College News, 1932-10-26, Vol. 19, No. 02

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The College News
VOL. XIX, No. 2
BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1932
PRICE 10 CENTS
Socialist Platform
Opposes Capitalism
Change in Economic System is
Proposed to Alleviate
Overproduction
ADVOCATES LOW TARIFF
(Especially Contributed by Elizabeth
Kindleberger,  Chairman  of   the
Socialist Committee)
Most people approach the question
of the November elections as if the
choice were one between men only. The
really significant choice, I think, is
between the three or four parties and
the two economic systems which they
represent.
A vote for the Democratic or Re-
publican parties is a vote for the
status quo, for a system or a lack of
it, under which tremendous waste,
graft, profits and poverty, overpro-
duction and underconsumption, crime,
insanity, ugliness and starvation are
all taken for granted. If the misery
and ugliness of such a situation can-
not make one weep, the inefficiency
of it should.
The trouble with the Democrats and
the Republicans is that they have
never stopped to ask themselves the vi-
tal question, "What is an economic
system for?" The answer is simple;
to provide its members with adequate
Food, shelter and clothing, and with
leisuin 111 "which to search for beauty
and truth and fun. The two con-
servative parties see no community
responsibility for providing for all.
They accept it as axiomatic that the
strong should take of the country's
wealth more than they can use and
enjoy, while the weak exist in second-
hand houses (slums), wear second-
hand clothing and, happily, by as-
siduous attendance at bread lines, eat
enough to keep from starving. But
this is merely heartless.
What is unforgivable in the con-
servative is his untidy thinking. He
believes, sincerely I think, that it is
possible for an owning class to or-
ganize its factories for mass produc-
tion, sit on all the available money,
and then sell goods. He believes it
is possible for thousands of greedy
little capitalists, each looking only to
his own profit, somehow to provide
the country with just what it needs,
in just the proper quantity and at a
fair price. He believes it is possible
to have the economic power of the
country under the dual control of busi-
ne-" men and politicians without their
mutual corruption. He believes it is
possible to keep at peace amidst an
anarchy of nations economically in-
terdependent. He believes, our con-
servative, or pretends to believe, that
it is possible to collect war debts
from a penniless nation from which
it will buy nothing. Worse still, he
has the effrontery to pretend that his
crazy ideas are the axioms of all so-
ber, "right-thinking" citizens, that
capitalism, as we know it, is some-
thing more than a mere upstart less
than a century and a half old, and
that man never does anything except
for his own money profit. It is
enough to make one lose one's temper.
I "But what," you have been trying
to interrupt me all this time to say,
"what will the Socialists do about
all this if they get into power, which
they won't. Why should I 'waste my
vote' voting the Socialist ticket when
Hoover (or Roosevelt) seems to me
a_ Httle _ more fit for the job than
Roosevelt (or Hoover) ?"
The answer is that America needs
a third party, to which those like you
who do not believe in the status quo
can turn, and you must "waste your
vote" for a number of years if it is
to be built. The British labor party
was not built in a day. The Social-
ist pfcrty in America is a fit nucleus
for such a party because it starts its
reasoning from a sensible point of
view; it asks, "What is an economic
system for?" And its answer is,
"Life, liberty, and the pursuit of hap-
piness, peace and economic security."
It insists that gooda^ahoqliLbe pro_
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College Calendar �
Wednesday, October 26,� M.;
Louis Reau�La ' Scuiyture
Francaise   Contemporaine.
Thursday, October 27 �
Vaughan Williams � On
Nature of Folk Song�sec-
ond Flexner lecture.
Friday, October 28 � Lantern
Night.
Saturday, October 29 � Bryn
Mawr Varsity vs. German-
town at 10.00 A. M.
Sunday, October 30 � Musical
Service, assisted by Rev.
Alexander Keedwell in
Music Room at 7.30 P. M.
Monday, October 31 � Bryn
Mawr Second Team vs.
Philadelphia Cricket Club
Reds at 4.00 P. M.
Merion Cricket Club
Scores 3-2 Victory
Varsity's Offensive Game  Bet-
ter Than Usual, But For-
ward Line Weak
PROSPECTS   ARE   BETTER
Varsity again went down to defeat
in the second game of the season with
the Merion Cricket Club by the close
score, 3-2. -A perfect autumn day;
hlue, crisp, and riotous with color,
made the game a pleasure to watch,
and, although the team did not func-
tion as well as might be expected, the
future prospects seem brighter.
The shadow of the French Oral
cast its effect on several of the play-
ers �� but, on the whole, the game
evinced greater prospects for the fu-
ture than that of last week. One no-
tices, however, that the lack of unity,
which has been characteristic of Var-
sity playing for the last few years,
is still with us. This is due, perhaps,
to the raggedness of the offense which
through lack of practice, has not yet
begun  to co-ordinate fully.
In the first half, Varsity played
a much better offensive game than
usual, but practice in shooting goals
is badly needed. Many times the ball
was run the length of the field, only
to be lost in the circle because of poor
or hasty aim. , The forward line,
though faster than last week, is still
weak in passing and receiving. Their
atickwork is lamentable and the dodg-
ing rarely successful. Considering the
sources from which much of our pres-
ent material has come, we are slight-
ly surprised.
In the second half, Townsend, an
All-American, went in. for Tuttle at
left inner. Her entrance encouraged
the Merion forwards to put the of-
fense. As a result, Varsity was again
forced back to her usual defensive
Kame and the brunt of the work fell
on Bishop and Collier. Merion's goal
in the later part of the half made the
score 3-2 in their favor, and, until
the final whistle blew, the playing
merely see-sawed back and forth,
neither team getting a real chance at
a goal.
The steady efficiency of Longacre
and Bishop, the competent cage de-
fense of Jackson, and the forcible
passing and dribbling of Collier, ap-
peared to be the best points of the
Bryn Mawr team. We are not en-
tirely without hope that, with fur-
ther practice (providing the cloud-
hurst has ceased) and more time to
develop a forceful line, Bryn Mawr
may yet become a winner.
The line-up was:
Merion C. C.               Bryn Mawr
Cast of Helena's Husband
�College News Photo.
Left to right�Nancy Hart played I'aris; Joan llopkinson. Ana-
lytikos; Clara Frances Grant, Helena; Nancy Stevenson. Ttnimu:
and Barbara Macaulay, Menelaux.                           }
Varsity Players Open
Series of One-Act Plays
Present   Helena's   Husband;
Stage-Set and Costuming
Are Effective
DIALOGUE      IS     CLEVER
Marshall.....	R. W.	..  Stevenson
Marsh.......	R.I.	�-...  Longacre
Thayer ......	C. F. .	..  Remington
Tuttle  .......	�k L	Cary ......Brown
Bioren   ......	L?W.	
Daly........	R. H.	.......Ullom
Ziegler  ......	C. H.	.....  Collier
Barrows.....	L. H.	........Kent
P. Flannery . .	R. F.	.. . Rothermel
Page........	L. F.	......Bishop
M. Flannery	G.	.   .'., Jackson
Goals�Bryn	Mawr:	Longacre, 1;
Remington, 1.	Merion:	Thayer,   1;
Marsh, 1; Tuttle, 1.   Referee�Mans.
The Varsity Players opened a ser-
ies of one-act performances with
"Helena's Husband" by Philys Moeller
on October 25. With an announced
intention of devoting but one week to
preparation, the players have, in their
first performance, accomplished much.
Perhaps the highest praise should be
given to the director, Miss Janet Mar-
shall, for the choice of play, which in
spots all but carried the actors with
it by clever dialogue.
On the other hand, the criticism
might be made that more than a week
was necessary to its preparation. The
��ast performed well only in spots and
oach individual evidently had incipient
paralysis of the arms*Jki4�h�n('s '�
moments of great stress. The parts of
Menelaus and Tsumu, the slave, gave
the impression of greater acting ex-
perience on the part of their portray-
ers. Helena was well shown to be of
the "baby vamp type" and more than
beautiful but dumb. Perhaps the
players should be reminded that when
they are facing the rear of the stage
their words must be much more dis-
tinct for the audience to hear them.
Then, too, when the production of
"laughs" is the first aim of the play
the actors must give the audience
time to rise.
The   simplicity   of   stage-set   was
most effective and the costumes were
excellently done.    The whole, setting
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Second Varsity Plays Tie
With Phila. Country Club
Amid clashing sticks and feet
stumbling over a scarcely visible ball,
the Second Varsity tied the Phila-
delphia  Country  Club, 3-3.
Although the game was played
mainly around the opponents' cage,
Wetherill, center half for Philadel-
phia, managed to keep the ball from
going in. In the first half, Bennet,
Bryn Mawr center forward, made a
goal- in a rush following several un-
successful attempts on the part of
Camaday. Faeth also made a goal
in a field run by Taggart, but it was
cancelled because of off sides. In the
second half, Galey and Brett made
two goals for Philadelphia because of
Gill's tendency to go too far from the
(Continued   on   Page   Five)
Senior Elections
President,
Josephine Williams
V ice-President,
Ella Berkeley
Secretary.... Betty   Edwards
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^
Added Week Shifts
College Calendar Forward
The schedule for the Christmas va-
cation remains as announced in the
college', calendar, but the work of
Monday, January 2�a day which is
included in the vacation in order to
enable the students to be at home for
New Year's Day�will not be made
up on Saturday, January 7. This
means that a full week must be added
to the schedule of lectures, and be-
ginning with the last week of lectures
in the first semester the whole col-
lege calendar is moved forward one
week. The new calendar for the year
1933 will be as follows:
Last day of lectures......January 27
Half-yearly collegiate examinations
begin   ...............  January 30
I'll.I).   Language examination,
January 30
Collegiate  examinations  end,
February 10
Annual meeting of the Alumnae
Association   .........February 11
Vacation    .............February 13
SECOND  SEMESTER
The work of the second semester '
begins at 9 A. M.        February'l4
Announcement of  Graduate  Euro-
pean   Fellowships   ......March 24
Mid-semester examination in Ele-
mentary  Greek   .......  March 28
Spring  vacation  begins  at   12.45
P.  M...............    March 31*
Spring vacation ends at 9 A. M.,
April 10
Deferred and condition examina- -
tions begin.......   ......April 11
Deferred  and condition  Examina-
tions end  ..............  April 15
I'h.D.   Language  examinations,
April 15
Examinations in French for
Juniors  .................May C
Examinations in German for
(Continued  on   Page  Three)
Dr. Williams Delivers
First Flexner Lecture
National Sympathy Aroused by
Artists Closely Linked to     �
Own Tradition
COLLEGE  CHOIR  ASSISTS
Physics Department
Gains Dr. Michels
Dr. Walter C. Michels comes to
Bryn Mawr as Associate-Elect in the
Physics Department with a back-
ground of extensive work, both as a
lecturer and as a research worker in
his field. During the years 1927-1930
lie acted first as Teaching Assistant
in Physics, later as Teaching Fellow
in Physics at the California Institute
of Technology, at Pasadena. For the
past two years Dr. Michels has been
National Research Fellow in Physics
at  Princeton University.
His research is mainly in the field
of electricity, and is particularly con-
cerned with the problem of atomic ex-
citation, relevant to the transfer of
energy between electrons and atoms.
His coming tp Bryn Mawr this par-
ticular year helps in part to make up
for the loss caused last spring by the
retirement of Dr. Huff, physics pro-
fessor here for thirty-three years.
More than that, his addition to the
faculty marks a valuable gain to the
physics department, and to the college
as a whole.
"The greatest artist belongs to his
� iwn country as the humblest singer,"
declared Dr. Ralph Vaughan Wil-
liams, in Goodhart Hall, October 19,
in the introductory address with
which he began his Flexner lecture on
"Nationalism in Music." Since mu-
sic springs from something innate in
human nature, perfection of form is
as possible to primitive as to elab-
orate musiofand folk song is a true,
vital art." Many people agree with
Whistler, Dr; Williams asserted, in
considering a national art as absurd
as a national chemistry. But art is
a means of evoking personal experi-
ence in terms which are intelligible
to others and capable of arousing sym-
pathy. Those artists who are most
closely linked to their audiences by
race, tradition, and cultural experi-
ence�who are of the same national-
ity�will arouse most sympathy.
It is a mistake to call music a uni-
versal language, for, although music
does have a universal alphabet, it is
the use of the vocabulary which
counts, and this differs greatly from
one people to another. As Sir Hu-
bert Parry says, "True style comes
not from the individual but from
proud fellow workers," and hence,
"Style is ultimately national," even
though its appeal may be world-wide.
For example, John Sebastian Bach,
one of the world's three greatest com-
posers, was inspired chiefly by the or-
gan music of his predecessors and by
the hymn tunes of his own people.
A commonly held fallacy is the be-
lief that an artist lives for himself
alone. If the chief motive of an art-
ist is the desire to make himself in-
telligible to others, then he must
clothe his music in whatever forms
time and circumstances permit. An-
other fallacy is the idea that genius
springs from nowhere. On the con-
trary, great men come at the end of
a period, not at the beginning, when
smaller men are finding new paths;
Bach was a great composer because
Germany had the "habit of music"
and generations of lesser craftsmen
had preceded him. Musical history
repeats itself; the twentieth century
is probably an experimental period
like the seventeenth, in which the
ground is being prepared for a great
composer who will appear about 1985,
in a country with the appropriate mu-
sical atmosphere; for genius is a com-
bination of the right man in the right
place  at the  right  time.
Each generation wants something
different and even the greatest music
is not eternal; Bach is only now ap-
preciated after a century and a half
of neglect. The objection that na-
tionalism limits the scope of music
and prevents the use of the best from
whatever source possible, is based on
the assumption that there is an abso-
lute good and bad. On the contrary,
the idea of good and bad varies with
hearer, period, and nationality, and
no composer can be universally pop-
ular who has not first appealed to his
own countrymen. Although there are
few great composers, there may be
many sincere ones, who should emu
late the great masters' surcness of
purpose by first finding the message
they have to tell, and then, if neces-
(Contlnued  -in   Page Three)
Straw Vote
The News will conduct a
straw vote on the Presidential
election this week. Ballots will
be placed on everyone's door
on Thursday and collected on
Friday, and the results an-
nounced in next week's News.
The editors would greatly ap-
preciate it if all undergradu-
ates would vote, so that the
statistics may be complete.