Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-09
WOMEN TO DISCUSS
NATIONAL DEFENSE.
Patriotic Conference Repre-
senting 28 Bodies Meets To-
night at Memorial Hall.


on National Defense. composed of $50
representatives of 2S organizations,
will convene tonight at $40 o'clock
at Memorial Continental Hall.
Addresses by Nicholas LOngWorth,
Speaker of the House of Representa-
tiyes; Representatives Mary L. Norton
of New Jersey and Edith Nourse
Rogers Of Massachusetts and Brig.
Gen. John Ross Delafeld OF New
York will feature the mass meeting,
which will be followed by sessions
tomorrow and Friday morning and
afternoon. The delegates will meet
tomorrow morning at $50 o'clock.
A tea in honor of Mrs. Adalin w
Macauley, national president, Amer
lean Legion Auxiliary, to which the
presidents of the patriotic organiZa
tons sending delegates have been in
vited, will be given this afternoon
from to o'clock at the Willard
Hotel, the conference headquarters,
by the District of Columbia Depart
ment of the Auxiliary. at which Mrs.
T. V. Walker, department president,
will preside.
Mr.. LOngwOrth's Subject.
Our National Defense" will be
the subject of the address by Mr.
Longworth, while Mrs. Norton will
speak on National Defense From
a Woman's Viewpoint" Mrs. Rogers,
The Aftermath of Unpreparedness.
and Gen. Delatield. Our DWindling
Opportunity for National Defense"
Mrs. Alfred J. Brosseau, president
general, Daughters of the American
Revolution, will preside at the meet
ing tonight and make a brief address.
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tomorrow night at SIS o'clock at the
National Museum auditorium by the
District department of the American
War Mothers. The program will in
clude a flag drill and re-enactment of
the signing of the Declaration of In
dependence by pupils of the Park
View School, music by the Army
Band and the delivery by Miss
Myrtle Posey of the Grafton on the
Constitution which she gave last year
as the District of Columbia repre-
sentative in the National Oratorical
Contest, sponsored here by The Eve
ming Star.
The meeting will be addressed by
Mrs. H. H. McCluer, national presi-
dent, American War Mothers, and
William Tyler Page, clerk of the
House of Representatives The pro-
gram was arranged by Mrs. f. c.
Wagner, president, District depart
ment, American War Mothers, and
Mrs. Margaret G. O'Neill.
Organizations Represented.
The following patriotic organizations
are represented at the conference:
American Legion Auxiliary, Ameri-
can War Mothers, American Women's
Legion, National Society Daughters
of the American Revolution, Daugh-
tiers of Union Veterans of the Civil
War, National Patriotic Council,
Auxiliary to Sons of Union Veterans
of the Civil War. Women's Relief
Corps, G. A. r.; Ladies of the Grand
Army of the Republic, National Auxil-
larry, United Spanish War Veterans;
National Society of Colonial Daughters
OF America Woman's Naval Service
League, National Society Patriotic
Women of America, National Society
Danes of the Loyal Legion. National
Society, Daughters of Founders and
Patriots of America, National Society.
United States Daughters Of 1912,
Daughters of the Cincinnati, Society
OF Daughters of Colonial Wars, Co
lonial Daughters of the Seventeeth
Century, Ladies' Auxiliary of Veterans
Of Foreign Wars, Auxiliary of Dis
abled American Veterans. National
League Of American Pen Women. Or
der of First Families of Virginia.
daughters of American Colonists,
Order of the Gold Star, Women's Over
seas Service League, National Society
Patriotic Builders, American Woman's
Press Association, Illinois Daughters
OF the American Revolution, South
Carolina Daughters of the American
Revolution, Florida Daughters of the
American Revolution, Iowa Daughters
of the American Revolution, District
of Columbia Daughters of the Ameri.
can Revolution, North Carolina Daugh-
tiers of the American Revolution. West
Virginia Daughters of the American
revolution, Maryland Daughters Of
the American Revolution and Women
or the Army and Navy Legion of