College News, 1938-03-09, Vol. 24, No. 17

              The College News
VOL. XXIV, No. 17
BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 1938
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BRYN  MAWR COLLEGE, 1938
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Washington Hearings
Are Now in Session
American Youth Congress Asks
For. Equality in Education
And Right to Work
MILITARISM   IS   OPPOSED
Shan-Kar and Dancers
Present   Hindu   Ballet
Formalized   Gestures   Show   Indian
Culture in Compositions
Sol Rosner, Executive Secretary of
the Philadelphia district of the A. S.
U., spoke to the Bryn Mawr Chapter
on the subject of the Pilgrimage to
Washington.                      *
Although the American Youth Act
as outlined in last week's Nqws is the
chief part of the program of the Youth
Congress, it will not be emphasized in
the 1938 pilgrimage to Washington.
Those who are speaking at the hear-
ings this week are. aiming to give spe-
cific evidence of the need for legisla-
tion in behalf of freedom and equality
within education and legislation estab-
lishing the right to work. .
The Congress is asking for the pass-
age of six bills which will insure N.
Y. A. employment for those still be-
ing educated and WPA work for those
no longer being educated; will insure
equal educational opportunities for
both negroes and white people, and
equal facilities for education for all
states; will provide that the CCC shall
be entirely under the direction of civil-
ians, and will make it impossible for
any educational institution to receive
federal funds for support if it includes
compulsory ROTC units jn its curricu-
lum.
The issues that are concerned with
educational,'inequalities have been
given new emphasis by President
Roosevelfs report to Congress last
week, which revealed the results of a
special investigation. This report un-
covered phases of education which un-
fortunately have previously been local
questions. The specific conditions
against which the President spoke are
the racial and class inequalities exist-
ing, especially in the South.
ThejCongress calls the yearly pil-
gritflage with the idea that the sud-
den dramatic influx of 3,000 people
into Washington from 48 states will
bring its issues to the recognition of
the people of the country as a whole.
The Congress has been successful in
�previous years, hs evidenced by the
raising of the funds allotted to the
NYA from 38,000,000 dollars to 50,-
000,000 dollars.
This year the Bryn Mawr ASU is
sending its representatives in the hope
Of conferring with their Senators.
They will not get to Washington in
time to attend any of the hearings.
On Thursday evening, March 10, at
8.20, in Goodhart Hall, Uday Shan-
Kar, his Hindu ballet, and his mu-
sicians will present a dance program.
This will be one of his last appear-
ances of the season as he is shortly
returning to India to establish an All
India Center for Dance and Music in
Benares.
With the exception of Simkie, who
is a French woman and has embraced
the Hindu faith, all of Shaji-Kar's
troupe are high caste Brahmans. De^tf
spite an age-old Brahman prohibi-
tion against appearing in public per-
formances in alien lands, an excep-
tion has been made in the case of
Shan-Kar's company, since it so per-
fectly expresses the Hindu culture.
At the time that Shan-Kar was Pav-
lova's partner, he achieved great suc-
cess and fame. Yet, at its height, he
abandoned her to spend four ascetic
years studying the Hindu dance in
the museums and temples of Europe
and Asia.    ^,
The dances are not so much ballets
as dance dramas. They are based on
three elements, religion, or mythology;
folklore, and subtle eroticism.. To
some of the numbers, the performers
chant their own accompaniment. The
troupe reveals the dances of India
which contain the cosmos as the Hin-
dus have perceived it for thousands
of years.
It is always'important to remember,
in this particular form of dance, that
apart from the highly individualistic
music, the movements of the hands,
the head, the body, are as definitive
as Wagnerian motifs. Joined hands
with fingers interlaced signify
strength, a circle made of hands is
love, the gesture of strength reversed
is a lovers' embrace. There are 65
hand gestures alone, called Mudras.
Arrangements of the dances have
been made for the most part by Vish-
nudas Shirali, the musical director,
and a composer recognized in India
as one of the foremost musical authori-
ties. He plays the drums or the sitar
(a stringed instrument like a guitar),
but can play any one of the 36 instru-
ments of the orchestra, including the
rice bowls filled at varying levels witli
water. A pail of water is kept handy
in the stage wings to change the pitch
of each bowl for the various musical
numbers.
The costumes of the troupe are of
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COLLEGE CALENDAR
Thursday,   March   10�Shan*
Kar's dance recital.    Goodhart,
8.30.
Saturday, March 12�Frencli
Club play.   Goodhart, 8.30.
Sunday, March IS�Lecture
by Miss Holman,_on mountain
climbing. Moving pictures. Dean-
ery, 5 p. m.
Tuesday, March 15�Current
Events, Mr. Fenwick. Common
Room, 7.30. International Club
Meeting. Common Room, 8 p. m.
Wednesday, March 16�A. S.
U. meeting. Mark Starr speak-
ing.   Common Room, 4.30.
Thursday, March 17�Maids'
Play.   Goodhart, 8.30.
Sunday, March 20�Lecture
by Friedrich Spiegelberg on
What India Has to Offer Us To-
day.   Deanery, 5 p. m.
Monday, March 21�Piano re-
cital by Horace Alwyne. Good-
hart, 8.30.    �
Tuesday, March 22�Current
Events, Mr. Fenwick. Common
RdTJm, 7.30. English Depart-
ment Lecture by Gustav Hubner.
Music Room, 8.30.
� Wednesday, March 23�Ger-
man Movie.   Goodhart, 8.30.
"China Strikes Back" Shows Mobilization
Of National Army in Northwestern Area
Men Skilled in Guerilla Warfare
But Have No Opportunity
To Use Training

Music Room, March S.�China
Strikes Back, a short movie brought
to' college under the auspices of the
China Aid Council, chiefly concerned
the mobilization of the National Chin-
ese, Army in the northwest or Shansi
district The troops which were for-
merly the Red Army of the Soviet
State and in strong opposition to the
central government, are famous for
their skill in guerilla warfare. Their
tactics of surprise forages while
slowly retreating have been successful
and they are now looked upon as
China's-'strongest defense.
Taken by Harry Dunham, the movie
was unique in showing a remote coun-
try nevef before photographed. It
opened with unusualry realistic � and
moving shots of the peasants fleeing
from Japanese shelUfire^Agjtated
spetrtsera, v.^rc,3(.au*tJ*T*ftes a*nd bloody
pavemehls jn quick succession formed
a picture of the present situation of
the national army, before turning to
the training of the army itself.
The Shansi district, isolated though
it is, has an excellent university at
which most of the young fighters were
educated. Here sports and body cul-
ture, as well as scholastic .'and
patriotic   pursuits    are    emphasized.
Scenes of college and agricultural
life, though briefly and hurriedly
taken, were artistic in subject and
filled with action.
China Strikes Back ended on a note
of appeal to other nations. China
has, the commentator said, enormous
reserves of man-power willing to
fight But she cannot expel her in-
vaders until these soldiers can meet
Japan in fair combat. China must
have more weapons, and she can only
obtain them through the help of
foreign countries.
The purpose of the China Ajd
Council is to educate- Americans to to
understanding of the actual crisis,
and to counteract anti-yellow race
propaganda within the United States.
They are endeavoring to organize the
Boycott, which they feel can be a
serious menace if uncontrolled. Some
manufacturers have already exploited
it to increase their own trade.
In addition the Council has raised.
a medical unit, the only American
group working back of the Chinese
lines. On March 18 they are holding
a Boycott Council at which all. the
trade unions will be represented,
especially hosiery^yorkersSQn March
21, Anna Louise St*Mg"wMiBpeak at
a meeting of the Council in Philadel-
phia and open its campaign for funds
to maintain its medical unit and out-
fit similar units.
Miss Matsui Urges
Japanese   Boycott
Says  Her  People  Are  Against
The Military Government's
Foreign Policy
WAR COSTING HUGE SUM
Dr.x Chang, Miss Matsui, and Miss Speer
Discuss  Crisis in  Far  East at  Forum
First  Two Speakers Denounce  Japanese  Aggression  in  China;
Dean of Women at Yenching University Describes
Peace Activities of Students
UNIFICATION OF CHINA NECESSARY FOR VICTORY
Goodhart, March 2.�At the Peace Council on the Crisis in the Far East
both the Chinese speaker, Dr. Chang, and Japanese, Miss Haru Matsui
denounced Japanese aggression in China. Miss Margaret Speer, Dean of
Women at Yenphlng University, described the activities of Chinese students
in promoting peace.    Louise Morley, '40, president of the council, presided.
Miss  Speer   Discusses  Students
Chinese and American students are
very much alike except for one major
difference, said Miss Speer, speaking
on the Chinese student movement.
American students do not have the
Chinese student's feeling of "personal
responsibility" for national and inter-
national affairs.
Miss Speer ascribed this personal
concern among Chinese students to
the fact that for a long time they
were the sole national body in China.
In its struggle against the Japanese,
China has progressed towards unity,
but because of its overwhelming illi-
teracy and the difficulties of transpor-
tation, it was weakened in the past
by regionalism. The students, gath-
ering at the various universities from
all parts of the country, gradually
realized the significance of their unity
and felt responsibility as a  natioitaT Tats will be assured of raw materials
Stating that she spoke for the Jap-
anese people, riot the military gov-
ernment, Miss Haru Matsui, well-
known writer, rigorously denounced
her country's policy of aggression in
China, and urged the boycott of Jap-
anese >.goods. The outside world be-
lieves Japan is united iw her non-de-
clared war on China. This, however,
is the result of lack of information,
Miss Matsui declared, pointing out
that the recent wholesale arrests of
prominent Japanese in aristocratic
and university circles suggests the
true story. All citizens declaring
themselves opposed to government
policies are promptly silenced. Among
these have been sons and daughters
of members of the House of Peers,
prominent professors of the Tokyo
Imperial University, and many dis-
tinguished professional men, as well
as workers in munitions factories and
peasants.
Excuses for these arrests have been
based on charges of Communism. The
prisoners have been t accused of im-
peding Japan's "Holy War" in China
by fostering a united front against
the government. The Japanese gov-
ernment will not tolerate this. The
International Anti-Communist Pact
must be strengthened, and the gov-
ernment, in the words of the Home
Minister, "will not hesitate to stamp
ouf liberal, elements. They > will be
dealt with without mercy."
The war is costing a huge sum.
Higher taxes, lower wages, longer
working hours are further impover-
ishing the people. The peasants are
facing starvation, and in their dire
necessity are selling their daughters
to textile mills and houses of pros-
titution. But Miss Matsui believes the
internal struggle is growing stronger
as the war continues in China. The
new mobilization plan is particularly
opposed.
Professors   and   labor   leaders   are
leading this  fight,  speaking  for  the
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group. As such they have greatly
affected China's national policy. They
feel that a strong united China will
have a direefDearing on a worfd peace,
and Miss Speer showed how passion-
ately they have made a united China
their goal.
The first attempt on the part of the
students for concerted action dates
from 1888, she said, when Sun Yat
Sen was attempting the overthrow of
the Manchu Dynasty. In the suc-
ceeding years the students occasion-
ally followed false leaders, and some-
times fell into periods of indifference;
yet "in that time thousands died for
the right as they saw it."
The real birth of the student move-
ment came in 1919, when Japan came'
near getting Germany's concessions in
China. The whole country wanted to
protest, but the students were articu-
late. They convinced the worldthat
they were the voice of their nation,
and Japan did not gain the territory.
As the students became increasingly
aware of the necessity for an articu-
late group, they began to express
themselves by strikes and demonstra-
tions that "upset the authorities" but
"awakened public opinion." Some
students lost their lives; this height-
ened the idealism and devotion of the
others. Miss Speer who witnessed
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MAIDS  AND   PORTERS
TO GIVE MR. FAITHFUL
Japanese Fascists Attacked
Dr. Chang, a contributing editor to
China Today, denounced Japanese
justifications for aggression and de-
clared that their real objective was
"to enslave the Chinese people and
convert China into an exclusive Jap-
anese province." -.,Dr. Chang de-
scribed himself as a product of the
Chinese Student Movement which is
working for a democratic and united
China, and especially to better the
standard of living among the com-
mon people.
The outcome of the present in-
vasion does not concern only China
and Japan. If this attack is not
stopped today, military fascism will
spread and permanently endanger
world democracy and peace. Japan
also wants a complete monopoly over
Chinese trade so that her industrial-
at minimum cost, and her militarists
will be independent of the outside
world for war supplies. This means
the end of China's traditional "open
door" policy toward all foreign
nations.
Japan frequently argues that she is
overpopulated, unable to support all
her people, and therefore, that she
needs room to expand. To disprove
this argument, Dr. Chang pointed out
that from 1905 to 1931 Japan's ability
to produce has increased 200 per eent.
Her population has risen by only 42
per cent. Recently the government
purchased rice and stored it in state
warehouse to keep the price up for
the benefit of the growers.
The fruits of Japanesle industrial
and agricultural progress have gone
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French Club to Give
Comedy of de Musset
M.   Guiton    Directs   Light-Hearted
"II ne Faut Jurer de Rien"
tern*
There was a serious omission
in the Rules for Major Work
printed in last week's News. The
rule which was omitted is "if a
student has received a grade be-
low 70 in an Advanced Course
in her major subject she may be
refused permission to graduate."
This is the rule most commonly-
misunderstood by students.
The maids and porters, directed
by Huldah Cheek, '38, have started re-
hearsing for their third annual play,
which will be Lord Dunsany's-comedy,
Mr. Faithful. It is a story about the
vicissitudes of a young man who hires
himself out as a watchdog�the only
job he can find�with the ulterior ob-
ject of marrying the daughter of a
British profiteer. The leading man is
Denbigh's John Whittaker, for long a
stellar comedian.      ��"
The cast, although not yet com-
pleted, is as follows:
Mr. Faithful........John Whittaker
Betty   .................Hilda Green
Sir Jonas Grapt . .John H. McKnight
Sir Walter Wample
Richard Blackwell
Jaggers   ............Minnie  Newton
Mr. ForteScue..........Nenje Davis
Policeman                                     -,
Mrs. Jam...............EvajTyson
Mrs.'Bliggings........Peggy Peyton
President of Scavengers' Union
Undecided
2 Toughs................Undecided
Assisting Huldah Cheek behind the
scenes are, Sue Miller, '40, who is in
charge of the frequent changes of
scenery, Priscilla Curtis, '40, assistant
director and Nancy Sioussat, '40, who
is collecting properties.
Xhc French play, line Faut Jurer
de Rien, by Alfred de Musset, is to
be given on Saturday, March 12. It
is being directed by" M. Jean Guiton,
of the French Department. The cast
includes three ex-members of last
year's production: Jane Nichols, Pris-
cilla Curtis, and Susan Miller; and
two seniors who spent their junior
year in Paris: Boone Staples and
Eleanor Mackenzie.
II ne Faut Jurer de Rien is typical
of Musset's charming theatrical genre.
There is a great deal of talk and very
little action, and hone of the dhferlHf-
sements in the way of song and dance
that Ecoles des Maris provided last
year. The emphasis is naturally, then,
on character and situation. The play's
most pleasant characteristic is light-
heartedne8s, which is encouragingly
"present in the rehearsals. Musset was
called the poet of youth, an enfant
terrible, and his plays have an effer-
vescent quality Which makes up for
their vagueness of dramatic organiza-
tion. Though he wrote as much for
the reader as for the theatregoer, his
plays havesurvived better than those
of any oFnls contemporaries.
Since  Musset  was  a  romantic,   he
specifically ignored the unity- of place,
IMWf'fr*____�*WHftual for him  to
have 16 changes of scenery in one
play. The French Club has cut down
the sets in II ne Faut Jurer de Rien to
three, one for each act, and are pur-
posely making their architecture and
interior decoration somewhat eclectic,
so that the play will not be confined
to any one period. The scenery for
Act III is designed in the Gothic style.
The other two sets, one a drawing-
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