The Washington herald., 1921-04-18
WOMEN WILL ASK
THsIHARDINC TRY.
T0DIsARM WORLD.
VIII Urge Postponement
OF Naval Appropriation
Pending Conference.

Women from more than twenty
States wiil'participate in a deputa-
tion. Of the women's Committee for
World Disarmament which win call
upon President Harding at the
White House at 1915 o'clock today
to ask him to call an international
conference on disarmament and to
urge postponement Of action on
large naval appropriations until
such q conference has been held
Preceding the visit to President
Harding the committee will hold
its first big conference to be at
tended by women who have been
sent to the Capital through mass
meetings in many States.
VIII Attend Conference.
In attendance at the conference
will be Mrs. Myron B. Worse, De-
troit, Mich; Mrs. Anna l. Laskey.
okIahomaT City. Okla; Mrs. Frank
Baldwin. Fredericksburg. Va; Mrs
Robert Walker. Baltimore. Nd: Mrs.
J. Sargent Cram. New York City;
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mington, Del: Miss Edith Spruance,
Mrs Irene du Pont. Wilmington.
Del: Mrs Edward P. Costigan. Mrs.
Robert La Toilette. Mrs. Charles
Edward Russell, Mrs. Florence
Brewer Boeckel, Miss Sue White,
Mrs W. j. Spillman, Mrs. Laura
Williams, Mrs. ellison Gardner, Mrs.
Dean Aeheson. Miss Belle Rankin.
Mrs. Paul Hanna, Mrs. d. B. Cas-
ley, Mrs. Nicholas Kelley, Mrs.
George T. oden and Mrs Margaret
Graham Jones, all of the Washing
ton committee
To Interview Congressmen-
The deputation after calling on
the President will go to the Capitol
where members of Congress Will be
interviewed. The deputation will
be headed by Mrs. Edward P. Cos
tigan. District of Columbia chair
man of the National Consumers
League, and the women who will
participate, with the States they
will represent, are: Mrs Robert La
Toilette. wife of Senator La Toilette
Of wisconsin; Mrs JOHN Nelson. of
Madison; Mrs. Joseph Beck, of Be-
EOQud, anu NOOPSAp u
Racine, all wives of Representatives
from Wisconsin.
Mrs. william Mason. wife of the
Representative from Illinois; Miss
Belle Rankin, California; Mrs. Belle
Lewyn, Colorado; Mrs. Charles s.
Brooks. Mrs. Laura williams. Con-
necticut: Mrs Florence Bayard
Hilles. daughter Of the late Thomas
F. Bayard. Ambassador to the Court
of ST James; Miss Edith Spruance
dsughtsE--of State Supreme Court
Judge Spruance, Mrs Irenee du
Pom, ,S-sSNilmingt Del; Mrs.
Charles Edward Russell, Mrs. Sam
uel Addms.- wife Of the former AS
sistant Secretary OF the Interior;
Mrs. Andssg Hirschl. Illinois; Mrs
Wilbur RsDales. Maine.
Larse Maryland DeIegation.
Mrs. Robert walker. Mrs. A. Nor.
ris Carey, Mrs J. william Lord
Mrs. Arthur Bibbins, Mrs. Eliza H
walker. Mrs. Thomas Pitts, Mrs
W. ]. Brown. Baltimore; Miss julia
Emory. Miss Mary Gertrude Fen
dali. Maryland; Mrs. Celia whitta-
ker, Margaret Hatfield, Massachu-
setts; Mrs. Myron B. Worse, Mrs.
Dean Acheson, Michigan; Mrs
Walter LigKett. Minnesota
Mrs Elizabeth walmsely. Missouri;
Miss Joy Webster, Nebraska; Mrs.
J. Sargent Cram, Mrs. ]. David
Thompson, New York.
Mrs Craig McKerrow, Ohio; Mrs.
Anna Laskey, Oklahoma City; Miss
Emma Void, Oregon; Miss Sue
White, Tennessee; Mrs. Frank Bald
win. Mrs. George Pflaster, Virginia.
MRS. Thomas Graham, Mrs. W. J.
Spillman. Washington State; Miss
Mary La Toilette. Wisconsin; Mrs.
Florence Brewer Boeckel, Mrs. Hen
ry Mussey, Mrs Paul Hanna, Mrs.
ID. B. sCasIey, Miss Rachel King,
Mrs. Gibson Gardner. Mrs. John D.
PattenFMtss Edith Goode. Mrs. Nor
man HApgpod. Mrs. George w
Johnston-M1ss Aline Solomons, Mrs
Basil Manly. Mrs Lynn Haines, Mrs.
Nicholass Kelley, Mrs Eleanor Tay-
Tor Marshs Mrs. George T. Odsll,
Mrs. W. thompson Burch. Mrs
Margaret Graham Jones. District OF
Columbia.
Speakers who will address Presi-
dent Harding will be Miss Ethel
Smith, executive secretary of the
Women's Trade Union League; Mrs.
Florence Bayard Hilles, Of Will
mington. Del: Mrs. Myron B. Worse
of Detroit. Mich; Mrs. Anna Laskey.
Of Oklahoma City. Okla, and Mrs.
Ed~arH D rasff~a1 u,ho A..S. a. .