Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 306, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 May 1934 — Page 11

MAY 3, 1934

Test Tube Baby Faces Hard Life Cruelty Created by Lack of Normal Parenthood Worst Consequence. BY C,RETT A FVI.MER Timm Special Writer N r EW YORK. May 3.—Science. n h*rh used to bo shy. has comp cot of the laboratory and broke on to the front page. News leaked out that Now York has thirteen test-tube babies—-two of ’hf>m born of mothers who have r.'-'ver seen or learned the identity

of the man concerned in the labor atory experiment. To the married women who could not otherwise havr had babies this discovery is a blessing. But. what of the spinstermothers? "The two mot hers." said Dr. Frances Seymour. the obstetrician in the case, ‘are both prominent business wom en.

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They wanted babies but were unmarried. They felt they had a right to have children." Beelzebub himself could hardly have devised a neater method oi catching the experts on religion and morality offguard. Even the conventionally minded dowagers must be in a quandary. They all knowwell enough what attitude to take toward the traditional kind of unmarried mother—they assail her immorality in no very charitable terms But in these cases has there been any immorality? Shall they condemn a woman whose only sin has been the indulgence of her normal desire for motherhood by a visit to a hospital laboratory? Well, they may decide whatever they like about the matter, but. the anonymity of the father seems, to this critic, to make no perceptible difference in the ethics involved. The “two prominent business women" have, I believe, done a highly immoral thing—just as im-

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moral as if they had had illegitimate babies in the usual fashion. When an unmarried woman de- | liberately has a baby, against whom is she sinning? Perhaps it would be as well to leave out the words like '‘sin” and “morality,” over which people have been haggling since the Council of Nicaea. Over the word “cruelty” there is less dispute. Very well, then. The cruelty involved in illegitimacy does not. in my belief, affect the two adults ordinarily involved or. society, for such mothers can support their babies very well themj selves. The cruelty is to the child. Life in this modern world is still : hard sledding for a baby born without a father, home or name. Even i if the mother is considerate enough j and clever enough to cover her traces and pretend to widowhood I she can not provide the first ele--1 ment in the trinity which every baby I deserves. She can not give it the | special care and understanding that i only a man in the home can supply. For it is difficult for even the wisest woman to bring up a child to normal adulthood without the norI mal conditions of family life. It is iso difficult, indeed, that adoption

j agencies refuse to give out their i charges to single men or women of ; even the highest type. The child thrives happily only | when he has both a father and a mother to watch over his growth. If death removes either it is an un- ; avoidable tragedy. And so we do hot commend the i action of these two women who have decided that a man is an unneces- | sary and cumbersome detail about the home. And how we pity their children! FAYETTE CLUB TO GIVE MAY DAY TEA May day tea of the Fayette Club will be held at 2 tomorrow afternoon at the Colonial tearoom, 1433 North Pennsylvania street. Hostesses for the afternoon will be Mesdames Jennie G. Sparks, R. H. Reed, Isabel Adams Snyder and Carl Shup. Literary Club to Meet Members of the Saturday Afternoon Literary Club will hold an allday meeting Saturday with Mrs. C. B. Talmage at her home in Oakj landon.

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Officers to Be Elected bv Artists m/ Indiana Clubs to Hold Business Meeting at Spink Arms. Members of the Indiana Artists Club will hold a business meeting at 8 tomorrow night at the Spink Arms. Edward K. Williams, Nashville, will preside. Officers will be elected for the coming year. Mrs. Emma Sangernebo is chairman of the nominations committee for the election. Assisting on the committee will be Wilbur D. Peat and Mrs. J. Otis Aclams. Officers will take over their duties in the fall. Present officers with Mr. Williams, are Lawrence McConaha, Richmond, first vice-presi-dent; Mrs. Evelyn Mess, second vice-president; Miss Marie Goth, third vice-president; Damien Lyman, treasurer, and Miss Frances Failey, secretary. Plans will be discussed for the coming year and for a trip to be made by club members to Brown county. Miss Lenora Bernloehr is program chairman for the event, which will take piace one Sunday in May.

Stephen Foster and Nevin Music to Be Presented A program of Stephen Foster and Ethelbert Nevin music will be presented at 2:15 Tuesday at the Tabernacle Presbyterian church. The I program will follow the “black, and white” spring luncheon to be served at 12:30 by Circle 3 of the church. Mrs. Anita Scott is circle president. The entertainment is part of the American music series to be presented by the Patroness Club of Mu Phi Epsilon, national honorary musical sorority. The following program wall be presented: •'lntimate Glimpses of Setephen Foster and Ethelbert Nevin.” Mrs. Norman L. Schneider. "Old Black Joe" , Foster Mrs. Schneider. ■ Massa's in the Cold, Cold Ground' Foster Mrs. Schneider and Mrs. Cornelius F. Posson. • Old Kentucky Home" Foster Mrs. Scott. "A Day in Venice" Nevin Mrs. Albert Reep. . "Mighty Lak A Rose" Nevm I - ■ N6VIn j Mrs. Scott, accompanied by Mrs. Reep

A Woman’s Viewpoint

BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON IF YOU think wives are jealous only of other women you do know anything about wives. Getting rid of the “other woman” would be a comparatively easy matter since we always can compete on her own ground, we know all her tricks and, besides that, have the inside track in the race. It is all the many other distractions of which wives are truly jealous. Bird dogs, shotguns, golf, poker, bridge, that “Old-Gang-of Mine” business. The world is crammed with these lures which draw our men away from us as a magnet draws iron. Unconsciously we go through our posturings, striving to focus the attention of the men we love upon ourseves. “Look at us,” cry our hearts. “Observe our behavior. See our new gown. Try to penetrate our thoughts. Be aware of us.” “But, with all our crying, their eyes are set upon far-off things. And so we are jealous, often of we know not what. If we only could become impersonal enough to understand that it is this expansive life they lead, this moving about amid other serious, absorbing occupations that makes men so desirable, so different from, so interesting to, us. If we understood that we would cease to struggle and happiness would descend upon us like a peace. I have known many women who spent the better part of their lives in trying to prevent their husbands from associating with men friends, who almost literally dragged them from outdoor sports, and yet who. in the end, did not really exist in the consciousness of these men—exist, I mean, as individuals—until they gave up struggling to hold them. Until they opened their hands and hearts and said. “Go. if you will. Stay not to please me”—only then did these husbands see their wives and only then did they meet them as friends. And. when everything is said, friendship in marriage is the greatest achievement of all. This mental comradeship comes only after years together and after many adjustments. And it never comes if the wife always says one thing: “Don't go. don't go, don't go.” That state of mind can break up more homes than a batallion of sirens.

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‘DON PASQUALE' CAST MEMBERS ARE ANNOUNCED 87 Students to Take Part in Jordan Conservatory Program. Directors of "Don Pasquale.” comic opera which will be presented May 17 and 19 at Caleb Mills hall as the final event on the first annual May Mu,sic Festival of the Arthur Jordan Conservatory of Music, have announced the names of eigthy-seven members of the cast. There will be two casts of singing leads and two choruses. Each group will sing one performance. The entire raster will be comprised pf students from the conservatory and Butler university, affiliated institution. Singing leads will be taken by Charles Kennett, Virgil Phemister, Sam Sims, George Schrader, George Potts, Ferrell Scott. Robbye Cook. Eugenia Magidson. Walter Weeks, Vernon Roth, Berneice Reagan. Mildred Baumgart. Paul Bechtold. Dawn Snyder, Everett Hanks and Carl Hogue. A ballet of eleven students of Mme. Leontine Gano, head of the conservatory dancing department, will perform during the opera presentations They are Joan Elliott, Mary Louise Schilling, Betty Walson, Betty Hamerstatt, LaVerne Reichle, Loretta Van Meter, Bonnie Blue Brown, Virginia Johnson, Sue Janet Brown, Dorothy Ragan and Maxine Mertz. One chorus group, which will sing May 17, will be made up of Butler university students. They are Stephen Bailey, Phyllis Baker, Maxwell Byfield, Jane Beuret, Mary Blauvelt, Evangeline Bowman, Helen Clever, Bert Ferrara, Margurite Foster, Thelma Fuchs, Kenneth Herron, Lloyd Hutchinson, Marilyn

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1 in 43 Have It! 36,350 Running for Office in State; Marion Countv Leads List.

POLITICS is such a business in Indiana that more than 36.350 candidates are running for some office. And on the basis of the total vote in the last general election, 1932. when 1.576.897 went to the polls, one person out of every fortythree in Indiana wants to be "the people's choice."

Marion county with 2.729 candidates for local offices and 184 candidates for state offices, leads the list. Lake county is second with 1.734 Even sparsely settled Brown county has forty-four local candidates and also will vote with other counties on senators, congressmen, representatives, judges and prosecuting attorneys. Political faith apparently has made little difference in the avidity with which candidates have jumped into the primary races. For local races. 16.335 Republicans have filed, and 18.760 Democrats seek posts. The purely political office of pre net committeeman is the

Knowlton. Lorenz Kropp, Virginia Landgraf. Samuel Martinez, Eleanor Mothersill. Joseph Nesbit. Ruth Stultz, Mary Edith Taylor. Edwin Hacker, Mary Hockensmith. Alice Brownlee. Dorothy Thompson. Dorothy Reasoner. Elizabeth Achenbach, Virginia Fellow. Phillipa Schreiber, Rosemary Clark. W. N. Rand. Joseph Tiiford. Martha Haworth, and Martha Haworth. Conservatory students who will be in the chorus on May 19 are Gladys Oldham, Marie Miller, Mary Ellen Ewbank, Mary Helen Seal. Vidya Lindsay, Marguerite Goens. Myrtle Gleason. Edward Emery, Rosemary Crugan, Margaret Roberts, Lucille Kassing, Miriam Rhumacher, Agnes Kirkpatrick, Josephine Woolbright, Wesley Brooks. Merle Bucklow, Mildred Reimer, Katherine Shearer. Priscella Smith, Amos Smith. K. E. Herron, Aileen Stockton, Thelma Adams, Melba Nesbit. Dave Egbert. Robert Geis and Ralph Morse.

most popular, a survey shows, and the prospect of being delegate to the state contention drew many. In the strictly public office class, township trustee leads with town advisory board posts a cia c e second. COMMITTEE NAMED ON MOVIE INDORSEMENTS Mrs. Fcrd Ducas of Grecncastle Is Designated Chairman. Mrs. Ferd Lucas. Greencastle. is chairman of the board of Indiana Indorsers of Photoplays, it was announced today. Mrs. David Rass is the president. Other officers announced are Mrs. Logan Hughes, first vice-pres-ident; Mrs. R. Earl Peters, Ft. Wayne, second vice-president; Mrs. Isaac Born, third vice-president; Mrs. Robert Mottern, recording secretary; Mrs. Edward H. Niles, corresponding secretary; Mrs. Agatha Ward, membership chairman; Mrs. A. J. Hueber. treasurer; Mrs. Harry Tutewiler. parliamentarian. and Mrs. J. M. Thistlewaite, Sheridan, auditor. Rockefeller to Return Home fill I nitrd Prrx* TARRYTOWN. N. Y., May 3 John D. Rockefeller will return to his Poeantico Hills estate here for his birthday, July 8, it was learned today. He is vacationing in Florida. De Molav Mothers to Meet Mothers’ Club, Indianapolis Chapter. Order of De Molav, will meet at 7:30 Friday. May 11. at the chapter house, 1017 Broadway.

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GAS BOOTLEGGING HALTED,JS CLAIM Huge Collection Increase Reported by Auditor. Gasoline bootlegging practically has been stamped out in Indiana, Flrtyd Williamson, state auditor, declared today in reporting that gas tax collections amounted to $1,385.276 during April. This is an increase of $67,082 over April, 1933. Not a single instance of bootlegging or tax evasion has been uncovered by investigators, Mr. Williamson asserted The ,ax collections have been exceeded in the mon.h of April in only two other years. The federal grand jury has returned an indictment against Donn N. Roberts. Torre Haute, for alleged failure to pay $4,000 in state gasoline taxes. City Club to Hear Pastor The Rev. L. A. Huddleston, pastor of the Calvary U. B, church, will speak on "A Young Man at His Best" at the meeting of the Y. M. C. A. Discussion Club at 6:20 next Wednesday. Card Parly Set The ways and means committee of Myrtle Temple. Pythian Sisters, will hold a card party at the Omar Baking Company at 2 tomoyow. The public is invited.

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