New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-03
W omen to Hold
A1l-I,ay Meeting
TN EFFICIENCY
Voters League Officials
and Others TO Meet at
Home of MRS. Vanderbilt
at Scarborough July Ia
Mrs. Gait Will BE Speaker
Elimination Of the Grosser
Forms of Corruption i'm
Politics To BE Discussed

Women political leaders of both
parties and officials of the League Of
Women Voters, as we'll as club presi-
dents and representatives of large or
carnations of women, have been invited
to attend an all day conference on
Government Efficiency" at the home of
Mrs. Frank Vanderlip in Scarborough
on July IL
In the invitation which she extended,
as chairman of the New York State
League OF Women Voters, Mrs. VAN
derlip said;
"We are convinced that all women
are agreed in their earnest desire and
intention that the grosser forms, at
least, of political corruption shall be
done away with and that the scandal
Gus use of money in elections, so un-
fortunately prevalent in this state,
shall stop. If women accept positions
of responsibility in the party organiza-
tions without insisting that an honest
attempt be made to do away with these
conditions when the Inevitable fight
on this issue comes, their hands will
be tied by the fact that they have
tacitly condoned them. Nothing would
give us more heartfelt satisfaction
than to support any work to this end
that you may be doing inside your
party"
Mrs. Thompson to Speak
The speakers Will include Mrs. Lewis
5. Thompson, vice chairman of the
Republican Ways and Means Commit
tee Of New Jersey, and Mrs. Carrie
Chapman Gait, honorary president of
the National League Of Women Voters.
Equal representation Of women with
men in the leadership OF political par
ties will be enc of the chief matters
discussed. Mrs. Thompson will tell
now the equal representation law
passed during the last session of the
New Jersey legislature is working.
we believe" said Mrs. Vanderlip,
that the dignity and influence Of
women inside the parties are necessar-
lily Impaired when they become mem
pers OF party organization through
the arbitrary choice OF a county or
state chairman and are thus deprived
OF the support and independence which
they would enjoy were they the free
choice Of the voters. Equally, the
women voters enrolled in the parties
are not represented on the state and
county committees, while the women
members in place of being elected are
arbitrarily chosen by the men. We
believe that women, even If so ap-
pointed, must have equality of mum
bers to make themselves felt"
New Efficiency Department
The conference was called as a result
of the action of the national conven-
ton OF women voters in April, when
II was voted to create new depart
ment OF government efficiency" This
was to be divided into two divisions,
described as follows: "The study Of
the most efficient forms of government,
with view to their adoption, and the
study of election laws and methods.
with a view to making the machinery
Of government more responsive to the
real wishes Of the voters, and to do
away with the corruption which now
exists"
Mrs. Gait will speak on Making
of the People" Other speakers viii
be W. II. Dodds, secretary of the Ma
tional Municipal League; Homer Folks,
executive secretary Of the State
Charities Aid Society, who has recently
returned from Europe, where he estab-
lished Red Cross health centers; Miss
Mabel Carney, assistant professor OF
rural education, Teachers College;
Professor A. r. Hatton, National NUM-
cipal Leaguss'Cleveland; Henry Curran,
president OF the Borough of Manhat-
tan; Walter Arndt, executive secretary,
Citizens Union; Raymond Ingersoll,
executive secretary City Club Of New
York, and Albert Bard, chairman of
the Honest Ballet Association.