Evening star., 1920-09-16
LARGER QUARTERS
FOR WOMAN CLUBS
Federation Would Lease
Building Until 1t Can Build
New Home.

enlargement of the Headquarters oi
the General Federation, of Women.
CLUBS here formed the principal tonic
discussion at an executive meet.
ing OF the national board of directors
To-Day at the Lafayette Hotel.
- me action to be taken, according
~ o,an. ,paeoiGtions OF members. will be tc
select large building in washington
ana lease it for two years or more
| N the meantime the organization will
! lay aside half of its reserve fund
amounting am to $4,000, as a nucleus for
81 +pIIcnase OF It's own home, expect
Gu 20 De reality in this city by 1922.
Ine other topic of discussion oc-
cupylng the remainder of the session
Iooay was that Of the publication Of
nat!onaI magazine, which would
sepplant the present monthly bulletin
OF the federation.
Memorial to Heroea.
Action upon the suggestion to sun
port the movement for the building of
memorial tower in honor of the
heroic dead of the world war will
PROBABLY be taken, it was declared. at
the next meeting of the national !
council next June
IL was decided to hold the biennial
coneentIon 1oas at Chautauqua. in June.
at Shanghai, China, was declined with
thanks :" ~
At dinner at the Arts Club last
night, rendered to the visitors Of the
federation, w. B. Westlake, chairman
OF the clubs carlton committee ap-
pealed for the support of the project
ol a.;aa, enectlng a tower and carlton as a
natlonal peace memorial. Mr.. West
lake outlined the proposal as favored
oy the Arts Club, and requested con-
sioeratlon OF the proposition by the
federation.
Lauds Work Of Clubs.
In his address of welcome President
George Julian Zolnay of the Arts Club
last night told the delegates that the
country would not stand today in the
had it not been for your magnificent
work all over the country"
1t IS the unceasing effort of your
clubs which has developed the desire
and love for the beautiful, which has
brought to the consciousness of the peo-
pie the fact that art is not merely
matter of luxury for the benefit of the
select few, but that it is a universal ex-
preston of our inner self, part and par
Gel of our life. and that unless art is
conceived and practiced for the greatest
good OF the greatest number it has no
place in democracy" President Zolnay
said.
He continued. in part:
I'VE are fortunate. indeed, to have
you with US at this particular time, when
this club is planning what we believe
Will be the greatest step in our artistic
development: A movement to induce
Congress to create a department of the
fine arts. which would mean the eventual
establishment of a great national school
of music. drama. painting, sculpture,
architecture and all its allied branches
Such school under the aegis of the
national government, like Annapolis and
West Point, would become, not only the
focal point of all our art activities, but
would raise the standard of art educa-
ton all over the country, as every
school would raise it's standard of in
struction in order to become an author
lied branch of this great national school,
which would at once do away with most
of the near-art schools and fake con-
servatories of music which now infest
the country"