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BRYN MAWR and WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 12, 1943
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Hanson Stresses
Use of Resources
In War Prevention
Economizing Creates Huge
Tax Burdens, Explains
Harvard Prof
Goodhart, May 5.�"If we had
gone to higher and higher levels of
income between the wars, the
present conflict would not exist
today," stated Dr. Alvin Hansen
in the final war assembly on Eco-
nomic Problems of the Post-War
World. Between World Wars I
and II, the "have" countries let
resources lie idle, he explained, and
the entire world was very mate-
rially damaged. The United States
must pursue its own policies to
become prosperous, for it has an
enormous influence on world pros-
perity.
Britain and the United States,
continued Dr. Hansen, have shown
the need for a new partnership be-
tween government and private en-
terprise. Brought about by evolu-
tionary change, such an enterprise
can maintain high levels of em-
ployment.
Erroneously afraid of public
debt, the public- does not realize
that economizing is the surest way
to unbearable tax burdens, stated
the Political Economy professor.
Through production, maintained
by a general optimistic attitude,
a high level of net national income
can be attained, and we can fi-
nance the federal budget through
taxes and have more money than
ever before to spend on ourselves.
No longer will the tax burden fall
on a few, continued Hansen, but it
will be more equitably distributed
and the masses will be investing in
and for themselves.
Pointing out America's economic
capacity for fabulous production
records, Hansen stated that since
1929 there has been a substantial
increase in the working force and
its productivity. Manufacturing
plants have increased forty per
Continued on Page Five
Miss Park Returns
For Visit to College
Miss Marion Ecfwards Park re-
turned to the college on Friday for
the first time since her retirement
last year. Noting little change on
the campus, she remarked, "I can
only say that I am glad to be back
and glad to see the dogwood in
bloom."
Miss Park plans to stay at Bryn
Mawr until May 20. Her visit,
she reports, has been cut short at
both ends by her work on the
Scholarship Committee for the
Council of seven colleges. She will
attend the College Council for both
the old and new councils on Thurs-
day evening. Looking forward
particularly to the Faculty Party
on Saturday, Miss Park hopes to
see the new faculty children. She
will complete her visit with the
meeting of the Board of Directors
of the college, then on to the Bach
Festival at Bethlehem, Pa-
Miss Park has been living in
Plymouth, Massachusetts, doing
volunteer work with the Price Con-
trol Clinic there, which she finds
"interesting and amusing." The
Fortune article she compared to
the previous one of 1935, calling
this April article an attempt to
show "a kind of typical college,"
not involved in the military train-
ing as Smith is.      #
Calendar
Thursday, May 13
Dr. Alice M. Hamilton,
Occupational Disease Haz-
ards in Wartime. Art
Lecture Room. Library.
7:30 P. M.
Saturday, May 15
Spanish Oral. Taylor. 9
A. M.
Littlefield Junior Ballet.
Red Cross Benefit. Good-
hart.    8:30 P.M.
Sunday, May 16
Mr. Schuman. Music of
Gold8pinner8. Gym. 4:00
P. M.
Chapel. Rev. Howard
Thurman. Music Room.
7:30 P. M.
Monday, May 17
Concert. Maids and Por-
ters. Goodhart. 8:30 P.M.
Tuesday, May 18
Graduate Discussion
Group. Mr. Tom Harris.
Radnor.    8:00 P. M.
U.S.S.A. Formulates
Constitution, Policy
At First Conference
New York, May 9.�"U. S. S. A.
must cooperate with those local
groups taking action towards a
just and durable peace in a demo-
cratic world," said Tom Matters,
outgoing president of U. S. S. A.,
in his opening speech Friday night.
The meeting was the first session
of the three-day conference called
to draw up a constitution and out-
line plans of action for the coming
year. One hundred and eight dele-
gates representing fifty-six col-
leges attended the sessions, con-
sisting of round-table discussions,
plenary sessions for the actual or-
ganization of the U. S. S. A., and
speeches by outstanding public fig-
ures. Mrs. Roosevelt, James Carey
of the CIO, Representative Mc-
Murray of Wisconsin and Roger
Baldwin of the Civil Liberties
Union  were among the speakers.
The general secretary, Irene
Murray, explained the purposes
and aims of U. S. S. A., which are
to "promote international under-
standing and help American youth
to find its place in the war effort
Continued on Page Five
Franny Matthai Defeats Isabelle Grant
To Win Intercollegiate Tennis Tournament
Bryn Mawr, May 2.�Franny
MatthaiT the new Middle-Atlantic
States Women's � Intercollegiate
Tennis Champion, won her title
a"fter defeating Isabelle Grant, of
Swarthmore, 4-6, 6-3, 6-3.
The match began carefully and
slowly, both players keeping back
from the net. Franny took the
first two games without losing a
point to her opponent and it looked
as though she would win very
easily. But in the third game, Isa-
belle Grant came back showing the
speed that up to this time she had
lacked. Taking that game and the
next two, she went on to win the
first set.
She continued to give stiff com-
petition in the second set, but was
always on the defensive and never
again got control of the match.
Franny lost only three games in
the final set, taking the last four
in succession. Up to the last point
she was still placing the ball just
where she wanted it, dropping
short shots over the net or smash-
ing them into the corners. She
was accurate throughout the match
and showed good form as well as
winning performance.
Other colleges competing ii� the
tournament,   besides   Bryn   Mawr
British Minister
Looks to Future
In Diseussing War
International Cooperation,
Post-War  Planning
Vital Now
and Swarthmore, were tH
sity of  Pennsylvania ar d  Drexel.
Hamilton to Discuss
Perils of Industrial
Diseases in Wartime
Littlefield to Direct
Junior Ballet Dances
On Saturday, May 15, the Little-
field Junior Ballet will present a
benefit performance in Goodhart
Hall at 8:30. The profits are to go
to the Red Cross Juniors for their
work with the Valley Forge Hos-
pital for service men.
All the dances are of Miss Doro-
thie Littlefield's creation, and she
will direct the performance. The
members of this junior ballet are
under nineteen years of age, and
have been trained since they were
very young. They dance the clas-
sic ballet as well as the modern.
Miss Littlefield trains the school in
Philadelphia, and her famous pro-
fessional ballet has danced here
and.abroad.
The program is composed of
three parts. The first is a classical
number and is followed by a Rus-
sian one. The finale is titled "A
Tribute to our Allies."
The Lower Merion High School
concert orchestra, directed by
Bruce C. Beach, will participate in
the benefit. It will play the Piper
of Hamlin by Johnson, selections
from H. M. S. Pinafore by Gilbert
and Sullivan, and the Procession
of the Sardor from the Caucasian
Sketches by Ippolitow.
Dr. Alice Hamilton, well-known
authority on "industrial poisons,"
will speak on "The Hazards of
Occupational Diseases in Wartime"
on Thursday, May 13, in the Art
Lecture room at 7:30 P. M.
Dr. Hamilton was for years the
Associate Professor of Industrial
Medicine at Harvard University
School of Public Health. Later she
worked as a consultant w^th the
Division of Labor Standards,
United States Department of La-
bor, and the United States Health
Service.
Dr. Hamilton's autobiography,
"Exploring the Dangerous Trades,"
recently appeared in the Atlantic
Monthly (December, 1942, to
March, 1943). In the introduction
she writes, "I saw Europe at war,
I saw the result of the starvation
blockade of Germany and Austria,
and the Quaker work of relief; I
joined the League of Nations Com-
mittee to fight disease; went to
visit Russia under Lenin; took part
in the Sacco-Vanzetti case; saw
Germany under the early months
of Hitler's rule, Germany and
France during the 'Munich Be-
trayal'."
Her first important assignment
came when Governor Deneen in
1910 appointed her to a commis-
sion to investigate wheat lead poi-
soning in Illinois. Later she was
sent to Europe to attend the In-
ternational Congress of Occupa-
tional Accidents and Disease. One
of two Americans at this Brussels
congress, she investigated what
other countries were doing about
Continued on Page Four      ____
e Univer-
Kraus, Frawley Tell
Foreign Relief Aims
Deanery, May 4.�"Young
Americans will need more than
youth and vigour to be of use in
the post-war world," emphasized
Miss Kraus in the discussion on
Post-War Reconstntction and Re-
lief conducted by Mrs. Grant, Miss
Kraus and Miss Marguerite Fraw-
ley of the American Friends'
Service Committee. Warning that
there is no glamour in relief work,
Miss Kraus presented as a tre-
mendous challenge the tasK await-
ing those who want to help in post-
war reconstruction.
As an introduction to the discus-
sion Mrs. Grant said that the relief
work will fall into three parts. A
relatively brief period of First Aid
Emergency work will be followed
by a Rehabilitation and finally by
a Reconstruction period.
Miss Kraus stressed that except
in the early period there will be no
place for people who are not
trained in specific skills. The
function of each worker will have
to be defined. Some will be needed
as directors, some as specialists,
others to help the directors as
heads of smaller units, and still
others to assist in all three groups.
Not  only  are  skills  important,
but also the ability to  use them.
To be of real use to the country in
which  we  are working,  we  must'
not want to superimpose anything i
on its inhabitants, but rather we '
must collaborate with them.     To
be  avoided  is duplication  in  any
work by the international importa-,
flon of skill.     For unskilled work
fc is important to realize that the
Continued on Page Six_______
Goodhart,   May   10.� Although
the war is by no means over, said
Sir Gerald Campbell, we are now
definitely on the offensive, and the
task of creating and effecting the
| future world is now in our hands.
j Sir  Gerald,  British   Minister  and
! Special   Assistant   to   the   British
| Ambassador to the United States,
! gave  the   Marion   Edwards   Park
[lecture, A Briton Ijooks Foruard,
I Monday night.     Germany will be
kept on the defensive, he said, dis-
� tracted by worries and conjectures
i as to our next move, and they can
no longer have the upper hand over
'us.
Their   propaganda   organization
, is the one real machine left in ac-
i tion,  Sir Gerald  pointed  out, but
I it   is  an  extremely  effective  one.
' The   German    short   wave    radio
reaches    many    Bundists   in   this
country,     rumor-spreaders,     who
start tall tales of our losses and
lour corruption.
Renrnd rg his audience that Hit-
ler always moves in the Spring, Sir
| Gerald pointed out that it will be
impossible  for  Hitler  to   advance
Continued on Page Five
Group Urges Action
On Hatch Resolution
Faculty Maypole Dancers, Mother Goose,
Sailors, Contribute Gaiety to Junior Prom
By Virginia Belle Reed, '44
The Junior Prom�delightful
dance!�took place amidst decid-
edly appropriate weather last
weekend. In spite of vague fears
that people might be so busy with
papers and with tracking down
males to bring to the dance that
they would never get there, it was
very well attended. The dancers
seemed to enjoy themselves thor-
oughly, as did the enthusiastic
gallery on the balcony. There were
also spectators on the roof, we are
told, for an occasional gleeful
squeal and a "get a load of this"
announced them.
At the outset there was furor-
no chairs for the faculty. This
was quickly remedied by a large
force of gentlemen who vandalized
Merion showcase of its chairs and
triumphantly bore them off to the
gym. With their loot they set up
a small imitation of the real thing
in a corner of the Mother Goose
\
motif and the blackbirds on the
wing. The chairs, however, had
no sooner arrived than the French
sailors spotted them and laid seige.
When*' the faculty finally arrived,
there was the French navy com-
fortably ensconced, while the fac-
ulty could choose between stand-
ing and the hard-back chairs
against the wall,
'in the course of the evening Mr.
Nahm and Mr. Berry caught sight
of their maypole�of Faculty Show
Fame�in one corner and, drag-
ging Mr. Miller and Mr. Gates be-
hind them, they set in to maypole
to the boogie-woogie music which
prevailed at the moment. Said Mr.
Nahm, panting and hopelessly en-
tangled in streamers, "It's rather
difficult at this tempo."
The Junior Prom, we feel, should
go down in the annals of history
as one college dance that actually
had all the dances promised on the
program.    And one extra.
\
Common Room, May i.�The
contents and background of the
Ball, Burton, Hatch, Hill Resolu-
tion were explained by Mrs. Cam-
eron and Mrs. Allen, in a meeting
to urge action on the resolution for
collaboration among the United
Nations for post-war reconstruc-
tion. Mr. Mackinnon discussed
the public sentiment backing the
resolution, and Rosalind Wright
urged students to express their
support. The meeting was spon-
sored by the Faculty Defense
Group, the Graduate Club, and the
War Alliance.
Collaboration Now
The essential thing in planning
post-war cooperation, said Hrav
Cameron, is the establishment of
moderate collaboration among the
United Nations during the war
rather than a theoretically perfect
federation established later. The
first bill to attempt to commit the
Senate on the question of an inter-
national police force, tRe Burton-
Hatch resolution advises that the
United States and the other United
Nations meet to decide on and
work out the necessary measures
for organization of the United Na-
tions as a unit. Emphasis is laid
on coordination of resources, estab-
lishment of administration in Axis
countries after the war, relief and
assistance to such countries, estab-
Contlnued on Page Four
Engagements
Mary Small Kurtz, '44, to
John Talcott Hough.
Marriages
Nona Piwosky, '45, to En"
sign Harvey Levin, Lt. (J.
G.), U. S. N. R.
Patricia    Castles,    '46,   to '
Ensign David C. Acheson,
U. S. N. R.
Marian Logan, '44, to John
Potts Wendall, Lt. (J. G.),
U. S. N. R.
Anne Aymer, '45, to John
Bullard, Lt., U. S. A. '        T^
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