Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 267, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 March 1934 — Page 7
MARCH 19, 1934.
Problem of Leisure to Be Greater Shortening of Working Hours to Change Mode of Life. BY GRETTA PALMER Timet Special Writer NEW YORK, March 19—It seems that we are going to find ourselves with a great de'l of extra time on our hands whether we know what to do with it or not. Our faint gasps at the idea cf a forty-hour week had hardly died
down before the code authorities began to talk of the necessity of a thirty-hour week, which probably would consist of a sixhour day, five days a week for most workers. That will leave a lot of slack. Men and women with Jobs will now find themselves out on the same limb where the city housewife has been dis-
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consolately sitting for the last fifteen years. For she—the woman whose housework has been made too easy by mechanical progress—is the pioneer in this field of leisure. She ought to know the ropes. It is instructive to-those about to plunge into the new- adventure of the soft snap to find that one of the most discontented, on-edge and generally neurotic groups of women in the country falls into the category of the wife with too little work. Psychiatrists will tell you that many women of leisure have nervous breakdowns out of sheer boredom with the movies and the beauty parlor. They want a little excitement, so they get sick. You can not sleep all the time. You can not get any lasting satisfaction out of window shopping every day or everlastingly going to cocktail parties or eating chocolate at matinees. It is not in the least that this form of living is immoral or superfical; it simply doesn't work for happiness. The newly released workers will have to find something better than that. There will, of course, be one diver - • sion possible which has been denied ■ the woman of leisure of the recent spast. There will be men with time con their hands, too. The emaniciPpated workers can. if they wish, limitate the gay cosmopolitan set of drhe Riviera, who devote their waking hours to a succession of elaborate t and melodramatic flirtations. But is t sounds awfully dull. Problem Is Old One P 1 There have been times in history vhen the jaded upper classes—men r.d women alike—did nothing much Mut write bad poetry to the charms f their current belles or beaux, ress with magnificent pains to Prllure them, and act out tender of insincere devotion. They Leetn, from the accounts that have P j-come down to us. to have been bored x within an inch of their lives. Oh, the problem of leisure is no new one. The only novelty is in having it confront people who da not live on dividends or a grant frem the crown. And during history it has, more than once, been met w.ch a sensible and civilized solution. There have been periods, for instance, when the high art of conversation flourished. There have been salons where men and women argued and discussed every subject under the sun with the fervor of two college freshmen of today arguing about Karl Marx. There have been less intellectual sets who found the solution in practically living out of doors. The elaborate courtesies of the hunt, the fine jnasterv of a horse which makes such an event as the Grand National possible are the sportsman's way of killing time, along with an occasional fox. Sportsmen are rarely bored. But it is the ironical fact that the persons who have enjoyed their leisure most seem to have been the ones who got rid of it as fast as ever they could. Since no work was mapped out for them to do. they invented some Women With Cause Fortunate The women of leisure of today who seem to be getting the most out of life are those who are in a perfect whirl of constant activity. If they are not working seven or eight hours a day to abolish prohibition, as they used to. why, they are deep in the world peace movement or they are lobbying for birth control or working with a vengeance toward the complete equality cf women. But they are busy—you may depend upon that! You need not worry over the possibility of their depriving seme one else of a job by indulging in such unpaid work as this. They always are social problems to be attacked and solved by the volunteer because there are no funds to hire anybody else to do it. That goes for the parttime scientist and artist, too. Amateur competition in these lines will never trouble the economic balance of the country. The complaint has been made that in our modern industrial system the worker has no chance for self-expression—he fits the same kind cf nut to the same kind of bolt throughout his working day. N'ow he can look upon his paid work as something that he does to make a living and need expect no more from it than that. And in his blessed hours of leisure he can turn to whatever pursuit seems most enthralling for the added self-esteem that comes from doing something very well indeed. IIIGH BLOOD PRESSURE Quick Relief or Yen OnW Pav When Satisfied. If you sutler from High Blood pressure dirzlness. mutina in the ears can't s’eec at niglits. feel west and shake cad taste nervous If vour heart pounds and vou fear a paralytic stroke, to demon- I strate Dr Haves' prescription e will send you postpaid, a regular SI treatment or ! absolutely FREE TRIAL While It is nenapectfie many cases report remarkaolv quick rail,;, often symptoms diminish and norma, sleep returns within 3 days Contains no salts, physics, opiates or dope Safe with any diet. PAY NOTHING UNLESS OREATLY IMPROVED. Then •end It If not improved vour report cancel* charge. Write Dr. Haves Ass n 3297 Coats, Kansas City. Mo —Advertisement.
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Manners and Morals BY JANE JORDAN
Don't nurse your troubles, but spill them to Jane Jordan who will help you see what to do by her answers in this column. Write your letter now! Dear Jane Jordan—Why do girls insist on making fools of men? And why can't a young man who tries to be regular, meet a girl who is on the square? Os all the lovely creatures I have met from cradle days through college, I can not pay one the honest compliment of being wholly unselfish. Take V. for
in s t ance. I have known her for twelve years. Carried her speller home from grammar school and took her to college dances. She has always maintained a cold, aloof attitude to my advances, but as she was an unusually brilliant girl, I
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kept dating her. I was not always the perfect gentleman, but was always honest. I reformed, so to speak, about four years ago, and treated her with all the decency a girl could expect. But to my surprise she accepted this treatment with an even greater degree of coldness and began giving me the go-by. Recently she has told me that she has had an “awakening” and is dating other fellows. She tells me that my technique was not so good. That makes me big-hearted Andy, sitting on the sidelines while two other gentlemen not only beat my time but tread on green pastures where I never could venture Perhaps I am bitter, but this is almost too much. If V. had any sense she would be able to figure out that I would never expose her to such risks as do the wolves a decent girl meets at parties, bridge tables and theaters. Tell me. are all women like that? If so. Sherman had his mind on love, not war. BACHELOR AT 25. Answer—lt is unworthy of you to project your anger against one girl on to the whole of her sex. You have wasted your time in couriing an unresponsive girl. What you need is anew sweetheart. Many men are aroused to redoubled efforts to win by a woman’s no. If the no is merely a coquettish evasion, they are right to try harder. But when a young lady remains consistently aloof over a period of years, the young man is wise to give up the courtship. There is no reason for you to lose confidence in yourself because you have failed to win your first choice. It doesn't mean at all that you have no appeal for any other g.rl. I suspect that the wolves a girl meets at parties are attractive because they are dangercus to know. What woman was ever known to choose a safe, steady iover in preference to the challenge of a risky affair? Perhaps you've been too devoted for excitement. It may be that your technique lacks the element of uncertainty that is so successful with most girls. e a a Dear Jane Jordan—l am lonesome and unhappy. My husband left me last week. I was out working and when I came home he was gone. He has been out of work, but as soon as he found a job he left. He always was selfish and stingy. He would buy himself things, but never would buy me anything. I worked out and did all my housework, too, but he didn't appreciate anything. I have a very nice little home and hate to break it up. It almost breaks my heart when I think about it. Do you think I should take him back. I always have hidden his faults to
other people, so it will be hard for me to face my friends. ANXIOUS. Answer —I don’t imagine that taking him back will make you any happier. It is not the man you want but the home. Not that I blame you. I only make the point that a home is not enough in itself minus the thing for which it stands. Your pride is hurt, but you can’t keep up a home to protect your pride and expect any real satisfaction. I should say that your best bet is to start anew life in which you rely on yourself for support. There is nothing to bs gained by hanging on to a man who .doesn’t want you. On the other hand, there is no telling what life has in store for you when you’re free—if you’re courageous. n a a Dear Jane Jordan I am 20 years old. Five years ago I met a man of 45 and married him. My father and mother think almost as much of him as they do of me. We live by ourselves and we are very happy. He doesn’t fuss at me or I fuss at him. He makes me a good living and works every day. He is always wanting to help me with my housework. He doesn't drink nor use any bad language. Now I have some close relations that think I have done the wrong thing by marrying him because he is so much older than I am. Do you think they should kick if I am satisfied with him? Do you tnink I have done wrong by marrying him. or do you think I should marry some young man? PUZZLED. an a Answer —There will always be people who think there is something which you should do which you didn't do, or something you didn’t do which you should do. Why do you let these jealous mischiefmakers upset you? As long as you
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City Group to Aid in Observance Nation-wide Festival Will Be Marked by Y. W. C. A. “These Things Shall Be” is the theme for the nation-wide festival to be held by the business and professional groups of the Young Women’s Christian Association at 7:30 Tuesday night. Misses Dora Atkins and Madonna Hessler are co-chairmen of the Indianapolis observance. Messages will be read from Japan. * England, China, Australia and the United States. Special guests will include Mrs. Paul V. McNutt, Mrs. Paul E. Tombaugh, president of the Y. W. C. A. i board; Mrs. B. S. Goodwin, viceI president ; Miss Murray Atkins, ! chairman of the committee of management of the Phyilis Wheat- ! ley branch; Mrs. W. F. RothenI berger, chairman of the interracial committee; Mesdames F. B. Ransom, S. W. Benham, Oliver Martin and Violet Lewis. Miss Louise Ford, Indianapolis I Business and Professional Women's Club; Miss Bertha Leming, Altrusa | Club, and Miss Natalie Coffen, ! Zonta Club, also will attend. The program will open with the ! song, “Shuttles of Commerce,” fol- ! lowed by greetings from other units. Mrs. W. E. Brown will report on the Women’s International Congress at ; A Century of Progress fair. Social hour will follow with music by the troubadours from the Wheatley branch. Miss Elizabeth Cordes and Miss Martha Hill will lead the group interested in music; Miss Thelma Berry and Miss Louise Terry will direct the group interested in the ; dance, and Mrs. W. F. Rothenberger J will lead a discussion on the back- ! ground for the development of the ! arts. The committee in charge of decorations is Misses Mabel Hauk, Mary Wade and Madonna Hessler, Ruth Replogle, Catherine Christman. Mary Atkins and Marie Overstreet. Card Party Arranged Mrs. W. C. Richter, 432 Buckingham drive, was hostess today for a guest card party given for Alpha Chi Omega Mothers’ Club of Butler university. Mrs. Robert St. Pierre, social chairmen, was in charge. Tri-Kappa to Meet Indianapolis Tri-Kappa will meet at 6:30 tonight at the Barbara Frietchie tearoom. are happy tnat i£ ail that is necessary. a a a Dear Jane Jordan —I have been married seven years. We haven’t any children. My husband seems to have lost his affection for me. He is in a fog and doesn’t seem to realize that I am about. I am jolly and like to be in a crowd but he doesn't want to have me where he is. I have gained weight recently and am quite heavy on account of an accident to my leg. I don’t get around so well and naturally I gain. Do you think he is ashamed of me? PERPLEXED Answer—l don't know. I imagine that you are the one who is most embarrassed about your weight. I believe you would feel more at ease if you would consult a physician and get a diet which would reduce you without harm to your health. It may be that your husband has other complaints against y<ou but I do not know what they are.
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A Woman's Viewpoint BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON
THE most tiresome ding-dong against the NRA is that initiative and liberty are taken from the individual. The critics harp about this “land of opportunity” —the snappiest of all our legends. They like to saunter in fancy with Abraham Lincoln and commune with the ghosts of Hill and Carnegie and Vanderbilt. Even George Washington is a pal of theirs. So they go on applying the philosophies of the past to the problems of the present, and they will not work. For new social eras we must have new codes. We are making them rapidly today. The United States is still a land of opportunity but its opportunities will be different in form frem those which were presented to the immigrant and citizen of a past generation. The frontiers are gone. The woods and waters, the minerals and mines, all elong to somebody. Less than fifty years ago there were many sections of the country where industrious men and women could get their living from the earth and depend upon the bounty cf nature. They could gather nuts and fruits and berries from the woods, fish in the streams, and even plow the idle soil without molestation. But try that now——you’ll be taking an immediate hike to the police station. We may not lik,e to admit it, we may abandon with reluctance our legends, but we live today in a country in which it is not possible for every earnest, industrious individual to succeed. That is, he can not do so by his efforts alone. The business structure has become so complex that the man is swallowed up by the mass. He can not go against it, and so even the rugged individual, these days, always can not carve a living, to say nothing of a fortune, from the American scene. One or two may happen to do so. but a hundred thousand will fail. If we analyze the facts about former leaders, industrialists, financiers and builders, we can see that chance and the era in which they lived had a lot to do with
Miss Janet Jaqu a' s eng a g e merit to Richard Duke has been announced by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Jaqua, 353 b College avenue. The wedding will take place March 2 b at Highland Golf and Country Club.
their success. Any great country in a period of intensive development fathers vast fortunes. But it takes more brains to construct a state in which everybody has a little. BUTLER SORORITY ELECTS OFFICERS Miss Marigrace Mojonnier, Chicago, has been chosen president of the Butler university chapter of Delta Gamma sorority. Other officers are Misses Marjorie Mcßride, vice-president; Mary Newby, house treasurer; Jane Fisher, chapter treasurer; Virgilia Wells, recording secretary; Florence Hinshaw, corresponding secretary; Olive Steinle, rush captain, and senior Panhellenic representative; Maxine Ingram, assistant rush captain; Rebecca Blackley, junior Panhellenic representative, and Anchora correspondent.
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New Dress Given Name of ‘Tag End’ Combines Features of Both Afternoon and Evening Wear. By United P-ess PARIS, March 19.—He says, "You can't escape it. Certain things are inevitable.’’ Who is he. and what's it all about? It's Heim and it's about the new spring clothes. He gees on to say: “The spring of 1934 will see a definite change in afternoon dresses which will be divided into two distinct classes: First the practical dress or ensemble suitable for town wear, shopping and informal lunch- j eons; second, the dress or ensemble! which must do duty from cocktail hour to bed time. “This second type of costume, for the end of the day—the 'tag end’, dress, although answering a definite I need, has not yet become firmly es-1 tablished as a distinct type in spite cf the efforts of the dressmakers’ modelists. “The reason for this is that such ! a ccstume can not be developed without some experiment. Its ob- ] ject is to supply a need in a modern j life in which customs and habits themselves have undergone great changes, and so the ‘tag end’ dress will continue to undergo changes until a fitting ensemble has been evolved. “It is a development which bor- j rows from both the afternoon cos- j tume and the evening gown, and is ! one worth watching.” A “word to the wise” and you know the rest. Take this little tip and keep an eye out for the full flowering of the “tag end” dress that will most surely be a heaven sent answer to the prayer of the limited wardrobe. GAS STATION ROBBED BY PAIR OF GUNMEN Bandits Escape With S2O in Midst of Traffic Rush. Two gunmen held up the Standard Oil filling station at Fall Creek and Northwestern avenue Saturday; night while traffic from the statej basketball tournament at the Butler fieldhouse streamed past. George McCartney, 911 North Meridian street, station attendant, said that the bandits escaped with approxi-! mately S2O.
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ARMY AIRMEN LAY BLAME ON LACK OF FUNDS That’s Story Behind Whole Affair, Say Men Who Fly Planes. By United Prcrs SAN ANTONIO. Tex.. March 19. —Lack of money with subsequent curtailment cf training and inefficient equipment is the story back of the tragic effort of the army to fly the mail, a consensus of air corps veterans indicated today. The deaths of ten young officers on the airmail job were of vital interest to this city—the army's West Point of the air—for most of them received their training here. Veteran officers of the air corps are not talking for publication, but they will point out facts and permit an observer to draw his own ccnclusions. Points they make include: 1. Regular pilots restricted to four hours in the air a month and reserve pilots to three hours because of lack of funds. 2. Single motored planes doing duty over hazardous unfamiliar routes where commercial lines use twin-motored planes. 3. Officers sent out with the mail on night flights who received but ten hours’ night flying in regular training. 4. Army men flying the mail with less whereas commercial lines require copilots to have approximately 1,000 hours and pilots from 4,000 to 5,000 hours upward. 5. Men trained in peace time, fairweather flying assigned to a difficult job at a time when weather conditions were terrible. One officer, addressing a group of air school graduates recently, summed up' the situation when he said: “You are airplane pilots now; it will be five years before you are airman.”
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