New-York tribune., 1920-05-30
Noted Women
Delegates to
World Council
Foreign Nations Name Influ-
entiaI Representatives to
the Suffrage Congress
at Geneva This Week
Favor of u. S. Is Sought
Governments Aim 10 Appeal
TO the American People
Through Feminine Agents
By Constance Drexel

European governments, high and
n inds and hold the hearts of the
American people. They have threat
ened aid caioled, supplicated and jol-
lied, all in turn, without effect. But
only through American men. Now
GENES chance to appeal to the Amer
lean people through American women.
This first big opportunity comes at the
congress Of the International Woman
Suffrage Alliance to be held this week
y Geneva.
That various governments are aware
o. this heretofore untried way to the
grain and heart of America is proved
by their several appointments of Off
cial delegates. Premier Lloyd George
has appointed Lady Astor. first woman
member Of the British Parliament, as
an official delegate OF the British gov
ernment. Miss Anna Whitlock, the Grst
president OF the National Swedish
W0mons Suffrage Society. is going
officially from Sweden, and the govern
ment OF Uruguay has nominated Dr.
Pauline Luisi, we'll known as suf-
fragist and because Of her work against
the white slave traffic. Czecho-S -Slovakia
has officially appointed Nine. Piamin-
koVa, Z member of the city council of
Prague, who has been president of the
Bohemian suffrage association, afili-
ated with the international, and was
nj ~ OF - ac
pest. in 1913.
The first governmental delegate, of
course. is Mrs. Joscphus Daniels, ap-
pointed by President Wilson. She car
rles an official commission from the
United States signed by Secretary of
State Colby. 1t is said other govern
ments have done likewise, but intorma-
Uon is lacking.
Though Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait is
pres dent of the alliance, and will pre-
side al the congress with Mrs. Mlli-
cent Garrett Fawcett, or Great Britain,
all arrangements have been made from
London. London has always been the
headquarters of the alliance. Therefore
1t was to be expected that committees
there would take the lead. And this
accounts for the fact that, so far, Lon
don knows much more about the CON
gress than America. Important British
women have been in Geneva for weeks
preparing the ground.
An appeal for funds, prime ipally to
finance delegates from the countries of
Las made money worthless, is signed
by Edith -Turbeville, Eleanor
Kathbone, NJ. S. Reeves, Florence Roch,
Maude Royden, Maude Shelborne,
Ethel Snowden, Margaret Mcmillan,
Mllllcent Garrett Fawcett, Lena Ash
well, Nancy Astor. Violet Bonham-
carter, Lettice Fisher, Chrystal Mac
milan and Emmeline Pethick Law
renee.
Another straw which SHOWS which
Wy the wind Is blowing is the promise,
couched in the following terms, that
me delegates from France viii lose no
time in proposing a resolution in favor
OF the league of nations:
Inc french Union for Woman Suf-
frage. affiliated with the International
" oman Suffrage Alliance, recommends
ITS delegates to support, at the CON
gress, the following resolutions:
Regarding strong organization
OF the society Of nations as the one
and magnificent hope of assuring the
future. peace of the world, the alli-
ance halls its creation with deep
Joy, But as this society will have
great need of every moral support
to establish it securely, the Union
FranGaise holds that it is the duty
and interest of the organized women
OF the world to concentrate all their
effort, their intelligence and their
influence on consolidating and help
ing the society Of nations, of which
the object is to secure good will and
peace throughout the world.
That the first action of the Gen
q IA ba
league of nations, and declaration
from organized women of every
codntry, affirming to the world their
devotion, and their determined re-
solve to consecrate all their powers@
to assuring the development and the
perfection of the league
France wants America to join some
kind of league, with or without res
ervations, if America will only Join.
Inc men OF America are bored over
the whole European mess. viii
American women take an interest?
vi course, European nations are al
ready committed to a league But the
question Will come up at the congress
as to the Importance of women therein.
european women, outnumbering men
IN every country, will make a drive to
insist that their governments appoint
women to the important posts. The
VI Cto AedBuS NireaGy mas
woman.s c!ause--a direct result Of
women's efforts at the Peace Con-
ference in Paris
ne woman's clause Is paragraph 8
OF Article VII, and reads:
All positions under, or in connec-
ton with, the league, including the
secretariat, shall be open equnlly to
men and women"
Inc intention is perfectly clear
mat women shall be eligible to every
ming IN the society of nations.
But in forming the permanent secre-
t@riat, winch is to consist of various
departments, the question has come up
IN Europe as to whether there shall
oe special woman's bureau, similar
10 the international labor bureau. The
intention seemed to be to study and
care for hte particular interests of
women, but women's organizations
throughout Great Britain and France
have taken exception to the idea
Ihey fear 1t is merely ruse to keep
them out of important departments
and commissions Therefore Ameri-
can women will be asked to help
straighten out this tangle
There will also be many discussions
as TO the new economic and social
status of women. And 1t is here that
American women will have 20 move
most carefully. They should not for
get that conditions in Europe and in
America are quite dissimilar, because
in Europe there are vast Quantities
o. extra women, while America has
plenty of men-more men than women.
unless the last census springs a sud