The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-21
TO MEET IN BERLIN
Preparations for Quinqueninal Meet
ing of International Council
of Women in June.
Great Gathering Of Club Women
Will Extend Over Two
Weeks.

| Plans are beginning to be laid be-
fore the women's organizations of the
country for the quinquenn1al meeting
| of the international Council of Won
en-. This will be held in Berlin in
June. Mrs. May Wright Sewell,
president. Of the international coun-
| Gil, has made an authoritative state
ment of the plans up to date In the
| Woman's Journal, together with an
account Of the last executive meeting
held in Dresden.
| The quinquennial will cover a
period of two weeks, the first week be-
| ing devoted to executive sessions of
the council proper which will occupy
the mornings. Three public meet
! ings will be held in the evenings on
| the general subject of 'The New In
Iternationalism,' It's object being both a
demonstration and a propaganda AS
part of this plan reports of the ma
teen, will be given. The special sub
ject Of the third evening, peace and
arbitration, will be discussed in three
formal addresses by Lady Aberdeen
in English. by Baroness Won Suttner
in German and by a French speaker
in her own language.
| According to the laws and customs Of
Germany, the council and the congress
Of the following week will be con-
vened by the National Council for Ger
many which will make all Of the
preparations. The congress, or
popular gathering Of council women
will open June 13 and continue a
week. The congress will be con-
Quoted in four sections running stimuli
| taneously, so far as day sessions are
concerned, during the week. The sec
tons will be convened under the fol-
lowing titles:
First-Women's Education and
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of Fraulein LANCE and Fraulein
| Baumer.)
Second Women in Social Aims and
Institutions (founded either for or by
women for the Improvement Of social
conditions.) This section will discuss
Purity, etc., and is under the general
charge of Frau Edinger.
Third-Women's Professions and
Industries under general charge of
| Fraulein Alice Saloman.
Fourth-The Legal and Political
Position Of Women (under the general
| charge of Freien Won Beschwitz.)
The discussions will be limited
strictly to the rights and duties of
women in connection with the various
subjects indicated. The afternoons OF
congress week as we'll as the evenings
ings and social gatherings. The sub
jects for the public meetings are as
follows:
Education"
Suffrage for Women
Equal Pay for Equal Work"
i Women in Science and Art"
The committee of arrangements in
cludes a large number Of Germany's
most able women. They are fired by 8
| legitimate ambition to demonstrate tc
the world how German women car
convene and prepare for an interna-
tional congress on a scale large
and generous enough to justify its
title. So
Mrs. Mary Wood Swift, president o.
the American council, will nominate
the speakers from this country, anG
she has sent out a circular asking fol
a list Of women capable Of making re.
ports and participating in discussions
falling under the following heads:
First-The education Of girls and
women.
Second The industrial position an6
progress of women.
Third-The civil rights Of women.
Fourth-The political position OF
Fifth-women in letters, science
and art.
In addition Mrs. Swift says: 'Ir
making nominations, I beg you tt
have in mind this condition strictly
stipulated by the German committee
NO one Will De. invited TO speak whose
voice cannot be trusted to carry easily
and intelligibly what she has to say
This must be borne in mind, and how.
ever able intellectually woman may
Ibe, she must not be nominated unIes.
her voice can carry her thoughts
AS an evidence of the vitality OF the
!. council movement, which had its or.
igin in an international convention IL
Washington in 1888 to celebrate the
fortieth anniversary of the organized
movement for the political enfran.
chisement Of women it should be
noted that the council has almost
doubled its membership since the Lon.
don meeting in 1899, having then blu
ten councils, three Of which were new
There is a prospect Of a membership
of twenty-one councils before the
quinauennial meeting. At the Dresden
meeting all Of the general Officers
were present except the recording sec
rotary, and all Of the councils were
represented except two.
Among the social amenities of tn,
executive meeting were banque
given by the German council, dali,
luncheons and a final one in garden
overlooking Meissen. AT Nielsen
{ visit was made to the home of Louis,
) Otto, the founder Of the woman move
7 ment in Germany.
I The growth of the council may b,
inferred from the fact that the presi
) dent was authorized to name honor
I airy vice presidents for Peru, Chile
Mexico, Japan and Turkey, in eacl
II country stems having been taken Ioo1x