Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-02-03
CONFERENCE ON PROBLEMS
OF WQMEN's EMPLOYMENT
Widely Known Men and Women
Have Place on Program OF
Richmond Meeting,
woNIEN's COLLEGES TO ASSIST
Practice Of tho Profession and the
Problem OF Fitting Women for
Various Wartime Duties to BE
Fully Discussed.

/ Under the auspices Of the Virginia
Bureau Of Vacations for Women. an ex-
traord!nary opportunity Will he offered
tho women OF tho city IN the proper
solution OF many pcrplexinE problems.
by the meetings to be held in the JET
fcrson auditorium on February 2c-"3.
Addresses will be delivered by many Of
tho leading specialists In tho country,
which promise to be OF Invaluable as
slstance in moro thoroughly equipping
women 10 deel successfully with tho
new and varied demands which arc
each day being made upon them.
The conference has tho enthusiastic
support and cooperation of MI the
important womcn's colleges OF tho
State, and il is seldom, II ever that SO
many people OF national Importance In
their respective fields will have been
marsha!ed together with the single idea
Of assisting women 10 utilize to the
best advantage the opportunities now
presented.
Among tho loca, institutions that
lisve always been closely associated
with tho purpose OF Tho bureau Of ro-
cations are the Smithdcal Business Col
ieEc, with its new Secrctarial school.
and the School, OF Social Work and
Public Health Nursing.
Helen r. Mccormick. recently ap-
pointed assistant prosecuting attorney
OF Brooklyn, will discuss tho practice
Of law as profession for women.
Helen r. Dryden, designer for Vogue.
will deliver an address on art Walter
Il. Pitkin, OF the Columbia School Of
journalism. will instruct his hearers In
the art o: short-story writing, and
Eva Won lSaur IIansl. late member of
the editorial staff OF the New York
sun. will give many instructive hints
20 those whose interests center on the
field OF journalism.
W.ELL-kNoWS SPEAKERS
HAVE PLACE on PROGRAM
To R!chmonders. however, tho COM
ing of Mrs. Edith Hatcher Har"um,
head OF the Harcum school, Bryn
Mawr is OF the greatest amount Of
interest for many have been follow
Ing the career OF this daughter or
Richmond as she has developed her
unique ideas concerning school OF
music. But the conference is to b.
indeed cn sli-star feature. Eugenia
Wallace. business librarian and head
of the fling department of the Guar
aIty Trust Company OF New York.
will speak on womnn's present activ-
tiles and future opportunities IN tho
ilton, NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. OF Nav
York City, will be here, ana Ida NJ.
Cannon. chief of social service. Massa-
chusetts General Hospital. Boston. On,
Of his busy weeks, DIR. II. II. Hart OF
tho Russell Sage Foundation. viii IND
time for speech at the conference.
Now that all available training AND
every talent possessed by mon and
women must he mobilized FOR wa.
needs. Margaret By!ngton. who is n;
present organizing home service work
for the Red Cross. brings q eful
message. Miss Byington, Ii will he
remembered, :s the woman expert in
this country on tho work o. associ.
ated charities
Last Saturday. IN Lynchburg, Miss
Orie L. Hatcher. presiden. o. tie Eu-
reau OF Vacations, met in committee
with Miss Susan Tough. representing
Northampton College: Miss Matte l..
Nockc, president of IIoliins: D.. Will
liam 4. webb, OF Randolph Mecon
Wcman's College. and DR.. Emily c. ,dc-
Neas &c Sweet Briar TO discuss the way
the conference may he related 10 the
work OF the colleges.
In Richmond many of the oduca-
tioha! !nstitntionS arc co operating fn
tic plans Tor the conference the PRO
; gram committee consisting o. Kiss
Hatcher. Miss Helen Baker. head of
the Collegiate School for Girls: D-. Nav
H. Keller, dean of WestEampton Col
iega: Miss Emily wcich, head OF The
. Virginia Randolph 3llett Country Day
SCHOOL for Girls: Dr. Emily McNea
president OF Sweet Briar College. and
Mrs. Eudori Ramsay Richardson, cx-
ecutirc secretary Cor the conference.