Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 March 1943 — Page 18

Goucher College Plorwrise to Be Guests of Mrs. Harry D. Case

. MRS. HARRY D. CASE

will entertain the Goucher

®iCollege Aluninae club with a 1:30 o'clock dessert-luncheon "Saturday. Plans will be made then for a spring party, ~ for the Tudor hall and Indianapolis high school seniors, hich will be held Dext month in the home of Mrs. Her-

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The Indiana Artists club will have a business meeting and “a :buffet supper at 8 p. m. March 27 in Elmer E. Taflinger’s studio. A nominating committee will be chosen at: that time for the election

‘fzswhich is to be held late in April.

aT Return From School

¢ MISS MARJORIE GEUPEL a ‘Miss Helen Marie Madden “iyill return home next Thursday “from Connecticut College for Women to spend spring vacation 25ith their parents. Miss Madden is the daughter of Mrs. Frank S. Dowling. Mr. and Mrs. Carl M. “~Geupel are Miss Geupel’s parents.

Miss Phyllis Heidenreich, daughter of Capt. and Mrs. George Heidenreich, recently = was elected president of the ¥Y. W..C. A. of £ Denison university, Granville, O. 5 ~ junior, she is a member of ppa Kappa Gamma sorority and is the student adviser in the dormitory for’ freshman women.

Sylvia Pittman Engaged

THE ENGAGEMENT of Miss Sylvia Browning Pittman to Howard C. Burkholder has been announced by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George W. Pittman. Mr. Burkholder is the son of Mrs. Sela Burkholder. The wedding will be in the early summer, ¢ Miss Pittman is a senior in ~ “/Purdue university and a member . -iof Pi Beta Phi sorority. Mr. Burkholder is completing his training in the army air corps reserve at Purdue. He is a member of Alpha * Tau Omega fraternity.

“Dance Assistants Named

ASSISTING Mrs. William Byram Gates at the annual supper dance of the Junior assembly " tomorrow night will be Mrs. Eugene Brown, Mrs. David Nash and Miss Elizabeth Weiss. The party will be from 8:30 to 11:30 o'clock in the Indianapolis Athletic club. The committee in charge will include the Misses Shirley Amos, Patricia Fultz, Anita Hancock, «Marjorie Kroeger, Marjorie Bain ‘and Ann Pearson and William - ~_ VanLandingham, Henry Taggart, =.Robert Plummer, Dudley Pfaff ~ and Joseph Dorrell.

Club to 0 Begin

new tu & will be . a soon by the Indianapolis tal Assistants association. . At the meetings to be held on alrnate Tuesday nights, the material . $0 be covered will include technical | Subjects and office technique. The first topic, “Telephone Personality,” g £o be studied at a meeting at the iBell Telephone Co. Match 30. % New officers elected recently by the group. include Mrs. ‘Rosalyn Berg, president; Mrs. Glenn Short, vice president; Miss Virginia Bates, secretary, and Mrs. James C. Bagley, publicity chairman.

Auxiliary to Meet i The monthly meeting of the auxiliary to Typographical Union 1 will be held at 8 p. m. tomorrow in - #he home of Mrs. Edgar Perkins Jr., 85149 E. St. Clair st.

Woman’s Viewpoint— ‘Fashions Are - An Obsession In America’

By MRS. WALTER FERGUSON Times Special Writer

DOES THE SCRAMBLE to buy clothes stem from an exaggerated opinion of their worth in the minds of American women? How can we otherwise interpret the shameful

behavior of many people in recent weeks while rumors of rationing § went fhe rounds? We aren't the only naughty ones, of course. ¢ Australian women rushed their shops and stores in fear of shortages, and, according to a frank confession : by the British, the complete surprise of their rationing order was the only thing that prevented England’s ladies from stampeding. The love of finery is latent in the feminine consciousness, and the owner of a men’s shop tells me his sex is almost as sad, aithough perhaps less noisy abcut its hoarding. Clever promoters have sold us the idea that smart clothes make the woman in business, the professions, the home or society. So, fashions are an obsession with us. Countless women in the immediate past spent far more time improving their bodies than their minds. A new dress was a necessity — a new idea a wisance. . 2 2 2

AS FOR OUR_souls and hearts,

in the rush of getting manicures land permanents and keeping up with changing styles, they were very .imuch neglected. It was considered _ |indelicate to mention them in polite

circles, our attitude being similar to that of the garly Victorian ladies on the subject of legs. Today we face questions which will require the full use of all our mental and spiritual faculties. Clothes can lift our morale, but never solve our -problems. American newspapers and magazines have done a great deal to build up the belief, that a woman’s dress ‘is always more important than her ideas, if she has any. Can you imagine reporters giving more space to a man’s costume than they give to his opinions? Yet all ‘our publications do that where women are concerned. : Maybe clothes rationing, if it comes, will bé good for us. It may teach us to put first things first in our lives, and to value the individual for herself rather than the elegance

of her gown.

SHOES, THIRD FLOOR

MILLER

WH ISTLESTOP for Today's

PIONEER WOMAN

Today's pioneer woman- doesn't sven »

have a covered wagon fo ride in—

she walks and stands — doing a

job fo release a man.

She

knows that I. Miller's "Whis-

* Hestop"” gives “her work.

energy and smart looks.

~ Unlined oxford with Yeinch full : 2 “platform and 1%inch Cuban heel

{was elected president of

Mrs. R. B. Long, first an

RT, Pa, March

She is the last literal Daughter and faith.

about Tunisia and the Solomons. . ‘It's .an abiding: conviction with her that living for most people grows better as the decades pass. Once, she molded her own wax candles; then she had, successively, kerosene lamps, gas, electric lights She has seen travel quicken magically; she has used river arks and canal boats, stage coaches, horses and buggies, railroads, automobiles, airships. She pulled lint and spun to make bandages for civil - war soldiers; now her neighbors in modern texile factories turn out parachute silk, for flying soldiers, -at incredible speed. sz = = : “IN ONE WAY,” she says, “people are not so happy as they were. They live so fast nowadays, and it takes so much to make them happy. In another way, though, people are happier. ‘They have so much more. ”» Longevity runs in her family— her father was 77 when she was born. Her own menfolk have been in four wars besides the revolution . +» in the civil war, her brother; the war of. 1812, her father; the world war, her two grandsons; and now two great grandsons are just about to go. : None of: those, died in war, however, and her father outlived three wives. His father, Conrad Knight, enlisted in the revolutionary forces

of the American Revolution.

Mrs. Gregory's face. is deeply wrinkled. But she holds her head high. And her sharp blue eyes look on people with clarity, tolerance

Her mind is darting nowadays . . . it skips swiftly: from the stories her father told her about Valley Forge, to today’s newspaper headlines

in 1777. He. also was a widower, and insisted upon taking his son, Richard, to war with him. Richard Knight, 11, thus became a drummer boy in Capt. John Beatty’s fifth Pennsylvania battalion. Both Richard and Conrad were with Washington at Valley Forge— Richard, half a century later, recalled the cold, sickness and starvation of the barefooted winter of 77, to his daughter, Mrs. Gregory. Anne Knight was born at Liverpool, Pa., on March 23, 1843. She attended a select boarding school,

Last Actual D. A BR. to Mark 1 00th B irthday

ARGUERITE YOUNG MazQUERH Writer 3 18—Mrs. Anne Knight Gregory, marking her hundreth birthday next week in the midst of the fourth war of her lifetime, says, “I hope to goodness that when this war ends, people will fix things up so that everyone will live well and happily together.”

Clubs—

|Garden Club

Will Hear

{Floyd Bass

Nature Study Club To Meet Saturday

- A guest speaker will entertain one club group meeting tomorrow. The GOLDEN GLOW GARDEN club will have Floyd Bass as its ‘|guest speaker at 1:30 p. m. tomorrow. He will talk on the “Proper Division and Transplanting of Per-

Ralph Mason, 1315 W. 31st st.

Motion pictures gn entomology, from the Museum of Natural History in New York, will be shown for ‘the NATURE STUDY club at 8 o’clock Saturday night in Cropsey

ennials.” The hostess will be Mrs.|

Miss JoAnn Kraeszig is president of the Young Ladies’ Sodality of St. Catherine’s Catholie

the Freeburg academy, and at 18

Gregory, a banker, of Selinsgrove. ! ss = =

{she married Benjamin Franklin

MRS. GREGORY calls herself a

Democrat. (“Roosevelt’s got plenty of faults, like the rest of us, but I like him.”) She has taken no special care of her physique, and has been sick rarely. As a young woman, she was told by a doctor that she had tuberculosis; she went out west for several months, and hasn't heard

of the disease since. Last time she

had a doctor was four years ago, when she was threatened with pneumonia. She eats everything, is ‘fondest of porterhouse steak, waffles and sausage, sauerkraut and spareribs. Her only “medicine” is a teaspoon of whisky, port or sherry now and then. She drank three cups of

Mrs. Anne Knight Gregory's father was at Valley Forge and in

coffee daily, cut this down to two when rationing came. She never smoked because she felt it “looks too rough” but if others want to— let them, she says. She is up at dawn. She dresses herself, walks about her bright, simply furnished room with pictures of George and Martha Washington on the walls, then sits in her straight chair and reads, or

the war of 1812, and she has lived during four more wars. the century mark, she hopes to see the beginning of an era of peace.

Now at

takes a nap. She may nap gain after luneh. At about 90, she got her second sight, and for ears could crochet and do ngedlenoint without glasses. She is hari of hearing now, and, she - admits, weary at times. What's kept. her healthy and happy? “Being busy,” she supposes. “I was always doing something.”

War Service Survey Being Compiled

In order to determine the extent of war service performed-by Indianapolis clubwomen, the. seventh district, Indiana Federation of Clubs, of which Mrs. R. PF. “Grosskopf is president, is mailing out questionnaires this week to all club presidents. . The clubs are being asked to keep a record of their war service for their club histories and also to make certified applications for U. S. treasury merit certificates which will be awarded to clubs at the April meeting of the district federation. A complete report of the club war service records will be made at the April meeting by Mrs. Grosskopf. This report will be included in a history of the district federation now being compiled for the General Federation of Women’s Clubs. Mrs. Frederick-G. Balz, past district president, is a member of the history committee of the general federation.

To Receive Pins

War service pins will be awarded to" Mesdames Calvin Perdue, Louis Markun, Rose Lee Farrell, J. Francis Huffman, William C, McGuire, H. W. Dragoo, O. F. Wadleigh, Russell Machael, W. D. Keenan, Edna Barcus, Myron Spring, E. L. Burnett, Thomas Hindman, Henry Os-

Efroymson at the meeting of the district = federation tomorrow in Ayres’ auditorium at 10 o'clock.

the April meeting. V. C. Freeman, associate dean of the Purdue School of Agriculture, will speak on “Agriculture and Democracy” and A. A. Irwin, assistant county agricultural agent of

“| the Purdue agriculture extension

service, will speak on “How and What to Plant in Your Victory Garden” at the meeting tomorrow. Stephen Burich will talk on “Corrective Posture.” The program was arranged by Mrs. Calvin Perdue,

trict war service department, and Mrs. V. W. Dean, a member of the health committee. Members of the Newcomers and Officers Wives clubs have been invited to attend.

On Committees

Hostesses will include Mesdames Leonard Murchison, H H. Armnholter, Louis Markun, Earl Neill,

and Merritt E. Woolf. Mesdames Robert H. Pyle, C. v. Montgomery, E. A. Kelly and J. H. Lombard will serve on the door committee and as pages, Mrs. Howard Spurgeon and Mrs. John Guthrie - will serve at the registration desk. Penny art fund and musical penny funds will be accepted by Mrs. R. C. Hiller. Mrs. Grosskopf and Mrs. Alvin C. ~ Johnson, . president: and vice president, will-preside. ..

Officers Announced Mrs. M. E. Elstun recently. was elected president of “the Tielian club for a two-year term. . Other officers who will serve with! her are, Mrs. Joseph ‘L. Conley and: Mrs. E. A. Carson, first and second vice presidents; Mrs. Bertram Riffie.and Mrs. Car] Steeg, recordihg gnd corresponding secretaries; Mr4. Katherine Tucker, treasurer; and Mrs.

| John F. Engelke, director, | eet eat

Heads Club ~~. |

trom, Laurencé Hayes and Charles} °

Pins will be awarded to others at|

agriculture chairman of the ‘dis-|

C. A. Rosecrans, C. R. Gutermuth|:

12 Camp Atterbury ‘Day Rooms’ Furnished by Local Groups; Project Nears Completion

Twelve Indianapolis organizations have furnished “day rooms” at

Camp Atterbury this week, bringing

the total to approximately 300 rooms.

The project, which, has been sponsored by the Indianapolis Council of Women, will be completed within the next few days according to Mrs. Maxwell Droke, chairman. The personnel department of the P. R. Mallory Co. furnished one of the rooms with Miss Vivian Hill as general

Two- Way Dress

Young esdabouls will certainly go for this two-piece dress in a big way. That’s not surprising for it is darling whichever ‘way it’s worn—as a suit or sports dress. Note the colorful binding and how it emphasizes the youthfulness of the wearer. Pattern 8376 is in sizes 10, 12, 14, 16, 18 .and 20. ‘Size 12 dress with jacket takes 41% yards 39-inch material, 5% yards bias binding to trim. For this attractive pattern, send 16 cents! in coins, with your name, address; pattern number and size to The Indianapolis Times Pattern Service, 214 W. Maryland st. Sewing seriously? Then yo'll want, at once, our new sewing guide and pattern book, Fashion. This engrossing 52 page book contains new. patterns, patterns for remaking old clothes, - sewing “hints, information on fabrics, colors and fasions, The price is 26 cents.

Mrs. Herrmann Is Chosen. New Regent

Mrs. _

Perry Morton chapter of ‘the ‘national society, “Daughters of the Union 1861-1865, Inc. Other officers ‘chosen: were: Mes-

dames E. C.. Rumpler; C. J. Finch

and A.D. Bowen, first to third .vice

regents; Mrs... Walter . Baxter - and

Mrs. Walter Weimer, recording -and corresponding secretaries; Mrs. M. V. Turner, historian; Mrs. William

1 Clifford, registrar, and Mesdames

Mrs. Francis H. Insley recently e Irvington Woman's club. er: new officers are Miss Lola B. Corjner and second vice presidents; Mrs. Norma Shortridge, secretary, and Mrs. } Brandt F. Steele, treasurer. The has voted to devote alternate eetings to Red Cross sewing. Ag at

: Postpone Meeting

The meeting of the Fall Creek

[Garden club which was to have

May VanNatta, Homer Hills, M. D Didway and Mary : Hedges, directors. Mrs. Lee Reed and Mrs. Robert- Waterbury were eglaied directors.

Meeting Called

A special meeting of all 11th district American Legion auxiliary presidents and war activity chair-

mens hus beets elle] by Mis: Ruth

sse E, Herrmann. is: the newly elected 5 of the Oliver

chairman. Mrs. Charles H. Barklay is president of the Wy-Mo-Dau Literary club which also furnished a room. Mrs, Edward C. Wischmeier was general chairman. Other groups working on the project this week included the Venetian chapter, International Travel-Study club with Mrs, M. B. Dunn chairman; Indianapolis Post 4, American Legion Auxiliary, with Mrs. E. P. Brennan, Mrs. J. P. Couchman and Miss June Goodrich, chairmen; Silent Workers club, Mrs. T. S. Sedwich, chairman; Juvenile Detention Home auxiliary, Mrs. Earl Robbins, chairman; Prank TF. Strayer auxiliary 1405, V. F. W., Mesdames Caroline Cook, Pearl: Landers and Luella Beck; chairmen. J

Additional Groups

association, Walter Bradford, Charles Sturm and Mrs. Millard ‘Madden, chairmen; ‘Ladies’ auxiliary, Fraternal Order of Police, Mrs.

{Roy MeAuley, chairman; personnel ‘| department of the . Railroadmen’s

Federal Savings & Loan association,

- | Misses’ Edith Morton, Inez Douglass

and Charlotte Kendrick, chairmen: Theta chapter, Phi’ Beta Psi soror-

* lity, Mesdames Donald Mochenross,

| Vivian 'Utterback and‘ Laurel Pohlman, ;chairmen,- and. -Epsilon Pi chapter, Delta Theta Tau sorority, Mesdames John Elwood Jones, Patil Stubbs and “Kenneth Stokes, chairmen. : Mrs, Donovan A. Turk, council president, and Mesdames Charles P, Voyles, Bert McCammon, J. Francis Huffman, Gilbert Forbes and Droke accompanied the group representatives to the camp.

Club Will Hold Benefit Party

A party for the benefit of the Children’s Sunshine club, Inc. will be given at 1:30 p. m. Monday in Ayres’ auditorium. Mrs. R. B. Straughn and Mrs. Harry German are co-chairmen. Their assistants will be Mesdames C. T. ‘Ralphy, W. J. Weaver, Ure Frazier, -John E. Hampton, Mary Clingenpeel and T. G. Evard. _ The club’s monthly luncheon bridge will be next Thursday in Ayres’ tearoom. Mrs. Garrett Kirby, chairman, will be assisted by Mesdames Walter Zimmerman, H. D. Kramm, J. P. Morarity and Miss Margaret Murray.

Invitations Issued

[For Leeture-Tea

- ‘Invitations were issued this week by the women’s auxiliary to the Indianapolis Medical society for the lecture and tea which they will sponsor March 26 at Ayres’ auditorium. The invitations were sent [to the presidents of all women’s clubs in the city. «The public is invited to hear the lecture which will be by Lieut. Col. F. C. Potter of the army medical ‘corps and chief of laboratory service

West. Michigan Street Merchants’|

Sororities— Founders’ Day Celebration To Be Planned

Business and social meeting; will be held by sororities this week. The ALPHA XI DELTA alumnae will plan their annual fourider:’ day program at a monthly dessert ineeting tomorrow in the home of Mrs. A. J. Pollock, 6405 E. 11th st. Jit the business session beginning at 7:30 p. m., a nominating committe:, will be announced. The assistant hostesses will be Mrs. Lewis Meier Jr. and Mrs. B. L. Tamney. All new members in the city may attend. A 7:30 o'clock social meeting of Zeta chapter, PHI DELTA PI, will be tonight at the home of Mrs. Richard Dininger, 1462 Lee st. Mrs. ‘Ruth M. Neff, 5114 Carr sliton ave, “will entertain Zeta chapter, PI OMICRON, at 8 p."m. lomorrow. The assistant hostesses will be Mrs. Burt Preston and Mrs. Jerry Means. The hostess for the monthly business meeting of Alpha’ chapter, OMEGA. PHI TAU, last night was Mrs. Arch ‘Wahlman Jr, 1142 N. Pennsylvania st. ; Miss Theresa Noel will be hostess for a business meeting of Alpha chapter, GAMMA PHI ALPEA, at

8:30. o'clock tonight in her home, 1911 N. Alabama st.

Mrs. Tinder Speaks At Conference “Mrs. Olive Enslen Tinder was in Bloomington ‘today to speak at the annual “careers with a futur:” vocational conference’ for Irdiana university women students.

Her talk this morning was on “Careers for Women in Radio.” The Association of Women Students

hall, central library. Dr. H. E. Heinrichs will be in charge of the meeting. W. P. Holaday, who was scheduled to speak, has entered the armed forces. Members of the club will meet Sunday at 1 p. m. in the Prather Masonic lodge social room, 42d st. and College ave. A luncheon will be followed by a round table discussion and a “That Reminds Me” party.

Mrs. Carl Withner, 26 N. Arlington ave., will be the hostess for the IRVINGTON FORTNIGHTLY club

Mutz and Mrs. Charles E. Teeters will talk on “Argentina” and “Juana Mansode Noranha.” Mrs. C. E. Byrket will be the assistant hostess.

A book review will be given by Mrs. O. E. Stanfield for the CULTURE club meeting tomorrow at the home of Mrs. Charles E. Remy, 5620 Broadway.

Sorority Furnishes Day Room at Camp

Alpha Epsilon chapter, Delta Theta Tau sorority, recently completed the furnishing of a day room at Camp Atterbury for the 130 members of the 44th WAAC company stationed there.

charge of the project were Mesand Benjamin Griffin’ and Miss De-

light Mock. Jones was chairm an.

furnishing at the camp.

Johnson-Davis Vows Read by

Rev. Sizemore

~The Rev. and Mrs. Ray S. John-

Christian church. Mrs.’

is the daughter of Mrs. Rosa Davis.

banked with ferns, palms seven-branched candelabra. Mrs. Dewey N. Henry played and Miss Dottie Vessels sang.

To Live in Dayton

camellias. and a corsage of roses.

Mr. Reed. A reception at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Weddle followed the service. Assisting the hostess were Mrs. O’Brien and Mrs. Edward Oholorogg. The gouple will be at home in Dayton, O., where the Rev. Mr. Johnson is pastor of the First

Clrisiisn church.

meeting tomorrow. Mrs. Harold W.|-

Members of the committee in’ dames Paul E. Stubbs, K. E. Stokes . Mrs. John Elwood The room is one of 300 which

member organizations of the Indianapolis Council of Women are

church, which will sponser a roller skating party at Riverside rink tomorrow at 8 p. m. Miss Kraeszig also is serving as chairman for the wi

Altrusa Club Dinner to Be Tomorrow

John A. Bekker, head of the economics department at Franklin college, will be the speaker tomor= row night at a 6:30 o'clock dinner meeting held by the Alfrusa club at the Columbia club. ak His topic will be “Soviet: Union in the World Crisis” The speaker is a native of Crimea and spent nis ‘childhood in the Ukrsine near the Black sea. He was in Russia at the time of the 1917 revolution. In 1928 he escaped to China from Siberia and later visited in Korea and Japan before coming to this country. He has been engaged in research work, teaching, writing and lecturing and recently spent some time in the Scandinavian countries doing research work. He has served as counselor with the U. S. office of education in Washington. He also has made lecture tours under the auspices of the Adult Education council, Chi= cago; the International Relations speakers bureau, the Institute of International Understanding of Rotary International, and the Ine stitute of Pacific Affairs. : The program will be sponsored by Altrusa’s international relations

‘| committee. Miss Irene Boughton

is club president.

Officers Announced By P.E. O. Chapter

Mrs. Amos Michael is the new president of Chapter S, P. E. O. Sis= terhood. Other officers chosen ree

‘son are on a wedding trip following cently include Miss Donna Alles, their marriage at 8:30 o'clock last|vice president; Mrs. R. K. Lewis night in the University Heights|and Miss Louise McCormick, reJohnson |cording - and corresponding ~ secre= was Miss Olive Lucille Davis. She|taries, and Miss Bettina "Johnson,

treasurer.

The Rev. Foster G. Sizemore read| Also, Mrs. Russell Barton; chap-

the ceremony before an altar|lain; Miss Doris Flynn, guard; Mrs. and | Roy Souder and Mrs. Michael, dele-

gates to council; Mrs. John Jefferson and Mrs. Michael, delegates to state convention, and Mrs. R. H. Warren and Mrs. M w. Pickett,

‘The bride wore a dressmaker suit alternates. of powder blue. with accents of white: Her corsage was of white Leaves for South She was attended by Mrs. Hullman Reed, who wore a beige suit with turquoise accessories | S00, James Jr., have left for El Paso, Denver| Tex., to join ‘Lieut. ‘Voyles who is Sizemore was the best man and the| stationed at Ft. Bliss. Mrs. Voyles ushers were Charles O’Brien and has been here with her parents, Mr,

Mrs. James H. Voyles and -hep

and Mrs. W. H, Ober.

In New York

Mr. and Mrs. Roderick Keeney, 1508 Broadway, are spending a week in New York. With them is Mis Mary Keeney of Oinciunsdlf Mr Keeney's sister. s