College News, 1924-04-16, Vol. 10, No. 22

              The College News
Volume X.   No. 22
BRYN MAWR; PA.,' WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 1924
Price 10 Cents
INTERRACIAL PROBLEMS
DISCUSSED AT SWARTHMORE
Opportunities in  Educational   and
Economic Matters Essentially
Needed by Negro
BRYN MAWR SENDS DELEGATES
Colored and white delegates met to dis-
cuss interracial problerns at a conference
held last week-end at Swarthmore, under
the auspices of the Bryn Mawr Liberal
Glib, the Swarthmore #olity Club, and
the University of Pennsylvania Forum.
Other colleges represented were Haver-
ford, Virginia Normal and Industrial,
Hampton, Lincoln, City College of New
York, Union Theological and West Vir-
ginia Col^giate Institute. Attending from
Bryn Mawr were: E. Briggs '24, F. Begg
'24, M. Rodney '24, P. Fansler '24, K. Mur-
ray '24, F. Briggs '25, H. D. Potts '25, E
Baldwin 25, H. Hermann '25, D. O'Shea
'26, H. Hopkinson '26.
The problem was approached through
the historical background of the negro and
his present social status. As regards any
contact with the white race the negro, with
few exceptions, such as DuBois, has no
standjng at all.
Discrimination against negroes exists in
varying degrees throughout the different
states, ranging from -discrimination in the
use of tram cars and restaurants to dis-
crimination at the polls and education.
Segregation, especially in the matter of
schools, was generally acknowledged not
necessarily to mean discrimination. It onfy
became such when the ncgrd was forced
to attend decidedly inferior schools. Edu-
cational facilities for the negro, however,
arc improving throughout the South, ac
cording to Mr. H. Brown, of Hampton
University, though they are still far from
good. In South Carolina, for example,
for every eighty dollars spent on the edu-
cation of a white, seven are spent on that
of a negro. .For the South the problem
docs not hinge around the question of sep
arate schools, but around the necessity of
obtaining well-equipped colored schools.
Discrimination in matters of education
the Conference felt, jhould be made on the
basis of intelligence and not of color
Delegates from colleges where there were
both white and black students felt thai
the contact obtained in this way lead tc
mutual understanding and esteem.
Mr. E. Corbie, of City CoHcge, New
York, felt that the negro had a very defi-
nite contribution to make as a race, and
that its identity should not be lost. The
only way in which the colored race can
maintain its identity, he declared, is in hav-
ing knowledge of itself and of its con-
tribution to the world from the time ol
Hiram to that of Hannibal the Phoenician,
and of Egyptian civilizations; even to the
time when the cotton seed was brought to
America.
What the negro race needs more than
anything else, according to the colored
delegates, is opportunity in all fields of life,
but especially in education. Present preju-
dice can never be overcome unless the
negro is gt^en the opportunity of self-
development; unless black and white can
meet to discuss common problems of na-
tional and international importance; unless
journalism, writing and teaching cease to
foster prejudice by emphasizing the bad
qualities and passing lightly over any at-
tainments of the race.
The question of amalgamation, it was
generally- felt, was a minor issue and one
that wot.ld settle itself along natural lines
JUNIOR MONTH TO OUTLINE
SOCIAL SERVICE WORK
Chapel   Speaker  Explains   Program
and Its Significance
Miss Clare Touslcy, Secretary of the
Charity Organization of New York, and
Director of Junior Month, talked in chapel
last Friday morning on what Junior Month
stands for and J what the delegates accom
plish.
Junior Month is a conference on socia'
work held at the Finch School, New York
City, during the month of July. A dele
gate U sent from each of twelve prominent
eastern colleges for women,' incliidini.
Welleslcy, Smith, Mt. Holyoke, Vassar and
Bryn Mawr. The aim of the conference
is to give college undergraduates who are
interested in social work a glimpse into
every phase of it. ..To do this, each week
of the conference is divided into three
days of casework, and two and a half day?
of lectures and trips.
Some time is spent on every field of so-
cial   work,   from  the ' various problems of
hou&ing   and   health,   to   Americanization
The best speakers obtainable in each sub-
ject  give  informal  talks  followed   by dis-
cussions.     Among   the  speakers   last  year
were Dr. Gordon Hamilton, a graduate of
Bryn Mawr, and specialist in feeble-mind
edncss, and Dr. Kirchwey, an authority on
criminology.    Each lecture is followed by a
trip   to   some   institution.     Last   year   the
Children's  Court  of New  York   City  was
visited, where several cases were heard and
the judge interviewed.   After a talk by Dr
Katherinc Davis the Juniors inspected Bed
ford   Reformatory   for   Delinquent   Girls
An  opportunity   was  also  given   for com
paring the excellent reformatory at James
burg, New Jersey, where the boys have a
.form of self-government, and are allowed
So play baseball, with a similar institution
the so-called House of Refuge, where sen-
tries pace outside the cells and the rule of
silence is imposed during meals.
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SELF-GOVERNMENT PASSES
NEW RULES AT MEETING
Permission    to    Motor    at    Night
Unchaperoned Still Questioned
Announcements   were  read,  amendments
made and motions pasted at a meeting of
|*he Self-Government Association, in Taylor
Hall, a week ago last Tuesday.             .
A questionnaire will be put on the doors
in regard to reporting infractions of Self-
Government rules, S^Br* Miss Coyne.   This       Mr. William Simpson, pacifist and mystic,
is one of  the subjects to be discussed  at, spoke in Taylor last Wednesday night about
the Intercollegiate Self-Government Con
fereitce'to be held at Bryn Mawr next fall
The feeling of tht college is to be ascer-
taiiu-cl now because the mailer lias been
often discussed this winter and is more
clearly in the public mind than it may be
next fall. Other announcements were made
to the" effect that stockings must always
be worn on campus and a*"skirt and coat
must be worn over a classic dancing cos-
tume in the Library and the'Inn. By an
Executive Board decision head proctors are
to be called Hall President. The new
Hall Presidents are to l>e provided-with a
slip on which those who have been proc-
torcd more than once in one evening may
sign. The Sclf-Government Administra-
tion is to have an omce in the Pembroke-
East Music Rooms for the filing of its
records.
Miss Park has asked for further and
careful consideration of the "motoring al
night with a man, unchaperoned" amend-
ment. She has discussed this with several
women on the Board o'f Directors and
agrees with them that this is not a wise
amendment to submit to them at this time.
Cars are being searched constantly for
li�|iior, and if the fact that anyone had been
stopped and searched reached the papers
it might bring discredit on the college'
TherC is the further danger of accident and
of being left alone in the car when the
man goes for help. In addition, the irre-
sponsible girl is likely to change her plans
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THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS
HERE, SAYS MR. SIMPSON
,C. A. Speaker Calls Marriage and
Property Obstacles to Finest
Spiritual Growth
ONLY LAW IS THAT OF LOVE
SIGNIFICANCE OF STUDENT
ORGANIZATION EXPLAINED
Bryn   Mawr   May Join   in   Ffforts
for International Understanding
The Confederation Internationale des
Ktudiants (C. I. E.) is a federation of
National Students Unions formed for the
purpose �>( developing international bonds
of fellowship between students, co-ordinat-
ing their intellectual activities, and pro-
moting their common educational and so-
cial interests. It is an association of stu-
dents without political or religious discrimi-
nation.
The students of twenty European coun-
tries are affiliated to the C. I. E. and those
of the British Dominions are meeting in
England this summer with a view to par-
ticipation.
The educational aims of the C. I. E. and
its more general purpose'of promoting in-
ternational understanding and good will
have been furthered during the last three
years by various practical activities car-
ried out through the head offices of the
various National Unions. Students going
abroad are given assistance in arranging
their itineraries and are furnished %fth in-
troductions to Students with common in-
terests in the countries they are visiting.
Correspondence exchanges, visits and tours
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DR. ROSS EXPLAINS CHANGE
IN MEANING OF RELIGION
The Undergraduate Association elected
A. Johnston, '26, Secretary, and V. New-
bold, '27, Treasurer, at a meeting last
Wednesday.
Ecclesiastical    Authority    Overcome
Today by Personal Belief
Some changes in the essence and embodi-
ment of religion since he discussed them
at Bryn Mawr fifteen years ago, were cited
by Dr. Johnston Ross, Professor of Homi-
Ictics at Union Theological Seminary, in
Chapel last Sunday.
Formerly it was generally objected to
preaching, that it was all right for those
who liked it, but that its institutions wjrc
provincial, partial, sectional, and conven-
tional. To this,. Dr. Ross, trying to over-
come the objection, opposed the fact that
the essence was universal. In the time that
has intervened, the former unquestioning
way*in which people went to church, even
though it was odious, has ceased. People
are better able now to discriminate be-
tween the essence and embodiment of re-
ligion because in most colleges there are
courses for this purpose. Another differ-
ence  is  that   religion   is more   inescapable.
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The Dramatic Club of the University
of Pennsylvania is giving "R. U. R.," at
the Plays and Players Theatre, Seven-
teenth and De Lancey Streets, on the
evening of" May 5, for the benefit of the
Bryn Mawr Summer School. Tickets
may be obtained at the Summer School
Office, Pembroke-East.
the way of life which he practises.
After graduating from I'nion Seminary,
Mr* Simpson went to a small church in one
of the worst industrial districts of New
Jers^v/He was forced to resign from his
church in 1918 because of his pacifism. In
order to realize the trials of a laboring man
be worked for six weeks, in mines, rail-
road gangs, and labor camps, attending So-
cialistic and I. W. W. meetings. He came
back opposed to capitalism but unhappy at
the materialistic methods of the workers.
He gave up all his private property and
now works with his hands for anyone who
desires his labor,' making no charge for his
work.
He prefaced his speech by reading sev-
eral verses from the New Testament,
among which were, "Know the truth and
the truth shall make you free"; "Love your
enemies"; "Seek ye first the kingdom of
God and His righteousness and all these
things shall be added unto you." "Jesus,"
said Mr. Simpson, "usually meant what he
said and tried to put his teaching into
practice."
"We arc living," he went, on, "in the
decay of civilization. The tree is prone
and the grubs are burrowing in it." Proph-
ets cry "Away with capitalism," but capital-
ism is. only a symptom of the world's
rottencss. We can no more affect the- sys-
tem by changing its clothes than we can
change a man by changing Ips attire.
Most of us are trying to put "salve on
the sores" by means of social service work.
But the money which pays for such work
comes from the rich \vno have taken it
from the poor. People who do such work
do il with an attitude of superiority. Such
activity does not bring the Kingdom of
W"\ any nearer. What is asked for is all
tnat we are. We must have a sublime in-
(liffcreilce to results and the faith to leave
everything to God. We must see that God
is, that man is eternal, that die �foundation
of all the universe around us is love, that
there is no sin, no death, no evil. "In all
of us is the capacity of living in that con-
sciousness, and as man comes to thai con-
sciousness we shall build here a society
where theev is no hate, greed, or pain, no
masters, presidents, or courts, a world en-
tirely of love. The Kingdom of God is
here and can be entered now." For society
there is no short-cut, and for individuals
the climb is painful and bloody.
To enter into the joy and peas* of such
consciousness, one must be content wiih
nothing less than �the perfection of God.
In the Bhogovotgflas, God is pictured as
.saying, "Whenever down through the ages
righteousness has declined and un-right-
coitsncss is enthroned, I manifest myself
again." The love of God should be em-
bodied in human lives, as it was embodied
in Buddha or Jesus. The price is our all,
every whit of selfishness. We arc conscious
of' a division within us between two selves.
There   is   a   little   self,   which   makes   for
�
separatencss, making us think that our
good is apart from that of others, a chok-
ing, strangling, crucifying power. Then
there is the true self, expansive, reaching
out to all, a love which leaves out no hu-
man being and makes for growth, whole-
ness, and harmony.
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