Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-16

virtue of the Offices they hold are
honorary chairmen of the committee
and closely cooperating with Mrs. Hell.
mick will be Mrs Charles A. Hawley
chairman of the ways and means COM
Rmittee of the District branch and g
member of the ball committee. ReSer-
vationS will be handled by Mrs. Rose
Gouverneur Hoes, a member of the
District branch and head of the social
bureau of the Willard Hotel.
Mrs. Busch. who has remained in
| Washington all Summer with her hand
on the helm of league activities, and
who has been the inspiration of the
members in the successful effort to de-
eide on clubhouse location, will leave
! Washington directly after the October
board meeting. for visit of few weeks
at her home in Miami, Fla, returning
again to this city for the November
session of the board.
She will be entertained extensively in
the Southern city, where she was for
several years the president of the Miami
branch, which, with great reluctance
surrendered her to the national league
as national president Mrs Busch is
also president of the Miami Women S
Club, which is one of the leading clubs
of the South, and which has a mag
An additional honor has just been
conferred on Mrs Busch by the Fedora
ton of Women'S Clubs in Florida in
her appointment as eleventh section
representative of the Florida Fedora
ton of Women's Clubs to the State
chairman department of international
relations
DR.. Mary Meek Atkeson, first vice
president of the national league. has
travelled across the country this Sum-
mer, and letter from Mrs. Francis H.
Redewill, president of the San Fran
cisco branch of the league, tells of DR..
Atkeson's visit to that organization
which she addressed on the subject of
the leagues manuscript bureau, of
which she is the head. Mrs. Redewill
also tells of the joint reception given in
San Francisco, September 5, by the
San Francisco and Berkeley branches,
in honor of Mrs. Grace Thompson Sc
ton. immediate past national president
of the league and now national chair
man of organization. Mrs. Seton has
stopped in California en- route east
from her visit to Honolulu in August
as delegate from the United States to
the women's pan-Pacif1c conference, in
that city. Two other California
branches the Santa Clara and the Sac
ramento, also will entertain for Mrs.
Seton during her stay in their State.
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OF especial interest to clubwomen
~ throughout the country is the an
nouncement that Mrs. Thomas G. VIM
ter, one of the past presidents of the
General Federation of Women'S Clubs,
has been appointed director of the
homemakers group in the woman's di-
vision of the Republican presidential
campaign, organized by Mrs. Alvin T.
Hert, vice chairman of the Republican
national committee.
Mrs. Winter, one of the most bril-
liant speakers in the ranks of club
women today and an able writer. plans
to conduct a campaign to bring Repub-
lican interests closer to the home
Following the receipt of statement
from Herbert Hoover that he Endorsed
the principal of equality for men and
women, although he wished to study
the equal rights amendment more
thoroughly before conceding that it was
the best means of obtaining the end"
the conference of national officers and
life members of the National Woman
Party cast its vote by large majority
to support the Republican candidate
for the presidency, this week in session
at headquarters on Capitol Hill.
In their resolution adopting this
policy, the feminists declared that "they
were going to support the Republican