The Washington herald., 1921-03-01
PLANS EXPANSION
OF CIVIC WELFARE
/ IN new POSITION
Mrs. Calhoun to Organize
Women of South to
Aid Section.

4ni .. clarence Crittenden CalhOun,
who has just accepted the office of
president general of the woman's
Board of the Southern Commercial
Congress, is a most fortunate selec-
tion for an ONCE of such Importance
as this will now become, with the
women of sixteen Southerrp States
! cooperating in plans for the civic
welfare OF the country. Already the
southern Commercial Congress has
done great things In the line of its
slogan to Make the South Know
Itself and Known to the Country"
Women are the natural house,
keepers of the nation, and with the
plans now on foot of bringing the
producer directly to the consumer
without the middleman. which will
cut the cost of living in half, and of
centralizing their effort here in the
Nations Capital, there Is a work of
the most far-reaching Importance
ahead of the woman's board. Mrs.
Calhoun has already made some
very definite and splendid plans for
the Woman's Auxiliary, and is used
to successful efforts and enterprises
of all kinds.
Planned Great Hall.
While stiu a bride in her home in
Charleston, she was appointed COM
missioner to the Cotton States Ex-
position and furnished there a hall
of such magnificence, hung with
tapestries and velvets from Baum
garten of New York and lined with
portraits by Gilbert Stuart, Sully,
Rembrandt Peal. Raeburn, Copley,
and all the celebrated painters who
had made the portraits of South
Carolina governors and statesmen.
with examples Of the best art OF
miniature painters of the Southern
States, that the room was considered
such q triumph of art and beauty
that 1t gained not only the gold
medal, but literary encomiums from
such men as Thomas Nelson Page
and other writer's of the day.
The following year Mrs. Calhoun,
then Mrs. Simonds. entertained in
her home, in Charleston, a sympo-
sium Of the well-known American
writers-Marion Crawford, Hopkin-
SON Smith. Hamilton Wright Mabie,
Frank Stockton. Henry James, W.
d. Howells, Thomas Nelson Page,
and others-who were her guests
during their visit to Charleston.
A few years later she was made
chairman of the entertainment COM
mittee for tho Charleston EXPOSE
ton, and as such entertained the
governors Of every State in the
Union, with their STATS; the Presi-
dent Of the United States, Theodore
Roosevelt, and members of his Cab
met, as on previous occasions she
had entertained President Cleveland
and all the other notables who had
occasion to visit Charleston. so that
her beautiful home there was called
the White House ofs the South"
Plans Auditorium Here.
After the death of Andrew ST.
monds she went abroad, leaving her
home. the villa Margherita, for a
prolonged stay in Europe, first turn
ing the villa into a Mecca for tour
lists in the South, run by Southern
ladies'. She sent out amusing little
pamphlets to her friends, turning
the motto under her well-known
device into a new Latin Inscription.
Sic tibi pecunia non intrare non
licet est" off you amt got no
money you needn't come 'round."l
Her bon mot after President Roose-
velts visit is too well known to he
quoted here.
Mrs. Calhoun became president of
the Drama League in this city in
november. and is interested in the
erection Of an auditorium and the
ater here which will not be a dream
but an assured reality under her
energetic guidance.
Mrs. Calhoun is a member of the
National Pen Woman's League. vice
president Of the women's welfare
association, on the board of Noel
House, and helps support numerous
local charities. 1t can. therefore.
De seen that she Is indeed a valua-
pie acquisition at the head of the
Woman's Auxiliary for the Com
mercial Congress of the Southern
States.