College News, 1933-03-15, Vol. 19, No. 15

              The College News
VOL. XIX, No. 15
BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 1933
Copyright  URYN  MAWR
COLLKUK NKWS.  1933
PRICE 10 CENTS
Regulation in Case of
Repeal is Discussed
Mr.   Bo!iIen   and   Dr.   Kelsey
Argue Over Protection
ef Dry States
ARGUMENTS ARE HEATED
Tuesday night, March 7, in Good-
hart Common Room, both sides of the
Prohibition Repeal question were dis-
cussed by two speakers, Mr. Francis
Bohlen, professor of .Constitutional
Law at the University of Pennsyl-
vania, and Dr. R. W. Kelsey, fo Hav-
erford College. Dr. Bohlen spoke on
"What the Repeal of the Eighteenth
Amendment Will Mean."
"The question," said Dr. Bohlen,
"is what provision is to be made Jor
the dry States." It has been abso-
lutely demonstrated that Congress
can protect any State against the
violation of State rules, a provision
, of the Constitution which has been
made explicit by the Blaine Resolu-
tion. During the Republican cam-
paign, much was made of the state-
ment that the dry States would be
inundated by liquor from wet States,
but Mr. Bohlen thinks that these
States will be drier than ever, be-
cause the local police will have a di-
rect responsibility for the enforce-
ment of their prohibition laws.
"What we have quarreled with is
that Atlantic seaboard habits should
be controlled by other States. Each
group of citizens, the smallej>the bet-
ter, should determine its own habits
The larger the unit for which any
sumptuary law is enacted, the less ef-
fective is it likely to be." The pro-
tection of dry States after the Repeal
is important, but more important is
the control of the liquor traffic in
the States that decide for Repeal.
"We do no want the saloon, but by
returning control to each State, suit-
able laws for every region may event-
ually be worked out. America is sick
of the dogmatism of the present law,
and.she will use the State option as
an experimental laboratory." The
other nations of the world, especially
in Europe, are trying to limit drink-
ing to harmless light wines and beers
by different systems of restriction.
"Thank God, we shall no longer
Be- left alone to stick to a verbal lie.
Every other nation has abandoned it.
Well-meaning fanatics can do more
harm in ten years than people of tol-
erance can undo in a century. My
hope is that by limitation and raising
the price of spirits, as in Denmark,
drinking will be decreased. If the
enormity of Prohibition is abolished
by repeal, we will have the power of
dealing flexibly with the problem and
a chance of finally reaching the
ideal."                                                   ,
Dr. Kelsey, who spoke next, pre-
sented the case for Prohibition. He
said that the Eighteenth Amendment
would undoubtedly be repealed, since
the pendulum was swinging in that
direction. "To me it is almost im-
possible to understand people who
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COLLEGE CALENDAR
Thursday, March 16
4   P.*  M-.�In   the    Common
Room,  demonstration   by   Gas-
ton de Paris of make-up, per-
fumes, powders, etc. -
Friday, March   17
4   P.   M.�Class   Swimming
Meet.
8.20 P. M.�French Play�Le
Bourgeois Gentilhomme.
Monday, March 20
4.30  P. M.�In the  Common
Room,  Mrs.   Breckinridge   will
speak on "Frontier Nursing in
Kentucky.
Tuesday, March 21
8 P. M.�In the Music Room,
Odyssey Cruise Movies.
Quota System Kept to
Prevent Class Halls
Minor   Reforms   Instituted   by
Council: Hall Exchanges
Made Possible
PEMBROKES       COMBINED
The Quota Committee of the Col-
lege Council presented its recom-
mendations for reform of the quota
last Wednesday evening, and the
long promised action on the question
took place. The committee, which
has been considering the problem since
the beginning of the year, explained
the obstacles in the path of any com-
plete aholition of the grievances of
the present system, and presented the
following six resolution, which were
immediately passed by the Council,
calculated to remove minor irrita-
j tions: 1. That Pembroke East and
Omission of Freshman Week is' West be combined into one hall under
Positions
Miss Charlotte E. Carr, Dep-
uty Secretary of the Pennsyl-
vania Department of Labor and
Industry, will speak on oppor-
tunities for women in positions
associated with industry, in-
cluding the personnel work now
being done by State depart-
-ments. The meeting will be
held on Tuesday afternoon,
March the twenty-first, at quar-
ter past five, in the Common
Room of Goodhart Hall. Every-
one who is interested is cordial-
ly invited to attend. Tea will
be served at five o'clock.
Students Advised to
Keep Record of Cuts
Given as Cause of
Confusion
SYSTEM     IS    EXPLAINED
the quota; 2. That no preference in
general draw be given either
Bettws-y-Coed or Wyndham should
they reopen; 3. That the six "jun-
iors in Merior be allowed to move to
other halls regardless of the quota;
4. That two people of the fame class
living in different halls may exchange
rooms without having to enter gen-
eral draw; 5.    That within the year
Mrs. Breckinridge To Talk
On Frontier Nursing
Mrs. Mary Breckinridge will speak
on her work in the Kentucky moun-
tains on Monday, March twentieth, at
four-thirty in the Common. Room.
Mrs. Breckinridge is director of the
Frontier Nursing Service which she
established in 1926 to bring aid to
the forgotten back-woodsmen of the
mountain regions. Until recently these
people have been entirely cut off
from the outside world and complete-
ly ignorant of the ways of our mod-
ern civilization. Mrs. Breckinridge
has done a tremendous piece of work
in showing the people how to im-
prove their living conditions, and
through the help of her "nurs�s on
horse-back" has been able greatly to
reduce the rate of infant mortality,
and prevent the spread of typhoid
fever. She will tell what the Fron-
tier Nursing Service is doing and il-
lustrate her talk with lantern slides.
(Specially   Contributed   by   Gertrude
Parnell, Chairman  Cut
Committee)
The  omission  of  Freshman   Week
this year is to blame for the lack of j the quota for each ciass shall remain
an  adequate explanation  of the cut j set, so that if a girl leaves at mid-
system   to   the  freshmen.     The   cut] year's she will leave a full vacancy,
committee   feels   that   each   student,
should  have exact knowledge of the,
cut system.
Each   student  is   allowed  only  as
many cuts per semester as she  has'
instead of one-fifth of a vacancy; 6.
That there be a more even distribu-
tion of scholarship rooms among the
halls, and that some provision be
made for turning some of the Merion
singles  back  into  suites  if  the  stu-
Varsity Dramatics'
Plans Are Complete
Men's   Parts    Are   Cast    From
Princeton Men for Lady
Windcmere s Fan"
Mrs. Smith Explains
Financial Situation
Three   Crises   Are   Drops
Securities, Commodities
and Real Estate
in
REFORMS    NECESSARY
PRODUCERS -ARE CHOSEN
regular classes per week.    Thus, in, dunts desire �*�
It seemed to the committee that
the quota system in its present form
is  the  lesser  of  many  evils.    It  is
general, a unit course will allow three
cuts, a half-unit course two cuts,
and a first or second year science
course five cuts, each laboratory hour
cut counting as one-third of a cut.
Until the present semester, classes in
required Diction and Hygiene did not
increase the student's allowance, al-
though they were recorded and count-
ed as in other subjects. Beginning
this semester, however, two cuts will'
be allowed for Hygiene and one-half
of a cut for Diction. Students who
are  reading  for honors  are  allowed
truly realized that the six changes
outlined above do not touch the great
evils of the quota, which result in
students being unable to leave a hall
they dislike, or obtain a room in the
hall of their choice. But it is im-
possible to reform the main evils of
the quota without destroying the
foundation upon which it stands. Ap-
portionments of the four classes
throughout the halls on a numerical
and impersonal basis is the keystone
of the. entire structure. If the nu-
merical system were entirely given
unlimited cuts within reason. If any up, class halls would be the inevitable
penalty is incurred by a student who! result, and the administration is op-
, .     ,             ..    . _    i posed to the developments of such a
is going to read for honors, the pen-  '     �,.         _     .,   r   �    .            ,
"                                                         ! condition.    President Park was her-
alty is enforced for one semester.      j ge,f in Bryn Mawr when there were
All  excuses,  for  illness, emergen-1 ciass halls, and it was an unsatisfac-
cies,   etc.,   are   obtainable   from   the: tory situation at best.    Four classes
Dean's office.                                          'never fitted into, five halls,  and the
.        ,       .  i �                     *    .    *   ! waifs and strays, were all flung into
A student taking excess cuts up to I            .....'    .,       ,     .     � ,
,.   ,      ,               I the   odd    hall.     Also   having   four
and   including  two-thirds  above  her, dagses a� together in one hall builds
individual allowance shall be placed j up the democracy and general social
on Student Probation. That is, the: t()lerance of which Bryn Mawr is s0
number of excess cuts up to and in-1 �roud
eluding one jhall be quadrupled and! Qn the assumption that ciass haUs
deducted from the student's next se-| are undesirable> the Quota Committee
attempted to find some means of re-
mester's cuts'. The number of excess
cuts from one through two and two-
thirds shall be tripled and deducted.
A student overcutting more than two
and two-thirds is recommended for
Senate Probation, and is allowed no
cuts for the next semester. A student
taking more than ten above her al-
laxing the rigidity of the quota, but
it soon became obvious that there
could be no compromise between abol-
ishing it entirely and maintaining it
under the present rules. If a slid-
ing quota for each hall were institut-
ed, the more popular halls would fill
lowance is liable to be suspended and; out their quotas immediately and the
to have part or all of the semester's; same probiems would result^Any
work cancelled.    Serious over-cutting j system wouid be unsatisfactory which
left the final decision up to an offi-
cial. It is necessary in the matter
of room assignments to deal imper-
sonally and dispassionately, or the
immediate results would be accusa-
tions of favoritism, or crime and cor-
ruption. The Quota Committee ex-
amined every possible detail of the
present system, and came to the con-
clusion that unless the entire struc-
ture were to be destroyed and a new
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more than five shall have their de-
gree or an examination deferred�at
the discretion of the Senate.
Any student who over-cuts because
she does not expect to return to col-
lege the following year will be asked
to leave immediately rather than stay
and not attend classes.
Students are advised to keep a rec-
ord of their own cuts, to be compared
in case of error with the cut records
of the Dean's office. Unless this is
done, no corrections will be made
after the cuts are recorded at the
end of the month.
Any student who is not in her right
seat when attendance is being taken,
or who is out of the room at that
time, should report immediately after
class to the Dean's office.
Election -
The Business Board of the
News takes pleasure in an-
nouncing the election of Bar-
bara Lewis, '33, as a member of
the Business Board.
Plans for the Varsity Dramatics
production of Fxidy Winde mere's
Fan are fast being shaped, now that
the casting has been completed and
the general outlines of the produc-
tion decided. The male parts are be-
ing taken by men from Princeton
University, who have been invited to
take part by the Board of Dramat-
ics.    The cast is as follows
lord Windcmere... .Charles Trexler
Lord Darlington. .. .Tony Nichol, Jr.
Lord Augustus Lorton,
William  Gibon
Ceil  Graham... .William  Kicnbusch
Mr.  Dunby...........John  Duboysc
Mr.  Hopper.........Harry  Dunham
Other small parts have not yet
been assigned definitely. Mr. Trexler
is well-known in Princeton for his
work with the Theatre Intime, as is
Mr. Nichol, who has just played the
lead in the undergraduate play. Mr.
Kienbusch has also worked with the
Intime, both as actor and as stage
manager. Mr. Dunham is Well-known
for his work with the Triangle Club
and is also the'vice-president of the
Intime. The other two members of
the cast have had less experience,
but are by no means novices.
The Bryn Mawr production staff
has just been announced and it in-
cludes the following names:
Eleanor  Pinkerton,  '33.........Sets
Sylvia Bowditch, '33... .Construction
Betsy  Jackson,  '33...........Lights
Maria Coxe, '34.....Stage Manager
Carrie Schwab, '34........Costumes
Elizabeth Edwards, '33___Properties
The production plans are still quite
general, but it has been definitely de-
cided Jhat the play will be done in
modern dress and in a very stylized
manner. Probably the set will be a
curtain set in black and white, while
the costumes will be black and white
in certain acts and blue and white in
others. In any case, much opportun-
ity for experimentation is offered and
Varsity intends to use that opportun-
ity as exhaustively as it can.
The Board is not able to announce
definitely its plans for a tea-dance
preceding the Saturday performance,
but if financial conditions permit,
they hope to be able to sponsor such
an affair. This is, again, something
in the way of an innovation, as the
dance will be directly under Varsity
and not under the supervision of the
Undergraduate Board, which , has
sponsored all dances at college in the
past. The change is due to the prox-
imity of the dates of the Varsity per-
formance to the Glee-Club operetta,
for which the Undergraduate Board
plans to give an evening dance.
News Candidates
This week's assignment for
all candidates for the editor-
ial board of the News is to re-
port the class swimming meet
on Friday, write an editorial,
and a Wit's End article. Please
report to the News office Mon-
day at 5.30 P. M., bringing
articles.
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Professor Marion P. Smith analyzed
the current financial situation in two
well-attended chapels, March 7 and 8.
Characterizing the present crisis as
the last of a series which began in
October, 1929, she declared that the
dozens of constructive measures
which have been taken since March 4
all point toward a permanent uni-
fication of the banking system and a
speedy resumption of normal busi-
ness.
Although, for want of perspective
and inside information, it is hard-to
pick out the most significant aspects
of the depression, we are beginning
to realize that there have been three
acute crises in a long series of Calam-
itous happenings. The first sign of
trouble was a sharp drop in security
values, which began in October, 1929,
and became most pronounced a year
later. Also, over a period of two and
8 half years there occurred a series
of shocks affecting different indus-
tries at different times. Commodity
prices were deflated, first in raw ma-
terials and then in manufactured
good--. With the curtailment of pur-
chasing power, the American public
icascd to invest abroad. Germany
was unable to pay her reparations,
the Allies were unable to pay their
debts^and by June, 1931, an inter-
national financial crisis had devel-
oped, which severely affected British
creditors. England went off the gold
standard and forty-one other coun-
tries followed.
This deflation of security and com-
modity values was accompanied by a
corresponding deflation of wages and
salaries. The early policy of main-
taining the wage scales of employed
men even while thousands of others
were dismissed, was superceded in
the spring of 1932 by a movement
for spreading work among as many
men as possible.
The present emergency, Mrs. Smith
said, is fundamentally a real estate
panic which developed because (in
spite of the fact that business as a
whole had been spectacularly deflat-
ed) real estate men refused to lower
the interest rates on long term agree-
ments. The wholesale bankruptcies
and foreclosures caused by this in-
elasticity aroused vigorous protest
throughout the country. In Iowa,
sheriff sales were obstructed and one
auctioneer narrowly escaped lynch-
ing. In Philadelphia, certain five-
and-ten-cent stores actually went vol-
untarily bankrupt in order to cancel
their leases.
As a result of such difficulties in
both agricultural and metropolitan
districts, bank credit naturally be-
came frozen, and, beginning last
spring, a wave of hoarding hysteria
swept the country. Although, for
some unknown reason, the panic was
temporarily checked last- summer, it
recommence^ in August, and has con-
tinued until the recent climax. Even
on February 25, Mrs. Smith remark-
ed at the conclusion of her first talk,
there were a billion more dollars in
circulation outside the banks than
during the boom year of 1928.
Continuing her analysis the next
morning, Mrs. Smith attempted to de-
scribe the exact nature of hoarding.
Anyone who takes money out of a
(Co.itlniied on   Ta^e  Three)
Wanted
Odds and ends of yarn, any
color, quantity, or quality, to
be knit into six-inch squares for
crazy quilts. These will be
used to cover the babies of the
South End, who are now being
wrapped in newspapers in or-
der to keep them warm. Please
bring any contributions to Miss
Grant at the Gym or to Sylvia
Bowditch, Rockefeller.
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