The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-26
Cities Bid
for Meeting
of Women
Choice Due at November
Session, Federation
Head Says.
BY ELIZABETH CARR

Due to the change of the annual
convention of the Indiana Fedora
ton of Clubs from fall to spring for
1895, '36 and 81, Mrs. Robert A
Hicks, federation president, an
nounces that the convention meet
ing place will be decided at the No
vember meeting of the board. Bids
for a spring convention were re-
ceived from Evansville. First district,
and from French Lick, Third dis
trict. and for a fall convention from
Muncie, Eighth district, and Della
ware county.
Trustee appointments made at
this mornings executive board
meeting following the forty-hfth
conventions official closing last
night. include Mrs. Claude S. Steele,
Knox, chairman of the trustee
board; Miss Evelyn Craig, Vevay,
secretary. Miss Hobbs was received
as junior trustee. New departments
heads include Mrs. w. I. Ellison
Winona Lake, junior chairman; Mrs
BALI, press and publicity; Mrs. Shee-
han, trustee. Mrs. Hicks was grant,
ed authority to appoint her commit
tees.
1.-The thirty-hour week has come,
and regardless Of whether you think
that it ought, it is here" DR.. Will
liam G. Spencer, president Of
Franklin college, declared at the
dinner last night at the Claypool.
Either we will have solution of
the proper use of leisure time, or
disintegration of the whole social
fabric" DR.. Spencer continued.
More money has been spent in the
last five years for commercialized
leisure than for any other thing.
1t is not liquor that has created
crime, but instruments of speed,
narcotics. visual education from the
movies and leisure time"
DR.. Spencer enumerated the
factors contributing to leisure time
as unemployment, shorter work
hours, premium on youth, labor
saving devices, increasing number
of mergers and labor saving devices
in household appliances.
Adult education, the speaker de-
scribed as one of the greatest con-
tributions to the wise use of leisure
for in this way mature life may be
enriched. He pointed out the values
to be derived i'll the field of hobbies,
remarking that 1--WE must get rid of
RECOMMENDATION and have courage to
individualize what we do"
Newly elected officers, Mrs. A. R.
Putnam, Valparaiso, first vice-preSi-
dent; Miss Louise Klingler, Brazil,
treasurer; Mrs. Paul Miller, Mt.
Summit, recording secretary, and
Miss May Hobbs, Upton, trustee,
were introduced by Mrs. Robert A.
Hicks, Cambridge City, state preSi-
dent.
Mrs. Frederick G. BALI, retiring
first vice president of the state fed
Grafton, has been Endorsed for the
office of president Of the federation
by the board of the Seventh Dis
trict Federation, at the election to
be held at the state convention next
spring.
Past presidents were introduced
to the delegates and guests: Mrs.
Rose Budd Stewart, Muncie; Mrs.
Grace Julian Clark, Mrs. Felix T.
McWhirter, Miss Vida Newson, Co.
lumbuS; Mrs. John E. Moore, Ko-
komo; Mrs. E. G. Rumpler, Mrs.
Oscar M. Pittenger, Mrs. Frank j.
Sheehan, Gary; Mrs. H. B. Hinkel,
Mrs. Edwin F. Miller, Peru, and Mrs.
Edwin N. Canine, Terre Haute.
Miss Elizabeth Paul, Cambridge
City, program chairman, presided
| with Mrs. Hicks.