Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-08-03
ARKANSAS women
CONSPICUOUS AT
ST. LOUIS MEET

| LOUIS Tor the business anu Pio
al women, which formed a national
! federation.
This idea is that the federation will
not long in making itself known. 1t
was spoken in the addresses of dis
tinguished women, it was embodied IN
the constitution and bylaws, and 1t
spoke aagin thru the resolutions
which stated the movements the fed
GRAFTON endorsed.
His idea is that the federation VIII
make the training of women It's busl-
ness, and then the elimination OF the
idea of sex as barrier to equal OPP
portunity, equal pay.
Brilliant Officers.
There is the president, for in
stance, Gail Laughlin, of San Fran
cisco, successful lawyer, who has
been active in securing more nearly
equal opportunities for women, not
only. in the practice of law, but in
the rights of women before the law,
and who is leader in the political
activities of the west.
Miss Gratia Rice of Bridgeport,
Conn.,, who is associate judge of the
juvenile court with a splendid rec
ord of achievement is treasurer.
Miss Mary Stewart of Washing
ton, D. c., treasurer is executive
secretary to the republican congress
sional committee.
Mrs. Orie Carroll of Arkansas,
secretary to large banking con-
Germ.
Miss Eugenia Wallace, vice-presi-
dent is employment secretary of the
jY. w. C. A. home office. New York.
Among the outstanding women
taking active part in the delibera-
tions of the convention was Mrs.
Claudia Quigley Murphy, the only
woman consulting chemist in dye
stuffs in the United States. She was
the organizer, by the way, of the
first woman's advertising club in
America, but left that business and
now, an authority on dye, says
that those being made in the United
States are as good as any we have
ever imported.
The women from Arkansas took
part in the convention. Mrs. Orie
Carroll, who was first elected tenn
porary recording secretary and then
succeeded herself to become secretary
of the national federation, was nomin-
ated by DR.. Ida Joe Brooks of Little
Rock, delegate from the state at
large, who was striking figure
among noteworthy women at the
convention.
DR.. Brooks. who was born in
Iowa. reared in Missouri, and spent
the greater part of her life in Ar
kansas, began her career as a teach
err and was principal of the Little
Rock high school. and professor of
mathematics at the Little Rock uni
versitv. Afterwards she studied
medicine in Boston, becoming as
sistant superintendent of the Mas
sachusettes insane asylum and has
been superintendent of general hos
, pitfalls in Massachusetts, New Jer-
sey and Minnesota. She is at the
present time didatic professor of
psychiatry in the medical depart
ment of the University of Arkansas,
is acting assistant surgeon of the
United States public health service,
psychologist of the juvenile court
Of Little Rock and chief medical
inspector of Little Rock public
schools.
Trainer of Women.
Miss Ida Moseley. whose profess
sion is millinery designer, is in
charge of Falk's Millinery company.
and has under her direction MANY
less experienced women. in whose
. oh foo1c oor,o,,a
bi]itv.
Miss Moseley believes that the wo-
man who can DESIGN a good-looking
hat at reasonable price is doing
her fellow women service. She
passes this point of view on to her
assistants, which all women will
agree is verv valuable contribu-
ton to the iov Of life.
Mrs. Isabel Klein. who represented
a professional woman's club in Lit
tie Rock. composed of graduates in
law. medicine and THEOLOGY. was the
first woman to be ADMITTED to the
practice of law in the courts Of
Arkansas. She took her decree in
the University of Texas Her first
case in the courts of Little Rock
when she moved there. was in the
juvenile courts. Her clients were
two small bows, accused of petty
theft: and she was successful in
winning this case
The southern delegation the laro.
est at the convention. 81 ont Of 9O9
voting delegates present havino
come from the nine southern states
organized bv Mrs. Nina B. Price
was particularly nroud of the fact
that two out of this number. Miss
Kate Armistead If Columbia s. c.
and Miss Sarah G., Rice, Of Charles
ton. are at the heads Of business
schools for women, which are stand.
ing for the biggest nrinciples ir
business. Both Of these womer
REQUIRE good high school education
as a basic for the special training
their school pive.
A FORMER Arkansas girl Miss Con.
stance Chilles who is now maxine
her home in st. J.onis. took the steno
tvp,ng renort of the convention ant
made q cfvslir~