New-York tribune., 1919-02-12
WOmen's Share i'm
Reconstruction To
BE Meeting Topic
Leaders From All States to
Discuss Problems; Lane,
Baker and OthersNotables
Are to Deliver Addresses
Staff Correspondence

Staff Correspondence
WASHINGTON, Feb. 11.-Women's
part in reconstruction will be deter-
mined in part by the victory confer
ence tomorrow at Wardman Park
Inn, in Washington. The two tonics
are "America's Part in the League of
Nations" and "Women as Industrial
Factors"
Leading women from all parts of
the country are coming to Washing
ton Tor the conference Miss Julia
Lathrop, chief of the Children's Bu-
reau of the Labor Department., arrived
IN New York to-day from Europe. to
be here. i'N'
Final preparations were made to-
night. Mrs. V. Everit Macy. Mrs.
frederlck Brook, Mrs. Louis Brandeis
and MISS Pauline Goldmark had man
aged the plans in Washington. Mrs.
managed the publicity.
"The purpose" said Mrs. F.. Louis
Siade. of New York, tonight, "is to
give women some basis for the direc,
tlon OF their service We must use
the strength that has been brought
out by the war. We hope that this
conference will show the wav to wom-
en- for service in peace times" Mrs.
Slade will preside at the afternoon
session.
Want t. Get Idea of League
Women have not yet had a chance
TO express themselves on reconstruct
tlon," said Miss Goldmark this after
noon. This is why there has been
such a response to this conference.
We hope those who attend will take
away conception Of the league of
nations and of the problems within
our country, so that they can transmit
'helr IDEAS to women throughout the
country"
The programme for the day is:
MORNING SESSION, 10 A. M.-Mrs.
Frances Axtell, of the United States
employees Compensation Commission,
presiding. DR.. Josephine Baker. New
York City Department. of Health. on
Health an International Problem";
Jane d. Rippin, director of section on
women and girls, Commission on Train
ing Camp Activities, Washington, on
Social Hybiene as a Factor in Inter
ational Health" Discussion opened by
DR.. Martha Tracy, dean of Women's
Medical College, Philadelphia; Jane
Adams, Hull House, on "How to Feed
tne World" discussion opened by
Martha Bensley Bruere of New York
Secretary Baker to Speak
AFTERNOON SESSION, 2 P. NJ
Mrs. F. Louis Slade, New York, presid-
ing. Honorable Franklin D. Lane, Sec
retary of Interior, on "Women's Part
IN Reconstruction" Elsa Ueland, pres
ldent of Carson College, Philadelphia,
on "Education for New Democracy;
discussion opened by Mrs. Beverley
MunfOrd of VIRGINIA Melinda Scott
special adviser u. S. Employment Ser
vice and president of the United Hat
Trimmers and Operators Union, on
'The Place of Women in Industry;
discussion opened by Mary Mcdowell,
of Chicago. Charlotte Perkins Gilman
on "Women's New Economic Status"
EVENING PROGRAMME. - Mrs.
Desha Breckinridge, Kentucky, presid-
ing. Newton d. Baker, Secretary of
War; Catherine Breshkovsky. 1.-THE
Little Grandmother of the Russian
Revolution; Julia C. Lathrop. chief Of
Children's Bureau; DR.. Anna Howard !
Shaw, Mrs. Charles Robson, of Ottawa,
Canada. Mrs. Flora McGill Kecfer will /
sing the national anthem.
New York women who were on the
committee of one hundred that called /
he dinner are: Mary Bidwell Breed,
Mrs. Helen Gilman Brown, Mrs. Robert
3ruere, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait,
irs. Alice Barrows Fernandez, Virginia
Mrs Abraham Flexner,
Mrs. Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Mrs.
|ohn M. Glenn, Mrs. Learned Hand,
Mrs. Frederick Hazard, Mrs. Alice Duer
Miller, Mrs. Emily James Putnam,
Bertha Rembaugh. Rose Schneiderman,
da Tarbell, Mrs. Charles L. Tiffany,
dartha Vail, Lillian Wald.