College News, 1939-04-26, Vol. 25, No. 20

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VOL. XXV, No. 20
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BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26, 1939
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Griffin Probes
Hitler's Action
In the Ukraine
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Germany's    Eastern    March
May Meet Opposition
By   Ruthenia
Deanery, April 23.�"If Hitler gets
the Ukraine there will be nothing to*
stop his wildest dreams from coming
true," said Mr. Jonathan Griffin, au-
thority on Central Europe, in his lec-
ture on Hitler and the Ukraine. The
Ukraine region would not only beNa
source of food for Germany, but will
enable Hitler "to dictate to the world."
The "stumbling block" in Hitler's
march eastward may be the Ruthen-
ians in the Carpatho-Ukrainian re-
gion. While their state lasted, the
Czechs set an example of good gov-
ernment in the Carpatho-Ukraine.
The Ruthenlans will be quick to de-
mand the same of Germany.
The Ukraine is a country "on an
American scale." Today it produces
70 per cent of the U. �. S. R.'s sugar,
60 per cent of its iron, 50 per cent
of its coal, and 25 per cent of its
wheat. It has the largest electric
power station in Europe, and acrOss
its borders are the oil wells of the
Caucasus. With a population of about
40 million people, the Ukrainian
group now form "the largest nation
in Europe without a state."
Hitler's policy toward tne Ukraine
is dictated partly by his desire to
dominate international politics, an
attitude whieh does not render him
amenable to Chamberlain's policy of
appeasement. Mr. Griffin does not be-
lieve that Hitler will expand neces-
sarily in only one direction, or that
he will try to gain the Ukraine by
military conquest. So far Hitler has
accomplished his ends "by a special
kind of persuasion"; the stirring up
of nationalist feeling and the fear of
Bolshevism.
After the collapse of the Austrian
Empire and Russia in 1918, the Rus-
sian Ukrainians 'made a separate
peace at Brest-Litovsk and set up a
puppet government under the Entente.
In 1919, a republic was founded which
was incorporated into the Soviet in
1923. For ten years good feeling
prevailed between' the Russians and
the Ukrainians, until discord was pro-
voked by Polish agitation. Recently
the dominant policy has been one of
Russianizing the Ukraine, with purges
and executions returned by sabotage
and the growth of a stubborn young
nationalism.                  ___^�
Poland, after the war, got Eastern
Galicia with from four to seven and a
half million Ukrainians. The govern-
ment there carried out two contradic-
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H. Goodman Discusses
Anatolian Civilization
Basis  for  Later  Talks  Depots
Chronological Development
Of   Hittite   Art
Music Room, April 25.�The first
of three lectures by Miss Hetty Gold-
man, director of the Bryn Mawr "dig"
at Tarsus, dealt with a general back-
ground for the rest of her talks on
Aspects of Early Anatolian Civiliza-
tion.
Miss Goldman began by describing
the inadequacy of archaeological
knowledge concerning Anatolia, and
the lack of any comparative study of
what was known. Before the 20th
century the bulk of the data came
from the excavations of Schleimann
at Troy. Since then Trojan data of
that period has been considerably sup-
plemented by discoveries in , other
parts of Anatolia, as- at Tarsus, and
by a more careful excavation of Troy
itself. In the series of lectures Miss
Goldman hopes* to present a synthesis
of the finds, and a study .of their im-
portance in establishing a chronology
of early Anatolian civilization.
In order to clarify the develop-
ment of her subject Miss Goldman
began by a brief outline of its chron-
ology. She explained the difficulty of
establishing the origins of the Hit-
tites among the earlier inhabitants of
Anatolia. Many contemporary schol-
ars are linking them with the Hur-
rians, a newly discovered people who
inhabited the southeastern part of the
country in prehistoric times. They
have even gone so far as to say that
Hittite art indicates a direct deriva-
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O'DANIEL  TO  SPEAK
ON JOB PROSPECTS
IN POLITICAL FIELD
The Game of Politics will be the
subject of a vocational lecture by Ei-
leen O'Daniel, on Monday, May 1, at
4.45 p. m., in the Common Room. A
secretary to John D. Hamilton of the
Republican National Committee, Miss
O'Daniel has been working in Wash-
ington for the past few years. Her
lecture, she writes in advance, will be
"strictly  impartial."
Miss O'Daniel, who graduated from
Smith College in 1932, will speak on
the organization of political parties,
the work which can be- done locally,
directing her attention mainly to con-
crete ways of entering the field. She
is extremely interested in the possi-
bility of finding people to go into poli-
tics as either paid workers or volun-
teers." In particular, she will give
a list of women influential in the dif-
ferent parties of several states, to
whom those interested could go to
discuss possible jobs.
Pacey Ripple Spurs 'Gondoliers' Rehearsal
With Pet Names and Personal  Examples
The Bryn Mawr Glee Club is giv-
ing The Gondoliers this weekend, or
did you) know? We happened to hear
a vague rumor to that effect several
weeks ago and, to confirm it, attended
a rehearsal.
When we first went in, Pacey Rip-
ple, who is directing the operetta, was
giving instructions for the scenery of
the second act. This was undeniably
in the embryo stage, consisting only
of a couple of pale blue flats. Manoeu-
vefing around backstage, however, it
was discovered that the scenery for
the first act was almost complete, and
gorgeous. There were signs of hard
labor everywhere, much paint and
many woodshavinga.
Suddenly the performance began.
They went through it twice. The first
time we watched from the orthodox
seats, the second from the rafters.
Both effects were fascinating. We
"""^marveietf at the basso prof undo voices
of our classmate's and we thrilled to
their delicate dancing, but we stood
spellbound and breathless in the pres-
ence   of  Mr.   Ripple.    He   controlled
"the company" (as he called it) as a
magnet controls scissors and needles
and nails and knives. Addressing
them as "dearie" and "darling" he
set them into action. If words failed
he acted himself and the cast; re-
sponded like an echo.
The difference between the sexes
has been successfully defined by re-
quiring skirts on all cantadme and
some sort of trouser for the gondo-
lieri. The cachuca already appears as
the "wildest of dances," while the
castanets punctuate the music with
authentic clatter, thanks, regrettably,
to midnight pv�.'.... 1.,* fcM1Mla,<; Thej.j
bunches of newspaper that were waved
at an earlier rehearsal have disap-
peared, so itjis not known whether
they represented fans or what.
There has been an audience at
every rehearsal. Faculty members
and wistful mutes have wandered >in
occasionally. Mr. Willoughby's dog
has been seen, also. The summer
camp has made a fortune in ice cream
sales. The dixie cups seem prefer-
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COLLEGE CALENDAR
Wednesday, April 26.�Indus-
trial Group Supper, Common
Room, 6.30.                             i
Friday, April 28. � Opening
Glee Club production of The
Gondoliers, Goodhart Hall, 8.20.
Saturday, April 29.�Second
Glee Club production of the
Gondoliers, Goodhart, 8.20, fol-
lowed by Undergraduate Asso-
ciation dance, Gymnasium, 11
p. m. to 2 a. m.
Sunday, April .SO. � Susan
Metcalfe Casals, Song Recital,
Music Room, 4.30. Tea, Com-
mon Room, 4 p. m. Chapel, Rev.
John Crocker, Music Room, 7.30.
Monday, May 1.�May Day
Assembly, Goodhart, 9 a. m.
Vocational lecture, Eileen
O'Daniel on The Game of Poli-
tics, Common Room, 4.45. Mr.
Samuel Chew on Time and For-
tune in the Elizabethan Imagi-
nation, Good^act Hall, 8.20.
TuesdayCMay >2:�Dr. Hetty
Goldman on Southern Anatolia,
Music Room, 4.30. Mr. Fen-
wick, Current Events, Common
Room, 7.30. Meeting for in-
formal discussion with W. H.
Auden, Deanery, 8.30.
Nahm Speaks
On Art's Form
And Function
Art     Strives     to     Establish
Mood of Contemplation
And Feeling
Common Room, April 2k.�Speak-
ing for the philosophy department,
Mr. Nahm contributed/ to the current
art symposium with two lectures on
Form and Function in Art. In the
first, he demonstrated the importance
of purpose in a work of art; form, he
saidrwas only-necessary in the sense
of unity.
Mr. Nahm bdgan by tracing the
difficult problem ^iP^form in actual
objects of art, as attacked by Plato
and Kant. Although these two phi-
losophers differed in their first con-
cepts of aesthetic limitation, they
agreed in unity as the supreme limi-
tation. Mr. Nahm went on to show
that a work of art might have beauty
but no meaning. A purpose, there-
fore, is necessary, even though it be
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Carl   Sand bury   Presents   Jokes
^Philosophy, 'The People-Yes'
And Folk Songs
Goodhart    Hall,    April    20.�CarjJ
Sandburg, the "poet of America" and
the Chicago fog, presented a program
of   reflections,   jokes,   readings   from
his own works, and folksongs chanted
to the accompaniment of his own gui-
tar. The sum total was uninforma-
tive but entertaining, especially the
songs drawled in an exaggerated cow-
boy-Chicago accent.             \
"Some time ago," Mr. Sandberg
saW in his short talk, "I heard a
brakeman ask his friend, 'What d'ya
know today, fur sure?' The friend
replied, 'Not a damn thing.' And
that is about the way I feel when I
look at the European situation."
Citing anecdotes from the Civil War
political scene, he pointed out that
then, as now, few of the people knew
or could know what was actually go-
ing' on. Today, however, Mr. Sand-
burg feels, America is trying to get
at the truth behind the propaganda.
Mr. Sandburg supplemented his ad-
dress with little known details from
the life of Abraham Lincoln. The
poet has recently completed a long bio-
graphy of the former president now
in the press.
The poems read were taken from
his latest book, The People�Yes, pic-
tures of American iife in the Whit-
man tradition. The author's dramatic
skill was effective in putting over the
conversational idiom in which he
writes, and the selections were repre-
sentative of his work, good and in-
different. A typical poem trying to
express everyman's wisdom in the lan-
guage 6f everyman, is number 43:
"Eggs offered as plain and ordin-
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MAJORITY OF 'NEWS'
VOTERS IN BALLOT
BACK INNOVATIONS
News ballot returns showed vir-
tual unanimity in support of a Forum
column. Thereafter, votes were more
evenly divided between the Yes's and
the No's plus the Indifferent's,
although on suggestions for the future
the majority affirmed, possibly indi-
cating a belief that what you haven't
seen can't hurt you.
The question of fuller reports on
Philadelphia events drew several re-
quests for notice of art exhibits, and
little interest in more data on movies
and plays. "More advances of college
speakers and less on what they did
say after it's too late to go" was sug-
gested by one, while another requires
more in quantity, including notice of
radio broadcasts.
A large majority avowed that they
re�d � teeture write-ups, though one
limits herself to the times' when "my
professor requires me to attend and
"have cut. In this case the News
does service as a kind of cribbing
bureau." The inquiry on book reviews
produced requests for more important
books and notice of the new book
room. Merion united�nine strong�
in a hate on Schitzi, new occupant of
Wit's End. The full results are as
follows:
Forum: Yes, 73; No, 2; Indiffer-
ent, 2.                       i    "
Reports of club artdi&ass meetings:
Ccwunuoa on Vac* Two
Poet of America
Chants and Yarns
AUDEN  TO, DISCUSS
SUBJECT OF VERSE
IN INFORMAL TALK
W. H. Auden, British poet, drama-
tist and lecturer, will give an informal
talk on Tuesday, May 2, at 8.30 p. m.,
in the Deanery. Mr. Auden is ex-
pected to deal with the general sub-
ject of the use of contemporary ma-
terial in poetry.
In addition to two volumes of po-
etry, Collected Poems, and Look,
Stranger, Mr. Auden has also pub-
lished Letters from Iceland with Louis
MacNiece, and two plays with Chris-
toper Isherwood. The first of these,
Dog Beneath the Skin, -is a, f>ff�
on the contemporary-politicaXscene,
while Ascent of F-6, also satiric, em-
ploys a radio broadcast as the device
of  presentation.
Haile and Axon
Address Peace
Day Assembly
U. S. Neutrality Act �rf '35
Proven Encouragement
To   Aggression
RESULTS OFTEACE
BALLOTS REPORTED
Goodhart Auditorium, April 20.�
The Student Peace Assembly, held to-
day in unison with others all over the
country, wa^addressed by Mr. Pen-
nington Haile, Assistant Director of
the League of Nations, and by Anne
Louise Axon, '40, President of the Un-
dergraduate Association, who reported
the results of the college ballot of
Peace Day resolutions, on which
almost 300 students had voted.
Campus opinion was found to agree
vigorously with Mr. Haile's conviction
that the United States must abandon
its present policy of isolation and pre-
pare to oppose aggression by legisla-
tion providing for economic discrim-
ination between aggressor nations and
their victims. It was moved and car-
ried that stiident opinions on the prin-
cipal questions, on the basis of a
two-to-one majority, should be sent to
President Roosevelt, to the Chairman
of the Foreign ..Relations Committee,
and to the Pennsylvania Senators.
The responsibility of the United
States in the present crisis is immense,
Mr. Haile asserted, since our foreign
policy of isolation and non-interven-
tion, under the Neutrality Act of 1935,
has done more to cause world disorder
than any other single,. factor, except
the designs of the dissatisfied nations
themselves. It has been a direct in-
centive to aggression. As a signifi-
cant indicator, Mr. Haile pointed out
that Italy invaded Ethiopia only six
weeks after the passage of the Neu-
trality Act.
Two definite policies must be pur-
sued, said Mr. Haile. Aggression
must be opposed; and economic jus-
tice must be established among all
nations. "Merely opposing aggression
with no attempt to solve the economic
conditions, does not build a static
peace and law and order." If we
adopt both measures, we will be able
to warn aggressive nations that we
will support with our resources all
those who oppose aggression; and we
can at the same time declare to those
opposing nations that our support is
flependent upon their willingness to
promote economic justice between na-
tions.
Today "the forces of the younger,
aggressive nations are nearly in equil-
Contlnueti on Pago Four
Geology Expedition Upsets Mining Town
But   Offers   Amusement   for   Inhabitants
Friday morning a caravan of three
cars and a Greyhound bus left Pern
Arch at nine o'clock on the first-year
Geology Field Trip. Forty-three first-
year students, six graduates, A. Lin-
coln Dryden, Edward Watson, Lois
Schoonover, and Dorothy Benedict
made up a total of 53 geologists.
According to- .custom, the popular
garb was sblue jeans, though light
blue slacks were a close runner-up.
Two aNrts were in evidence also,
which made slidjng over the cliff on
Godfrey's �Ridge a bad business for
their wearers'.
The effort to get up for early break-
fast Friday was undoubtedly the
cause of the pall of Sunday morning
slumber which pervaded the bus for
the first few hours on the way to
Stroudsburg. The success of the trip
for many began when they hitched a
ride down the mountainside off a cou-
ple of men-who explained, that they
had justvbeen cleaning out a lake.
After noting the formation of the
Delaware Water Gap, geology for the
first day was concluded when the bus
pulled up at the side entrance of the
Penn-Stroud Hotel while the good
people of Stroudsburg looked askance
at our blue jeans and our dirt.
Baths and finery were in order for
the $1.00 Bryn Mawr. Special in the
hotel dining room. Movie excursions
to Love Affair or Midnight /followed
for most, though two erstwhile geolo-
gists went to a square dance up the
road a piece in East Stroudsburg.
We were roused by telephone at
seven the next morning to spend the
day hammering for fossils and riding
down synclines and up anticlines in
freezing cold all the way to Tamaqua,
that mining town covered with coal
dust whose entrance is marked with
thejui: "Clean Fires. Clean Homes.
Use Anthracite Coal."
We were put up at the Hotel Ma-
jestic, next door to the Majestic Thea-
tre where a prim little woman looked
at our bare legs and said, "Hm, I've
seen tl.-^before'.'* The comment of
the elevator man in the hotel waa, "I
ain't never been in a girls' dormitory
before.'^
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