The New York herald., 1922-04-21
WOMEN FROM BOTH
AMERICAS GATHER
Twenty-Five Countries Have
Delegates in Baltimore
Conference.
HOPE TO BROADEN SPHERE
Advantages of Club Life to Be
Impressed on Sisters From
Far South.

Special Dispatch to THE New YORK HERALD
BALTIMORE, April 20.-More than
1000 women, representing every coun-
try Of North and South America. the
West Indies and the Philippines, were
here to-day when the gavel OF the
chairman, Mrs. Maud Wood Park.
called to order the first Pnn-American
conference of women.
1t Is picturesque and interesting
gathering and the attendance is much
larger than anticipated because of the
arrival of delegates to the National
League of Women Voters. which meets
next Tuesday.
Among dignitaries who welcomed the
who will hold meetings daily
until Monday, were Archbishop Curley,
Gov Ritchie. Mayor Broening and DIR.
l.. S. Rowe. Director-General of the
Union. President Har-
ding sent greetings by Mrs. Joseph I.
Bowen, officially appointed by him
delegate.
The object of the gatherings, as ex
planned by Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait.
Is to establish closer and friendlier re-
lations between the women of South
American and North American coun-
tries. The club leaders of the United
States hope to convert their South
American sisters to club life, putting a
general Interpretation on Mrs. Cats
bors and friends of these South Amer
lean countries are Mortified at the idea
of their women coming so far un-
by husbands or mothers.
The conference Is to show the advan-
tages and broadening effect of this form
of social gathering. Women of this
part of the world in return hope to learn
from their sisters from the
South.
22 Countries Represented.
In her address Mrs. Park said 'It is
our privilege to welcome thirty-one Of
fetal delegates from twenty-five coun-
tries OF the Western Hemisphere. and
with them twenty-five delegates from the
organizations of their countries.
I must mention a group of students
from many Latin American countries at
tending universities in the United States
who are here to-day"
After extending the greetings OF the
Union DR.. Rowe said:
las I look over this assemblage OF
women from every section of the Ameri-
can continent find much to stir the
At a time when European
delegates are meeting to. allay the an
tagonisms that divide nations you have
assembled to solve the problems common
to the growing democracies OF America.
The thought underlying your delibera-
tions Is the unity of interest of America
and the mutual helpfulness OF its COM
ponent parts"
The delegates from afar present an
attractive appearance, and, as a whole,
are much younger than an average
group of club women OF this country
They are fashionably dressed-in fact
look exceedingly French and chic. Most
OF them speak English fluently.
The gavel used in calling the confer
ence to order belongs to Miss Emma
Weber chairman OF the local transpor-
tarion committee. and was used by her
grandmother. Mrs. Joseph Fcldman. at
8. charitable conference held in Balti-
more Immediately after the close Of the
civil war. AS feminist movements were
gat ted to the role of baby's rattle, and
nlSS w Cbti Idt iCi 0APJ tIN' . oh ~
Birth Control Suggestion.
Nine. Mathilde de Carbo OF Ecuador.
ty her daughter, astonished the dele
gates by announcing that 1t is almost
considered a disgrace for married
woman in Ecuador to have less than six
children, and to give birth to a dozen,
more or less, Is not uncommon.
"It would be well for the women Of
Ecuador to adopt the slogan OF fewer
ard better babies" she added. This
ia the doctrine of the Birth Control
League"
In the New York city delegation were
Mrs. Gait, Miss Mary Garrett Hay. Mrs.
Stanley Mccormick, Mrs. +. Louis
Slade, Mrs. Raymond Brown. Mrs.
Frank Shuler and Mrs. Walter Timme
Among foreign speakers were Dr.
Alicia Moreau. Argentine; Sonora Ar
cadia Zalles, Bolivia; Dona Bertha Lutz.
Brazil, DIR. Grace Ritchie, England
Canada: Senorita Graciela Mandujano,
Chile; Nine. Maria Suraez de Coronado,
Colombia Sonora Sara Caselde Quiros.
Costa Rica; Sonora Emma Lopez Sena
de Garrido. Cuba: Sonora Dona Ofelia
u. do Joubert. Dominican Republic;
Mime. Francisco de Sanchez-Latour.
Guatemala: Mime. Charles Duba, Haiti;
Senorita Mercedes Lainez. Honduras;
Senorita Elena Torres, Mexico; Sonora
Aurora Herrera, State of Taumaulipas,
Mexico: Senorita Maria Clotilda Vega.
Nicaragua: Sonora Ester Niera de
Calvo. Panama: Senorita Maria Felici-
dad Gonzales. Paraguay; Senorita Mar
garita Conroy, Peru; Mime. jaime G. de
vcyra, Philippines: Nine. Milagros
Benet de Newton, Porto Rico; Sonora
Olga Capurro de Verela, Uruguay. and
Sonora Mercedes de Guevara, Venezuela.
There was a reception for the dele
gates tonight in the Belvidere. The