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WINTER PARK TOPICSWeekly Review of Social and Cultural Activities

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Vol. 10—No. 9 Winter Park, Florida, Friday, March 5, 1943 Price 10 Cents

TRIBUTE TO JUDGE PEASLEY AND DR. PRICEPAID BY DR. VERNON AT UNIVERSITY CLUB

JESSIE B. RITTENHOUSE TELLS POETRY SOCIETYOP LIFE AND WORK OF WILLIAM ROSE BENET

Before a large assembly of mem-bers of the University Club lastSaturday night, Dr, A. W. Vernon,chairman of the memorials com-mittee, read the following tributesto the late Judge Frederick M.Peasley and Dr. OrlO' Price:

Death has bracketed for us twoof the most dissimilar, yet mostdevoted members of our club. Theyhave each played a. prominent partin our life together. When theVice-Presidency was a dignifiedposition, not drawn and quarteredas at present, Orlo Price held it.He belonged in the Woodbury,Scott succession. He was also adelightful leader of our pow-wows;though putting aside the thunder-bolts of authority, he alwaysbrought our eager debaters to agracious halt in time for our cardplayers to have their turn at argu-ment. Judge Frederick M. Peasleywas faithful to all the club activi-ties, sitting at the bridge tabie, in-terrogating at the pow-wow, inter-vening energetically at the businesssession, he called our Year-Bookthe Winter Park Bible and, quitein character,, scrupulously . amend-

, ed it, insisting, though not a Uni-tarian, on bringing it up to date.One of his lesser delights was toinvoke the terrors of the charteragainst our lay ignorance. Perhapsin Connecticut, wnere he was chair-man of the Judiciary Committee ofthe House and twice appointedJudge of its Superior Court, men

*may associate him with the statuteannotations which he originated,but it is not with musty documentsnor with carefully weighed deci-sions that he lives in our memory.

Winter Park judges us all in asingular fashion. \ve forget whatour members have done; all weknow is what their activities havedone to them. And the law didlittle to Peasley. He escaped from

JOSEPH LINDON SMITHTO TELL OF TRAVELS

On Monday, March 8, at 4 P.. M..Joseph Lindon Smith, artist andarchaeologist, will bring to a closethe very successful series of infor-mal talks initiated by the WinterPark Unitarian Alliance at theBarbour estate, opposite the Coun-try Club. His subject, "An Artistin Many Lands," will give him anopportunity to recount his unusualexperiences in Egypt, Indo-China,Persia, India, and Guatemala wherehe has copied ancient murals forAmerican museums. Although notclaiming to be a humorist, Mr.Smith is noted for his delightfulgift as a story-teller. Winter Parkis fortunate in haying an oppor-tunity of hearing this famous1 trav-

. eler, whoSe services have been gen-erously placed at the disposal ofthe group of women raising moneyfor war-work and local charities.To his talk the public is invited onpayment of a nominal admission atthe door.

its routine and convention and itsalmost inevitable tendency to Aris-totelian compromise and stands inour memories1—in our hearts, even—as an ebullient boyish figure,down on all hypocrisy and snob-bery, fond of fun, keeping whatpatience he had for his fishing, andbursting' out upon us with spon-taneity, verve and vigor as hisblessed friendly democratic spiritmoved him. The last words he isknown to have uttered, shortlyafter an exceptional catch at St.Petersburg, were: "I have neverfelt better in my life." Scarcelywere the words spoken when he fell.

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By ROSE MILLS POWERS

A large number of guests andmembers of the Florida PoetrySociety met at the home of Mrs.George Kraft on Saturday after-noon, February 27th, when JessieB. Eittenhouse spoke on WilliamRose Belief's autobiographical bookof poetry, "The Dust That Is God,"the Pulitzer Prize Poetry awardfor 1942.

Having been a member of thesame literary group in New YorkCity as "the writing Benets",William, Stephen, Rosemary andhsava, and with vivid recollectionsof William's first wife, Theresa, as

IMPRESSIONS OF THE BACH FESTIVALThe Eighth Annual Bach Festi-

val of Winter Park; must assuredlyhave gratified its sponsors and wonnew converts to the lofty ideal ofpresenting each year the works ofone of the world's greatest mastersof music. For this Festival wasnot only the best that we have had,but it attained a high plane ofartistic achievement that full}'merited the •approval of discrimi-nating critics,

Bach's music has gained steadilyin favor as- it has become moregenerally heard and understood.Old prejudices against its beingcomplex and difficult to appreciatehave been giving way in the pastfew years as the public has hadmore frequent opportunity to hearthe "B Minor Mass" and the twogreat "Passions." It is not to be

wondered that Bach is still re-garded with awe: it is his richpalette of colors, his seemingly end-less resource that test the listener.

No better comparison can bemade than to liken Bach's musicto' a great Gothic cathedral whoselofty spires and massive propor-tions are but the frame for a thou-sand details of intricate ornamen-tation,—-an awe-inspiring structurewhose pinnacles and flying but-tresses, beatific saints and repulsivegargoyles, are everywhere set offwith an infinity of delicate trace-ries,—all composing the master-work. The little village church offour walls1, a spire, a door and win-dows can readily be understood andloved by the primitive, artisticallyspeaking; but the cathedral of

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PRESIDENT HOLT ASKS FOR HELP TO COMPLETEWAR ADJUSTMENT PROGRAM FOR ROLLINS

Reporting; that approximately one-half of the goal set for the War-Adjustment Program for Eollins College has already been generously.subscribed, President Hamilton Holt announced this week that friendsof the college have contributed $39,603 in gifts and a total of $85,000 hasbeen reached in the sale of four per cent Debenture Bonds,

The War-Adjustment Program, planned to stabilize the financialsituation of the college for the duration of the war, was initiated a yearago by the Board of Trustees when an appeal was made for $250,000.Half of this amount was to be reached by outright gifts, and the re-mainder by the sale of the Debenture Bonds.

The College is now attempting to complete its War-AdjustmentProgram by raising $126,000. Of this amount, $41,000 is to be raised bythe sale of the Debenture Bonds.

The amount needed to complete the goal today is only $12,000 morethan was contributed by the founders of Rollins College 58 years agowhen Winter Park was an "out-of-the-way and sparsely settled com-munity" consisting of 119 white families.

For 58 years Rollins has progressed onward and upward through thesacrifices, often heroic, on the part of its friends, until today it has be-come a national, even an international institution. The record made byRollins College during' the past year, in marshalling its whole force andresources of personnel deserves the admiration and support of everycitizen, not only of Orange County, but of Florida as a whole.

Immediately upon the entry of the United States1 into the world con-flict, Rollins officials, faculty and students joined in an effort to make allthe facilities and resources of the college available for the war program.

However, due to conditions resulting from the war which have af-fected colleges and universities throughout the nation, Rollins will be ina serious .financial situation until the War-Adjustment Program is com-pleted, Dr. Holt stated. "We have supreme faith that our neighbors inWinter Park and friends elsewhere will support Rollins now as cour-ageously and enthusiastically as did the Founding Fathers six decadesago," he said.

well as his second wife, the giftedand beautiful Elinor Wylie, MissEittenhouse's talk had a personalslant and understanding that clari-fied this confessional autobiogra-phy, alternately censiired and ac-claimed in the literary world today.

As a prelude to her talk, MissRittenhouse showed how the wholestory of Benet's life is highly dra-matic, following a pattern of des--1tiny from his childhood days atFort Hamilton and other militaryposts, his college clays at Yale withhis friend, Hoyt, brother of ElinorWylie, his meeting with TheresaThompson in San Francisco, side-tracked from becoming a Carmelitenun, to be his happy cooperativewife and mother of his children,whose death in 1919 he memora-lized in a volume of poems called"Perpetual Light," extracts fromwhich Miss Rittenhouse read, fol-lowed by his powerful war lyrics,including one with the propheticline "Slime of the fen," symbolictoday of Japan. Bonet's heartbreakover his wife's death lasted fouryears, and another tragedy, thesuicide of his college friend Hoyt,with whom he was living, nowbrought him into close touch withHoyt's sister, Elinor, brilliant poetand "devastator of hearts," therunaway wife of Philip Hichborn,and married at that time to HoraceWylie of Washington. Miss Ritten-house gave a colorful analysis ofthis poetic genius, so like a rein-carnation of Shelley, always seek-ing perfection. She showed howBenet's interest in his friend's1 sis-tev and his help in developing herpoetic talent, naturally drew themtogether. She described their ap-pearance together at the AnnualDinner arranged by her for thePoetry Society of America in NewYork in the early nineteen twentiesand how she was generally con-sidered to be one of the world'smost beautiful women as well asone of America's most giftedwomen poets. This highly roman-tic interlude in Benet's1 life lastingfive years, involving Elinor's di-vorce from Wylie, her marriage to

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WOMAN'S CLUBWednesday, March 10th, a t 1

P. M. community luncheon, Mrs.H. B. Sehenck, member of theLeague of Women Voters, willspeak on "Our Trade Agreements."Mrs. Sehenck has made a thorough,study of this subject and feels thatall women should be informed sincethese trade agreements must berenewed in June.

Friday, March 12th, at 3 P. M.the Department of War Service willhave charge of the meeting. Mrs,Thomas E. Campbell, chairman,will introduce Mr. Burton Smith, abusiness man of Orlando appointedby Gov. Holland to he in charge ofthe Blood Bank. Mr. Smith willspeak on "The Blood Bank and itsBenefits."

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SO CIA I NOTES

Dr. and Mrs'. Albert Shaw werehosts to Miss Dorothy Baker, so-prano, and Miss Lydia Summers,contralto, during the Festival. Be-tween the Friday performances Dr.and Mrs. Shaw entertained a smallgroup including the two soloists,Mr. and Mrs. Bion Barnett of Jack-sonville; Miss Bayeur, and the Ba-roness Boecop.

Floyd Worthington was the houseguest of Mrs.'Arthur T. Aldis of605 Park Avenue during his en-gagement here for the Bach Fes-tival. Mr. and Mrs. Alden Edkbiswere entertained by the college.

Mrs. Samuel Snelling, who en-tertained Harold Haugh, tenorsoloist for the Bach Festival, ather home during his stay here, gavea luncheon Wednesday at Mrs.List's for Mr. Haugh and the othertwo men soloists, Mr. Edkins andMr. Worthington, also Mrs. Edkinsand Mrs. Charles Sprague-Smith.• Mrs. Robert Stanforth, with her

baby arrived last week from Ros-lyn, L. I., to make a visit withher sister-in-law, Mrs. Henry Pow-ell Spring, of 616 Seminole Drive.

Mrs. F . A. Marelli and two youngdaughters, Harriet and Ann, ar-rived last week from Roekford, 111.,to spend some time with Mrs.Marelli's father, Mr. William F.Pelham of Essex Road. Harrietand Ann are attending the localelementary school.

Mrs. John H. Chandler returnedWednesday to Louisville, Ky., aftervisiting her brother-in-law and sis-ter, Dean Henry Edmonds and Mrs.Edmonds, of Brewer Avenue. Mr,Chandler departed far" Louisvilleseveral days ago.

Mr. and Mrs. Octavius Apple-gate, Jr., arrived. Tuesday morningfrom Wellesley Hills, Mass., tomake a ten-day visit with the for-mer's parents, Dr. and Mrs, Apple-gate of Henkel Drive. Mrs. Apple-gate's sister, Mrs, Warren H. Titus,of Providence, R. I., is expectedshortly for a visit on her way northfrom a stay at the Fenway in Dune-din, Fla.

Ted, Spun- is spending a ten-dayfurlough from Camp Va.n Dorn,Miss., with his parents, Mr. andMrs. J. Edward Spurr, of HenkelDrive. Ted is -well known in Win-

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ter Park, having lived here forseveral seasons. A veteran ofWorld War I, when he saw twomajor engagements in France, atSan Mihiel and Belleau Woods, -Ted spent five months in the army •of occupation. He left college atthe age of seventeen to enter thewar in 1917. Now, in World.War .II, Private Spurr is again givinghis services for his country.- The Friday Morning Reading -

Group will meet at the Woman'sClub on March 12th. Miss LenaKilliam will review "The Magazine"by Sholem Asch.

At the 50th anniversary on Feb-ruary 24th, American University,Washington, D. C, conferred thehonorary degree of Doctor of Lawsupon Dr. Lucius C. Clark, formerlya resident of Winter Park. Dr,Clark is chancellor-emeritus of theAmerican University and duringhis administration the College ofLiberal Arts was organized.

Virginia Heights Circle of theW. P. Garden Club will welcomevisitors to the Mead Garden onMarch 6th at the fourth of theseries of 'Afternoons in the Gar-den." Azaleas1, camillias and or-chids are there. Come and enjoya stroll through a lovely garden.Your ticket will admit you. Thegarden will be open from 10 A. M.to 5 P. M.

Dr. William Dana Street, of 1773Alabama Drive, and White Plains, -N. Y., will conduct the service inAltamont Chapel this Sunday,March 7th, speaking on "St. Luke'sPortrait of Christ."

The East End Circle of theWinter Park Garden Club will meetat The Palms, estate of Mr. andMrs. Frank B. Trismen, Wednesdaymorning, March 10, at 10 o'clock.Miss Marian Franklin will give atalk on "Medicinal Herbs."

Mr, and Mrs. John O. Mills, ofWesterly, R. L, arrived Wednesdayfor a ten-day stay and are withMr. and Mrs. Walter Schultz ofEast Morse Boulevard.

Miss Ada Belle Files, contraltoof Chicago, who has been coachingwith Mme. Louise Homer for herdebut with the San Carlo OperaCompany entertained . at luncheonWednesday, her guests includingMme. Homer and Mr. Homer, Mr.and Mrs. Sidney Farwell, Mr. andMrs. Charles Hammond and MissMabel Ritch.

Mrs. George Kraft has as herhouse guest Mrs. Stephen Cum-mins, of Easthampton, L. I., a for-mer resident of Winter Park. Mrs.Kraft invited a group of Mrs. Cum-mins' friends1 in for tea lastWednesday from 4:30 to 6. Theresidence of Dr. and Mrs. ArthurMcGugan of Seminole Drive, wasformerly owned by Mrs. Cummins.

Mrs. P. R. Breyfagle; of Aylep,Va., is the guest until the middleof April, of Mrs. Fred Perry Pow-ers, of East Lyman Avenue.

Mrs. William Chart Sanders, of,Georgia Avenue, has her daughter,Mrs. Laurel J. Leake, and son, Rob-ert Sanders Leake, of Fort Thomas,Ky., with her for a two weeks'visit.

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Mrs. Sheldon Lyman, of Laguna,Cal., is the guest of Miss GeorgianaSheldon, new professor of historyat Rollins College. Miss Sheldonis the former head of the Nixon-Sheldon School for Girls in Flor-ence, Italy. Mrs. Lyman has beenspending the past ten days with herfriends, Prof, and Mrs. William A.Saptt, of Interlachen Avenue.

Mrs. Elmer Johnson, of Maitland,gave a small luncheon Wednesdayto compliment her two houseguests, Mrs, Frances King, ofSouth Hartford, N. Y., and MissWhittingham Cleveland, of NewYork. Others invited were MissMary Hayden, Miss ElizabethKreitler and. Mrs. William A. Scott.

Dr. "Tommy" Thompson, son ofMr. and Mrs. H. S. Thompson, ofMaitland, has recently been madea lieutenant colonel, and is incharge of the orthopedic divisionof Walter Reed Hospital in Wash-ington. Col. Thompson is a gradu-ate of Roollins College and JohnsHopkins and has practiced in NewYork for 'several years,

Mrs. Jessie Rittenhouse Scollardwill give the last lecture of the se-ries "War, and Literature" underthe Rollins Adult Education pro-gram being conducted by Dr. Cole,next Tuesday at 4:30 at the, Wom-an's1 Club. She will speak on "WarPoets I Have Known."

Winter Park people who attendedthe delightful recital last winter atthe Hotel Alabama by BettyHumby, English pianist, were muchinterested to read of the announce-ment of her marriage recently toSir Thomas Beecham, noted Eng-lish orchestra conductor. MissHumby's .recital here was spon-sored by Mr. and Mrs. Homer, Gardwho entertained with a buffet sup-per at their home after the concert,in honor of the pianist.

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BACH FESTIVAL(Continued from Page 1)

|Bach challenges the fullest under-standing and appreciation of musi-cal art.

We can only understand and ap-preciate Bach through the inter-pretations that we hear, and it ismost fortunate that we have hereun Winter Park under the inspir-ing direction of Dr. Christopher0. Honaas, our Conductor, been im-proving these interpretations1 fromyear to year and revealing moresuccessfully the conceptions of themaster. We are especially fortu-nate, too, in the beautiful environ-ment for our Festival; the spaciousnave of the Chapel, its atmosphereof reposeful sanctity, the massedchorus rising in tiers in the Chan-cel with orchestra, soloists andconductor in intimate contact withthe congregation.

The Festival opened on Thurs-day, 'February 25, at 3 P. M. witha program of three of the mostpopular of the Cantatas: "AStronghold Sure," "God's Time IsBest" and "Sleepers Wake." Allwere sung with thrilling effective-ness. In the first, Bach gives1 amagnificent elaboration of MartinLuther's hymn, "Ein Feste Burg,"concluding with one of his mostsolid Chorales. The introductionto the second Cantata was a verycharacteristic classical bit, inwhich.the solo flutists played mostcharmingly in canon style. Aquaint solemn passage "It is theold decree, man thou art mortal"was lightened by a lovely contrast-ing theme for sopranos: "Yea come,Lord Jesus" which was sung withsweetness of tone and devotion.The long sustained phrases of"Sleepers Wake" were another tri-umph for the sopranos, and thefull chorus showed its best attri-butes in a superb delivery of thefinal Chorale,—one of Bach's mostthrilling harmonic monuments. Thesolo numbers in these Cantatasserved more to reveal the qualityand resources of the soloists thanto provide them with gratefulmedia for their talents,

"The Passion According to St.Matthew," given on Friday after-noon and evening, is a dramaticoratorio with a chorus of Christianbelievers, Jewish mob, a narratorcalled the "Evangelist," Jesus, Ju-das, Pilate and minor characters.Bach makes his music do the workof scenery, properties and action,as well as reach through one's earsto his heart-strings.

Harold Hatig-h, tenor, was a cen-tral figure, his rich vibrant voicedelivering the many recitatives ofthe Evangelist with excellent dic-tion and exhibiting contrasts ofthrilling power and gentle solici-tude. His aria with chorus obli-gate, "I would beside my Lord"was one of the most moving num-bers in the Passion. Lydia Sum-mers, filling her fourth Festivalengagement, again displayed therichness of quality, the flexibility

of production and the sincerity ofinterpretation which have made hera favorite here and her singing of"0 pardon me" considered by manyas the finest of the solo numbersin this work, left little to be desired.Alphonse Carlo and A. KunradKvam, cellist, contributed to itssuccess with very beautifullyplayed obligati.

Miss Dorothy Baker, a newcomerthis year, with a lyric soprano ,ofappealing timbre, was most effec-tive in the aria "From love un-bounded" which was exquisitelyenhanced by a flute solo by Mr.Harry Hirsh, Miss Baker showedexcellent musicianship in the de-livery of Bach's difficult passagesand her interpretations were char-acterized by an instinctive feeling.The singing of J* Alden Edkins,baritone, was one of the outstand-ing highlights of the Festival. Mr.Edkins has a voice of rich volume,delivered from bottom to top with-out constriction, and he sang thepart of Jesus with a dignity inwhich repose and human qualitieswere depicted with rare felicity.Mr. Floyd Worthington, baritone,was notable for the vocal and dra-matic sug'gestiveness with which hecharacterised the manner of Judas,Peter and Pilate.

The Chorus acquitted itself withdistinction in several passages inthe Passion: the anxious question-ing of the disciples as to who shouldbe the ..betrayer,—"Lord, is it I,"a page of dramatic intensity sel-dom equalled; the massive chorus"Ye lightnings"; the raging out-cry, "Barabbas"; the subdued pleaof that poignant Chorale, "WhenI too am departing"; the loftyhomage of the Centurion, "Truly,this was the Son of God"; the com-passion of the burial "My Jesus,rest in peace", and the sublimeapotheosis of the final chorus, "Indeepest grief."

Dr. Honaas had good reason tobe proud of his chorus. They fol-lowed his lead excellently, re-sponded to his nuances with finedynamic sensitiveness, displayedimpeccable intonation in unaccom-panied Chorales, and gave him im-pressive dramatic power when hecalled for it.

Especially noteworthy was theplaying of the instrumentalists Al-phonse Carlo, violin, A. KunradKvam, cello, Katherine Carlo,harpsichord, Albert Nassi, violin,Ralph DeRiggi, August Fantilli,oboe and English horn, and HarryHirsh and Gerald Rudy, flutes,.allof whom gave most effective obli-gati in the solo numbers. Profes-sor Herman F. Siewert, organist ofthe Chapel, was a large contributorto the success of the Festivalthrough his colorful registrationsand masterly accompaniments.

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MRS. TILTON ASKS FORPURITAN QUALITIES

Responsive laughter over ourPuritan ancestors might well de-scribe the reaction given to thetalk of Mrs. Elizabeth Tilton beforethe Women's Unitarian Alliancelast Monday. "Were Those Puri-tans So Awful?" was the subject,and the answer was "No, they werenot." They pulled their oar wellin every Colonial emergency.

"Hawthorne," said Mrs. Tilton, issupposed to have started the Puri-tan complex. His view on life wasexpressed by himself to FranklinK. Pierce, former President, that"life was not meant to be happyin" and he transferred his glooniyview to his work about the Puri-tans, picturing their clothes andtheir lives as sad and gray.

"On the contrary, the Puritansrevelled in clothes" declared thespeaker. She described from anold diary about 1730, the way alover who lived near her fourthgreat - grandfather was dressedwhen he weni; a-courting: a fullbottomed wig, a cocked hat, a scar-let coat, a white satin waistcoat,two watches, one on either side,knee britches and bright and shin-ing buckles.

But better than their clothes wastheir character. They were abrainy, fearless lot. They had grit,gumption, go, a God-fearing pas-sion for a Free Man supported bya Clean Man, though you wouldnever know it from our debunkerswho find Milton unsatisfactory andEmerson a fraud morally.

Mrs. Tilton told of the grit thePilgrim Fathers showed with allbut eight ill the first year and halfdying, but when in April the May-flower returned not one would goback with her. "Not a quitteramong-them."

She amused her audience byshowing how she and Mr. DuncanPhillips, the antiquarian, arrivedtogether, 1730, in Salem, andshortly after Salem turned anddrove Roger Williams and Mr. Lu-man Goodenough's first grand-father, one Olney, out of theColony.

"The Bay State Colony was abusiness venture," said Mrs. Til-ton, "financed by wealthy men. I thad to make dividends. Roger Wil-liams and Mr. Goodenough's firstMr. Olney, were born differers.They kept the theological pot boil-ing. 'When for business, we (Mr.Phillips and Tin the persons- of ourpioneers) felt it was better to haveno^..a theological boil but a theo-logical simmer, we drove Mr. Ol-ney along with Roger Williams intoRhode Island where they signed aCharter that every one could be-

lieve as he chose."What was underneath all this

doctrinal emotion? It was the la-bor pains by which the Puritansfinally freed the Colonies from an-cient beliefs- that had grown un-couth and wrote an Epic, the Epicof the democratic way of life.That was their gift to us.

"We are now called on to writea new Epic suited to a new back-ground, a mechanized, urbanized,global background. We can do it,not by debunking the major Puri-tan qualities but by drawing backfrom our roots, their grit, theirgumption, their go, their God-fear-ing passion for a Free Man sup-ported by a Clean Man.

"Asceticism is the hall-mark ofa race coming. Macaulay tells usthat in Cromwell's army no servantgirl need fear a Red Coat. ThePuritans had the qualities to wina global war. Our prayer shouldbe that we revive them."

At the "Afternoons in a Garden"sponsored by the Garden Club lastweek, guests numbering 151 visitedthe Research Studio of. Mr. AndreSmith in Maitland, The bus serviceproved to be quite adequate for theoccasion.

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ANNUAL MEETING OFAUDUBON SOCIETY

Forty-three years ago this springthe Florida Audubon Society wasestablished at the beautiful Dom-merich estate in Maitland, "Hia-watha" with the former bishop ofMinnesota, the Rt. Rev. H. B. Whip-pie as president. Since then theannual gatherings of this organiza-tion have been sponsored by Rol-lins College and have become oneof the richest traditions of the com-munity and of state-wide interest.Sanctuaries for the protection ofbirds have been e s t a b l i s e dthroughout the state, nature studiesand courses in ornithology havebeen inaugurated in the schoolsand colleges, and conservation pro-grams have been emphasized in thesociety's magazine, "The FloridaNaturalist."

This year's meeting of the Flor-ida Audubon Society will be devotedto a consideration of the economicvalue of birds and the value of na-ture study as essential contribu-tions to civilian morale. The an-nual luncheon will be held at 12:30in Fellowship Hall of the Congrega-tional Church with the Rt, Rev.Paul Matthews, former bishop ofNew Jersey and now a resident ofWinter Park, acting as toastmaster.The address will be given by Cath-erine van Dyke, European corre-spondent of the "Ladies HomeJournal" in the first World War,whose play, "Audubon," won a na-tional prize and was produced in1941 on Broadway, A committeeconsisting of Mrs. E. C. Price, Jr.,chairman, Mrs. William C. Bowers,Miss Loretta Salmon, and Mrs. A.Buel Trowbridge, Jr., will be incharge. .

Reports on Florida sanctuaries,local Audubon societies, naturestudy courses, and the businessmeeting will be held at the AnnieRussell Theatre at 2:30 P. M.

Dr. Oliver Perry Medsger, pro-fessor emeritus of nature educationin Pennsylvania State College, willspeak at the Annie Russell Theatreat 3:30 on "Nature Study and BirdProtection as Contributions toCivilian Morale." The afternoon'sprogram will be> concluded with aNature Walk along the Lake Vir-ginia shore of the Rollins campusled by Dr. Edward M. Davis, direc-

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tor of the Baker Museum, Dr. How-ard M. Field and Dr. Paul A. Ves-tal of the Rollins Science Depart-ment, and Dr. Medsger. The pur-pose of this walk is to broaden in-terest in nature by observation,supplemented by scientific knowl-edge. Joy Postle's "Glamour Bird"program of sketches in coloredchalk of egrets, spoonbills, flam-ingos will be the evening offeringat 8:15 at the Annie Russell Thea-tre,

The Unitarian Women's Alliancewill serve supper- for the enlistedmen Sunday evening at A. W. V. S.headquarters on Lyman Avenue.Next Tuesday evening the groupwill be hosts at North Camp, atthe Air Base, and Miss Kile andMiss Rometsch will show movingpictures of Algiers and the HolyLand. Zoe Shippen will do por-traits of the men during the eve-ning.

WORLD DAY OF PRAYERMARCH 12, 1943

This year the World Day ofPrayer will be observed in WinterPark with a service held in theBaptist Church, beginning at 10o'clock on the morning of March12, the first Friday in Lent. Mrs.Joel Phillips is in general chargeof arrangements.

A beautiful liturgical service hasbeen prepared for the occasion byDr. Georgia Harkness of GarrettTheological Institute of Evanston,111., and Mrs, Benjamin E. Mays,of Morehouse College ,AtIanta, Ga.The Women's Missionary societiesof the various churches will be rep-resented on the program by the fol-lowing persons: Baptist, Mrs. F. L.Coward; Episcopal, Miss FrancesFord; Methodist, Mrs. J. F. Pich-ard; Congregational, Mrs, CliftonMix and Mrs. Arthur Golder. Mrs.A. E. Turner will present the serv-ice of the offering.

The Poetry Society of Florida,sponsoring the Allied Arts of Win-ter Park, announces April 10th as1the closing date for entries in itsannual contest in Orange County.Chairmen to whom entries shouldbe sent are Dr. E. O. Grover, ShortStoiy; Prof. Herman Siewert, mu-sic; Dr. Powell Spring, drama.

The art award of thirty andtwenty dollars is given, this year, toihe annual Rollins College Art De-partment exhibition at Morse Gal-lery of Art.

The Ponce de Leon poetry prizeaward of a hundred dollars dividedinto first, second and third prizes,is open to the entire state. En-tries should be sent to Jessie B.Rittenhouse. No manuscript willbe returned.

This well-known organization,devoted to encouraging students inthe creative arts, dates from asmall group called the "Quill Driv-ers", led by the famous poet, Ed-

' win Markham, who lectured atRollins in 1924. The following yearthe Florida Poetry Society w&sfounded, with Jessie B. Rittenhous,e,President,' who has served continu-ously since then. Now sponsoring"The Allied Arts of Winter Park",the organization has given up todate over $7,000.00 in prize moneyto many non-professional workersin poetry, music, art, short storyand the drama. Many world-fam-ous poets have spoken or read fromtheir works at the meetings duringthe past year.

JUDGE PEASLEYJudge Frederick Merrick Peasley

of 837 Golfview Dr., died suddenlyTuesday afternoon, Feb. 16th, in St.Petersburg of a heart attack. Hewas returning from a fishing ex-pedition and was waiting for thebus. His daughter, Miss HarriettPeasley, was in St. Petersburg atthe same time in connection withher puppet shows for war relief.

Judge Peasley was born in St.Mary, Ohio, Feb. 9, 1868, and at-tended Ohio State University, latergraduating from the Yale LawSchool. He resided in Chesire,Conn., just outside of New Havenand was a member of the SupremeCourt of that state until his re-tirement seven years ago when hereached the age of 70. Since thenhe has been a state referee.

Six years ago, the Peasleys cameto Florida and spent the first win-ter in St. Petersburg. The follow-ing year, they came to WinterPark and purchased the home onGolfview Terrace. He was a mem-ber of the Rotary Club and alsoof the Winter Park UniversityClub.

He is survived by his wife andtwo daughters, Miss Harriet andMiss Marion Peasley.

Winter Park Topics quotes ex-cerpts from letters received thisweek from absentees Nathan M.Hutchison and former Dean of Rol-lins College Winslow S. Anderson,now president of Whitman Collegeat Walla Walla, Wash. Mr. Hutchi-son last season purchased the at-tractive James Gamble Rogershome on the Isle of Sicily, butowing to his wife's illness was un-able to return to occupy it this sea-on. Mrs. Hutchison is one of Win-ter Park's enthusiastic golfers. Hewrites from Vineyard Haven,Mass,: "Please send the 'Topics' tome starting wiih the first issue ofthe season, if possible, at the aboveaddress until further notice. Owingto Mrs. Hutchison's illness, we areunable to occupy our Winter Parkhouse, but. are very comfortablehere among good friends of longstanding."

From Dean Anderson:"Dear Mr. Hammond: Your an-

nouncement of the 'Winter ParkTopics' came earlier this month,and now through your thoughtful-ness I have received the first twoissues of Volume 10. To say thatwe devoured the contents of bothissues is putting it mildly._ Naturally, we all miss our friendsin Winter Park. However, we arefinding Walla Walla and the PacificNorthwest to be very much to ourliking. The people 'here are veryfriendly and hospitable and have

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made us feel entirely at home.Whitman is a New England collegewith a strong Williams tradition,My immediate predecessor, Dr. W.A. Bratton, was a Williams man,as was Dr. S. B. L. Penrose, presi-dent of the college for forty years.Dr. Penrose was a Deke, as I thinkyou are. Walla Walla is a con-servative Republican community.

"I hope that this season will bea most successful one for you. Infact, I was wondering if you weregoing to continue the 'Topics' thisyear and your announcement wasmy answer."

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v^i,- . . .TRIBUTES.. •A (Continued from Page 1)dead. At 77, he seemed to himself—and to the rest of us—as justbeginning adolescence. He kept hischaracter intact and brought itwhole into port. Crimes, robes,years, beat upon his bark in vain;it was too staunch for them all.

The death of Price was' equallysudden and to those of us in theclub where it occurred unforget-able. If the Judge suggests a rug-ged Old Testament prophet, Pricesuggests the grace of the New-Can yoii think of a man whose lefthand knew so little of what hisright was doing? Have any of youheard him speak either of hisachievements in Church Federa-tion, of his1 family or of his chil-dren, though he had reason to beproud of them all? Price was acooperative individualist, a rarephenomenon. He never went withthe crowd and yet he never an-gered the crowd; rather, he per-suaded it to stop and listen, to bsuncertain and ashamed, even attimes to go along with him. Hewas a critic of life, yet an optimist.His criticism was both life-longand life-giving. He never thoughthighly of himself or too highly ofus—that is the reason we thinkso highly of him. He had a stand-ard of reference so' pure that itdwarfed us all, himself included.He was both a gentle and a de-termined liberal like his Master.He was a happy man, because, likethe rest of us old fellows, he hadlearned that while the world is ablundering and ignorant old affair,we a.re not responsible for it andcannot be expected quite to over-turn it, So he pursued his justcriticism, listened to ours at firsthopefully then resignedly, and wenthis loving way. And so he foundthat for all the world's stubborn-ness, it made room for the joy ofthe meek and gave it welcome. Wecan imagine liim, now more thanever, slapping the old world on itsshoulder and forgiving- it.

His last act was in character.He did not usually overestimate hisstrength; only a clay or so beforehe read us the paper on the SmallCommunity—which in his lifetimehe had loved and upon which hehad labored—he gave his custo-mary refusal to participate in areligious service because of itsemotional strain, saying, "I havehad two coronary thromboses; Idon't want another." Yet speak-ing loudly and turning from sideto side so that all could hear, heread, for over half an hour thencame Providence and called out inthe very words of Walt Whitman:Passage, immediate passage!Away, 0 Soul, hoist instantly the

anchor!Have we not stood here like trees

in the ground long enough?Have we not darkened and dazed

ourselves with books long'enough?

Sail forth—steer for the deepwaters only!

Reckless, 0 Soul, exploring, I withthee and thou with me,

For we are bound where marinerhas not yet dared to go

And we will risk the ship, our-selves and all.

0 daring joy but safe! Are theynot all seas of God?

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DESPERATE NEED OFGREEKS DESCRIBED

Dr. Alice G. Carr, who spoke ata Community Meeting for the bene-fit of Near East Foundation, heldat the Congregational Church lastSunday afternoon, gave a graphicpicture of the way every man,woman and child in Greece ralliedto the defense of the homelandwhen it was suddenly attacked.

She said that as the men went tothe front, the old men, the womenand the children carried food andsupplies to' them through the snowup into the Pindus Mountains overtrails that even a donkey could nottravel. She spoke with enthusiasmof the valiant fight the soldiers hadmade. She told what it was liketo live under constant day andnight bombing.

When Dr. Carr was asked whatshe thought would be the greatestcontribution the Near East Foun-dation could make, she replied "Inevery home there is a woman cry-ing. Let us1 give work to thosewomen to ease their sorrow, to helpthem maintain their homes and tomake things that are desperatelyneeded,"

This was the task that was as-signed to Dr. Carr. The Greekwomen eagerly responded. Theymade nearly a million surgicaldressings, hundreds of thousandsof garments, hundreds of thousandsof hospital supplies and finallythousands of suits for soldiers dis-charged from hospitals who hadnothing to wear but their hospitalpajamas.

She said that some food is nowgoing to Greece; that there arethree American agencies workingto alleviate the terrible suffering inGreece—Greek War Relief, the RedCi'oss and Near East Foundation.

In introducing Dr. Carr, Dr. Al-bert Shaw, chairman of the WinterPark committee for Near EastFoundation, said that this was Dr.Carr's third war. She served fromthe beginning to the end of the firstWorld War; through the Polish-Russian War and did not return toAmerica until three months afterthe Germans entered Greece, Sheknows from actual hard experiencewhat it mans to_ help people riseagain with nothing to work withbut scorched earth.

Mr. W. R. Rosenfelt, Presidentof the Florida Bank in Winter Parkis Treasurer of the Winter ParkCommittee for Near East Founda-tion.

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VICTORY BOOK DRIVEENDS MARCH 6TH

Going! Going . . . The last weekof the 1943 Victory Book Cam-paign! After Saturday, March 6th,it will be gone! Mark the dateplease; bring in your books beforeit is too late. When the driveopened last January, perhaps youthought there were so 'many weeksahead that there was no need forhurry . . . with s'o much to do, asalways, here in Winter Park, thebook giving could wait until a leis-ure' moment. Well, there aren'tany more leisure moments; time isup! The drive'is about to close.Let's finish it extravagently, witha deluge, a downpour, an ava-lanche of books. Let's make it a •credit to our community. Credit?Who said credit? It's our privi-lege—and our responsibility! Wedare not stint, even in small things,those men who are giving dailytheir "full measure of devotion."Today in North Africa there arehospitals filling up with woundedmen; they will need books. Nearerhome, guarding our thousands ofmiles of shore ljnej the men of the

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This doesn't mean that the bookshaven't'been coming in; they have,most generously. But even so weask you for more. You see, youcouldn't possibly give too manybooks,—especially new books—newat least in point of publishing andin point of view. Already therehave been contributed some twelvehundred books,—of these, five hun-dred and sixty can be ranked asexcellent recent literature. Theyinclude both fiction and non-fiction,such as biographies and currenthistory. Our men in service willdevour all of these you give themand come back for more. Of course,fashions in reading change; and•what the doughboy of 1917 enjoyeddoesn't appeal to his counterpartof 194S. If you stop to think aboutit, you'll probably discover thatyou feel the same way about it, too!So you will understand why thislast week we are stressing the con-tribution of the very latest books.It isn't that many earlier ones arenot valuable too but—for onething—so many of them were con-tributed in last year's drive thatthey aren't needed in the quantitythat the newer publications are.Besides there have been a numberof extremely readable and signifi-cant books that have come out inthe past few months. Take SEEHERE, PRIVATE HARGROVE forinstance or Otto Tolischus's TOKIORECORD. . . . What about givingour men a chance to keep up •withthe latest best sellers even if theyhappen to be thousands of miles1away from a book store? Whatabout doubling that six hundredand fifty before the deadline haspassed? On Saturday, March 6th,the Headquarters at 352 East ParkAvenue will be open all day to re-ceive your books. Please bringthem in before it is too late. Re-

member, the 1943 Victory BookCampaign ends on March 6th . . .going . . . going, gone!

A. W. V. S. NEWS

At the regular monthly meeting1,Monday afternoon, the Chairmanof Stamps and Bonds, Recreation,Draft Board, Ration Board andCanteen Committees' reported 2,163hours given by 127 members and511 hours by 50 Junior Hostesses.Mrs. Paul Brauer, State Chairmanof Bonds and Stamps, reportedsales of $650.00 in stamps and $1,-250.00 in Bonds during the monthof February in Winter Park andOrlando.

The final meeting of the A. W.V. S. home repairs1 will be heldin the class room on Wednesdayat 2 o'clock. Mrs. Jeanette New-ark, of the Florida Public Service,will give a short talk on the careof gas and electric ranges, afterwhich Mr. Gust will review the pre-vious lessons. Each member willbe asked to complete a repair joband it is hoped that, there will bea large attendance. .

Sunday was Rollins Day at theCentre. Dean Cleveland and Mrs.Marion Wilcox provided a lusciousspaghetti supper, assisted by theHouse Mothers. Needless to say,with a host of college girls toentertain them, there was an abun-dance of Service Men. Many ofthem . enjoyed Mrs. Jane Recling-ton's reading of hand writings.

Registration for the Class ofOffice Receptionists will begin inthe near future. All of our recep-tionists, as well as others inter-ested, are asked to take this im-portant course. Kindly registerbefore March 15th.

Mrs. Mitchell, Chairman of theHouse Committee, who has beendoing a grand job, is1 in need ofassistance to carry on this import-ant work. "•

Due to Artist Hare's generous;gift, A. W. V. S. made over $1,-.'550.00 with which to carry on itssplendid work. Mrs. J. W. Ander-son of the Everglades Olub, PalmBeach, was the happy winner.

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FURTHER INFORMATION ON THE PROPOSEDPURCHASE OF THE WATER PLANT BY THE CITY

Mayor R. C. Baker has an-nounced that there will be a publicmeeting to discuss the proposal forthe City of Winter Park to pur-chase its water plant on Thursday,March 11th, at 8 P. M. in the Ele-mentary School. It is planned tocall for a referendum vote on thismatter for Tuesday, March 16th.These dates depend on the receiptof the report and appraisal ofGeorge Simonds, Consulting Engi-neer, early next week.

Statements have been publishedin the Winter Park Herald which,in the opinion of this editor, do notfairly or accurately present theproposition regarding the WaterWorks pui'chase, now under con-sideration by the taxpayers. Thecitizens of Winter Park are entitledto have the facts about this vitalmatter. A definitely biased atti-tude in opposing the purchase isunfortunate.

In fairness to the proposal, andespecially to the people of WinterPark, Winter Park Topics has un-dertaken the investigation of someof the statements made, and pre-sents herewith some very interest-ing and pertinent information.

Much, has been made over thelegal ability of the City to purchasethe plant and issue revenue certifi-cates without them being directliability against property in theCity. A local attorney claims thiscannot be done, but Caldwell &Raymond of New York, who havebeen an authority on bond matterssince 1887, say it can. The opinionsof this firm are accepted by1 allleading insurance companies andother'investors; They have in thepast been employed by the City ofWinter Park on refunding- mattersand are thoroughly familiar withits charter. It is not in the scopeof this discussion to state whoseopinion is more apt to be correct.I t is sufficient to note that beforethese certificates are issued the le-gality of each provision must beapproved by the Court in the vali-dation proceedings. This- question•will, therefore, be definitely de-cided by the Court before the cer-tificates are issued, If it is de-cided that they are not payablesolely from the revenues of thewater system they will not be vali-dated, and the plant will not bepurchased by the City.

The statement has been madethat Leedy, Wheeler & Companydoes not have proper authority tosell these properties. We are mi-i'amiliar with what a.uthority is'required, but apparently Leedy,Wheeler & Company had all theauthority they needed to sell thewater system to the City of Eustison the identical basis being pro-posed for Winter Park, the revenuecertificates having been duly vali-dated by the Florida Courts. Ifthe taxpayers wish to purchase thisplant, it would appear to be pooradvice to suggest that they voteagainst it in the sole hope of beingable to purchase direct from theFlorida Public Service Company ata later date. In this connection, aletter has been shown to us froman official of the corporation whichowns the stock of the Florida Pub-lic Service Company. This letterstates, in part:

"I understand that some questionhas arisen as to the reason for thecompany disposing of these prop-erties to a single purchaser insteadof attempting to consumate nineseparate sales directly with thevarious municipalities concerned.It was1 our judgment that by so

doing, a substantial amount of timeand expense would be saved. Thisfactor, of course, was considered inarriving at the over-all price of$900,000 for the water propertiesof Florida Public Service Company,as we would have expected to re-ceive a larger amount in the aggre-gate if it had been necessary forus to consider the time and expenseinvolved of negotiating nine indi-vidual sales."

An editorial in the Winter ParkHerald of February 26th statesthat Winter Park bonds are worth102 to 105, and also^ states thatthey should not yield over 2% in-terest. These two statements arequite inconsistent. We are informedthat the majority of Winter Parkbonds bear 4% interest, and at aprice of 102 to 105 the yield wouldbe from 3%% to 3 % %• If WinterPark bonds were actually worth a2% yield, as the Herald claims,they would be selling as1 high as135 instead of 105. It would seemthat 3ys% interest coupon o-n theRevenue Certificates is consistentwith the current market value ofWinter Park bonds. It is, of course,far-fetched to claim, as Mr. Traerdoes, that Winter Park RevenueCertificates should sell as high as-a recent issue of Jacksonvillebonds, This issue of $200,000 Jack-sonville bonds was secured by. reve-nues from utilities, which have anannual gross revenue of more thanten times this entire bond issue, inaddition to being a direct obligationof the City of Jacksonville. Suchstatements only serve to confusethe readers.

The methods used by the WinterPark Herald in the edition of Feb-ruary 12th to prove that Leedy,Wheeler & Company will make anunreasonable profit out of thistransaction appear to reach' an all-time high in mathematical gym-nasties. The accuracy of the con-clusion reached can best be de-termined by a brief analysis- of thepremises used. One set of compu-tation was based on the assump-tion that Winter Park, Lake Walesand Avon Park are all of equalvalue, whereas a comparison of thegross earnings for 1942 shows Win-ter Park—$54,161.65; Lake Wales—$30,589.52; Avon Park—$18,622.-11. In another computation heeventually arrived at a value forseven plants (excluding WinterPark and Eustis), a value on theremaining of $52,857.16 each. ThisMr. Traer considers ridiculouslylow". Leedy, Wheeler & Companyhas stated they would gladly sellto the editor of the Winter ParkHerald three of the water systemsfor a total of $60,000, or an averageof $20,000 each, thus permittinghim to make a profit of $32,857.15on each plant, or a total of $98,-571.45 and, to quote the Herald,"This is not hay."

Mr. Traer very naively statesthat nothing will happen if the tax-payers vote to turn down Leedy,Wheeler & Company's offer to theCity. He promises that "The Flor-ida Public Service Company willcontinue to own the water plant asit does now, notwithstanding state-ments of Leedy, Wheeler & Com-panv to the contrary." We ques-tion whether such an assumptionis a safe one on which the taxpay-ers of Winter Park may rely. Wedo know that Leedy, Wheeler &Company have, purchased and arenow operating' the water workssystem in Stuart, Florida. We be-lieve it is reasonable to assumethat this Company would alsofinance the system in Winter Park.

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The question has1 been raised asto whether the City can operatethe water system profitably, with-out any increase in water rates.Anticipated operating statementshave been made by Leedy, Wheeler& Company similar to those madefor the City of Eustis prior to thatCity purchasing its plant. Thiseditor has heard a statement of thechairman of the utilities committeeof the City of Eustis to the effectthat actual operating- expenses forthe two months period since acqui-sition have been very substantiallybelow those estimated by Leedy,Wheeler & Company. The City of-ficials, incidentally, are highlypleased with the purchase of theirplant, and now predict an annualsurplus of between $8,000 and$9,000 after paying all debt serviceand sinking fund requirements.(Their revenue is 50% of that ofthe Winter Park water system.)The local newspaper expresses thesentiments of the taxpayers in thefollowing manner: "The citizensof Eustis owe to the city o cials •a debt of thanks for the invaluableservice they have rendered thecommunity in purchasing- the Eus-tis- Water System. In the purchaseof this water system by the city,it is another step forward in theadvancement of our city."

While time does not permit thiseditor to make an exhaustive studyof operating statements, he hasseen statements of water systemsin various Florida municipalities,including Deland, Sanford, Barfcow,Live Oak, Hollywood, Melbourne,Palatka Ft. Lauderdale, Tampa,Tallahassee, in which the ratio ofnet operating profits to revenuevaried from a low of 55% up to73% of. the, gross revenues.

Certainly the City officials ofWinter Park are as capable ofoperating a water works system asthe cities listed. It would also seemthat they should be able to makean operating profit of between 55%and 60%. On the basis of 1942revenues of $54,151.65, this wouldmean an operating profit to theCity of between $29,780 and $32,-490. The revenue certificates to beissued to purchase this plant canbe completely retired by the pay-ment of an average of $21,100 peryear including interest. It wouldseem that sufficient surplus abovedebt service requirements wouldbe available to take care of anyfuture expansion and replacements.It should also be remembered thatthe income is paying for the plantat the average rate of nearly $13,-000 per year. At the end of thirtyyears the plant will be entirely freefrom indebtedness, and the City willhave acquired a very valuable as-set. In the meantime Winter Parkwill have control of its water sup- ,ply.

The important thing to consideris whether the City wishes to ownits water system or take a chanceof its passing into other hands. Itcertainly seems that this matter isdeserving of the most careful con-sideration by all taxpayers and istoo important to have the issueclouded with immaterial issues andconfusing innuendo.

No reference has been made tovaluation of the Winter Park plantbecause this presumably will becovered in the report of Mr.George Simonds which will beavailable next week.

POETRY SOCIETYJESSIE B. RITTENHOUSE

(Continued from Page 1)Benet, and her valorous attemptsto be a mother to his children onLong Island was all a part of thetragic pattern, according to thespeaker,, resulting soon in their re-turn to the city, Elinor's summersojourns in England, causing herspiritual defection from Benet andending in her sudden death froma stroke in their New York home,not suicide as widely reported atthat time. She read several poemsbased on this transcendent loveaffair, filled with the heartbreakand despair that drove Benet toseek escape in drink and dissipa-tion until his marriage two yearsago to a fine woman whose com-panionship is helping to restore himto a normal life.

In closing, Miss •Rittenhousespoke of the high religious note atthe end of the book and Benet'sdevotion now to the "Christ Idea,"reading a beautiful poem in whichhe declares his belief in the Truththat is Christ, through whom:"All vestures disappear, but He

lives,And the Dust that is God is trans-

figured."The contributed poems read by

Robert Currie were written byCarol O. Bailey, Powell Spring,Stella Weston Tuttle, Jessie B. Rit-tenhouse, Helen Wieand Cole, ofWinter Park, and Lucille PitmanLeich, Meta Fuller Keene of St.Petersburg, Lucia Trent, San An-tonio, Texas, and the writers of"Changeling" and "Germania,"winning first and second vote andreserved for the final prize awardcontest in April.

"Post War Americas" will be thesubject of Dr. Kathryn T. Abbey'sfinal lecture March 10 in the Latin-American series she has been giv-ing each Wednesday afternoon atthe Annie Russell Theatre to pro-vide a general background of in-formation for present and futureInter-American cooperation.

The Virginia Heights Circle ofthe Garden Club announce a changein the time and place of theirMarch meeting, which will be heldat the home of Miss Caroline Wol-laston at 10 o'clock March 10. Mrs.Lofberg- will speak on native plantsin Winter Park. Members are re-quested to bring specimens offlowers or leaves to add to an ex-hibit of native plants in this lo-cality. Mrs. Guild will give a shorttalk on Hibiscus, and Mrs. Mix onBougainvillea.

Eliza Wright Duke, a formergovernor of the Antiquarian Soci-ety of Orlando and its present his-torian, will speak on "Old Glass"at the closing meeting of MissRobie's seminar in the Study ofAntiques, Friday morning, March5th at 11 o'clock, in the Art Studioon Ollie Avenue. Members andfriends are invited to bring exam-ples of different periods. Mrs.Duke, an enthusiastic collector ofmany types of old glass, has spe-cialized in patterned tableware ofthe middle nineteenth century,using as illustrations her ownunique specimens.