College News, 1944-11-15, Vol. 31, No. 08

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The college News
VOL. XLI, NO. 8
ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15,1944
Copyright, Trutteai of
Bryn Miwf College, 1944
PRICE 10 CENTS
Burns Discusses
Health Situation
In United States
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Primary Problem isfLack
Of Care and Supplies,
Says Burns
Goodhart, November 13. In the
fifth of the Anna Howard Shaw
series on Social Security in an Ex-
panding Economy, Dr. Eveline M.
Burns continued her lecture of last
week on Planning for Health Serv-
ices. She explained why health
conditions in the United States are
unsatisfactory even though this
country has the highest standard
in the world.
Stating that the primary prob-
lem is the inability of income re-
ceivers to purchase medical sup-
plies and care, Mrs. Burns elabor-
ated on ways of counteracting this
situation. The method that doctors
now use of charging patients ac-
cording to their ability to pay is
unsatisfactory because of the re-
luctance of the public to accept
charity.
Private Insurance
The development of voluntary
private insurance has made great
strides in solving the problem. The
semi-profit making device of pri-
vate insurance companies usually
covers group insurance, offering
protection to certain groups
against specified risks.
In the non-profit private insur-
ance group, the Blue Cross Hospi-
ConUumtd on Page  i
Undergrad Assembly
To Honor Resistance
Of Foreign Students
To observe International Stud-
ents' Day, November 17, the Un-
dergraduate Association will pre-
sent Miss Christina Swiniarska,
who will speak on Polish Students
During Wartime, and Miss Yelana
Albana, Yugoslav student.
A native Pole, Miss Swiniarski
was graduated from Barnard Col-
lege in 1941. At present, she
works for the Polish Information
Service Center and attends Colum-
bia Graduate School. Miss Albana
is at present attending  Barnard.
The assembly will commemorate
the 1939 Prague massacre of
Czechoslovak students and teach-
ers by the Nazi Gestapo. All the
free countries of the world partic-
ipate in the observance of this day.
Events following the German
occupation foretold the fate of
Czech educational institutions.
Censorship destroyed freedom of
speech, press, radio, wireless, the-
atre and cinema; schools were
strictly controlled; on intellectual
intercourse with the outside world
was permitted.
Czech universities, visible sym-
bols of the nation's cultural sov-
ereignty, were  the  first  real  vie-
Players Club Offers
'Ladies in Retirement'
As Winter Production
tims of German brutality. On -Catharine� Southerhmd
November 16 and 17, 156 students
were massacred in their beds and
1,200 were taken under conditions
of unbelievable hardship to con-
centration camps, where they were
unmercifully  tortured.
Educational institutions in other
parts  of the   nation  received   the
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Campus Cooperates
In War Chest Drive
Weekly Invasions of Sightseeing Veterans
Stir Anthropological Interest in Students
By Patricia Platt '45
Bryn Mawr may not have joined
the ranks of the Seven Wonders of
the World, tt>ut it has become the
object of weekly sight-seeing
tours. For the last three Wednes-
days we have been honored by the
visit of groups of about forty
overseas veterans, many of them
pilots, from a rest camp at Atlan-
tic City. Aiming at Valley Forge,
they drop in on us, seeing a little
more each week, and gradually
raising the campus to its toes.
The first invasion was a bit of
a shock to students of anthropol-
ogy, lounging with a between-hour
cigarette upon the steps of Taylor.
They had just been puzzling about
what became of Neanderthal man
when a more modern version drove
him from Europe. Suddenly, as if
in answer to a prayer, the first
wave of veterans came strolling
through Pem arch, and the anthro-
pologists, not daring to believe
their eyes, fled back' to intellectual
safety. There was no cause for
alarm, however, for the veterans
only went as far as Senior Row,
about-faced, and meandered back
to the elongated buses in which
they came.
A week later, while the anthro-
pologists were again wracking
their brains, this time about what
had become of Cro-magnon man,
they had yet another shock. By
then Bryn Mawr was prepared,
and while not armed with velvet
carpet, could at least supply two
guides who showed the soldiers
around campus, and even took
them into some of the halls.
The glad word began to get
around,  and  by    the   third   visit
about-ten eager guides from Pem-
broke assembled and took over.
There ensued a search for some-
thing to drink that led the group
into the Library, Goodhart, and
Rhoads, but unearthed only water.
It seems that the travel-weary
veterans wanted to find the bar.
They were initiated into the mys-
teries of the Rhoads water-cooler,
but left as thirsty as ever. Back
in Rem, the guides, taking failure
to heart, opened the hall bookshop,
and produced what every ' ship-
wrecked mariner hankers for�
dry crackers. The only expedient
left was to dash to the Pem water
cooler, which has subsequently
suffered a drought.
To the eyes of some soldiers,
tier-deep in service ribbons, Bryn
Mawr is a little anachronistic. One
took a look around and wanted to
know whether ours was a physical
education college. Another asked
what kind of a business college
this was, while a third, after tak-
ing in the sights, announced the
decision that he would like to be a
professor here. Just returned from
Roumania, one veteran commented
that our attire was strikingly sim-
ilar to that he had just left be-
hind.
In the future Bryn Mawr plans
to extend further hospitality to its
weekly invaders. So far the vet-
erans have failed to locate the bar
or entice students into crap or
poker games, but they have smok-
ed and shouted in the library, and
added vastly to the scenery. A
plan is afoot to entertain them
with tea (something liquid like
coke) in different halls every week.
On Friday and Saturday nights,
December 2 and 3, The Varsity
Players Club and The Haverford
Cap and Bells will present Ladies
in Retirement by Edward Percy
and Reginald Denham. The play
is being directed by Mrs. Wein-
b'erg who majored in dramatics
at Carnegie Tech, and has been
very active in the � Footlights
Club and The Plays and Players
Club of Philadelphia.                    y
The play, recently so popular
on Broadway, is the story of three
old sisters, oni of whom does
away with her benefactress. It is
well suited for Bryn Mawr be-
cause the characters arc sharply
defined, with a ratio of six women's
parts to one man. It is, however,
in the nature of an experiment,
as the characters are old people
in a mystery melodrama. The plot,
full of suspense, depends on the
psychological development of the
elder sister.
The sisters will be played by
Jessica Levy '48 as Ellen Creed,
Carol McGovern '48, as Louisa
Creed and Martha Gross '47 as
Emily Creed. Kate Rand '45 will
take the part of Leonora    Fiske;
'48, of
Lucy Gilham; John Stone of Al-
bert Feather, and Nanette Emery
'47 of Sister Theresa.
Trie United War Chest Drive
which include! contributions from
everyone connected with the col-
lege, is progressing fairly well.
The totals are not yet complete,
as the donations are still coming
into the office of the chairman of
the Drive. The Drive will close on
November 17.
$30.05 has been given thus far
by the Maids and Porters. Rock-
efeller was the first hall in which
the Maids and Porters registered
a lOO'/c contribution, with the
sum of $14.00. From the Main-
tenance Staff, 86v"<? of the pledges
hve been collected, totalling
$42.00.
83'A of the Deanery residents
have pledged and paid $54.00 to
the Drive. The graduate students,
with a percentage of 58, have
given $57.00. 51% of the faculty
have pledged $1001.00, of which
$753.00 has  been  paid.
From undergraduate students,
$4037.50 has been collected, a 94%
record. This makes a total, up to
date, of $5235.55. which will go to
the United War Chest.
Club Plans to Show
"Satiric French Film
Rene Clair, known to the Amer-
ican public as director of The
Ghost Goes West, produces the film
A Nous la Liberte, which the
French Club is presenting in the
Music Room, on Friday, Novem-
ber 17.
The picture is a satiric fable of
the liberties not permitted by the
modern world either to its failures
or to its successes. Two men
find out that money and consider-
Contlnued   on   pafe   S
Junior Class Nominates Candidates
For Secretary of Self-Government
Oulahan, Dame, Ward, Barton
Presented for Office
By Juniors
Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving Day fall on No-
vember 23 this year. All stud-
ents are expected to attend
classes, although they will not
have to register as in previous
years. Monitoring will proceed
as usual.
Classes at twelve o'clock will
be excused for an assembly ad-
dress by Vera Michaels Dean
of the Foreign Policy Associa-
tion on The Threshold of World
Order.
Thanksgiving dinner will be
served at 6:30.
Dr. Karo Will Deliver
Illustrated Lecture
With Crete as Topic
The Department of Archaeology
has invited Professor George Karo
to give an informal lecture on
Thursday evening, November 16,
in the Deanery. This talk, entitled
Crete and Mycenae, will begin at
.8:15 and will be illustrated by
lantern slides.
Mr- Karo is a very well known
rigure in international-archaeologi-
cal circles, particularly in Italy,
Greece, and Germany. He is a
brilliant linguist, and is complete-
ly at home writing or speaking
five different languages.
Famous as a cosmopolitan gen-
tleman and scholar, Mr. Karo has
published the best* of the great
works on Mycenae, including such
treatises in English* as An Attic
Cemetery: Excavation in the Kera-
meikos of Athens under Gustav
Oberlander and the Oberlander
Trust, and, in German, Fuehrer
durch Tiryns.
The Junior class offers the fol-
lowing candidates for the Office of
Secretary of the Self-Government
Association: Susan Oulahan, Diana
Dame, Jane Ward, and Mary Bar-
ton. The election comes at this
time due to the fact that the pres-
ent secretary is leaving college.
The duties of the Secretary are
to keep the minutes of the Assoc-
iation and of the Advisory Board,
to post the notices of the meetings,
and to attend to the correspond-
ence of the Association.
Susan Oulahan
Susan was the Sophomore rep-
resentative to the Self-Government
Association, and is now its first
Junior member. She is a member
of the Editorial Board of the News
and was assistant stage manager
of the Denbigh Freshman play her
Freshman year.
Diana  Dame
Diana is Junior hall representa-
tive for the Alliance, and is on the
Cut Committee. She has been an
engineer for the Radio Club since
the beginning of her Sophomore
year.
Jane Ward
Jane is Features Manager of the
Radio Club, and has been a re-
serve bookroom librarian for two
years. She was one of the stage
crew for her Freshman hall play,
and will be in the German Christ-
mas play this year.
Mary Barton
Mary has been a permission giv-
er since the middle of her Sopho-
more year. She is hall representa-
tive for Chapel Services. She was
on the hockey squad her Freshman
year, and belongs to the Science
Club.
Bacheller Surprises Campus With Steak
As Meat-Procuring Problem Gets Worse
To weary crammers for mid-
semesters and to those suffering
from the usual week-end martyr
complexes the appearance of steak
at last Sunday's dinner had all
the ear-marks of a mirage. To
Miss Bacheller, the College Die-
tician, the steak signified the re-
sult of long and hitherto fruitless
efforts.
Planning all year to shock the
student body out of their favorite
Calendar
Thursday, Nov. 16
Professor  George Karo. Crete
and   Mycenae,   Deanery,   8:15.
Friday, Nov. 17
International Students Assem-
bly, Goodhart, 12:00.
French Club Movie. A Nous
La Liberte, Music Room, 8:00.
Tri-County Concerts Associa-
tion. William Kincaid, Sam-
uel Lifschey, Edna Phillips.
Radnor High School,  8:30.
Saturday, Nov. 18
Intercollegiate    Hockey    Try-
outs.  Swarthmore, 9:00.
Monday, Nov. 20
Shaw Lecture. Dr. Eveline M.
Burns.    Planning  for  Human
Welfare:  The Broader  Issues.
Goodhart, 8130.
Tuesday, November 21
Sigma  Xi  meeting.    Deanery,
8:00.
Wednesday, Nov. 22
Record    Concert,    Common
Room, 7:30.
Philosophy  Club.    Mr.  Weiss.
Theology and Philosophy, Com-
mon Room, 8:30.
Bible  Discussion.    John Buch-
anan.    Goodhart, 8:00.
topic of attempting to define the
meat, Miss Bacheller weekly
phoned the five wholesale meat
dealers who provide the protein
requirement for 500 females but
only last week did they have a
sufficient amount of beef, and
even then, Miss Bacheller la-
ments, all the steaks were not
filets. Happily, the steak requir-
ed no points, being utility beef, a
fact which will relieve those who
prophecied hash for the next
three weeks.
To Miss Bacheller, with her 22
years of service as a dietician in
schools and colleges, the pros-
pects in the food line foT 1945 are
distinctly dubious. Last year was
the most difficult year from the
point of view of procuring food;
this fall was worse, and the win-
ter promises to top them all. with
the college allowed fewer points
than ever and the previous re-
serve depleted' As yet, even tur-
keys cannot be promised to make
a Thanksgiving of classes and
labs  more bearable.
The hungry undergraduate may
look forward to plenty of eggs, to
a preponderance of lamb patties,
veal and utility beef, and to a dis-
tinct lack of peaches, pears and
pineapples. Since the unbeliev-
able sum of 3200 points a week
are spent on butter, no points are
left for beef, in addition to the
fact that ration books turned in
by undergraduates are sadly lack-
ing in points.
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