Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-10-25
WOMEN INTERVIEW
SECRETARY HUGHES
so.claI Significance Attached
a Visit Of Miss Ruth Morgan
and Mrs. Willard Straight
eolJAL.RIGHTS FIGHT LOOMS

,,.-..,,oto,. Oct, %. - Will wom-
W s"ii IN line with the campaign OF
y, a. War and Navy Departments to IN
= .ne neose the army and navy.
ertaI Whot with Secretary Weeks plea In
xow York Monday and Navy Day
New wrridav. special significance was
On sn,1hed 10 Miss Ruth Morgnn's and
W.a willard Straisht's conference
ar a,th Secretary Hughes yesterday. Miss
tWvar,on Ia well known rs president Of
Mo's%l O sGolony Club in New York. They
tne me ' down from New York specially
cam tho conference. Miss Morgan
iu;ro ~. on the noon train after both
Sad % visited headquarters Of the League
a. Women Voters.
Miss Morgan is the new chairman
a, the Leagues Committee on Inter
"otional Co. cooperation to Prevent War.
ns.oted at the convention in Baltimore
iast spring. It is the successor OF the
TMsasue's Zen Reduction Of Armament by
International Agreement Committee,
active before and during the WASH
ington Conference.
Miss Morgan Is also chairman of the
Now York Council for Reduction Of
Irmaments, Of which Mrs. Straight Is
" y;ce cbairman, but will resign from
that Mt n meeting In New York today
when a new chairman will be elected.
As the Secretary of State had en-
3oined silence about the object of the
Interview, nothing could drng word
ant ant of either Miss Morgan or Mrs.
Straight.
But as Miss Morgan is planning n
hard winters program for her COM
mittce, which Is to Orgnniy, in each
ktate. It was to be inferred TINT her
talk with Mr.. Hughes was along the
line of International co operation to
prevent war.
Departmcnts of our Government to
arouse sentiment for larger arproprio-
tions for the army and the navy in
the 1924 budget are arousing consider. !.
sble interest in the headquarters OF
Armaments here.
They point 20 the fact that "thc
drive" has been timed just prior to
meeting Of the House Appropriations
Committee which will take up army and
navy appropriations for 1924 immedi-
ately after elections are over.
Charged with trying to obstruct ef-
forts of the Wa, and Navy Departments
those in authority at the council de-
clare they see a conflict in our own
Government. That ia to say. the civil
branches az vested in the President and
the State Department, seem more and
more to be getting away from armed
preparedness. They point to the
Washington Conference. to the proposed
Central American conference and to
Secretary Hughes recent statement
that public opinion would not stand for
American intervention in the Near East.
November will zee real battle Of
words over equal rights" legislation.
While the National Woman'a Party will
be planning its campaign in a confer
ence November II and ~. the Ma.
tional Consumers League will beat
them to it on the 9th and 10th. Looking
over the program for the annual meet :
Ing, not much else appears except
speakers and arguments against "equal
Fights as proposed by the Woman )
Party. A lively debate is expected.
As for the National Council of
Catholic Women. their news sheet sent
out all over the country asks the cues
ton: "Will the so called equal rights
amendment come up before your State
LegislatureT' and "Are you watching
i in your Statc?" A full list of the
forty-two States whose Legislatures
Will meet, and dates .? their meeting.
y then appended. That the topic will
be thoroughly discussed at the Catholic
.WomenS second annual convention to
Be held November q to 25, is certain.