Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-04-17
MRS. BOWEN TO
REPRESENT u. s.
ATCONFERENCE
President Carries Out Promise
Made to Mrs. Richard
EdWards.
BY CONSTANCE DRExEL.

WASHINGTON, D. c., April f7.-Presi-
dent Harding has announced the ap-
pointment of Mrs. Joseph 7. Bowen of
Chicago as an official delegate to repre-
sent the United States at the Pan Ameri-
can conference of women to open in Baltt-
more on Thursday, April 20, under the
auspices of the National League of Wom-
en- Voters, in conjunction with their third
annual convention.
The fact that the President would make
such an appointment had been announced
in these dispatches. 1t was Mrs. Richard
Edwards of Indiana, first vice president
of the League of Women Voters, who Sc
cured this promise in an interview with
the President, Feb. IL.
Mrs. Bowen Is particularly well known
to the older generation of women who
worked for woman suffrage and other
reforms, to which she has given both
funds and personal effort She is promi-
nent member Of the Republican Women's
Roosevelt Club, founded a few months
ago by Mrs. Mediu Mccormick, but Is
perhaps best known as a warm friend
and supporter of Miss Jane Adams, and
her social welware experiments.
Every spring with the cherry bios
SONS along the National CapitoIs famous
speedway, come the Daughters Of the
American Revolution descendants OF
those who aided the colonies in the revo-
lutiOnary cauSe) for their annual con-
gress. The early arrivals were greeted
with news that the United States Senate
had paid their society a graceful as well
as merited compliment IN passing reso-
luton thanking the daughters for tina
use Of Memorial Continental Hall for the
plenary sessions Of the arms conference
The. resolution was introduced by Senator
Lodge. But the Senate did more than ex-
press the appreciation Of the Government
in words. A sum of $3.50 was approprt-
ated for the purpose Of putting up
PLAGUE In the D. A. r. building, which
will commemorate the sessions OF the
limitations Of ornaments conference held
there.
Only one woman has ever been made
the choice Of her party to be member of
Congress and that woman is Mrs. Peter
OIeson, National Committeewoman from
Minnesota and candidate on the Demo-
cratic ticket for the United States Sem
ate She goes into the primary election
with the support of the Minnesota Demo
cratic organization.
Mrs. Emily Newell Blair, resident Ma
tional Committeewoman in charge OF
Democratic women's activities at the
party's headquarters here, says that she
was trying TO persuade Mrs. Oleson TO
speak at the Democratic women's din
ner to be given for Chairman Hull, Sat.
urday night, April 20.
That the Democratic women's confer
ence and dinner on April % will be sue
cess is assured because Of acceptanCes
already received from each Of the ~
national committeewomen of the Demo-
cratic party. In addition Mrs. John
Troy and Mrs. Virginia Clopton, COM
mittee members representing Alaska and
Hawaii respectively, are expected.
The conference will comprise morning
and afternoon sessions a which the plan
Of organizing and financing Democratic
womens political clubs will be outlined
by Mrs. Blair, followed by the dinner for
Chairman Hull.
From all accounts. Pennsylvania won-
en- have added again to their reputation
for doing things with an unusual COM
binatlon of feminine tact, attraction and
executive ability. Not only three noted
political women, but also a United States
Senator, returned from the political din
ner Of the Republican Womens Club
of Pennsylvania held IN Phila
delphia loud IL their praises OF
the success of the gathering. Senator
Pepper has told his colleagues 1t was
we'll going over for, and Mrs. Upton
voiced the sentiments of Mrs. Medill Nc
Cormlck and Miss Robertson when she
told the writer that Mrs. George Horace
Lorimer, president of the club, had put
across" one of the most successful wom-
ems political gatherings she had ever
attended.