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Meets ‘Old Friends, Some New Ones In Washington

Describes Visit to Historie Gunston Hall, Other Traditional Landmarks Near Capital

By KATY ATKINS NEW HAVEN, Conn., Apr. 21—This past week I

have been in Washington where I had a visit with my mother, a look at the still pretty cherry blossoms and an

opportunity to pick up the threads of old friendships and to meet some interesting new people.

The MacArthur affair was at white heat.

Two minutes

after I reached the Senate gallery Sen. Capehart rose to speak

which was lucky timing for me.

In the House 1 was fortunate enough to find Charles Brownson, Cecil Hardin and Ralph Harvey all at one swoop, and through Chuck, to meet The Indianapolis Times Washington correspondent, Dan Kidney, and our new managing editor,

Don Robinson.

Mr. Robinson will be joining the staff soon and- will be a

delightful addition to the city. Chuck and Nell and John Joss came to supper Sunday evening with former Sen. Hiram Bingham and Mrs. Bingham. Nell has just taken a job in the blood recruitment program with the D. C. Chapter of the Amerfcan Red Cross. Since Mrs. Bingham heads that service, it was a fortunate, though unplanned, meeting for both Nell and Mrs. Bingham. It was disappointing to find that Marianne Wild who is head of staff aids in the D. C. Chapter was out-of-town as I should love to have seen her. One lovely day we went to Gunston Hall, built in 1755 for George Masoh, author of the Virginia Declaration of Rights. : mins This house, well known to architectural students of the Colonial period, is in the custody of the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America and is being restored under the direction of the Board of Regents of Gunston Hall.

Visited Wilton ANOTHER DAY we drove to Richmond and since time was terribly short, settled for just a visit to Wilton. In 1935 this house was moved to a new site on ‘the James River and faithfully rebuilt by the Colonial Dames of the State of Virginia. Wilton was built in 1753 for William Randolph III. The dignity and proportions of the rooms strikes one at once. Of the two rooms on each side of the hall, the drawing room is naturally the most important. The chimney piece of Carrara marble, flush with the

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wall, and the paneled alcoves on each side, entered through archways and lighted by narrow side windows, are the most notable features of the room. 2 n as THE BEDROOMS have similar alcoves but the addition of doors made them wash rooms, comfqrtable because they drew heat from the fires in the main rooms. The master bedroom {is on the ground floor and has a twisting narrow stairway leading from it to the nursery directly above. The embroidered spread on the bed in the master bedroom was donated by a member of the Virginia Society. It was made in four strips by her great-grandmother and her three sisters. When it was finished, a neighbor was called in to judge which of the strips was the finest with the understanding that the completed spread should” belong to the girl who had done the best

work. How fortunate for Wilton that this lady had such

a deft great-grandmother.

Headed Back

WE REGRETTED not being able to call the Henry Millers or Stewart Wilsons that day but after paying hasty respects at the statues of great Confederate generals. such as Lee and J. E. B. Stuart, we headed back toward Washington and a stop at Kenmore House in Fredericksburg. This was the home of Fielding Lewis and his wife, Betty Washington Lewis, only sister of Gen. George Washington. It was built in 1752: «. Since 1930 many generous citizens have helpéd carry on the work of restoration, among them Mrs. Edmund Ball of Muncie. The. plaster decorations on the ceilings ‘and mantelpieces were exe-

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Park School Is Us

Project Begins In First Grade

By AGNES H. OSTROM “SQUARE PEGS in round holes.”

That is the vocational hazard an Indianapolis boys’ school on Cold Spring Road is trying to avoid through its current testing program. The testing program is a

feature of Park School's coun- *

seling program, based on scientific findings of the Character Research Laboratory of Union College, Schenectady, N. Y., begun here two years ago. In this age of increasing occupational specialization, keen competition, Park's faculty family is well aware vocational casualties can be as disastrous as war casualties. So for the first time this spring vocational tests have been open to all boys, from the first through the 12th grade.

Unusually Early AS DR. NORMAN B. Johnson, Park headmaster, points out, it is unusual for testing to start at such a low age level. In the past two years the tests have been given primarily to the high school age boys. “Now,” he explains, “we are working toward an accumulative record through the grades and high school to be surer of ourselves in counseling for a boy's profession.” While the program was open to every boy not all of them are being tested. Just as the counseling program at Park involves parental co-operation, so does the testing program. Parents and sons enrolled together. A boy fills out a rating and interest chart on himself, and so do his parents, individually, as well as his counselor. “That carries “out,” continues Dr. Johnson, “the closely bound parent, son’ and teacher, democratic counseling triangle, practiced at Park.” Some 52 enthusiastic families out of the 115-boy enroll-

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ment meet every other Monday night at school to learn about the tests and their personal role in the program.

Only School in U. S.

PARK is the first and only school. both in the United States and the world. outside of Union College, using this testing program. Gene Schwilck, Park counseling director, is in charge.

A University of Wisconsin - graduate, he has taken ad-

vanced work in Union. Other faculty members, particularly

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in the lower grades, are assisting in administration of the program. Some 25 hours are required for the more than 30 tests ranging in length from three minutes to an hour. This includes 20 hours of group testing, five hours of individual testing. Some of the tests are written, some oral. Others are based on performance. Three general areas are measured: (1) Intellectual development, {i.e., math profi-

UN Status Of Women Commission Seeks

Times Special

NEW YORK, Apr. 21—More women in public office . . . equal pay laws on the books-in more states: These are ‘two cherished desires of progressive

American women, says Mrs. Olive Remington Goldman, the United States representative to the United Nations’ Commission

on the Status of Women.

The 15 member commission, a part of the United Nations Economic and Social Council, will hold its fifth session here beginning Apr. 30. The meeting is expected to last from two to

three weeks. Mrs. Goldman, a distinguished educator from Urbana, Ill, is a Vassar College graduate and lecturer on foreign and civic affairs.

Like her co-members of the commission, she is passionately devoted to its reason for being: The betterment of conditions which have kept s0 many women in the world on the sidelines of progress. Formation of the commission is based on the principles behind the United Nations itself. The preamble to the Charter reaffirms “faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human persons, in the equal rights of men and wom-

en and of nations large and small.”

Some Progress

THUS IT has become one of the concerns of the United Nations to inquire into and seek to remove those measures of discrimination which still exist against women on account of their sex.

Many. such. disabilities. al...

ready were removed before the United Nations came into existence. During the last 50 years women have come to play an increasing part in the professions, in industry and in public affairs, and are gaining increasing recognition.

Junior Civic Production Is Work of Two Local Mothers

By JEAN ENGELKE

“A PROPER PRINCE AT THE PROPER TIME" is every

little girl's dream... And Mrs. Donald Hopping and Mrs. Harry A. May make dreams come true for their “Twelve Dancing Princesses,” Junior Civic Theater's production opening Friday. Almost a year ago the two put their heads together and started collaborating on their production of the favorite old

Grimm fairy tale. . Mrs. Hopping is responsible for the script . . . Mrs. May the lyrics and the music. The two have lived and moved ever since in a storybook mood while their show progressed. Reading version after version, taking out favorite parts, adding new characters, giving old versions a new twist, they have successfully put on paper the fanciful, lighthearted story of the

queen and king beset with the problems of having 12 daughters. Believing that over the shoulder of every potential writer stands someone who started him on his way, the two point grateful fingers to two of their former teachers. They are Miss Ella Sengenberger, who guided their first journalistic efforts in 1929 when they were Technical High School students working on the school’s Cannon staff, and Mrs. Jeanette Covert No-

lan under whom they both studied “Writing for Juveniles” in 1947 at Indiana Ex-

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IN THE INTERIM their paths separated. Mrs. May attended Indiana University. She then went on to the University of Wisconsin as a journalism major.

Returning to Indianapolis it was in 1943 Junior Civic produced her first three-act operetta “Dandelion Jubilee” later published by Row, Peterson and Co. of Evanston, Ill Duties as a housewife and being the mother of Steven, 9, and Elaine, 2, have kept her from doing much composing since. Carrying all music she composes in her head, she

FAIRYLAND'S WORLD—Lost in the taiz of the “Dancing Pr

Cynthia Hopping. Mrs. Donald Hopping reads the old favorite.

Times photo by Henry E. Glesing Jr, incesses’” are Steven May and

has had no formal music training. Her parents discovered when trying to' give her musical instruction, they were too late. She had already started to compose by ear. It has been that way ever since.

Entered Butler MRS. Hopping, on the other hand, entered Butler University and became active in all dramatic organizations. She later worked in the Irvington Presbyterian Mummers and the Irvington Dramatic Club. Her interest in Civic started with backstage work handling properties. Today she attributes her great interest in children’s plays to her Brownie Troop, which she took regularly for the productions. Late going with her own youngsters and their friends she learned the type of plays children respond to best. , Her youngsters, Cynthia, 10, and Phillip, 7, also kept her from getting her ideas on paper until Mrs. Nolan's instruction began giving shape and direction to her efforts. Since the “Nolan” class disbanded, the congenial group which formed there continued to meet monthly and discuss manuscripts of the members some of whom are professionals,

Join Forces AND SO IT was that after some 20 years the two met again. It was then they decided one day to join forces. This year they did it. “The Twelve Dancing Princesses” is the result. With such catchy songs as “A Proper Prince,” “One Dozen Daughters,” “Its All In a Point of View” and “The Enchanted Waltz” the tale is complete with magic dancing slippers, an enchanted island,

"12 handsome princes and a

somewhat frustrated though well-meaning father-king. And not to be overlooked are Cynthia Hopping and Steven May. They're both in the cast. Important parts? Certainly. Maybe not in length of time on stage, maybe not in words spoken. But . . . just ask them. They'll tell you, “It's our Mommies’ pI#y.”

Moreover, during the two world wars ‘their . services proved invaluable. Many more were employed in industry and new opportunities opened to them. They served in the armed forces and fought in resistance movements.

War Services AT THE INTER-AMERI-CAN Conference on the Problems of War and Peace held in Mexico City in 1945 it was recognized that women’s war services “proved beyond question their capacity to meet all the responsibilities of citizenship and of professional and vocational life.” But in spite of such recognition there are still many inequalities and anomalies in the position of women. It is the job of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women to make recommendations to the Economic and Social Council “on the promotion of ‘women’s rights 1n political, economic, civil, social and educational fields.” The provisional agenda for the forthcoming session will include a draft convention on the political rights of women, the status of women in public and private law, educa-

tional opportunities for wom- .

en, equal pay for equal work and recommendations for the improvement, on a national and an international scale, of the status of nurses.

Nazi Refugees

THE PLIGHT of women survivors of concentration camps, who were subjected, during the Nazi regime, to socalled medical experiments, also will be studied. At the end of each session the commission prepares a re-

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ing Unusual Vocational Testing Program For

Times photo by Bill Oates. PARENTS, TOO--Park School parents, as well as their sons, are being tested in the extensive spring program to measure the students’ vocational interest and aptitude. The tests Mr. and ‘Mrs. Alford C. Pollock Jr. (left), 5401 N. Capitol Ave., will fill in individually on their son is ex‘plained by Gene Schwilck, in charge of the testing program.

ciency, vocabulary, concentration; (2) special aptitudes, i.e. perception, drawing, mechanical analysis, and (3) character and personality traits, i.e. social maturity, initiativeness, dependability.

Profile Chart

IT IS IN the third area, observes Mr. Schwilck, that self, parent and teaching ratings are used most extensively. Boys and parents alike are

shown the test scores and a _

compiled profile chart, A

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Its Boys

Accumulative Record Kept

thorough interpretation is given. Finally separate inter-views-—parents and counselor, boy and counselor—are held Admittedly the tests have weaknesses. They are constantly being developed partly through a co-operative evaluation analysis between Park and Union College. But, they serve as a guide, are indicators to help a boy find his proper place in adult life. Today the U. 8. Dictionary of Occupational Trades lists more than 22,000 different occupations, about four times as many as existed 25 years ago. “Most boys are older when they get jobs now than a quarter century ago,” Mr. Schwilck comments. ‘‘They don't have time to experiment, to go from one position to another.”

Well Worth While THE FACULTY strongly feels the program, though expensive and time consuming, “is well worth it if we can help these boys establish themselves sooner in their areas of interest.” A three months program, the course for boys and their parents, will end in May. On the basis of the past two vears, Dr. Johnson declares, “It is too early to boast we've started boys on the way to success. But we have had striking instances of keeping our older boys from making mistakes in vocational choices.” It is the Park Sghool Mothers Association which each year sponsors the popular Indianapolis garden tour. It is set for May 12 and 13 this year. Proceeds go to the scholarship fund. Competitive scholarship examinations are open to eighth grade graduates. They will be held at 9 a. m. May 29 in the school. At the time of application a check is made ot the applicant’s conduct and scholarship record.

To Equalize Women's Rights

U. S. DELEGATE—Mrs. Olive Remington Goldman is the American representative to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women.

Select Judges for

Contest

Three Clothing Experts Named

Three Indianapolis clothing experts will act as judges in The Times Sewing Contest. Miss Betty DeVries, fashion coordinator for Block's; Mrs. Helen Haverstick, fashion coordinator of Wasson’s, and Miss Janice Berlin, Marion County home demonstration agent, will judge the more than 400 garments entered in the contest. Tomorrow is the only day entrants can deliver their garments to the Central Library, Pennsylvania and St. Clair Sts. Garments will be received in the library auditorium from 9 a.m. to 7p. m, . Out-of-town entrants may mail their garments to the library. Garments mailed must be received tomorrow, since judging will be done this week. Enclose sufficient postage for return of garments, Address packages to Times Sewing Contest, Central Library, St. Clair and Pennsylvania Sts. .

Blanks Available Entry blanks which must be attached to each garment, have been mailed to those who registered in advance. Additional blanks will be available at the library tomorrow. Anyone who has not sent in a registration coupon from The Times will be permitted to enter garments tomorrow, by registering at the library. ; The first place winner in’ each judging classification will win .$50, second place, $20. First place garments in each classification will be sent to New York where they will be judged with other winning garments from contestants throughout the country.

+I the national contest,

each first place winner :

~ receive $200 and a three-day

expense-paid trip to New York. In the classification for junior high and high school students, an additional award of $500 is being offered.

Money for Teacher

This money, $250 for each classification, will be given to the home economics teacher of the winning"

pupil. First place garments in. each of the eight judging. classifications will not be returned until June, after the judging in the national conAll other garments must be picked up by, contestants at Central Library between 6 p.m. and 9 p.m. on May 1. No garments will be returned before 6 p.m. that day. : Contest officials are make: ing plans for a display of all contest garments at which the public will be given an opportunity to sée the entries. Dates and the hours of the display will be announced in The Times. In 1048, Mrs. Virginia Holmes, an Indianapolis resident, was a first place winner in the original design group in the national contest. Mrs. Holmes won an expense-paid trip to New York. This year the first place winners in the national cone test will go to New York June 3 to 7. There they will see their dresses modeled by Conover and Powers models at a fashion show in the Sert room of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel. Winners will be guests at dinner and theater parties,

CHECKING THE DAY'S NEWS—Looking over the activities of women in the world's news at last year's session of the United

Nations Commission on the Status of Women are (left to right) Miss Minerva Bernardino, member of the Dominican Republic's delegation to the United Nations; Miss Ruth Tomlinson of the International Federation of Business and Professional Women; Dr. -

Alice Arnold of the World's Young Women's Christian, Association; Mrs. Hannak' S and Miss Cecilia Sieu-Ling Zung, China representative on the commission.

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