College News, 1937-04-28, Vol. 23, No. 23

              COLLEGE
VOL. XXIII, No. 23
BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28,  1937
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Peace Council Led
By Francis Deak
And Mrs. Wootton
*\-
Speakers Advocate  an Analysis
Of Motives Behind Wars
And Arbitration
PEACE BALLOT RESULTS
ARE   READ AT  MEETING
Goodhart Hall, April 22.�Taking
as a general, subject what we as mem-
bers of an academic community and
as citizens of the United States can
do to further the cause of peace, Mrs.
Barbara Wootton, British economist,
who is delivering the Anna Howard
Shaw Memorial Lectures, and Mr.
Francis Deak, expert in the field of
international law, spoke to a large
group of students aqd faculty at the
first college meeting held under the
auspices of the newly formed Peace
Council.
Miss Esther Hardenbergh, '37, presi-
dent of the council and presiding of-
ficer at the meeting, introduced the
speakers. She expressed the hope that
what they had to say would stimulate
peace discussions on the campus and
make it possible for the college as a
whole to take a more intelligent stand
on national and international affairs.
Explaining her own difficulty and
that olNher entire generation, "les
mutiles," in speaking about peace with
the proper academic detachment, Mrs.
Wootton said that our main job at
present is to achieve the same critical
and constructive attitude toward the
problem of war that we are using in
our domestic problems. She attempted
to make more concrete some of the
generalities of the peace question
which are often overlooked because
of emotion or a tendency to loose sight
of essentials in an endless machina-
tion of detail.
� That peace is the-opposite of war,
that all political teaching is close to
savagery, containing large magical
elements, and that war is not pre-
vented merely by the erection of ade-
quate machinery for its prevention
are three facts which Mrs. Wootton
believes must be more generally re-
alized before there is peace between
the nations of the world. In addition
we must analyze the social, economic
and psychological motives of war, and
bend all our efforts toward an elimi-
nation of the conditions which result
in conflict.
Freedom, democracy,  even  justice,
Continued on Page Five
Left to Right: Cornelia Kellogg, '39, as The Mikado; Jeanne Macomber, '37,
Yum-Yum; Doris Russell, '38, as Peep-bo; Terry Ferrer, 'Wt as Ko-Ko and
us Pitti-Sing; Helen Lee, 'iO, as
Donald Farrow as Sword Bearer.
Princeton Conference
Covers Literary Fields
Delegation  Had "No  Aim" Except
Exchange, of Experience *
Princeton, N. J., April 24.�Prince-
ton University welcomed delegates
yesterday to an Intercollegiate Liter-
ary Conference which is believed to be
the second of its kind ever held. The
aim, said the chairman, Thomas Riggs,
Jr., '37, was that "there was no aim,"
except the exchange of experience in
collegiate literary fields. Two general
sessions and two round table discus-
sions were held today and yesterday.
In addition to the delegates from
about 20 colleges and universities,
Princeton" had also asked a group of
prominent men in the fields of editing,
publishing, drama, poetry, novel and
short-story writing and journalism.
Among these guests were Gelett Bur-
gess, Leland Stowe, Babette Deutsch,
Lincoln Kerstein, William Carlos Wil-
liams and Joseph Freeman. The Bryn
Mawr delegates, Agnes Allinson, '37,
and Janet Thorn, '38, attended the two
sessions of the journalism conference,
where Leland Stowe, correspondent-
at-large for the New York Herald-
Tribune, was the guest.
At 2 p. m. Friday the conference
began after general registration with
a meeting in Whig Hall auditorium,
and speeches by Thomas Riggs, Pro-
fessor Hoyt Hudson and Dean Chris-
tian Gauss. The first discussion ses-
sions were held from 3 to 6 Friday
afternoon, and the dinner that eve-
ning was at the Nassau Inn. A
Continued on Page Five
British Unions Show
Moderate   Attitude
Workers' Greatest Achievement
I? Day-to-Day Defense^
From Injustice
VIOLENT  STRIKES  CEASE
True Southern Hospitality Shown Guests
At Hampton's Anniversay Celebration
Glee Club "Mikado"
Enthralls  Devotees
Of   D'Oyly   Carte
Terry    nenrer's    Ko-Ko    Rivals
Martyn Green; H. Lee Shines
In Feminine Lead
TRADITIONAL SCENERY
PAINTED    WITH    SKILL
Interesting Programs Offered by
Interesting     Programs    Offered
By College Organizations
Urider the auspices of Mr. J. Henry
Scattergobd, treasurer of the Board
of Trustees of Bryn Mawr and chair-
man of the Board of Trustees of
Hampton Institute, three members of
Bryn Mawr attended the 69th Anni-
versary Celebration of the founding
of Hampton Institute last weekend.
Clara Hardin, graduate student; Alice
G. King, '37, and Lucile Sauder, '39,
were the three Bryn Mawr representa-
tives and were joined by Mrs. Barbara
Wootton on Saturday. Hampton, the
first vocational school for Negroes,
founded by General Samuel Chapman
Armstrong, has grown to tremendous
proportions and is now one of the
most beautiful and noteworthy colleges
in the country.
Exhibiting true Southern hospital-
ity, students, faculty and administra-
tion officers did everything to further
the enjoyment of the 100 or more
guests at the celebration. The entire
college was ori exhibit; students cheer-
fully gave up their rooms to visitors,
stopped classNwjrk, both in the Phoenix
training school and the college proper,
to direct and explain; campus organi-
zations prepared interesting programs
and the famous Hampton Quartet, in
all its glory as a sextet sang on sev-
eral   occasions   notwithstanding   the
strenuous  tour  they  had   just  com-
pleted.
A^iighlight of the anniversary ex-
ercises was an address by Dr. Am-
brose Caliver, Negro education spe-
cialist of the United, States Bureau of
Education, on the Educational Needs
of the Negro. Although Dr. Caliver's
text was concerned primarily with-the
Negro, much that he said is pertinent
to all education. The following ex-
cerpts, reprinted from the Southern
Workman, illustrate this point: "Now
is a new day in the life of the Negro,
because .it is a new day in the life
of the nation, and Hampton, like every
other educational institution, for white
and colored alike, must recognize its
progress in terms of the requirements
of this day."
A more sympathetic attitude is
necessary toward the vocational school.
"Education through occupations com-
bines within itself more of the fac-
tors conducive to learning than any
other method," he stated. Many work-
ers are needed and must be trained in
the new methods. They must be versa-
tile and vpi specialized, and must be
able-to correlate thds� things idgJL
they have learned. Adaptation, emo-
tionally, intellectually and physically,
is required of those who would suc-
ceed today. Further, their education
should and must develop a creative
imagination with which students will
have the means to "create new jobs
Continued on Pace Five
Goodhart, April 19.�In the- fourth
Shaw lecture, on Workers' Organiza-
tions: Achievements and Problems,
Mrs. Barbara Wootoon showed the
middle-aged moderation of the British
Trade Unions, which are an estab-
lished part of society. "The unspec-
tacular, day-to-day defense* of the
workers from little injustices id per-
haps their greatest achievement," con-
cluded Mrs. Wootton. The fact that
all workers' organizations are formed,
supported and lead by the workers
was also stressed. Intellectual rad-
icals have little part in them.
The enrollment in unions is about,
a fourth of the British workers. The
number of members does not increase
quite fast enough to keep pace with
the population increase, but the unions
have steadily gained in internal
strength and efficiency. Their power
is evidenced by the fact that no or-
ganization dealing with workers in
any way would be formed without
union members, and no labor legisla-
tion would be drawn up without con-
sultation with union heads.
The Cooperative Society is the other
great but unobtrusive workers' or-
ganization. Distributive stores, to
which 40 per cent of the wage-earners
belong, are run by the elected repre-
sentatives of the consumers, to whom
the profits are returned. Every mem-
ber has a single vote, regardless of
the number of shares he owns. The
society also holds "classes" for house-
wives to enable the women to escape
the home routine for a little while
and take part in valuable discussions
on education, child phychology, hous-
ing and economics.
The non-militarism of British trade
unions as compared with those in the
United States is due chiefly,to the
close connection of the unions with the
Labor Party, a Constitutional opposi-
tion group. The party will not risk
unpopularity resulting from small
agitations and strikes, often fruitless,
but rather waits until it has a firm
majority in Parliament and then
makes fundamental reforms. Also
British unions won long ago most of
the rights for which the "infant"
American unions are now crying.
The Trades Union Act of 1927,
passed after the general strike in
1926, forbids sympathetic strikes,
strikes to force any political action
and restricts picketing. As Mrs.
Wootton explained in the discussion
in the Common Room, this law would
simply be overridden, -if there were
rampant discontent and desire for an-
other general strike, but it does check
^>B*rg^feh(T violence.
The unions have enormous control
over peaceful working problems.
Many of them have judicial functions,
some administer relief and carry out
other government activities, and all
play a vital part in every agreement
on wages, hours and conditions. They
Continued on Page Six
"COLLEGE CALENDAR
Wednesday, April 28.�Indus-
trial Group picnic.
Thursday, April 29.�Sheble
Lecture. Mr. George Lyman
Kittredge will speak on Shak-
espeare's Villains.
Friday, April 30.�Little May
Day.
Philosophy Club Meeting.
Common Room, 4.15.
Spanish play. Common Room,
7.30.
Cultural Olympics. Gymna-
sium, 7.30.
Saturday, May I.�German
Oral.    Taylor Hall, 9.
Square Dance".   Gymnasium, 8.
Graduate Dance. Common
Room, 9.
Sunday, May 2.�Yale Pup-
peteers.   Deanery", 5.
Sunday evening service. Mu-
sic Room, 7.30.
* Monday, May's.�Fifth- Shaw
lecture by Mrs. Barbara Woot-
ton.   Goodhart Auditorium, 8.30.
Tuesday, May i.�Philosophy
Club Meeting.   Common Room, 8.
Current Events. Common
Room, 7.30.
Thursday, May 6.�John Ma-
son Brown's lecture for the bene-
fit of the Theater- Workshop
Fund.        ^^
Friday, May 7.�Camera Club
Exhibit.    Common Room.
Saturday, May 8. � Maids'
and Porters' Play, the Cat and
the Canary.   Goodhart Hall.
Sunday, May 9.�Mr. Ellis
Ames Ballard's talk on Kipling-
Deanery, 5.
Monday, May 10.�Sixth Shaw-
lecture by Mrs. Barbara Woot-
ton.   Goodhart Auditorium, 8.20.
Tuesday, May 11.�German
movies.   Goodhart, 8.15.
Goodhart Hall, April 2b�O modi-
fied rapture,�rapture from the pure
spectator, modified by the not-impure-
but-somewhat-exacting critic. Its
cause is The Mikado, resulting in .
speechless admiration and muscle-
bound hands. And this in spite of an
imaginary yardstick which measured
relentlessly. For we are D'Oyly
Carte lovers, we prostrate ourselves
at the shrine of Martyn Green; and
we digested and found nothing want-
ing.
As not-impure, etc., critics, however,
we must dissect the Glee Club's tri-
umphant performance, focusing our
microscopic eye primarily on the
Voice. By a process of logical deduc-
tion we reached a conclusion. First
we considered that woman is endowed
with rapidly-vibrating vocal chords,
which delight in the nebulous region
of high C. we next came to the
realization that the laws of physics
can be subtly twisted but not broken.
After that tfe forgot all about the
laws of physics. Our ear ceased to
listen for the slow vibrations of manly
vocal chords, and was amazed and
pleased by nature's versatility when
tenor Ko-Ko uttered a soprano Tit-
WHIouk Martyn Green could never
do that.
The crude laurels must be plucked
for Helen Hartman, '38, as Nanki-
Poo. Gilbert and S,ullivan heroes are
invariably stylized. They cannot be
funny, they must never overact. And
they must always be beautiful youths,
composite loversNind heroes, with lov-
ing and heroic, but seldom jolly songs
to sing. If one adds these difficulties
to those of singing a tenor part, one
can glow appreciatively at Helen
Hartman's success in overcoming
them.
The Mikado (Cornelia Kellogg, '39),
and Ko-Ko (Terry Ferrer, '40),
worked miracles in the way of aUcfible
articulation.
Huldah Cheeky *38, made the most
lovable Pooh-Bah we have ever seen.
She descended to the lowest of low
notes with no more effort than pom-
pous old Pooh-Bah himself would have
done.
The easier task of being femininely
feminine  rested on  the shoulders of
Continued on Page Six
INEZ MUNOZ TRACES
RISE OF SPANISH WAR
(Especially contributed by Mary
Dimock, '39.)
Radnor, April 21. � Miss Inez
Munoz, a Spanish social worker in
Philadelphia, traced the history of
the war in Spain, showing the political
changes within the government that
preceded the rebellion. In speaking
of the present situation, she dealt
mainly with the spirit of the govern-
ment forces, of the international corps
of volunteers and of the members of
fascist countries, unable to partici-
pate in the Spanish war, but protest-
ing the rebellion in Spain from their
own countries. Miss Munoz stressed
her conviction that the war in Spain
is not a^war of Fascism vs. Com-
munism, but Fascism vs. Democracy.
Miss Munoz was the first of a series
of speakers invited by a newly formed
committee of faculty and .-.ludents in-
terested in the victory of the Spanish
government. The purpose of the com-
mittee is to study and discuss the
Spanish  war arid n? implications.
HAVERFORD PRESENTS
"PETRIFIED    FOREST"
Faculty and Staff Meeting
There will be a meeting on
campus .of the faculty and staff
of the 1937 Bryn Mawr Sum-
mer School May 15 and 16.
(Release from "Cap and Bells"
Publicity  Bureau.)
The Petrified Forest by Robert
Sherwood will be presented this Fri-
day evening by the Cap and Bells Club
of Haverford College at 8.15 in Rob-
erts Hall. Students from Bryn Mawr
have the feminine roles. Miss Vir-
ginia Lautz, '37, will play the leading
role of Gabby Maple. Miss Margaret
Otis, '39, and Miss Ellen Matteson, -
'40, are also in the cast, taking the
parts of Mrs. Chisholm and Paula, re-
spectively. The director is Mr.
Barent Landstreet, a leader of the
Little Theater movement in Philadel-
phia.
The play is about Gabby Maple,
daughter of the proprietor of a com-
bined gas station and barbecue stand
on the Arizona desert. Allan Squier,
a disillusioned and consumptive novel-
ist, played by Anthony Pooje, falls in
love with her. When the stand isV
held up by a band of gangsters. Allan
gives up his \i[v tha^Ga^by may have
i7........^rrfonv*fr"IW!uranee  policy
to fulfill   her Hitistic ambitions.    �
The P, tritird Forest was originally
produced on Broadway four seasons
ago. with Leslie Howard in the lead-
ing role. He has also appeared in the
movie version with  Bette Davis.
Tickets for the Saturday night per-
formance are priced at $1.25 and $.75.