The Snowflake herald., 1922-03-31

The invitation to Annapolis, the capital city OF
Maryland, comes from the governor of the state,
who will receive the delegates. visit to the
United States Naval academy will be included in
the program of the day.
The day in Washington will be given largely
to visiting places of interest-the Capitol the Pan
American Union, and other public buildings. In
the evening a mass meeting will be held at which,
prominent speakers will discuss "What the WOm-
en- of the Americas Can Do to Promote Friendly
RelatiOnS'-a subject which embOdieS the guiding
thought Of the entire conference.
Mrs Maud Wood Park president of the Nation
al League of Women Voters, has said that women
are instinctively ready to work together for the
things that they wish to accomplish because their
interests are cooperative rather than competi-
tive.
''Womens distinctive interests" Mrs Park said,
"are in common-home making children, general
welfare-whereaS mems distinctive interests are
sometimes of necessity conflicting and have to be
settled by compromise. There is nothing about the
ordinary occupations of women which is competi-
tive. To illustrate, if the women of one nation
are able to secure child-welfare measure and
to develop and improve their work along these
lines, their step in advance is help and not
hindrance to the women Of all other nations. The
occupations and interests of women are the oc-
equations and interests of peace, and lend them
selves readily to cooperation
While the leaders of the formidable confer
ences will prepare outline programs covering the
topics under discussion, they have agreed that
these programs should be informal and elastic
offering ample opportunity for free expression of
ideas.
Miss Julia Wade Abbott of the United States
Bureau of Education, will be in charge of the
conference on Education" Speaking of the plan
for this conference Miss Abbott says:
ut is significant that the women of the Western
Hemisphere should come together at this time to
discuss education in its relation to the welfare Of
women and children. This conference should help
define what is meant by the term American edu-
cation. For the term American education should
be applied not alone to the 4S different state sys-
TENS in the United States of America American
should define education that is based upon the
common needs and interests of the people in this
New World: in Canada, in the countries of South
America and Central America, and in the United
States of America. On this side of the water we
more less free from academic traditions.
AS women we have been the first teachers of the
race, and with us education has always been re-
lated to life Is it too much to hope that because
we bring an untrammeled point of view to this
conference we may make real contribution to
education? In discussing educational conditions
in the different countries the efficiency of the
schools may be tested by the degree to which
they are providing for the great detectives of
education-health, practical efficiency citizenship
and the enjoyment of leisure
Miss Mary Anderson, chief of the Bureau of
Women in Industry of the United States Depart
ment of Labor, will be the leader Of the confer
ence on Women in Industry" She says:
"The conference will be interesting to the wom-
in industry because of the large import and
export of commodities produced in South Ameri-
countries and in the United States. Women
in the industries of all these countries are faced
with common problems which must be solved in
cooperation Industrially the Americas are linked
and the standards of one must affect those of the
other. For instance in both the South American
countries and the United States we have commodi-