The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-11-08
BRITISH LAWYER TO ADDRESS
 CONVENTION
Will Present British Point of View on the Woman Citizen and Recon
 struction.

purpose of assisting to promote CO.,
 operation between progressive people
 in America and Great Britain, will be
 one of the trio of notable speakers
 who will address the mass meeting
 or the annual suffrage convention.
 Thursday evening, Nov. 13. Mrs.
 George Bass of Chicago, chairman of
 the Woman's Bureau, Democratic
 National Committee, and Senator Key
 Pittman from Nevada will be the
 other speakers.
 MT. Knight is a practicing member
 of the English Bar and holds the ap-
 potntment of counsel to the Royal
 Mint at the Central criminal court,
 London. In 1913, he started the
 movement to open the English bar to
 women and the government has re-
 gently promoted a bill to effect this
 reform. He is one of the founders
 of the Life and Liberty Movement in
 the Church of England. This is the most fordward-looking religious or
 ganization in the country and one of its primary objects is to bring about
 the application of Christian princt- pies to the solution of social and eco
 homie difficulties. One of the pur-
 poses of MT. Knights present visit to America is to advocate this solution
 Of urgent industrial difficulties here. MT. Knight has stood twice for the
 British House of Commons, the first occasion being in 1910. in Berkshire with Lord Reading, then Sir Rufus 1saacs. For several years he was an executive member of the Eighty Club-the principal Liberal associa- tfon in England, over which MT As- quith presides, and among it's prin- clpal members are MT. Lloyd George and Lord Grey. = He is also a mem- Der of the Reform Club, which tn- cludes in its membership all leading Liberal statesmen of Great Britain For some time he sat on the execu- tive committee of the Workers Edu- cattonal Association, which has train ed many of the younger labor leaders in Great Britain, and Is the intel lectual center of the labor movement. In the Fortnight1y Review, and elsewhere, MT. Knight originated the plan of working up cooperation be- tween the American and English Bars to assist the statesmen of the world In constructing a workable League of Nations; his plea is that if the League of Nations is to work, the internal arrangements of the countries con- cerned must be prepared for this great task. This work of prepara- tton, MT. Knight believes, should
 be assisted by the cooperative ef- forts of the lawyers of America and
 England. In response to his appeal.
 the American Bar Association has in
 formed MT. Knight that they are
 ready to Join in this effort and one of the objects of the visit is to arouse
 interest in this important aspect of
 the tinn nf he NTo
 tions
 His subject for the mass meeting
 will be "Women and the New Order
 which will present particularly the
 British point of view of the general
 topic. ''The Woman Citizen and Re
 construction which Mrs. Bass and
 Senator Pittman will discuss. In
 connection with his subject it is in
 teresting to know that MT. Knigh. was the only man to address the
 closing demonstration this year of
 the convention of the National Coun-
 cfl of Women of Great Britain and
 Ireland.
 Mrs. Bass, who will be the first
 speaker of the evening, has been chairman of the Woman's Bureau of
 the Democratic National Committee
 since 1t was organized in 1916, when she took a conspicuous part in the
 presidential campaign. She sits in
 the executive committee as well as
 the general committee, taking part in
 all deliberations and reporting on
 her work among the 16,000,000 wom-
 en voters now enfranchised. She is the first woman in this country to be
 so honored by any political party. In addition to her strenuous politi- cal task Mrs. Bass found time dur ing the war to serve as secretary of the National Woman's Liberty Loan Committee and helped to direct the activities of the forty-eight state Chairmen and the twelve Federal Re- serve District Chairmen of that or ganization. She was the only wom- an member of the National War Thrift and Savings Committee. Previous to her entrance into the field of national politics Mrs. Bass became prominent in social service through the medium of the Chicago Woman's Club of which she was pres ident. She was one of the original group of women who organized and financed the Juvenile Court in Cook county after having secured the pass i age of the Juvenile Court law For 1 more than fifteen years she was iden-' tified with every progressive move ment in which women took the mi Idl1Ve.
 Suffrage early engaged her atten ton and for years she was one Of the most earnest advocates of the en- franchisement Of women. She was one of the group whose efforts secur- ed suffrage in Illinois in 1915. Since she has had headquarters in Wash ington she has been a member of the Congressional Committee of the Ma tional American Woman Suffrage As sociation.
 Mrs. Bass Is a woman of compell- ing personality and ineXhausuble en- ergy who brings to public life large social experience and splendid train ing. She has the gift of making friends and probably has as large an acquaintance as any woman In the country Gifted with charm Of man ! ner and ready wit she has rare power as a public speaker, who IS able to present national issues convinc1ngly and inspiringly.
 Senator Pittman will be the last ,, speaker of the evening and Will foi- low MT. Knight. Senator P1ttman