Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-31
BY CORINNE FRAZIER.


AZ ANY women prominent II
~ n club work in America as wei
M s as abroad son will attend of thu thu
World Federation of Educa
ton Associations, to be held in To
ronto. Canada, August to IL.
Five members Of the Women's Joint
Congressional Committee will be
among the delegate body, numbering
5000. Miss Charl o. Williams OF
WASHINGTON, d. c., representing the
National Education Association, is
one of the five legislative representa-
tives of prominence to attend. The
others include Mrs. Florence f. Wat
kins. executive secretary of the Ma
tional Congress OF Parents and Teach
ers: Miss Selma Borchardt of the
American Federation of Teachers,
Mrs. Raymond Morgan of the Ameri'
can Association of University Women
(an of these from Washington and
Miss Lucy P. Garner of New York,
representing the Young Women's
Christian Association.
To a Washington woman has been
accorded the distinction Of being ap-
pointed as chairman of one of the rs
departments into which the fedora
ton is divided.
Miss Borchardt, one Of the five leg
islative representatives named, will be
in charge of the department or sec
ton of social adjustment, which deals
with the relation of the school to the
community. Her program will in
clude a large number Of woman speak
ers, representing various countries. In
Guiding China. Scotland, America, In
ola and Canada.
One of the most important features
of the conference viii be the discus
sion of the HERNIA n-Jordan plan of
education. which will include reports
from committees on education and
peace; teaching OF history: special ar
rangements for training youth in
world amity; military training and
military preparedness and the STUDY
of methods and instruments used to
settle international disputes without
resorting to war.
Prominent women will serve on
these committees, including Mrs. Car.
RE Chapman Gait, Miss Esther Lape
of the American Peace Foundation.
Mrs. A H. Reeve, president of the
National Congress Of Parents and
Teachers: Judge Florence Allen OF Co.
lumbus, Ohio; Mrs. Mary G. Bradford.
State superintendent of schools in
Colorado; Madame Dreyfus-Borney OF
Paris, representing the International
Council of Women. and Miss Bessie
l.. Pierce of the State University OF
Iowa, one Of the outstanding histo-
rians of the country.
The work of each Of the Herman
Jordan committees has an interna-
tional slant, stressing the value Of
various branches of education as a
means of furthering world peace.
The special mission of the commit.
tee on education for peace is to har.
monte or unity the efforts Of man.
kind to the ultimate good of all. The
committee on the teaching Of history
will report the results of a careful
study Of histories and text books the
world over, and an analysis of their
virtues and their faults from the
standpoint Of international amity.
Considerable interest is expected to
center around the deliberations Of this
committee, as there has been much
agitation recently on the subject of
biased histories and the unnecessary
enmity aroused between nations in
the past by prejudiced accounts of i'm
portant historic events.
The value Of international athletic
sports. international civics, school cor.
rsspondence and oratorical essay con-