Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 April 1938 — Page 15
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FRIDA' Federation Posts Prizes For Essays
Marriage Law Revision Will Be Theme of Contest.
Prizes will be awarded at the Indiana Federation of Clubs convention, May 24-26, at the Claypool Hotel for the three best five-minute essays on “The Need for a Rvised Marriage Law in Indiana,” according to announcement today by Mrs. ' John W. Thornburgh, legislative department chairman. Letters explaining the contest have been mailed to more than 700 federated clubs in the state. “Mrs. Frederick G. Balz of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs; Mrs, J. W. Moore and Mrs. Thornburgh represent women’s clubs on the Governor's committee studying marriage laws revision. Prizes totaling $125 are provided for by the fund turned over to Mrs. Balz by Mrs, Edmund Burke Ball, ‘Muncie. For the three best fiveminute essays to be given before <a club by an adult clubwoman, $5 each will be awarded. Two prizes of $5 will be given for the best twominute essays on the same subject before a club by a junior clubwoman.
District Prize Offered
The district having the best promotional campaign for adequate marriage laws will be given $25. The same amount will be awarded the district federation: which receives ihe largest amount of space in daily newspapers featuring contest activities. The same amount will be given the county getting the greatest amount of space in weekly newspapers. Entries must be sent Mrs. Thornburgh by April 15. Mrs. J. Walter Kirkpatrick, Muncie, State federa- _ tion health chairman, has offered a prize of $25 to the district promoting the best syphilis-control cam-
paign. Gloves Reflect Period
History has repeated itself in the glove theme for spring. The highly decorated glove of the Renaissance period is seen in the new gloves, with novelty stitching, cording, hand sewing, wooden beads, knotting and scalloping. The 4-button length is the most popular and fabric gloves are leading leather gloves for spring use.
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APRIL 1, 1938 _
AXA
Completing Salon
Program |
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Cuyler Photo.
Mrs. Walter Grow, chairman of the Woman's Department Club art department, is completing arrangements today for the second annual Indianapolis Hoosier Salon. (Story, page 14.)
Mission Group Names Leaders For Institute
Leaders for the ninth annual Missionary Education Institute May
announced today. The institute is sponsored by the Missionary Education movemeht and various denominational and interdenominational agencies in Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, Kentucky, Michigan and Wisconsin. Leaders will be Dr. C. A. McPheeters, institute chairman; Dr. Stephen J. Corey, president of the United Christian Missionary Society of the Disciples of Christ; Mrs. William 'Rothenburger, Indianapolis; Dr, Samuel C. Kincheloe, Chicago, associate professor of sociology of religion, Chicago Theological Seminary; Dr. Corliss P. Hargraves Chicago, secretary of the departmeént of missionary education, Board of Christian Education, Methodist Episcopal Church, and Miss Grace W. McGavram, former director of the missionary education department, United Christian Missionary Society. . : ; Other institute officers are Dr. John B. Ferguson and Dr. W. R. Jewell, vice chairmen; Miss Genevieve Brown, secretary; Miss Florence E. Lanham, treasurer; Mrs. R. H. Mueller and H. B. Holloway, program cochairmen; Miss Sarah Bird Dorman, publicity, and Dr. Jewell, registration. :
W.C. 1. U. Plans Tea Wednesday
Guest day will be observed by Meridian Women’s Christian Temperance Union at a silver tea from 2 to 4:30 p. m. Wednesday at Ban-ner-Whitehill auditorium. Mrs. T. D. Barr, hostess chairman, will be assisted by Mesdames A. R. Robinson, T. B. Wright, A. C. Hawn, P. A. Wood and Frank Symmes. . Mrs. W. A. Shullenberger will lead devotions and Mrs. C. A. McPheeters will sing, accompanied by Mrs. L. A. Hellgresson. Parts in a playlet, “The Clinic,” will be played by Mesdames ©. S. Jaquith,, Barr, Symmes, L. E. York, Willard D. Armatage and W. C. King. A musical monolog will be presented by Mrs. York and Mrs. Fred C. Schmitz, The president, Mrs. S. C. Fulmer, will preside.
Janetta Von Staden
Is Frolic Chairman
Miss Janetta Von Staden is arrangements chairman for the April Fool Frolic to be given by V. S. and
ity, tomorrow at Carr’s: Hall. Assisting on the ‘committee are
Helen Setterquist, Virginia Royer, Eleanor Graybill and Mary Alice Altman.
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GARDENING
Inexperienced Pruning Can Do Heavy Damage to Shrub.
(Eighth of a Series)
By DONALD GRAY Times Special Writer ORE damage can be done to a tree or a shrub in a few hours by an inexperienced person with a pair of pruning shears than the plant can remedy. in the remainder of its lifetime. ies A fundamental rule to follow in all trimming is to let the plant express its own individuality. Do-not try to make it conform to some tailor-made shape. Cut no limb unless there is a reason. : Few trees need pruning. When a branch grows crosswise or rubs another branch, saw it off close to the trunk. Never leave a stump of a limb. Yala Shrubs may be pruned each year after blooming. This means that early bloomers can be pruned in June and late bloomers during the winter. : A hedge may be cut all summer long at any interval, but be sure that the shape is maintained to have the top narrowed than the base. This will permit sunshine to reach the lower part of the plant and avoid leafless stalks near the ground. » » 8
HEN a hedge ‘is first planted, cut the stems evenly to about two-thirds its height as it arrives from the nursery. During the first year let the hedge increase its height by six inches, If good growth is made the second year add another six to nine ‘inches. . Each year thereafter let the hedge increase its height three to six inches until the desired height is reached. .
Some varieties of evergreens need an annual clipping to keep the plants dense. Cut off the tips of the branches early in the spring just before new growth begins. Pines and ‘spruces can be kept from growing too high by pinching out the center leader each spring. NEXT: Perennials.
Alpha Chi Omegas To Hold Card Party
Miss Mary Reece, Butler University Chapter of Alpha Chi Omega Sorority social chairman, is in charge of a card party to be held April 9 at the chapter house. Assisting her are Misses Betty Bates, Louise Bicknell, Orilda Brillhart, Carol Crose, Margaret Kayser, Virginia Johnson, Ruth Hitzelberger, Sue Guthridge, Betty Graham, ‘Lois Loder and Greta Gornley.
~ Bachelorettes Frolic
| Miss Virginia Rowling will entertain the Bachelorettes at her home, 2407 N. Olney St. tonight.
FRIENDS RATED BIGGEST FACTOR IN JOB HUNTING
Sociability May Be Actual}
Obstacle, Psychologists’ ~~ Studies Show.
By Science Service NEW YORK, April 1.—Young people getting jobs usually find them through friends or relatives, not by going out job hunting, Dr. Hazel P. Gaudet, of the Research Center at the University of Newark, told members of the Eastern Branch, American Psychological Association, meeting here today. : Through co-operation of the National Youth Administration, all young people leaving work-relief projects in one county in New Jersey for regular employment were com=pared with a matched group of those who failed to get jobs, in order to find out what it takes to gain employment, . Friends are most important, it was discovered. Of all those who had ever had a job, 70 per cent had learned of their last job through friends or relatives, about 15 per cent through canvassing, and only 10 per cent through advertisements and employment agencies. Some Too Sociable The number of friends is not so important as their influence, or their knowledge of jobs and ability to recommend the job hunter, the study showed. A friend working in the firm where the job exists seems to be ideal: But, actually, the unemployed were more sociable, got out more with others and. belonged to more organizations than those who got jobs. They were to sociable for their own good, the psychologist concluded. Personality tests of those who found jobs and those who failed showed that the former are more self-reliant, more stable, and less self-centered, despite the fact they
are less sociable than those on work-
relief, The psychologists looked over a collection of snapshot photographs, trying to find out whether local coloring can change the appearance of a person photographed in a foreign land in somewhat the manner that protective coloring changes the appearance of a chameleon as he moves from a green blade of grass to a brown twig. Locales Identified The pictures were of Dr. A. A. Roback, Cambridge, Mass., psychologist, taken in Poland, Germany, France, Canada and the United States. Even though the pictures did not contain enough scenery to make the location recognizable, tests have shown that individuals who have traveled or who have cosmopolitan interests can guess with some success where the shots were taken. - The personality or attitude of the photographer as well as adaptation of the: person photographed enter inte this human “protective coloring,” Dr. Roback believes. “I have noticed,” he said, “at a teachers’ oath hearing, speakers who were snapped by hostile newspaper photographers appeared in a ridiculous light. “Certain photographers develop a specialty, those who are patronized by politicians will invest even a philosopher’s likeness with a political aura; and a harmless person could fit into the cliche of .a racketeer, if the sensational goal idea serves as the determining tendency of the photographer carrying out a certain policy. : “It would interesting,” Dr. Roback suggested, “to have Stalin sit for a Nazi camera man and Hitler for a Soviet photographer and then compare the finished prints with the portraits circulated in the respective countries of these dictators. In Amercian newspapers we often note the contrast between the truculent Georgian, hence Tartar, and the benevolently beaming comrade—both representations of Stalin. “This whole problem is bound up with the propaganda situation,” he declared. : Tests in three dimensions for
picking out those likely to have|
automobile and airplane accidents were urged by Dr. Charles A. Drake, of New York University. i Tests of visual perception have proved useful in discovering the ac-cident-prone among industrial workers, Dr. Drake reported. “But for testing where the person himself is being moved bodily by the force under his control, we believe the present static tests are as in-
adequate as are plane geometry and |
plane trigonometry in handling the problems of astronomy,” he said. “In
cother words, there must be a dy-
namic, in-motion, test technique, corresponding to the calculus in mathematics.” : Tendency: to accidents is an inherent, characteristic of certain persons, Dr. Drake concludes, and it
cannot be significantly modified by
training, but must be adapted to just as we adapt to limitations of intelligence or musical talent.
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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES - Wave of Defeats Makes Roosevelt Grow Jumpy,
+ Irritable, Clapper Says
WASHINGTON, April
President’s Midnight Statement on Shakeup Bill ‘Seen as Indication of “Nerves” Such as Hoover Showed Under Pressure"
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(Editorial, Page 18)
By RAYMOND CLAPPER Times Special Writer *
1.—Ingenious guesses are being made here
as to why President Roosevelt issued his midnight statement saying he
had no inclination to be a dictator. Many are asking why did he have |’
to say it at all, and if so, why at 1:45 a. m.
One guess made by some here
is that Mr. Roosevelt did-it in his
haste to smother with fresh news: the Washington dispatches: which
| reported the indignation in Congress over his earlier statement con-
graulating the Senate on refusing to submit to “purchase” by the telegraphic campaign against the Byrnes Government Reorganization Bill,
the idea being to get something out | quickly that would distract atten-
tion form that boomerang. : Another guess.is that he wanted to put in a strong, dramatic boost for the Reorganization Bill, timing his trumpet call just as the House was taking up the measure, hoping thereby to offset the telegraphic
bombardment from -the opposition:
which is being showered down on the House now as it was on the Senate a few days ago. ; As to why Roosevelt let go his blast at 1:45 a. m., there is a story current here that he couidn’t find the letter to which he was replying, that an emergency call was made to Washington to locate it, and that this delayed the release of his reply until after midnight.
Has President Jitters?
Assuming all of the foregoing to be true, still couldn’t President Roosevelt have waited until morning to.issue his reply? That is the point that gives the whole episode its. most sensational character and is the one that causes the most puzzled questioning. Many here think Mr. Roosevelt was so angry and impatient that he couldn’t wait another minute, Whatever the facts, his handling of this press release gives to the public a disquieting appearance of jitters, It does not give the kind of calm, self-controlled picture which the country ought to have of its President now above all other times. Newspaper correspondents here are quite generally of the opinion that he. is edgy and jumpy and is showing the effects of irritations, a : He would be a superman if he did not. Nobody human could take the beating President Roosevelt has been taking lately and not show the bruises. The business situation alone is enough to cause him wakeful nights, with the stock market down almost as far as it was in 1932, with the railroads showing an operating deficit for the first time since the early 1920s, and with all of the New Deal's measures seemingly helpless to bring improvement. Though Congress is proceeding to ease up on objection-
able taxes and though there has.
been a cessation of New Deal legislative proposals, public anxiety has not been eased. : : Fight Is Surprising On top of this is the heavy political bombardment of Roosevelt in connection with -the reorganization bill, which has been magnified into a monumental issue out of propor-
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tion to the contents of the measure. Rep. Carl E. Mapes (R. Mich.) said on the House floor that. this bill affects every man, woman and child. Actually it will affect fewer peopie than almost any other piece of New Deal legislation. It won’ even result in. slashing the Government payroll. Most newspaper correspondents + here practically ignored the bill for months, regard-
or significance one way or the other. The agricultural control bill, of far more sweeping character in its implications, providing for drop control, crop insurance and other farreaching activities, rolled through with only a modest amount of attention. . Suddenly Mr. Roosevelt finds the Reorganization Bill is made the vehicle for an attack as bitter as the Supreme Court fight. These attacks, over a bill some of whose essentials have been advocated by Republican Administrations, unquestionably have preyed on the President and have left him with a feeling of futility, a sense of being persecuted, and of being ned if he does and damned if he doesn’t. . We saw all of this happen fo President Hoover. It is happening now to President Roosevelt. We ‘sometimes can be cruel to our Presidents and then when they are seen to wince we begin to gloat and say, “Huh, he can’t take it.” 2
EX-CONVICT ACCUSED OF STEALING AUTO
BEDFORD, April 1 (U. P.).—Raymond Tabor, 27, and Lucille Eds, 22, were held in jail here today after being captured by authorities late yesterday following an automobile chase. Ap Tabor, paroled from the state prison Feb. 8, 1935, where he was serving a two to ten-year sentence for grand larceny, and his companion had stolen an automobile in the downtown district here, it was charged. Police were forced to
puncture tires on the stolen car to
halt it. :
LLOYD GEORGE AID DEAD LITTLE BADDOW, England, April 1 (U. P.).—Sir John Thomas Davies, 57, private secretary to David Lloyd George fot 10 years while the latter held various Government posts, including his wartime tenure as Prime Minister, died today.
ing it as of not very great interest |
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DINNER TONIGHT MARKS OPENING OF HOME SHOW
Williamsburg House Center |X Of C. of C. Exposition
Indianapolis Home Show at the Manufacturers’ Building, Fair Grounds, is to be
About 600 guests are to attend a 6 p. m. dinner, sponsored by the
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tish Rite Cathedral, and then visit
the exposition, the central figure of which will be a reproduction of a colonfal. Williamsburg home. = ° ‘The home is surrounded by gardens. Other features of the exhibit are to be displays of building equipment, appliances and materials. - The show is to be open to the public daily from 11 a. m. untfl 10:30 p. m. through Sunday, April
William Graves Perry, Boston architect and designer of the model home, is to be one of the banquet speakers. The home was built from his plans under direction of Hugh Bremerman. Mr. Perry is a mems ber of the firm which restored Wile liamsburg, Va. for John D. Rockefeller Jr. State, City and housing officiais and representatives of the building and allied industries are to be bane
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