Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-04-11
FOUR7 /
Peace CONGRESS
Women viii Play Important
Part in Progams Say
Promoters
Especial to the Tribune)

ST. LOUIS, April 1.-THE North
Dakota Federation Of Womer's clubs
will be represented at the Fourth
American Peace congress, in st.
Louis May /, 2 and 8, by Mesdames
Andrew Carr of Minot, Frank l.. Nc
SVey Of Grand Forks, Thomas Pillyer
Of Mayville, J. P. Shepherd Of Fargo
and e. J. Taylor of Bismarck.
Mrs. Minnie J. Nelson Of Valley
City, president of the North Dakoa
federation, announces the personnel
Of the federation delegation in a tel
egram to James L. Smith, chairman
of the executive committee of the
peace congress. Immediately upon re-
ceipt of Mrs. Nelson's telegram,
Chairman Smith had the names sub
mitted by her formally approved and
added to the roll Of delegates.
Many Women to Participate.
The Fourth American Peace con
gress will be notable for the wide ex'
tent of the participation by women.
An especially large number of well
known women have been invited to
speak, and these feminine addresses
are to be SO distributed that it least
one will be heard at each session.
Mrs. Moore, and other women, In
Guiding Mrs. w. E. Fischel, chairman
of the reception committee of WON
en-, are sitting in the meetings at
which plans are made. The women
members of committees for this
peace congress are not merely figure
heads but are actively cooperating
with the men members.
The, general committee which is
supervising the work Of the executive
and other committees includes Mrs.
Percy V. Pennybacker of Austin,
Tex, president of the General FEEDER
alton of Women's clubs, and Mrs.
Charles Henrotin of Chicago, a form
er president of that federation. The
educational committee and publicity
committee both include women, and
the committees of which Mrs. Moore
and Mrs. Fischel arc chairmen, con-
sist exclusively Of women.
Mrs. Lucia A:ne5 Mead OF Boston,
chairman Of the&tonlnittee on peace
and arbitration Sof the National Wo
mans Suffrage association, and Of a
like committee of the International
Council Of Women, has the honor Of
being the first woman to accept an
invitation to address the St. Louis
peace congress-. Her subject prob
ably will be Women and the Peace
Movement ~ er.
A considerable percentage of the
delegates to the peace congress will
be women. Not only are the state
declarations of women's clubs through
out the country appointing delegates;
but many of the peace societies and
educational institutions will be rep
resented by women, and wo:nen are
included in nine of the delegations
SO far appointed by governors of
Those women so far chosen
as official delegates are Mrs. Paul
inc O'Neill, Phoenix, Ariz., Mrs. Ella
P. Stafford, Wilmington, Del; Mrs.
Worrell, Wilmington, DEL;
Mrs. E. Washington Bellamy, Macon,
Ga; Mrs. D. C. Scarborough, Match.
La; Mrs. Frances Shuttle.
Shreveport, La; Mrs. Flor
ence Miner, Detroit, Mich; Mrs. B.
W. Cochran, Jr., Roland Park, Md;
Mrs. James Swami Prick, Baltimore,
Nd; Mrs. Fannie Fern Andrews.
Mass; Mrs. George F.
Brooks, Missoula, Mont; Mrs. Ran
1olph Brooks, Bozeman. Mont; and
Mrs. Arthur Geissler, Oklahoma City,
Okla.
Mrs. Andrew Carnegie Present j
Mrs. Andrew Carnegie will ac-
company her husband to the peace
congress, where he will deliver an
This news has come in a
personal letter from Mr.. Carnegie to
Mr.. Smith. t
Greatest Meeting Ever Held
The Fourth American Peace con-
,ress will be as to scope the great
EST peace meeting ever held in the
Western Hemisphere. At least six!
cen Latin-American countries, in
Mexico, will be officially rep
'esented. When the invitation to the
government to send a dele
cation was mailed, a battle was rag
ng in the streets of Mexico City,
md the peace workers had grave