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WOMEN'S NEWS THE C0UR1ER-J0URJSAL, LOUISVILLE, THURSDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 23, 1944. SOCIETY SECTION 2 Women Alerted Turkeys Go to G. First To Peace Duties Christmas Toys Shown In Belgium By Boyd Lewis United PretM War Correipondent Two Hours' Drive From the War, Nov. 21. If it weren't for the warplanes flying overhead and the fact that St.

Nicholas has a lame knee a souvenir of the Germans you could stand here in this toyland of a Belgian department store watching the children and swear you were a million miles from the war. You look closer at the Belgians, celebrating their first Christmas season since liberation, and you see more discordant notes, though the toys are divided between those of war and peace much the same way they are in San Francisco or Montreal, and the children appear to have forgotten the Germans. Magician Does Tricka Larger children are piling into the "Theatre des Heures Joyeuses" to see the clown make faces and the magician do tricks, and the small ones are led wide- rl'A 1 1 Thanksgiving for Many Is Bitter Beyond Words, But Nation Must Offer It MY DAY by Eleanor Roosevelt NEW YORK It is amusing that this year we are having in different states different days on which we celebrate Thanksgiving. To be sure, in each case it will be on a Thursday. But some states are holding it on the traditional last Thursday in November, while other states have decided that that comes too near Christmas, and are celebrating We, here in New York Stale, turn our minds to the business of Thanksgiving today.

I realize that for many people in the country the thought of any kind of Thanksgiving is bitter beyond words. They have lost their dear ones in a war far from their own shores. Life seems vacant of all interest for them. Perhaps they have other loved ones 6till in jeopardy. Yet, in spite of all this, as a nation we have much for which to be thankful.

BY THE GRACE of God and the courage of our younger generation, we have kept from our own shores the devastation of war. In the whole United States no one is homeless because of enemy attack. We may have great groups of people who have moved from one part of the country to another, but they have done so because they could find more profitable work away from home, and not because the roof had been destroyed over their heads by war or because they had to flee from invading enemy armies. This mere fact makes it possible for us to have great opportunities in the future. We have strength, we have great industrial and productive resources, both in agriculture and in industry.

Our people have developed new skills. We are, on the whole, probably better fed and more physically fit today than we were ten years ago. This is something for which to be devoutly thankful. The opportunity to lead in the world of the future may fill us iiith a sense of awe, but should give us a great sense of satisfaction. ON US, THE PEOPLE of the United States, does depend whether our feet are set in the paths of peace.

If our feet are set in those paths, the rest of the world may follow suit. We must be the example and the torch bearer, however, and we cannot afford to forget it. Everything we do at home will be -viewed in the light, net just of its effect at home, but fits effect on other people and on the world situation as a whole. The Lord has blessed us with great strength and an abundance material resources. He has given us human resources beyond those enjoyed by most of the world today.

This may well be our testing time. If we are thankful for our opportunities, perhaps we may lead into the dreamed of "Better World." Copyright, 1944. Tall, intense Mary Dingman thinks women will be instrumental in the establishment of "a just and lasting peace." As field representative of the Women's Action Committee for Lasting Peace, she spoke yesterday on "The Need for a United Nations Council Now," at the Woman's Club. An interpreter of international affairs whose work on social and economic questions has taken her all over the world, Miss Dingman is vehement on the subject of global integration. "If the organization of nations is not efected now, the stress and strain of the postwar period may pull us irreparably apart," she warned.

Postcards Mailed Out The Women's Action Committee, which favors American participation in efforts to prevent a World War III, is helping keep American women informed on vital issues by the distribution of "Call to Action" leaflets, and other material. "For example, at the time of the Dumbarton Oaks conference, which was of course a follow-up of the Moscow Declaration and Connelly Resolution, we sent out thousands of postcards, summarizing the situation and urging that recipients write their Senators and Congressmen immediately," Miss Dingman said. "Thus individual opinion can be registered in a group large enough to be politically effective." Miss Dingman hopes the un settled 10 per cent of the Dumbarton Oaks agreement soon will be smoothed out, and a United Nations conference expedited. She mentioned Anne O'Hare McCor-mick, columnist for The New York Times, and Vera Micheles Dean of the Foreign Policy Association as women "eminently qualified to serve in organized postwar planning." Sisters Live In terra Pointing out that women have far greater political power to influence national and international affairs than they have yet used, she said, "Every woman with a son or husband in service should be alive and alert to what is going on in this crucial hour. Our duty as citizens did not end with Election Day.

There are still dangerous isolationists in our Government." Beginning her international work in 1917, when she was sent to France by the National Board of the Y.W.C.A. to organize girls' clubs in the munitions plants. Miss Dingman lived for many years on the Continent. In China, from 1923 to 1925, sheerved with Madame Chiang Kai-shek on the Child Labor Commission in Shanghai, and in 1938 she went to India as a specially invited guest of the All-India Women's Conference, held in Delphi. A native New Yorker, Misi Dingman is the sister of Mi? Helen Dingman and Mrs.

Herbert B. Fenn, Berea, with whom she will spend the Thanksgiving holidays. eyed and awed into the "Jardin de St. Nicholas" to shake hands with the kindly Santa Claus and whisper their wants. But there is, for example, a sign over the door of the "Theater of Happy Hours" which reads, "In case of an air raid our honorable clients are requested to evacuate the store and take to the nearest shelter." And there are always our bombers roaring overhead and inside the store there is a big game in a cardboard box entitled "Victory of the R.A.F." St.

Nicholas sits on his throne looking like Santa, except he is much more dignified. Send Toys to England I managed to ease into the procession of children asking for lead cowboys and Indians, wooden AI Photo If you hal to settle for duckling or pot roast instead of a golIler, remember that the first choice on Thanksgiving turkeys deservedly went to fighting men like hungry Seaman Fred Carver who'll enjoy his aboard a Coast Guard cutter. The 2 Join Wacs to Nurse G. I. Mental Cases Social Side soldiers will have different sorts of neuroses from the kinds she is accustomed to.

For four years an assembler of charges at Hoosier Ordnance, Frances lives at 221 Gait, New Albany. Her mother is Mrs. Bessie Ferris, Oriole, and a brother, Johnny Ferris, has just returned from the South Pacific. were spent as assistant nurse at Longview State Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio. Frances is a fragile little blonde, and once a patient picked her up and hurled her over three beds, then chased her, while Frances crawled under the bed and the other nurses ran to her rescue.

Another patient bit her in the shoulder. Frances expects the Lt. Com. Gordon F. Beckler and Mrs.

Beckler have arrived from New York and at the termi nation of a month's leave he will rptnrn in nvilian lifp. ThPv are construction toys called "mecha-bois," dolls and toy trains, and exchanged a few words in French. This is his first job since the war, and he points to his stiff knee "souvenir des Boches." He reminded me that December 6 in the big day for children here, though the family will gather around the Christmas tree on December 25. And he also called my attention to a sign outside the door: "Campajgn of toys for children of England youth of Belgium! Offer your toys to the children of our liberators who have been deprived of them during the war." temporarily with Mrs. Beckler's.

sister. Mrs. Bodley SooKer, in Nitta Yuma. Mrs. William E.

Kirwan has returned from a visit to Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Kirwan in Lexington.

She was accompanied home by l'fioio A hint of her topic was given by 3Iios Mary Dingman, left, Women's Action Committee, to Mrs. S. Merrell Russell, 2330 Dundee Road, Woman's Club. Mrs. William McPherson who is the guest of Mrs.

Henry F. Mrs. John Keller left yesterday for Nashville to spend a few days with her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Nazi 'Hospital' Was Morgue By Anna Nieznana, as told to John Creecy RETURNING soldiers are going to need a lot of psychiatric care, and two of the girls who want to give it are Catherine Latimer Kennedy, 23, and Frances Loraine Rochelieux, 25, who have just enlisted in the W.A.C. and are assigned to the medical department.

Catherine has been assigned to work as psychiatric assistant, to assist the professional psychiatrist in redirecting the psychoneurotic patients among returned soldiers to normally adjusted thinking. Frances, assigned to attend surgical technicians school, will ask for work in a mental hospital, where she already has had experience. Majored in Chemistry. Graduate of Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg, Catherine is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Francis Kennedy, 810 High, Paris, Ky. Chemistry was her major at college; she finished in 1942 and remained there a year teaching the laboratory course in chemistry. Catherine took postgraduate work in education at the University of Kentucky, then moved to Louisville, where she has been laboratory assistant for a paint company. Already she has been in uniform; as a nurses aide. Catherine has given 200 hours at Deaconess and General Hospitals.

The Y.W.C-A. kept Catherine busy in college. She was its president on the campus and was chairman of the National Intercollegiate Christian Council. dealing with social and religious problems and planning policies for local Y.W. groups.

That work in education and organization, the W.A-C. thinks, will stand Catherine in good stead when she becomes a psychiatric assistant. Ham 3 Yearn Experience. Frances Rochflieux already knows what it it to deal with the mentally unbalanced. The most exciting three years of her life A.

C. McCarty. Lieutenant Colonel McCarty is overseas. Mrs. George Jenkins returned yesterday to Montgomery, after a spending a few days with Mr.

and Mrs. W. P. Clancy. -v Hunt -J ll i -r-nn i iii, fJ i iii i I A.

Harry E. Vick, Visiting Parents Here Lt. (J.G.) Harry E. Vick. washing my hands and face.

Fcr this "waste" of warm water I was punished by having my head shaved again. At night, the barracks was noisy with the moans and wails of miserable women and frightened children. It was' dangerous to moan, or cry out, however. If you made too much of a nuisance of yourself in this fashion it meant a trip to the hospital. It meant, in other words, death.

has arrived from Norfolk, to spend several days with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Vick.

This is the third in a series of articles in which a young Polish girl, recently arrived in Detroit, describes her experiences in the most dreaded Nazi concentration camp for women, at Ravensbruck, Germany. Detroit, Nov. 22 (INS) Our guards at the Ravensbruck concentration camp were women members of the Gestapo. They wore trim gray uniforms, black-hooded capes and officers' high boots. They were armed with revolvers and on their rounds of the camp they were accompanied by hounds.

They were at least as cruel, if not more so, than the men of the Gestapo. In general, they were Miss Mary Ragland Vick. who is teaching in Benton Harbor, is also visiting her parents. Mr. and Mrs.

Morey L. Booth PATTERN and children of Glencoe, 111., will mm Si arrive today to spend ten days with Mrs. Booth's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.

Van Dyke Norman. Mrs. Lee Cralle and daughter, Joan, will leave today for a trip "appel" when it rained or snowed. We had to stand it for the full period of time. The terrain was uneven.

A woman unlucky enough to be standing in a low spot would be up to her ankles in water; but she dared not move. Doctors Usually Drunk Often, especially on hot days, some of the weaker ones would topple over the old women and the little girls. When this happened the SS women would laugh and slosh the fallen one with a bucket of water. Then they would kick her to encourage her to rise. To provide medical care for the 12,000 women, there were two doctors.

Both were drunk whenever I saw them. Sickness was no excuse for being absent from "appel" not unless the woman had a temperature of 103 or higher. When a woman was unable to take her place in line, even after the SS women had tried to rouse her with kicks and shakings, she was taken away to the hospital. None of them, so far as I recall, ever came out of the hospital alive. Moaning Cost One's Life In the evening, in the brief time we had to ourselves before bedtime, sometimes we tried to wash.

It wasn't much use. There Thoto Miss Catherine Kennedy, 2227 Alta Avenue, left, and Mia France Koche-lieux, 221 Gait Street, New Alhany, Wac privates, to work in hoopital. Mother Now All-Girl Editorial Staff Gives U. L. Sororities Break Home; Quads to New York and Baltimore.

Mrs. Ralph Holterhoff has returned to Cincinnati after a visit to Miss Mary Menri Norman. Mrs. L. O.

Smith, Daughter, Will Visit In Lexington Mrs. L. O. Smith and daughter, Mrs. Joe Miney, formerly of Louisville, who have been spending several days at the Brown Hotel, will leave today for a visit in Lexington before returning to their home in Detroit.

Miss Joan Lynch left yesterday to spend a few days in Washington. Mrs. Joseph F. McDcrmott and daughter, Rita Mae, are spending a savage, sadistic type, stocky and muscular. Most of them were young from 17 to 19.

They had been recruited chiefly from the slums. One of the worst ordeals they put us through was that of "appel" or roll call. SS omen Used Whips We had to rise at 3:30 a.m. After our breakfast of coffee we had to fall in for "appel" in front of the barracks. For three hours we had to stand at rigid attention, neither moving nor talking.

The SS women would kick us with their boots, slap us, or strike us with whips if they caught us shifting a foot, or whispering to a neighbor in line. At noon there was another hour of "appel." In the evening two hours was a matter of routine. Sometimes, as punishment, there was as much as five hours. We were not excused from In Hospital By Shirley Mayer Ity ihtt Annociatfd Pmt. was no soap.

For the 500 women in our barracks there were ten water taps. Usually the water was icy. Occasionally, however, it was warm. Once I found it warm, and in desperation I tried to take a whole bath in it, instead of Just Philadelphia Nov. 22.

With her husband holding one arm, her nurse the other, Mrs. Kathleen Cirminello left the lying-in unit of Pennsylvania Hospital THESE WOMEN! By d'AIessio 3682 Btf sues pKtXt several days at the Edgewater Beach Hotel, Chicago. Miss McDcrmott was the guest Tuesday night of Midshipman J. Curtis Mundhenk at a dinner dance given at the Edgewater by the midshipmen's graduating class of Northwestern University. Mj.

and Mrs. Herman E. Stel-berg celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary at Nichola-son Hotel. Seven children, sixteen grandchildren and three great-grandchildren were present. l)rcilach Long The wedding of Miss Thelma Young, heart-fetching house-frock, styled almost like a basque dirndl and thoughtfully buttoned all the way down the front.

No. 3fR2 is cut in sizes 12. 14, 16, 18, 29, 40, 42, 44 and 46. Size 36 requires yards 35-inch fabric with 'i yard contrasting and 3'4 yards ric rac. Dy Dot BEFORE the war, at most coed universities and colleges, the girls had to take a back seat, not only academically but socially.

It was always the pledges of the fraternities who were first announced in school papers; then, if space allowed, the sorority pledges' names were printed. Now, it's a different story, and especially at the U. of L. Pledges of the sororities led all the rest in the last issue of the university newspaper. The Cardinal.

It' isn't known whether the dearth of news about the fraternities is due to the exodus of the men to war or because the Cardinal editorial department is now completely feminine and taking vengeance for their years of neglect during peacetime when only men were "news." The Pi Phi pledges are Shirley Rehm, Helen Stites, Kitty Smith, Jane Brooks, Doris Saur, Betty Emch, Betty Matthews, Kathy Moore, Clara Armstrong, Betty Gieger, Mary Frank Beattie, Mary Stewart, Radie Carrico and Dorothy Miller. The Sigma Kappas have stopped dashing around like mad and have announced their list of pledges: Jerry Dowd, Gerry Hardy, Frances Guiliano, Betty Beauman, Betty Bourne. Allene Barbee, Betty Ann Lazaar, Jane Slaughter, Meta Schoening, Dulcie Sanning, Lee Scherff, Pat Ship-man, Ruth Breecher, Lillian Long, Rose Weekly and Ann Mitchell. Delta Zeta's new pledges are Peggy Fretnes, Vera Reynolds, Betty Sanders, Lualice Shea, Emily Mose and Sue Clements. Chi Omega pledged Doris Clark, Janice Arnett, Betty Wagner, Jean Stiles, Jean Duncan, Margaret Biesack.

The Kappa Delta's have a long list of pledges which includes Bess Ann Bough, Jenny Betty Burgess, June Clark, Rose Cleaver, Betty Jean Crutcher, Barbara Frost, Georgia Hudson, Boots Hutchison, Betty Lommers, Bobby Jean Leonhardt, Marion Lucas, Kitty Mudd, Jean Mueller, Pat Muhs, Joy Patt, Betty Jean Riley, Martha Rudell and Peg Walls. The editorial staff of the papr is composed TcIIitall of Rosalie Harris, editor; Nancy Joy Heyman, managing editor; Carolyn Abraham, news editor; Aileen Ray, assistant news editor. One page of U. of newspaper does have a masculine touch. Beginning with the November 17 issue, a page of the Cardinal will be put out by the members of the Navy V-12 unit on the campus.

WATSON "SNOOKIE" LINDSEY, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Lindsey, a junior at Randolph-Macon, Lynchburg, has spurned a dramatic or dance role for that of -a stage manager in the college's production, "Murder In the Cathedral," by T.

S. Eliot. So far as Randolph-Macon knows, "Murder In the Cathedral" has never been completely danced. Joining with the Randolph-Macon dance group in this production is the Sock and Buskin Dramatic Society, of which "Snookie" is a member. PFC.

PERCY BADHAM, gunner, sun-baked from his stay in Psnama City, is on furlough with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Percy Badham, Prospect, before reporting to the ice and cold of Springfield, Mass. ENSIGN JAMES KEITH, now stationed in Hollywood, who for a long time divided his vacations between Chattanooga, and Louisville, was married yesterday in Chattanooga to Mildred Jane Davenport of that city. Jimmy's father, Mr.

Herschel V. Keith, 2543 Trevilian Way, went down to be the best man. Unfortunately his brothers. George, of Louisville, and Vernon, who is stationed in Mississippi, couldn't make it. Jimmy was graduated from Chattanooga High School in 1940.

After attending the University of Chattanooga one year he transferred to Georgia Tech where he was a member of Theta Chi fraternity, the Society of American Military Engineers, American Institute of Chemical Engineers and the Bulldog Club. After graduating from Tech in 1944 with a B.S. degree, he was employed by the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, Akron, Ohio, until he received hia commission in the Navy. today a little sad that it will be about a week before she will see again the three girls and a boy born to her there November 1. "Oh, it's just fine to be going home," the pretty, 30-year-old mother said, "but I don't think I'll be able to come to see the babies for a week." She spent most of the morning with them today, and said, "They're just fine." Mimt Gain Weight The quadruplets will remain in the hospital until they each reach 6 pounds.

Maureen now weighs 3 pounds, 9 ounces; Kathleen, 3 pounds; Eileen, 3 pounds 6V ounces and Michael 3 pounds, 8Mt ounces. "It seems that all I can think of is how I'm going to take care of them. They'll probably all cry and want to be fed at once," she said. Dressed in a brick red cloth coat trimmed with civet and black accessories, she faltered a bit as she started down the hospital steps. Hospital officials said the excitement of meeting reporters yesterday for the first time had weakened her slightly.

As she stopped to pose for photographers she handed a paper bag to her nurse. "That's some jelly and a persimmon," she explained. Her husband, Joseph, trying to keep in the background, smiled nervously and shifted the weight of the two suitcases he carried. i i To obtain this pattern send i in v.t.iin xo ine courier-J Journal Pattern Depart-j ment, using coupon below, i New Fall Fashion Book illustrates 150 styles in full color, 15c a copy, i Important: Keep the num- ber of your pattern for fu-j ture reference. Reising, and Mr.

Royston H. Long, will take place at 9 o'clock this morning in Holy Cross Church. The Rev. Richard Rummage will perfom the ceremony. Given in marriage by her stepfather, the bride will wear a gown of duchess satin made with a full skirt extending into a court train and a veil of illusion falling from a coronet of pearls.

She will carry her mother's prayer book and a white orchid with a shower of bouvardia. Miss Jane Dreisbach. her sister's maid of honor, and Miss Marie Martin, the bridesmaid, will be in bottle green velvet with matching calots and French bouquets. Miss Donna Marie Bloomer, the flower girl, will wear a Kate Greenaway dress in white with a French bouquet. Mr.

A. K. Reising. will be the best man and Messrs. Joseph Gyr and William Johnson will be ushers.

No. 3f2 Nm tPI Frlnti Street Addrc I I City Zona No. Eut "Fred, darling this duck call gadget you brought home yesterday Is MARVELOUS.