College News, 1942-11-11, Vol. 29, No. 07

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VOL. XXIX, No. 7
BRYN MAWR and WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1942
Copyright,   Trustees  of
Bryn   Mnwr   College,   1942
PRICE 10 CENTS
Poll Shows Work
Done in Summer
By B.M. Students
Secretarial,    Clerical   Jobs
Claim More Workers
Than   Rest
A poll taken this week by the
Bureau of Recommendations re-
vealed that secretarial or clerical
work claimed the majority of stu-
dents among the 288 undergradu-
ates holding jobs this summer. In
paid jobs, camp counselling and
selling came next, while 44 under-
graduates were at summer schools.
Fifteen graduate students work-
ed at jobs ranging from clerical
work in an arms factory to actual
war work. Edith Emerson was in
a test department for precision in-
struments, and Jean Clawson was
a summer worker in a flag manu-
facturing' factory.
Most )of the eight undergradu-
ate factory workers were in war
plants. Even the company which
packed Elizabeth Arden cosmetics,
where Jackie Osborne was employ-
ed, was partially converted to man-
ufacture war materials.
Adelaide Burnett drove a truck
for a war factory in Louisville.
Not satisfied with that physical
exertion, she consented to work on
the night shift.
Taking advantage of a new de-
velopment in insurance. Louise
Horwood and Ellen Ustick sold war
damage  policies.
Fifteen girls took care of chil-
dren, but the girls weren't all cus-
tomary nursemaids. Lois Mac-
Murray's charges were delinquent
children.
Farming and U. S. 0. work were
popular summer occupations. The
more unusual jobs included Alice
Hedge's air raid spotting, Barbara
Herman's factory inspecting, and
Ruth Alice Davis' guard duty at
LaGuardia Field.
Marion Thdmas was "back-to-
college consultant" at a department
.-tore, Montgomery Fair, in Mont-
gomery, Alabama.
Sally Dodge sports an Army
Navy E, the result of her summer
work at the Berg Boat Co., Inc., in
Wilmington, Delaware.
J. Watson Reasserts
Need for Farm Help
In Talk to Students
Common Room, Novqmbw 5.�
Mr. James Watson, county agent
of the Agricultural Department of
the U. S. Employment Service, re-
asserted need for farm help in his
talk to Bryn Mawr students inter-
ested in farming. Mr. Watson ex-
plained his work as director of
farming in Pennsylvania. His
main duties at the present time are
concerned with collecting and plac-
ing workers on farms suffering
from labor shortage.
Mr. Watson has organized large
groups of students from Swarth-
more College, Temple University,
and the University of Pennsyl-
vania for farm labor. The work
is harvesting and the picking and
de-hydrating of seasonal vege-
tables for shipment abroad in con-
densed form. The whole project is
executed on a large scale and auth-
orized by the Government. The
pay is a minimum of 150 cents an
hour and covers the time of trans-
portation as well as the actual
work.
Mr. Watson's suggestion of a
tractor school at Bryn Mawr was
enthusiastically received. The
Continued or  Pace Three
Calendar
Thursday,  November   12
Spanish Club Tea, Speak-
er, Pedro Salinas, Common
Room, 4.00.
Monday, November 16
Air  Raid   Wardens'   Meet-
ing, Music Room, 8.00.
Tuesday,  November 17
College Assembly, Interna-
tional  Student Day, Good-
hart, 10.00.
Current    Events,   Common
Room, 7.30.
Wednesday, November 18
Non-Resident    Tea,    Com-
mon Room, 4..SO.
German Club Tea, German
House, 4.00.
Bond  Drive Gets
Pledges in Each Hall
Drive May Reach a Thousand
Dollars in First Month's
Collection
Salinas W ill Lecture
At Spanish Club Tea
Dr. Pedro Salinas will be the
guest speaker at the Spanish Club
tea in the Common Room, Novem-
ber twelfth. Dr. Salinas is profes-
sor of Spanish at Johns Hopkins
University. He has been in this
country for five years, and is an
author, poet, and lecturer of great
European repute.
Before coming to the United
States, Dr. Salinas was a professor
at the University of Madrid, and
a director of the well-known Cen-
tro di Estudios Historicos, and of
the Santander International Sum-
mer University. The list of Euro
P an universities at which he has
lectured include the Sorbonne,
Cambridge, and Oxford. On this
continent he has been in Mexico
and the University of Southern
California. From 1936 to 1939 Dr.
Salinas lectured at Wellesley Col-
C'ontinued  on   Page  Four
Local Rationing Board Found Busy Center
Of Distribution of Scarce War Materials
By Barbara Hull, '44
The local rationing board is a
busy place. It rations sugar, auto-
mobiles, typewriters, bicycles, gas-
oline, tires, heating fuel, and rub-
ber boots to the 32,000 people liv-
ing in this district.
Quotas for these goods, with the
exception of sugar, gasoline^ and
heating fuel, are allotted monthly
to each district. Distributing cer-
tain amounts to each county, the
state receives its quotas from the
OPA. The county, in turn, re-al-
locates according to districts. Cer-
tificates are issued by the local dis-
trict for the purchase of rationed
articles. In order to qualify for
a certificate, applicants must con-
form to a strict eligibility code.
At the end of every month, each
local board reports its quota bal-
ance to the county board, and in
this way, articles can be efficiently
re-estimated monthly.
Unprecedented, fuel oil ration-
ing has presented a difficult prob-
lem, but has been worked out fairly
by oil dealers and heating engi-
neers. Correlations between the
number of people in a household,
the square feet of floor space, and
last year's oil consumption have
been compiled in the Local Board
Fuel Oil Calculation Tables issued
by the OPA. A different table has
been made for each set of counties
having similar climatic conditions.
Households in this region are cut
to from 15 to 55 per cent of last
year's amount.
Appointed by the State Director
on the recommendation of the
county director, the local board is
composed largely of volunteers. In
this area, there are four members
of the local board and two paid
Civil Service employees. Depend-
ing on the need, the staff of volun-
teers varies from five to ten mem-
bers each day. Almost all workers
are members of the Civilian De-
fense Corps. After 50 hours of
work, a volunteer is entitled to
wear a uniform, pledging a mini-
mum of six hours per week for the
duration.
Local control of ration boards is
the keynote of the OPA rationing
programs. Neighborhood control
provides for fairer, more efficient
allocations to individuals, and lo-
cal ration problems are more ef-
fectively solved.   _
The campus Bond Dmje has re-
ceived $81H.'.i5 from the sale of
War bonds and stamps to date.
Pern East leads with $173.05, and
Pem West is a close second with
$143.45. $128.20 was pledged by
the Non-Residents, and Rhoads
North contributed $122.50. Den-
bigh gave $88.75; Rhoads South
S58.00; Merion. S17.55; Rock,
S41.20; Wyndham, 810.25; Ger-
man House, $(i.oo. Radnor's
pledge cards are Sol yel complete,
and one of the Rock agents was in
the infirmary during the last col-
lection. The final sales for this
first month of the drive will, it is
hoped, reach SI,000. Merion
boasts the highest percentage of
pledges, just  under 90 per cent.
Collection day is the fifth of
every month. Since a number of
students indicated that in the fu-
ture they would buy their stamps
and bonds through this source,
more pledges are expected next
month.
Reports to date reveal the fol-
lowing sales: 4 12. ten cent stamps.
1055 twenty-five cent stamps. !>(!
fifty cent stamps, 11.1 one dollar
stamps, five five dollar stamps,
seven $25.00 bonds, one $1011 bond,
and one $50 bond.
Air Raid Instructions
The1*following instructions
for *Air Raid Wardens were
received by Mr. Broughton.
They have been issued by Mr.
H. D. Harral, Chief Air Raid
Warden for the Lower Mer-
ion District, and especially
concern college air raid
wardens whose duties take
them outside the campus.
The bulletin, dated November
6, 1942, states:
"All wardens will remain
on duty, including street pa-
trol, for at least 15 minutes
after the all clear has been
sounded.
"This will enable wardens
to pick up incidents that can-
not be staged within a 15-
minute drill; to direct emerg-
ency vehicles through the
post to incidents under way
elsewhere; to cover the peri-
od when pedestrians and au-
tomobiles are starting out, all
at once, after the interrup-
tion of the drill; to give in-
formation to civilians gener-
ally who may be confused by
the various signals.
"Wardens concerned in in-
cidents under way will re-
main on duty until the inci-
dent is finally^cleared of all
services."
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"Latch-Key Children
Pending Bill, Acted on
By Industrial Group
Common Room, November 4.�
Mrs. Lelage Hood of the United
Electrical Radip and Machine
Workers of America, C. I. O., open-
ed the year's first Industrial Group
meeting with an appeal for more
win-the-war activity and less inef-
fective discussion. Two concrete
proposals dealing with problems
affecting women in war Industry
were offered by Mrs. Hood, and
were later adopted.    -
After a brief survey of the his-
tory of American women in indus-
try, Mrs. Hood launched into prob-
lems facing women in industry
now. With an ever increasing
stream of women entering war
plants to release men for service
with the armed forces, people are
faced with several entirely new
problems and old difficulties are in-
tensified. Women war workers as
well as women in non-war indus-
tries still have to struggle for
"c(|ual pay for equal work." Un-
scrupulous employers are employ-
ing women where men are still
available in order to reduce their
wage costs. Mrs. Hood said that
because millions of women have
never been in industry before, the
unions are faced with a large edu-
cational and organisational job in
The line up was as follows:
BRYN   MAWR   VARSITY                 PENN
Continued on Page Three
Bryn Mawr Defeats
Penn's Hockey Squad
Tuesday, November �'�� � The
Hockey Team successfully beat
I'enn, winning by the score of 1-2.
Lydia   Gilford,   '46,   distinguished
herself with three ;j"als, Mary
Rambo, '43, scoring the fourth
point. The play was fast, steady
and forceful.
The Owl teamwork, more than
anything else, caused Penn's de-
feat. Defense hacked up forwards,
playing an offensive as well as de-
fensive game. The forward line
used this advantage well and, be-
cause of a dependable backfield,
was able to penetrate deep into
Penn territory early in the game.
The score at the end of the first
half was 3-1.
The second half saw I'enn tight-
ening up a bit and they began to
offer more competition to the Owls.
They were beginning to break
down Bryn Mawr's stone wall until
Mary Rambo, playing right inner,
pushed an angle shot past the
Penn goalie. The game was secure
for Bryn Mawr from then on.
Continues on Tige Four
Council Discusses
Question of Cuts
In Second Session
Faculty   Committee   Must
Make Final  Decision
On Monitors
In its meeting yesterday the
College Council discussed, among
other problems, the advisability of
revising the monitoring system;
the Bureau of Recommendations
and the Farm Unit. The Student
Curriculum Committee has consid-
ered the question of cuts, and
agrees that the present system is
Inefficient, expensive and inaccur-
ate. It recommends as a possible
solution that attendance be un-
checked in all but first year courses.
The Council considered two aspects
of the problem: whether the cut
system should be abolished or
merely revised, No decision can be
reached until the Curriculum Com-
mittee has reported to the Faculty
Curriculum Committee.
C't'iitinucd   on   I'age   Two
Philosophy Club Has
Discussion Following
Paper Explaining Evil
The Philosophy Club held its first
meeting of" the year on Wednesday,
November 4. in the Non-Resident
Cluli Room in Goodhart. A paper
entitled -The Problem of Evil,"
written by Jean Potter, was read
and discussed. It represented an
attempt to justify the existence of
evil in a world with God as a Rood
creator.
The paper began with an analy-
ses and criticism of different meth-
ods employed to solve this problem.
The author chose the theory that
evil is essential for the existence of
good, (iood is a process and kind
of growth, and it is through oppo-
sition to evil that this growth is
achieved.
Moral evil may he divided into
two parts sensuality and selfish-
ness. The existence of certain vir-
tues depend on evil as a "medium
of resistance." Such virtues as
prudence and perseverance are the
result of opposition to sensuality.
The resistance to selfishness results
in tolerance and mercy.
An informal discussion followed
the reading of the paper. The
Philosophy Club will hold similar
meetings every two weeks. They
plan to have guest speakers as well
as the reading of other student pa-
pers.
Rock Provides Glamor and Pseudo-Stadium
While Non-Res Enjoys Chaotic Informality
By  Virginia  Belle Reed.  '44
Saturday night the millennium
arrived when two dances graced
the campus simultaneously. There
was a truly festive look about both
Rock and Goodhart, due, no doubt,
to the decorative effect of real hon-
est-to-God MEN. Rock's dancers
added tone to the occasion by for-
mal attire and their best brand of
glamor, while the Non-Res dance
was a chaos of people spilling out
of the Common Room into the rest
of Goodhart and thoroughly enjoy-
ing their informal selves.
How the word got around is a
mystery, but a largish contingent
of Penn and Haverford Sophisti-
cates arrived on the Paoli Local
and provided men stags, (a phe-
nomena previously encountered
only at Junior Prom).    The Hav-
erford Freshmen proved decorative
but stolid bystanders, but the up-
perclassmen circulated energeti-
cally. One unlikely looking chap
carefully took down the names and
addresses of all his partners.
The Rock dance glided along
against the background of a sta-
dium, with the additional note of a
dummy football player strung up
in the pseudo atmosphere. The
dummy bore an unfortunate resem-
blance to a corpse and as such
caused shudders among arriving
gentility.                                 if�
An interesting scoreboard an-
nounced that matters stood Rqak-
ettes 0, Visitors 0, at the beginning
of the evening, but caused one to
wonder what the score was later
on. Anything to keep the under-
graduates gay!