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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-03
Betty Davenport A7garded Cup
at Butler League Luncheon

AS a feature of the program of the
annual Butler Women's League
luncheon at the Indianapolis Ath-
letic Club today, Miss Betty Daven-
port, sophomore, was awarded the
league scholarship cup for the 1884
IS school year. BY maintaining an
academic average of 2.95, Miss Day.
export qualified for the award. She
is Kappa Alpha Theta member.
Members OF the Alpha Omicron
Pi sorority received the attendance
cup for the year and Miss Grace
Shelton, president of the league, was
awarded the presidents cup. The
latter award is made each year to
the student elected to head the
league, which is comprised of all
women on the Fairviey campus. The
attendance cup goes to the organ
ization having the largest percent
age of its members at each meeting
Of the league.
Mrs. Alice Bidwell Wesenberg
gave a tribute to the late Miss Ev-
elyn Mitchell Butler, former Butler
dean of women: toasts we're given
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by the officers of the league and
Miss Kathryn Journey, league fac
ulty sponsor, presided.
Miss Shelton announced her COM
mittees for the 1934-35 school year.
They are:
Social. Jane Crawford. chairman: Jeanne
St. Pierre, Frances Rita Noll, Alice Por-
teus and MARGARET Koesters: activity
point. June Willcutts. chairman: Dorothy
Winter and Cornelia Kingsburv; locker,
Ruth Long. Chairman, Dorothy Thompson,
Jane Christent and Dorothy Dunbar; at
tendance. Dorothy Day. chairman: Marian
Ballinger and Virginia Sheely.
Music. Jean Southard. chairman: C'Mari
de Schipper. Geraldine .swarthout and
CHAIRMAN; Evangeleen Bowman, RUBY
bership. JANE Fisher. Chairman; Martha
Banta Janet Chapman, Priscilla Brown
and Elysee Crosier: matinee talks. Gayle
Thornburgh. chairman: Louise Garrigus.
Mary Vance Trent and Lucy Beaslev: pub
locations. Maurine Campbell, chairman;
Ruth Mary Morton and Edna Fielder; tea,
Lois Forsythe. chairman: Catherine Heard
and Phillipa Schneider and Irene Mascoe;
building fund. Jeanne Helt. chairman; Re-
6ecca Blackley. Esther Hoover and Mary
song Book. virgilia Wells, chairman;
Martha Shepperd. Margaret Habich and
Helen Royce; poster, Mary Helen Karnes.
chairman, Anita Kehn. Evelyn King. Dor
othy Settles and Grace Ferguson: publicity,
Dorothy Campbell. chairman: Betty Amos,
Ruth -BEinkulan and -MarzaEet -Schoen.
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Parties Will
Be rendered
Bride tO-Be
Dinner Among Events to
Honor Miss Holiday
and Fiance.

Guests are being invited to parties
which will be given this week for
Miss Frances Holiday who is pre-
pairing for her wedding to Lewis
Metcalf Walling. son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Everett L. Walling. Union VIII
lage, r. I. The S-to-be sister.
Mrs. Robert Kerr Black. has come
from Charlottesville, Va, to be the
only attendant and is visiting at the
home Of their mother, Mrs. Alexan-
der Rieman Holiday.
Mr.. Walling will arrive Monday,
and will be a guest with Miss Holli-
day at a dinner, which Mrs. D.
Laurence Chambers will give for
them at her home Mrs Frederic M.
AyreS will entertain Thursday night
and Mrs. Albert j. Beveridge will be
hostess at a party for the couple on
Friday night
John Wheeler. Minneapolis.
Mimi. will be Mr.. Wallings best
man.
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OPEN HOUSE WILL
BE PLEDGE EVENT

Thirty-one pledges of Butler uni
versity chapter of Kappa Alpha
Theta sorority will be presented at
an open house from 2 to tomor-
row at the chapter house, 442 West
Forty-siXth street.
In the receiving line with the
pledges will be Miss Mary Elizabeth
Renick, active chapter president;
Mrs. Mary Keegan. chapter house
mother, and Miss Bonnie Jean
McKechnie, pledge president. Miss
Denoe Wolfard is chairman of the
arrangements committee. The Theta
trio, composed of Misses Mary
Martha Hockensmith, Judy Miley
and Jean Southland, will sing dur
ing the afternoon. Mrs. Walter
Krull and Mrs. Jane Murray will
preside at the tea table.
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Contract Bridge
BY ELLEN NORTH

get is the ace and small club, West
winning the second trick with the
king.
Now West leads a small spade,
winning in dummy with the ace
and catching North's king. Then
he leads diamonds until South
trumps with the good queen of
spades.
AS South hasn't any more clubs
to lead, he must lead a heart, which
the declarer can ruff in dummy and
the rest of the tricks are his.
Copyright, 1884. NEA Service. Inc.l
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Solution to PreUiONS
Contract Problem
nv w r NTKENNFY

Secretary, American Bridge League
II WAS just glancing through a
4 recent issue of the English
Bridge Magazine, which I always
enjoy. because the English writers
do not try just to write up end
plays and squeezeS; they discuss
actual hands played in English
tournaments.
For example, 1 have selected to-
days hand from an article by Ed
ward Mayer. In discussing the
hand, Mr.. Mayer says:
In certain situations where there
is likely to be a heavy penalty if
the contract is not made, but in
which there is a faint chance OF
success if a bold line of attack is
chosen, the bold course should al
ways be taken.
We all admire the player who is
clever and is willing to gamble. In
this example Mr.. Mayer says, THE
declarers weakness is in trumps."
You will notice that, if the de-
clarer tried to ruff out the hearts
the contract would be defeated.
OF course, the contract can be
defeated, double dummy, but let's
look over the line of play as given
by Mr.. Mayer and see if you do not
think that it would win against the
majority of players.
WHEN the ace of hearts i:
w opened, the declarer RIFFS ir
dummy with the three of spades.
Now, instead of trying to return
to his hand to ruff the hearts, hi
leads a small spade. South viii
split his honors and play the jack
and it will hold the trick.
If south will return the king OF
hearts, he can defeat the contract
but this does not look ike the
natural thing to do.
The play that you probably would
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Beauty in Open Spaces
Will Be Illustrated for
Department Club Group
Ira p Nelson of Conservation Department
Will Give Program Monday at
Art Division Meeting

MOTION will be shown by
WI Nelson field educational work in the state
talks Beauty in open
Spaces Of the Of the Woan
NJ PRESIDE
aud members o. the garden section Will be hoStesses
Laura hester chair
committee Medames H Alden Adams William K
Wayne Leatherman Edward Ludlum
A K r. Wolcott Oliver p
NIcLeand, william Hart and Irving Blue Mrs
and Mrs Henry Leigh
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MEETING SET AT
ZOERCHER HOME

Mrs. Philip Zoercher. 65 Whittier
place. viii be hostess for a meeting
OF Meridian Union. w. c. T. u. al
10 Wednesday when Mrs. David
Ross will talk on Missions and Re-
lief" Miss Lucy Hollingsworth will
sing. accompanied by Miss Adelaide
Conte OF the Irvington School Of
Music. Miss Marian Kellar will give
readings.
Mrs. Oscar Mentieth will preside,
and Mrs. William Schulsnberger will
conduct devotions.
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FRIDAY
Benefit Pdrtu Set

Mrs. R. H. Kroger is chairman of
arrangements for a benefit bridge
party of zeta Tau Alpha Mothers
Club to be held Saturday, Nov. "a,
at Banner Whitehill auditorium.
Assisting Mrs. Kroger will be
Mesdames Howard Sturgeon, E. A.
Ford, Guy Street, Charles Apostal
and Claude Lett.
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GUILD LUNCHEON
ARRANGED AT CLUB

Mrs. E. L. Burnett is chairman of
a 1890 luncheon of Sunnyside Guild
to be held at the Columbia Club
Monday. Assisting the hostess will
be Mesdames L. G. Burnett, Charles
Byfeld, A. B. Chapman, Robert j.
Clarke, Mabel Dolmetsch, F. F..
Dusenberg, G. W. Huntington and
William T. Eisenlohr.
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Founders day will be celebrated
tomorrow by Theta chapter, Delta
Sigma Kappa sorority, with a din
ner at at the Sheffield inn with
Miss Katherine Zinkler, president,
in charge. Other officers to De in
stalled for the year are Misses
Mary Donahue, vice-president;
Dorothy Smith, recording secre-
tary; Beulah Zinkler, correspond
ing secretary, and Violet Can
noughton, treasurer.
Misses Goldie Eirsmsn is dinner
chairman and Miss Beulah link
Ter will be toastmistreSs. Pledge
services will be held for nine
pledges.
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Mask Pnrtn Set

Mask party of Jobs Daughters,
Bethel 8, will be held at 7:30 to-
night at the home of Miss Marjory
GrigSby, BAL North Chester street.
In charge will be Misses Julia Anne
Benson, Virginia Burford and Iris
BOYD.
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FO1tndinQ to Be Marked

Fourteenth anniversary of the
founding of the Ev-Av-Ant Club will
be observed with dinner and dance
tonight at the Lincoln with James
E. Custard, POSTMASTER. Charter
members are expected to attend
John A. Gansman is general chair
man and William Eich, president.
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will include Biography of Warwick
Deeping," Mrs. Carl Day; book re-
view of 1.-TWO Black Sheep" by Mrs.
Frank Parrish and current news,
Mrs. I. E. Rush and Mrs. E. Preston
Jones.
Mothers Club of Butler university
unit of Trianon will hold mothers
ana daughters meeting at at the
home of Mrs. Louis Schwab, North
Gray street. Mrs. George Michaelis
will preside.
THURSDAY
Program at the meeting of the
Irvington Service Circle of Kings
Daughters will be presented by
Mesdames o. S. Flick, Myron Will
liams and w. A. Shullenberger.
Glass in child psychology will
open at 10 at the Irvington Pres
byterian church with Mrs. j. M
Cunningham in charge. The course
is sponsored by the Irvington Union
of Clubs.
Mrs. Martin Gerlach, 702 East
Forty-fourth street, will be luncheon
hostess for the 1903 Club.
Mrs. H. K. Fatout will discuss
Charles Dickens, the Great Artist"
when members of the North Side
Study Club assemble with Mrs. Will
liam T.. Cochran, 2402 North New
Jersey street.
"An Introduction of Dickens Eng
land" by DR.. Allegro Stewart will
feature a meeting of the Thursday
Lyceum Club. Mrs. E. j. Shields,
536 Sutherland avenue, will be
hostess.
A discussion of the Chinese JAP
arese Situation" will be a feature
of the Indianapolis Current Events
Club program. Mrs. R. D. Stober,
hostess, will be assisted by Mrs. o.
G.. Merrill. Mrs. j. w. South will
lead the discussion.
FRIDAY
Mrs. Robert D. Armstrong, 5779
North Pennsylvania street, will en-
terrain members of the Government
Science Club. Guests will attend.
The hostess will be assisted by Miss
Ruth Boze1 and Miss Helen Jacoby.
Disraeli and Gladstone will be dis
cussed by Mrs. G.. G. Grimes and
Mrs. j. E. Hankins, respectively,
when Irvington Social Study Club
members meet with Mrs. E. E. An
THUS and Mrs. C. B. Detar.
Radio, its history, educational in
fuence and talks on stations and
announcers will be the program
theme for the Irvington Quest Club.
Mrs. G. A. Ruhsenberger will be
hostess.
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Card Parties

Liederkranz Ladies Society will
entertain with card party at BIS
tomorrow night in the hall, 1927
East Washington street, with Mrs,
Anna Mahon, chairman.
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Date Ghn11ned

Federation of Mothers Choruses
of Indianapolis public schools will
rehearse Nov. 20 at Manual high
school instead OF next Saturday as
previously announced.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-20
POWER OF GOLD

DROBABLY the one thing that can be said
about the governments new gold policy.
without fear of contradiction, is that the or
binary man simply does not understand what
it is all about.
We have suffered, perhaps, from too many
experts For months now the pundits have
been showering us with good advice on money,
and the more we have read Of it, the more
confused we have grown
The government finally has acted definite
" and decisively, and the result seems to be
encouraging to business but as for under
standing precisely how and why the policy is
going to affect our lives - well, most OF us
might as well try to assimilate the more
reconcile phases of the Einstein theory.
About all we can do just now, in default
of getting this understanding, is TO mediate
on the strange function that this yellow metal
has exercised throughout history, and on the
odd quality of imperishability which it pos
seSSes.
Of the S3,5Oo,OOOOOO in gold which the
government is about to impound, it is ex-
tremely probable that fair percentage has
come down through the ages from those
fabulous old boards of long ago. Gold doesn't
wear out and it does not, to any great ex-
tent. 90 permanently out of circulation.
The federal reserve vaults today unques-
tionably hold some Of the gold OF the
Pharaohs of Egypt, some of the gold with
which Darius of Persia financed his Greek
invasions some of the gold of the Caesars,
some of the gold that Cortez and Pizarro
brought back from the new world, some from
the Sacramento of '49 and some from the
Klondike-a strange and romantic mixture,
with odds and ends of all the worlds history
clustered about it.
And all this, of course, is just another
wav of saying that gold has been the catalytlc
agent in most of the events that have marked
the unfolding of civilization. What we are
doing today, this opening of that door to the
future which we call the new deal, is pivoting
IN gold. and the bullion in our vaults has in
1uenced history in the past, times without
number.
1t may be that we simply are doing the
same old thing in a slightly new way, or it
NAV be that we at last are beginning to get
ont from under the age-old tyranny of this
yellow metal.
In either case, the identical metal which
swaved history generations ago is eXertlng ltS
influence once more. For the lineage OF our
gold is the oldest lineage in civilization.
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places In q tenth Of the time It took my par
ems to move about.
They're wearing old clothing-but they
didn't have TO weave the cloth 1t was made Of,
or cut and sew the cloth once it was woven"
Now that little comparison between today's
trouble and the everyday life Of our FORE
fathers may be pretty cold comfort for fam
lily that has been hit by the depression. Yet
it is something worth thinking about
Bad as times have been-and they have
been cruelty bad-it pays to remind ourselves
that even the worst that we have today is in
many respects better than the best that our
grandparents had.
The obvious reply to that, Of course, is
that the pioneers could endure hardships be-
cause they felt themselves to be part Of
great movement. They were not living for
the present, but for the future. They could
discount privation, because they saw richer
and happier time ahead Of them.
Well, that's true enough-but can't we do
the same?
The finest thing that has happened TO us
in this last year is the fact that we have had
a rebirth of national solidarity. We are all
headed in the same direction once more.
There is in the air that priceless feeling
that the whole country is working together
for the common good The vision that sus-
tanned the pioneers is coming back to us.
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VISION OF PIONEERS

THEY were talking about the depression
l. and a young woman told how friends OF
hers. living on a farm, had suffered great
losses. Their farm equipment had gone to
pieces. their car was a wheeling wreck. they
wore last years clothing, and they were
hanging on to their farm only by virtue OF
the mortgage holders tolerance.
An old lady who listened to the CONVEX
sation smiled gently and began to compare
the plight of the depression's victims with the
early lives of her own parents, who had
onened I'D a farm back in the pioneer era.
your friends" she said, have had a ter
rible time. and they have lot to worry about
but do they really know what privation
means? Did they ever get through winter
On cornmeal and bacon. as my parents did
repeatedly
Have they lived through month after
month completely isolated. with the nearest
neirhbor fifteen miles away and no way OF
communication with him in case Of need?
They've lost everything-yet they stil
have electricity to light their farm and pump
their water and tighten their laundry work
Their farm machinery has run down-but my
narents had no farm machinery at all
Their auto is wreck-but ct least they
have Il, and It stin runs and It VIII take them
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-20
CLOGGED COURTS

THE Federal Bar Association Of New York,
n New Jersey and Connecticut is urging spe-
cial legislation to relieve congestion in state
courts In many courts, 1t declares more
than three years are required to reach a jury
trial In Brooklyns city courts $4,000 cases
remain untried.
A situation such as this is loaded with dam
gers Behind it are the suffering Of thousands
of families, whose bread-winners have been
crippled and who await court action to re-
cover damages. There are family maladjust-
ments that need early correcting and many
other types of injustices calling for clear
ance. Unfortunately this New York condition
is typical Of too many states.
To delay justice through weary months and
years invites cynical disregard for the courts.
1t has been made the excuse for lynch mobs.
One cure for the laws delays is for judges
to organize their calendars and work harder.
Creation of new judgeships is manifestly
necessary in some circuits. Finally the sun
dry proposals to rewrite criminal codes of
states in favor Of speedier justice through the
elimination of red tape should be studied with
the greatest care.
AS the Wickersham commission reported.
to delay justice is to deny justice
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MORE SPEED!

THE effort to increase the speed OF the ar
l. plane only has begun, if we are to accept
the prediction of an article in the new journal
of the Aeronautical Sciences. This article
presents plans for an airplane which would
fly at a speed of 544 miles an hour-a speed SO
tremendous that we can begin to appreciate 1t
only by realizing that it is not far below the
sueed of sound waves in the air.
What an airplane of this speed would do to
existing schedules is obvious. New York would
be less than two hours from Chicago. Homo
lulu would be less than five hours from San
Francisco, and one could get from the United
States to Europe in something like seven hours.
The project is clearinghouse the less SO
for the fact that our actual need for such
speeds is not exactly indisputable.
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u0holIy disapprove of a0hat you sag and '0iH
defend to the death yomr right to sag it-Votaire
Better Democrats Needed

What we need in our county,
state and national government
are men who are honorable
enough to be honest, not men who
are rustlers.
Money is worth per cent and
with l per cent and no more our
nation would take on nationwide
prosperity. This administration
ought to put a government bank
in each county, so we all can pool
together, all be friends and work
for one another, making our land
land of friends and nationwide
prosperity and living for each
other in a business sense.
My family voted for McNutt,
but it seems as long as we keep
such birds as McNutt heading our
colleges and educational institu-
lions Gibel deleted) we are put
more in the red and soup houses
are extended with more taxes to
be paid by an overtaxed people.
AS far as the farmer is concerned,
he needs the price of production.
The farmers will feed and clothe
the American people with album
dance of everything for the hui
man family.
McNutt got his office by promis-
ing voters $3.50 and 81 tax rates.
Roosevelt promised immediate
farm relief for his Office. Has
either of them been loyal to his
promise?
Yours for a better grade of
Democratic officials.
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SATURDAY. JAN. 20. 1884.
WHY THE POLL TAX?

WITH the Indiana permanent voters
registration law going into effect this
year. it is time for our legislators to wipe of
the books that absurd poll tax law
OF course. the poll tax originally was
voting levy. But under the Indiana theory,
the poll tax has deteriorated into nothing
mere than just another tax. There isn't even
the flimsiest Of an excuse for the poll tax and
the reason for fooling the public is just big,
dark mystery.
The poll tax should be thrown out and the
levy tackled on where it belongs-the regular
state. county and city levies. Never was there
a time when voters were required to show
their poll tax receipts when casting their
ballots.
There was no need for paying poll taxes
and the delinquency mounted. The counties
sent up screams of anger. So our legislature
promptly added to the automobile license law
the provision that all applications for licenses
must be accompanied by poll tax receipts.
That provision is nothing more than pen
atty on the poor man. The state of Indiana
would deprive the little fellow of the right to
drive an automobile because he has not paid
his poll tax, in some counties as much as S..
The state makes no attempt to penalize
huge corporations which fail to pay their
taxes. Delinquencies in tax payments by cor
porations have taken advantage Of the laws
intended to relieve the little mans burden,
but the state turns right around and slaps
the punishment where it does not belong.
But that is beside the point. The point Is
that the poll tax is nothing more, nothing
less than lust another tax"
The poll tax is an outworn relic Of the
"Old Deal" Governor McNutt would do we'll
to ask its adjustment by the next legislature.
We must pay taxes, Of course, but they
should be sensible taxes and not mere subter-
fuges to hoodwink long-deceived public
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and it will take the genius of a
Job and st. John to do it
justice-the most sorrowful tale
of all will record the plight Of the
intelligent young woman Of the
thirties who stands between the
devil Of career and the deep sea
Of matrimony.
No matter upon which side she
leaps the luck will be against her.
In either event she probably will
suffer defeat. For the idea of
equality between the sexes in
America remains delusion and a
dream.
H. A. Overstreet, who is a very
astute observer of things as they
are, has said, Women still are
tolerated subordinates in the
social scheme" To realize how
right he is one needs only to be
a woman trying to have your mar
riage and your work together, even
as man has always had his. The
superior attitude assumed by men
toward wornankind struggling to
work out its economic destiny is
only a little less severe than was
that Of the eminent DR.. Johnson,
supreme exponent Of eighteenth
century masculinity.
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A Woman's Viewpoint
By MRS. WALTER FERGUSON :

TINE mother Of small children
l. is never an independent per-
son. I often am reminded Of the
fact when I talk with woman
who has been widowed or dis
appointed in marriage and who,
speaking economically, finds her
hands tied with one or more
babies.
The business girl is so sure that
If her marriage fops she can go
right back to where she left off
and begin her professional life
again. Perhaps the major tragedy
of the new freedom lies in the fact
that these plans so seldom ma
terialize.
If she be mother or wife she
never is free, especially in our sort
of an economic system. Hands
clutch jobs with SO much despera-
ton today because it is slowly but
surely sinking into the mind Of the
modern woman that one does not
20 back to where one left OF IN
life.
Marriage somehow remains ir-
revocable, even in a country Of
divorce courts.
WTHEN the history OF this
w period Gomez, to be written