Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 February 1943 — Page 14
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THE CURRENT ADVENTURES OF MRS. MINIVER will be embodied i in a lecture, “Mrs. Miniver Carries
On,” to be given Saturday by Jan Struther Town, Hall audience in the English theater.
before the
Miss Struther is the author of “Mrs. Miniver, ” the
book that grew from a series of stories on the
typieal English family.
The Miniver stories originally appeared in the where Miss Struther was the only woman on the
life of the
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When Mrs. Miniver became the principal topic of London table talk, and everyone was guessing at the author's identity, the New Statesmen offered a prize for a satire on Mrs; Miniver. Jan Strutter won
the prize.
Luncheon wil Follow Lecture’ ¢ ; HER MOTHER WROTE poetry, books, stories. and: articles for
the London press and her father was chief liberal-whip in
parliament
from Scotland, in addition to being a director of the Suez canal. from the beginning both parents encouraged her writing efforts. She was educated in private schools and her first writings were _ Published in the Westminster Gazette when she was 14 years old. She was married in 1923 to a young Scotsman, Anthony Graham, . Since the outbreak of the war he has been a member of the Scots Guards and recently was captured by the Germans in Libya. They
nave three children, aged 16, 12
and 9. The two younger ones
are living with their mother in this country and the oldest son is a member of the Home Guards in England. The family home on the southeast coast of England was destreyed in the early days of the
war by German bombs.
"There will be a discussion luncheon in the Columbia club for
: Town Hall members and guests following the lecture at 11 o'clock.
Miss Mendenhall Is Shower Guest * A PERSONAL SHOWER honoring Miss Phyllis | Mendenhall,
_ laughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Homer M. Mendenhall, was given last
night by Miss June Dixon. Miss Mendenhall's marriage to Pfc. . Robert I. Eaton of the army air forces will be Saturday at Lowry * field, Denver, Colo, where Pvt. Eaton is stationed. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Eaton of New Bethel. : Guests at the shower were Mesdames Mendenhall, Eaton, Hartzel . Thompson, Roy Bever, Paul Wessel, Scott Uhland, James Evans, Jack - Taylor and Edward Beswick, Misses Mary and Bonnie | Jean Eaton, ' LaVaun Reehling, Mary Pressnall and Anna Virginia | jane Pauline
i | Mendenhall. - Personal Notes
: MR. AND MRS. H. 8. ALLEN will entertain Saturday night with a dinner party at the Marott hotel for 16 guests. They will be Messrs. and Mesdames J. E. Shewmon, A. C. Gerrard, Ernest Pfluin, . George Browne, George L. Glossbrenner, A. T. Wallace and William
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“Mis. Géorge William Mohr returned yesterday from (Ft. Benning, : Ga. ‘where she has been visiting Mr. Mohr. He is attending officers’ © sandidate school there. Before her marriage in December, Mrs. Mohr
| was Miss Joan Eileen Goldsmith.
She will return this week to
Indiana university where she is a student.
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Mrs. Lyman, Thompson is visiting her son, Lieut, Thomas H.
{ Thompson, in. Greenville, 8. C. She
plans to return in 10 days.
Club women have a musical program and travel talks setisdlilled for
! tomorrow.
The 1908 club will have a musical program tomorrow at the home of
, Mrs. C. C. Stump, 6446 Park ave.’
The AFTERMATH club will méet with Mrs. Alice: Koss, 3801 Carroliton ave. tomorrow to hear Mrs. Bertha Wright Mitchell's discussion
N amed for DePauw Dinner,
Mrs. Jane sinh Burroughs, |
head of the DePauw ‘alumnae board, has announced hostesses for the ~ glumni dinner Friday evening in the _ Roberts Park Methodist church. Members of the board who will . Serve are Miss Jane Allison, Miss Doris Wheeler, Mesdames Bure ~ roughs, C. Hollis Hull and June Moll Wilcox. | "Other hostesses are to be Mesdames Robert W. Clark, James M. den, James Costin, James Rud- * Barrows, Ruel Jenkins, Neal Grider, . Thurlough Stone, E. Carl Watson, Willlam Kinnally and Henry E. rom, Miss Mary Glenn Hamilton Miss Mildred Blacklidge.
Luncheon Tomorrow A covered dish luncheon will be
Sponsored by T. W. Bennett Circle
23 of the Ladies of the G. A. R. tomorrow noon ‘in Pt. Friendly. A business meeting will follow at 1:30 m. with Mrs. Claudia Erther pre-
“Maritime Provinces and the Mrs. Clayton
of Gaspe Peninsula.”
Ridge and Mrs. James H.- Brill will
be the assistant hostesses.
Red Cross sewing will take the place of lecture programs at BETA DELPHIAN club meetings the rest of this year. The group is to meet each Thursday at 3827 BE. Ohio st.
“Battle Fields at the Moment” is
to be the subject of Mrs. Ann Re-: pass’ talk before the THURSDAY: LYCEUM club meeting tomorrow!
with Mrs. Thomas D. Campbell | 3690 Central ave. Mrs. J. Blaine Hoffman wil v hostess tomorrow for an open meeting of the NORTH SIDE STUDY club and will review a book on Ecuador, “The Donkey Inside”
(Ludwig Bemelmaps) 4 for the program. :
Homemakers’ Club To Be Entertained
An all-day meeting will be held
tomorrow by the Liberty Gardens
Homemakers’ club at ‘the “home of
Mrs. Harold Green, Independence,
rd. A Valentine pafty will follow luncheon and a project’ lesson’ on care of household equipment will be given by Mrs. Robert Maples and
Mrs. Louis Bollinger. Mrs, Richatd |
Burgett will assist the Bostess,
Remarkablel” your . unk will say w ‘well your ‘WARM MORNING heater answers fu pr 5 It needs re-fusling. only ‘once hours 4 «iy is: clean, efficient .., . leaves kers sao and bogts a over. a wide sea, “See
NEW YORK, Era 17.~How any wives or s of expresidents of the United States still living? There are seven
Sou ‘that there is only. one living. ex-president. ~~ Mrs. Herbert Hoover and ‘the six widows of former’ presidents now live in. comparative retirement, but all are doing their part
helping the sale of war savings stamps and. bonds. :
MRS. BENJAMIN * HARRISON is the oldest’ of the presidents’ widows. It's quite likely you didn’t even remember her. She doesn’t care for publicity and livés quietly in a small New York apartment. Although she dresses in black, mostly, she is still interested in clothes, goes to concerts and plays, ‘and, this year, doesn’t mind riding on busses. Mrs. Harrison is 84 now, but takes a lively interest in the history that is being made today. She is active in promoting the sale of war savings stamps and bonds, declaring, “Each une of us can directly and immediately help our country by investing to the full extent of our ability.” You may not know Mrs. Thomas Preston, but you will recognize her former name-~—Mrs. Grover Cleveland. Frances Cleveland Preston now lives in Princeton,
{ N. J, where her husband is a
member of the university faculty. When she lived at the White House she was more popular than the president and war noted as a hostess. Now she lives quietly, but is still
‘in America’s war efforts, mostly in.
Mrs. Preston
a social favorite. She helps the poor, loves the summer theater and the movies. She also is an active war bond worker. One former first lady all will remember is Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt. Edith Kermit Karrow Roosevelt is now living with the Oyster
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before her marriage and now is a trustee ‘of tne schoul. ee MRS. HERBERT HOOVER,
wife of the only living ex-presi-
Mrs. Coolidge Mrs. Wilson Bay or “out-of-season Roosevelts.” Her four sons all went to the front in the first world war and Quentin, the youngest, was killed in action while serving as a lieutenant in the air service. Her sons and grandsons are serving in the current conflict, and today her
dent, lives with Mr, Hoover in their Palo Alto, Cal, home, She did pretty much as she liked while in the White house and still does. Lou Henry Hoover .ikes people— nearly all kinds—but she won't pretend to be a patroness of a cause she doesn’t rzally work for. So she, too, urges everyone to buy war bonds, “not as an investment, but because it is vital to win the
war.’
A. C. O. Books State Day Luncheon
The annual Alpha Chi’ Omega state day luncheon will be Saturday at 12:30 p. m. in the green room of the Indianapolis Athletic Sb with Miss Esther Yancey as ' general chairman. At the speakers’ table will be Mrs: George Walker, '$ president of Beta Beta, local alumnae - chapter; Mrs. - Ralph B. Clark, Mrs. Scobey Cunningham and Miss Estelle Leonard, three of Miss Yancey the sorority’s founders, and Miss Hannah Keenan, director of, the national office, Mrs. Ressle Fix and Miss Mary Marjorie Smead have planned a program. of readings and songs. Mrs. Fix will present an original| composition, “Calling Alpha Chi, 1-9-4-3.” Miss Smead will sing “A Heart That's Free” (Robyn), “Indian Love Call” (Friml) and will lead the group singing. Chairman of the hostess committee will be Mrs. O.- M. ‘Bowe, .assisted by Mesdames- BE. A. Kristufek, J. .W., Ingles and Robert K: Foust, The invitations committee .was headed by Mrs. Robert Palmer with Mesdames Vivian May, Edwin ‘Mower, Joseph J. Coffin and Miss Keenan, members.
Bride-to-Be Is Honored At Shower
Mrs. Paul J. Foltz gave a miscellaneous shower yesterday in honor of Miss Mattha Lou Matthews whose marriage to Capt. Louis E. Aull will be at 10 o'clock Saturday morning in Our Lady of Lourdes: Catholic churéh. The bride-to-be is ‘the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Bernard J. Matthews, 966 N. Graham ave. Capt. Aull’s parents are Mr. and Mrs. Edward Aull, 938 N. Ritter ave. Mrs. Foltz entertained in thesis home of her mother, Mrs. R. E. Higgins, 332 N. Bancroft st. Her guests, were .Misses Loretta Paetz, Betty Woodrum; Joan Petit, ‘Helen Fox, Helen Mahon, Marjorie Lauer, Eileen : Higgins; Raphael ahd Bernarda Matthews, Mrs, Matthéws and Mrs. Higgins.” : «Miss Mdry Cox, 990 N. Bolton ‘ave., also. gave a shower in ‘honor of Miss Matthews recently.
"Sorority to Give “| Patriotic Party
“A patriotic party will be given
| tonight for members and guests of Indiana Nu chapter, Delta Theta.
‘Cht sorority, in the chapter’s club-
: rooms, 122 E. Ohio st.
‘Mrs, ‘Charles Willis is to be in
|chatge of the party and will be as-
hs sisted by Mrs. Fred McCollum, Miss
‘Ruth Kaiser and Miss Ruth Grif-
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Guests are to be Mesdames
4 Vaughan ‘Bernier, Louise Smith and ~} Mary Alice Nelson, Misses Alice Mc- - tConaghay, Virginia Mallory, Martha “| Rinehart and Bess Van Deventer,
| Preceding the party a business
* | session will be held with Mrs, F. M.
whi they “see
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Most. presiding.
| Saenger-Chor Parties | The ladies of the Indianapolis|™ "| Saenger-Chor will sponsor card parties at 2 p, m. tomorrow and 7:30
p. m. Sunday at the Saenger-Chor home, 1238 Park ave.
Give Card Party Mrs. Hugh Escott was Y be in| charge of a card party sponsored by the Altar society of St. Phillip Neri Catholic church ab 2 o'clock this
first aid department. Abbott, Larry Brandon, Georgej—— Bischoff, Wesley Craig, William Evans, H. F. Qriffey, Charles Mosier, Evan B. Walker, and Mes dames Sheldon ‘Goodwin, Rudolph Grosskopf and Claude Risley. Designed to fit into the war éffort through promotion of manpower conservation, the course will deal
‘with means of preventing the most
common and hazardous accidents about the home and farm. Community leaders are expected to take instructors’ courses and later. conduct classes for Parent-Teacher associations, Farm bureau groups and home’ economiics clubs in rural and suburban areas. #''s's Organization of a home nursing class for men is announced by Miss Eva MacDougall, director of the Red Cross home nursing department. “A number of requests have been made for such a class,” Miss MacDougall said, “and since such classes have proved popular in other cities, we see no reason for not having one here, “In view of the domesfic servant situation and the scarcity of nurses for the usual civilian needs, it seems advisable for men to know simple home nursing procedure.”
Meet Downtown The men’s class will be organized
. lat: a downtown ‘location and will
begin as soon as a sufficient num ber of registratilons are made. Persons interested may call the Red Cross home nursing office. Two women’s classes will be opened in Irvington this week. One class will meéet Tuesday evenings from 7:30 to 9:30 with Mrs; Goldie Carter and Mrs. Janice Mitchell as instructors. : The other will meet Wednesday mornings from 9:30 to 11:30 with Mrs. Othniel Hitch as instructor. Those interested in enrolling may call Mrs. E. I. Bullock. & = ” Pive new classes offering the standard course in Red Cross first aid are scheduled to open this month. They will be held in the First Friends church at 7:30 p. m. tomorrow with Donald Cofield as instructor; in the Broadway Methodist church at #:30 p. m. Monday with Mrs. Dorothy Brinsley and El Williams; in the Irvington Methodist charch “at :9:30 a. m., Feb. 25,
with Mrs. Hilda Stafford; in the North Methodist church at 2 p. m.,
Feb. 26, with Mrs. Charlotte List, and in the southeast basement room of the world war memorial building at 9:30 a. m, Feb. 27, with Thomas Strouse
A total of 120 Fed Cross first aid certificates was issued in January, according to Ivan 8. Glidewell, di-
rector of Red Cross first aid and ac-
cident prevention service. Persons desiring to enroll in these classes: may contact the Red Cross first aid department.
Alumnae to Meet Miss’ Lucille ‘'Weidekamp, ‘president, will preside at a meeting 3 p. m. in the academy. Other new officers are Miss’ Dorothy
Jonas, vice president, and Margaret Suthy, ay tes
Sew for Red Croce
Hor $he Red Oroes..
Dance Friday
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of St. Mary's dlumnae Sunday at |
The John H. Holliday auxiliary of | the American Legion was to meet| § today .at the home of Mrs. R. B.|} Daly, 4646 Graceland. ave., rio sew,
Accident Prevention Program To Be Inaugurated by Red Cross Advisory Committee
Walter Barbour, chairman of the Marion County Farm bureau, has ‘been’ appointed chairman of a newly-organized Red Cross advisory and planning commitiee to promote a home and farm accident prevention program, according to Ivan 8. Glidewell, director of the Red Cross
' Other members of the committee are Miss Janice Berlin, Horace
Skating Party To Be Feb. 26
A skating party will be given by the youth council and cadettes of the Catholic Youth organization Friday, Feb. 26,, at Riverside rink. . Miss Ruth Pfleger and Miss Mary Flaherty are co-chairman of the social committee. The proceeds 3. to be used to continue various servicemen’s benefits.
Miss Pfleger
List Hostesses For Cancer Poster Exhibit
Mrs. Lylian Lee is chairman of hostesses for the cancer control poster exhibition on display in Ayres’ tearoom foyer through Saturday. Serving with her are Mesdames Kai Hanson, Ronald N. Hazen, Lindon A. Bailey, Wesley Coffman, Carl R. Reynolds, William Watson, Chester Robertson, Walter Riemer, M. Q. Christie, Carl Verbarg, Ray W. Retterer, Robert F. Buehl, Philbin E. de Got, Leonard Klatt, Hugh Robinson, J. Francis Huffman, C. J. nett, Lucile Emmerson, Laura E. Ray and Lowell Fisher.
Prize Winners
. Others are Mrs. D. G. Wylie and Mrs. Carl G. F. Franzen, Bloomington; Mrs. Bert F. Terry, Winchester; Mrs. W. W. Barlow, Anderson; Miss. Edith: Musselman, Denver; Mesdames Edward F. Hodge, Eldon Noe, Robért Quick and Irwin Cohee, Frankfort, and Mrs. Bruce Lane, Bainbridge, First prize in the exhibition was won by Miss Julie Richardson of
Crispus Attucks high school.
Card Parties Held Mrs. John J. Vaughn was to be in charge of card parties given by
olic church in the church hall, 265 N. Warman ave, at 2:15 and 8:15 p. m. today.
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Sororities— : OCD Speaker To Address Delta Zetas
Two alumnae group meetings appear on sorority calendars. Mrs. Bert ©. McCammon of the "county civilian defense office’ will be the speaker at a service meeting to be held tonight by the Indianapolis alumnae chapter of DELTA ZETA. Mrs. Harley T. Doub, 3385 Carrollton ave, will be the hostess at the 8 o'clock meeting. Serving on the arrangements committee with Mrs. Colin V. Dunbar are Mesdames Robert L. Campbell, Robert Shoemaker and ‘Glen Ferris. :
The Indianapolis aluiinse chapter of SIGMA KAPPA will meet at 7:30 p. m. today ‘at the home of Mrs. Harry A: May, 2010 E. St. Clair st. Mrs. ‘Louis A. Weiland and Mrs.
13. A. Mayherry will be the assistant ; hostesses, bese
"A business mesting. will be held tonight by Rho chapter, SIGMA BETA, at the home of Mrs. Forest Watson, 3035 Dexter ave.
entine “come as you are” Barty at '8 oclock tonight in the honie of Miss Patricia Quinlan, 2361 N. New Jersey st.
"An anniversary dinner will be given by Alpha chapter, DELTA PHI BETA, tomorrow. at 6:30 p. m. in the Colonial tearoom, 1433 N Pennsylvania st.
The Alpha chapter, PHI THETA DELTA, will meet tonight at 8:30 o'clock at Craig's.
Mrs. L. D. Owens
To Be Speaker
Mrs. L. D. Owens will give an informal talk on “Conchology” Friday evening following a buffet supper given by Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Williams at their home at 7 p. m. Frank N. Wallace, another of the dinner guests, will aswer questions on victory garden plans and educa« tion for conservation.
‘|hoys have been inducted into the
the necessary (food) production” |B The resolution did not suggest aj}:
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alone. home be the last to be sacrificed in
Farm bureau at the Claypool hotel. The resolution stated that the farm women were “willing to cons tribute all that is humanly possible” but that “since many of our farm
armed service, we feel that sufficient manpower is not available for
solution to the farm labor problem only in its inference that the taking of farm boys and labor into the service was creating it. Another resolution said that the organization believed that women with children at home can render the greatest contribution to national defense by making the care of their families and homes “primary obligations.” It asked that mothers “maintain | their stations as sentinels of their homes” and stated that ‘‘participation in war efforts is already resulting in juvenile delinquency, malnutrition and low social standards among children of mothers working in war industries.”
Other Resolutions
Other resolutions asked support of the: rural church, co-operation with the Red Cross and mainte= nance and improvement of educational standards. Included in the organization’s stand on education was a clause favoring federal grants-in-aid to state educational funds and another asking broader use: and further development of present library facilities. The conference, which opened yesterday, was to end. early this afternoon. The presentation of awards to winners in various competitions sponsored by the organization and an address by John Brandt, president of the National Co-Operative Milk Producers’ federation comprised the major portion of this morning's program. Winners in the public speaking contest for rural youth were Miss Patricia Miller of Johnson county, first; Miss Thelma Shepard of New Washington and Miss Loretta Roeschlein of Brazil, tied for second, and Elton Williams of Boone county, third. Miss Miller presented her winning talk at last night's banquet. She declared that the responsibility of maintaining a great democracy and of building true American citizénship rests on “the shoulders of rural youth. She proposed that the rural youth help build a better world on just three words—responsibility, respect and religion. '
Blackburn Speaks
R. W. ‘Blackburn of Chicago, executive secretary of the American Farm Bureau federation, told members yesterday that unity of thought, objective and action is as essential in attaining peacetime goals as in winning the war. He referred to what he termed the “blighting effects of political {control of education” and sald he had been horrified in the last year or -two -by “revelations regarding juvenile . delinquency in the large cities.” “The basic| cause of the situation,” he said, “has been a weakening of moral stamina and that has been due directly to lack of intellectual and spiritual discipline. Our national emphasis on material things| | has caused too many persons to regard a life of ease and comfort as their most important objective.
among other. things, the development of a sickly and anemic pacifism during the gaudy era that fol-
lowed world war I.”
This tendency was manifested by| unit 361, American Legion, will meet at 8 o'clock tomorrow night in the World War Memorial building. Mrs. W. O. Harper will preside.
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Indiana Farm Bureau Women Approve Resolution at Department Conference
By ROSEMARY REDDING .
f . Tdiais tam women. 1oday: voleedopposition’to any Polley 'Whieh {would fill the gap in the farm labor
shortage with women and children
- The opposition, in the form of a resolution, asked that the education of children, the health of women and the maintenance of the
an effort to win the war.
The resolution was among others passed this morning at the annual conference of the social and educational ¢ Sepayimsn Bt
DEAR JANE JORDAN--I am 18 years old and am going with a boy nf 22. We have been going steady since my 16th birthday even. though I knew that he often was unfail to me.
During the past” year I was sick. tin bed for three! months. He then
started’drinking and going with the
‘singer in a nearby tavern. He is
overseas now and this girl was at the station when he left. He acted as if ‘he cared for her and she for him. She is about 25 and of course
she is more grown-up than I am. . 1 love this boy and we plan to be
married when he returns. He said
if he ever heard of my going out he:
would not come back; so I have been sitting home like an old maid,
not wanting him to be hurt as I
was. He sent his mother a picture of himself’ and some girl who evidently lives near the camp where he was stationed before he left the states. She had the picture four weeks when he wrote me that he wanted me to see it. I have been true to him. for five months, but am very lonesome for companion. I started dating a
frelon I went to school with and he
is waiting his call to the army. Am I wrong in going with this fellow? I am not sure of the other boy's love because he never mentions it in his letters. Should I drop my new friend and sit home? 1 know that when he leaves for the army he will want me to write. Do you think this would be all right? I like him and I know he likes me. WONDERING AND WAITING.
Answer—Surely no girl in. her right mind would sit at home wait. ing for a boy overseas who doesti’t even make mention,of love in letters. More than that he showed his fe-
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gard for another girl at the station
before he left and invites you to look at snapshots of himself and another girl. If these aren’t hints that he is no longer serious, what are they? To be stire he said that if you went out with others he would not come back but this is a childish threat, born of his conceit; and has no foundation in fact, you may be sure. Did he say anything about not going out himself? He did net. You've gone with the boy too long and he has become a habit with you. You've had little experience with others and it is high time you began. Certainly you should write to the boy who is leaving for the army, and make other dates ‘When he is gone. To sit at home and wait for. a boy whose interest is not centered in ‘you is not to make him think more of you. On the contrary he will think less of you for your lack of spirit. Unless you want to be left out in the cold, make some new boy friends. ; JANE JORDAN,
Put your problems in 8 letter to Jane Jordat who will answer your questions in this column daily.
volun dally, mtemmrio Auxiliary Meeting
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