Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 October 1938 — Page 25

Tax Study Is Voted by

Y. W.s Staff

Group Asks /. W.'s St {To Be Guest

. by Mesdames C. J. Finch, W.

Federation|

District Club Women Also Indorse Drive On Gambling.

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ed a clause asking the Federal Government to “revise or repeal existing tax laws to the end that taxes may be reduced, business make normal recovery and the evils of unemployment and relief be abated.” The intensive study is expected to be followed by informed action on tax revisions in the State. The safety resolution asks the enforcement of all traffic laws for the protection of pedestrians and the petitioning of the Indiana representation in Congress to vote for legislation which calls for uniform traffic regulations.

Marriage Law Change Urged

“For emphasis,” the group indorsed the resolutions adopted by the State convention at its conference here last May. The list includes a plan to lobby in the 1939 Legislature fo! reform of marriage laws. ” The group will continue an intensive study of music and the fine arts as a counteracting influence against crime. Mrs. Robert Shank, legislation chairman, distributed questionnaires on the tax situation for study by the clubwomen. Mrs. Edward Franklin White will speak at the November district meeting on a uniform marirage and divorce law. Judge Paul Laymon, Frankfort, Appellate Court judge, spoke at the

. luncheon meeting in place of Gov-

ernor Townsend, He urged the clubwomen to offer suggestions for the improvement of government and expressed appreciation of the co-op-eration of the Indiana Federation of Clubs in its efforts to revise the marriage laws,

Mrs. Poston Speaks

Mrs. Edwin I. Poston, Martinsville, president of the Indiana Federation of Clubs, spoke at the luncheon, urging a .careful study of bills relating to housing, probation, safety, libraries, marriage, divorce and character education. “Religion, economics, social organizations, women’s clubs—all alike are brought to a searching test of the service they can render to humanity in its great hour of need,” she said. Mrs. George Dillinger, French Lick, I. F. C. second vice president, also spoke. Mrs. W. D. Keenan, district president, introduced the year’s theme “Balanced Thinking,” at the morning ssesion. She emphasized cultivation of the widest range of social interests, an open mind and control of criticism. An amendment to the constiution added three directors to the district advisory board. One director will serve for a three-year term, another two years and a third for one year. After next year, one director will be elected each year to serve for a three-year term. Nominations for the trustees to be elected this afternoon are Mesdames R. O. McAlexander, Paul W. Oren, Charles H. Smith, Clayton Ridge and W.D. Keenan,

Chairmen Report

Department chairmen who reported included Mrs. Chic Jackson, fine arts; Mrs. Frank Symmes, American Citizenship; Mrs. W. C. Bartholomew, American Home; Mrs. Clayton Ridge, education; Mrs. E. H. Soufflot, student loan; Mrs. W. L. Carey, international relations; Mrs. Melissa Cornish, juniors; Mrs. Robert Shank, legislation, and Mrs. M. E. Robbins, public welfare. Reports of the elections committee and the presentation of new officers was to conclude the sessions. : Convention echoes from the G. F. W. C. conference last spring at Kansas City were given by Mesdames Edward L. Pedlow, W. H. Link, Fred L. Pettijohn and Rudolph Grosskopf. A dinner honoring Mrs. Poston and Mrs. Dillinger was held last night. A reception for incoming district officers followed.

Re-Elect Board Of Kindergarten

_ Executive board members of the Indianapolis Free Kindergarten Society, whose terms of office have expired, were re-elected for a term of three years at the organization's 56th annual meting yesterday at the Propylaesum. They are the Mesdames. Francis H. Dunn, Henry H, Hornbrook, William H. Insley, George A. Kuhn, Eli Lilly and Miss Marguerite Dice. A luncheon was held preceding the business meeting. Mrs. Paul H. White, president, reviewed the work of the organization during the past year from the standpoint of the board, stressing the high spots of kindergarten activity. Miss Grace L. Brown, superintendent of kindergartens, made her 11th annual report, which was an outline of the educational and social aspects of the work with children and parents. Annual reports were read by Mrs Robert A. Hendrickson, secretary, and Mrs. Hornbrook, who gave the financial report in the absence of the treasurer, Miss Gertrude J. Baker.

Mrs. F. A. Symmes To Give Review

Mrs. Frank A. Symmes will review “Listen! The Wind” (Anne Morrow Lindbergh) at a style show at 2 p.- m. tomorrow at Ayres’ auditorium. The review is sponsored by the Bethany Class of the Tabernacle Presbyterian Church. The style show will feature costumes for middle-aged women but will include clothes for college girls and chidren. Dicky Trevebaugh and Miss Sally Thimm will model for young children. Misses Helen and Lillian Starost will play piano and cello duets during intermission and preceding the program. Mrs. Adolf Wagner heads the committee in charge, assisted H. Elrin, Carl A. Ploch, A. Hugh Johnson, Harry Wade, William Sharp and Miss Cora E. Hartman. Mrs. Jules Zinter is president of the

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Brgnda Frazier, 1938's No. 1 debutante, went to Mrs. Vincent Astor's party for the Musicians’ Emergency Fund in a sophisti-

with a molded bodice and a voluminous skirt finished with a wide band of sky blue satin. As the only jewelry with this, she wore a double strand of pearls. So far, Miss Frazier has not put up her hair.

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Roast, Hay Ride And Luncheon Are Arranged

A wiener roast, a hay ride and a luncheon have been planned by local American Legion units for this week-end and Monday. The Bruce P. Robison Post and Auxiliary will sponsor a wiener roast for boys of Divisions 29 and 30 of the Knightstown Home at 3 p. m. Sunday. Women of the Auxiliary will furnish home-made cakes. Mr.

and Mrs. Ellis McCammon are chairmen of the committee. The Junior Auxiliary of the post will entertain Sons of the Legion at a hay ride tomorrow night. A marshmallow roast will be held at Simmons farm near Eagle Creek after the ride. ; Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hasselbring will chaperon the party. The committee in charge includes Misses Helen Bueneman, Margaret Collman and Marian Ellen Scott. Mrs. Othniel Hitch will be hostess at a 1 o'clock luncheon Tuesday for members of Mcllvaine-Kothe Unit 153 of the American Legion Auxiliary. She will be assisted by Mrs. Max Norris and Mrs. E. M. Williams. Mrs. Norris will report on the national convention of the American Legion held last month at Los Angeles. Mrs. Ira Holmes, president, will preside at the business meeting following the luncheon.

St. John’s Alumnae To Hear Judge's Wife

Mrs. Philip A. Brennan, New York, will address members of the

St. John’s Academy Alumnae Association at a meeting at 8 p. m. tonight at the academy. Mrs. Brennan, wife of Judge Brenan of the New York Supreme Court and an alumna of St. John’s, is en route to New Orleans to attend the Eucharistic Congress. "During her short stay here she will be the guest of Mrs. Stuart Dean at the Marott Hotel. Mrs. Dean is returning from the East with Mrs. Brennan after a visit with the Brennans at New York.

Douglas were. guests of

Fairbanks and Mrs. Fairbanks, the former Lady Ashley, Mrs. Vincent Astor:

at a charity party. Mrs, Fairbanks’

gown has a form-fitting black bodice with heart-shaped decolletage

and narrow shoulder straps and a embroidered with sequin calla lilies.

necklace and earrings.

Harold Triggs, Miss Laut on Matinee Musicale Program

Harold Triggs, pianist, composer and teacher, assisted by Miss Marian Laut, will present a musical program this afternoon at a reception and musicale at Ayres’ auditorium. The event will open the 62d season of the Indianapolis Matinee Musicale. :

Mrs. James H. Lowry, president, will be honor guest. As noon luncheon was to precede the afternoon reception. : Mr. Triggs and Miss Laut will be heard in a joint recital with a twopiano composition written by Mr. Triggs and a Bach-Rummel composition arranged for two pianos by Miss Laut. Organized in 1877, the musicale is the second oldest women’s club in the United States. The first is the Rossini Club of Portland, Me.

Officers to Receive

In the receiving line with Mrs. Lowry will be the club's officers, including Mrs. James M. Ogden, first vice president; Mrs. T. M. Rybolt, recording secretary; Mrs. Bernard Batty, second vice president; Mrs. William J. Stark, corresponding secretary; Mrs. Wendell P. Coler, assistant corresponding secretary; Miss Ida Belle Sweenie, treasurer, and Mrs. Simon L. Kiser, assistant treasurer. Special . guests at the reception

will be Mrs. Frederic M. Ayres, president of the Indiana State Symphony Society’s women’s committee; Mrs. C. Lloyd Billman, president of the Indiana Federation of Music Clubs; Mrs. Norman Schneider, Harmonic Club president; Mrs. Lenore Ivey Frederickson, Mu Phi Epsilon president, and Mrs. Harold Brady, president of Sigma Alpha Iota. Life and honorary life members also are to be guests.

Women’s Groups Make Two Tours

The Maennerchor Ladies Society and the Community Welfare ‘Department of the Woman’s Department Club were to make tours today. The welfare group was to visit the School for the Deaf and the School for the Blind this morning. The Maennerchor Society was to make a pilgrimage to the William Conner home near Noblesville through the courtesy of Eli Lilly Mrs. William Hubert was to be

hostess. A chartered bus was to leave the Athenaeum at 1:30 p. m.

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Personals

Three Indianapolis girls, students at St. Mary's College, Notre Dame, were among those honored at a recent convocation at the school.

Miss Evelyn L. Hannon, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Walter Hannon, 4456 Washington Blvd. was named treasurer of the Sacred League. Miss Jane Keach, daughter of Leroy J. Keach, 4311 Broadway, became president of the Eucharistic League and Miss Mary Kathryn Sexton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Timothy P. Sexton, 4444 Washington Blvd, was named vice president of the League. Miss Keach is president -of the Indianapolis Club, which is made up of eight local girls at the college. Miss Sexton is secretarytreasurer of the group. Members are Misses Hannong Therese Keach, Agnes Lauck, Sally Ragan, Frances Rolle and Mary Katherine Thies.

Mrs. Robert Masters and Mrs. C. S. Drake, Indianapolis, are visiting at the Hotel New Yorker, New York.

Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Schellschmidt, Phoenix, are spending the week with Mrs. Letitia Schellschmidt and Miss Gertrude Thuemler, Indianapolis,

Miss Janet Sinclair, Totem Lane, Golden Hill, has begun her college work at Bradford Junior College, Bradford, Mass. Miss Sinclair is a graduate of Dana Hall School, Wellsley, Mass.

Mrs. J. E. Matthews entertained recently in honor of her daughter Vera Marie’s 11th birthday. Guests were Misses Virginia Ecknor, Helen Betz, Virginia = Alberty, Betty Alberty, Nancy Malott, Mary Jane Cruse, Martha Williams, Anne Clark, Betty Lou Chapel, Barbara Meyer, Jacqueline Cox, Josephine Branson, Yvonne Russell and Betty Curry. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer V. McCormick, 1211 Carrollton Ave., returned nome recently after a month's visit with Mr. and Mrs. Dan Mink and family, Hollywood.

Miss Hoss’ Pupils To Present Review

Merwin Louden was to act as master of ceremonies at a dance review presented by pupils of Miss Miriem Hoss Saturday at Block's auditorium. Special numbers will be a reading by Miss Virginia Rowilson and an accordion solo by Tony Collier. Miss Hoss and Russell Collier will present a ballroom number. Miss Miriam Bosworth will be accompanist. Pupils who will participate include Misses Roberta and Mildred Inman, Irene Pritchard, Becky Read, Marilyn Gaddy, Lois Jean Lackey, Bobbie Elkins, Marilyn Wade, Lucille Cogle, Norma Jean King, Doris Frazer, Betty Watts, Phyllis Wade, Barbara Southard, Virginia Ann Dunn, Darlene Arnold, Celia Bruce, Virginia Ruth Goll, Wanda Lou Brady, Bar-

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W.C. T.U. Parley

Due to Condemn Child Marriages

A resolution condemning child marriage is expected to be passed at the 65th annual state convention of W. C. T. U. opening Tuesday night at Kokomo, At the Thursday morning session, members are expected to demand regulative legislation on child .marriages.

“Social problems of youth will be given particular consideration at this year’s convention and special events have been arranged for young members of the organization. Tuesday night motion pictures, “The Beneficent Reprobate” and “Payoff,” will be shown. Officers will be elected Wednesday and Mrs.

president, will make her annual address. Dr. R. N. Harger, nrofessor of biochemistry and toxicology at the Indiana University School of Medicine, will speak at the Wednesday night session: on “The Drinking Driver and Highway Safety.” Following his talk, Dr. Harger will conduct a forum. Department chairmen reports will be completed at the Thursday sessions,

Mrs, McWhirter to Preside

Mrs. Ella B. Black, president of the Pennsylvania W. C. T. U., will speak Thursday afternoon on “The Centenary Educational Program” and will speak again that night following the convention dinner. Mrs. Felix T. McWhirter, Indianapolis, will .be toastmaster at the banquet. Young people will compete in an oratorical contest Thursday night for a diamond medal. The topic of the contest is “Keeping the Glow in Old Glory.” County presidents and directors will report Friday morning and organizers, evangelists, directors and branch secretaries will be elected. The Youth's Temperance Council conference will be conducted Thursday noon with Mrs, M. R. Addison, New Palestine, in charge. =. Mrs.. 8. E. Turner, Kokomo, fis general convention chairman, assisted by Mesdames Thomas A. Delo, Alton S. Mygrant and Ida M. Mix.

Old Glory Group to Meet

The executive board of the Old Glory Society, Children of the American Revolution, will be entertained this evening at the home of Misses Margaret and Barbara Winslow, 3224 N. Pennsylvania St. Fred I. Jones, president, has called the special meeting.

Elizabeth T. Stanley, Liberty, state

| Aid to Jews

Urges F. D. R. Influence Against Bans in ~ Palestine. The Home Missionary Society of

the Methodist Episcopal Church today sent a telegram to President

| Roosevelt asking him to. exert -in-

fluence against any restraint exercised by England against the immigration of Jews into Palestine. : The resolution was adopted last night following a talk by Rabbi Elias Charry at the night session of the 57th annual convention. Miss Ada Townsend, Evanston.

shipment of war = materials to

Japan.” ; ‘Miss Townsend is chairman of the organization’s Christian Citizenship committee. The convention, ending Tuesday, is being held at Roberts Park Methodist Church. Supports Peace Statement ‘She also recommended the peace statement adopted by the church's General Conference Commission on World Peace. It urges in part, renunciation of profit from the sale of arms and munitions to any foreign power; renunciation .of economic warfare by providing access to raw materials on equal terms for all peoples; stabilization of ourrency; freer access to essential markets and internationally fixed tariffs and quotas, and the assemblage of an international economic conference to er the VanZeeland report. Miss Townsend termed the peace outiook “bitterly disappointing because of division in the ranks of peace.” rT : Named Vice Presidents Mrs. M. L. Robinson, New York, and Mrs. D. B. Brummitt, Kansas City, have been elected third and fourth vice presidents respectively, it was announced today. One vice president is yet to be named. At the afternoon session, Mrs. J. W. Downs, Nashville, Tenn., secretary of the Home Mission Department, Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and Miss Bettie S. Brittingham, Baltimore, executive secretary, Methodist Protestant Church, were to report on “Methodist Women at Work.” Bureau secretaries, Mrs. C. C. Travis, Mrs. Frank L. Davis and Mrs. Anna L. Zook, were to talk on “Localizing Needs.” War on Vice Urged Rabbi Charry said in his address last night that Jews in Europe face brutal extinction at the hands of madmen who have vented their first anger against them. “They are facing the agony of an inferno on earth,” he declared, > “Their hope once was Palestine, following the Balfour declaration in 1917, which established that land as a Jewish homeland. Within three to five days, the British Cabinet will make a historic. decision about immigration of Jews into Palestine. If England prevents such immigration, it will be merely a sop to dictatorships and another nail driven into a coffin of & marked democracy.” . Dr. W. C. Hartinger, Indianapolis, spoke this morning urging the church to organize against evil forces. : Deep concern for sufferers in China was expressed in a resolution passed late yesterday. : * The Indiana Conference of ‘the Woman’s Home Missionary Society elected officers yesterday at a meeting at the Y. Ww. C. A, it was announced today. - Officers named were Mrs. L. T. Freeland, Indianapolis, president; Mrs. J. M. Green, Indianapolis, vice president; Mrs. Ross Been, Spencer, second vice president; Mrs. B. L. Kirk, New Albany, third vice president; Mrs. J. P. Robinson, Indianapolis, corresponding secretary; Mrs, J. A. Miller, Vincennes, recording secretary, and Mrs. W, W. Simms, ‘Columbus, treasurer. Mrs, BE. W. Stockdale, Indianapolis, was named young people’s leader and Mrs. T. E. Adams, Brookville, was elected junior secretary.

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