The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-15
Ocean Filler
Speaker for
Club Women
By JOSEPHINE HAMMOND


The feminine Lindbergh, Miss
Amelia Earhart, was in Indian
apolis "Wednesday to address women
who attended the luncheon given at
the Columbia Club by members Of
the indianapolis Woman's Rotary
Club.
When I say the feminine Lind
bergh," 1 say it advisedly. Miss Ear
hart looks enough like him to be his
twin sister. Her hair is cut in such
a way that it might be Lindbergh's
crop in need of the attention Of a
barber. Her face is the same clean
compact looking face, with rather
high cheek bones, that peered into
the night that hung around his
plane when 1t speeded across the At
lantic. Her eyes have the same
calm deepness. She is tall and lean,
like Lindbergh.
Just how much the physical re-
semblance has had to do with her
life she does not reveal, but none the
less Miss Earhart also crossed the
Atlantic by plane. And she was the
first woman, as Lindbergh was the
first man. She, too, has the shy,
hashful reticence about her that has
made Lindbergh the most popular
hero of all time. And as though
their lives were to run parallel still
further, she, too, is engaged by the
T. A. T.-Maddux company to further
interest in aviation.
Hard to Interview
And then, to get down to more
personal things, she is as hard to
interview as Lindbergh. She will talk
endlessly about aviation, its
possibilities and probabilities. She
will answer all sorts of questions
about her career as a woman flier.
She even will blush a little when
her audience becomes too ELUSIVE
in its praise of her achievements,
just as Lindbergh does.
But just dare to ask question
that concerns something outside the
line, and she wouldn't say no nor
would she say yes for anything. She
is as afraid of definite answers as
her likeness, Mr.. Lindbergh.
And so I only can tell you about
Miss Earhart'S personal likes and
dislikes, that she loves outdoor
sports, she is very fond of music,
especially Spanish music, that if she
were not an aviatrix she would be
a school teacher or a social service
worker (Which she was before she
made aviation her business in life).
Miss Earhart's informal talk re-
volved around aviation, particularly
as it applies to women. She said
upon analysis of the reason why
only sixteen and two-thirds of the
passengers carried by r. A. T.-Mad-
dux planes were women, she came to
the conclusion it was because women
were afraid Of flying. And that
analysis of the fear showed itself to-
be fear of the unknown.
People take flying too seriously"
Miss Earhart said ut is simply a
means of easy and quick transpor-
tation. Just a means of getting
from one place to another. Women
are necessary to aviation. Children
are growing up air-minded, and if
the mothers, fearing flying, refuse
their children permission serious
trouble can result.
There are two kinds of flying,
safe and unsafe. With permission,
children will get the safe flying.
Without permission they are apt to
get the unsafe. Every mother should
accompany her children on their
first ride"
200 Licensed Pilots
Miss Earhart said there were two
hundred licensed women pilots in
the United States. Out of this num-
Der, half are married and half of
the married pilots are mothers.
At the speakers table with the
aviatrix were Mrs. Marie Bowen,
president o@ the Woman's Rotary;
Miss Forba Mcdaniel, vice-presi-
dent; Miss Mamie Larsh, president
of the Altrusa Club; Mrs. Kate Mil.
ner Rabb, president of the Woman's
Press Club of Indiana; Miss Sue
Stuart, zonta Club president; Mrs.
Adah o. Frost, Business and Profess
sional Women's president; Mrs.
Edward Franklin White, chairman
of the program committee; Mrs.
Walter R. Mayer, honorary president
of the Rotary; Mrs. Marie Dawson
Morrell, violinist, who presented a
program, and her accompanist, Mrs.
Frank T. Edenharter.
Two hundred and fifty women at
tended the luncheon.