Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 147, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 October 1927 — Page 19

OCT. 28, .1927

What of Stone Casting Against Today’s Woman Like One Centuries Ago? BY MARTHA LEE YYtJHAT attitude shall we assume toward the Magdalen of toW day? , Two thousand years ago a great religious teacher said, ‘ ‘ Let he who is among you that is without sin, cast the first stone.” His advice has been much quoted, but seldom put into practice, especially by outraged wives. Psychology teaches us that every person is the sum total

of his own past experiences. What experiences have these women had that made social outcasts of them? What factors of heredity and environment helped to formulate their character? Punishment may restrain them by Winning their rear of consequences, it will never put the love of the beautiful, good, and true into their hearts. The only thing that can accomplish that miracle is a beautiful, good, and true environment. Why not -assume a scientific attitude toward these women? Instead of revolting at the effect, why not study the cause? Someone has said that the ills of life are incurable. Perhaps some of them are, but many of them are also preventable. Prevention and treatment are necessary for moral ills, but punishment, though it may be necessary to protect the community, is seldom of any value in reconstructing an individual. Shall She Make Her Pay? Dear Martha Lee: May I say a word to the girls that are wrecking homes? They pick out some married man and go around with him. I knomfor I have a husband that runs with a girl. She is married and has a boy three years old but won’t live with her husband. If I meet her on the street, she gives me the laugh, but if she knew how my husband talks of her, or if she realized that I could have her child taken ■from her. and her put away too, she would not feel so good. She even lays around where my husband works, and makes remarks about me. _ This has gone on since May. Don t you think if it keeps up that I should make her pay% BROKEN HOME. This condition is deplorable, and I am indeed sorry for you. But I do not think that you can make a good man out of your husband by punishing somebody else. As I read your letter, I am struck by the fact that you have not said one word of criticism about your husband. Why toot? Is he not equally to blame? I would not go at this problem with the idea of dispensing vengeance. Life will discipline these people more severely than even you could wish. If you love your husband, win him with tact and affection. Whatever you do, do not allow your trouble to turn you into a martyr. You are passing through an experience which will either make or break you as a character. Watch yourself, and do not let your wrongs make an unpleasant woman of you. , He’s Cross and Irritable, Dear Martha Lee: I have been married twenty-two years, and am the mother of eleven children. My husband works and makes small wages. He is cross and irritable at times. He dislikes for me to go to my neighbors down the street. What would advise me to do.

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so that he would change his disposition toward me% He has no bad habits except cursing. UNDECIDED. I think that it will take a long time to cure your husband of irritability, as he has probably fallen into the habit of it, and habits are hard to break. You will have to establish new habits to take the place of the old ones and this will not be a. neasy task. Find out what pleases him, and try to do these' things. I cannot help you without knowing more of your Jiusband’s temperament and disposition. What puts him into a good humor? What are his likes and dislikes? Which of the children are his favorites, and which have the most influence with him?' Study him and surrond him with the things which tend to put him into a pleasant mood until he gets out of the habit of being so cross and unreasonable.

Service League ' Plans Business Meeting , Dinner The Indiana Unit of the Women’s Overseas Service League will hold its annual business meeting and dinner at the Columbia Club Saturday. The business session and election will be held in the afternoon and the dinner in the Harrison room. Mrs. Horace Mitchell, president, presiding. William Herschell will read some original poems and Albert Stump will speak. Capt. Violet McAllister Booth, of the Salvation Army, who has just returned from the American Legion convention in Paris, where she served doughnuts and coffee as she did during the war, will speak on her experiences overseas. Vocal numbers will be given by William Franklin, accompanied by Miss Bertie Hutchings. Birthday Surprise Mr. and Mrs. William Renforth, 229 N. Jefferson Ave., entertained recently, with a surprise birthday party for their son. The decorations were carried out in Halloween colors or orange and black. New Jewelry Jeweled heels are the vogue now. A pair of silver slippers has heels studded with rhinestones.

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Doctrine of ‘Born Equal’ Lacks Basis BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON Dr. Frank Crane says that all men are born equal and each can shape his own destiny. No more false doctrine was ever disseminated. And because it has been one of the most, cherished fallacies of the Poliyannas, and also because it has a slight semblance of truth, it is the more dangerous. For it is true that great men and women have worked their way up from poverty, from evil environments, from drab backgrounds, but when they have done so and established themselves any permanent place in the history of their time, they have always had behind them the staunch virtues of sturdy and ! ambitious ancestors. Parentage Counts It is especially dangerous to tell our children that a man’s parentage counts for nothing. Wheq it comes time for your girl to marry, it is wiser to ascertain what sort of people are behind him than to find out the size of his bank roll or the extent of his social prestige, or the duration of his college education. A man may have all things and lack character, and they will avail him nothing. > And so far as. men being born equal is concerned, this is the most palpable deception we work upon ourselves. Even in this land of the frge, our opportunities are never the same. Where America is good to her children is that she makes it possible for the most unfortunate to become by his own efforts the greatest citizen. 1 But we have had no President without solid ancestry behind him. No Equality in This One baby, let us say, is born into a substantial home with good blood on both sides of his family, has excellent home training ano fine 1 school advantages. Another comes into the world on the same day. His home is the slume, his mother # a doper and his father a criminal. All his environment is wholly evil, and he must scramble for every crust of bread he eats. Does this boy have the same chance as the other Os course not. And so long as we preach that he does, we work a double hardship on him. When we have the moral courage i to face facts and to disseminate the | knowledge of birth control among those who are not fit to have children, we can expect the day to dawn when all men will be born more nearly equal in America. But we need never expect it otherwise.

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(Abbreviations: A—ace: K—kins: Q—queen: 3 —jack: X—any card lower than 10.) 1. After a suit has been bid by adversary, is it good practice to make a pre-emptive bid? 2. Holding: spades—K J X X X; hearts—K. Q; diamonds —X X X; clubs—X XX; what do you bid initially? 3. Is it proper to bid a suit without an outside quick trick? Answer 1. No. 2. Pass. 3. Yes, when holding A K X X X or A Q J X X.

Shall Brains or Brawn Be Child Meal? t BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON A boy of ten stands as clofce as he can get to the radio, listening to each round of a prize fight. Above him on the wall hangs a picture of Lincoln—the man who put up probably the greatest moral fight of all history. Should we blame the boy or his parents that he is interested to white heat over a prize light and has completely forgotten the exist-, ence of the other. The Saturday that clinched the ; world series for the Yankees we motored probably fifty miles. And in every village and city over the ( entire route there stood a crowd i of men, women and boys watching j the score. What of Future? Is young America of the future , going to be a pugilistic, home-run ! hitting fan? Is that going to be the result of radios, instantaneous press services, and other devices? Or is he going to be the studious analytical child who has a true idea of heroes and worth-while .people? To tell the truth I was pretty well grown before it dawned on me that Lincoln was a great man. I recited in school like a parrot of all the great things he had clone. We had pictures all over j the house. Only Living Teachers But one cannot be told of an- i other’s greatness. He has to live through trouble, to arrive at man’s or woman’s estate before he is capable of understanding what others hr ve endured. It is only the middle aged who ran gaze into the sad stone face in Washington and understand the half of what is written , there. It means nothing to the young. But there is one thing we might do. ! Along with the boy’s education in i the Olympic arts, we might get him interested in a living statesman, j Let him follow up his career and | work up a 'certain enthusiasm over him. And take him to Washington to the House and Senate if it is humanly possible. Let him know our statesmen by name. Or take .him to your cw i ! State's capitol and make political economy real to him. Sorority Pledges Delta S'igma' sorority of Terre Kaute Normal announces the following pledges: Mieses Dorothy Soedcr. Jessie Eeedham. Erma McKinney, Ruth Helen Hixifn, and Evelyn Slade, all Terre Haute; | August O’Neil, Marshall 111.; Ruth \- Robinson, Clinton, Grace Rathfon, j Petersburg and Doris Markee. [

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Dinner Party Mrs. Magnus Manson, 3850 Kenwood Ave., entertained with a Halloween dinner party for twelve guests Wednesday evening. The centerpiece of the table was a pumpkin face and favors were yellow and black candies. Following the dinner the guests played fivehundred. Covers were laid for Messrs, and Mesdames Albert Cordes, M. R. Schoener, Albert Fleicher. and T. Collier and Mesdames Charles Hansen, J. M. Miiliken and Millie Benson. Latest Flare The latest flare comes in the legs of anew maize crepe pajama suit. Starting at the knee, side flares, circular in cut, give graceful fullness.

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