The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-05
New Policy
Followed by
Clubs Today
Organizations Of Women
Giving Real Thought
to Lies Problem.
BY EVELYN SEELEY
Tunes Special Writer

Nv Ofthi DeC- >. - anna
~ Stecse Richardson. writer and
lecturer. lambsstcd the Federation
OF Women's Clubs the other day
when she said in Buffalo that they
we're INDUCING in the same old
stuff VIC have had for thirty years.
the same Old blah, biah. blah, the
same old contralto" Perhaps it
cleared the air.
Recall that time year ago when
Ethel Barrymore stood up and told
300 Philadelphia clubWomcn, irked
because Eva La Caffeine had
broken an engagement with them.
You don't know anything. You
don't appreciate anything. You
never have known anything and YOU
never WI
Women Polite Too Long
Mrs. Richardson was very i'm
polite and Ethel Barrymore was
downright rude. Their generaliza-
tons were unfair 70 some of the
members of the clubs Of which they
spoke. But 10 the clubs rs a whole
! imagine their words acted as an
earthquake to shake them down TO
earth.
Women have been polite too long
They have been trained too we'll in
the gentlcr virtues. They have been
leaned upon as smOOthers-Over for
the men. When they break away
from this tactful sweetness and get
downright honest every one easps-
But really, they like it.
II is on account of these honest,
fortnight and impolte women that
the young correspondent viii be
able to find clubs where problems
are being handled intelhgently and
sensibly and sincerely"
IL is true the Daughters Of Amer
lean Revolution recently held a
fashion show. and the F "eratiOn Of
Womcn's Clubs is holding a poetry
contest. It is true culture clubs
still hold their place in certain COM
munties and struggle with Brown
ings hidden meaning Many women
still follow the old pattern living
to marriage and then. when the
furniture is all bought and the maid
trained, seek clubs as a genteel way
TO spend the afternoon.
\ Many Have Gone Realistic
Armistice night Mrs. Eleanor
Roosevelt herself recalled the old
ClubWoman pattern when she
popped into a peace meeting spon-
sorcd by the New York League of
Women Voters. Beverly Nichols,
English author of Cry Havoc and
Senator Gerald Nye of the munitions
inquiry. had concluded factual, I'M
sentimental anti-War talks.
Mrs Roosevelt. with all good in
tent. voiced feminine and fuzzy
phrases along the lines of giving a
thought each day to peace" And
back VIC went into the old DAYS
when club women spent so long
saving nothing.
But the trend is away from all
that Mrs. Roosevelt really is against
it herself
Club women. particularly the
younger ones. want to do more than
stand up in smart frocks and read
papers about what is the matter
with this or that.
Even the most cynical and worn
old club editor has to prick up her
ears these days and notice that a
number of clubs are going realistic.
And so one might say to the
young woman correspondent that
two million American club women
are right now hard at work on their
.1934-35 program for better homes
Z and better communities and a better
world. They have a tremendous job
and some OF them mean it.
You can be no end Of help to
them if YOU check Your manners in
the corridor.