The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-04
Culture Is Found by Women
in Search for SeF-ExbreSsion
Many Lines of Endeavor
Are Represented by
Speakers.
BY JULIA BLANSHARD
MA Service Writer

MA service 0Eitt
CHAUTAUOUA LAKE, n. Y, July
4.-Woman's triumphant march out
of the home into successful business
and professional careers has been
the topic of many articles.
Nothing. however. crystallizes her
progress and summaries the chang
ing world, as ably as q mere listing
of Woman's vital interests today, in
comparison to what her sex vas
thinking about and doing with her
day a half century ago.
A perfect example Of this very
thing. in its way, is the f1fty-slXth
season of Chautauqua held here.
The women's activities give vivid
cross-section of the diversity and
scope of modern womans outlook
on life.
Seek Wider knowledge
When Chautauqua began in 1873
autos. movies. radios, women's maya
zines, airplanes, electric washers,
vacuum cleaners. mechanical re-
frigeration and million other lels-
ure-making devices and leisure-flll-
ing pleasures we're undreamed of.
Womens place literally was in the
home and her interests we're her
husband. children and church.
Today 100000 women are out
side the home. in gainful occupa-
tions, taking with them their spiri-
tual and human interests and their
desire for wider knowledge and ex-
perience.
All of this is reflected in the prom
inent part Women's programs play
on the Chautauqua plan.
Ruth Bryan Owen. for instance,
speaks of women in politics, not as
one conducting the possibilities of
her sex in politics. but with the au-
thority of q successfully elected
United States congressH oman from
Florida.
Amelia Earhart Speaks
Amelia Earhart, flying TO Chau-
tauqua. is an example by deed and
word of the fact that women are in
the air to stay. making definite con-
tributions to aviation's development.
The way women have gone into
finance and ably mastered its in
tricacieS is dealt with in confer
ence conducted on the subject.
The general acceptance of today's
woman as a homemaker and career
ist simultaneously is exemplified by
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt. first lady
of the state, who gives the general
welcome.
Perhaps the farthest cry from that
first Chautauqua comes in the sub
iect Health. Vitality and Self-Ex-
preston" What would those first
Chautauquans have thought of to-
days women who crave 'self-eX-
preston a term they never heard
of and would not have compre-
hendedl
Today's attitude that women owe
it to themselves. families and CO.
workers to be as healthy and attrac-
tive as possible would have been
SbcA UlAiiS9 hloOs W JiiOoC NOlilCIl NIIOSC
idea of a lady was one who tainted
when startled and to whom mere
mention of personal looks and the
care of ones body seemed imnodest.
Very New and Modern
Peace and the part women may
play in bringing it to the world
includes such able speakers as Car
RE Chapman Gait, internationally
known for her staunch advocacy of
world peace. Mrs. Ben Hooper OF
Oshkosh. Wis. who speaks on THE
World Outlook Today a subject in
dicative of the study and considera-
ton American women are giving
contemporary international political,
economic and social problems.
Very new and very modern Is the
line followed by Mrs. John F. Sippel,
president of the General Federation
Of Women's Clubs, in her talk on
leadership.
A worker for many years with
rural women, Mrs. Sippel has seen
the dreary farm work lightened
thOuSandfold by mechanical inven-
tons. seen women who used never
to have time to sit down and rock a
second now find time hanging on
their hands.
The use of leisure therefore he