The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1920-07-28
JACKSONVILLE WOMAN
TO ATTEND INTERNA-
TIoNAL CONVENTION

Florida women will be interested in
learning that their state is to be rep
resented in the personnel of the party
comprising the United States special,
which will leave New York August z,
and begin tour at Western Europe
at Naples August 10th and whose
final destination is Christiana, Nor
way, where the international council
OF women will hold their quinquen-
NAL convention in September. The
honor of being member of this party
is accorded but thirty women in the
United States. Comprising the party
are ten delegates and ten alternates
from the National Council of Women,
with the president of the organiza-
tion, Mrs. Philip North Moore of st.
Louis, the remainder of the party be-
ing made up of invited guests chosen
to represent various sections of the
country or some special club activi-
ties. Mrs. Celeste Kinks of Jackson
villc is Florida's representative. The
party will travel under the protection
OF the state department and viii be
received officially in each Of the coun-
tries through which it will pass. A
pi ivate car is provided and the party
viii be accompanied by special
physician and competent secretary
and an official attache.
Arrangements have already been
made to have the party received by
the king and queen of Italy, Queen
Maude of Norway and many other Of
ficials of distinction. In each country
they will be received by the National
Council of Women of that country,
unbiased social workers giving the
ladies opportunity of studying condi-
tions as they really exist. A special
feature will be an auto tour of the
| battlefelds, and after touring western
Europe and attending the information
al convention. the party will visit
Great Britain and be received by Lady
Aberdeen, Marchioness of Aberdeen,
who is the president of the Interna-
tional Council of Women. The party
is due to arrive in America October
18th, after being guests of the Ma
tional Council of Women of Great
Britain and Ireland at their annual
meeting in Bristol.
| These delegates from the United
States represent thirteen million
women, because the National Council
Of Women is the great clearing house
for practically all national organiza-
tions of women in the country. It's
membership includes such organiza-
tions as those of college women, Cen
eraI Federation of Women's Clubs,
National League Of Women Voters
and groups working along various
specialized lines such as the General
Federation of Music Clubs. National
i w. G. T. u. National Council of jew
ish Women, Ladies of the G. A. R.,
Ladies of the Maccabees and the Ma
tional Federation of Colored Women.
1t practically includes all the organ
lied Womanhood of America and this
tour is the croWning event of half a
century of organized effort.
Thirty civilized nations have ma
tional councils OF women that in turn
belong to the international council,
which is the worlds clearing house
for the activities of womankind. The
/ party, therefore, which attends this
convention and tours Europe under
these most unusual conditions and in
teresting arrangements, in this period
of the worlds history. occupies an
unparalleled position. unequaled in its
Potentialities.
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