The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1922-02-25
THIRD ANNUAL CONVENTION is
TO BE HELD IN BALTIMORE,
OPENING APRIL 20.
EMTlRE CONTINENT INCLUDED
Tneir Sisters Of Latin America Are
Invited to Help In Discussion OF
Topic. - Especial Importance to
tho Sex,
ey EDWARD q. CLARK

quarters In washington, desires tnat
the public shall know about its third
annual convention which IS to be held
in the capitals companion city, Balti-
more, Nd, and is to continue in SEES
sion for nine days. The convention
does not meet until April 20. but as
all the countries of South and Central
America are to be represented the ar
engagements for the meeting are belnS
made early.
The blunt truth Is that your corre-
spondent personally has been asked
to write about this convention and Is
the more willing so to do because the
National League Of Women Voters ~
composed Of women Of the two great
political parties and of some smaller
parties, and It does not seek to create
a woman's party, preferrlng the SEEM
ingly saner course of asking its men,
bcrs to get interested in politics and
in legislation and to exercise their In
tluence rs actual voting members OF
any Of the political parties which they
choose to Join.
- Both the Republican and the Demo-
cratic national committees have asked
the women to enter their respective
parties and to work and to vote for
such legislation as they may desire as
Republicans and Democrats, and not
as members Of separate group. 1t
seems, therefore, to be the MIN Of tho
National League of Women Voters to
fix upon such legislation as women
think it advisable to enact and then
to attempt 10 secure it by exercising
their influence rs voters within one or
the other Of the great political parties.
Subjects to Be Discussed.
The women have borrowed the word
"agenda" from the State department
for use In outlining the proceedings
of the coming convention which they
cali 1.-THE Pan-Amerlcan Conference
Of Women" In n general way the
country Gun tell from the subjects for
. discussion which have been chosen
the chief: things which are Interesting
the, women Of all parties, Of the pres!
Eentsdsy:, There are to b Whist tho
w1oM9n DAN round table conferences
on the following subjects, each discus
sion to be under the charge Of q woms
an whose name is given as leader:
Child Welfare-In charge Of Miss
Grace Abbott. chief Of the chlldren's
bureau; Department Of Labor, U. S. A.
. Educatlon-In charge Of Miss Julia
Abbott, kindergarten division, bureau
OF education, Department Of Interior.
U. 8. A.
Women In 1ndustry--In charge Of
Miss Mary Anderson, chief Of the
woman's bureau, Department Of In,
Dor. u. S. A.
Prevention of Traffic In Women--1n
charge Of DR.. Valerla Parker, execu-
tive secretary of the interdepartment-
al social hygiene board, u. s. A.
Civil Status of Women--In charge
Of Mrs. Mabel Willebrandt, assistant
attorney general, Department OF JUS.
tice, u. S. a.
Political Status Of Women-In
charge Of Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait,
president OF the international Woman
Suffrage alliance.
Secretary Of State Hughes, Secre-
tary Of Commerce Hoover and DIR. l..
$. Rowe, director general Of the Pan
American union, are cooperating with
the women IN efforts to make tho
conference success. Invitations to
the governments of South and Central
American countries to send delegates
to We conference have been forwarded
by the State department through its
diplomatic representatives In the re.
publlcs Of Latin America,
, Agricultural Conference Called.
Invitations have been issued to a
large number Of American citizens to
become members Of the conference on
agriculture which is to meet in Wash.
ington the latter part Of January
! 1t is expected that mt least 200 dele.
gates representing agricultural and
allied industries, such as packing, mill.
ing and transportation, will DO pres.
ent. The administration seemingly be.
lieves that tho conference will pro.
dupe results.
1t IS definitely known, of course,
that he administration, with the coun.
fry. has been worried about agricul.
tural conditions and the troubles which
have come to congress in its attempt
/ to adjust legislation so that one great
industry may be benefited without
working damage to other industries
In brief. 1t can be said that one ele
ment in congress thinks agriculture Is
/ asking too much and that another
thinks it Is not asking half Of what
1t deserves,
IF the conference on agriculture
shall have the success Of the confer.
ence on unemployment It's meeting
probably will be held to have been In
every way worth while. When the
conference assemblies It Instantly will
begin to exchange views and to give
consideration TO various lines of pol
icy. 1t Is believed q leader Of each
Of the Industrial groups which are y