College News, 1942-02-11, Vol. 28, No. 14

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The College News
VOL. XXVIII, No. 14
BRYN MAWR and WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1942
Copyright.   Trustees   of
Bryn   Mawr   College,   1942
PRICE 10 CENTS
First Aid Leads
Registration in
Defense Courses
Swarthmore, Harvard
Credited to Fill Out
Accelerated Program
Skills,     Majors,     Experience
Registered in Individual
Interviews
I Summer Sessions Will Provide
Students With Credits in
Shorter Course
Results of the registration for
Alliance Defense Courses so far
show a total enrollment of 357:
279 student^ and 78 non-students.
Thjj^Standard First Aid course
led^he list with 95 students en-
siled and 23 non-students. 42 stu-
dents registered for Advanced
First Aid.
Most prevalent proficiencies of
students recorded were knitting,
motor service, typing.
A list of course enrollment is as
follows:
COURSE ENROLLMENT
Non-
Stu-   Stu-
dents dents
First Aid ............. 95      23
Nurses' Aides.........    9
Home Nursing........    2       7
Nutrition   .............  12      14
Community Survey  ....  15        1
Child Center..........23      10
Citizenship    ...........    6        1
Typing    ..............  32       8
Office  Technique   ......  25        6
Shorthand   ............  18        6
Advanced First Aid   ...  42        2
tion of
Plans for the acceleration of the
academic curriculum are not yet
definite. However, it has been de-
cided that a student may, with
good reasons and the permission of
her department, receive credit for
courses at Harvard and Swarth-
more summer sessions. Miss Park
has suggested the additional alter-
natives of practical experience, or
defense work.
Miss Ward attended a meeting
last week of the representatives of
many Eastern colleges and univer-
sities at which plans for shorten-
ing the curriculum were discussed.
Swarthmore has arranged a
summer session of three months.
Courses will be planned to meet
the requirements of students. The
regular seminars for Juniors and
Seniors will be included. A year's
course will be covered by devoting
double time to courses. Each sum-
mer session will receive the credit
for one semester.
Haverford will have only a two
months session, running from June
22 to August 22. Concentration
will center on the sciences, but
there will also be some courses in
other fields.
Hudson States Scope
Of International Law
Not Curtailed by War
Sources of International Law
Are Court Decisions, Custom,
And Treaties
279      78
357
'News'  Try-Outs
All freshmen and sopho-
mores interested in trying
out for the editorial board of
the College News are asked
to attend a meeting Thurs-
day, February 12 at 5:00 in
the News Room.
Maids' Bureau Gives
Exhibition of Work
The newly-organized Maids' Bu-
reau held an exhibition at the Col-
lege Inn, Monday and Tuesday of
this week, of various representative
articles which the maids will be
able to make, alter, or repair, to
order. This bureau, which had its
f'nntlnued on J'age Six
Air Raid Wardens Prance Over Campus as
Student Body is Interned in Stygian Halls
By Alide Crowder, '42
10.10 P. M., Tuesday, February
3.�An excited expectancy pervaded
the air. In the air raid office in
Rhoads senior air raid wardens
languished in importance, admiring
handsome embroidered arm bands.
"Guess it's the yellow signal," Mr.
Cameron speculated.
"Do I have to go through the
halls and all that stuff?" groaned
Mr. Watson in undertone, while
the telephone buzzed on and No.
1, 2, and 3 people-to-be-warned
proved to be not at home because
they were dutifully standing by the
lights.
Outside, the expectancy was ma-
terialized in a nervous blinking of
lights.  "They're cheating!"shouted
wardens,   as   some   sputtered   off
without warning.    A sickly wheeze
from    the   village�"Ten    seconds j
early," commented   Mr.  Watson� \
announced   the    Moment.     In   re-1
sponse to the glorious roaring ziz-i
zing at the power  house the  Li- \
brary and   Rock  silently  and  sud-
denly became blanks silhouetted in
the moonlight.    ("Who's got some
red paper for the moon?" roared
Mr. Cameron.)     Anxious and pre-
occupied    with    the    problem    of
"Where   Are   Our   Men"  as   they
were, wardens stopped vo express
sympathy   for  the    "poor   fellow
who has to pull that thing up and
down    five    times,"    before    they
rushed into inspection rounds.
"Our Men" loomed through the
darkness, lurking in the shadows
of Pembroke Arch like movie crim-
inals on the river bank. Without
a word they passed each other in
the moonlight as if doing some
dread and secret business... But
for the reporter there was a word
of explanation, "That's one of Our
Men."
The inspection rounds were taken
at a swift and breathless canter.
This brought one in time to the
Inn, where Mr. Sprague was found
peacefully pacing the terrace gloat-
ing happily over the fact that he
had. found two more people to
warn�in the basement of Dolgelly.
'Just found them tonight," he an-
nounced proudly. Elsewhere lights,
the principle objects of search,
were found. Techniques for re-
moving these varied. For the
shadowy figure on the hill of Fac-
ulty Row the shout of "Light,
light" sufficed. "It's only the moon
on the car windows," proclaimed a
stentorian voice. Round and round
the wardens sped. From Rhoads
sparkled brilliant spots of yellow
light through cracks in the Vene-
tian blinds of the air raid office,
like a lighted Christmas tree. A
bang on the window, and the lights
went'out.
Far more impressive was the
policemen - raiding-a-gambling-joint
technique employed in Pern West.
Armed with wicked looking green
flashlights, the wardens stamped
fiercely in�periodically�with la-
conic command, "The Tower." The
blank, innocuous, knitting darkness'
suddenly became alive with a num-
ber of lights which bobbed obedi-
Conlinucd on  Page Four
Recital to be Given
By Dorothy Maynor,
Great Negro Singer
The young negro soprano, Dor-
othy Maynor, will give a recital in
Goodhart   Hall,   Monday   evening,
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February 16, 8.30. Acclaimed as
"one of the outstanding voices of
the day," Miss Maynor has already
soloed with four leading symphony
orchestras in her first season.
01 in Downes, leading music crit-
ic of the New York Times, writes
of this new singer, "she has virtu-
ally everything needed by a great
Continued- on Fact Four
Anderson Outlines
Monetary Controls
Of Growing In flation
Goodhart, February 9. � Infla-
tion, particularly dangerous in
time of war, is well under way in
the United States, said Mr. Ander-
son in his lecture entitled Can We
Check Inflation by Control of
Money! Inflation, he said, is due
to an increase of spendable income
more rapid than supplies of goods
for sale. In the last one and a
half years, prices have risen more
than they have during the whole
preceding eight years. This pres-
ent rise, ten per cent in retail
prices and twenty per cent in
wholesale prices, shows no signs of
stopping.
There are three methods of con-
trolling inflation; direct price fix-
ing, taxation and borrowing from
the public, and control through the'
monetary system itself. This last
involves control of banking as a
whole. Three instruments can be
used: regulation of cash reserves
which banks are required to hold;
open-market operation; and ma-
nipulation of the rate of discount.
However, new legislation is needed
for these instruments. Cash re-
serves must be made higher, since
Continued on rage Four
Goodhart, February 6. � "Inter-
national law has not been killed by
the war," declared Manley O. Hud-
son in his first lecture on The Na-
ture mid Scope of International
Laic It exists between neutrals
and belligerents; it exists between
belligerents on the same side, and
even exists between belligerents on
opposite sides. International law
does not abdicate in the time, of
war.
Dr. Hudson, member of the Per-
manent Court of International Jus-
tice, has contributed greatly to the
development of the science of in-
ternational law. His International
Legislation is an outstanding con-
tribution to the field of practical
problems in international organi-
zation.
.. Dr. Hudson denned international
law as "the law of an international
community, almost entirely govern-
Contlnued on Pax* Four
Youth Orchestra Led
By Mr. Louis Vyner
In Goodhart Concert
Specially contributed by
Louise Allen, '42
The members of the National
Youth Administration Orchestra
should be pleased; to know that
nothing shflrt ai;a declaration of
war can filNooodhart Hall as they
did on Wednesday night. In the
eyes of veteran Goodhart-goers,
this was a far greater accomplish-
ment on the part of the orchestra
than even the fact that they gave
the audience what it had come for.
We hope this will occasion their
return.
The name of this organization is
apt to convey an unfortunate and
altogether false impression. There
was nothing excessively youthful
either about their appearance or
therr performance. They played
with mature artistic skill which en-
ables them to be judged according
to the standards of adult profes-
sionals. It was only in a certain
over-prim, metronome like observ-
ance of time that any lack of as-
surance on their part could be
found. This was particularly evi-
dent in the classical "portion of
their program, where both the
Beethoven   and   the   Haydn   tended
Continued   on   Past   Four
Lerner Advocates
Better Utilization
Of U. S. Resources
Blames   Ruling   Statesmen
Not   Democracy for
Recent  Failure
Goodhart, February 10.�Unless
we learn from our past mistakes,
fight the war democratically, or-
ganize it efficiently, talk now of
peace conditions and cast off opti-
mistic smugness, we will neither
win the war nor build the peace,
said Max Lerner, Professor of Po-
litical Science at Williams College.
Mr. Lerner said that America is
being infected by the "Frank Mer-
riwell spirit," by the dangerous,
unrealistic idea that we can con-
tinue to make faux /xis, fail to take
advantage of our* resources, fail to
organize ourselves, and yet win in
the final split second. Unmindful
of the formidable Spring offensive
planned by Hitler. We have al-
lowed the recent business on the
Russian front to lull us into com-
placency. "The sense of the seri-
ousness of the Far Eastern situa-
tion has not been communicated to
the people," said Mr. Lerner. We
are in great danger of losing the
Far East and not very long from
now.
We cannot play for time in this
war. "We must understand," said
Mr. Lerner, "that the war may be
won or lost in 1942 .... that
this year may. be the most crucial
year In the history of the Western
World." Every effort exerted,
every stroke wielded today, he said,
will be worth ten such accomplish-
ments afterward.
Our plan of action, said Mr. Ler-
ner, must be based on a theoretical
guide deduced from past errors.
The fact must be accepted that
neither Democracy nor human na-
Contlnued rn  Fage Five
Translators Needed
The Bureau of Recommen-
dations has been asked by
the United States Civil Serv-
ice Commission to publicize
the urgent need for trans-
lators.* An announcement of
Examinations for Transla-
tors is posted on the Dean's
bulletin board. Salaries
range from 1800 to 2000 dol-
lars a year.
Applications are due on
March 17 and may be ob-
tained at the Bureau of
Recommendations.
Calendar
Thursday, February 12
Spanish Club Tea. Profes-
sor Salinas.
Friday, February  13
Anna Shaw Lecture. Man-
ley O. Hudson, The Pacific
Settlement of Internation-
al Dispute 8. Goodhart,
8:30.
Sunday, February  15
The Reverend J. R. Hart.
Music Room, 7:30.
Monday, February 16
Dorothy Maynor. Good-
hart, 8:30.
Tuesday, February 17
Currents Events.  Common
Room, 7:30. -
Hitler, Air Raids, lp-to-Date Songs Promise
Variety and Originality in Freshman Show
By Anne Denny, '43
Even   in   its   present  embryonic |
state, this year's Freshman  Show i
promises energetic high  - kicking'
and snappy songs.   Love, Fret, and
Clieers   has   everything   from   air
raids,  Hitler, and dancing devils,
to a caustic, bridge table humor.
Kitty Rand struggles with the
discipline of two ungraceful mili- (
tary choruses. Haverford enters in
the first act, but plays a remark-
ably subordinate part, outshadowed
by bombs and Hitler's dramatic en-
trance in the last act.
Intimidated by tales of last
year's raucous rehearsal episodes^
the Freshmen are worried about
the future of the show, but their
most frequent remark is, "Oh, well,
the songs are good anyway." The
songs are more up-to-date than the
usual run of Freshman Show songs,
and they constitute most of the
playing time.
The tumult and the shouting of
the air raid scene requires elabo-
rate sound-effects, but it has great
possibilities. The last act indulges
in a little "Hollywoodishness" with
a graduation scene, but it is quickly
interrupted again by the war ele-
ment.
Impersonations of the Faculty
are rarer than usual this year and
the show promises to stand more
on its own feet than on the stand-
ard college jokes. The acting
ability of the class of '45 has not
yet been unearthed, but Ijove, Fret,
and Cheers provides opportunity as
well as obstacles. The Freshmen
have a good idea, but they may
find some truth in the title's allu-
sion to Blood, Sweat and Tears.