Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 120, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 September 1934 — Page 17

SEPT. 28, 1934.

Bov Soldier Lacks Appeal for Mothers Mussolini’s Conscription of 8-Year-Old Lads Brings Hisses. BY HELEN' WELSHIMER M A SUIT Writer THE little red drums and blaring I brass trumpets that small boys love have led many miniature armies down the Main streets oi the world. Backyards and school grounds and the empty lots on the city corners have been improvised battle grounds. Fathers have smiled

indulgently. They have understood, for they, too, "played soldiers.” But mothers always have caught their breath. When Benito Mussolini sent an edict throughout Italy announcing that hereafter training for soldiery must begin at 8. Instead of 12, the toy army

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swung into realistic action. Little boys—ar.d more than the little boys, their mothers —realized that the play parade had become part of a real military system. This attempt to make children into warriors has more significance than the echo of little boys’ marching feet in Rome and Florence and Naples. Its reception is revealing that men and women are enemies, always have been, and always will be. on the subject of war. When motion pictures of the marching Italian children, gay and gallant, were shown in a New’ York theater the other day, a hissing went up from the audience. Offsetting it. applause began. A quick survey revealed that women were hissing and men were applauding. More than that, hostile glances were being exchanged. The women's eyes challenged men to approve of such a military advance. The men's eyes berated the women who could see no glory in the youthful army. Mothers Realize End It isn't strange. After all, women have always been the pacifists. A mother heart will yearn for a small boy long after he has grown tall. To her he never really is a man. The mention of danger that besets him is terrifying at any time. A musket In 8-year-old arms gives a mother a long vision of the day when the child will use it. Os course, she is going to ruse up! She knows too, that little boys like to pretend they are soldiers; and she fears that when they are encouraged to cherish the honor and glory of this belief, that a seed which will sprout oh a battlefield is planted. Men. to whom the role of protector is a common one, to whom the preparedness thpme is an ordinary one, find small need for worry in the embryonic soldiers, according to the display in the theater. They want son* of whom they can be proud because of physical prowess, and. well, a soldier is a soldier, they apparently reason. Both Parents Needed Fathers see small boys in their brave moments—in those moments when they have learned to shinny up a tree, to swim with their heads under water, to reach first base on round and hurrying legs. But mothers know little boys when their knees are bumped, when they fail in arithmetic. when they are tucked in bed a little bit afraid of the lonesome dark A child needs both the hearty challenge of his father and the sympathy and tenderness of a mother. He needs a father to remind him that his bruised nose didn't hurt so much—and he needs a mother to apply soothing ointment. Old Struggle Rages Whether or not it is wise for small boys to exchange toy guns for muskets they carry so proudly on their

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REVEAL WEDDING OF MISS ICETTLER Mr. and Mrs. Herman L. Kettler have announced the marriage of their daughter, Miss Mary Martha Ketter, and Dr. R. Clyde White, director of the bureau of social research of Indiana university. The ceremony was read Aug. 21 in Hammond, the Rev. H. J. Nuofer officiating. The bride is a graduate of Indiana university and a member of Delta Delta Delta sorority and is working on her master’s degree at the University of Chicago. right shoulders as they march to tomorrow 's wars, it not our problem just now. Fortunately American fathers, were the test a personal one would prefer ball bats to guns in the hands of their adoring progeny. But there is a definite warfare between men and women of the world. That can not be denied. It is as old as Eden and as young as the little bovs alone the Tiber who are only golng-on-eight. It concerns the variance of a father's and mother's attitude in regard to their sons. But peace is difficult to buy in this case. Those very differences in the masculine and feminine natures, which enable a father and mother to cooperatively meet a small boy's needs, constitute the grounds for the battle. (Copyright. 1934. NEA Service, tnc.l

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Reception Arranged The Rev. L. H. Kendall and family will attend a reception tonight at the Washington Street M. E. church. Mr. Kendall is beginning his eighth year as the church pastor

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Series of Parties to Be Opened Columbia Club Will Be Scene of Event Wednesday. Wives and daughters of Columbia Club members will be honor guests at the first of a siries of monthly luncheon-bridge parties to be held at the clubhouse at 12:30 Wednesday, A tea, honoring the new members will follow the luncheon. Acting as the reception committee will be Mesdames Frank A. Butler, Irving W. Lemaux, Edward D. Clark, Clifford L. Harrod, Archie N. Bobbitt and George S. Olive. Mrs. Albert L. Rust will be hostess chairman of the luncheon-bridge, assisted by Mesdames Ray H. Briggs, Cleon A. Nafe, George S. Olive, Jean Black, H. H. Hull, Sterling H. Wilson, George L. Ramey and A. W. Early. Prizes will be awarded in both contract and auction bridge divisions. Mrs. J. Hart Laird again will serve as club hostess and will be ors duty Wednesday and Saturday afternoons.

A Woman’s Viewpoint

BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON I’VE read upwards of 100,000 words about the Morro Castle disaster. Yet there remains something more to be said. Officers and crew may be blamed and punished for neglect of duty, but no person facing death upon the high seas, or anywhere else, should be tried for cowardice in the open court of public opinion. Since not one of u

knows what he might have done in a like situation, it is mere bombast to make positive criticisms. Men and women have to be brave on so many fronts; there are so many different ways of playing the coward that it is difficult to put a finger

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upon any person and say, “Here is a poltroon,” or “Here is a hero.” There is a courage which rises brilliantly to the occasion. It seems to be a sort of instinct. And there is another kind of courage which keeps one moving stoically over the hardest ways. Our bodies, which are composed of various chemical properties, react differently to outward circumstance and inner emotion. Peter, who afterward died a martyr, denied his Lord three times through a panic of physical fear. The worst ne’er-do-well I ever knew leaped one day into a raging river to save a stranger. But he was a coward, just the same, in all the important affairs of existence, where strength and grit are most needed. A craven before life, death held no terrors for him. Once, too, I saw a woman rush into a traffic jam and pull a child to safety, yet she endured the loss of her husband's love, her home and her life’s happiness because she was terrified of the suffering of childbirth. Was she fainthearted or valiant? Who knows? We are not able to determine the extent of any man’s courage or timidity. So, in my opinion, the latest sea tragedy doesn’t" mean a thing so far as its bearing on mass or individual heroism Is concerned. I think we should treat ourselves to anew conception of the qualities that constitute courage. Our definitions of the word are too limited. When some of our worst rogues and rascals march like storied heroes to the electric chair, it’s time to say. “It is how he lives rather than how he dies that determines mans right to splendid titles.”

A Day’s Menu Breakfast — Baked apples, cereal, cream. potato omelet, toasted muffins, milk, coffee. Luncheon — Spinach puree, cheese toast, canned peaches, peanut cookies, milk, tea. Dinner — Sauerkraut cocktail, pot roast or veal with vegetables, banana and shredded lettuce salad, oldfashioned bread pudding with hard sauce, milk, coffee.

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