Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-04-20
UNITE TO COMBAT
TRAFFIC IN WOMEN
Child Welfare Also Comes Be-
fore Pan.American Confer.
ence at Baltimore
HOLD FIRST SESSIONS
BY the Associated Press

Baltimore, April 2O.-women of all
the Americas, who assembled here In
conference today, turned their at
tention to the question of child wei.
fare following formal ceremonies OF
welcoming.
This has been one Of the main de.
partments of work Of the National
League of Women Voters which issued
the call for the conference. Education,
the problems Of women in industry, the
civil status Of women, the prevention
of traffic in women and the political
status of women also will be considered
at the conference. as the league takes
the point Of view that NIL these Ques-
tiOns concerning women have grown
from their purely local and national
aspects and are of international i'm
portance. It is argued that traffic in
women cannot effectually be prevented
unless all nations cooperate to that
end.
Miss Grace Abbott, chief of the
Children's Bureau, United states De-
partment of Labor, presided during dis
cussions Of child welfare, and Mrs. In
Rue Brown, chairman of the Committee
on Child Welfare Of the National
League of Women Voters, assisted.
It is the announced object Of the
conference to develop the closest pos
siblc cooperation between the women
Of all the countries in the Western
Hemisphere and 1t is hoped eventually
to develop this CO. operation throughout
the world.
To Continue All Week
The conference will continue through
Saturday and will be followed on Mon.
dQv nv fhn rnut1IAr ANIMAL convention
Of the National League Of Women
Voters, which will last all of next
week.
Women representatives from virtually
every South and Central American
State. also from Canada and the de-
tendencies Of this country, named as
delegates by their respective govern.
ments, faced the chair when the gavel
fell for the opening session of the con-
ference this morning.
Archbishop Curley offered the invo-
cation and Governor Richie and Mayor
Broening welcomed the delegates in
behalf Of State and city.
Bringing the greetings Of the Pan
director general of the Union. said that
rs he looked over this assemblage from
every section of the American continent
he found much to stir the imagina-
ton.
"At a time," he said, when Euro
pean delegates are meeting to allay
antagonisms that divide. you have as.
sembled to solve the problems common
to the growing democracies Of America.
The thought underlying all your delib-
erations Is the unity of interest Of
America and the mutual helpfulness Of
its component parts"
Unity Of Purpose
In congratulating the National
League of Women Voters "for their
far seeing statesmanship in calling to-
gether such notable International as.
semblage," DR.. Rowe said he felt that
congratulations were primarily due the
nations Of America, (which, conscious
of unity Of purpose and ideals, ore pre.
pared through interchange Of expert
ence and unity Of effort to carry for
ward to successful solution the great
social and economic problems which
confront them"
Mrs. Maud Wood Park. president of
the National League of Women Voters.
who presided Mt the opening session
expressed the leagues appreciation OF
the interest which has brought togethc.
in this way representatives Of many ma