The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-01-30
CLUBW0MEN'S
HEAD TELLS0F
BOARD MEETING
Mrs. l.. N. Cary of Mandan
Gives Interesting Descrip-
ton of Eastern Trip
MUCH is ACCOMPLISHED

Mrs. l.. n. Cary of Mandan, pres
ident of the North Dakota Federal ed
| ton, ID. c., as delegate to the Ma
| tional Illteracy Conference and us a
member, of the National Board of
Directors of Women's Federal I'd
! clu BIS, describes the session attended,
rs having been most educational and
inspirational, to those interested IN
the line of womcns recent achieve
| mentS.
Delegates from the west rived in
Washington in time to began tie
weeks activities on Monday morning
and were accordingly whirlcd off as
guests of the Womens Joint Con.
gressional Committee at their head
quarters. Here they learned of some
OF the activity of this comm::tec
with regard to action taken ol legis-
lative measures reported out Ia Con-
greSs from time to time. On dis
committee. are such eminent women
as Maude Park Wood head of League
of Women Voters; Miss Abbott, emf
ncnt child welfare worker; all other
members of this committee being
equally we'll known for some one
special line of work, in which the
clubs and women of the nation have
interested themselves.
On Monday afternoon delegates
| visited the Un..Sd States Congress
in session at the National Capitol
Here they witnessed the workings of
the lobbying committees, etc. At the
| time of the visit, a representative
| from Maryland was ridiculing the
passage Of the Volstead act. In their
visit to the Senate, they heard Sen
ator Lodge and several other prom
| inent senators address the Senate.
On Monday evening the board
bers were guests at dinner,
in the little town of Alexandria,
across the Potomac river. quite his
| toric for George Washington frequent
| ~ visited there White in Washing
ton. Here they enjoyed all the hos
pitality and famous Southern cook
ing I'm which the South has long
been noted. Among the after din
ncr speakers at this dinner was VIM.
}. Burns, the detective. Burns sub
ject was "The Dangers of Radical
ISM" During the course of his talk,
he said he had been blamed for "see-
ing red but he warned those pres
cnt to be alive to the situation fac
was indeed grave.
Official Board Meeting.
On Tuesday the Official Board of
the Federation met. An :ntcrnation-
al representative of the Woman S
! club of Paris was present and made
plea for the strengthening OF mu-
tual relations between the two ma
tions. BY means of Il number Of in
| tCrestinG pictures thrown on the
I! screen, she related the efforts France
was making to rebuild the old his
toric cities destroyed during the
World War. Resolutions were after
ward adopted declaring the fedora
toms stand on world peace; after
having been offered by Mrs. Penny
hacker in the course of talk on
Characterization"
A replica of John Howard Paine's
Home Sweet Home whose centen-
NAL celebration was recently observ-
ed, was presented by the National
Federation Of Women's clubs to the
Girl Scouts of America, Mrs. Herbert
| Hoover, national head of the Scouts
with a fitting address accepted the
Gift on behalf of the Scouts.
Maudc Adams appeared before the
board and made an appeal to the
board members for help in the move
mcnt being made to establish Ma
! tiondl theater, where the very best
of dramatic art, will be shown and
in this way help bring the drama
| back tOSits high and original plane
in art.
On Wednesday afternoon members
of the board were guests at recep-
ton given by Mrs. Calvin Coolidge
in the Blue Room of the White
House. Mrs. Cary sweetly described
the womanly sensations experienced
on attending this formal reception.
Mrs. Coolidge proved a charming hos
tess, very human, lovely and gra-
1 cious. AT the conclusion of the re-
ception photograph was made of
Mrs. Coolidge with the board mem
bers in front of the White House.
This same afternoon, Mr.. and Mrs.
Theodor Roosevelt Jr., received the
board members at a reception at
their home. Theodore Jr was found
to resemble his father very much
in mannerisms of speech and laugh
ter, but of much moro slender sta
ture. Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Long
worth was present at this reception
as was Mrs. DENLY, wife of Secre-
tary DENLY, of the Navy. In Mrs.
Cary's conversation with Roosevelt,
She tSld Of the work being done in
this state to perpetuate the memory
of his illustrious father, who was
/ once citizen of the state.
Thursday noon, President Coolidge
received the delegation in his private
| office, and during the reception,
contrary to his custom, he shook
hands with each guest and granted
each genial smile In the course
of few we'll chosen remarks he
said; "Thc women of the Federation
represent the finest women of the
Nation"
Thursday evening a party was Civ
en- at the National Federation home
in Washington and twenty distin-