Evening star., 1928-12-16
BY LEILA MECHLIN.

%WO meetings of importance to
clubwomen will be held in
washington in January. The
annual Midwinter meeting OF
the board of directors of the
General Federation Of Women's Clubs
will be held at headquarters The week
OF January Z, with MRS. John w. Sip
pel. president, in the chair. The fol-
lowing week Washington will play host
ess to the delegates to the Fourth Ma
tional Conference on the Cause and
Cure of War, who will convene here
January Is to Is. Many OF the feder-
alton board members are expected to
remain over for this meeting, which Is
of special interest to the clubwomen
of this organization as it Is the larg-
est Of the several organizations Spon-
Eoring the conference.
Forty-one State conferences will be
held prior to the Washington conclave
to urge ratification of the Kellogg
peace pact by the United States Senate.
These are being held under the aus
pices of the national committee.
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait will pre-
side over the conference sessions. EX-
planning the campaign being sponsored
by her group Mrs. Gait said recently:
"Our campaign has no connection
with the presidential election, candi-
dates or platforms. A great movement
has been sweeping over the world de-
manding peaceful methods as substi-
tutes for war in the solution of dis
pllteS between nations. That yearning
of the human race for peace lZls found
its expression in the Briand-Kelo3g
treaty, now sometimes being referred
to as the Paris pact. In organizing
public sentiment In communities
throughout the United States for the
pact, we have adopted the slogan,
national defense"
Every State in the Union and the
District of Columbia will be represented
at the board meeting of the General
Federation, opening the second week in
January. The board consists of the
officers, State directors, trustees and
department chairman. State presi-
dents and division chairmen attend the
board meetings as conference members.
It is expected that the meeting will
bring to the Capital City between IS
and 100 of the leading clubwomen of
the country.
The early days of the week will be
given over to meetings of the executive
committee There will also be special
conferences of directors, State presi-
dents and department chairmen, and
the later days will be devoted to meet
ings of the full board. at which time.
many important and interesting subjects
germane to federation work will be
thoroughly discussed.
The outstanding social event connect
ed with the board meeting will be the
reception, which will be held in the
evening early in the week 1t is on
this occasion that the leaders in the
life and thought Of the club movement
of the country receive the members of
Congress and their wives and other
leading representatives of the official
and social life of Washington. Invi-
tations to this function are extended
not only in the name of the fedora
ton. but in the case of Senators and
representatives the cards of the club
women from their States are inclosed,
thus giving the affair a real personal
element. These receptions are account
ed among the brilliant and notable
events of the Washington social season
MRS. JOHN w. SIPPEL, president
4sA of the General Federation of Wom-
ems Clubs, is fulfilling December
speaking engagements in Illinois and in
nearby Maryland and Virginia. On
Wednesday of this week she W. make
her last address of the year, speaking
before the Woman's Club of Chevy
Chase, Md. This past week she .ad-
dressed the Woman's Club of Roanoke,
Va, and the Danville Woman's Club,
Danville, Va. During the FIRST week
in December she spoke to the National
Council of Women in Chicago and be-
fore the Kensington Woman's Club of
West Kensington, Md.
On the occasion of the opening of the
Federal Industrial Institution for Wom
en- at Anderson, w. Va, Mrs. Sippel
made a notable address, reviewing the
long struggle to obtain a Federal prison
for women which was initiated by
clubwoman and which was final crown
ed with success largely through the
untiring effort of women'S organiza-
tions.
"The first proposal came from one,
of the organizers of the District Of CO.
lumbia Federation. Mrs j. Ellen Foster,
in l908," said Mrs. Sippel Mrs. Foster,
aS inspector of Federal woman prisoners
in the Department of Justice, reported
to the women of the Nation the intol-
cradle conditions under which women
convicted of violating the Federal laws
W6IE lHdllbdUlCU. oIlc ILlC
women's organizations of the Nation to
secure proper institutions where these
women might be trained and helped to
overcome the defects which had led
them to commit crime. Mrs. Foster
died the year she made this appeal to
the women of America.
"The years went on, women were
granted the vote; a woman, Mrs. Walker
W1llebrandt, was called to the Office Of
Assistant Attorney General, and found
that the Federal prisons were in her
department. She also found that still
there was not institution for woman
prisoners, and that their number was
steadily increasing.
Mrs. Willebrandt appealed to, the
General Federation and the Women's
Christian Temperance Union for help.
Both organizations responded. The Cen