College News, 1921-10-26, Vol. 08, No. 04

              News
Volume VIII.   No. 4.
BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1921
Price 10 Cents
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OF ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION
Reveal* Startling Opinions Held in
China on Japanese Policies -
Mr. George E. Vincent, president of the
Rockefeller Foundation, has wriften in the
following bulletin his impressions of Japan,
Korea and China,, gained during his visit
to Peking last month for the official open-
ing of the Peking Union Medical College.
The bulletin is special to the Bkyn Mawr
College News.
South Manchurian Railroad,
September 1,  1921.
"It   is  2100  miles   from  Yokohama  to
Peking via the*Korean route, a journey of
four   days.     We  have   completed   nearly
three-fourths of the distance.   We are due
in  Mukden  this  evening  at  7.30,  and  in
Peking at about the same hour tomorrow.
The trip has confirmed certain  impres-
sions, and has made me revise others.   The
Japanese scene was-as beautiful as ever, es-
pecially the glimpses of the inland sea, but
the industrial  towns   are  squalid,  the iri-
, roads of  Western dress incongruous  and
shabby, and the manners of the people far
from pleasant.   Our train was crowded.
Traveling Not Unalloyed Delight
"Just as we reached the end of our
Japanese journey at Shimonoseki, I looked
into a second-class car. The seats which
run sofa-wise along the sides were crowded
and in the aisle were piled rice-boxes,
bottles, tea-pots, banana anflporangc skins,
waste paper, and other debris a foot deep.
.It made an American emigrant car look
tidy by comparison. The habitual use of
tooth-picks, the universal sucking of teeth
at and after meals, to say nothing of throat-
clearing noises and other unpleasant per-
formances, make traveling in the Empire
of the Rising Sun something less than
unalloyed delight.
"We had a smooth crossing to Korea and
gazed again with incredulity at the pre-
posterous, nigger-minstrel, fly-trap, top-hats
of the male inhabitants. One is almost in-
clined to feel that a people who can make
themselves look so absolutely absurd de-
serve to be oppressed. The contrast be-
tween the Japanese and the Koreans strikes
the traveler vividly as he passes quickly
from the Islands to the Peninsula. All day
yesterday we looked out,on a really beau-
tiful landscape disfigured by squalid
thatched mud huts and infested by a
wretched and ridiculous population. To-
day Manchuria strikes. one as rich and
prosperous in comparison with the country
south of the Yale.
. Conditions in   Korea  Improving
"We were three hours in Seoul last eveo-
ing, and also met an intelligent missionary
on the train. The Japanese are said to be
managing things better. The head men are
fairly liberal and are trying to give a wiser
administration. The trouble is with- the
underlings, who are bureaucratic, unsym-
pathetic and truculent. Certain stringent
regulations about schools, the use of the
Japanese language, and the exclusion of
religious teaching have been repealed/or
relaxed, so that the "missionaries, for the
immediate future at least, are not so ap-
prehensive. The idea of having foreigners
in the country, as educators of the Koreans
is naturally distasteful to the Japanese, who
but for the fear of international complica-
tions would make short work of the
mission schools.
� Hotel de Pekin, Peking,
September 4, 1921.
"We reached Peking Friday evening ten
minutes- ahead of time, after a continuous
journey of fifteen days from Vancouver
(Continued en Paie 2)
�g SECRETARY OF STATE   HUGHES COMMENDS CONFERENCE
The following telegram was read by Miss  Helen Gratz, president  of  the
Vassar College Political Association, at the disarmament mass meeting.
"Your telegram with regard to meeting at  Vassar has been  received:    I
appreciate the spirit in which the meeting is being held and trust that it will aid
in  the  formation  of sound  opinion, based" upqn  a clear understanding of  all
pertinent facts."
ALL PHILADELPHIA OVERRIDES
VARSITY AFTER STIFF fIGHT        SAID SUSAN B. ANTHONY
Picked Players of 1920 Take Measure
of Bryn Mawr
Splendid teamwork and organization
enabled 1920 All-Philadelphia to triumph
over Varsity, 4-2, in a closely contested
game last Saturday. Varsity's second
defeat this season was largely due to the
failure of the forward line to shoot in the
circle, although the visitors clearly had
victory in their hands, as the Brown de-
fense weakened in the second half. The
All-Philadelphia team w.as beaten by
the All-England -team at St. Martins,
Thursday.
Though the forward line was fre-
quently disorganized and slow, Varsity
played a" better game than last week.
Centering around A. Nicoll, the forwards
made some good get-aways, but its habit
of passing ahead into the opposing full-
backs was costly. E. Anderson played a
clever game at wing, evading her oppo-
nents effectively. The defense, starring
H." Rice, fullback, took Philadelphia's
measure consistently throughout the first
half, holding them to a zero score, and
G. Rhoads, Varsity goal, prevented shot
after shot from entering the cage. F.
Bliss and V. Corse, at halfback, fed the
forward line well, but the attack dwin-
dled to nothing in the circle.
from a short period of indecisive play
at the start, M. Paries, Varsity wing,
shot down the field for the first goal of
the game, and the only one in the first
half. Then, with" the game alternating
swiftly from one goal to the other, a
long 'struggle ensued, in which Varsity
checkmated all attempts of the visiting
team to break through. A spirited shot
by Miss Townsend, at center forward,
coupled with the visible weakening of
Varsity's defense in the opening of the
second half, gave All-Philadelphia the
lead thenceforward. Put on their mettle
the visitors, rallying round Miss Town-
send, organized a speedy attack, which
swept through all opposition. Combin-
ing with D. Lee, '25, substituting at in-
side on the Philadelphia team, Miss
Townsend wormed her way through the
Varsity defense for two more tallies,
while.Mrs. Nalle, at halfback, accounted
for another. Only once again did Var-
sity master the situation, when M. Faries
made a second pretty shot from the left
of the circle.
The linc-uD was:
BRYN MAWR             ALL.PHILADELPHIA
E.  Anderson. '22.....R.W....... MU. McMahon
M. Trier, '22........R.J..........   Miaa Morgan
A.  Nicoll, '22  . .T.....C.P....   Mis. Towi��end�"
F.  Begg. '24.........R.I...D. Lee (Bryn Mawr)
M. Fane.", '24  .....L.W..........   Mra. Bryton
B.   Turtle,  '24   .......ILH..........   Mr.. N.lle'
V. Cor�e, '23 ........C.H..........   Mia.  Jone.
F.   BlUi, '22  .........L.H.......... Mr�. Knw
H. Rice, '23 .........�.r.......   MIm Valentine
R.  Neel, '22  .........L.F........   Mr*.   Crumbar
G.   Rhoad., '22   .......G.........   Mia. Ferguaon
Sub�titution��Brrn  Mawr:  B.  Clarke,  '22, for
V. Corae, '23.
�MRS. CATT THE IDEAL LEADER'
COLLEGETOPINION MIRRORED
IN VASSAR RESOLUTION
Delegates From Twenty-two Women's
Colleges Attend Disarmament
Cpnference
BRYN MAWR  WORKERS
COMW ~
NEED
Work for a limited number of volun-
teers is offered at the Community Center
and at Preston. There are openings in the
library and for play hour, and for two
workers for a girls' dub in Preston on
Tuesday evening. Any Seniors, Juniors,
or Sophomores who are interested in these
' positions should see Jean Palmer, '24.
Taught  School  At  Fourteen
Starting her career whentenly fourteen
years old as a school teacher in her own
district, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, whose
.lectures here begin tomorrow, has come to
be recognized as the leader of women in
politics throughout the world. Mrs. Catt
will speak at 8.30 o'clock tomorrow even-
ing in the gymnasium.                     �    *
"She was still in short dresses, with her
hair in a braid down her back," says a
Los Angeles paper describing, Mrs. Catt's
first step in her remarkable career. There
were thirty pupils under her tuition, some
of them older than herself. She con-
tinued to teach until she was sixteen, when
she was able to enter Iowa College, paying
her way by the money she had saved from
her teacher's salary and by her earnings as
assistant librarian. Her four years at col-
lege cost her father only $100.
By the time she was twenty-two, Mrs.
Catt, then Miss Lane, had been appointed
superintendent of schools in Mason, Iowa.
"A successful educational career seemed to
be opening before her, when, like many
another woman, she threw it all up to
marry," says The New American Woman
for April, 1917. In 1890, after her hus-
band's death, Mrs. Catt made her first ap-
pearance on the suffrage platform. From
that time her sphere of influence widened
rapidly.
So great was her power of oratory and
so high her executive ability that she rose
quickly in the suffrage ranks to important
positions, and succeeded Susan B. Anthony
as president of the National Woman Suf-
frage Association in 1900, and in 1902
founded the International Woman Suffrage
Alliance, of which she has been president
ever since.
Left an endowment of $2,000,000 by Mrs.
Frank Leslie, Mrs. Catt founded, in 1917,
the Leslie Bureau of Suffrage Education,
the Leslie Suffrage Commission and the
Woman Citizen, the only woman's political
journal in the United States.
At the outbreak of the war Mrs. Catt
proposed that the services of the suffrage
organization be offered to the government.
As a result of this, both she and Dr. Anna
Howard Shaw served on the Woman's
Committee of the National Council of De-
fense, Dr. Shaw as chairman.
In the spring of 1919 the National and
International Leagues for Women Voters
were organized after the plan drawn up by'
Mrs. Catt.                                           .
Professor   CommendV Spirit
Delegates from twenty-one Eastern wom-
en's colleges were present at Vassa%r last
Saturday at an intercollegiate Conference
on Disarmament, held under the auspices
of the Vassar political Association. A set
of resolutions drawn up by this Conference
was submitted to Secretary of State
Hughes as an expression of college opinion
with reference to the forthcoming Wash-
ington Disarmament Conference.
A luncheon, presided over by M'ss Janet
Graham, president o*f the Vassar Self-Gov-
ernment Association, opened the Confer-
ence, Mr. Lindsay Rogers, of Columbia,
and Mr. Edward P. Warner, of Massa-
chusetts Institute of Technology, being the
speakers. According to Mr. Rogers, this"
country is pessimistic but determined, and
if the Conference at Washington faith-
fully endeavors to regulate policy before
armaments, instead of basing policy upon
armaments, good results are to be hoped
for. Mr. Warner pointed out that with
the invention of chemical weapons only the
limitation of large scale production can be
controlled. A great step toward disarm-
ament would be the abolition of all but
defensive armaments, he declared.
In the afternoon session the Conference
was divided into three groups, each dele-
gate attending one of special interest. At
the end of the afternoon each group had
embodied the results of its discussion in
the form of a resolution, which was then
submitted to a general delegation meeting
and voted upon. The subjects of group'
discussion were Principals of Disarmament,
Methods of Control and Financial and
Technical Questions. The debating was
often spirited and, according to a member
of the Vassar faculty, showed genuine in-
terest and sound ideas on the subject.
FOUR SUMMER 8CH00L 8TUDENT8
DI8CU88 WORK  IN  VESPERS
The importance of the Summer School
to women working in industry, and the
actual benefit received by the students,
were the main subjects discussed by the
four students from the Summer School,
who spoke at vespers on Sunday.
All four speakers had held offices at
the School. Miss Lindsay was the stu-
dent representative who conferred with
the faculty *n questions relating to
studies. Miss Doyle, who works at the
Wilson Laundry, was student representa-
tive to the Directing Committee of the
School and manager of the baseball
team. Reports on the courses were
given by Miss Weinstock and Miss
Lindsay at the Labor Conference, held
at the end of the summer.
(Continued on Page 3)                      v{
Mass Meeting Held With College
A mass meeting af delegates and Vassar
College in the Students Building after din-
ner, completed the program for the day.
Mr. Hamilton Holt, and Mr. Herbert
Adams Gibbons, of Princeton, were
speakers, with Miss Helen Gratz, president
of the Vassar College Politics Association,
in the chair.
"You can no more expect nations to dis-
arm when there is no assurance of inter-
national protection than you can expect
cowboys to give up their revolvers before
the costing of sheriffs and police courts,"
was Mr. Holt's statement. Just as men
living without law are drawn into the or-
ganization of society with the coming of
civilization, so nations will be drawn
naturally into an organization for law and
order. "America will naturally drift into
the League," Mr. Holt declared.
"The League of Nations is the greatest
instrument of oppression the world has
ever seen " stated Mr. Gibbons, the second
speaker. 'There is absolutely no grounds
for hope," he went on, "that the Washing-
ton Conference ^will result in our joining
the League now or any other time. The
thing to be hoped for is that our delegates
will act with such liberality that the other
nations will be willing to make concessions
likewise. The results of a conference car-
ried on in the 'grabbing' spirit of Ver-
sailles can never result in establishing a
permanent foundation for peace."
After the speeches there was discussion
from the floor, and a referendum vote was
taken on the resolutions drawn up by the
delegates. Two of these resolutions were
ambiguously worded.
(Ciatfaeil - Pate 5)