College News, 1944-11-01, Vol. 31, No. 06

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The college News
VOL. XLI, NO. 6
ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY,  NOVEMBER 1, 1944
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Bryn Mawr Coll�ne. 1944
Burns Discusses
Post-War Problem
In Social Security
Must Assure Basic Income,
Freedom and Economic
Advantages
Goodhart, October 30. In the
third of the Anna Howard Shaw
lecture series on Social Security
in an Expanding Economy, Mrs.
Eveline Burns dwelt on the prob-
lem of an acceptable plan for
post-war social security and the
possibilities of carrying it into
effect.
Mrs. Burns described the func-
tions of social security. First, it
must assure a basic income. Sec-
ondly, important social values
should be preserved by insuring
freedom to individuals in the way
in which they spend incomes as
well as by insuring growth of in-
dividual initiative. Lastly, social
security should achieve as many
incidental economic advantages
as possible.
The social economist must face
the problem of determining the
level of security and provisions
under which security should be
available. The question of deter-
mining how the costs should be
spread between individuals in a
community and the determination
of the spread of costs over time
are the problems of finance which
must be dealt with. Selection of
appropriate administration agen-
cies to fulfill a social security pro-
gram is also necessary, said Mrs.
Burns.
There is a choice of conditions
under which social security bene-
fits should be available. There
may be statutory conditions
which establish fixed rates and
bases for aid, or there may be a
discretionary system whereby the
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Granger Will Speak
On Racial Problems
In Alliance Assembly
Lester B. Granger, executive
secretary of, the National Urban
League, will be the speaker at
the fourth Alliance assembly on
Thursday, November 2 at 12:30
in Goodhart. His subject is to
be Racial Dangers to Domestic
Peace.
In addition to his post in na-
tional and local Urban League
service, Mr. Granger has been a
member of the staff of New York
City's Welfare Council, and has
also directed legislative investiga-
tions for. the states of New York
and New Jersey.           ,
Mr. Granger, a negro, is a na-
tive of Virginia and was educat-
ed in the public schools of New-
ark, New Jersey, and Dartmouth
College, doing graduate work at
the New York University and
the New York School of Social
Work.
The author of several pamph-
lets on economy and social as-
pects of race relations, Mr.
Granger will deal with the study
of such problems in his discussion
on Thursday.
B.M. League Reports ^
$4037.50 Contributed
For Activities Drive
Committee Schedules
Concerts of Records
" On Wednesday Nights
The Chairman of the Record
Library Committee, Newart Sham-
lian '45, has announced that the
classical music concerts are to
continue this year. Each week, a
program of classical music, based
on the requests of students, will
be presented.
With the addition of new Fresh-
men members, the committee has
arranged a new plan for the con-
certs, having each of the commit-
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Shibe Park Shenanigans Fail to Warm Toes
Of B. M.'s Politicos Peering at the President
by Susan Oulahan '46
Chilblains and cheering mingled
with the general confusion at
Shibe Park on Friday night as ap-
proximately 40,000 fresh air
� fiends froze their toes in a three-
hour wait for President Roose-
velt's speech. A Bryn Mawr con-
tingent in bear-like raiment bun-
dled itself out to the stadium and
heckled and cheered among the
peanut shells and coke bottles in
the bleachers.
Less imaginative Bryn Mawr-
tyrs contented themselves with the
drafty seats in the stratosphere
of the grand-stands, but one con-
fident wench tried to convince re-
porters that her being on the staff
of the College News entitled her
to a seat in the White House
Press box right under the plat-
form. The roar of button sellers
and donation solicitors made the
stadium a madhouse, but the per-
iodic gettings - up and gettings -
down of the crowd every time
anyone cheered, provided a wel-
1 come diversion and exercise for
frozen feet.
The field was a confused mass
of humanity seething over the
folding chairs but kept in some
semblance of order by the mount-
ed police. Six or eight octogenar-
ians doing a square dance, how-
ever,  were absolutely    uncontrol-
.
lable. Entertainment of a differ-
ent sort was provided by the
Amalgamated Chorus, which tried
to sing the Ballad for Americans
above the din of the Italo-Ameri-
can fife and drum corps that was
always about to make an en-
trance but never quite got beyond
the gates.
Those of us who had acute
frostbite by this time, began to
think longingly back on the days
of fire-side chats that were liter-
ally fire-side. But we stuck to the
end and the spectacle of the tre-
mendous ovation given the Presi-
dent was well worth the wait.
Aside from the fact that the heck-
lers were so well organized that
we couldn't hear and the platform
was so far away that it was im-
possible to tell which of the ten
'million people clustered around
the microphone was the President,
it was a very fine speech.
Organizing our collective ice-
bergs for the homeward trek was
quite difficult and we longed for
the 90 degree heat of the Paoli
Local. Two autograph-seekers,
however, prolonged their agony
for another half hour and tracked
the President down to the sanctity
of his pullman car, only to be in-
formed in no uncertain terms
that he was already "tucked in
bed."
The Activities Drive of the
Bryn Mawr League has so far
collected a total of $4037.50. This
amount will not nearly meet the
quota, but there are many pledges
which have not yet come in.
Rockefeller Hall has given the
highest sum, although only 79
out of the 89 undergraduates
contributed. Pembroke West runs
a close second, with a 100% rec-
ord, and a total of $586.00.
Rhoads North and South have
also given 100'^, with totals of
$507.00 and $507.50 respectively.
Wyndham is the only other hall
from which all the students have
contributed, and the pledge is for
$148.75.
58 out of 64 have donated to the
drive from Merion Hall, and their
total is $470.25. 79'/e of Den-
bigh have participated, with a
net result of $411.50. Radnor
and the Spanish House together
include 15 out of 16 undergradu-
ates, and have given $107.75,
which is 76V< of their quota. The
German House includes 2 gradu-
ate students, and has a total of
$87.75 in  pledges.
The Non-Residents are the fur-
est from, the 100% League goal,
but the figures have not yet been
completed. As it stands now, 32%
of the Non-Reses have contributed
$122.50 and 93% of Pembroke East
have given a total of $545.
Latin Play Features Liberal Slang,
Confusion, and Minimum of Attire
Dean Taylor Treats
Intolerance Problems
Miss Lily Ross Taylor, Dean
of the Graduate School, spoke on
Racial Intolerance at a conference
of collegiate women, organized
under the auspices of Cleveland
College to discuss Dangerous In-
tolerance  Among  Us.
The conference consisted of
delegates from eight eastern wo-
men's colleges�Bryn Mawr, Vas-
sar, Mt. Holyoke, Smith, Welles-
ley, Radcliffe, Barnard, and Con-
necticut College for Women. The
lecturers represented six of these
colleges, and discussed various
types of intolerance, such as re-
ligious and political, intolerant at-
titudes developing between man-
agement and labor, and between
intellectuals  and   non-intellectuals.
Miss Taylor discussed primar-
ily the Negro problem. She drew
some of her material from a re-
cent publication, An American
Dilemma, by Gunnar Myrdal,
which she considers to be one of
the best of recent books on the
subject. The problem was of spe-
cial interest in Cleveland, Miss
Taylor felt, since 2/3 of this city's
population consists of small min-
orities.
The conference was prompted,
Miss Taylor was told by one of
the administration members of
Cleveland College, by Miss Mc-
Bride in her visit to Cleveland
last year, although Miss McBride
disclaims having intended this
result.
Calendar
Tuesday,  Nov. 2                      �
War Alliance Assembly-Lester
Granger. Goodhart, 12W0.
Main Line Forum: The Rev.
Robert I. Gannon and Rufus
Jones. Our Christian Heri-
tage, Roberts Hall, Haverford,
8:15.
Rehearsals for Freshmen plays.
Friday, Nov. 3
Freshmen   Plays:   Pern   West,
Rhoads, Denbigh, and Merion,
Goodhart, 8:00.
Saturday, Nov. 4
Freshmen   Plays:    Pern   East,
Rock, Radnor, Goodhart, 8:00.
Rock Dance, 10:00-1:00.
Sunday, Nov. 5
Hockey finals, Rhoads vs. Mer-
ion, Hockey Field, 2:30.
Chapel:  Dr.  Frederick  Griffin,
Music Room, 7:30.
Monday, Nov. 6
Current Events, Common Room
7:30.
Shaw Lecture: Dr. Eveline M.
Burns, Goodhart, 8:30.
Wednesday, Nov. 8
Catholic Club Discussion.    Dr.
Flynn,   of   Rosemont   College.
Common Room, 8:00.
College Council, Miss McBride's
House, 6:30.
Rake Leaves
The Herbens would like some
students to rake haves at their
house this week-end. The pre-
vailing rate will be paid.
Committee Will Study
�Curriculum Problems
JlWith Help of Faculty
Commencing work early in the
year, the student Curriculum
Committee has announced the
topics which it has under discus-
sion at present. They include
consideration of required sub-
jects as a whole and the final ex-
amination system for  Seniore.
Under the chairmanship of B.
A. Mercer '45, the student com-
mittee, comprised of a represen-
tative from each of the depart-
ments, meets together bi-month-
ly. The discussion is based not
on particular courses, but on the
principles behind the general
curriculum. For better worka-
bility, a central committee meets
each week and is made up of B.
A. Mercer, Ruth Leyendecker '46,
assistant .chairman, Jean Potter
'45, in charge of required subjects,
Barbara Maynard '45, in charge
of English Composition discus-
sion, and Margaret Hilgartner '46,
in charge of rescheduling prob-
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Mrs. Michels Gives Players
Sympathetic and Able
Direction
Specially contributed  by
Marian   Thomas, '45
Goodhart, October 28. As the
Prologue said in the Latin play,
Double Trouble, it was "the story
of two men with the same han-
dles." Evidently, the plan was
not only to bring Latin to the
modern playgoer's level but also
to lower it to the point which
might make one jump up and
down and wipe one's feet on the
ancients' culture. And quoting
from Menaechmus II, "we smile
when we say this".
Twins
It was a revelation to see Men-
aechmus I (Mary Lou Miles '45)
and Menaechmus II (Alison Mer-
rill '45) in action. Attired in
sandals laced with indelible lip-
stick, togas based with red bloom-
ers, and a money pouch which
dangled in the manner of a spor-
ran (as Emily Kimbrough and
Cornelia Otis Skinner so aptly
described), the twins had a pot
and  kettle resemblance.
Alison Merrill gave a most
spontaneous performance as Men-
aechmus II. Her amusing take-
off of the air-plane with its wing
half-off made the play go ''faster
and faster." Mary Lou Miles
(Menaechmus I) scorned "Is you
is or Is you Aint" for the "an-
tique, cultured" "Mairzy Doats",
aged and tempered by a Latin
rendition. She was hampered by
the lack of punch lines', but drew
forth numerous guffaws in her
scene with the negligee.
With copious use of modern
slang, expressions, Kitty Rand
'45 gave a Bugs Bunny portrayal
as Peniculus (the Brush). Saun-
tering on the stage with carrots
in hand, Kitty munched smack-
ingly. Continually looking for a
table piled with "stuff so high
you have to stand upon your chair
to see over it," the brush profes-
sionally aroused the wife of Men-
aechmus I (played by Mary Vir-
ginia More '45) to wails and in-
criminations. Mary Virginia
roamed the stage while suffering
the agonies of the deserted home-
maker and capably aroused_ the
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Doorbell Ringing Reaches Vocational Level
As Students Take Up Torch for O'Rourke
Hallowe'en may have found a
few of the more daring undergrad-
uates ringing doorbells, but to a
number of politically-minded stud-
ents doorbell-ringing is no one-
night prank�it has become a voca-
tion. In the interests of Lieut,
(j-g-) Vernon O'Rourke, running
for Congress from the seventh dis-
trict, they are ringing doorbell
after doorbell and pounding innum-
erable pavements in Haverford and
Radnor townships.
Young, and if his campaign pic-
tures speak truly, handsome, Mr.
O'Rourke was formerly a professor
of political science at Swarthmore
College and is at present "at sea."
Against him stands Republican
James Wolfendon, and against
Wolfendon, as the well-informed
campaigners explain to those who
answer the doorbells, stands a 16-
year   record   in   Congress   during
which he did not put up one bill,
and indeed established the all-time
record for absenteeism. As com-
pared to Ham Fish's record of 12
times of wrong-voting, Wolfendon
has been wrong 18 times, voting
against the Soldier Vote Bill, Lend-
Lease, and all regular Army and
Navy appropriations.
Spreading this gospel in the
neighboring vicinity, the cam-
paigners have been met wth such
questions as, "Are you doing this
because he looks like Robert Tay-
lor?" This, and even bitter refer-
ence to the "glamor boy" do not
deter the group, however. Daily, in
morning and afternoon shifts, they
approach housewives, asking them
if they have registered, telling
them how to split a ticket. Often,
their talking seems to make little
impression, as when one woman
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