Address )
LANTERN SLIDES ARE SHOWN
More than 10,000,000 Russians are con-
demned to death by starvation during this
winter unless relief is brought, and 30,000,-
000 in all will be seriously affected by the
famine condition, according to Mis* Anna
J. Haines, '07, who spoke last Friday eve-
ning in Taylor Hall under the joint aus-
pices of the Christian Association and the
Liberal"" Club. Under the American Friends
Social Service Committee Miss Haines has
been a volunteer worker in Russia since
1917.
Many of the Russians with whom Miss
Haines spoke alluded with a grim fatalism
to the fact that by spring they would not
be alive. "This month we eat sunflower
seed," said one village priest she ques-
tioned. "Next month we eat the grass pan-
cakes. In November we will use up the
last of the reserve supply, and in December
people will begin to die. In March there
won't be any people left in the village at
all." Parents are deserting their children,
says Miss Haines, feeling that the state and
other' relief agencies ^vill care for the child
if no parents are visible.
Made" a member of the Educational Com-
mission sent out by the Health Department
of the government to investigate condi-
tions, ^fiss Haines had the opportunity to
obtain statistics and any other accurate in-
formation she desired from the village and
town officials. Moreover, her knowledge
of Russian, gained during several years of
work among them, enabled her to converse
with the Russian priests, towns-people and
villagers.
The country people are feeling the famine
most severely, according to Miss Haines.
Along the railroad it is often possible to
buy grain in small quantities, but this is
inaccessible to all but the richest farmers,
not only because of-the exorbitant prices
charged for it, but because the horses,
which would convey them to .the railroad,
have nearly all died of starvation. Between
March and September 2100 horses died in
orfe village alone. All along the roads and
especially on the hills there are bodies of
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ECONOMIC CONFERENCE
OF NATIONS DISCUSSED
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Mrs. Smith*Tells Need of Distributing
Essential Raw, Materials
BRAHMS' HORN TRIO PLAYED
AT THIRD MUSICAL RECITAL
Composer Characterized as Master of
Simplicity. Tenderness and Beauty
The Horn Trio of piano, violin and horn.
� Brahms' Op. 40, was the subject of the
lecture recital in Taylor Hall last Monday
night.
Mr. Surette, director of the Department
of Music, began the recital by a short his-
tory of Brahms and his work. "Brahms,"
he said, "came at the time of a new type
of expression in music�that of romanticism
�which in music as well as literature is dis-
tinguished for its beauty and fancy, but
which in music is more detached from the
actualities of life. And at times the music
of the romantic period becomes even too
fantastic and lacks that, quality which is
necessary to all really great music�that is
form and architecture grounded in com-
mon feeling and laws. Romantic music, at
the time of Brahms, was becoming, then,
too personal, too intimate, and was losing
that architectional quality, that firm splendor
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Unless the question of the distribution of
the world's essential ra"w materials can Be
satisfactorily settled the other work of the
conference will be useless, and some such
settlement must form the foundation for
any association of nations that is to last.
At the conference of Genoa the three �prob-
letfis" that came up in this respect were (1)
reduction, of German indemnity, (2) can-
cellation inter-allied debt, (3) exchange
without ruinous rates.
As to the first, the definite sum decided
in 1921 of Germany's debt to the world was
$36,200,000,000; the supplies of the Army of
Occupation have now credited her with
$500,000,000: The Reparation Committee
demanded $3,000,000,000 the first of last
summer and $9,000,000,000 the first of last
November, neither of which Germany could
pay.
As far as the inter-allied debt goes, Eng-
gland could pay her share and France, by
enormous sacrifices, could pay England and
the TJnited States. But Italy, the Balkans
and Russia cannot possibly pay. There is
the possibility of remitting these debts, but
PRESIDENT THOMAS HEADS
WILSON FOUNDATION HERE
Plan Million Dollar Fund in Honor
of the Former President
President M. Carey Thomas is to head
the committee at Bryn Mawr College to
assist in raising a fund of a $1,000,000 or
more to be known as the Woodrow Wil-
son Foundation, according to an announce-
menj made by Professor Stephen P. Dug-
gan, of the College of the City of New
York, chairman of the Educational Com-
mittee of the Foundation. Working with
President Thomas will be professors, in-
structors, and students, organized as a com-
mittee, giving to members of the College
an opportunity to become founders of the
endowment from which annual awards will
be provided each year for meritorious
service to democracy, public welfare, liberal
thought, or peace through justice.
The Committee is about equally divided
between Democrats and Republicans, and
includes those who voted for and against
Mr. Wilson. They are serving on the Com-
mittee, Dr. Duggan said, "because of their
adhesion to Mr. Wilson's ideals of human
freedom and international co-operation and
will work in a wholly non-partisan spirit
to secure support among teachers and stu-
CHINA IS MOST CRUCIAL
PROBLEM OF CONFERENCE
Mrs. Smith  Outlines Action  up to
Present Shantung Deadlock   ;
for Liberal CMbjj
RESOLUTIONS    ARE    DRAFTED
Impelled by interest in the tremendous
issues facing the Washinglon Conference,
about thiry students attended am open
meeting of the Liberal Club, held in Den- "
bigh Hall, last Sunday, for the purpose
of suggesting resolutions to be voted upon
by the College tomorrow. These resolu-
tions, together with like expressions of
student opinion from colleges all over the
country, are to be presented to President
Harding oh February 1 by officers of the
National Students' Committee for the
Limitation of Armaments.
Before the business of framing the reso-
lutions was brought up, Mrs. William
Smith, professor of economics, gave a
detailed account of all the action that has
been taken by the Conference, reported
from full sessions committees, and private
conversations, regarding the difficult ques-
tion of the Far East. A summary of Mrs.
Smith's account is as follows:
Two    great    questions    confronted    the
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this seems only  practical if  they  can  be the appeai will ^ particularly acceptable to
dents in Colleges and universities for the Conference at its opening.   The first group,
purposes of the Foundation  confident that .jth which j, hag main,y deah> had to do
made   in   some   way   guarantees   against
future wars.
In the same way the reduction of rates
of exchange might be used as a pressure
to reduce armaments. And that these rates
must be reduced is shown in the fact that
where five lira were formerly worth a
dollar, twenty of them are necessary now;
200 marks are worth only what four mark*
were before the war, and it takes 200,000
rubles to take the place of two at their pre-
war value. Before anything can be done
to remedy these ills, Russia must be rec-
ognized as a commercial partner for raw
material, and Germany for industrial or-
ganization. France is the nation most
opposed to this, as she holds many old
Russian bonds, and as she wants to see her
old enemy v Germany perpetually crushed.
Only so can a redistribution of the raw ma-
terials necessary for industry be accom-
plished. (M, coal, iron, cotton and rubber
are raw materials of the first importance;
wool, copper, nitrate and potash of second-
ary importance. The United States, China
and Russia have all of these but rubber; the
British Empire has all; the United States
has 70 per cent, of the world's oil and 75
per cent, of the world's cotton; Great Brit-
ain has 50 per cent, of the world's wool
and 90 per cent, of the rubber. In some
way these materials must be divided! Four
plans have been proposed, an Allied Pur-
chasing Committee served during the war,
but was given up at the close; a permanent
international  board  was suggested  at the
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that constituency."
In replying to a News reporter about the
Committee, President Thomas called atten-
tion to the fact that Mr. Wilson began his
career of teaching at Bryn Mawr in 1885,
when he organized the Department of
History. He was professor here for years.
In outlining the plans for the co-opera-
tion of the� Educational Committee in the
campaign, Dr. Duggnn said: "A movement
in favor of exalting the work of Mr. Wil-
son will appeal particularly to teachers and
educators generally. Mr. Wilson was a
teacher almost up no the time that he be-
came president, and he did hot stop his
teaching even then. I think even his bitter
enemies will admit lhat his explanation of
the ideals of the Allies during the war was
probably more potent than any other influ-
ence in keeping up the morale of the fight-
ing allied people during the war.
"The Educational Committee that has
been formed is working at the present time
in every college of the country with com-
mittees of professors and students who will
seek, among college men and women,
founders of this endowment to reward
meritorious service to democracy, public
welfare, liberal thought or peace through
justice.
"The kind of thing that the Foundation
will do is the kind of thing that will make
an appeal to these people, lit does not exr
pect to erect a monument of stone or
brass, that can be felt or seen, for, after
all, the things that are tangible and visible
are sometimes ephemeral, and the things
that are spiritual are eternal."
Text of the Bryn Mawr Resolutions
Resolved, that the conference does not adjourn until it has severally dis-
cussed and acted upon the following questions:
. (1)  Shantung,  (2)  Manchuria,  (3)  Siberia; and that the twenty-one de-
mands, as a possible cause of war, be also discussed.
Resolved, that the proposed economic conference of all nations shall include
Germany and Russia, and that it shall consider not only the question of debt, but
also of the distribution of the world's essential raw materials.
Resolved, that the 5-5-3 ratio be applied to auxiliary and naval craft, and
that submarined and the use of poison gas be abolished.              -   ,,
Resokied, that the United States join the League of Nations.
with methods of disarmament and the limi-
tation of armaments. The second group
comprised the intricate Far Eastern prob-
lems, which, as. causes of war, were in
reality the most important issues. These
questions were not taken up in full sessions
of the Conference, however, but carried on
by the Committee on the Far East, to which
they were referred on the first day of the
Conference.
On November 16 Japan brought forward
thirteen points upon which she proposed
to base a discussion of the Chinese question.
In these Japan pledged support by all
pacific means of independence and integrity
of China, and the privilege of the open
door; avowed that she desired neither a
protectorate over Manchuria, nor annexa-
tion, but recognition of her special rights
in that province. She also committed her-
self to withdrawal from Kiow Chow, and
asked for "peaceful penetration in Siberia,"
agreeing to withdraw her troops as soon
as there is a stable government capable of
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SOPHOMORES GIVE THE MOST
BRILLIANT DANCE ON RECORD
Imitation  Snow  Scene Set   Off by
Brilliant Colored Costumes
In a gymnasium which infinite care had
turned into a veritable palace of ice the
Sophomores received the Freshmen at an
ice carnival  last  Saturday night.
The dance was one of the most spec-
tacular ever given in College. The high
ceiling of Ore gymnasium was completely,
covered by orange streamers shading
through yellow and cross-woven from
the twining gallery. Crepe* paper icicles
drippearfcem the walls and balloons floated
everywhere.^NDie guests of honor were
dressed in shades of orange ranging 'from
the most brilliant flame to the palest yel-
low and represented characters from brazen
D. C. A.'s/to mere infants with rag dolls.
The hostesses and upper-classmen invited
wore white and silver.
Supper was served in the adjoining room
during trie dancing, which lasted until 10
o'clock.
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