The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-07-14
IMPORTANT MEETING IN
ST. LOUIS this WEEK
NATIONAL FEDERATION OF
WoMEN's CLUBS.
Expected to Be an Epoch
Making Event in More
Ways Than One.

| Inc HTsI meeting or the National
Federation of Business and Profes.
sional Women's clubs will be held
in st. Louis July 14-1S, and IL is ex-
pected that the meeting will assemble
the leading business and pro-
fessional women of the country
whether or not they go as official
delegates or alternates, because of
the general interest such gather
ing will naturally prove to be.
| Such a meeting will be an epoch
| making event in more ways than one.
New aspirations will be taken from
the reports made by women repre-
senting every section. Hhe woman
| familiar with organizations and their
values will be eager to take the
messages back to the organization
which she represents.
Stories OF Progress.
The graduate nurse from Atlanta
will tell of project on foot to
erect a 100000 clubhouse in Atlanta,
and the professional woman will
bring the story from California that
this year more women received their
degrees from the University of Cali
fornia than did men, also that there
were more than 100 young women
doctors and young women lawyers
graduated from the institution in that
state this year.
The professional women from
Georgia can tell the way their uni
versity has been opened to them.
The City Federation of Business
and Professional Women in Atlanta |
will tell the incident that until they
can secure clubrooms they have re-
served a large table at one of the |
downtown lunchrooms for one day
in the week, where they may gather |
for an exchange OF ideas and the |
of their federation work. |
The Chattanooga Business Women's |
club will give dinner at the Hotel
Patten this evening and discuss send
ing delegates to the National fedora
ton after the dinner. Though the
club is only in its infancy they will
be able to tell of their weekly meet
lngs and luncheons, and the looking
to establishing clubrooms.
Other representatives can tell of the
proposed clubroom in the new audi
.orium under consideration,
The Jacksonville Fla, Business
md Professional Women's club will
nave the credit of having launched
he first organized scheme in the
'outh on the inspiration of a move
nent for a national federation OF
BUSINESS and professional women.
DR.. Julia LarmoyeZ Is president of
he Jacksonville organization, and
he has presented to the membership
IN opportunity for securing a pri-
ate residence, centrally located,
which can be readily converted into
clubhouse, with living accommo-
ations for a number of young bust {
less women, and the usual clubhouse
omforts as well as tennis court
pace on the grounds.
The business and professional =
1omen of Mobile, Ala, are looking
o the establishing of an institution ,
s one of their first ambitions as 5
Don as their city and state fedora S
ions, recently organized, are estab- !
shed on a substantial financial ba-
Is. The Business and Professional j
Vomen's club has a country club I
Or summer time use across the bay :
nd the idea of clubrooms is very 7
opular there. 8
At the federation the Individual O
oman who has achieved, will be Il
'rN'b W A0lI llCi SlOlNt anu tHPH IN | .,
le general summing up, women lead u
$ will describe the values of fed II
alton. They will formulate a pro- g,
-am OF activities broad enough to
,tend through the ranks of profess II
onal and business women, from the Ii
ost successful women lawyers and n
INK presidents, to the very young u
oman earning her first wage. %
The meeting of these women from r.
sections of the nation now could u,
Vt have been more timely. 1t comes is
ter the business and professional tv
omen have made themselves felt ii
strong and patriotic force. It &C
owes their faCtorship in national
osperity, and it will emphasize the II,
ct OF the new and varied avenues NJ
EN- to women In every line Of III
man .endeavor and how they made pr
cd in these avecations during the M
'r. 1t is conceded that this as b'
nbly of women will be one of the te
'ongest and most interesting ever AZ AZ
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