Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-06-30
WOMEN OF NINE STATES
IN SOUTH ARE ORGANIZED
Mrs. Nina Brodcrick Price Satisfied
With Convention Held Here
Last Week.
VIRGINIA SELECTS DELEGATES
State Federation of Business and
Professional Workers Will Re
represented at National Confer
cnce in st. Louis.

:, W With the organization of virginia
Eederation of Business and Protes-
which met here Friday and Saturday.
the nine Southern States comprising the
territory Of Mrs. Nina Broderick Price.
Federation Of B1sIno aD and 1rotes.
sional Women, will all have federated,
said Mrs. Price last night
am delightcd with the success Of
officers who were elected to preside
over the state Federation during the
d first year OF Tits its existence" Mrs Price
at this first annual meeting OF the new
league was splendid, and l am looking
forward to the accomplishment OF big
Asked whether she thought the en-
thusiasm over the federation might
not wear Off after the stimulus of :.
said that the organization of the ma
tional federation at ST. Louis. July
1918, would give women the conscious
ness Of beins linked to a big national
Most OF the Southern States, she con-
tinued. have already elected delegates
no sne 1a 6f ,ha SS0nrenton and the
sional women in each State who have
s tsderation idea indicates that the
VII! compare favorably with the dele
cations coming from any other section
OF INC country.
All Well Organized.
II ,i have good news from all over my
men are going TO turn out at st. Louis
i am anxious for them to meet the
representatives from other parts Of the
the South has.
Nine Southern states-virginia
Sorth and South Carolina, Arkansas,
and Alabama--were the most unorgan-
ized in the entire United States, as they
a as to-, not nave as many business women
ago.. she added smilingly. Il had alb
Ss ;, no data at all to start on, and
IL was pretty hard going. But when
Hme' Why didn't some one think of
this before" or We have been wait
ing FOR this for years, only we did not
know just what it was we wanted !
feeI tnat tine successful organizations
formed have been worth every bit OF
{ nfra WorE. 1t has been a wonderful in
cnanSe ideas"
The The striking similarity of problems
cussion At the State Federation meet
ings il. in Mrs Prices opinion mrort
or the timeliness of the Federation
movement. ''oi'
Reports Encouraging.
70 encouraging, S carly in the
came came as THIS" she asserted. TO know
tnxi, an the States in the Southern
ttse,rrtory are feeling the pressure Of
INC ha same needs as in the NorthNthe
cousins problem, standards OF eff
ciehcE among business women. EN-.
ployment facilities and cduca tional on
9ortunities-have been brought IN hy
aeieEates at practically every Staff
tmheetinE; and will be considered by
the national federation at ST Ionis
convention" ~ houis
Among the things to be gained from
aat.ehnance at the national convention
n mI trq e. thinks links will lie the OPP
S women to get out of the rut. they viii
h.,e lance 10 give whatever they
nave IN the way OF ideas. efforts ~.
tt er s5o@n and they Will become bet
.hemselves BY contrast with other wo-
men men She expressed pleasure in Inc
t h that The Virginia State Federa,in',
i had !. s,lr s;y elected as it's deleeates
70 81. Louis Miss Ella AEnew and Mis-
~ y; hatcher, OF Richmond. and Mrs
n, Fl. Adair, of Bristol. u AUX :
MIS-. Price left Richmond last ni,r.
tor New York. and will return - n'S Snr
meadquarters in Atlanta early nnTt
week, HSAb