Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-12
CLUBWOMEN OF THE NATION
Femins Comforting Peace sueInternationa Alliance
to Open Headquarters at Geneva-Citizens Interest
in Voting Grows-Othcr Notes.

! August IA AT E 80. on The books OF Mrs
E. n. f. N. Southworth. late Washing
ton novelist whose home has been pur-
chased by the league to be used as a
memorial hall to American women Of
genius as we'll AS the future headuuar-
tors of the Pen Women
Members of the national executive
board of the league who are now in
Washington have been invited to come
to the broadcaSting studio in the
National Press Club Building for the
program.
Members Of the Women's National
Press Club will meet informally for
luncheon at the A. A. u. w head
quarters. on I street, Tuesday after
noon at o'clock, according to Mrs,
Sallic V. N. Pickett president of the
group
Program luncheons will not be re-
sumcd until September.
Mrs Clarence NJ. Smith of New York.
chairman Of the National Womans
Party arrived in Washington yester-
day on her return from the Univer-
sity Of Virginia, where she spoke at
the Institute of Public Affairs which
is now in session.
While in Washington Mrs Smith
will confer with officials of the Wom-
ans Party at its headquarters on
Capitol Hill concerning the present
political situation.
Gail Laughlin. member of the Legis-
lature of Maine and leading Re
publican in that State. is spending a
few DAYS at the National Woman S
Party headquarters in Washington on
her return from Charlottesville where
she spoke at the Institute of Public
Affairs Of the University of Virginia,
Miss Laughliu is we'll known through
out the United States for her extensive
activities in the suffrage campaign,
After the suffrage was won she worked
for the complete legal equality of
women and has succeeded in equalizing
many laws in the State Of Maine that
Disseminated against women.
Miss Doris Stevens chairman Of the
Inter- American Commission of Women,
received a letter Of congratulation on
her appointment this week from Dona
Emma Lopez Sena. president Of the
Club Feminine de Cuba, one Of the
foremost women's organizations In
Latin America.
bona Lopez Ge1a message eNpIESotC
the delight OF the Cuban women in
the honor accorded Miss Stevens. 1t
read
My heartiest congratulations on
your designation TO the Inter American
Commission ! think that the ones to
be congratulated are we, the women Of
Latin America"
Miss Stevens appointment as chair
man Of the Inter- American Commits
sion OF Women was largely due TO the
campaign which she headed IN Havana
early this year MS chairman of the COM
nittee on international action of the
National Woman's Party, which sought
a treaty from the Sixth Pan-American
Conference granting equal rights to the
women of the Americas,
The Club Feminine de Cuba has
large and distinguished membership
and a beautiful clubhouse on the Ave-
nue. Malecon. called "the diamond
necklace Of the Antilles" because of the
exotic beauty Of it's edifices, looking
across broad. shining street to the
sparkling tropical sea The Club
Feminine, together with the other FEM
mist organizations Of Cuba. heartily CO.
operated with Miss Stevens In the
memorable Havana campaign