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Doctor's Case Records Religious Plays Are A Boon to Church -A WOPMS WORLD nd the Slacks Situation "Work I. A Cure For Isms By Angclo Patri II 1 I ,4 RITHVEN, JO-ELLEN Cr 7 A KIDD AND LIBBY i f-l v'f GOETSCH DISCUSSING fp. W' hi i tsJ 7 THE SLACKS SITUA- -v 9 7 TION. 5 pv r-J4i illv-S "-v 'w 3 -Ai kJ -l i Irk i sA i "Dramatic Stage Is Wholesome Ally of Any Live Congregation" By Dr. George W.

Crane CASE P-131: William aged 36, is a former student of mine who is now interested in promoting religious plays by the churches. "We have an excellent dramatist here in Chicago who has written at least a dozen Catholic plays," he tola me at our luncneon. Should They Be Allowed on Washington U. Campus? Some Say Yes, Others No, But Dean Has Last Word. By CLARISSA START to help mew.

mjr uujr. aon Know got into his head lately 1 all for government ownership everything. He nv WS3 "i have acted in several of them, THE. thev alwavs eeem t0 Promote re- us. He dui what can newea eniauwooi" "What is your business?" "Fruits and vegetables up every morning at half-past get down to market, buy my it -pack the truck, get back ah eieht.

unload nnrl r. -ne ite-J and Dtdiiua. ine hnv, the part of.the members of the cast, who are drawn from the local parish. "Besides, the audiences show their hearty approval by applause and a large attendance. They like to see their children or their neighbors on the stage.

"The priests report favorable effects, too, for many moral lessons are taught by our dramatizations. The members of the cast seem eager wflitino- for -ma au we start in. I work right up to one-thd go home for breakfast, and nJ? in Yin renriv fn luuiui row. "What does the boy do?" "He's in college." "You pay his way?" "Sure. I want him to have good education.

A good it-He's a smart boy only he's 0fT this thing." xxuvv uiuuii Lime aoes he mi' i F. f- I II 1 fc I it T-J3 REASON WHY GIRLS JR 1 ii If If I I 11 4L 1 SHOULD WEAR r- Ur. 1 I ftifrhJ slacks. at the store?" "At the store? None. He tti.

in the morning until time top up for school. I don't see except late in the evening 8c-i times if I'm awake. He Sometimes he plays. Well, fri young." 1 "You want to cure him cf tf idea?" "I gotta. If I don't hell us all, him, too." "HE'S FREE Saturdays.

TJF make him go with you to market Saturday morning and tlf all day with you, doing as youj down to the last minute. No ter what he says, you do thiiJpJ does not know what work meaa He doesn't know where the comes from to keep him at icta: fed and clothed and in good hetu 1 Now you teach him. It's yourttt chance." "But maybe I can't. Maytxbi mother won't let me. You able," saia an Alpa Chi Omega, adopting the gentler tone.

"Yes, but this is a city university," said Libby Goetsch, recently crowned Hatched Queen. "A lot of us come to school on the street car, and a lot of city people come out to the university. I don't think we should wear them. But," she added, "I'm broadminded." to participate and they work hard. "Dr.

Crana, don't you think that such religious plays are a boon to the church?" DIAGNOSIS: Yes, I do. One of the greatest psychologists In world history was William Shakespeare. You doubtless recall his discriminating remark about all the world being a stage upon which we are the players. That was not an idle remark. Even our kindergarten youngsters enjoy plays.

They like to Jress up and take the part of various characters. When they play house, they are simply illustrating the basic human delight In assuming a different role from our natural one. In later grammar school and high school, this same hunger to play a role Is very evident In fact, our delight In the movies Is really based on the fact that we Identify ourselves with the hero or heroine and thus vicariously become actors or actresses for the time being. 0 LAST WEEK I mentioned the case of Billy, aged 8, who wanted to attend a Sunday matinee. Why does he delight in the movies Because they are dramatic and exciting.

One of the big defects in the church today is the fact that it has failed to employ enough dramatics. Children are alive and vital. They want animation and a fast tempo. Would that Walt Disney and other talented people of his sort could turn their knowledge of psychology and art to a portrayal of the moral lessons and exciting tales of the Bible. We couldn't keep children away from Sunday School then.

EVERY TIME I lift a word of criticism about the church, 1 am attacked by a swarm of mossbacks who seem to think a church should be a first cousin to a funeral parlor, and who Indict me as being radical. But they are sadly mistaken. This is a highly competitive age where taverns and dance halls, movies and other enticements are drawing church customers away. I believe in using scientific principles to fill the churches and thus help educate youth in sound morals. The dramatic stage is a wholesome ally of any progressive congregation.

Live churches use plenty of dramatics. When Nothing Matters By Elsie Robinson WORE slacks for two years at Stephens College," a Kappa commented, "but there how a mother is. She thinkiij boy is wonderful. And ht smart." i BETTY RUTHVEN AND BROHNA ALTMAN. BROHNA'S OPINION IS STRONGLY PRO-SLACKS.

rHEN manufacturers rub their hands together happily and an- we came to the conclusion that i fe. hands together happily and an we came to the conclusion that nounce that the "slack season' weren't any men around there. The girls at Missouri U. didn't wear them, and I don't think co-eds should." "I think it depends on the girl and the slacks," said one. "But slacks just aren't feminine," protested a technique-minded lassie.

"Spring!" she said vaguely in explanation, waving her hand at the flower-dotted out-of-doors in general and the man-dotted campus in particular. Since the opinion of men seems to matter we sought one seasoned senior for his opinion. Alas for the cause of slacks, he agreed with the Post-Dispatch editorial writer who called slacks a "hideous Hollywood hybrid that is neither pants nor bloomers." "There's a place for everything," he said, "and this isn't the place for slacks. It's bad enough to see skirts two inches above the knees and sweaters two inches above the skirts." We knew from that utterance that he was a reformer. Besides we had the contrasting opinion of another male who leered at us from the curb where he was sitting and said, "Slacks is swell." As a result of our survey we have come to the following conclusions gathered on our galloping poll: 1.

Slacks are comfortable; 2. Slack are horrible; 3. Men like slacks; 4. Men loathe slacks; 5. There are sure some mighty good looking gals on the Washington U.

campus, in slacks or skirts. situation in the Women's Building, there are lots of attractive reasons why coeds should wear slacks. The girls themselves have arguments, and while opinion is pretty well divided, pro and con, some of the girls are downright militant on the subject. "I think it's terrible the ruling, I mean," sputtered Brohna Altman, leader of the pro-slacks faction. "I wrote a letter to the editor of Student Life about it but he wouldn't print the letter.

1 -iat should show you how I feel about it." Insinuating that the entire business was an infringement on the is beginning, they don't necessarily mean that business is bad and the firm's red pencil is worn to a stub. They merely mean that balmy weather has signaled the return to play togs for gals, that several million women, many of whom should know better, have clambered into slack-and-shirt suits, and that a large number of men must gloomily face the fact that for the summer their wives will wear the family pants. Opposition to slacks usually rises solely from men, who feel that with the way things are in the world JO-ELLEN KIDD, LEFT, AND LIBBY GOETSCH. LIBBY, RECENTLY SELECTED HATCHET QUEEN, DOESN'T WEAR SLACKS ON THE CAMPUS BUT SAYS SHE IS BROADMINDED ON THE SUBJECT. HY do I get fed up on everything, every now and then? a woman writes me.

"You know what I mean; that blah mood, as if everything was unreal, and nothing mat rights of womanjind, Brohna prom- is right about the business?" "My goodness, no. She hard in the house and then cos to the store and works sotk'i. can sleep." "Then you tell her that ttii her only chance to teach the the meaning of life, work, met' service. All young people i dreamy. They need work ences to give reality to iii dreams, and we are not lev; them work.

That's why they; their way in these isms. fci; "YOU GIVE your boy a clJ's to learn the business and means to him and you. Give; 5 a partnership in his home will learn. You don't need pfe worry about him any more ii push him into the job." Young people are eager the world. It would bad if they were not.

We go -S ward on the strength, of ourycr.4 Experience can advise, help, it cannot carry the young gerr- tion's world. They do that. TM should be harnessed early to tr burdens. We are to blame allowing them this, their rf They must have useful They must feel themselves ners in the going concern we our country. If we deny youth its labor and responsibility we them a prey to isms.

What's the best way to duce the new baby into a fc of brothers and sisters? This- similar questions is answerf I Angelo Patri's booklet, -jil Child and Other People" 5e Sy it, inclosing 10 cents In dress, Angelo Patii. in care-V St. Louis Post-Dispatch, P. O.fcu 75, Station New York, ta, a Matching Handbags With Summer Fr: today, any such group movement ised us darkly steps would be on the part of women looks sus- taken. lie, the dachshund, wandered in.

From the expression on Tillie's face, we gathered she didn't care for slacks, either, but then she doesn't have the legs for it. "What do you think of s'acks?" we asked four Thetas at a bridge table in the next room. "We think they're horrible," said one, throwing down her hand with a grand slam. "Cheap and horrible." "I don't know they are comfort tered? "I tell myself it should matter. I see scores of things in which I should be interested.

But while that mood is on, I can't get excited about anything. I can't even feel love. It is "We've already gotten up a committee," she said with fire and firmness. "They're going to present a petition demanding that the men be restrained from wearing skirts." piciously like a threat to their freedom of life and limb, especially limb. But this year restraint within the fold is felt, as Washington University's dean of women, Mrs.

Adele C. Starbird, has given a sharp downward flip of the official thumb on slacks for campus wear. We may be trembling on the brink of "summertime when the livin' is IJ there been any com- as if I were walking around in a dream. Do other people get that way? If thy do w-hat's the reason? And yis there a cure?" we asKea, Dewii- no, like that. They ought to let those who want to, wear them.

There wouldn't be enough to cause a problem. In a few weeks it will be too hot to wear slacks in class." "That depends on the slacks, dearie," another one said. "I don't think they should be allowed at all. It was all right in winter with the wind whistling around our ankles. We wore ski pants and jodhpurs then and were allowed to, but in spring it's not right." "Slacks are more modest than skirts," said one disgruntled member.

"You can at least cross your legs in slacks." In the Gamma Phi Beta room, opponents took the ax to slacks. "Slacks are horrible" "I can't stand them on anybody" "Skirts are cuter." This was the general tenor of opinion. "I saw a girl in the library with slacks on," one volur teered, "and everyone simply stared at her. Of course," she mused, "they "were very pretty slacks." In the heat of the argument, Til- easy," says the dean in effect, but kilted clansmen skipping about the it's not going to be that easy, not Quad Shop. Designing Women "You never can tell," was all that Yes, other people get that way.

All of us get that way. And the reason isn't hard to find. It's not in the i least remarkable that we should have 'blah moods" when we "can't feel around the hallowed halls of learning. No slacks will swish on Skin-ker or flap on Forsythe. Slacks, says the dean, are too lax.

We didn't take this edict so hard when we first heard it, having never been the slacks type, ourself. In fact slacks on us always convey the impression that we are sitting down even when we're standing up. But after spending an afternoon on the Hilltop campus, sizing up the anything not even love." The miracle ELSIE ROBINSON Brohna would say. In the sorority rooms of the Women's Building, the conservative element was upholding dean's ruling, possibly with the wisdom of political art, while a few objectors spoke wistfully of comfort and casual charm. "Perhaps slacks don't look dignified," said one girl in the Phi Mu room, "but they shouldn't say just is that we have any other moods, that we are able to live so tn i woman ever seems Hollywood Beauty Secrets wpather.

narticularly in tt where white and pastel m- hll By Patricia Lindsay bap soil easiiv. 10 OMEN never make a real dress 1 wxr Cfil I Wf tmi if 4 i -vm ill iA WW ViiM Mm many of the summer bant point of correcting poor shown have marmin posture although they YA white rrini tmnrh honpd bae to matCH. nthur rnw nrinted rayon h1 natch handfc-ag and turban in wu'-fc Still another way handbag is tied up to the he white Kla ie cHnwn in th waist dress which dispense buttons and instea ad is I' fashion jU 1 richly in our emotions. For man, like all other animals, is naturally a blah creature. The savage in the Jungle has his moments of ecstasy, rage, excitement and curiosity, but for the most part he's as torpid as a turnip.

His body continues to function but his mind and feelings loaf on the job. And this is both natural and necessary. Thinking and feeling are a comparatively new Job for the human animal. He has had walking legs and striking fists and a hungry stomach for a very long time, but he has had thoughts, emotions and self-consciousness for a comparatively short time. And they are not an unmitigated blessing.

THINKING and feeling are a tiresome, often a painful business. The body rebels against that business. It wants to do the things that are easy to do things it can do without planning, without making decisions. It wants to lie in the sun, and at, and sleep, and fight, and make love. All of these things tan be done with little thought of feeling, as an animal does them.

And we humans are still nine-tenths brute. Why do you have blah moods? That's why. Because the mental side of you, still so new at its job, goe on a strike. Temporarily you revert to your stupid, happy, lazy jungle self. DON'T REBEL because there are times when you can't think or feel.

That la natural. It ia the penalty of being that new creature, a human being. Ask, rather, that you may make good use of the times when you can think and can feel. When those times come try to think like a man; try to feel like a man. If you'll think one real Grade A human thought a day, reg-ister one real Grade A human feeling, you can safely park your brain on a bush for the rest of the time.

PAGE 2-1 dark printed silk. The han'-c this case matches the datj. and there is a similar bana. j. white hat, worn with the u- gently pats it on her face after a thorough cream cleansing.

This acts as the mildest of astringents. AFTER "WASHING her hands with bland soap and water. Merle Oberon dips the end of a soft towel into perfumed olive oil which she keeps handy, and gently pushes down the cuticle to prevent hangnails from appearing. IF MILO ANDERSON, designer for Warner Bros. Studio, has his way, every girl will be wearing hose to match her frock in color but so sheer that it becomes genuine "leg art." For a black linen frock he suggests very sheer black chiffon hose, red linen pumps.

JUST IN CASE you want to look 20 years older you might ask Joe May of Universal Studio how it is done. Pretty Margaret Lindsay playing in "House of Seven Gables," had to look 20 years older 20 minutes after stepping out of the first scene of the picture! Joe May, the director, wanted to shoot the next scene at once and behold Margaret appeared hollow-cheeked, lined and with a streak of white hair! It'a done with mirrors and makeup in Hollywood. Designs in Stripes f1 haunt beauty salons for beauty of another kind," laments pretty Bin-nie Barnes of the movies, who believes that every women should exercise for good posture. Here is one of ther simple exercises: Hold the arms behind the back clasping the hands. Keep the chin at normal position neither down or up and bend the knees slowly to a sitting position.

Then rise slowly to standing position. Relax and repeat 10 times. Miss Barnes takes the "beauty angle" for relaxation and facial rejuvenation. A tired face means a tired body which becomes tired through faulty circulation. Whenever Binnie finds herself fatigued, she props up her feet higher than her head, puts creams on her face and pads over her eyes and relaxes for 30 minutes.

The "angle" peps up the circulation, makes Binnie's skin and hair tingle with fresh life and gives her eyes a quick treatment which does almost as much for them as eight hours of dreamless sleep. She suggests you try 1t, at the "nd of a tiring day. The trick is to get your body on a smooth slant feet higher then Stripes are far in jf mm BULKY BEAUTIFUL i Margaretta Byers Says: fabric departments have i every wide and narrow su riety possible in suckers, piques, rayons I shirtinsrs. Red and blue 1jip ERE you see two semi-formal er at the neck pinches the shoul-dresset so similar yet one is derline. The sleeves are fullest at ably the most frequently tw ors, with the trend tow mi triotic in dress.

wuV anQ lai 1. 1 t. prapnc orp next in BINNIE EVERY WOMAN SHOULD EXERCISE. tummy-tummy higher than chest and head. EXQUISITE-LOOKING Geral-dine Fitzgerald drops a little eau-de-cologne into ice water and 6 the prmti glaring misses.

Why? The dress at the At the right you have a broken left stresses the heavy torso with belt, a slenderizing skirt panel and an all-round belt and a tight line fullness starting from the hips, carried down to the knees. The Knife pleating stopping just below uncontrolled bodice fullness blouses the bust builds up the flat chest, sloppily, doing absolutely nothing The corsage co-operates in this, for the flat chest. The small flow- The big hat gives good balance. TV four rolorS re Ij most of the striped des many of them are tricolor on white backgrounds. EVERYDAY MAGAZINE ST.

LOUIS POST-DISPATCH, MAY 3, 1940.