College News, 1917-11-14, Vol. 04, No. 07

              The College News
Volume IV.   No. 7
BRYN MAWR, PA., NOVEMBER 14. 1917
Price 5 Cents
EX-PRESIDENT  TAFT  8PEAK8
TO-NIGHT ON  THE  WORLD  WAR
The Honorable William Howard Taft,
ex-President of the United States, has
announced "The World War: What the
United States is Fighting for", as the sub-
ject of his address to-night In the gym-
nasium at 8.30 under the auspices of the
Central War Council. He is president of
the League to Enforce Peace, and chair-
man o)r the Central Committee of the
American Red Cross, of which Woodrow
Wilson is ex-offlcio president.
Since 1913 Mr. Taft has been Kent Pro-
fessor of Law at Yale, president of the
American Bar Association, and the Amer-
ican Academy of Jurisprudence.
Seats are reserved for the members of
the college, but no admission will be
charged.
ALLIES ON THE BRINK OF HELL-
THEY DARE NOT LOSE
Devastation in Northern France De-
scribed by Canadian Officer
FIVE MORE YEARS OF WAR THE
LEAST U. S. CAN HOPE rOR
VARSITY J1ES GERMANTOWN
Weakest Game of Season Ends, 5-5
Weak shooting and a marked slowness
in following up held Bryn Mawr down to
a 5-5 tie with Germantown last Saturday.
The fullbacks were the strongest part of
the Varsity line-up, bearing the brunt of
the defense.
The visitors' team put up- a snappy
fight, recovering quickly and closing in
well around the goal. The Germantown
. line-up Included two alumnae, A. Hawkins
'07, warden of Merlon, at left inside, and
M. Kirk '10, sister of H. Kirk '14, at cen-
ter forward. The captain, Mrs. Murphy,
Is a sister of A. Hawkins.
Bryn Mawr opened the game with a
rush, M. Tyler scoring in the first few
minutes of play. A. Hawkins, hitting
hard, came back with a goal for German-
town, followed by another tally by M.
Tyler. P. Turle made a long run down
the field and passed the ball In to M.
Carey, who scored. Two more points for
the visitors by A. Hawkins and Miss
White and a Varsity goal by M. Tyler and
A. Stiles raised the score to 4-3, Bryn
Mawr's favor, at the end of the first half.
Several times in the second half A.
Stiles blocked the halfback's shot, and
several times the fullbacks got the play
out of the circle after a close tussle in
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WARLICH CONCERT DECEMBER 7
Lieder Singer Arrested as Spy
Relnhold Warlich, basso cantante lieder
singer, will give a concert in" Taylor Hall
December 7th under the auspices of the
Music Committee. By request he will re-
peat several of the pieces which won him
special applause at bis concert here last
March, Thomas Reimer, Pirouchka, The
Village Fool In Love, and Trepak or The
Dance of Death.
During a trip to the Pacific coast last
summer, Mr. Warlich was arrested as a
spy and had some rather unpleasant ex-
periences before he succeeded in clearing
himself. Of German origin, but educated
In Russia, he took an anti-German stand
in the early days of the war by dropping
the prefix "von" from his name.
Mr. Warlich is the only man whom
Krelsler accompanies. For some years
he sang In the opera at Vienna, but has
lately devoted himself entirely to Eng-
lish. Russian, German, and French folk
songs, for which his clear enunciation and
flexible voice make him peculiarly fitted.
Tickets will be fifty cents for those con-
nected with the college, and one dollar
for outsiders, the profits to go to war
relief.
"Today we are on the brink of hell.
The only reason for saying we are going
to win is because we dare not lose". This
statement came as a climax to the dark
sketch of devastated France, violated
Belgium, and the perilous fortunes of the
Allies drawn by Major Boehm, of the
169th Canadian Infantry, in his talk last
Friday in Taylor on the "German Retire-
ment from the Somme in March, 1917".
The German retirement Major Boehm
characterized not as an allied victory, but
as a great tactical success for the enemy,
"the most marvelous retreat in history", a
feat "which has destroyed the possibility
of beating the Germans on the Western
front".
Somme Battlefield a Desert
Forty miles long and six miles wide
and honeycombed with shell holes In
which have lain for six months the
bodies of 200,000 "missing" men, the bat-
tlefield of the Scmme is to-day a wilder-
ness of debris without a blade of grass or
a tree with a limb on It, said Major
Boehm. The wanton cutting down of fruit
trees was an outrage least Justifiable
from a military viewpoint.
That the Germans do not hate the
French in spite of their policy of fright-
fulness was proved to Major Boehm by a
German cemetery In one of the villages.
Side by side were the graves of French
and German soldiers, both covered with
ivy, both equally honored. "Hier ruht in
Gott ein franzosischer Held" was as care-
fully carved by a professional stonecutter
as "Hier ruht in Gott ein deutscher". It
Is for the British and the Americans that
the German reserves his hate and if the
English navy does not succeed In winning
the war, said Major Boehm, we shall have
ample opportunity of learning its bitter-
ness. With the English navy out of the
way, he declared, the German navy could
land as easily on the New England
coast as the Canadians landed in Eng-
land.
"It is a time to dispell illusion", the
speaker continued. "The war cannot end
under five years and perhaps ten. Russia
is out of the game; Italy is being crushed;
France is not exhausted, but nearly so;
and the morale of the enemy was never
better".
Reckoning on the two years it took
Canada to transport 333,313 men at a
time when the submarine menace was
much less, Major Boehm calculated that
it would take still more time before the
United States could make her strength
felt and that. In the meantime, England
must bear the brunt of the attack.
Combatting the Illusion spread by Ger-
man and Irish propoganda that English
colonies are sacrificed for England, the
Canadian said that the highest praise a
Canadian soldier asks Is to be told be
fights as well as an Englishman.
An account of what England and
Canada are doing and a general appeal to
wake up to the seriousness of the situa-
tion concluded the speech. The disen-
franchlsenient of conscientious objectors
and the giving of the vote to all women
with brothers, sons, or husbands at the
front was, he said, an emergency measure
(o Insure the return of the war party In
the next elections.
COMMITTEES CONFER ON WAR UNIT
The possibility of a Bryn Mawr recon-
struction unit was discussed at a meeting
of the Conference Committee of the
Alumna? Association, composed of K.
McCollin '13, Mrs. R. L. Barrows (G. Buf-
fum '08), and A. Patterson '13, with the
president of the Undergraduate Associa-
tion and four class presidents, comprising
the Undergraduate Conference Commit-
tee, last Thursday afternoon.
The question of late hours among the
Freshmen also came up. The conference
Is an annual one, held on matters of com-
mon Alumna? and Undergraduate in-
terest.
WAR UNIT ALMOST CERTAIN
Alumnae Discuss Possible Kinds
RUSSIAN UNIT URGED
Not "Shall we have a war reconstruc-
tion unit"? but "What kind of a unit
l hall we have"? was the trend of the dis-
cussion at the meeting of the Board cf
New York last Saturday afternoon. Miss
Marion Reilly, former dean of the college,
and Miss Dlmon and Miss Martha G.
Thomas, who are members of the War
Council, were appoiuted a committee to
� nvestigate the matter.
The American Friends Committee had
urged that a unit be sent to Russia, whe;e
the need is unusually great. The feeling
continually came out In the discussion
that a unit should on no account be sent
to France unless it was wanted over and
above the many organizations already
rhere. A small minority suggested that
Bryn Mawr alumna? should work Individ-
ually through their local organizations in-
stead of as a body.
Miss Esther Lojventbal, Bryn Mawr
'05, Professor of Economics at Smith Col-
lege, gave an account of the Smith unit,
and Mrs. Anna Rhoads Ladd '89, a Dlrec
tor of Bryn Mawr, described the Friends'
reconstruction work. Miss Dlmon told of
a letter she had received from Leah Cad-
bury '14, asking the support of the Asso-
ciation in canteen work in Paris, and of
letters read at the War Council to Inter
est the college In Y. M. C. A. huts.
A list of all Bryn Mawr alumna? and
former students doing relief work abroad
was suggested, and has already been be-
gun by Miss Dlmon.
V. KNEELAND CHAIRMAN OF
WAR COUNCIL OF COLLEGE
Heads of Seven Departments Chosen
Include Faculty and A'umnae
WAR RELIEF COMMITTEE WILL
DECIDE BIG WORK OF YEAR
ONE-SIDED BATTLE FOR 1919
SENIOR OPPOSITION SLIGHT
Strong Junior Team Work�Score 7-1
1918 offered no great resistance to 1919
in the initial game of their first team
series on Tuesday, as the score of 7 to 1
indicates. The fight was one sided
throughout, though the Senior defense
gave '19 enough difficulty In keeping the
ball in '18's territory to show up the
strength and teamwork of the green team.
Four of 1919's^�olnt8 G. Hearne scored.
The Senior forwards passed at every
chance Instead of dribbling. P. Turle, at
right half, played the best game of the
eleven and did much to check the sweep-
ing advance of 1919's line.
Line-up:
With V. Kne-land '18. president of the
Undergraduate Association, as chairman.
Miss Dlmon, Recording Secretary of the
college, as secretary, and the heads of
the sewn departments appointed, the
membership of the War Council of
twenty-one is complete. The election
took place at the first two meetings last
Thursday and Monday.
Miss Kneeland, In the hot tflaeualoa
preceding the election, urged ih.it the
chairman should not be an undergrade
ate, on the ground that the basis would
be too narrow, but the Faculty and
Alumna? representatives and several of
the undergraduates agreed tnat available
alumna? were too busy, and that an un-
dergraduate could work more efficiently.
Miss Martha Thomas, c. Dodge '18 and
and M. Bacon '18 were the other nomi-
nees.
The old War Relief Committee, re-
leased from the C. A. last Wednesday for
the purpose, was taken over bodily as the
lied Cross and Allied Relief Department
with E. Hoachton is, chairman of the old
commit tee, as its head. Mrs. de Laguna
represents the Faeulty and staff and Miss
Marion Reilly, ex-Dean and chairman of
the War Committee of the Alumna? Asso-
ciation, the Alumna-.
That there should be one cbject for
war work was unanimously agreed. The
decision of the Red Cross department as
to what that object shall be, after It has
passed the council, will come before a
mass meeting for ratitlcation. Miss
Klngsbury. head of the Registration De-
partment, described the work of Smith.
Wellesley, and Kadelifie in (he Recon-
struction Field. The Red Cross Depart-
ment was empowered to make minor can
\asses to meet appeals that may come In.
and to act as a clearing house to proteei
the college from private enierprises. No
war canvass may be made without Its ap-
proval.
With the likelihood of a third Liberty
Loan being floated in February, Mrs. Wil-
liam Roy Smith, Professor of Economics,
who managed the campaign here last
month, was appointed head of the Lib-
erty Loan Department with the power to
choose her own committee.
After President Thomas declined to ac-
cept the election as head of the Education.
Department, P. Turle '18. president of the
History Club, was chosen In her place.
She will submit at a later meeting plans
for the organization of the department,
whose functions are training speakers on
war topics, providing speakers at college.
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NO MEN AT NEXT MOVIES
A false rumor than an exhibition oi
dancing by one of the students attended
the last performance of movies for war
relief has led the college authorities to
close the doors to men.
The committee, M. Tburman '19 and M.
Martin '19. declares that It will work only
In strict co-operation with the National
Board of Censors. There will be two
more performances this semester and
three next semester.
' Freckles", if the committee can secarw
it. will be the next flltn. shown November
Hth In the gymnasium.
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