College News, 1920-03-03, Vol. 06, No. 17

              The College News
Volume VI.   No. 17
BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3, 1920
Price 5 Cents
FORMER EDITOR OF NEW YORK
TRIBUNE HERE FRIDAY
Mr. MacAlarney to Talk on "Adven-
ture of Journalism," and its Use-
fulness for College Students
How to make writing commercially
useful will be explained by Mr. Robert
MacAlarney, former editor of the New
York Tribune and Associate Professor
of Journalism at Columbia University,
Friday evening in Taylor Hall. Mr. Mac-
Alarney's talk is entitled "The Adven-
ture of Journalism," and is under the
auspices of the College News. There
will be no charge for admission.
Mr. Roswell Dague, a farmer assist-
ant of Mr. MacAlarney's on the New
York Tribune, will accompany him to
Bryn Mawr. Mr. MacAlarney and Mr.
Dague will have dinner with the Newt
board in Pembroke before the lecture.
Want* College Students to Succeed
"Please do not let the College News
Board think that I am coming clown as
a lecturer," wrote Mr. MacAlarney to
the editor of the News, "1 am coming in
the guise of a man who is working in writ
ten things, and who has seen a great
many young men and women either suc-
ceed or fail in this line of occupation.
As a result, my entire interest in help-
ing train college students in journalism
lies in making this training commercially
usefuly�in other words, assisting col-
lege students when young alumni in
making livings."
Edits Scenarios of "Famous Players"
Mr. MacAlarney's own career is an illus-
tration of how to rise from a cub repor-
tership to the head of a big city daily.
After leaving college, lie turned to jour-
nalism as a reporter on the Harrisburg
Daily Telegraph and the Newark Daily
Advertiser. From the position of staff
correspondent and political reporter on
the New York Evening Journal, he rose
to be City Editor in 1808, and was sub-
sequently City Editor of the New York
Evening Post, Mail, and Tribune. From
1914 to 1916 he was President of the
New  York City  News  Association.
Since 1916, Mr. MacAlarney has been
scenario editor of the Famous Players-
Lasky Corporation. At the present time
he is lecturing three hours a week at
the Columbia School of Journalism, and
has been a member of the faculty of the
School of Journalism on Morningside
since its inception.
Publicity Campaign to Be Discussed
at Undergraduate Meeting
Point System  Up for Consideration
The publicity campaign will be one of
the matters discussed at a meeting of
the Undergraduate Association next
week. The student Endowment Com-
mittee have asked Mrs. Edwin S. Jar-
rett. national publicity chairman, to
speak to the undergraduates Tnesdav Of
at an early meeting.
A vote will be taken on the advisabil-
ity of a point system, and the system
drawn up by the Undergraduate Board
will be presented to the Association. A
sense of the meeting will he taken as to
the number of students who advocate a
chair of poetry at   Rryn   Mawr.
At the request of members of the
Association, the question will be discuss-
ed of taking straw votes in every class
for association heads.
SPIRIT   OF   DES   MOINES   IN
HUNTINGDON CONFERENCE
Bryn Mawr Sends Largest Pr   or-
________tionate Delegation________
Plans for Point System Completed ]
To   Be  Presented to  Undergraduates la
Near Future
Modeled on a plan that has proved
successful at Mt. Holyoke, the tentative
point system drawn up by the Under-
graduate Association Board is based on
a scale of forty. Should the system be
adopted, no student would be allowed to
hold offices totaling more than forty
points.
Thirty is the highest number of points
given for any one office. Nine positions
�the presidencies of the associations and
classes and the managing editorship of
the New*�come under this classification.
Under the present plan the system
would be enforced by the students and
run by a committee with a representative
from each class to keep a card catalogue
of the number of points held by every
undergraduate. It would go into effect
with the spring elections.
Seventeen delegates from Bryn Mawr,
led by C. Bickley, '21, attended the 15th
Annual Sectional Conference of the Stu-
dent Volunteer Movement, held last
week-end at JtUtiata College, Hunting-
don, Pa.
Intended to carry the influence of Des
M nines into a wider field, sectional con-
ventions have been planned by the Ex-
ecutives of the Student Volunteer Move-
ment. Five hundred delegates from col-
leges in Eastern Pennsylvania and New
Jersey were present.
The Bryn Mawr delegated were: C.
Bickley, '21 (leader); If. Scott. '19.
1921: S. Marbury, E. Newell, H.
Hill. P. Ostroff. K. Johnston. 1888:
O. Howard, E. llealea. Suzanne Aldrich,
V. I.iddell. C. Cameron. 1923: E. Vin-
cent, F. Harrison. E. Rhoads, M. Dunn,
D. Meserve
Mr. Wilbert Smith, executive secretary
of the Des Moines Conference, for five
years Y. M. C. A. secretary in India, and
at present in charge of the Personnel Di-
vision of the Foreign Department of the
International Committee of the Y If.
C. A., pointed out that the Indian Bill
giving greater self-government to natives,
passed the English Parliament six weeks
ago. "With ninety-five per cent of the
men illiterate and under one per cent of
the women able to read and write, how
can the country fail to fall prey to the
radical political element, which really
means rule of the reactionaries?" he
asked.
Medical missions, according to Dr.
Cyril Haas, physician-in-chief of the
American Hospital, Adana, Celicia, Asia
Minor, showed that a surgeon's skill
opened opportunities for service far
above any offered by missionaries evan-
gelizing solely with a Bible
Student*   Give  Reports
O. Howard, '22, two delegates from
Princeton and one from Muhlenberg Col-
lege, summarized their impressions at
the final session, led by Dr. Robert E.
Speer, secretary of the Board of Foreign
Missions of the Presbyterian Church.
S. Marbury, '21, was one of five mem-
bers on the Intercollegiate Committee on
Findings, to make a summary of this
convention.
"The prevalent idea of the African mis-
sionary as a fanatical person, standing
under an emaciated palm tree with an
open Bible and perhaps a sunshade, and
(Continued on page t)
Village Green New Part of May D
M. Carey, '20, Heads Green Committee
A village green in the time of Queen
Elizabeth will be reproduced on the cam-
pus in front of Merion on May Day. ac-
cording to plans on which the "green
committee," a new May Day institution,
are at work. If. Carey, '20, has been ap-
pointed mistress of the green, and the
committee working with her are If. Mill.
��M: I). Wyckoff, '21: If. Tyler. 22. and
1. Jacobi, 18.
The opening pageant, after circling the
campus, will end on the green, where the
May Pole will be -et up and the May
Queen crowned. Departing from the
custom of former May Days. Morns .mil
country dancing, and old English gamei
and sideshows will go on there all after-
noon, while the plays are being given
on other parts of the campus. The grad-
uate play will probably be given on the
green before an audience of "gaffers and
gammers" in old  English  costume.
LISTENING POST EXPERIENCES
DESCRIBED BY M. CONSi, 'J
\ Tells Stories of French Soldier   \
Illustrating his lecture with anecdotes
of the Preach soldier, If. Louis Cons, of
Princeton University, formerly of Bryn
Mawr. spoke in French Saturday eve-
ning, under auspices of the French Club,
on "Souvenirs d'un Ecouteur." Profes-
sor Cons received the Croix de Guerre
in 1915 for his services as "ecouteur in-
terprete."
For ten months M. Cons mi stationed
at a "listening post" in the front line
trenches. "We were allowed to stay so
long," he explained, "only because we
were not considered men, but trench ma-
terial, like so many periscopes. We were
the ears of the army."
The telephone used by the "ecouteur-"
was invented in 1915 by a French officer
who accidentally heard a distant Ger-
man conversation. The apparatus, ac-
cording to If. Cons' description, consists
of a metal point, like the tip of a bayonet,
thrust in the ground as near as possible
to the German trenches. To this is at-
tached a telephone wire stretched along
the ground to the French trenches. Join-
ed to a double wire which runs to the
dug-out and  telephone booth.
Overhears Death Sentence
One of the German messages over-
heard by M. Cons consisted of orders
to their artillery to bombard the dug-
out where M. Cons was stationed. "A
little more to the left�now to the right,"
he could hear. Again the "ecouteurs,"
by overhearing plans to blow up the
French front-line trenches, were able to
save thousands of lives.
M. Cons vividly characterized as typi-
cal of the French soldier one Bayard,
"le chevalier sans peur et sans reproche."
"The French soldier, straightforward
and frank," he said, " is almost ashamed
of his sentiments. Instead of talking
about 'des bon homines' (good men), he
will speak of 'des bonhommes' (good
fellows)."
When the Germans suspected the use
Of the telephone, M. Cons said, at the
reception given him by the French Club
after the lecture, they used codes. The
"ecouteurs" were able to decipher one
difficult code by hearing a German offi-
cer interpreting part of an order given
in it. to a stupid soldier
f-OUR HORSEWOMEN WELCOME
IBANEZ TO BRYN MAWR
Inspects College Activities in Search
of Material for Novel
Escorted by the "Four Horsewomen of
Bryn Mawr," and surrounded by a swarm
of reporters and photographers, \ incente
Bl tsco Ibanez arrived at Bryn Mawr Fri-
daj afternoon and made a tour of the
campus. I'nder the guidance of Seno
rita Dorado and several members of the
Spanish Club, he inspected some of the
halls and the library, had tea with the
major Spanish clasi in Radnor. On
Saturday morning he went through the
gymnasium and watched some appara
tui practice for the meet.
In speaking of the students, he said:
How elegant, how pretty they are," and
uas greatly impressed to find them
well posted on any subject. Bryn Mawr
Has the lust college he had visited where
In could speak informally with the stu-
dents in Spanish. Elsewhere he had al-
ways needed an interpreter. The four
horsewomen pleased him immen.se I >
Mine are homely and bad omens," he
said, "but Bryn Mawr has completely
transformed them. Hereafter, I will al-
ways think of the Four Horsewomen who
rode so gracefully and dared the cold
weather as if it were a Spring day."
Typifies America as Quixotic
The America We Know Today was the
subject he chose for his lecture Satur-
day night, in place of The Spirit of the
Four Horsemen, which he considered too
dry for his audience. He typified Amer-
ica as a country erroneously caricatured
as the "Home of the Almighty Dollar."
and showed that in reality the United
States was as quixotic as the Spanish na-
tional hero. He gave, as an example.
America's "crusade of liberty" when,
with purely unselfish motives, she shared
the burdens of the war. Ibanez was in-
troduced by Romera Xavarro. profetsoi
ot Spanish at the University of Pcnusyl
vania. and his speech was translated into
English by Dr. J. P. Wickersham Craw-
ford, also from the University.
Formally Open Endowment Drive at
New York Dinner
New York Quota is $1,000,000
I o celebrate the formal opening of the
Endowment Drive on March first, a din-
ner tor ISA Alumnae and members of the
National Committee was held in New
York last Saturday.
Acting-President Taft spoke on the
special needs of Bryn Mawr, and Dr.
Simon Flexner and Dean Keppel, of
Columbia, emphasized the need for
trained men and women in science.
The chairman of the New York divi-
sion announced at the dinner that $111.-
000 have already been pledged toward
the quota for the New York district
which is $1,000,000.
MR.   HENRY   RAYMOND    MUSSEY   TO
ADDRESS   DISCUSSION  CLUB
Mr. Henry Raymond  Mussey.  manag-
ing-editor of the Nation, will lecture to
the  Discussion Club next  Monday     Mr
,\Iussfy was associate professor of econ-
omics and politics at  Bryn   Mawr,   ISM
1907,  and   went      from   Bryn   Mawr   t<�
Columbia   as   professor   of   economic -
During  that  time he wrote  frequent  ar-
ticles  on   economic   and   political   njutn
lions for current magazines.    The ultra-
progressive   tone  of  the   Nation   during
the last few years is generally attributed
t. �   him.