Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-04-12
EUROPEAN WOMEN
TOUR AMERICA
To Lecture on Economic Con
ditiOHS in OUn COun-
tries.
BY CONSTANCE DRExEL.

WASHINGTON, April T. - Through
the efforts Of Jane Adams and other
members of the American section of the
WOman's International League an inter
esting group of women will tour America
to tell of the economic conditions in
their countries which have resulted from
the war. The three women are Mrs. An
not Robinson OF Manchester, England;
Mile. Therese Pottecher Of France and
Fraulein Centrum Baer Of Germany.
Meetings have already been arranged in
New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Pitts
burgh. Cincinnati, Detroit, Chicago, NIL
waukee and st. Paul
Mrs. Robinson, who has been promi-
nently f. titled with the labor party IN
EnglP-.G, cane to this country year
ago to testify before the American com
mission on conditions in Ireland
Mile. POttecher is a teacher and lee
turer, a graduate Of the University of
Paris. but her chief interest has Oeen in
the drama. Recently she has been asso-
ciated with the Peoples Theater in
France, organized, by her cousin, Maurice
Pottecher, and Jacques Capeau.
Gertrude Baer is secretary Of the youth
movement I'm Germany which has attract
ed considerable interest Of late. Its aim
is to Simplify modern life so as TO re-
turn 10 fundamental things.
These three women will arrive in this
country il time for the annual conven-
ton Of the American section Of the Won
ans International League, which Will be
held in Washington April IS 10 so.
The executive committee which is ar
ranging for the tour of the European wO-
men has a nationwide membership, in
Guiding: From New York, Mrs. Charles
Tiffany, Mrs. Henry e. Leach, Mrs John
Jay White, Miss katherine u. Blake.
From s1chusetts-Dr. Alice Hamilton.
Mrs. LUcie Amas Mead. From Pennsyl-
vania-NIrs. Biddle Lewis, Miss Fanny T.
Cochran, Mrs. Walter Cope, Miss Ellen
Winsor. From Iilinois-AIrs. Lola MAYER
icb Lloyd From California-A1rs. VII
liza 10 Kent Mrs. e. Z. CUmbeTs0n. From
1IissOuri-NIrs. Frederick TaIssig. From
NOnt3na-Aiiss Jeanette Rankin. From
Nevada-Miss Anne Martin. From Wash
inGton. u. C-NfrS- Robert la Toilette,
Mrs. Harriet Conner Brown and Mrs.
George T. Odell. chairman.
That the majority Of women have the
same ideas of what q Government should
OF should not do IS the striking thought
on reading a notice sent for these dis
patches from London. American women
who read the daily press may have no
ticed that a committee headed by Sir
Eric Geddes recently advocated many
economies among them in education and
i'm military expenditures.
Tt is not difficult % assert which the
women welcomed and which they pro-
tested At the annual council meeting
Of the National Union of Society for
equal citizenship, the women passed reso-
buttons welcoming the recommendations
dealing with the reduction in the ex-
reuditure on the lighting services" but
asserting that "a higher rather than a
1Awer standard of education is desirable,
and That monetary saving should be
effected by improved administration
rather than by deprivinC the people OF
The already too limited facilities for edu-
cation
The women further opposed the recon-
mendation Of the Geddes' committee 10
husband the metropolitan police women
patrols, hut demfnded that they be re
tanned and be given the power Of ar
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