Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 December 1938 — Page 15

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pee Mme. Antenor Patino, Daughter-in-Law of Bolivian lionaire, Heads French Dressmakers’ List Of 10; Duchess of Windsor Second.

PARIS, Dee. 19 (u. P) ~The Bpchens of Windsor was dethroned 8s the Queen of Fashion in the annual poll of the Paris dressmakers today when they selected Mme, Antenor Patino, Spanish “tin princess” for top position in the list of the world’s 10 pest-dressed women. :

Mme. Patino is a daughter-in-law of Simon Patino, the Bolivian “tin millionaire” Who is famous in his own right as one of the world’s richest men. The Duchess was ranked second, well ahead of the remainder of the field which included her royal sister-in-law, Marina, Duchess’ of Kent. The best-dressed women who have the time and money to make an art of dressing themselves and really set the style pace of two continents, as picked by a poll of the French dressmaking trade, are: 1. Mme. Antenor Patino. “2. The Duchess of Windsor. : 3. The Duchess of Kent, :4, Baronne Eugene de Rethschild, ‘the former Catherine Wolff of Philadelphia. 5. The Begum Aga Khan. - 6. Mrs. Harrison Williams, . 71. The Marquise de Paris. "8. Mrs. Gilbert Miller. - 9. Senora Martinez de Hoz. : 10.- Mme. Jean Dupuy, the former Dorothy Spreckels of €gliforni - For the first time the ig gave some runners-up, including Countess Barbara Haugwitz Von Reventlow, Lady Elsie de Wolfe Mendle and Mme. Georges Bonnet. - Countess Barbara slipped from the list of the first 10 and was replaced by Mme. Dupuy, who is considered one of the beauties of the Paris season and the Europeon equivalent of the American ‘glamour girl.” Another included for the first time was Mme. Bonnet, wife of the French foreign minister and former ambassador to Washington. She has heen official hostess during the year to the King and Queen of Great Britain and other notables. For the occasions she gssembled a compact but expensive wardrobe which readily stamped her as one of the ultrasmart dressers of the capital. Mme. Patino, new leader of the chosen 10, is the Mourbon Princesse Christina, daughter of the Duke and Duchess de Dursal, whose marriage in Madrid with the royal family was one of the last great weddings before the fall of the monarchy. Mme. Patino and ‘the Duchess of Windsor staged a “dress duel” this Season, easily surpassing the remainder of the field in the size and cost of their wardrobes. About the same size, they both show a preference for well-chosen eccentricity, although following classical lines in ensemble. - The Duchess of ‘Windsor has one weakness, in the gpinion of the dressmakers. Too often she allows trimmings to dominate her dresses. She likes big buttons on simple tailored suit and dresses. Mme. Patino shows greater simplicity and for that reason: outranked the Baltimore ‘Duchess. - Generally they buy from the same dressmakers and this season each bought the same (dresses in at least 20 cases. While the Duchess bought chiefly in black, blue’ and tan, the Princess favored strong colors with a special Weakness for violet and blue. Mrs. Gilbert Mil-

ler also: shared the taste of the.

leaders and bought many of the same dresses ‘they picked. It was estimated that the 10 best-dressed women spent in all more than one million dollars in wardrobes and jewels this year. Dress budgets varied by estimate from $20,000 to $200,000 for the year.

50th Anniversary Party Is Planned By Columbia Club

A “general committee for the golden anniversary of the Columbia Club on Feb. 13 today had been announced by John J. Ruckelshaus, chairman of the committee for the Jubilee celebration, Members of the general eommittee who will plan social events for |J the celebration which will olose with: a beefsteak dinner on the day of the anniversary, include Benjamin N. Bogue, a member of the hoard of directors; Frank G. Laird, secretary of the golden anniversary committee and chairman of the club’s membership committee; Roger a. Wolcott, Harry S. Hanna, E.P, Akin, Maj. Gen, Robert H. Tyndall, A, J. Beveridge Jr., Herbert C. Tyson, Merle Sindener, John G. Kirkwood, Eben H. Wolcott, M. V. Wiggins and “Dr. J, H, Kemper, Other committee members include E. L, Behmer, LeRoy Carson, Paul Richey, Wallace O. Lee, Allen J. Callaway, Conrad R. Ruckelshaus, Caleb N, Lodge, John E. Bock, Albert E. Uhl, Will G. Irwin, Arch N.. Bobbitt, Irving W, Lemaux Jr. Fred M. "Ayres Jr.,, Charles N. «Thompson, Gordon B. Mess, C. D. Alexander, Arthur R. Baxter, Harry . Miesse, George M. Dickson Jr., Rob~ ert C, Baltzell, James F. Carroll, Roy R. Bair, William Henry Roberts, William - G. Sparks, Mrs. W, G. Sparks and Mrs, J. H. Laird. Special committees will be appointed for the various social events which will be announced this week, As a part of the anniversary observance, a membership expansion program will be inaugurated in which all club members will be eligible to: participate,

S. T.A.G, Club To Give Party

Members of the 8. T. A. G. Club of Shortridge High School will he tertain with a dinner party night, Dec. 26, at the Columbia Atay preceding the - Christmas | formal dance of the Euvola Club. Guests at the dinner will include Misses Peggy Trusler, Martha Jo Runyon, Marian Sturm, [Patricia Denham;Sylvia Pittman, irginia Goodrich, Sue Christena, nd Joan Dougan. Club members are Messrs. Andrew Diddel, Roger : Shéridan, Edward Taylor, Robert - Pitcher, Howard

; _ Burkholder, Jack Busch, Steve 3 Min ton, Robert Meyer and

Women’s League

On Merit System

A discussion of the merit system of national government, personnel administration and of merit vs. pa-

publication of the National League

of Women Voters. © The pamphlet, Federal Merit System,” has been ) written Jointly by Florence Kirlin, Congressional secretary, former exeeutive gecretary of- the league, and Betsy Knapp, program secretary. “What Does the Federal Government Mean to Your Community?” is. asked in the booklet and a way is suggested to find out by means. ef “amateur Selective work” by individual memIS. Statistics Given

“On June 30, 1938” states the booklet, “according to the Civil Service Commission, 66.1 per cent of the 861,926 civil employees in the executive branch of the United States government were subject to the Civil Service Act. Of the total number of these employees, only 115,599 work in the District of €olumbia; the remaining 736, 336 are employed: in other communities all over the United States and in foreign countries.”

In trying to find out how many of these employees are located in a community, what they are and what they do, the pamphlet suggests interviews wi fAicials in charge of Federal activities in the community, with employees and applicants for jobs to find out whether they are under civil service, whether their appointments are confirmed by the Senate, Why some are under the eivil service system and some are not, and hew those not under civil service got their jobs.

Given Lip Service

Commenting on the attitude of Congressmen toward the merit system, the authors state, “Lip seryice to the merit system has been the traditional Congressional attitude toward civil service proposals. Congress has seldom gone beyond verbal support to the point of taking action to improve the federal personne} system, and civil service extensions have, by and large, come from executive rather than Congressional, action. This has been the case even though a small number of Congressmen have worked aggressively for merit measures. In the past two or three years, however, a change in the Congressional attitudes has been noticeable, Issues vs. Jobs

Increased public pressure for a merit system has forced some Congressmen into open opposition to merit principles. This open opposition is evident from debate and action on the use of Senate confirmation in making appointments and on exemption of personnel in new agencies from civil service requirements. Some Congressmen have gone so far as to s Upport openly the patronage system of appointment to public office. Until political parties learn to depend upon issues net jobs to win elections, until a true sense of party responsibility is developed—assaults on the merit system will continue to be made with varying degrees of success.”

Job’s Daughters To Install Queen

Miss Rose Ellen Gray will ‘be installed as Honor Queen of Job's Daughters, Bethel 1, at a ceremony to be held at 8 p. m. Wednesday at Castle Hall. Other officers who will be inducted include Miss Ruth Billeter, senior princess; Miss Ellen Hubbell, junior princess; Miss Ruth Wise, guide; Miss Betty Jean Van Camp, marshal; Miss Jane Sylvester, treas- |: urer; Miss Kathryn Pavey, first messenger; Miss Margie Wise, second messenger; Miss Mary Kathryn Case, third messenger; Miss|’ Frances Spencer, fourth messenger; Miss Elizabeth Berry, fifth messenger; Miss Mary Alys Werkhoff, chaplain; Miss Phyllis Lee Werkhoff, recorder; Miss Alice Jean Little, junior custodian; Miss Dorothy Ann Billeter, senior custouian: Miss Nelda Jean Smith, librarian; Miss Esther Muegge, pianist; Miss Thelma Fuller, inner guard, and Miss Lou Ann Pfaff, outer guard. Miss Regina Koch, assisted by Miss Juanita Caldwell, chaplain, will act as installing officer. Other installation assistants will include Mrs. Mary Margaret Fly, guide; Miss Elva May Jones, marshal; Miss Mary Ellen Billeter, recorder, and Miss Rosemary McInturf, musician,

Day Nursery Board ‘Adds New Members

Several additional members will}; serve on the board of managers for the Indianapolis Day Nursery during the coming year. Appointments were made at a recent meeting. Those who will serye include Mesdames Fred Dickson, Marvin Lugar, Hugh G. Noblitt, Harold West and Ell Lilly.

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in almost every warlike nation have given children war toys for their|ine training. But whether the toy sal-| Pe cier actually does lead countries into war, or whether he merely follows the news by providing children with a timely plaything, the toy soldier is always in the foreground where the fighting spirit is strong.

Newest Toys Paraded

At Germany’s Leipzig toy fair this spring, newest military toys were or parade, and more realistic than ever. German children for their holidays gifts may have such playthings as these (we say German children, because Germany’s once outstanding toy trade has lost so any foreign customers): - : There’s a metal soldier that throws a8 hand grenade: A spring inside hurls the grenade, and when it- strikes the object it explodes’ by means of a priming cap. There's a toy airplane bomb equipped with a siren and a device for producing a loud noise When the homb strikes. There's a supér-realistic tapk, that can be steered and that sparks when driving. ; As| for the toy soldier, he’s there in perfect uniform, Nazi soldiers are in the forefront, naturaliy, and Hitler in person. Portrait figures nave always led toy armies. A little figure of Caesar was once dug ap from an ancient grave, and he may | not have been the first modeled celebrity for war play.

Pliable Figure Shown

What really is new in German toy soldiers is a pliable plastic figure. By bending arms, legs, and heads of these toy images, the child can make ‘hem goosestep, crawl under barbed wire, charge with bayonets or act Whatever role occurs to his imagination, A toy airplane which drops minja‘ure bombs that explode when landing is not new this year. German toy makers introduced that in 1937. In America, talk of national defense has come rather late to pep up war-toy production for Christmas. Manufacturers in this country have featured other types of toys in recent years, in keeping with peaceful sentiment. The toy soldier exactly become dusty, or rus on the shelf, But he has enjoyed little publicity, Military toy sales \have amounted to only about one cent of toy totals, according 1936 estimate.

Toy Shop Preparedness

Unsettled conditions abroad, however, have brought a certain amount of preparedness this year into toy shops, The American child can have a bombing plane, amphibian or a United States battle cruiser, all of up-to-date modeling. He can even experiment with remote control ef battleships in a tank, with coast defense guns to give incentive to the ship maneuvers. The more toys from the past that archaeologists bring to light, the more evident it becomes that toys are often a key to the sentiments of an era or a people. According to a French commentator, ancient Egyptians showed their lack of enthusiasm for fighting by the peaceful toys they habitually gave their children. Clay horsemen and archers have. been found in Egypt's tombs, but he argues that these were not generally playthings, They were, rather, some

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India Toys Peaceful

Peaceful, too, were the toys of fhe toy-making town in India, unearthed several years ago. Although this ancient settlement turned out quantities of clay animals, marbles, | ¥ whistles and carts to unload, the archaeologists who unearthed the ancient stock did net mention finding toy soldiers or their fighting gear. Since the town had no walls for its defense, we may judge that it throve in a peaceful time. °

A toy ox-cart found in this 3000 B. C. town of India is in contrast with a miniature war chariot of 2800

Mesopotamia. Made with the pas-: sion for detail that seems to seize makers of war models, the threeinch war chariot is equipped with nonskid tires in the form of copper studs, and is rigged for four asses to draw it, By the time Greeks and Romans

were making miniature conquests,

far from famous Troy, for example, canny toy makers were turning eut Trojan horse novelties, in the form of wonden horses fo hold a small army of Homeric warriors, something like our modern Noah's Ark toys.

people of the Middle Ages in Europe seem to have provided scantily for their children, so far as toys were concerned. What toys have been found are chiefly militaristic, a natural outcome of an era that made fighting its most absorbing occupation. 3

Played With Model Knights

Boys who hoped to be knights or faithful attendants of knights, when they grew up, were given wood lances and shields, so that they could become accustomed to handling weapons. Families able to afford such things gave a young son beautifully designed toy soldiers of bronze or silver, Toy soldiers in that day meant, of course, knights in full armor mounted on horses in armor and equipped with long lances. By ‘pushing the fighters to and fro, or manipulating them with strings, “boys | could maneuver an encounter of two knights and, using lances of soft wood, they could achieve the realism of a splintered weapon. ' Efforts to banish the toy soldier and his fighting gear have never been successful. In 1932 the Dominican Republic proposed to the League of Nations Disarmament Conference that all countries stop making warlike toys.. The motion died in the Committee on Moral Disarmament. Peace agencies have hoped that some inventive genius would produce toys to de-bunk war glamor. They are still hoping. Meanwhile, educators and psy=chologists seem none too certain whether toy soldiers are a menace or nothing to get excited about. It is hard to measure the extent to which games may have shaped a grown man’s personality.

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Betty Jane Mosiman gave Saturday evening at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. K. M. Mosiman, inhomes of youngsters, the | cluded the Misses Betty Lieber, Marlittle tin soldiers—only now they are often little plastic soldiers or molded |garet Noble, Patricia Smith, Pris-

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Guests at the dinner party Miss

and Patty Casler and Messrs. Myron David Craig, Robert Marschke, Robert Stackhouse, Arthur Gipe, Fred Lloyd and William Patrick. The Misses Barbara Jean Johnson, Barbara Frantz and Sue Anne Eveleigh, who have returned from Mount Holyoke College to spend the ‘holidays with their parents here, will be guests of honor at the Mount

at the Propylaesum. Mrs. Archer Sinclair is club president and Mrs. John E. Hollett Jr. is luncheon chairman. Among Indianapolis girls from Rockford . College, Rockford, Ill.

Miss Julia Ann Belknap, 4551 Carrollton Ave. and Miss Helen Web-

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LONDON, Dec. 19 @. P)).—Seottish farmers go to the polls Wednesday to vote on whether British forey should follow the lines by Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain or by the Duchess of Athell, whose ho Scie of dictators pos £8 earned her the name of “Red

West-Perth Parliamentary Divisjon is the first real test by balot of ‘the. foreign policy inaugurated by Chamberlain at the four-power conference af Munich where he undertoek a program of general Euro-

nt. The outcome of the voting is expected to- throw light on the attitude of the British public-—almost three months after Munich—toward further efforts to deal on friendly

proposed by the Prime Minister, The Duchess. is definitely on the other side of the fence. Her adyocacy of a firm stand against dictators and her support of the Leyal-

“Red

a seat as a conservative member. of Parliament for 15 years.

Opponent Pro-Chamberlain

Last November she resigned her seat because’ she could no lenger Bgtes with the Chamberlain foreign Iarticularly in regard to Spain, & he immediately announced that ‘she was contesting the byelection as an Independent. The Duke of Atoll resigned the presidency of the ‘Unionist (Conservative) Association in the division in order to support his wife against the regular Censervative candidate. The 64-year-old Duchess, who looks more like an old-fashioned school mistress than she does like the premier Duchess of Scotland, has only one opponent, W. McNair Snaddon, a prominent farmer chosen by the pro-Chamberlain Conservatives. Mrs. C. A. McDonald, wife of a Perth parish clergyman, the Liberal candidate, withdrew. Fought Suffrage The. Duches is small, slim and packs enough energy into her 112 pounds for a couple of heavyweight boxers. She fought against suffrage for women, yet was one of the first women membpers of Parliament and is the only Conservative woman to have held a Government post, tha) of Parliamentary Secretary to the Board .of Education. 2 In 1931 she was writing and speaking strongly. against Soviet Russia, yet two years later she advocated admittance of Russia to the League of Nations and today she insists that Moscow must not be excluded from international councils. She opposed the Government en the India Bill granting self-govern-ment, but she had refrained from

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