Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-30
BY CORINNE FRAZIER.

mittee, in the work of the woman's di
vision of the organization. which il
busily campaigning for the voman'
vote for the forthcoming presidential
election
Miss Mary Stewart, founder of tn:
National Business and ProfesSlona
Women's Clubs, is organizing the bust
ness and professional women through
out the country, assisted by group OF
advisers and assistants in the States
Miss Stewart has selected an advisory
council to give her advice as to the
general trend of the situation and is
now appointing woman chairman In
every State to handle the work III theil
region.
Mrs. Charles AlgeT. member of the
General Federation of Women'S Clubs
the Womans City Club and the League
of Republican Women, is the chairman
for the District Miss Stewart appoint
ed her upon the recommendation OF
Mrs Virginia White Speel, national
comniitteewoman for the District and
herself a prominent clubwoman.
Mrs. Matthews Aids.
Assisting Mrs. Alger in her work are
Mrs. Bernita Shelton Matthews of the
National Woman's Party, Mrs. Richard
Porter Davidson, granddaughter OF
Mark Hanna: Miss Janet Fish and Mrs
Caroline Stephen.
Mrs. Thomas S. Winter. a former
president of the General. Federation of
Women'S Clubs, Is assisting Mrs. Hert
by organizing the home makers as Hoo
Ver-Curtis advocates.
Mrs. Raymond Robins, head of the
National Trade Women's Union, is lin
ing I'D the votes of the Industrial wom-
en-, while Mrs. Herbert O. Teller of the
Minnesota Farm Bureau is campaign
ing among the rural women.
At headquarters, in the Barr Building,
q group of hoSteSses greets all visitors,
answers their questions and arranges for
appointments with Mrs. Hert and other
officials of the committee. Mrs Sidney
Cloman of Washington, member OF
the League of Republican Women and
of the WomenS National Republican
Club of New York, is chairman of host
esses. She is assisted by Mrs. Harry
New. Mrs. James j. Davis, Mrs. William
p. MacCracken, Mrs John H. Bartlett,
Mrs. James Carroll Frazer. Miss Aida
Henriques, Mrs. Ord Parker, Miss Alice
Davis, daughter of the Secretary of
War, and Mrs. Simeon P Lewis
Organizes Unit.
Mrs Virginia White Speel of the
District and General Federation of
Women's Clubs, head of the woman's
division of the Hoover-Curtis Club of
the Republican State committee and
the Republican national committee
woman of the District, has organized a
young woman's unit of the Hoover
Curtis Club, with an age limit of 16
to IS.
Miss Florence Keys has been elected
president of the junior unit. The other
officers include: Miss Betty Ridsdale,
first vice president; Miss Marjorie Mon
dell, second vice president: Miss Do
rothea Lane. treasurer; Miss Eunice Lee
Evans, corresponding secretary, and
Miss Louise Albers, recording secretary
The clubs first official act will be to
serve as usfers at a Republican COM
n1ittee card party on october 9. They
are giving a vaudeville entertainment
themselves on october 80. the proceeds
of which will go to the District of Co.
1unbia campaign fund
Mrs. Bonnie Busch, president of the
National League of American Pen
Women. is expecting to leave immedi-
ately for Florida, where she will do
work for the Hoover campaign among
the Florida women.
The National Woman's Party gave out
today list of prominent women who
will speak for. Hoover and Curtis on
the issue of equal rights in the cleo
ton campaign On the list are Mrs.
Harvey Wiley, wife of the food expert,
and Mrs. Richard Wainwright of Wash
ington, D. C: Mrs. Clarence M. Smith,
Mrs. Stephen H. P. Pell and Mrs. Fran
ces Roberts of New York City, Miss
Gail Laughlin of Portland, Me-. men,
Der of the Maine Legislature: Mrs
Burnita Shelton Matthews of Missis-
sippi, Miss Mabel Vernon of Whining
ton, Del; Miss Anita PollitZer of
Charleston, S. c., and Mrs. Mary MUIR
ray of Brooklyn. All of the women
are experienced campaigners. who took
an active part in winning suffrage for
women in this country.
According to Miss Maud Younger,
who is in charge of the election activi-
ties of the Woman's Party, number of
these speakers will be concentrated
within the next few weeks in several
Eastern States that have been selected
as pivotal
Mrs. Wiley, Miss Younger and Mrs.
Wainwright will address meeting of
the District Branch of the Woman'S
Party this afternoon at o'clock at ma
tional headquarters on Capitol Hill.
They will discuss the part the Woman
Party will take to advance equal rights
in the coming election.
1t has been announced that the
feniniSts will enter the presidential
campaign on a national scale with equal
rights as the issue, in support of Hoover
and Curtis; Several pivotal States will
be selected in which the national Or
ganization will concentrate its activi-
ties. This plan will be discussed in de-
tail at the meeting this afternoon.
Mrs. Rena Maverick Green of San
Antonio, chairman of the Texas Branch
Of the National Woman'S Party, is Wis
iting Woman's Party headquarters on
Capitol Hill. Mrs. Green is here to dis
cuss with the national officers of the
organization the campaign activities of
the Woman's Party. Her daughter
turning to Antioch College for the Fall
session.
National and international problems
will be discussed at the eighth annual
convention of the National Council of
Catholic Women, to be held in Cleve-
land, Ohio, october clio, according to
the program made public at the ma
tional headquarters of the council here
TODAY. The meeting is expected to be
the largest ever held by the organiza-
ton and will draw delegates from every
State in the Union.
After a day of conferences among
heads of diocesan councils, on October
8. the convention will open with pointifl-
cal high mass in the cathedral, with
Bishop Joseph Schrembs as celebrant
The sermon, which will give the keynote
of the convention, will be preached by
Most Rev. John T. McNicholas, Arch
bishop of Cincinnati
For the first time a special contribu-
ton to the program is to be made by
the groups of foreign-born Catholic
women of the country, who will present
q pageant of nations on Sunday eve
ming october Z, in the Cleveland public
auditorium, after which the delegates
will receive a formal welcome from