Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-16
BY CORINNE FRAZIER.
- ENTATIVE plans for meeting
of the General Council OF the
National League of Women
Voters in Washington in Aprll


National League of Women
Voters in Washington in April
WI he outlined this week at
meetings of the board of directors con
yaninp AT national headquarters
under the direction of MISS belie
Sherwin, president. - tho
It will be the first meeting Oh ,iie t
General Council in Washington ana !,
win he the first meeting OF the couhc-i
under the biennial convention system :
which the league inaug urdCeu .o''
wear. 1t will bring TO NaSnlis 'oi,
more than $50 women from 'he "a
States in which the league Is VI
ganized. a from,
every section of the country VIII al
,;ya IN washington tonight for 1our-
dav session of the board of directors.
rTbev are. Miss Katharine LudlnStoil
of Old Lyme, Conn, hrst vice Pr
dent. Miss Adele Clark of Rlchmohu'
1ya second vice president; Miss Ruth
Eforqan of New York City, third wee
nrosi6ent. Miss Elizabeth j. Hausef Vi
Girard. Ohio, fourth vice preslueiIe'
Miss Mollie Ray Carroll, nItn W.
president; Mrs. Frank nixon Oh IN
Cvjtv. Fla, treasurer, and the 1olio" '4t7
regional directors: Mrs. 1alIleS
fNhnHCF12n
tyasnar Whitney of New YORK Slts ,
Mr. Mary O. Cowper of durham:
~ r. Mrs. William G. Hiboard o.
xCirnetka III: Miss Marguerite NJ.
Tvnus Of Minneapolis. Mrs. roscoe
Anderson of ST. Louis and Mrs E-Ii'e0'
I Mott of San Francisco: 49,
while the formal sessions Oh lhe
hoa,d will be the chief interest TWO
baIf.day sessions devoted TO orsaili1 %
ZION and the work of the natloiial ue
nertments and committees VIII coiii
nnand special attention; .,o;r.
Mrs william G. Hibbard' as Sli"n ~
man OF organization, VIII p Iesrue of
~ session for the consideration %
- ,,rovth and development OF the
1aag1e Miss Sherwin will presloe az L,
49, 'sdenartment and commltteeeWork
s,nss;on The committee chaHlneh
,,eet;np with the board are: MIS-
De-, n Walden of New raven,
Ionn chairman on child welfare; MISS
I,orna,;a Adair of Richmond. va
otair,,,an of education; Mrs. Harris
IT baldwin of Washington, cnalIili .1 !.
- living costs, and Mrs. Ann Weps:ei
Of Washington, chairman on so0'"'
hygiene. ~ who arrive
TODAY. none has a more lnpor'aae
mar, in the progress OF the Iea 81 ~
than Miss Katharine Luolngtoh' ~ rs.
. liz nresident. and until recently
treasurer. Directing the finances OF
tba leo pue has been the task assumed
hv Miss Ludington for the last -FOUR
,.eore Reflection of her able director
chin of the finance department may
he found in the sale of S94,OSo gooo
citizenship bonds at the 1875 natlohdi
convention. This amount was pleoseu
in less than an hour toward the 1870
1927 budget.
While others may insist that women
o,,oht 70 prepare for public lie by
academic work, foreign STUDY ana
ssthinps of that sort" Miss Ludlngton
holds that old-fashioned church work
is the best possible training for pup
liz usefulness. Miss Ludlngton mas
taught school in Lyme, Conn, Tor 81
Summers. .;,;r,
school for political life than 'ie
church." she says. +ho
woman who has gained poise, direct
ness and the ability to grasp the es'
sentials of a situation from ner
church. Sunday school and cnarlty
yvork has the technique of civic work
~ her fingertips and needs no schooi-
~
ing. Aoa IN
SThe league is pushing ahead IN
great strides in it's work for the com
mon problems of democracy, MISS
Ludington points out.
Like many human beings the
league was born, grew amazingly ana
only became critically conscious OF
itself as it grew" she said. During
the first years one might hear 1t va
rfously defined according to the view
point of an individual or locailty.
Some saw it simply as first alo' 10
the new voters; some as a new broom
for cleaning up politics; others as an
educational agency of purely AGA,
demic kind; others held that II shoulo
crusade for one or another cause. But
these partial conceptions have either
died or been included in the syntnesls
OF our present program. Further-
more, this unity seems to have come
from a terminating seed WITHIN the
league ITSELF whose growth was
stimulated and forced by polltlcal
conditions surrounding it.
Women gained full citizenship at
a time when our democratic instltu-
lions were under fire, and When Ine