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WINTER PARK TOPICSA Weekly Review of Social and Cultural Activities

During the Winter Resort SeasonEntered as second-class matter January 8, 1937, at the Post Office, at Winter Parit, Fla., under the Act of March 3, 1879.

Vol. 12—No. 11 Charles F. Hammond, Publisher Winter Park, Florida, Friday, March 16, 1945 Season Subscription $1.60 Price 10 Cents

ROLLINS PLAYERS IN"THE SILVER CORD"

"The Silver Cord," Sidney How-ard's absorbing drama, will be pro-duced by the Rollins Players underthe direction of Donald S. Allen at8:15 P.M., opening Wednesday,March 21, and continuing on March22, 23, 24 and 26 in the Annie Rus-sell Theatre.

The theme of "The Silver Cord"centers on a widowed mother'sstrong hold over her two sons. Mrs.Phelps rules her family by the in-sidious weapon of sentimentality.She dramatizes herself as an in-valid and constantly gains the pityof her sons by suffering convenientheart attacks and by attempts atmartyrdom. The mother cannotreconcile herself to the marriageof her eldest son, David, to theyoung biologist, Christine, and shedreads the approaching marriageof her younger son, Rob, to theimpulsive, lovable Hester.

Leila Kroll, who gave excellentperformances in character roles in"Tomorrow the World" and "Vic-toria Regina," has been cast as the-domineering mother. Prof. HowardBailey will be seen as David, the

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DR. HOSIC, PRESIDENTOF UNIVERSITY CLUB

^•••- The University Club of WinterVi p a r i c elected as its President forV the coming year Dr. James Flem-'••^in'g Hosie, Professor Emeritus of\C Education at Columbia University.<̂ . Since making his residence in Win-

ter Park a few years ago Dr.

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James F. HosicNewly Elected President of the

University ClubHosic has been one of the mostactive members of the Club andhas for the past year served as theChairman of the important pro-gram committee.

Also elected as vice-presidentswere Eugene R. Smith, George L.Parker, Edmund B. Hilliard andHenry Reed Bureh. William E.Stark was continued in his officeof Secretary and Henry G. Sehenckin that of Treasurer. The Clubmembership is now the highest inits history, numbering 432.

Following the business meetingthe Club heard a memorable ad-dress by the Rev. Rockwell Har-mon Potter of Hartford, Conn., onthe subject: "What is the Church?"

(Oonlmimd tin page S)

PUBLIC MEETING FOR DISCUSSION OF SPIRITUALMOBILIZATION CRUSADE FOR DEMOCRACY

The character and purpose of themovement for "Spiritual Mobiliza-tion" is to be presented in WinterPark on Tuesday, March 20, at 8P.M., in the C o n g r e g a t i o n a lChurch. The meeting will be opento all without charge, but an offer-ing will be taken for the benevo-lent work of the Women's Union ofthat church, which has given toWinter Park a fine series of freelectures this winter.

The speaker will be Dr. MiltonM. McGorrill of New York, who isthe director of the movement forthe Eastern states.

This movement began in a greatchurch in Los Angeles, Calif., whoseminister is Dr. James W. Fifield,

Jr. It was taken up by other min-isters and by leading laymen untilit has spread from the Pacific tothe Atlantic, and from Canada toMexico.

It stresses the fact that democ-racy was born of Christianity. Itspurpose is to establish in theUnited States that sort of democ-racy as conceived by our founding-fathers who embodied their convic-tions in our Constitution.

The demand for such a movementis this: While a variety of dictator-ships have been spreading over theworld and gaining military and po-litical power that have caused theindescribable horrors that we are

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Some figures from The Merrie English Puppets and HarrietPeasley, puppeteer, who will be presented at the Woman's <Club,Tuesday, March 20, as a benefit for a toy fund for refugeechildren.

MERRIE ENGLISH PUPPETS TO GIVE SHOW TOBUY TOYS FOR REFUGEE CHILDREN IN ENGLAND

The Merrie English Puppets willmake their sole appearance herethis season when they present their"English Variety Show" at theWoman's Clubhouse, Tuesday aft-ernoon, March 20, at 4 o'clock. Ad-mission is 50c, tax included.

Besides various song and dancenumbers, the program of the Eng-lish Variety contains a shortPunch and Judy act, because Punchand Judy are justly regarded bypuppet lovers as the "royal family"of the puppet stage, and because itwas Punch and Judy that started

this puppet troupe on their careerto help "merrie old England" inher time of heroic stress. Allmoney that the puppets collect issent to the British toy fund, whichprovides toys, not only for everydestitute and uprooted Britishchild, but for the thousands of ref-ugee children who are still beingcared for in Britain.

In connection with this puppetshow there will be an exhibition ofminiature "Peekaboo" hand pup-pets, some of which will be on sale

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RAY STANNARD BAKER'S"AMERICAN CHRONICLE"

The appearance of Mr. RayStandard Baker's new book, "TheAmerican Chronicle," on March 5,brought this distinguished winterresident of Winter Park before

Ray Standard Bakerevery newspaper and magazinereader throughout the nation. Mr.Baker's book is very definitely • anAmerican archive. Inasmuch asmany of the readers of Topicsmight not see the review publishedin the New York Herald-Tribune,we are glad to pay this tribute to

- our- .beloved; fellow •eHizen-i--Never-theless, it is necessary to make ob-jection to the view that the bookis an anarchronism. As well saythe Bible is an anarchronism. Thevalue of Mr. Baker's book may beto open our eyes to the eternal factthat "history repeats itself."

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SCHOENFELD PRESENTSTOWN HALL PROGRAM

The same 'program which heplayed at his recent New York re-cital in Town Hall will be pre-sented by Morton Schoenfeld, tal-ented young pianist, at 8:15 o'clocktonight at the Winter Park Wom-an's Club. The recital is under theauspices of Xi chapter of Pi KappaLambda, national honorary musicfraternity at Rollins College and isfor the benefit of the music de-partment of the I-I xi n g e r*f o r dSchool.

Mr. Schoenfeld is a graduate ofRollins College and a member ofthe Rollins chapter of Pi KappaLambda. His program tonight isannounced as follows:

1. Ouverture in the French Style,Bach (Partita in B Minor); Sonatain A M i n o r (K.310), Mozart;Scherzo in B Minor, Chopin.

2. Sonata in G Minor, ErnestWaxman.

3. Ondine, Ravel; Fairy Tale,Opus 20, No, 1, B flat Minor, Medt-ner; Praeludium and Fuga Primain C, Hindemith (from "Ludns Ton-alis"); three pieces from ."Mikro-kosmos," Bartok: Free Variations,Dance in Bulgarian Rhythm, Os-tinato.

Patrons for tonight's recital in-clude the following: Dr. and Mrs.Octavius Applegate, Mrs. JohnWalker Adams, Mrs. Parker Banz-haf, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Charm-

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ton, and Miss Nellie G. Prescott,of Skaneateles, N. Y., who havebeen with Miss Hilda and MissElma Loines during part of thewinter, leave for the North nextweek. Mrs. Jameson will go first toWashington to join her daughter,Mrs. Thomas Eliot, whose husbandis a grandson of the late distin-guished President of Harvard,Charles W. Eliot.

Mr. William Armour, of NewYork, has been visiting his aunt.Mrs. F. M. Whitehouse, of GeorgiaAvenue.

Brig. Gen. Gordon P. Saville,commanding general of the 12thTactical Air Force, operating inItaly and Germany, has arrived tojoin his family here after beingoverseas for twenty months. Hewas in charge of the airborne in-vasion of Southern France.

General Saville is credited withthe vision which led to the estab-lishing of the Orlando A.A.F. in.stallation which expanded to thepresent AAFTAC.

Mrs. Emily Lippincott Websterentertained a few friends at abirthday party Tuesday eveningfor Mrs. Walter Corey, of Orlando.Miss Alice Lippincott, who hasspent the season with her niece,

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Mrs. Robert Penington, of Wel-borne Avenue, invited a few of theyoung people to her home Mondayin honor of her daughter-in-law,Mrs. Robert Penington, Jr., ofProvidence, R. I., who is here untilthe middle of May with her chil-dren, Nancy and Jane, Her hus-band. Lieutenant Penington, is aphysician in the navy and is in thePacific area.

Dr. Rosalie Slaughter Morton,recipient of an honorary degree ofdoctor of sciences at Rutgers Uni-versity several years ago, has beeninvited to represent Rutgers at the60th anniversary Founders' Daycelebration tomorrow of FloridaSouthern College, Lakeland. An-other Winter Parkian, Mr. Max-well Kilvert, will represent Har-vard University, his alma mater.

Dr. and Mrs. Julius Seelye Bix-ler, of Waterville, Me., visited MissMary E. Raymond at Barron Hallon Thursday. Dr. Bixler was fornine years professor of religiouseducation at Smith Colbge and fornine years professor in the Theo-logical School at Harvard Univer-sity. He is now President of ColbyCollege, Waterville, Me. Miss Ray-mond will return North on the28th.

Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Mcll-vaine, of Rosemont, Pa., who arespending the winter at 535 Inter-lachen Avenue, entertained afcocktails Saturday to honor theirfriends, Mrs, Robert McDonald, ofVilla Nova, Pa., and Mrs. WalterP. Sharpe, of Bryn Mawr, who arestopping at the Seminole. \

Mrs. Josepha Whitney expectsher son, Mr. Simon Newcomb Whit-ney, political economist, Mrs. Whit-ney and baby who will be here acouple of weeks. TTie director ofan endowed junior college andranch at Deep Springs, Calif., inthe Sierra Nevadas, Mr. Whitneygives his students work on aranch, raising cattle and other du-ties and the rest of the time isdevoted to regular school subjects.Only boys who are serious in theirambitions in these lines are takeninto the school. During his stayin Winter Park Mr. Whitney willspeak on "Post-War InternationalTrade."

Mrs. Seldon 0. Martin and herson, Richard Martin, of NewRochelle, N. Y., are visiting MissJenney and Miss Patton at 240 Kil-

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Mrs Gustav T. Dahm, newlyelected chairman of the WinterPark unit of the A. W. V. S.-,called a meeting of her executivecommittee March 9, 10:30 A.M., toname the following chairmen of herstanding committees and have themapproved.

Registrations, Miss Emily Her-ron; memberships, Mrs. JohnEvans; fingerprinting, Mrs. Wil-liam Bailey; blood bank, Mrs.Frank Allen; recreation, Mrs.Rodger Wells; house chairman,Mrs. Arthur Schrader; public re-lations, Mrs. S. Hopkins Hadley;war saving, Mrs. I. E. Bible; ad-visory board, Mrs. Fred Wallick;chairman of classes for women,Mrs. August Cortissoz; parliamen-tarian, Mrs. Mary Burke Lowry.

Mrs. Dahm has called a specialmeeting of all newly appointedboard members, Tuesday, March20, at 10:30, recreation room ofA. W. V. S.

Miss Gertrude Copeland of Ala-bama Hotel has directed the mak-ing of 1,300 newspaper bedsidebags for boys at AFTAC hospital.

The March meeting and annualelection of officers of the WinterPark Welfare Association will beheld Monday evening, March 19, atChamber of Commerce Building, at8 P. M., following Kiwanis.

The board of directors decided tohold this important meeting atnight so that more might attend.Annual financial report and resultof audit of books will be given anda new setup of all organizationswill be asked for so that each yearat this annual meeting all groupscan have full reports of their year'swork. Every organization in thecity is asked to send representa-tives to this meeting to thoroughlydiscuss many important items con-cerning welfare in Winter Park.

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Mrs. Mabel Smithwick, of Port-land, Me., arrived Tuesday to visitMr. and Mrs. Archie C. Burnet atthe Barbour Apartments for afortnight.

ney Homer, Mr. Arthur Hutehins,Mrs. A. M. Harris, Mr. E. B. Kur-sheedt, Mrs. Hazel Lenfest, MissIsabelle T. Moore, Miss HelenMoore, Hon. R. W. O'Neal, Dr. andMrs. George Opdyke, Mr. C. L.Perera, Mr. William F. Pelham,Isidor Philipp, Mrs. H. R. Phil-brick, Mrs. Charles Sprague-Smith,Dr. and Mrs. Henry Dyke Sleeper,Miss M. G. Spooner, Mrs. RichardSias, Mrs. Frances Knowles War-ren, Mrs. Richard Wright, Mrs.Calvin A. West and Samuel Barber.

SCHOENFELD PRESENTS(Continued from page 1)

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HELEN MOORE'S RECITALA capacity audience gave enthu-

siastic tribute to Helen Moore ather piano recital last Friday nightat the Annie Russell Theatre, oneof the presentations of the FacultyRecital Series of Rollins Conserva-tory of Music.

Pupil of James Friskin and Isi-dore Philipp, Miss Moore revealedmuch of the distinguished style ofthese two masters: the poise andlucidity of phrasing that markedthe former's playing, and the dig-ital precision and volatility of thecelebrated French pedagogue.

For the music lover who delightsin "one-man shows" with one com-poser's work only on the program,this recital of three Beethoven son-atas was caviar. It was, moreover,well done,—with the art of the con-noiseur, that love of the music fab-ric that sets apart Beethoven fromall others; but some, at least, ofMiss Moore's admirers do not wantto be deprived of a wider applica-tion of her interpretative talents.To a nature so vivacious, piquantand yet eloquent it is a matter of

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DR. HOSIC, PRESIDENT(Continued jrom page 1)

Dr. Potter, who is the distin-guished Moderator of the Congre-gational Church and at present in-terim Pastor of the CongregationalChurch in Winter Park, gave a lu-cid analysis of the real meaningof the Church, emphasizing thatit is the body of people who haveassociated themselves for the pur-pose of seeking the will of Godrather than the building or a fixeddogma which should be thought ofas "The Church," Dr. Potter pre-saged world peace as the outgrowthof world cooperation by people whoseek to bs the instruments of God'sTxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxrrxr

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"MEMOIRS OF AN EX-DIPLOMAT"Winter Park Topics is indebted

to Mrs. M. Weissenburger for thefollowing review of Mr. F . Hunt-ington Wilson's recent book, "Mem-oirs of an Ex-Diplomat."

How tbe United. States gropedits way through the maze of worlddiplomacy in the pre-World War Idays, and how the Department ofState was gradually reorganizedfrom a complete muddle to an effi-ciently operating organization istold in a recently published book,"Memoirs of an Ex-Diplomat," byF. M. Huntington Wilson. Mr. andMrs. Wilson are winter residentsof Winter Park.

When Huntington Wilson wentinto diplomatic service there wereno examinations, no "aptitudetests." You had to know the rightSenator or cabinet member. Mr.Wilson's family knew some ofthese, so in 1897 he was sent assecond secretary to the legation atTokyo. He had better qualificationsthan the average young-man-with-a-pull because his family had trav-eled continuously and he knew for-eign countries and languages aswell as his own.

From Japan he v/as appointed asUnder Secretary to Elihu Root inthe Department of State in, the ad-ministration of Theodore Roosevelt.Here his real work began—thecomplete reorganization of the un-believably befuddled technique pre-vailing in this important govern-mental office.

Throughout the book come inti-mate glimpses and interpretationsof the noted personalities of thatnot-so-distant past, with deep ap-preciation, of the work of such menas Root and Philander Knox. Par-ticularly interesting in the light ofthe recent motipn picture is hisestimate of President Wilson.

The memoirs are delightful read-ing because of Mr. Wilson's rareability to sum up a person or pol-icy in a single informal sentence.Of one of the men under whom heserved he writes: "He seemed tothink diplomatic representativeswere sent to preserve 'peace, per-fect peace' and that to slap a min-ister for foreign affairs on theback with a hearty laugh was dis-charging his full duty." Of a chiefof the consular bureau, "He toed in

slightly as if from so many yearsof walking the straight line ofCivil Service duty." Negotiationsin Japan were "long and tortuous,with everybody lying but me."

From the facts Mr. Wilsonpoints out of the Germans' obviouspenetration into affairs of theWestern world, and of Japan's openpolicy of expansion and her hatredof the West, it becomes less andless understandable why Englandand the United States were offi-cially unaware, and were conse-quently unprepared for WorldWars I and II.

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MERRIE PUPPETS(Continued from page 1)

at the close of the performance.These puppets sell for $1.25 eachand the money realized from theirsale, like all the puppets' ventures,goes to the British tov fund. Over600 of these puppets have alreadybeen made by a group of workershere in Winter Park, some sent toBritain as therapeutic toys forchildren in hospitals, many sold inthis country, but this is the firsttime they have been publicly ex-hibited for sale in Winter Park.

If a special census cuuld be takenit would be found that the ratio ofpuppet lovers in Winter Park isextremely high, due partly to thecultivation of "the humanities"here and partly to the fact thatthere are so many residents andvisitors in Winter Park who haveknown and loved the puppets andpuppet theaters of the Old World,and on this account the MerrieEnglish Puppets anticipate a fullhouse when they "ring up the cur-tain" on their show next Tuesday,March 20, at 4 o'clock.

PUBLIC MEETING(Continued 'from page 1)

now suffering, there has developedin our country a trend toward aform of statism that would bringeverything and everybody undergovernment control.

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But this trend began before thewar and will continue when thewar is over unless the citizens whoreally believe in democracy unite tohalt it. The purpose of the spirit-ual mobilization is to unite thecitizens who desire it to build herein the United States a real work-ing democracy that will be an un-speakable blessing1, not only to uswho live in the United States, butwill be a demonstration to all peo-ples that such a democracy pro-duces a civilization of a finer andhigher quality than any other formof government.

This mobilization is wholly un-sectarian and nonpartisan. Thusfar over two million persons overtheir signatures have expressedtheir approval of this nation-wideeffort. In this number are Cath-olics, Jews and all sorts of Protest-ants, and in the political field bothDemocrats and Republicans. It ap-peals to all citizens who want tomake secure and improve what iscalled "The American Way ofLife."

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RAY STANNARD BAKER(Continued from page 1)

Review from the New York Her-ald-Tribune Book Review Section,Sunday, March i.

The Autobiography of Ray Stan-nard Baker. . . . 531 pp. . . . NewYork: Charles Scribner's Sons. . . .13.50.

Reviewed byGERALD W. JOHNSON

"It all seems so far away andlong' ago!

"This may be a light-mindedcomment on Ray Stannard Baker'sstory of his own life, but it is nota frivolous one. On the contrary,it is nostalgic and faintly bitter.Mr. Baker brings vividly to mindbrave days—foolish in some as-pects, but splendid in their blitheand valiant confidence. They, too,had their complement of blood andfire, of toil and pain; but in thedreary, gray light of 1945 theyseem now to have been the time'When all the world was young, lad,

And all the trees were green,And every goose a swan, lad,

And every lass a queen,'for we were making the world safefor democracy and warring to endwar. What comparable anodynehave we for our present agony?

"Ray Stannard Baker, in the in-tervals of castigating malefactorsof great wealth and villains of highpolities, used to write, under thepen name of 'David Grayson,' idylsof country life that were enor-mously popular. But David Gray-

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"Undoubtedly this accounts forthe fact that a volume of morethan 500 pages nearly all filledwith combat, moral, physical, polit-ical, economic, what you will, is yeta serene book. Baker began life asa stormy petrel of journalism, anotable among the muckrakers inthe days of Roosevelt Minor. Whenwar broke ojjt in 1914 he became apacifist and proved remarkably bel-licose, even for a pacifist, who isnearly always more violent thanordinary men. But his mind wasnot closed. His unusual powers oxobservation continued to function,and the facts, as the war pro-gressed, undermined his pacifistfury. By 1917 he had swung to theother side, although not to theother extreme. He continued to re-gard the Germans as human beingsand incurred some criticism forsaying so.. _ "One powerful influence swaying'him was his respect for WoodrowWilson, whom he had met in 1910,and who satisfied his zeal as a po-litical reformer. In the beginning'he did not altogether satisfy Wil-son, who was suspicious of Baker'spacifism; but in time the Presi-dent's suspicions melted away andhe came more and more to rely onBaker as his press representative.In the end he had Baker organizethe American press section at theParis peace conference, and justbefore his death named the ex-pacifist as his literary executor.Afterward, at the insistence ofMrs. Wilson and others, Baker un-dertook the colossal job of writingthe authorized biography, on whichhe spent 14 years before finishingthe eighth and last volume.

"His account of the peace confer-ence and of the struggle over thetreaty is the culminating point ofthis book. He adds nothing sensa-tional to what is already known ofthe period, but he writes more in-terestingly here than he did in _ thebiography. His official responsibil-ity weighed upon him then. Nowhe is writing on his own responsi-bility, giving his personal impres-sions rather than a weighed andbalanced historical account, there-fore the narrative is far more freeand supple. Here he is under noobligation to be judicial in his atti-

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tude. The result is that while thisaccount may be more prejudiced,it is unquestionably more pungentand much easier reading1.

"The heavy impact of the book isdue, though, not to its factual con-tent but to its revelation of theenormous change in the spirit ofAmerica between two wars. Youngpeople may be excused if they findit implausible, not to say incred-ible; but they may accept it astrue. We really did believe in aworld that simple, a world so com-pletely black-and-white, a worldthat could be shaped much nearerto the heart's desire.

"For Baker, indeed . . . as im-movable fact withered his faith inreform, he discovered a new faithin Wilsonian idealism. To this dayho is unshakeable in his convictionthat he served a great man. Thatthe man was defeated is neitherhere nor there. Many of the world'sgreatest have been defeated, andthe followers who went down withthem, fighting to the last, arerarely regretful. To serve a leaderand then find that he is a fraud is

the tragedy, not to be defeated un-der the banner of a g'reat man.This Ray Stannard Baker has es-caped. Indeed, as sunset approaches,he finds the old faith reviving andthe world coming more and moreto agree that he was right and thathis leader was indeed among themightiest that young Americanshave ever had the privilege of fol-lowing,

'No wonder then that the cloudsand darkness of our time troublehim but little and that amid 'thethunder of the captains and theshouting' his spirit is strangelyserene. Nevertheless, it is some-thing of an anachronism. His bookis charming, but it all seems faraway and long ago."

HERBERT L. FLINTLANDSCAPE ARCHITECTFellow of American Society

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Where to live in 1945?Everybody wants to come back to Winter

Park next season, and there are no newhouses being built.

This situation naturally tends to put highervalues on desirable houses that may bebought or rented, but we clo not believe thatreal estate prices are out of line,

There is only one Winter Park and only alimited number of houses will be available,Those who want to enjoy their wintershere must take into consideration the higherprices for residential property in otherplaces that do not offer the charm of livingafforded by Winter Park.

Every house listed with this office for saleshould be appraised, in our opinion, notalone for its price but as an opportunityfor solving that question, "Where to livein 1945?"

THE WINTER PARK LAND CO.Realtors

Phone 655 128 E. Park Avenue

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WEDNESDAY MUSIC CLUB COMMEMORATESLIFE AND ART OF EDWARD MACDOWELL

A delightful little musical playwritten around the life and com-positions of Edward McDowell, wasgiven Wednesday afternoon at Sor-osis House, Orlando, by the Wednes-day Music Club.

The action takes place at thefamous McDowell Colony at Peter-borough, N. I-I., where a number ofWinter Park residents have spentsummers, including Mrs. CharlesSprague-Smith, in whose name oneof the studios was given; Mrs. Jes-sie Rittenhouse Scollard, poet; Mrs.Arthur T. Aldis, writer; Hugh Me-Kean. artist, and Dr. Willard Wat-tles, writer, of the Rojlins faculty.

The play, by Frederic Libke, wasdirected by Ruth Blackwell of Or-lando, assisted Mrs. Frank Whit-more, Mrs. Ernest Vincent andDorothy Boardman, all of Orlando.

A number of Winter Park musi-cians took part in the play, pre-senting McDowell songs and piano

WARREN ROBERTS TOSPEAK ON "WATER"

At the next meeting of theScience Lecture Course on Monday,March 19, at 7:45, in All SaintsParish House, the speaker will beMr. Warren Roberts, editor of theMorning Sentinel, whose subjectwill be: "Water Conservation forFlorida."

Mr. Roberts is a member of theGovernor's Committee, which is tostudy and make a report on watercontrol, including suggested legis-lation. Hearings have been held invarious parts of Florida in orderto give each section opportunity tobe heard.

WOMAN'S CLUB ELECTSMRS. MORGAN PRESIDENT

Mrs. A. B. Morgan was reelectedpresident of the Woman's Club atthe thirtieth annual luncheon meet-ing last Friday.

Following the luncheon, annualreports were read by the officersshowing the works well done byeach, and progress made duringthe year.

Elected to serve with Mrs. Mor-gan were: First vice-president,Mrs. Roy Verdery; second vice-president, Mrs. S. A. Weissenbur-ger; t h i r d vice-president, MissMargaret Moore; secretary, Mrs.S. A. Williams; corresponding sec-retary, Mrs. Thomas C. Campbell;treasurer, Mrs. Charles McDowell;assistant treasurer, Mrs. W. W.Wolff.

numbers. Mr. Lucius E. Harris,pianist, taking the role of McDow-ell, played "From a Log Cabin"and "To an Old Pine Tree." MaryJarmen Nelson, as Mrs. McDowell,played the theme song, "To a WildRose," and two of the "Sea Pieces."Mrs. Lucia Hammond, as Mrs. Ben-ton, sang an arrangement of "To aWild Rose," "Thy Beaming Eyes,"and "Long Ago, Sweetheart Mine,"accompanied by Mrs. Ralph L.Baldwin, who took the part of Mrs.Daniels. A poem, "The Waterfall,"by Mrs. Scollard, was read by Mrs.Charles Powell, taking the part ofMrs. Aldis. Orlando women whoappeared in the cast were Ber-nice Ripley, soprano, as Mrs.H. H. A. Beach, who sang her "TheYears at the Spring," and MaryCole, soprano, who sang "TheRobin Sings in the Apple Tree"and "Slumber Song."

DR. COLE TO CLOSEMONDAY LECTURES

Dr. Helen W. Cole will give thelast lecture in the Literature andNationalism Series of the adult ed-ucation program in Rollins Collegeon Monday afternoon, March 19,at 4 o'clock at the Woman's Club.The public is cordially invited toattend.

Since Dr. Cole spent the summerof 1940 in South America she hascontinued her study of eventsthere. But she has been particu-larly interested in tha inter-cul-tural r e l a t i o n s between SouthAmerica and the United States,especially the literature now com-ing out of the social and economicchanges in our neiglibor to thesouth.

Dr. Cole's discussion will have asits focus the recently published an-thology by German Arciniegas:"Green Continent," which presentsa fine and comprehensive pictureof the lands and people below theRio Grande as seen by the peoplewho live there.

EVERY HOME ASKED TOHELP RED CROSS FUND

Contributions from the faithfulsupporters of the American RedCross War Fund total $11,061.60 asof March 14th, according to RayGreene, Chairman of the drive, whoalso reports that many individualsare now in the field canvassinghomes and business houses in everysection of Winter Park and vicinityin order that the requested total

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Gen. Joe Stilwell, who knows what it is tofight the Jap in the jungle, says:

"The Red Cross has done much to fill the voidin the lives of fighting men who are thou-sands of miles from their homes and lovedones. Red Cross war funds are vitally nec-essary to keep these important effortsalive."

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might be raised during Red Crossmonth, which ends March 31st.

The Winter Park Unit was askedby the County Chairman, LloydGahr, to raise $16,000 of the $108,-000 allotted to Orange County byNational Headquarters and there issome doubt about another fourthousand being raised as most ofthe larger contributions have beenmade and recorded. It looks asthough it would be necessary forevery home to contribute its sharein order to bring the campaign toa successful end by the close of themonth.

The Winter Park High and Ele-mentary Schools as well as RollinsCollege are conducting their own

contests for subscriptions and size-able totals are in prospect fromthese three agencies.

The Florida Bank & Trust Com-pany as well as the Red Cross head-quarters at the Woman's Club arereceiving funds daily during bank-ing hours and every one is_ urgedto bring or send in his contributionin order to save the time of can-vassers.

The Colony Theatre is showingpictures of Red Cross at workamong the wounded and prisonersof war during every scheduledshow.

RED CROSS BELONGS TOYOU. GIVE ALL YOU CAN AF-FORD TO GIVE.

SERVICES TO MEETTHE HANDLING OF ESTATES

In these times of rapid changes both in familyrelationships and of values of all kinds ofproperty, it is advisable to make whateverreadjustments are necessary in the plansyou have made for the handling of yourestate.

This bank has met general approval by theexpansion of its facilities to include TrustPowers, thus providing all the advantagesof a permanent and competent organiza-tion to act as Executor or Administrator.

Your own lawyer who confers with you on thedrawing of a will or the changing of yourpresent testament fully appreciates thebenefit of a trusteeship trained in businessprocedure which acts under Governmentsupervision and is a member of the FederalDeposit Insurance Corporation.

We invite you to confer with us in regard tothese matters, in confidence and withoutobligation.

Florida Bank and Trust CompanyWINTER PARK, FLORIDA

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DIRECTOKSH. W. Bnrmim

Joshua C. Chase

B. K. Coleman

P. E. Davis

Homer Gard

Rockwell C. Osborne

W. R. Rosenfelt

W. E. Winderweedle

OFFICERSW. R. Rosenfelt President

H. W. Barnum Vice-President

P. E. Davis. . Vice-Pres. and Cashier

*E. M. Baldwin Asst. Cashier*On leave with Armed Forces.