College News, 1937-04-21, Vol. 23, No. 22

              The College News
VOL. XXIII, No. 22
BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21, 1937
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Social   Insurance
Is British Method
To Aid Unemployed
One   of  System's   Discrepancies
� '"Is Variance in Benefits
From Agencies
WORKER'S ELIGIBILITY
IS   HARD   TO   DEFINE
Goodhart, April 19.�-In the third
Shaw Lecture, on Social Services:
Their Working and Significance, Mrs.
Barbara Wootton outlined Britain's
30 years' experience with Old Age
Pensions, Widows' Pensions, Unem-
ployment and Sickness Insurance and
' other forms of relief, j Although the
idea of social insurance was at first
decried in England as impractical
and revolutionary, it is now accepted
in the most conservative programs.
Mrs. Wootton believes that public
opinion should, in time, follow the
same course in the United States,
though British methods of relief may
well be varied.
The determination of workers'
eligibility for relief is the most dim-
cult problem or tne Unemployment
Insurance System. General defini-
tions of involuntary unemployment,
a reasonable job, or a subsistance in-
come, are almost impossible to formu-
late, but Unemployment Insurance
must be consistent and definite if it
is to be a true democratic system, in
which citizens have rights and du-
ties, and not an arbitrary, handout
by the great "They" of impersonal
authority. Relief is far more degrad-
ing, and taken greater advantage of
under the latter system.
The dangers of degradation and
loss of initiative because of relief are
overrated, Mrs. Wootton believes.
The outcry (heard less and less in
England) against "living in luxury
on the dole" is also rather baseless.
The practical maximum of relief in
England, for a family with four or
five children, is ten dollars a week,
which hardly make a worker wish to
stay "on," if hencould possibly find
work.
Efficiently organized Labor Ex-
changes must form a part of success-
ful Unemployment Insurance admin-
istration. If such agencies have a
complete registration of all vacancies
andv>f all tne unemployed, with the
kinds of work to which they are ac-
customed and the incomes that they
need, the elimination of the volun-
tarily workless will be far easier.
Mrs. Wootton does not think that the
worker can be expected to go the
rounds of possible employers every
day to qualify as an honest searcher.
When may a worker reasonably
claim that a job offered him is unsuit-
able, insufficient, or irreconcilable
with his, and especially with her,
home duties? Practically no general
answers to these questions can be
found. There is now an unfortunate
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The College News deeply re-
grets to announce the resigna-
tion of Suzanne Williams, '38,
from the Editorial Board.
Tom Tippett Launches
Summer School Drive
Mikado Prepares "Source
,   Of Innocent Merriment"
Wigs   and  Make-Up   Follow   Strict
Traditional Pattern   /
/
Advance reports indicate that the
Glee Club's Mikado is not going to be
one of those impudent, off-hand op-
erettas. "The rehearsals last Thurs-
day and Saturday were of unusually
fine caliber," stated Miss Irene
Ferrer, '37, the head of the Glee Club,
"ordinarily, such quality comes only
in the last few days of practice be-
fore the performance itself." Par-
ticular credit for this, she believes, is
due to Mr. Horace Alwyne, who is
giving more of his time to this year's
operetta than ever before, and to Mr.
Ernest Willoughby, who has trans-
posed and made reorchestrations of
the parts of the original score, in
order to bring it within the range of
the Glee Club's voices.
The scenery, costumes and other
corroborative detail, intended to give
an air of verisimilitude to the narra-
tive, are still largely a matter of
"shreds 'and patches." Ann Wyld,
'38, and Jean Quistgaard, '38, are
constructing the scenery, with the ex-
ception of one backdrop which has
been ordered from Philadelphia, and
Sophie Hemphill, '37, is still hoping
for a brand-new set of footlights,
as the play is supposed to take place
in bright sunshine, except for one
twilight scene when Koko sings "Tit-
willow." The costumesvfrom Eaves'
of New York, will not arrive until
Wednesday. Meanwhile, Katisha
(Helen Shepard, '38), is rehearsing
with a long strip of unbleached mus-
lin tied around her waist to teach her
fellowr^ctors to avoid a future train.
The make-up, unlike the costumes,
will be in the strictest traditional
style of slanted" eyes and elaborate
wigs. At one point-1 in the story,
Katisha has to seize Koko violently
by his pigtail, "and we only hope,"
added Miss Ferrer, "that it doesn't
come off!" Because of the make-up
schedule, which begins at five in the
qfternoon, the cast's supper will be
served in Goodhart at six o'clock on
Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
The single male member of the cast
has not yet appeared. He is Donald
Farrow, eight years old, the son of
one of Mr. Wjlloughby's choirmen at
the Church of the Redeemer. He will
carry Koko's axe for him in his first
scene. Nor has' the Glee Club re-
hearsed with the members of the
Philadelphia Orchestra who will ac-
company them. They will come only
for the dress-rehearsal on Thursday,
the 22nd, the night before the first
performance.
"And I wouldn't be surprised if
nations trembled,
Before the mighty hosts of Titipu!"
Neophyte Geologists Return to Nature
In Frenzied Hunt for Flora and Fauna
Labor    Investigator    Advocates
.  .Course as Help in Union
Organization
WILL AFFECT ALL CLASSES
Common Room, April 15.�"The
most important thing which the Bryn
Mawr Summer School has done,"
stated Mr. Thomas Tippett, as he
launched the drive for funds to sup-
port the Summer School, "is to elabo-
rate for working women what trade
unions are." Women with the knowl-
edge and preliminary training which
the Summer School gives can better
organize the unions and at the same
time improve the status of human
beings.
Therefore, the purpose of the Sum-
mer School is to give women the op-
portunity to analyze world conditions.
When women are engaged in work*
they learn about the social situation
from first hand contact with low
wages and factory evils, but they can
not find the time to understand these
forces sufficiently to act upon them.
This group of workers is caught in a
civilization needing improvement and
in conditions needing organization, all
of which can only be achieved by the
educated.
The curriculum, for that reason, is
directed toward the study of Amer-
ica's economic situation. The workers
are great in number, including many
college graduates. Economic evils
which arise have their impact on the
live? of the workers who are an in-
tegral part of society. Therefore,
wherever the Summer School contrib-
utes toward labor improvements, the
people of all other groups are involved.
It is the order of history that the
lower classes rise to take over re-
sponsibility placed in the hands of
the middle class. They have already
done this through politics, since the
workers share in the vote, and in
war prevention, since it is the worker
who can refuse to fight or manufac-
ture armaments.                               �
America is pushing forward with
economic changes. The Supreme
Court's decision on the Wagner Labor
Act which legalizes trade unions, is
another step forward. "As we pro-
gress, we must do so with intelligence
and wisdom," concluded Mr. Tippet.
."There is the hope that the Bryn
Mawr Summer School girl will leave
here and contribute to the improve-
ment of her own community."
Bryn   Mawrters   Attend
Five College Conference
^Elections,   Permissions,   Exams   Are
Compared in Discussion
Hampton Quartet Sing
Folk-Songs, Spirituals
John
Wainwright   Gives   Farewell
Solo   Before   Retiring
Starting off Friday morning in a
Grey Hound bus which resembled,
technically speaking, an overgrown
trilobite, the geology field trip pro-
ceeded north to the Delaware Water
Gap. Battling wind and cold, the 42
members observed and recorded and
went on to Stroudsburg for the night.
The second day they hacked their way
, west through the fossil beds to Tama-
qua. On Sunday all but two donned
boots, hats and miners' lights to de-
scend seven levels into a coal mine
at Coaldale. After this harrowing
experience they headed homeward
through the Lehigh Water Gap and
across the Beading Prong.
^^k-'^The Mien elenv. \ �&_*&#-con-
sisted of several earnest graduate
students from various Colleges and
on exceedingly earnest professor from
the University of Pennsylvania. The
bus driver was a figure of romance
and high adventure. The first day
he waa faced with the problem of re-
viving one student who fainted while
trying to battle it out with a hastily
consumed breakfast. The second night
he attained the impossible and took
in 22 dollars and 50 cents from a slot
machine which one student had left
in disgust five minutes before.
The accepted costume for the field
was a dark sweater and blue jeans,
although some amazing variations ap-
peared. Pea green, lime yellow and
maroon were combined in one chic
outfit. A few feminine creatures ap-
peared in skirts, but probably regret-
ted it at moments when there was only
one possible descent from a mountain,
and that was not standing up. On
Friday night at the Penn-Stroud many
lovelj -         ",^.1r*WW^oa
but the Majestic Hotel in Tamaqua
did not eneourage such finery.
Certain incidents of the trip were
remiiuseent of early childhood, such
as hurried stops of the bus, lunches
left behind and the Danger, High Ex-
plosive* sign pinned on one unsuspect-
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Deanery, April 18.�The Hampton
Quartet, paradoxically appearing as
a sextet, gave their annual recital
before a large and appreciative audi-
ence. With their beloved John Wain-
wright still maintaining his post as
bass, they presented a program of
traditional negro spirituals and folk-
songs, including such favorites as
/ Got a Robe, Swing Low Sweet
Chariot, Water Boy and Mighty Lak
a Rose. Particularly effective was
their rendition of Deep River, and
Have You Got Good Religion? There
was opportunity during the recital
for the individual members of the
group to display their fine voices in
solo passages. Mr. Wainwright, in
farewell, sang Ole Black Joe to the
accompaniment ot the muted voices
of the Test of the group, and it was
evident from the response he evoked,
how much he will be missed when he
resigns this year after 50 years of
association with the Hampton singers.
Not the least entertaining part of
the *' �npgxitiwwijbe, t#lk given by
one of tne members of the group,
concerning the work done at Hamp-
ton Institute, the school from which
the quartet originates. Many were
surprised to learn of the remarkable
training offered to negro students
seeking education in the trades, mu-
sic and various vocations.     P. R. R
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COLLEGE CALENDAR
Thursday, April 22;�Peace
I Meeting in Goodhart Auditorium
at 11 a. m.   Classes excused.
Friday, April 23.�Glee Club
production of The Mikatlo. Good-
hart, 8.30.
Philosophy Club Meeting.
Common Room, 4.30.
Saturday, April 24.�French
Oral. The Mikado. Goodhart,
8.30. Spring dance after the
performance.
STmday, April 25. � Sunday
Service.    Music Room, 7.30.
Monday, A/nitf 26.�Fourth
Anna Howard Shaw Lecture by
Mrs. Barbara Wootton. Good-
hart, 8.20.
Tuesday, April 27.�Current
Events.
Wednesday, April 2S.�Indus-
trial Group Supper. Common
Room, 7.30.
Thursday, April 2!).�Sheble
Lecture by Mr. George Lyman
Kittredge.   Goodhart, 8.20.
Friday, April SO.�Little May
Day. Cultural Olympics danc-
ing exhibition.    Gymnasium, 8.
Spanish play.   Common Room.
Saturday, May 1. � German
Oral.
Sunday, May 2.�Yale pup-
peteers.    Deanery, 5.30.
Sunday Service. Music Room,
7.30.
Monday, May S.�Fifth Anna
Howard Shaw Lecture by Mrs.
Barbara Wootton. Goodhart,
8.20.
Tuesday, May 4. � Current
Events, 7.30; Philosophy Club
Meeting.    Common Room, 8.
(Specially, contributed by Barbara
Colbron, '37.)
April 17.�The annual Conference
of the five colleges, Vassar, Smith,
Wellesley, Mount Holyoke and Bryn
Mawr was held this year at Wellesley.
TJie representatives from Bryn Mawr
were Suzanne W>H>ams. '38, Julia
Grant, 'SS^and Barbara Colbron, '37.
The purpose of this conference is to
give the officers of the College Gov-
ernment organizations an opportu-
nity to compare and discuss their
respective activities, regulations and
problems. \
At the opening meeting on Satur-
day morning, we discussed first, at
the request of Bryn Mawr, the method
of electing College Government offi-
cers. Because of the fact that the
other colleges ^ire very much bigger
than Bryn Mawr, their methods are
necessarily more complicated, but on
the whole, they seem more efficient.
In most of the colleges, nominations
are made by a special -nominating
committee, made up of representa-
tives from the college organizations
and from the four classes. The names
of the nominees are posted about a
week before elections, and some effort
is made either by special badges,
photographs, or actual presentation,
to make the candidates known to the
college. Vassar has a special chair-
man to manage all the elections.
Whether or not a nominating com-
mittee is necessary here is a question
open to-discussion, but undoubtedly
we would improve our present system
if we had a chairman such as Vas-
sar's. Our system of voting itself
seems as satisfactory as any.
The second question concerned late
permissions and overnight permis-
sions. Just as last year, we found
that our regulations are more lenient
than those of the other colleges. Bryn
Mawr is the only college where the
students themselves give permission
and make all the regulations concern-
Finally, at tne*request of Vas&�..,
we considered "how the other college
adapt their student government sched-
ules to comprehensive examinations."
Smith, Wellesley and Mount Holyoke
have their elections soon after mid-
years, and inaugurate the new officers
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Council Discusses
Dormitory Designs
And Excused Cuts
^
Extracurricular   Debating   Club
Or Public Speaking Course
- Is Considered
NEW ELECTION SYSTEM
REPORTED SUCCESSFUL
College Inn, April 15.�The eight- >
eon members of the College Council
met this evening at 6 o'clock for sup-
per and the regular monthly discus-
sion. President Park exhibited the
architects' plans for six possible loca-
tions for the new dormitory, and the
Council discussed the questions of ex-
cused cuts for delegates to' intercol-
legiate conferences and of the possi-
bility of establishing some course in
debating or public speaking.
Mrs. Manning brought up the ques-
tion of excused cuts, explaining that
it had been her policy to grant them
to the delegates to the annual Self-
Government Conference and to stu-
dents whose field work for regular
courses occasionally interfered with
classes. For example, she felt that
geology students should be given ex-
cused cuts for the annual long field
trip, and. that politics students might
be given them for such meetings as
the Model League of Nations Confer-
ence and those recommended by the
various departments. She has not in
the past given students cuts when
they leave campus to participate in
publicity projects, such as the broad-
cast last year for the benefit of May
Day. Miss Park said that she herself
received a great many requests each
year for delegates to different col-
legiate conventions, and that the vari-
ous college clubs and organizations
received so many more that it would
be impossible for the undergraduates
to be represented at all of them.
Peace councils are especially numerous
and Mrs. Manning felt it is appropri-
ate that any one who has confidence
enough in such a movement to wish
to join it should sacrifice her own time
in order to do so.
Lucy Kimberley, '37, said that she
had   been   asked   by   various   under-     "*
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SITUATION IN SPAIN
WILL    BE   DISCUSSED
A group of faculty and students on
the campus," interested in the success
of the Spanish government, consider
that inquiries into the facts leading up
to the" pYesent critical situation in
Spain, which has aroused nation-wide
discussion, would be fruitful. Conse-
quently a series of talks and discus-
sions about Spain has been planned
where people well acquainted with the
situation will submit their reasons for
taking the side of the government.
One of these will be a discussion of
the MacReynoIds Neutrality Bill.
On May 6, Anna Louise Strong,
former Bryn Mawr student, author of
many widely read books, such as
China's Millions and / Chpnge Worlds,
will tell of her recent travels through
Spain.                ,
On April 21 at 7.30 p. m., in the
Drawing Room of Radnor Hall, Inez
Munoz, Spanish social worker in
Philadelphia, will speak and lead a
discussion. All those interested in
gaining a more, complete and unified
view of the situation as a whole are
invited. We urge those who are in-7*
terested in both^ides of the question
to come and bring their friends.
The committee of sponsors includes
among the faculty: Mrs. Helen Taft
Manning, Prof. Mildred Fail-child,
Prof. Herbert A. Miller, Prof. Paul
Weiss, Miss Bettina, Linn, Miss K.
Laurence Stapleton, Mile. Germaine
Srfe,�i% Berte M ,. pA^o^#|
Jean Guiton, Miss Margaret Gillman '
and Prof. Lily Ross Taylor, and
among the students: Mary Sweeney,
Sylvia Wright, Martha Van Hoesen,
Hodee Waldstein, Margaret Wood,
fMarion Greenebaum, Anita Tuller,
Mary Wood and* Eleanor Sayre.
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