Evening star., 1914-04-20
WOMAN'S COUNCIL
TO MEET IN ROME
Representatives of All Nations
to Review Progress and
Plan Activities.
COUNTESS OF ABERDEEN
HEAD OF ORGANIZATION
Association Founded in 1888 by
Susan B. Anthony and Others.
It's Objects.

DUBLIN. April 90 - Representative
women of all nations will meet in Rome
next month for the session of the Inter
national Council of Women held once
every FIVE years for the review of wom-
ems progress and planning of new activi-
ties The total membership OF the or
sanizations included in the international
council is about 6J0OOn women from
twenty-one countries
This great affiliation of interests was
founded by Susan Il. Anthony and other
American woman leaders in 1883. and the
women of the United States represented
IN it, numbering 3,OOOGto lead those of
all other countries.
The Countess of Aberdeen, president of
the organization. is busy at the vice
regal lodge in Dublin, concluding ar
rangements for the gathering. which she
believes will be the largest in the his
tory of the movement. The purpose of
the international meeting is the broad in
clusion of all movements designed to bet
ter humanity-men not excepted
Planning the Details.
Lady Aberdeen has a corner OF the
viceregal lodge set apart as a business
room," where she and DIR. Alice Salo-
mon of Berlin. corresponding secretary
OF the international council. have been
working early and late on details of the
Gathering. The dates set are from May )
to ~. inclusive. and the meeting place
Ill be the Hotel Quirinal in Rome.
The list of national councils affiliated
With the international organization. all
,l which are expected to be represented
at Rome. includes the United States.
ttnada, Germany, Sweden. Great
t:ritain. Denmark. Netherlands. Aus
ALA. Italy. France. Argentina. SwitZer-
um. Greece and Bulgaria. Woman
,aders from Russia, Turkey and China,
Adia and Japan, are also expected.
Dr. Anna Howard Shaw president of
ac National American Woman Suffrage
ssociation. will deliver dn address on
omau suffrage. while Mrs. Kate Wal
.cr Barrett of Alexandria. Va, president
~ the Florence Criterion Mission of the
uited States, will also attend.
In many ways this is to be one OF the
most important of the meetings of the
council. The women OF Italy are said
10 have been waking up the past few
years. and sentiment is ready to crys-
tal1ize. This meeting is expected to
help to focus the thought of the women
of Italy: because the International Coun-
Gil of Women stands for the less radi-
spirit of every woman who has begun to
think outside of herself of her home, and
stands for the alienation of the grossest
social abuses affecting women and chill
dren.'
The italian women's organiza tions have
invited the delegates to remain after
the adjournment of the session of the
council and attend a congress of women.
The councils meeting will last one week;
the congress will be in session two
weeks.
Objects of the Council.
The international council can identify
itself only with such movements as
have been unanimously accepted by it's
members. The survival of the fittest
of the propositions thus far considered
includes:
1. To further international peace and
arbitration.
q To combat the white slave traffic
3. To win suffrage for women.
4. To promote legislation concerned
with the general welfare of women and
their legal position.
>. To promote the improvement of pub
lie health.
9: To protect emigrants. and especi-
ally safeguard women and children.
The preamble to the statement of the
aims and objects of the international
council is:
We. women of all nations, sincerely
believing that the best good of human
ity will be advanced by greater unity of
thought, sympathy and purpose and
that an organized movement of women
will best insure the highest good of
the family and of the state do hereby
band ourselves together in confedera-
zion of workers to further the applica-
ton OF the golden rule to society. GUS
toms and law"
Lady Aberdeen has been president of
the International council for three
ouinquenniai terms. She had expected
TO retire this year. but at the unanj-
nous request of the presidents of the
various national councils she has al
lowed her name TO stand for renomina-