Evening star., 1923-11-23
COORDINATE WORK
OF CHILD WELFARE
Women's Clubs Form Joint
Committee to Corre-
late Activities.
First steps toward forming a joint

First steps toward forming a Joint
committee on child welfare work
from the womens clubs of Washing
ton to coordinate the work of the
various clubs and to facilitate a
united front before Congress on
child welfare legislation were taken
at meeting of representatives of
the clubs at the Womens City Club
today.
Mrs. Gilbert Grosvenor. represent
ing the Twentieth Century Club. who
called the meeting, was elected tenn
porary chairman and later perma-
nent head of the body. In outlining
the purposes of the proposed organi-
zation, Mrs. Grosvenor pointed out
that many of the Washington wom-
ems clubs are working on child well
fare work. some with the same prof.
ects in view and others with some
what divergent projects, but all
work done by the different clubs"
she SAID. lis overlapping"
There were several different bills
introduced in Congress last session
for Mothers Compensation and much
better cooperation could be gained
if the best of these bills could be
put forward at the next session. and
all the clubs stand united behind it
instead OF each club backing It's own
pet bill"
Senator Capper. Of Kansas. had
promised to stand sponsor for such a
bill, she said, Mothers Compensa-
ton, Compulsory Education, and
Child Labor. are all correlated ques-
tions in which the clubs are inter-
tested. Mrs Grosvenor continued. and
if all work together towards the
same ends. and coordinate through
this joint committee. much greater
action can be gained by the united
front. This plan was heartily ap-
proved by the meeting and the for
nation of a somewhat permanent or
ganization put into effect.
The clubs invited to attend today's
meeting included: The College Women's
Club, League of Woman Voters. Fedora
tion Of Women's Clubs. Penwomen's
Evening Club and the Twentieth Cen
tury Club. 1t was voted that the An
thony League. the Mothers Congress
and Parent Teachers Association. the
w. c. T. L. and any other clubs inter-
ested in child welfare work should be
the committee should have no affiliation
with the social agencies. II was de-
cided that the president OF each club.
together with two other members, should
De representatives OH lnt JOiit .oiiiiiit-
tee.
The consensus OF the meeting was
that the measure most important at
the present time and in which the
greatest number of clubs are inter
ested is the mothers compensation
legislation, and that concentrated cf-
forts should be put forward on that
particularly for the coming winters
work, and that as soon as definite
plans are formulated the newly form
ed joint committee will meet again
to plan combined campaign of the
clubs.
Those present at today's meeting in
cluded Mrs. Grosvenor, Mrs Lucy X.
Swanson, League of Women Voters.
Mrs. w. L. Saul. League of Women
Voters; Mrs. G. n. Chapman. Fedora
tion of Womens Clubs; Mrs. Harry T.
Baldwin. president of the College
Women's Club: Mrs. William f. Cham
berlin, president Of the Women's City
Club; Mrs. Fred L. harrington, presi-
dent of the Twentieth Century Club:
Miss Elizabeth Eastman. president of
the District League of Women Voters,
and Mrs. Lawrence Radford. Mrs,
Baldwin was elected secretary of-the
organization.