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ml'ns‘l)AY. MAY 29, 1952,
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The Coming Events Column
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lic with facts concerning or
sanizational and otner meet
ines, times, places and events
only. Contributors to this
column are requested to limit
their coming evenis to these
facts to insure the brevity and
clarity of the various items in
the colummn,
PUSBLIC LIBRARY
antique glass and china be-
Jonging to the collection of Miss
Lisa Steiner is now being shown
in the Regional Library.
An exhibit of paintings by
Julia Elizabeth Tolbert are now
being shown in the Library.
children’s Story Hour each
satuzday in children’s room
from 10 until 11 a. m,
Library story time over
WGAU each Friday, 3 p. m,
Opening hours: Monday
th_"(‘,llgl‘ Friday, % a m to 9 P
m.: Saturday, 9 a. m. ¢o 6 p. m.;
sundays, 3 p. m. to 6 p. m.
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The Obedience [raining Class
sponsored by the Athens Ken
nel Club meets on Thursdays at
8 p. m. and Saturdays at 4 p. m.
at Hardeman Hall. Two new
preeds, Scottish Terrier and
Schnauzer, have been added.
et
ghow Boat Minstrel will be
presented at the Bogart High
Schoel Gym at 8:30 Friday
nizht, May 30. The minstrel is
being presented for the second
time by special request. Spon
sored by the Bogart PTA, ad
mission to the show will be 35
and 50 cents.
W. 8. C. S. of the Young Harris
Memorial Church will meet
Monday, June 2, 3:30 at the
church,
Scudder School of Art will hold
the ©ld Barn Exhipition Thurs
day, May 29th through 31st. The ‘
exhibit will be open at the fol
lowing times: Thursday, 2 to
10 p. m.; Friday, 10 a. m. to 10
p. m.; Saturday 10 a. m. to 10
p. m, |
National Memorial Day serv
ices will be held at the First
Methodist Church on Friday, -
May 30 at 6:15 p. m. Dr. Dow
Kirkpatrick will be the speaker.
Patriots of the Revolutionary
War, Spanish American war,
World Wars I and II and the Ko- |
rean conflict will be honored.
Annual reunion of the Mec- I
Whorter family will be held on
June 8 at eleven o’clock in the
family eemetery, in Oglethorpe
County, mnear Stephens, Mec-
Whorter Milner, president, an
nounced toady. Reunion secre
tary is Gussie McWheorter. A
barbecue dinner will be served
and the ladies are requested to
bring their usual salads and ‘
cakes. ‘
University Chapel will be the
scene of student recitals on
Wednesday and Thursday even
ings at 8 o’clock. The recital on
Thursday will take the place of
the regular Music Appreciation
Hour. The public is invited to
attend the musical programs
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Dorcas Sunday School Class
of the Prince Avenue Baptist
Church will meet at the home
of Mrs. C. C. Shackleford, 16314
Milledge Terrace, Thursday
evening at 8 p. m. All members
are urged to be present.
Canteen for Junior High
School students will be held Fri
day, May 30, 8 to 10 p. m. in the
YWCA Gym.
Ladies Auxiliary of the VFW
Post 2872 will sponsor another
Fun and Frolic Night at’ the
VFW Club ¢n Sunset Drive Fri
day, May 30, 8 p. m. There will
be games and prizes and Mrs.
James Maxwell will give some
readings. Homemade candies
and cakes are to be on sale,
Proceeds go for charity. Public
is invited.
Laura Rutherford Chanpter
UDC will meet on Tuesday, June
3, 3:30 with Misses Elice and
Mary Woeods. All members are
urged to atiend.
Evening Book Review Group
of the University Woman’s
Club will meet with Miss Mil
dred Ledford, 527 Oglethorpe
avenue, Friday, May 30, 8 p. m.
Miss Nell Reese is to review
“Adventures In Two Worlds” by
A. J. Cronin.
“Our Wedding Day,” is the
theme of the morning service at
Edwards Chapel Baptist Church
on June Ist, at eleven o’clock.
All couples who were married
by the pastor, the Rev. Newt
Saye, are invited to attend this
service.
Woman’s Bible Class of the
First Methodist Church will
meet in the Young Adult Class
Room Tuesday, June 3, 3:30.
Mrs. N. G. Clements’ group in
charge.
Why Do We Have
Buddy Poppy Day?
. By MRS. VICTOR PARKER
Have you see the display in The
McLellans Store window? If you
haven’t. won't you take just a
minute to go by and look at it.
It will give you an idea of Flan
ders Field and what Wars really
mean.
It was in the year of 1925 The
Veterans Of Foreign Wars and
The Ladies Auxiliary decided to
do something practical about the
children and wives of the deceased
and disable Veterans of Foreign
Wars. This is why The Foreign
War Veterans and the Ladies Au
xiliary, founded the National
Home in Eaton, Rapids, Mich.
This home is opened to all chil
dren and widows of deceased
Foreign Wars Veterans.. Already
the home has opened its arms to
the Korean Wars disabled and de
ceased veterans’ children and
wives. Through wise planning the
children are housed in groups of
eight or ten into family style brick
houses with all modern convenie
nces. These children come from
every state in the nation. They
quickly form warm ties with their
adopted brothers, and sisters.
In charge of each house is a
house mother who is often a widow
of deceased Veterans who applies
at the National Home for work,
to have always been accustomed to
a home life. And the National
Home is just thai. Home life. At
this home there is a modern hos
pital complete with operating
room, iron lung and dental clinic.
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PHILPOT DANCE REVUE
“World Fair,” the colorful dance revue of the Dot Philpot School
of Dance will take place tonight, at 8:30, in the Fine Arts Audito
rium, In the above picture are Janent Kennon, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. R. H. Kennon, and Sylvia Beer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
S. Beer, two of the one hundred pupils that will take part in the
revue, Tickets are to be on sale at the box office, SI.OO for adults,
and children, 50 cents, tax included. The Optimist Club is spon
soring the affair and proceeds will be used for the work the group
does for the Explorer and Cub Scout Troops. Public is invited.
sible medical care.
I am sure you would like to ask
many questions about this home.
Let me see if I can anticipate some
of them. How do they dress? Dres
ses for the girls and suits for the
boys are all individually selected,
and each child is considered as
an individual. No child feels his or
herself an object of charity.
The house mother cooks for her
little group. You might like to
know that all the milk and butter
and a large part of the vegetables,
and most all the meat are pro
duced on the homes own ground.
A herd of sixty cows is kept to
supply all the milk the children
can consume,
Now for school and Sunday
School. During school hours you
will find the children from the
V. F. W. National Home, grade and
high school with the children from
Eaton Rapids, families. On Sun
day the home bus takes the chil
dren to the Sunday School or the
Church of their choice. However
the chapel on the ground is
never closed, All kinds of recrea
tion is planned. Tennis, basketball,
football, and arts crafts and sew
ing centers, and a huge library
where all favorite books of child
hood can be found. : =
You cannot call the National:
Home a substitute for real flesh'
and blood mothers and fathers.
But the best way possible to care
for the widows and children of the
War Veterans. Here in Athens we
are getting ready for Buddy Poppy
Day. The annual appeal to the
Citizens of the United States, to
help the Veterans of Foreign Wars
and the Ladies Auxiliary support
The National Home. It is heart
warming to know the story behind
the Buddy Poppy you buy, and
remember as you buy your Buddy
Poppy and help to support the
children at the National Home
that 325,000 members of the Ladies
Auxiliary and the members of
the parent organization. The Vet
erans of Foreign Wars are bending
every effort to provide the finest
equipment those extras, which the
Buddy Poppy Sale could not pos- l
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THE BANNER-HERALD. ATHENS, GEORGIA
sibly cover.
The National Home is a great
American golution to a tragic pro
blem. The National Home could
only happen in America.
Please, buy your “Buddy Poppy.”
They will be on the street, of Ath~
ens, for sale Saturday a. m. May
31. We waquld like to thank the
McLellans Store for the space they
have given us in their window to
display the Buddy Poppys.
Bobby Proctor
Graduates
With Honors
Mr. Bobby Proctor is at home
from Darlington School, in Rome
from which Ite was graduted last
week-end. His parents, Dr. and
Mrs. Roy E. Proctor and his sis
ter, Marcia, were present to see
him receive his diploma.
Other honors than finishing cum
laude, Bobby won the Gold Medal
in the Reed Section in the Darling
ton Band, this gift presented by
the Inter-Club Council of Rome.
He was a member of the Octette
which was chosen to sing at com
mencement exercises and on the
occasion of the Baccalaureate ser
mon. He played the clarinet and
gave the Baritone solo when the
Glee Club made a recent tour of
churches in Rome, Dalton, and
Atlanta. | i
Bobby plans to spend the sum
mer at home here in Athens and
to enter the University of Geor
gia this fall. g
PERSONALS
Mr. and Mrs. Martin L. Van
Winkle are expected home this
weekend from Longmont, Colo.,
where they were called earlier in
the week by the death of Mrs.
Van Winkle’s brother, Mr. Charles
W. Adams.
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Mrs. V. E. Smith has returned
home after spending a week-end
in Augusta.
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Mrs. T. J. Chancey spent Sun
day in Macon with relatives and
friends.
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Mrs. Cosby H. Dawson has re
turned from Sheffield, Tuscumbia,
Florence, Ala., and New Orleans,
La.
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splashing on the wall behind the
stove, avoid this difficulty by
painting the area with a coat of
colorless shellac. A wet rag will
then remove grease spots at any
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Miss Susie Mann
Honored At
Luncheon May 28
Wednesday Mrs, Frank Dudley
was hostess at a beautiful lunch
eon held at the Athens Country
Club.
The luncheon was given in hon
or of Miss Susie Mann, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. E. K. Mann, of
Newnan, Ga.
The luncheon table was cen
tered with an arrangement of red
roses and the place cards and fav
ors were Georgia Bulldogs and
Georgia peanuts.
Accompaning ti-e honoree to
Athens were Misses Jane and Ann
Marget, Carole Coolek, Lady Jones,
and Mary Catherine Hill, and Mrs.
Mann,
They recently graduated from
High School in Newnan and after
lunchoen made a tour of the Uni
versity campus.
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Prince Ave. Baptist
Bible School
Begins On Frid
Preparation Day for the Vaca
tion Bible School of the Prince
Avenue Baptist Church will be
held Friday May 30th from 3:30
to 5:00.
Plans have been made for five
departments with leaders and
helpers for each. The children will
be enrolled in the proper depart
ments and practicing the songs,
marches and pledges to the flags
and the Bible will take place dur
ing the hour and half of Prepara
tion Day. More than 150 children
are expected to enroll Friday
afternoon.
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Teen Talk
AP Newsfeatures
~Hope chests are becoming one
of the favored presents of the
younger set. What's more, the
girls are as set on filling 'em up as
iGrandma was. And they’ll even
save on soda pop and pretzels to
do it.
- Every day letters from girls
who own a chest ask such ques
tions as: “What kind of guest tow-~
els should I buy?” ... “Supposing
I don’'t marry for two or three
years—will my sheets still be
good?” . . . “Is sterling silver a
good buy for a young couple?” . ..
“Should I have all my linens in
itialed the same?” ’
Ask any teen-ager what she
plans to do after she is graduated
from high school (or college) and
almost invariably the answer will
be “Get married.”
Coming on the heels of the hue
and cry about shortcomings of the
present generation, this new yen
for domesticity offers an interest
ing twist—and commaon sense to
boot. As one 17-year-old girl put
it: f
“What is the sense of going out
with Richard, Charlie and Tom
my, without a thought as to the
future? I've seen my sisters flit
away their good time with boys
without a thought as to whether
they are the type they’d like to
marry. Me? I'm only going out
with boys who would make suita
ble husbands—considerate, kind,
ambitious and sensible.”
Quite a mouthful, kids, and oth
er young girls might profit by giv
ing a fleeting thought to their own
futures. Lots of sub-debs have
learned lessons by observing mis
takes of their elders. They abhor
low cut evening gowns, off-color
stories, smoking, drinking and hot
rod cars—all things which in
trigued older sister. They do not
teel impelled to engage in distaste
ful recreation in order to charm a
boy. So unlike the last generation
they are less likely to develop bad
habits,
As one young girl points out:
“If I must act like a jerk to at
tract a jerk, why bother? Noth
ing from nothing leaves nothing.
The kind of boy I want to marry
will admire me for my good quali
ties.”
One parent observes that the
current crop of young adults
would make granny look like a
wicked woman by comparison.
They like to cook, make their own
clothes, read newspaper editorials,
go to concerts and symphonies, are
critical of bad movies and plays
and interested in making the most
of their education.
And now the hope chest adds to
the intrigue. In a recent magazine
poll (Scholastic) 22 per cent of
the girls polled desired a chest
as a graduation present, close on
the heels of traditional favorites
such as watches, ' luggage and
clothes.
If you haven't planned your
cedar-lined chest, don't be out of
step. One group of girls offers a
good suggestion to make the en
tire idea more interesting. The
girls formed a Hope Chest Club—
an organization sworn solely to
the idea of promoting their hope
chests. They have a pact to give
each other interesting items' for
their cache on birthdays, Christ
mas, graduation and otker special
occasions. And they talk it up to
each other’s families. As one girl
says:
“Instead of giving a box of
handkerchiefs or stockings as a
gift, we give such things as
washcloths, hostess napkins,
dish cloths, dish towels, guest
towels. Sometime we buy pillow
cases or guest towels and embroi
der the edges or initial them.
These items cost less, usually,
than ordinary presents, and make
a wonderful hit with the gal who
gets them.”
But let's hope that the chest at
the feot of the bed isn’t acquired
so early it will feed the moths or
make the girl desperate in her
man trappings. There is nothing
that will send a man scurrying
home to mother faster than that
orange-blossom stare from a girl
he hardly knows. On the other
hand, boys admire a girl who
admits she wants to get married
and who acts like she is pre
paring for it, eventually. So long
as he doesn’t expert you are try
ing to nab him, he'll think it is a
good idea.
Whether you own a hope chest
or not, a good thing to remernber,
now that the romantic season is
upon us, is to wait until the
boy pops the question before you
shop for your wedding veil.
Jancy Mackey
Gets AB Degree
From Bob Jones
GREENVILLE, S. C. — At the
Silver Anniversary Convocation at
Bob Jones University this morn
ing Jancy L. Mackey, daughter
of Mrs. Agnes C. Mackey of 126
Hall street, Athens, Ga,, received
the Bachelor of Arts degree from
the School cf Religion with a ma
jor in Bible. At the special anni
versary exercises, Dr. Bob Jones,
jr., presidert of Bob Jones Uni
versity, also awarded honorary
degrees to twenty-five civic and
religious leaders from the United
States and Europe.
Among the special commence
ment programs presented by the
University students and faculty
were the-Commencement Concert
on May 26 and the University
Classic Players’ production of
“King Leal” on May 24 and 27.
Rev. Reidar Simonsen, pastor of
the Evangelical Free Church,
Oslo, Norway, delivered the Bac
calaureate sermon on Sunday
morning, May 25. The annual
“Favorites” vesper program, pre
sented in the Rodeheaver Audito
‘rium Sunday atte}x;gf)on, featured
the premiere of “Pound of Flesh,”
a film sermon by Dr. Jones, jr.,
which has been produced this year
by the Unusual Films Department
at the University,
At the Convocation this morn
ing, Dr. Jones conferred approxi=-
mately 400 degrees, including
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Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor eof
‘Science, Bachelor of Arts in Prac
tical Christian Training, and also
Master of Arts, Master of Fine
Arts, Bachelor of Divinity, and
Doctor of Philosophy degrees.
Members of the graduating class
represent more than forty states,
the District of Columbia, and sev~
eral foreign countries,
B. A. Wansker Is
Duke Graduate
DURHAM, N. C.—Bernard Ar
thur Wansker of Athens, is a can
didate for the M. D. degree at
Duke University’s 100th Com
mencement Exercises Monday,
June 2, at 10:30 a; m. in Duke’s
Indoor Starum.
The local student is one of some
1,100 students who are candidates
for degrees at Duke University
this year.
Dr. Grayson Louis-Kirk, vice
president and acting president of
Columbia University, will be the
principal commencement speaker.
The Hon. Heyt Patrick Taylor,
Lieutenant Governor of North
Carolina, will also address the
graduating class.
The three-day commencement
program will begin Saturday, May
31, with a meeting of the Board of
Trustees in the morning, a meet
ing of the Duke University Nat
ional Council, a band concert, and
a general a'umni dinner Saturday
afternoon and evening.
On Sunday, June 1, at 11 a. m,,
Dr. Paul Hardin, jr., pastor of the
First Methodist Church, Birming
ham, Ala., will deliver the com-~
mencement sermon in Duke Cha
pel.
The Class of 1952 will be the
100th to receive degrees from the
Univyersity. Duke’s forerunner,
Normal College, was given the
power to confer degrees in 1852
and in 1853 graduated its first
class.
Nos Envious Of
American Women
By NADEANE WALKER
AP Newsfeatures
PARlS—Frenchwomen consider
their legal and social rights to be
at least equal to those of Ameri
can women, and far better than
those of the women of any other
country.
Although they did not get the
vote until a few years ago, in
1945, and still have no women's
clubs to exert feminist pressure.
Frenchwomen are indignant and
amused at the idea that some
Americans consider them domi
nated by their husbands.
“Women always have held a
superior position in France, with
superior political influence,” a
leader of the French suffragette
movement, Madame Suzanne
Grindberg, declares.
“There’s less prejudice against
professional women in France
than there is in America even,
and the proof is that you more
often find women at the top of
their professions here,” claims
Madame Suzanne Blum, a leading
Paris lawyer.
Madame Grindberg, a charming,
white-haired woman who was
among the first of her country
women admitted to the bar in
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1909 (one of the first three prac
ticing women lawyers), says that
trips to England and America have
convinced her that the profession
al woman’s lot is happiest in
France. .
She was astonished to find that
women lawyers were not ordinari
ly admitted to the bar association
club in one major American city,
where she was a guest speaker,
And she found herself, and fe
male colleagues, icily ignored by
English male lawyers at a recep
tion in England.
Frenchwomen nowadays are
more modern than the foreigner
imagines, say the women lawyers.
Arranged marriages, with mates
picked by Mama, are becoming
rare, “but, after all, there are still
some arranged marriages in
America!” points out Madame
Bium.
Divorces are no longer the ruin
ous scandal they still were at the
beginning of the century in
France, adds Madame Grindberg.
“Anyone who really wants a di
vorce can get one. But I always
advise against them for the sake
of the wife, for a divorcee has not
much chance of remarrying, and
the lot of a woman alone is a very
sad one.”
The one sunny aspect of the
drastic housing shortage is that it
prevents many divorces, thinks
Madame Grindberg—for the prac
tical reason that the fed-up wife
or husband has nowhere else to go
The idea that Frenchmen have
mistresses instead of divorces is
no longer true, except that the
“old guard” still believes it is bet
ter to keep a home together at all
costs, says Madame Grindberg.
Marriage contracts are nearly
always signed if the engaged
couple have property. There are
four types on contracts, and all but
one of them give the husband ad
ministration of affairg and proper
ty.
Even so, it is the wife without
a marriage contract who is most
in need of legal protection, ac
cording to Madame Grindberg, for
her husband can sell their busi
ness or her jewels or dispose of
their money without her know
ledge or consent. Only home fur
niture, etc., are centrolled in com
mon.,
Wives who work (and a great
many French wives do) have had
the right to keep their own salar
ies for some 40 years. Old maids,
widows and divorcees have nomi
nally the same rights as men.
According to the latest census,
out of a French working popula
tion of 20 millions, 12,650,000 were
men and 7,350,000 were women.
The proportion of working wo
men has increased even more
since then, the labor ministry be
lieves, and is still elimbing.
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