Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-19

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NH utiVe secretary of the Amer
N lean Home Economics Asso-
4 4 citation, and Miss Helen
Atwater, editor of its journal,
will attend the annual meeting of the
organization, to be held in Asheville,
n. c., this week, opening tomorrow
with a conference called by DR.. John
!. Tigert, United States commissioner
of education.
Several topics of importance to
home economists will be discussed at
the conference, which is to be held at
the Battery Park Hotel.
Home economics detectives will be
outlined by Mrs. Annie Robinson
Dyer of the research department,
Teachers College, Columbia Univer-
sity. Mrs. Dyer also will lead the dis
cussion on the bases for home eco
nomics curriculum building.
Miss Anna f. Richardson of Wash
ington will talk on the scope of child
development and parental education IN
the home economics curriculum, while
Agnes H. Craig, supervisor of home
economics in the city schools OF
Springfield, Mass, will lead the con-
troversy on the household budgeting
course as a means for social orlenta-
ton of high school boys and girls.
A constructive program has been ar
ranged for the sessions of the an
nual meeting, in addition to the rou-
tine business, which will include the
election of officers and appointment CT
committees.
Topics of special interest which will
be brought before the members iE SEES
sion will include child development,
parental education and the problems
of married women entering paid work.
Among the most prominent speak
ers on the program will be DIR. Viii
liam F. Durant, author of THE His
tory of Philosophy" who has chosen
for his subject us Life Worth Liv
ing?" His address will be the fea-
ture of the session Tuesday evening,
June u.
f. j. Schlink of the American en-
gineering standards committee of New
York City will speak on 1.-THE Stand
ardization of Consumers Goods.
apropos of the extensive research
work being done by home economics
in the textile field.
1.-THE Mental Health of the Child"
will be the subject of an address by
DR.. D. A. Thorn Of the Massachusetts
State department of mental hygiene
at Boston, at the session Thursday
morning. At this same session ID. q.
G.. Carmichael, president of the State
College for Women, Montevello, Ala.
will talk on "State-Supported Colleges
for Woman in the United States"
Tuesday afternoon, at the annual
progress meeting, speakers represent
ing the eight sections of the associa-
ton will give reports on the progress
made in their field during the past
year. The eight sections include in
stitution economics, food and nutri-
tiles, home economics education, home
makers, home economics in business
and related art. In addition, reports
will be heard from two committees
on child development and parental ed
ucation.
THE National League of Women
- Voters has a new secretary-Mrs.
Arthur Ringland of Washington. d. c.
Mrs. Ringland succeeds Mrs. Herbert
Knox Smith of Pennington, Conn,
who resigned because of i'll health.
Mrs. Ringland is a native Califor-
MAN, but for the last two years has
been resident of Washington. She
brings to the national league work a
keen understanding OF intensive serv-
fee gained in an enviable war record,
which began in Paris in 1917 and end
ed in Constantinople under the banner
Of the American Relief Administra-
tlon. The American Fund for French
Wounded was the first war organiza-
ton to carry Mrs. Ringland's name
ON its roster. She was associated with
the children's section, with headquar-
1AxS in Paris.
After the armistice Mrs. Ringland
Joined the forces Of the American Re-
lief Administration and served two
years in Czechoslovakia. Then there
was Winter of study in Vienna.
more administration work in London,
and after her marriage to Mr.. Ring
land she went to Constantinople,
where Mr.. RingIand was in charge of