The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-06-25
CLUB WOMEN HOLD
BIENNIAL MEETING
Several Thousand Women
From All Over Country
Gather at Frisco.
National News Association

SAN FRANCISCO, June 25-Several
Thousand club women, representing
representing women's clubs of every
description and in every section of the
country, are gathered here to attend
the eleventh biennial convention of
the General Federation of Women's
Clubs, which formally opened here to-
day, and will continue in session until
July 5. The gathering of delegates
lis by far the largest which ever at
tended one of these biennial conven-
tions, and judging from the elaborate
program, the numerous prominent
speakers scheduled to address the con-
EyeEtion and the intense interest shown
by the attending delegates, the bien-
NAL which opened today promises to
exceed in importance all previous gath
erings of the federation.
Today's program does not include a
business session. The afternoon re-
ception was planned to give the dele
gates an opportunity to become &C
qrainted with one another and with
the general officers Of the federation.
In the vening meeting at the Suffer
street pavilion, the visiting delegates
will be welcomed by Mrs. E. G. Den
nistOn, president of the local board,
land other officials, and a number of
responses will be made by leading del
iegates. The first business session will
bc held tomorrow morning at the SUIT
ter street pavilion, when the presi-
dent of the federation, Mrs. Philip N.
Moore, of st. Louis, will submit her
report. The rest of the session will
he devoted to the reading of various
committee reports.
Hold Election July 3.
The election of officers and directors
tCf the federation will be held on We'd
t1,esday afternoon July 8, and in the
meantime a great deal of campaign
work will be done by the candidates
for the principal Offices and their
friends.
Particularly interesting is the con-
Hest for the presidency. with two can
sdidates in the field, Mrs Philip Carpen-
ter, a New York club woman, and
Mrs. Percy V. Pennybacker, of Austin,
Texas, who has many friends among
hhe southern and western delegates.
The program for the convention is
elaborate and unusually interesting.
Howard II. Gross, president of the
National Soil Fertility League, will be
zone of the speakers on conservation
might, and Overton w. Price, of Wash
ington, friend of Clifford Pinchot, will
speak on forestry Mrs. A. Barton Mil
Her, president of the Women's Rivers
Rnd Harbors Congress, is also sched-
uled for an address. William Hard
will speak at the legislative session on
'"Woman and the Law" Moral teach
ing in schools will be discussed by
I'rof. Maria Sanford of the University
tof Minnesota. Caroline Bartlett Crane
will discuss municipal housekeeping at
one of the morning sessions.
At the conferences various impor-
liant subjects will be discussed by
Inoted speakers. Miss Laura Drake
EGill, president of the College of Won
zen at Suwanee, Tenn, University of
the South. will speak on vocational
guidance for girls. Mrs Imogene B
Oakley will speak OH civil service;
Mrs. E. w. Pattison on art and edu.
cation; Miss Helen V. Boswell on
industrial and social conditions; Mrs
Olaf N. Guldin, on household econom
les; Mrs. George Zimmerman on civ
lies; Mrs. Frances Squire Potter on
literature and library extension; Mrs
Lawrence Maxwell or music and mu,
steal training; Mrs. c. Crockett on
public health; Mrs. H. N. Bushnell, on
legislation; DIR. Jessica Peixotta, of
the University of Colorado, and Mrs
Sarah Plat Decker, on "The Legal
end Economic Status Of Women"
The delegates will be kept quite
busy during the sessions of the con