Evening star., 1925-03-30
WOMENOF 36LANDS
WILL CONFER HERE
World Leaders From Most
Countries Expected at in
ternatiOnaI Session.
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

For organized womankind through
out the world all roads in April Will
Lead to Washington. Its foremost
representatives are headed this way
' for the sixth quinquennial conNeh
tion of the International Council OF
Women. which will be in session
from May 4 to May II. Delegates OF
rs countries speaking for more than
$4,000. 600 women. viii be in attend
ance The conclave is officially de-
scribed by the National Councll OF
Women of the United States, as the
largest and most important gather
ing of women ever held in the world.
President Coolidge has been invit-
I'd to make the opening address at
he Washington Auditorium. but has
not yet pledged himself to do so.
The qunquennial leaders are hopeful
he will speak. because of the unique
opportunity offered him of enlistina
international womaukind's enthusl-
asm in the Coolidge policies of peace
kand disarmament In a little noted
rassAge of his inaugural address on
March 4 the President declared that
the United States Government is at
tentive to the intuitive counsel OF
womanhood." He stressed it's value
in the fields of education, religion.
justice and honor among the nations.
TO those causes the forthcoming
Peace But Not Pacifsm.
While world peace will be the quin
qUennial's keynote, pacif1sm is likely
to find no place in it's deliberations.
The American branch of the Inter
national League for Peace and Free
dom, which recently held a conven
tion in Washington, ceased-not quite
Voluntarily-to be a member of the
National Council of Women n year
ago. The councils president, Mrs.
Philip North Moore of st. Louis, is
conservative of conservatives. and
was a member Of the National De-
fense Council during the World War.
Two items on the quinQuennial pro-
gram, while in no wise designed to
Glorify war. will do commensurate
honor to the armed forces of the
world. An evening pageant of Peace
and War Will be presented on May
., with the cooperation of the United
States Army, Navy and Marine Corps.
The next day, May 10. Mothers Sun
day." Arlington National Cemetery
will be the scene of a patriotic cere-
mony under the auspices of the Ma
tional American War Mothers. Gen.
Pershing will speak, Nine. Ernestine
Schumann- Heink will sing. airplanes
Will dot the heavens and flags will
wave over thousands of graves of
Americas immortal dead.
20 Foreign Delegates.
Two hundred foreign delegates, ac-
companied by 100 alternates and
visitors, have bulletined their attend
ance at the quinquennial. Europe and
South America are sending their fore
most woman leaders to join forces
with their confreres of the United
States. The British delegation will
be headed by the Marchioness of Aber-
deem, who has been president of the
international Council of Women since
its foundation, % years ago.
The British vanguard is already on
American soil in the person of Mrs
Corbett Ashby of London, who re-
Gently succeeded Mrs. Carrie Chap
man Gait OF America as president of
the international Women's Suffrage
Alliance. Mrs. Ashby announces that
she will put in her time in the United
States between now and the opening
OF the quinquennial trying to induce
American women to become crusaders
in the cause of American leadership
in foreign affairs. 1t is evidently
Mrs. Ashby's purpose to push that
particular issue with vigor when the
quinquennial is under way The
American council is heartily commit
ted in favor of our entry into the
World Court.
Discussion of Peace.
Prominent among the subjects for
discussion at the Washington con-
vention will be permanent peace, in
ternational arbitration, education,
emigration, immigration, the indus
trial position of women, child well
fare, equal moral standards and
kindred subjects long agitating the
hearts of organized women through
.out the world. With woman suffrage
established in countries like Great
Britain, the United States and Ger
many, that issue has less significance
than at previous quinquennials But
An important French elegation,