New-York tribune., 1919-01-21
Women Call for
Conference to Aid
League of Nations
Victory Meeting and Dinner
To Be Held at Washing
ton Feb. IL and l3: New
Workers on Committee

vasHfNGTON, Jan. 20. Invitations
sent out to-day to representative
amen throughout the country for an
s.r,erican Women's Victory Con
,arsnce and Dinner which viii be
..l3 in the new Wardman Park Inn,
~ february II and 10. The invitation
reads
America should support Democratic
league Of Nations, because only
through league of nations can we
rsslize the ideals of democracy for
which the great war was fought
I'VE believe that the unified effort
rade necessary by the war to meet the
aisnental human needs of the world
sood health the right to work and to
sdncation bit continued. Under
The impulse OF great international
nnrnose we learned how properly to
snbordinate national ambitions and
political and private inttrests in order
n supply these common needs of man.
Good VIII and Sacrifice
"a league Of nations can be made eff
cooperation, good will and sacrifice.
What was done for a world at war
must be done for q world at peace.
"a national conference of women
has been called meet in Washington
on February II and 13, in the belief
that the women Of America will re-
soond to the call of focus their ener-
vies upon the problems of democracy
and world organization. In the solu-
ton of these problems, tremendous
values are at stake. 1t is imperative
that in this hour, decisive in all prob
ability for ages to come, our common
aims be united, our common counsel
given"
The Washington committee on ar
rsngements includes Mrs. Alexander
Graham Bell, honorary chairman; Mrs.
Frederick II. Brooke, chairman; Mrs
Louis Brownlow, Mrs. Frederick A. De-
lano, Mrs. Gilbert H. Grosvenor. Mrs.
Charles s. Hamlin, Mrs. Herbert Hoover
and Mrs. V. Everitt Macy.
New York Women Interested
Among the New York women on the
general committee are Mrs. Helen Gill
man Brown, Mrs. Robert W. Bruere,
Mrs Carrie Chapman Gait, Mrs. Alice
Barrows Fernandez, Mrs Abraham
Flexner, Miss Virginia c. Gildersleeve,
Mrs Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Mrs.
John NJ Glenn, Mrs. Learned Hand,
Mrs. Frederick Hazard, Mrs. Alice
Duer Miller, Mrs. Percy V. Penny
backer. Miss Rose Schneiderman, Mrs.
Mary K. Simkhovitch, Mrs. Y. Louis
Slade, Mrs. Willard Straight. Miss Ida
Tarbell, Mrs. Charles L. Tiffany, Miss
Martha c. Vail, Miss Lillian D. Wald.
Prominent Washington women on
the committee include Mrs. Mabel c..
Boardman, Mrs. Louis D. Brandeis, Mrs.
Helen Gardener. Miss Pauline Gold
mark, Mrs. Stanley King, Miss Julia
Lathrop, Miss Gertrude McNally, Mrs.
Franklin H. Martin and Mrs. Lucy Ma
deira Wing.
The Conference Programme
As part of the programme, "Amer-
icas Part in the League of Nations"
and "W omen AS Industrial Factors -
will be discussed at the Victory Dinner
By prominent speakers.
During the morning session of the
conference there will be discussion
on Health, An International Problem -
"The Protection of Childhood" and
slow to Feed the World"
"The Redirection of Womens Ener-
gies UnderPeace" will be the subject
OF the afternoon session, and addresses
will be made on political Action for
Women" "Women's New Economic
Status" "The Place of Women in In
dustry" and "Education for q New
Democracy"
There will be an open discussion
both morning and afternoon on all sub
5ects considered at the conference.