Evening star., 1917-03-14
woman LAWYERS
/ |ND.C. T0ORGANZE
Discuss Bar Association Plans
4 at Dinner to Men Who Car
4 ried Banners.
REASONS GIVEN FOR MOVE

Plans for organizing the eighty
woman lawyers in Washington into
bar association, which will be the third
Of its kind in the country, were dis
cussed last night at the first anniver-
rary dinner of the woman lawyers who
marched in the suffrage parade four
years ago This dinner in the New
Arlington Hotel was in honor OF the
four men who carried the L. A. w.
banner In the parade. They will be the
only mon eligible to Join the proposed
bar association. Three of them were
present William c. Taylor. Albert
Temple and w. Edgar Leedy; the other,
Herbert Blase Andrew. is serving his
country "somewhere on the high seas"
About seventy woman lawyers many
OF whom are employed in the govern
ment service. were present.
In outlining some of the things
womans bar association would fight
for. Mrs. Ellen Spencer Mussey, found
er and dean of the Washington College
of Law, said:
guardian to look after minors who
have no parents or who are worse off
Shan orphans 1 heard Nellie Carlin.
public guardian of the city of Chicago,
RdY Sn6 was mOtneT TO OVU
single and, so far as she knew, re-
spectacle. Then we should have
woman as associate Judge Of the Ju-
venile Court to look after and hear the
s.oS4es Of delinquent young girls. sara
9rogan knows better how to bring up
girls than even our brave Mr.. Taylor
Then we should have woman assist
ant district attorney to deal with wom-
en- and cases involving domestic rela-
tions There are 500 persons on proba-
tion in the Police Court How much
visiting can two probation officers do
in 500 families? The probation law
cannot be carried out with any degree
of efficiency under such conditions
Mission of the Woman Lawyer.
"The woman lawyer has a mission
that is especially hers. She is equipped
so far as the principles of law are con-
cerned. but she must summon all her
ability and courage and good common
sense to perform her mission.
"One million two hundred thousand
children are born every year in the
United States. Fifteen thousand moth
ers give up their lives in giving to our
country this first munition of war. the
child. That service answers the Ques-
tion. IF you vote viii you be SOL
dier?" In no country under the sun
are $4,000 men swept off by military
casualties every-year, year in and year
out. Think of it.
Progress in Last Four Years.
"Do we want to have hand. first
hand, in making the laws? Yes! we
do And now we have 155 electoral
votes in which women have share,
against IS in 1913. The progress of
the past four years is phenomenal, but
what shall come to pass in the next
four years depends upon the women
and men working together for the up
lift of humanity"
Mrs. Mussey had previously called
attention to the fact that women had
broken precedent four years ago. when
for the first time they marched on
Pennsylvania avenue, and said the riot
of disorderly characters on that day
had focused public attention on EVIL
conditions in Washington, which
cleanup campaign in the last four
years has corrected.
Miss Sarah Post Grogan "of Georgia
was toastmistress, and called on each
experience on March 3, 1913. and the
impressions that have survived. She
also called on Mrs Andrew, the mother
of the one absentee. Mrs. Andrew
made touching little speech demon
strative of the spirit with which the
mothers of the country are giving their
sons to the nations service. though
they deplore the madness of war
Scarf Pins for Guests of Honor.
A surprise was sprung when Miss
Gertrude Leonard, the registrar of the
college, was called upon, and she and
the members of her committee pre-
sented their heroes of the suffrage
parade" with scarf pins as souvenirs of
the occa sion.
Those present were Mrs Ellen Spencer
Mussey, Mr.. Justice Stanton J. Peelle
Miss Emma NJ. Gillett, Miss Sara p.
Grogan. Miss Ethel Lee Lawrence Mrs.
Sarah r. Andrew. Mrs. Marie l.. b. Bald
win. Miss Laura Berrien. Miss Rebecca
Blaine, Mrs. Lyman Ruth. Miss Anabel
Ruth. Miss Lucille Compton Mr.. F.. c.
Dutton, Miss Claire Greacen Miss Lydia
Hendrickson, Mrs. Frank II. Hail. Miss
Mabel Hogan, Miss l.. B. Simpson. Mr.
and Mrs. Arthur Keith, Mrs. Louis L.
Korn, Miss Kate p. Johnson. Miss Mary
j.. kiddoo. Miss Elizabeth Eggert, Miss
Ruth Halpenny. Miss Emma Hayward
Mrs. NJ. c. Lohr, Miss Margaret Machen
Miss Florence Etheridge. Miss Meyers
Mrs. Wynkoop. Mrs. W. Edgar Leedy
Mrs Edith B. Newman. Miss Mary
O'Toole, Mrs. Nannette B. Paul. Miss
Fannie L Peter. Mrs. A. T. Tennell. Miss
Katherine r Pike, Mrs. Helen Seville
Rapley. Mrs. Edna James Sheehy. Mrs
Miss Emma Hayward, Miss Sheldon
jackson. Miss Dean Powell. Miss Helen
Jamison. Miss Emily A. Spilman. Miss
Adele V. Smith, Miss Adele NJ Stewart
Miss Eunice Il. Warner. Mrs Margaret
Hopkins Worrel, Miss Macfen and George