College News, 1918-01-17, Vol. 04, No. 13

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The College News
Volume IV.   No. 13
BRYN MAWR, PA., JANUARY 17, 1918
Price 5 Cents
President Thomas   Makes Suffrage
Speech as Amendment Passes House
DESCRIBES     WORK     FOR    FEDERAL
MEASURE�CONFIDENT  OF
8UCCESS
While the Federal Amendment giving;
women the vote was being passed in the
House of Representatives last Thursday,
President Thomas, in an enthusiastic
speech before the Suffrage Club in Pem-
broke East, described the work done for
the Federal Amendment at the Annual
Convention of the National American
Woman Suffrage Association, held in De-
cember in Washington, D. C.
Before she began speaking. President
Thomas asked a member of the club to
call up the North American information
bureau and find out the progress of the
vote. "The test vote triumphant in the
House�nothing final�but the measure
sure to pass", came back the answer to a
delighted audience.
President Thomas shared the optimism
of the reporter at the end of the wire and
predicted the passage of the amendment
through both Houses and its ratification
by three-fourths of the States.
She cited the nearly equal representa-
tion of Republicans and Democrats In
Congress as favorable to woman suffrage.
Both parties, she explained, are afraid of
losing a single seat through opposing the
woman suffragists who now vote in
twelve States. The passage of the pro-
hibition amendment, she pointed out, had
prepared the way for a Federal Woman
Suffrage Amendment by dealing a blow
at the States' rights doctrine.
Describing the measures taken by the
Woman Suffrage Convention to bring
pressure on Congress to pass the Federal
Amendment, President Thomas read the
resolution voted unanimously by the dele-
gates, a "resolution with teeth*':
"That if the Sixty-fifth Congress fails to
submit the amendment before the Con-
gressional election of 1918, the Associa-
tion shall select and enter into such a
number of senatorial and congressional
campaigns as will effect a change In both
Houses of Congress sufficient to insure
the passage of the Federal Amendment.
The selection of the candidates to be
opposed is to be left to the Executive
Board of the State in question.
A patriotic rider to the resolution de-
clared that neither party considerations
nor loyalty to the Federal Amendment
should take precedence of loyalty to the
country. The passage of this resolution
by the suffragists, according to President
Thomas, together with the fact that New
York, the most powerful State in the
Union, had gone for woman suffrage,
made the Federal Amendment for the
first time an immediate possibility.
To illustrate her statement that prac-
tically all progressive people are for suf-
frage the speaker referred to what she
termed "a very satisfactory and delightful
thing", the fact that during the New York
elections the vote of the men in the train-
ing camps, of "the young and brave men j
of the State", was two to one for woman
suffrage.
M. Martin '19, the youngest delegate,
spoke briefly to the Club on the practical
details of the Convention, emphasising
the businesslike methods, the political at-
mosphere, and the wonderful speeches of
the leaders.
SOPHOMORES LEAD IN SWIM-
MING MEET UNMARKED
BY THRILLS
1918 Withdraws Swimming Team
No Records Broken or Tied
With a total of 37V4 points, as against
1921's 22 and 1919's 17%, 1920 paddled off
with the highest honors in the first swim-
ming meet last Friday night. M. S. Cary
'20 was Individual champion with 20
points to her credit. No records were
broken or equaled.
As 1918 did not enter the meet the
titles were contested only by the three
lower classes. In strong contrast to the
meets last year, when new records were
established In every event, there was
little excitement on the sidelines. From
the beginning there was no doubt as to
the outcome, and the only surprise of the
evening was 1920's loss of the plunge for
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NEW WATER REGULATIONS IN ROCK
Individuals Responsible for Breakage
The Rockefeller water situation came
to a head last Monday morning when
President Thomas announced In Chapel
the regulations drawn up by the business
Manager after consultation with Miss
Nearing, warden of Rockefeller, and Mr.
Foley, superintendent of heating, lighting
and plumbing, to prevent the expensive
freezing of the pipes. For several weeks
Rockefeller has been torn by internal
dissensions because of the untimely hour
the water was shut off from the rooms at
night and turned on in the morning.
Under the new plan breakage of pipes
is the responsibility of the individual and
must be paid for by her. If the plan
fails there is great danger, according to
President Thomas, that the individual
basins will be taken out by the Directors'
Committee on Buildings and Grounds.
One washstand will be installed in each
bathroom next summer in any event, she
said.
The water is now shut off from the
rooms at 10.30 p. m. and any one going
to bed before then must leave her win-
dows closed for the maid to open at
10.30. It is not turned on again until
7.30 and on Saturdays and Sundays not
until 8. Any one wishing to sleep later
must leave word for the maid to close
her windows at the time the water is
turned on.
In   next week's  "College   News",
MRS.  WILLIAM   ROY  SMITH
on the
"ROMANCE OF THE MARKET'.
The second of a series of articles
by special contributors
MILLION AND A HALF WOMEN
HELP WIN WAR IN ENGLAND
Use  for   Horsechestnuts   Found   at
Last
FOOD CONSERVATION  LAUNCHED
On the same day the suffrage amend-
ment was passed In the House of Repre-
sentatives a Mil including the enfranchise-
ment of British women was passed by
the House of Lords.
To plan a menu which will conform
with government regulations, give suffi-
cient nourishment to young people who
are working hard, and yet come within
the bounds of the college income is, ac-
cording to Miss Martha Thomas, chair-
man, the threefold problem confronting
the Food Conservation Committee, which
held Its first meeting last Monday.
The possibility of issuing individual
"Hoover" cards, encouraging the saving
of sugar and other war scarcities, was
discussed at this meeting. K. Sharpless.
senior member of the committee, is in-
vestigating what has been done along this
line by other women's colleges.
All the white bread used in the college
was declared by Miss Crawford, Junior
Bursar, to be the so-called "war biead".
baked with 10 per cent-cornmeal instead
of the full wheat.
It was decided at the last Warden's
Meeting that milk lunch, usually served
twice a day during examinations, will this
year be given out only In the evening.
SOCIETY WOMEN GOOD
WORKERS
That society women make excellent
kitchen maids in wartime and that with-
out their faithful, conscientious work
England could not have done what she
has in the war, was one Impression
gained from Miss Helen Fraser's talk on
English Women's Work In Winning the
War. given in Taylor Hall last Friday
afternoon.
Beside the million and a half women
who have replaced men in industry, Miss
Fraser pointed out, there is the Woman's
Army Corps or the W. A. C.'s as they are
called, who are enlisting at the rate of
10,000 a month to do regular army work:
cooking, clerical work, light transport
driving both in England and in France.
Mentioning the fact that there had been
but 280 regular army nurses in England
at the outbreak of the war. Miss Fraser
told of the Invaluable aid given in the
first months, when six hundred ollieei:-
were killed, by the V. A. D. or voluntary
detachment of the Red Cross. This body,
now numbering 60,000, was organized
amid a lack of popular enthusiasm, by
Miss Haldane in 1909. Its members keep
England's thousand hospitals supplied
with nurses, Miss Fraser continued. On
executive committees, as well as in rou-
tine life, she went on, the war has
brought out women's ability. The Food
Controller has two women co-directors,
and women are represented on all com-
mittees in which they have special con-
cern.
Farmerettes  and  "Canary  Girls"
Women farmers are trained by the
Board of Agriculture on the home farms
of the big estates, given a uniform of
smock and breeches, cut to order, and
transported free to their posts. They
sign on for a year and have a minimum
wage of $5 a week, continued Miss Fi
with a cottage to live in and a dally al-
lowance of milk and fuel.
The million women engaged in muni-
tion manufacture turn out as many shells
in a fortnight now as were made in all of
last year, she said. Miss Fraser praised
especially the sacrifice of the "canary
girls", who, working with picric acid, turn
yellow even to their hair.
Miss Fraser's Own Work
War saving done through associations
of soldiers, sailors, Hnd school children
subscribing from three farthings a week
up, is Miss Fraser's own branch of war
work. Saving of food she also described:
how fats are extracted from dish-water to
make glycerine for munitions and how
horsechestnuts as cattle feed have saved
200.000 tons of grain.
In the discussion that followed the lee-
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12,000 DRESSINGS TOTAL OUT-
PUT OF WORKROOM TO DATE
Faculty Work Wednesday Afternoons
Over 12,000 dressings have been folded
at college since the Red Crou � a I
opened, newly-compiled records show.
Twenty-seven dressing for the year is
the per capita average for the college at
large, although the actual weekly av
for the worker Is 58 dressings a week.
The average attendance hi been 17
workers a night.
"The workroom attendance bai been In
the main good, and no dressincs have
been turned back since the fire) weeks",
figures, "but the college working group
is one of the smallest of the Main Line
Branch. Probably this is due to its being
open only In the evening".
The workroom is open (Or the Faculty
from 3.30 to 6 every WMBMday after-
noon. Mrs. Noyes, of Penygroes, and Mrs.
de Laguna are in charge. 268 dressings
have been made in the two afternoons
when the workroom wsJ open.
College   Knitters   Number  300
Three hundred knitters a            i  tend
on the workroom wool books, OVW a
thousand hanks, to tIn* value of about
$829.7a. have gone through the hands of
the college Red t'ross. About half of this
was given out free to be returned,
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CUSS APPORTIONMENT FOR
SERVICE CORPS, $6C00
Varsity to Raise $4030
The apportionment of the $l0.(H'o to he
raised befbre June for the Service l erpe
was ratified by the War Council To   day
Bight    $6000 Is diviil.-<l among H
proportionate   to their   m.'tube,ship,   and
$4000 Is assigned to the college at lame
The class assignment:   are:
1918, $1020; 1919. $1MI0; 1920, 11410;
1921. $2085.
Gate receipt- from IpoeiOis no to the
classes securing them, and pledges taken
after the �peachei Iff. tS I"- < Hinted
toward the class fund of the pant a
pledging. All coniiae's for sp �ikers
must be rinded by the Kdueation Depart-
ment.
The contributions of Faculty. Stall, ,md
graduate students are to go toward ihe
varsity fund, and varsity dramatics, if
they are given, will contribute to this
fund.
A Serviee Corps week-end. at which
college women experienced in war work
will siK>ak, is ooataeaptated by the lied
Cross and  Allied Relief  1 ).-iia. tnu-nt.
class committees will be directly re-
-ponsible to the !>� pa Ubj III I I Red Cross
and Allied Relief, which i- to uunage the
varsity fund.
TWO BETHLEHEMS IN THE WAR
"According to General Maurice, of the
British Army. Bethlehem. Pa. was in *
large measure responsible for the capture
of Bethlehem. Pal"�**. LooJe Post-
Dispatch.
NO     MORE     CAMPUS     MOVIES�TOO
LITTLE  CLEARED
Movies in tbi               -nun f<>,
tit of War Relief have been ahanlti'il.
on the rei               latiofl if the Mi.tn.tger,
M. Martin  19.
The expense of showinu the tilius haa
increased to such an extent. M M.min
pointed out. that the proftu are too email
to justify the rink. At the last movie,
given November 24th. Ml .>ui of the $100
taken in went for ei|              whereas last
year the relation of the exi�enses to the
total receipts was usually about $60 out
of $110.
Miss  Martin  has  managed  the college
I for two years, last  year for the
benefit of the Endowment Fund, this year
under  the   Red   Cross  and  Allied   Relief
�Apartment of the War Council
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