The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-02
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Good Scout
With Girls
BIZ JOSEPHINE HAMMOND

Mrs. HERBERT HoOYre, nrSt lady OF
the Land, spent the last few hours of
her tvo-day visit in Indianapolis
being a good scout with the hun
dreds of little Girl Scouts who gath
cred Wednesday afternoon on the
lawn of the home of Governor
Harry C. Leslie.
The children gathered after school
Wednesday to see their honorary
national president, the most famous
woman in the organization.
When she came out on the ter
race, dressed n her Scout uniform,
luSty cheer arose from the Threats
Of the excited youngsters who had
crowded forward until there was
scarcely room for the staff of news
paper and motion picture photogra-
piers to focus their cameras.
Speaks From Porch
Mrs. Hoover spoke to them from
the porch, asking them to step
back SO the picture taking business
could be gotten over with as quick
! ly as possible.
She walked into the yard, and as
they struggled to obey her plea to
move backward, followed her as
she lead them in repeating the
Scout laws.
Miss Frances Stalker of Troop
% presented Mrs. Hoover with
huge bouquet of Hoover roses.
Mrs. Hoover revealed another of
her hobbies, when she helped direct
the taking Of the motion pictures.
She said she had been made an
honorary member of the Photogra-
piers Association in Washington
because of the splendid pictures she
had taken.
Lawn Completely Filled
When she returned to the porch
to talk with them for a few mo-
mentS they pushed forward in
unison, until the lawn was COM
pletely covered with little Scouts,
almost all In uniform.
She told them how, where ever
she went over the country she saw
children dressed exactly as they
were, in the uniform of the Girl
Scouts.
II am SO sorry not to be able to
shake hands with all of you," she
told her little admirers. But I
must catch train, very soon. While
was living in China learned a
different way of shaking hands.
Let's all shake hands as they do"
and she raised her hand over her
head, claSped and shook them.
Every little Girl Scout who had
room enough to get her hands over
her head did the same.
Prominent Republicans Present
While Mrs. Hoover was greeting
the children number Of friends of
Mrs. Leslie, who had gathered at
the Governors mansion to meet Mrs.
Hoover, stood on the terrace or
at windows nearby to watch the
party.
Among the prominent Republican
women and wives of prominent
Republicans were:
Miss Dorothy Cunningham. Republican
national committeewoman; Mesdames
Louden. John c. Ruckelshaus. Ovid Butler
Jameson. indianapolis: Fred S. Purnell.
wife Of the representative from the Ninth
congressional district; j. E. P. Holland
Bloomington; Edward c. Toner. Anderson:
Henry w. Marshall. Horace Reisner. Edgar
Randolph. Lafayette: Emmett F. Br anch
G. B. Huff. Miss Ida Prather. Martinsville;
Zoe NJ. Clevenger, Bloomington; James P
Goodrich. Winchester Jess Murden, Peru:
Otto G. Fifeld. Crown Point. Eliza o.
Rogers and Miss Mildred Rogers. Lebanon
Mrs. Michael E. Foley also attended the
! tea.
Return to Routine
With Mrs. Hoover'S departure
Wednesday afternoon at $40 for
Cleveland, where she joined Presi-
dent Hoover, the convention re-
turned to routine business.
! Mrs. Nicholas F. Brady, New York,
chairman of the board of directors,
presided at the meeting at 10 this
morning, with Mrs. Arthur o.
Choate, New York, chairman of the
program division in charge. Mrs.
Frederick Edey, New York, chair
man of the field division gave a re-
port of the credentials committee.
A vote of thanks unanimously
was given by the convention to Mrs.
julius H. Barnes, New York, cor
responding secretary, wife of the
chairman of the United States
Chamber of Commerce and head of
the Hoover business commission,
who supervised the rearranging
and decoration of national head
quarters in New York. DR.. Lillian
Gilbreth, New York, gave a report
Of work at national headquarters.
Talks ON Brown Pack
Miss Edith Ballinger Price. New
York, talked on 1.-THE Brown Pack
Best Foundation for a Girl Scout
Troop" "Homemaking Hearth
Dweller Badge" was the subject of
talk given by Miss L. R. Balder-
Ston, New York. Miss Joyce Wolton,
girl guide leader from Foxlease,
England, told delegates about the
program activities of chief interest
TO girls. Mrs. Faneuil S. WeiSSe,
commissioner of Manhattan council
and chairman of Hendrix Hudson
region was in charge Of badges and
awards.
Members of the Indianapolis
branch of business and professional
women entertained with a luncheon
at 1890 at the Claypool in honor
of DR.. Gilbreth. Mrs. Gilbreth spoke
briefly. She left at this afternoon
and will return Friday to introduce
the personal division to the con-