Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-17
BY CORINNE FRAZIER.

pathy for the women of China
was proffered by the executive
- committee of the National
League of Women Voters in
response to an appeal for sympathetic
understanding from eight women's
organizations of China.
At a meeting last week at the home
OF the president, Miss Belle Sherwin,
MT Willoughby, near Cleveland, the
committee cabled the following mes
sage:
Believing that your appeal belongs
TO the women of our country gener-
tally. we are transmitting it to all the
fafyiliated branches of the league
throughout the United States.
d I'VE are confident that it will be
received with deep sympathy for the
aspirations of the women of China
and with eager hope for continued
Friendship and increased cooperation
between the American and Chinese
peoples.
"The study of the problems of the
Pacific, with especial reference to
China, was recently added to the
leagues program, and we are pledged
to promote that understanding for
which you appeal"
Reports on the Investigations being
carried on by the league, relating to
Jury service for women, the maternity
and infancy act and the electric pow
on rates and regulation as they affect
domestic consumers, were made at
the committee meeting.
The league is evincing great inter
est and concern In the referendum to
be conducted in October in Maine,
which proposes repeal Of the direct
primary law.
I'm the leagues continued effort to
increase participation in elections we
are impressed with the fact that re-
tention of the direct primary is alb
goiutely essential IL voters are to have
a voice in the nomination of candi-
dates" Miss Elizabeth J. Hauser of
Girard, Ohio, head of the leagues de.
partlAent Of efficiency in Government,
said.
"An efforts to do away with the
primary during the last year have
been decisively defeated, whether at
; tempted by referendum as in Ohio
last year or by action of State Legis-
latures"
1.-THE league will stoutly oppose the
proposed repeal Of the primary law
Ia Maine"
Mrs. Harris r. Baldwin of Wash
Sngton, d. c., chairman of the living
costs committee. has just returned
from the University of Georgia at
Athens, Ga, where she was the only
woman speaker at the Southern
Institute OF Politics. She gave two
talks, the first dealing with Electric
Power in Relation to the Public We'll
fare" and her second, on July s, re-
lQting to the Federal Trade and
IRA f77r Com SiouC
The ASK Me Another" vogue has
been applied by the National League
OF Women Voters to a stimulating
course of questions on international
affairs. ....
Seven sets of questions and
answers and instructions on how to
conduct a quiz" is the official de-
scription given by Miss Ruth Nor
gan of New York City. chairman of
the leagues department of interna-
tional cooperation to prevent war,
In sending the new material to the
members of her department in the
States.
Here are a few typical questions
that are expected to tantalize the
less Informed at porch parties and
league discussion groups this Sum-
mer:
How is the Boxer indemnity used
by the United States?
Can the President declare war
without the consent of Congress?
When and where was the last Pan
American conference held?
What is the open-door policy?
Who is the present chairman OF
the foreign relations committee of
the Senate?
How is Muscle Shoals Of impor-
lance to national defense?
What country controls most of the
worlds supply OF nitrate? Potash?
Rubber?
What is Memel?
'The League of Women Voters
wants to keep its members abreast
Of the times and believes this is a
good way to discuss current develop
ments In foreign affairs Miss
Morgan said.
GREAT enthusiasm was aroused at
the convention of the National
Woman's Party for the promotion Of
an immediate campaign for the pas
sage Of the equal rights amendment
to the Constitution of the United
States during the next session OF
Congress.
Mrs. Clarence M, Smith Of New
York will lead the feminists as the
new chairman of the National Coun.
Gil, having been elected at the Colo
RADIO Springs assembly to replace Mrs.
Donald r. Hooker, who has retired
after serving in that capacity during
the past Ave years. @,.
Mrs. Hooker is now chairman Of
the Maryland State branch as well as
editor of Equal Rights, the official
paper Of the organization.
other officers elected include Mrs.
o. II. p. Belmont, reelected presi-
dent; Miss Alice Paul, advisory chair
man; Miss Gail Laughiin, first vice
president: Mrs. Florence Bayard
.Hilles, second vice president; Miss
Anita Poilitzer. third vice president;
Margaret Lambie of the District Of