Evening star., 1924-03-03
D. C. STUDIES FAVORED
FOR SOUTHERN GIRLS
Educational Alliance Points to Big
Advantages Offered by Govern
ment Facilities.
UNUSUAL AID TO LEARNING
Position Now Taken That This City
Has Been Overlooked.

Washington in preference to New
York and larger cities will be urged
as the logical place for southern
girls wLo wish to obtain education
in art, literature. academic and vocal
tional subjects by the Southern WOm-
ans Educational Alliance, an organi-
Zation which Is formed for the pur
pose OF helping the southern girl OBJ
tain an education
Officials of the alliance declare that
the great store of learning accumu-
lated by the government here is being
overlooked by those who are going
elsewhere to seek education. The
Libraries. the various government bu-
reaus, scientific and art centers, they
feel, offer opportunities rs great If
not greater than any other city in
the country.
Headed by Senator'S Wives.
The alliance is formed here of
women from various states with the
wives of the senators from the par
ticular state heading each branch. A
Washington branch has also been
formed.
Each group is to work for publicity
in their own locality; to obtain
in their home institutions of learn
ing; to raise educational standards.
and to open to women suitable south
ern institutions previously closed to
them: to provide advice of training
previously non-cxistent in the south:
TO eliminate misfits in the choice of
work. and to bring to the knowledge
of women that the southern Woman :
is in Richmond. Va, where, upon
addressing it. at the Richmond
Hotel, all information and vocational
guidance can be obtained.
The Washington branch aims to
bring home to the southern women
the Importance of education in hitting
them for their new civic duties. ana
in obtaining more easily economic IN :
ueuendence; to lay s pecial emphasis
on the development of summer
classes and camps; TO heip tnoSe
whose condition makes 1T impossible
for them to attend any institution 10
obtain educatios. through correspond
ence and to develop in the south this
work of correspondence courses; TO
emphasize for women the value OF
training in domestic science-thc
keystone of the arch in women edu-
cation.
1t is hoped that when the work gets
under way a large number OF the
girls assisted by the alliance Will
come to Washington to obtain their
education.
Alliance O"ceEss
officers of the Washington branch
are: Mrs. Woodrow Vision. honor
AIRY chairman; Mrs. G, W. Wetmore;
active chairman. $500 Woodland
drive; Mrs Edwin Parker. treasurer,
oS4O Woodland drive; Mrs. j. n;
Turner, secretary, 1o3 hammond
Court.
The executive board of the alliance
consists of: President, Orie Latham
Hatcher; vice president. DR.. Mar,
garet p. Kuys: secretary, Rachel =.
Gregg; treasurer. Mrs. j. X. BOW
man; President d. r. Anderson. Ran
dolph-Macon Woman's College; Mrs.
John A. Barker, Richmond; Prof.
Florence Bascom, Bryn Mawr Col
lege; Mrs. Laurence Bodine, Phiia-
phie Newcomb College; Mrs. Robert
Wv. Claiborne, New York city; Mrs.
G. Harvey Clarke. Richmond; Presi-
dent Ada Comstock. Radcliffe Col
PRESIDENT William P. Few, Trinity
Knoxville; Mrs. Charles Dana Glib
son, New York city; President w.
w. Guth. Goucher College; Dr.: Hal-
die Weeks Guthrie. New Orleans;
Mrs o. N. Harcum, Harcum School;
Supt. Harris Hart, Richmond: DR..
II. H. Hibbs, jr.. Richmond; Presi-
dent D. b. Johnson, Winthrop Col
iiese; Dean May l. ,,u! Keller, tei,,,.n, West ::
Krieghoff, Philadelphia: President
II. n MacCracken. vassar College;
Dean Charles G. Maphis, University
of Virginia; Miss Helen p. NcCor-
mick, Brooklyn: President Emile
W. McVea. Sweet Briar College; DR..
z. C. L. Miller. Medical College of
Virginia; DR.. S. C. Mitchell, University
Of Rchmand: Mrs. A. ]. Ochsner.
Chicago; Mrs Dexter Otey, Lynch
burg; Miss Lena Madesin Phillips.
New York city; Dean Florence Pur-
ington. Mount Holyoke College; DR..
". Carson Ryan. jE, Swarthmore
college: DIR. w. It. Sanger, Rich
mond; Miss Francis B. Scott. Rich
naund: Miss Mary Stewart. Washing
ton, ID. c.; Mrs. Charles n. Strotz,
Chicago; Miss Eugenia Wallace,
New York city; Mrs. Claiming NJ
Ward. Richmond.