The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1922-06-03
WOMEN TACKLE
BIC QUESTIONS
General Federation Plans CON-
prehensive Program for
Biennial Meeting.
PROMINENT SPEAKERS LISTED
"Woman as Working Power" Will
Be Keynote of Convention-"In-
ternationaIisn" and "American
Citizenship" Given Prominence.

Be Keynote Of Convention-"In
ternationaIism" and "American
Citizenship" Given Prominence.
Chautauqua, N. Y.-What in the
changing order of things is woman's
duty and relationship to her home? To
her community? To her country?
What should be her interest in world
problems? What part can women, fed
Grated into world organization, play
IN bringing about an international I'M
derstanding and friendly feeling with
out which there can never be perma-
nent peace? What can woman, as a
working power, achieve?
These and many more questions,
touching upon every phase of life and
living, will be answered when women,
representing the 100000 members
composing the General Federation of
Women's Clubs will meet at Chautau-
qua in biennial convention June 2O-3O.
Between 10000 and $4,000 delegates
are expected to attend.
"Woman as a Working Power" will
be the keynote of the convention and
one entire session will be devoted to
"1nternationalism," and the promoting
of international friendly relations.
Discussions during this session will be
led by Mrs. Thomas G: Winter of Min
neapolis, president of the General Fed
Grafton Of Women's Clubs and one of
the four women members of the adj
visory committee Of the Washington
conference who will speak on 1.-THE
Arms Conference and Afterward":
Mrs. Horace Mann Towner, Washing
ton, chairman of the national commit
tee on international relations; and
Mrs. Charles Evans Hughes, wife of
Secretary Hughes, honorary chairman
of the same committee.
A new challenge to women's world
old responsibilities will be sounded by
Frank P. Garvin, president Of the
Chemical foundation.
American Citizenship.
An entire day will be devoted to
American citizenship under the chair
manship Of Mrs. Percy V. Pennyback-
er, chairman Of citizenship training.
Guests of honor for this program will
be Bishop Clinton S. Quin, coadjutor
of the diocese of Texas, who will
speak on relationship Plus; Jessie
Burial of Stephens Junior college, Co.
lumbfa, Mo-, whose subject is, "Dy-
namics of Citizenship" and Hanford
MacNider, national commander of the
American Legion, who will speak on
"The American Legion's Attitude
Toward Citizenship; Judge Martin J.
Wade, United States District court,
Iowa, who will speak on "Organizing
for Defense Of American Institutions"
At this session plans will be made to
celebrate July Fourth as an annual
Citizenship day in every city, town
and hamlet in America.
''The New Public Health" will be
the topic of DR.. Hugh S.. Cummings,
surgeon general of the United States,
| and the question, rs a high moral
standard, the same for man and wom-
an, possible to achieveY' will be
question discussed by experts and lay
men.
The responsibility Of clubwomen in
promoting the welfare of children will
be a topic discussed by Grace Abbott,
| chief of the childrens bureau, United
States Department of Labor, and the
public welfare and modern medicine
will be the general topic of Simon
Flexner, M. D., LII. D., director of the
O af
for Medical Research.
Many Questions Of Interest.
The fate of the education bill in con-
gress and other questions Of interest
| to organized women from legislative
standpoint will be presented by Mrs.
Edward Franklin White, national leg
islative chairman and deputy attorney
general of the state of Indiana, and a
war on illiteracy will be waged under
the leadership of Mrs. Cora Wilson
Stewart, chairman of the illiteracy
commission, National Education asso-
| citation.
The possibilities of motion pictures,
for either good or evil, will be dis
cussed and Will H. Hays, former post
master general, now president of the
Motion Picture Producers of America,
will speak on "Upbui1ding the Nations
Life Through Motion Pfctures.''
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas A. Edison will
appear on the program for June %.
Recreational events and music will
relieve the program. O. Nevin and
Thurlow Lieurance, noted musicians,
are among those who will appear, and
there will be pageants and plays.
Moliere's masterpiece, Don Juan"
will be staged by, the famous Guild
players and the Holy Land will be
brought to the convention through a
biblical pageant staged by Nanette B.
Paul, owner of the worlds greatest
collection Of biblical costumes brought
from Jerusalem.
Hard Times for English Doctors.
London.-London doctors are COM
planning as loudly as their professional
dignity will permit Of hard times. They
declare fewer people seek medical adj
vice nowadays than ever before and
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