Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-27


Association of University Women
which will be held at the Mayfiowei
1otel March 81 through April 2,
Between 500 ana 1000 delegates viii
attend the convention to discuss the
manner in which women have &C
cepted the new opportunities and re
sponsibilities which have come to
: them in the fields of education and
business, in national and internationa
affairs.
One of the interesting features OF
the meeting viii be the reports from
the committee charged with making
q survey of the extent to which uni
yerSity women are entering business
fields. This report will be given at
the session of the committee on the
economic and legal status of women
of which Mrs. Chase Going Woodhoust
of this city is chairman.
Mrs. Harvey w. Wiley, nationally
known clubwoman, is in charge of the
. committee arranging for the program
dinner of the committee on educa
! tion, at which will be discussed modern
! trends of education. nr Marion
Z Parks, president of Bryn Mawr Col
lege, will preside. DR.. Esther l.. Rich
ardson, psychiatrist at Johns Hopkins
and Dean Frances Fenton Bernard of
Smith College will be the principal
. speakers.
Mrs. Wiley's committee includes
Miss Sybil Baker, director of Com
. munity Center Department of the Dis
! trict; Miss Jane Bartlett, Miss Fay
Bentley of the Federal Children's Blu
] reau; Miss Gertrude Bowling, direc-
7 tor Instructive Visiting Nurses Asso-
citation of Washington; Miss May T.
Bigelow, a practicing lawyer of the
District; Mrs. Harold Allen of Swarth-
n y.E IgrnNu
nard College.
Mrs. Calvin Coolidge. always inter
ested in the work Of university wom'
, en-, has offered to supply flowers for
the dinner In addition to floral deco
Eations there will be a unique center
piece at the head table, designed by
William Partridge, architect in the
Navy Department. The Mall, with
: the Lincoln Memorial at one end. Ag.
ricultural Department buildings to the
left and the Capitol at the other end,
will be miniatured in bread, lady
fingers, crackers and other foodstuffs.
Miss Eleanore Boswell, executive
secretary of the A. A. u. W., is di-
) recting the arrangement of the pro-
! gram for the national convention, as
. sisted by Mrs. John Jay O'Connor,
. president of the Washington branch,
. who is in charge of local arrange
{ ments.
The tentative program announced
by Miss Boswell includes preliminary
board meetings on March 80, and in
addition to the half dozen general ses-
sions, various conference meetings,
. 1uncheons. teas, receptions and din
ners.
The international dinner. to be at
tended by the Ambassador of Great
Britain and Lady Isabella Howard.
the Ambassador of Italy and Nobil
Donna Antoinette de MARITIME and
other diplomatic representatives. as
well as a notable group of American
educators, will be the feature event
on the program for Friday, April i.
Among the out-of-town guests ex-
pected to attend this affair are: Presi-
dent Ellen Fitz Pendleton of Welles-
lev. President Ida L. Comstock OF
Radcliffe, Dean Virginia G. Glider
. sleeve of Barnard. President Marion
e. Park of Bryn Mawr, Mile. Margue-
rite Mespoulet former vice president
of the international Fellowship Of
University Women. President Mary
T.. Woolley of Holyoke. Dean Florence
burlington of Holyoke, Dean Frances
Fenton Bernard of Smith, Mrs. Maud
Wood Park, Dean Georgia l.. White,
Carlton College; President Cora Helen
Coolidge of the Pennsylvania College
IOF w UItSHs LEAN AO2hs @~%te>'NNH
Stanford University; DIR. Agnes Low
Rogers of Bryn Mawr. Mrs. A Ross
Hill of Kansas City. Mrs. Edgerton
Parsons of New York, President
Meta Glass of Sweet Briar and Dean
Emily H. Dutton of Sweet Briar.
y y
ITO Miss Annabel Matthews, expert
II on income tax laws in the Bureau
nd rnQr1hnF OF
the General Federation of Women,s
Clubs, has come the honor of being
the first woman selected to represent
the United States on an international
committee of economic and legal I'M
portance Women from America
have been sent by Uncle Sam to Gene
va TO serve on committees co-operat'
ing with the humanitarian section OF
the League of Nations, but Miss
Matthews recent appointment, as an
Official representative to the interna-
tional conference on double taxation
in London. marks a new era in WON
ans progress as participants in ma.
tional and international affairs.
The committee, which meets in
April, win make a study of all tax
laws of the nations of the world hay
Ing income tax assessments, In an
effort TO avoid double taxation.
A. report of the findings of the
committee will be made later
/. in Geneva at the conference OF the
economic section of the League of
Nations. The London conference is
an outgro1-th of the work of this de
partment of the league.
The naming of Miss Matthews on
the official delegation from America,
together with DIR. Thomas Adams,
economist. of Harvard University. and
Michel b. Carroll who will rep
resent Secretary of Commerce Iiooy-
err, is a recognition of her valuable
work in the interpretive section of the
Internal Revenue Bureau, where her
legal opinion has come to Be greatly
respected during the past eight years
of her connection here
Miss Matthews is one of the national
trustees of the Phi Delta Delta legal
fraternity, Of which Mrs. Mabel Walk
err Wnlebrandt, Assistant Attorney
General. is the honorary president.
She also is member Of the bar of the
Supreme Court Of the United States
and OF the Women's District Bar Assoc
citation.
Is * X IL
MISS HINDA BURKE. daughter OF
AVA Margaret Sullivan Burke. found
er OF the League Of American Pen
Women. win be among the pen Womer
most Interested in the Pearl Jubilee u
be held here in April, celebrating the
thirtieth anniversary If the league
Miss Burke. who WAS a child at the
time the league was formed by her
mother. the first woman correspondent
20 be admitted TO the press gallery al
the Capitol. together with Mrs. Anna
S. Hamilton and Mrs. Marion Long