College News, 1931-02-25, Vol. 17, No. 13

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Vol. XVII, No. 13
WAYNE AND BRYN MAWR, PA,
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25,   1931
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Price: 10 Cent*
Morris Leeds Conducts
Liberal Club Meeting
Manufacturer Stresses Need of
Education in Economics,
�          Politics and Finance.
MUST TEST ANY THEORY
Morris Leeds, Quaker, inventor,
'manufacturer, led a discussion by the
Liberal Club of "The New Capitalism"J
jn-the Common Room last Thursday
night. Mr. .Leeds is president of the
Leeds-Northrup Co., manufacturers of
electrical and temperature measuring
instruments in Philadelphia.
.Capitalism, the speaker began, is not
a clear-cut philosophy. It is a system
that has evolved slowly and which will
doubtless continue to change. The
question before us is this: will an
altered capitalism, suit our industrial
needs or must we scrap the entire
system as unfit? *
Mr. Leeds agrees in general with Mr.
Norman Thomas that a great many
things are wrong with our present in-
dustrial system. Just how wrong con-
ditions are he feels is best gauged by
comparing present conditions with past,
and conditions at home with conditions
abroad. We find, upon investigation,
that the general amount of wealth to-
day far exceeds that of a century or so
ago and that "an embarrassing amount"
of it is in the United States. Paul
Douglas, in his book on wages, says
that working people in America have
gained in wealth more rapidly than the
community. The relative amount of
real wages is difficult to discover but
we are sure at least that it is not less.
The relative status OX labor today
and in the past must also be consid-
ered, that is to say, the-amount of
human liberty and pleasure in work.
There is much misconception today of
craftsmanship under the guild system.
We forget that for each craftsman who
expressed himself in his work there
were many others who did back-break-
. ing labor to provide him with materials.
It is highly doubtful too that universal
equality and happy family life existed
in many shops. A harsh master-serv-
ant relation was common. Hours were
long and conditions bad.
Mr. Leeds believes that unemploy-
ment and depression and bad condi-
tions can be eliminated without chang-
ing our economic system. Education,
he feels, is the first need. Workers and
students alike must learn more about
our political and economic organiza-
tion in order that they may be inter-
ested and able to remedy it. Far too
little attention is paid to economic
problems in "the public schools and in
the-colleges. A second need is for ex-
perimentation in producing better co-
ordination of effort between workers
and managers in industry. The lead-
ers of industry, as well as of politics,
need to be better chosen. Group inter-
est in the company needs to be en-
couraged by democratic organization
and sympathetic personnel work. A
third great field for improvement, one
that we understand very imperfectly,
is that of finance. We.need to know
how to keep money stable and to un-
derstand a great many other things
like credit.
Varsity Players
Announce Cast
On Tuesday evening, March 2, the
Varsity Players will present three, of the
one-act plays written for Mr. Hughes'
course in Ptaywriting: Under the Skin,
a satire by Sydney Sullivan; The Un-
common Thief,* comedy by Janet Mar-
shall; Humpty Dumpty, a farce bj- Leta
Clews. The plays were chosen by Mr.
Hughes, and each one. will be directed
by the author.
The casts have been chosen for the
three one-act plays by undergraduates,
which are to be given Tuesday evening,
March 3, in Goodhart.
Under the Skin, a satire by Sydney
.    .    '         .  Sullivan
Bertram, an unusual composer,
Nancy Hoyt
Ileana, an unsuccessful playwright,
Letitia Yoakam
Rupert,   an   unsuccessful   sculptor,
Ellen Hart
Sigrid,  a  Communist................Anne Lord
Serge, a failure as a poet,
Lois M. Thurston
Sasha, an enthusiastic Communist,
Maria   Coxe
Norbcrta, a poor interior decorator,
Miriam T. Dodge
Alida. an unsuccessful painter,
-  Betty Peterson
William Russell, a salesman.... Helen Bell
The   Uncommon   Thief,  a   comedy  by
Janet Marshall
Try-Outs
The annual try-outs foY tluj_Edi-
torial Board of the NE>*will bV
tfin this week.' All articles sub\
mitted will be used at the discretion
of the News. Those interested
should see L. Sanborn, Merion
29-33, between 1:30 and 2 on
4Thursday or Friday. Freshmen
are particularly urged to try out.
Numerous Places for
Public Health Women
Lawrence Kimball...................Sallie Jones
Iris Miller, his fiancee..........Mary Nichols
Burglar..........................Lois M. Thurston
Detective  ........................Caroline Schwab
Humpty Dumpty, a farce by Leta ( lews
Continued   on   I'ugr   Two
States and Cities Offer Openings
for Doctors, Research and
Public Health Nurses.
MANY    TEACHING    JOBS
Dean Manning .Discusses
Scholarships in Chapel
Speaking in Chapel Thursday morn-
�
ing,  Dean Manning declared that  she
�i^nnl to answer in general and all
sK^gfice the questions of students apply-
ing for scholarships."
A facuhy committee on utrdcrgradu-
atc scholarships and an Alumnae com
mittec who meet with them, make the
decisions. Though originally these two
bodies came together to determine the
recipient of the James K. Rhode* Me-
morial Scholarship, the Alumnae early
began to take speciarresponsibility for
finding the best applicant, and were
invited to confer on all: a few years
ago they stated their main objects rtnd
requisites.
On Tuesday, February 17, in the
Common Room, Dr. Janet Howell
Clark, A.B., from Bryn Mawr in Math-
ematics and Ph.D from Johns Hopkins
in Physics, spoke on opportunities for
women   in   the   field  of  public   health,
Curtis Institute Gives
19th Century Program
Emit   Mlynarskt   and   Talented
Students Display Mu-
sicianship.   J
FAMOUS MUSICIAN HERE
The Curtis Symphony Orchestra, con-
ducted by Kmil Mlynarski and assisted
by students of the" I hit hate, gave a con.
cert last Monday welling. Theoretically,
the series ended with the New York
String Quartet; hut, through the gener-
osity of Mrs. Mary I-ouise Curtis Bok.
it was extended to include a fifth concert.
When one considers that the orchestra
is composed entirely of students, one of
whom is but fourteen years old, one can-
not  but be  amazed at the results; the
"We  wish to award scholarships  in | Brahms Second Symphony certainly of-
Dr. Clark is at present teaching in the
department of Physiology at the School j amounts  are  not always rigidly  fixed,
order to enable or to attract good stu-
dents to Bryn Mawr," said Dean Man-
ning- Obviously, merit cannot be the
sole consideration, without any ques-
tion of whether they could come with-
out aid, but the fact that it is being
given to better students must not he
ignored.         The      qualification's      and
1934 Wins Five Places
In First Swim Meet
Mitchell and Daniels Freshmen
Star Performers; Diving
Very Unfinished.
TIME IN RELAYS IS POOR
The first of the inter-class swimming
meets was held Friday, February 20.
1934, performing before a very minute
audience, completely sank the other
classes, winning five out of six places.
M. Mitchell and S. Daniels were the
star performers for the freshmen, the
former scoring two firsts and the lat-
ter a first and two seconds, and both
swimming in the relay. The forty-
yard free style was captured by P. Tot-
teTt in rather fast time for the first
meet. Torrance, '33, upheld the honor
of the sophomores by winning the
breast stroke and keeping the fresh-
men from a clean sweep. M. Mitchell,
taking the forty-yard back stroke race
and the crawl for form, showed her
versatility." In the relays the times
were slow, 1934 being the only class to
make the distance under a minute.
The diving was good in spots but
these were counteracted by numeron�
poor performances. There was gen-
eral evidence of lack of practice with
most of; the divers, and practice
crammed in during the past week on
the part of the rest. Daniels, the win-
ner, was the only one who had a sem-
blance of finish to all her dives.
Frothingham counteracted her rather
poor required dives by two beautiful
fancies, thus getting a second place.
Next week should see a  much better
of PuBmT'Health at Johns Hopkins.
Opportunities for women' in public
health are numerous, and there are
few men with whom to compete in this
field. Positions in public health work
are concerned with the application of
knowledge already discovered more
than with research work) although op-
portunities in this line arc increasing.
The l\ S. Public Health Depart-
ment, headed by a Surgeon General,
offers work in various divisions, such
as the Division of Scientic Research,
and the Division oi Sanitary Reports
and Statistics. The State Health De-
partments are organized with a Board
of Health headed b> a Commissioner
of Health. There are a .number of
bureaux here, of bacteriology, sani-
tary engineering, child and maternal
hygiene and so forth. Employees here
are under 'Civil Srrvice regulations.
City Health Departments again are
organized under a Board of Health
headed by a Health Commissioner, and
the employees are Civil Service work-
ers. In State and city work there are
various openings for doctors, labora-
tory'workers and publicj health nurses.
At Harvard. Toronto and Johns
Hopkins there are Schools of Public
Health apart from the Medical Schools.
The School of Public Health at Johns
Hopkins requires an M.D. unless the
student is combining his work with
that of (he Medjcaj School. For one
year of work a certificate of Public
Health is given; for two years of work,
one gets the degree of Doctor of Pub-
lic Health. The degree of Doctor of
Science is given for the completion of
the three-year course. The depart-
ments include" bacteriology, nutrition
(especially the study of vitamins), sta-
tistics, epidemiology, immunology,
medical zoology (largely the study of
tropical diseases) BJOl] pliysiological hy-
giene (the effect of environment and
the study of industrial .diseases). There
are foreign students with Rockefeller
Institute Fellowships at Johns Hop-
kins, and the faculty are sent all over
the world for various studies.
Work on various diseases is hazard-
ous,   for  research   workers  often   con-
< ontiiiurcl  on  l'mcc   Thrn-
performance  on her  part.    About   thfc
Capitalism has changed already; the | preujest  dlyes of  ,he afternoon  werc
two  twists by Levy  and  Parker, the
advantage of democracy is that under
Coatlaued on  Pace  Pour
Play Given Industrial Group
On Wednesday evening, February 18,1
the Industrial Group of the Bryn Mawr
League held its annual entertainment sup:
per in the Commons Room. After an
interlude of poetry-reading, the ever-
boisterous Pyramus and Thisbe was pre-
sented by the undergraduates.
A program of Victrola music followed,
and the evening was concluded with the
singing of labor songs, Bread and Rtises,
to Labor and others, by. the Germantown
members of the Industrial Group.
latter getting a full twist on a front
dive and going into the water with
practically no commotion.
Results:
Forty-yard   free   style�Tottcn.   '34;
Daniels. '34: Bickell. '33.____________
Forty-yard     breast�Torrance,     '33;
Burrows, '31; Ralston. '32.
Forty-yard    back   �    Mitchell,    '34;
Paxon, '32; Bickell, '33.   '.
Crawl for form�Mitchell, '34; Dan-
iels, '34; Paxon, ''32.
Diving�Daniels,   '34;   Frothingham.
'Jl; Cornish, '34..
�'Relay�1934, 1933.  1931.
and an effort i� made to reward every-
one, although this may not be possible
this year. In general the average ex-
pected   is   the   same   as   that   for   an
honours degree, but this is often over-
stepped, as students who are doing
promising   work   in   their   own   major
t'oatlnurll   on   l'mtr   Four
Dr. Jefferson Explains
Religion's Use to Us
Acts as Guide and Endows Us
With Sense of Values and
Moral Power.
Calendar
Tuesday, March 3�The Varsity
Players will present three one-
act plays, written by Sydney
Sullivan, Janet Marshall and
Leta ("lews at 8:15 in the Audi-
torium of Goodhart  Hall.
Friday, March 6�Dr. Robert
Root, Professor of English at
Princeton University, will speak
in the Music Room at 8:15 on
Pope and the Art of Moralised
� Song.      Graduate    Students    in
English      and      undergraduates
majoring in English are invited
� to attend.
Speaking on the topic of 'What ran
Religion do for us?" at Sunday evening
chapel in the Goodhart Music Room,
Dr. Charles Jefferson, of Broadway
Tabernacle, asked the question in Job.
"Who is the Almighty that we should
serve him",?�a question which gener-
ations of men have since been putting.
It is a timely question. Dr. Jefferson
thinks, because many are now wonder-
ing if Christianity has not lost It* grip;
they feel that it is passing, and will be
gone in fifty years. It is true that if
religion cannot do something tangible
and real for us. it will go:
The query is also practical; it no
longer has to do entirely with the life
hereafter, as was thought iit the Mid-
dle Ages. In the last half century
man's point of view has changed. He
now knows that man has been a part
Of the world for millions of years, that
the world is not only very old. but will
continue to go "tin for many more years.
He has learned to read the New Testa-
ment more wisely than his ancestors.
rhe idea now is imtpso much to have
Jesus help us in another world, but to
>ring the Kingdom of Heaven lure.
He asks "What can it do for .oi here
and now in the twentieth centnry," and
wonders if, however important a factor
t was in our social evolution, we hav<
not now  outgrown it.                  ^ �
Again, the question is an urgent one
because we know that something needs
to be done, something more than is
now being done, despite present efforts.
Possibly religion .contains forces which,
will lift us out of our distresses, out of
our shallowncss. Perhaps we have
never fully explored the full extent of
its  blessjngs.
'I do not believe that religion can
do everything," continued Dr. Jeffer-
son. "We want a garage, not a church.
h�., w�. have a flat tir-i "�" " �"�*
coax vegetables out of the soil by sing-
ing hymns. In industry, skill, not
faith, is demanded. Religion has gopc
to the rear, and science has come to
the fore."
Having admitted all this, there are
still things Of real varae which religion
can, do fof us.   It can answer our ulti-
Coatlaar*  oa Pace 4
�    �
fers 'difficulties, yet under Mr. Mlynar-
ski's baton this fact was almost entirely
concealed.
Miss Carmela Ippolito was the soloist
for Mendelssohn's Concerto in E Minor
for violin and orchestra. She is one
of the few who have escaped the sad
fate of obscurity which usually awaits a
child prodigy after the first taste of
fame. Not blinded by her success, she
entered the Institute to study under Zim-
balist. whose pupil she has now been for
three ..years. �Her playing is remarkable
for its dexterity, and there were times
when it possessed great beauty of tone.
The K Minor Concerto, however, seems
especially designed to display technical
ability, and as is so often the case with
Mendelssohn, is almost mechanically
faultless  and  always  in  good taste-
The Homed and Juiiet overture is a
piece of music we i>crsonally would as
soon not hear, but Mr. I.ouis Yyner's
conducting, although uneven, showed that
he has skill and sensibility. And he does
not lack the vigor required by those
"shattering climaxed" so subtly based
upon little besides the crash of tympani
and the reiteration of some phrase.
The remainder of the program was
devoted to Wagner. In Mr. Conrad
Thibault's interpretation of the Song to
the livening Star one recognizes intelli-
gent musicianship and emotional re-
straint. His voice is' resonant and of
fine quality. Before studying under
Emilia Ciogorza at the Institute, he had
received three years of training in
Northampton, Mass. He gives promise
of l>ving a valuable asset to the operatic
stage. As a matter of fact, he is a
member pf the Philadelphia Grand Opera
Comjany, with whom he made his debut
in 1928. He is considered one of the
best_ Silvios il'aaliacci) who has taken
the part in Philadelphia in years, and he
received much praise for his playing of
the leading male role in Tiefland. when
lie substituted for Paul Ludikar on very
short   notice.
Miss Mildred (able is a pupil of
Madame Sembrich. As the fair heroine
oi l.ohemirin she recounted the story of
her dream in a very ap|>caling manner,
and with dramatic effect. She was well
supported by   the  orchestra,  if one  may
< i,n(! n 11..I   on   laff'IlM
� Senator Will Speak
� An important meeting of the Liberal
(lull of Haverford College has been ar-
ranged for Friday, February 27, in the
Union at 8 o'clock. Mr. Robert F. Wag-
ner, Senator for the State of New York,
will speak on the question of unemploy-
ment relict. Senator-*W�gner is the
author of the two bills to stabilize em-
ployment that are before the present
Congress. He is one of the authorities
of the country on the unemployment
situation.
Any one at  Bryn Mawr who is inter-
ested is cordially invited to h* pr***"1- �
Mr. Wagner was born in Germany and
attended the City College of New York
He has been a Democratic member of the
New York Assembly, and for eight years
was the Detnocratic leader of 1h� New
York Seriate. He has also "Served as
Lieutenant Governor of his State and as
a justice of the New York Supreme
Court. Senator Wagner"-is' one of the
strongest of fhe Senatorial Democrats.