Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-21
BY CoRINNE FRAZIER.

~ ingtOn Hotel 1or LneH aIliua'
four = day executive session
have an interesting program Tor as
cussion, outstanding among the topics
to be- considered being the future OF po-
litical parties and the place OF women
in practical politics, a forecast OF tne
part to be played by the League OF
women Voters in prediction activities,
the voting habits of the electorate and
measures which the league will support
in the Seventy-first Congress. =.
The full sessions of the council VIII
open Tuesday morning. Tomorrow
morning delegates, limited to about 100,
are expected to arrive and register on
the roof garden of the Hotel Washing
ton. An all-day session Of the board OF
directors will be held tomorrow at
league headquarters, on Seventeenth
street, and the first mass event OF the
council program will be an informal re-
ception tomorrow evening, to be given In
honor of the delegates at the home OF
Miss Belle Sherwin, president OF the
league. Following the reception the
delegates will visit league headquarters.
Oficers of the District of Columbia
League, of which Mrs. Henry Grattan
DOYLE Is president, will assist at an in
formal tea for council members Thurs
day afternoon at the Hotel Washington.
Another social event will be buffet
supper at the Congressional Country
Club Thursday night.
1.-THE Future of the Political Parties"
will be the theme Of a dinner program
Thursday night, with qualified speakers
representing several schools of political
thought contributing to the discussion.
The speaker will be Prof. j. G.. de
Roulhac Hamilton of the University OF
North Carolina, an interpreter Of South
ern Democratic principles; Julian 8
Mason, editor-in -chief of the New York
Evening Post, who will present the Re-
publican point Of view; Donald r. Rich.
berg Of Chicago. since 1923 general
counsel for the National Conference on
Valuation Of Railroads and an indie
pendent in politics; Langdon w. Post OF
New York City, a member OF the New
York State Assembly, who espouses the
Democratic cause, and Raymond Rob-
bins of New York and Chicago, who has
been active In the Republican party fol-
many years, particularly in the Pro-
gressive wing of the party.
Study groups, round tables, interviews
with candidates and forum Will DC
employed to feature the leagues major
legislative measures in the Seventy
first Congress and the leading topics
scheduled for study this year. A round
table discussion on the pan-American
arbitration treaty. now pending in the
Seventy-flrst Congress, will be led BY
Miss Ruth Morgan Of New York City
the leagues chairman Of international
cooperation. The participants will In
clude Harold w. DoddS, editor OF the
National Municipal Review; George
Barr Baker, who has made special
study of South American relations ano
accompanied President Hoover on hi
poSt-election trip to South America
Foreign Policy Association; Drew Pear
son, foreign editor, United States Daily
and Miss Beatrice Pitney, assistant d.
rector Of the leagues department o.
international cooperation.
Arguments for Federal program fol
maternity and infancy welfare Will b'
heard in study group led by MRS
LaRue Brown Of Boston, for the con-
Stitutional amendment to end LAME
duck" sessions of the Congress in al
interview" with a congressional can
didate. A forum on 1.-THE Regulation
of Public Utilities" will be conducted
by Mrs. Harris r. Baldwin OF Washing.
ton and will have Prof. Martin q
Glaeser of the University Of Wisconsin
as the leading speaker.
Woman's political activities and hel
observations Of the last campaign a.
they bear upon the future will be the
feature topic at a dinner Tuesday night
when league members who participated
in the 1928 campaign will speak. They
will include Mrs. F. Louis Slade OF New
York City and Mrs. James w. Nor
risson of Chicago, who had Responsible
posts in the Republican campaign; Mrs
Caspar Whitney of New York City ant
Mrs. LaRue Brown Of Boston, leading
workers in the Democratic campaign
All are past officers of the Nationa
League. Mrs. Slade and Mrs. Whitney
were chairmen of the 1928 dndependen
women's vote committee in their re-
spective parties.
The voting habits Of citizens will b
discussed. A talk on 1.-THE Problem O
Democratic Control by DR.. Rober
Leigh, president Of Bennington College
which is now being established in Yer
mont, will be followed by consideration
of election laws that help or hindel
voting and educational methods to pro
mote interest In Government and ia
cilitate voting. Miss Marguerite M
Wells Of Minneapolis, a national boart
member, will be the leader Of discus
sion.
A T round table conference on ma
& tionality as it relates to women
held at the Pan-American Union las
week, the Inter American Commission
of Women presented to group Of Pan.
American Union officials, internationa
jurors and experts on international law
tentative draft of their views on thu
subject, which they will present for &C.
ton at The Hague conference In 1880
While their proposals with regard to tlls
nationality of married women and tina
of children born Of international mar.
riages (the principal points discussed
were met with divergence OF opinion
as to the details Of changes which
should be made in existing laws, gen
eral appreciation Of their proposed
changes was expressed.
Or. Ellen Gleditsch. president of tn,
International Association of Universit.
Women and professor Of chemistry
University of Oslo, Norway, who pre-
sented the attitude of European womel
| with regard to nationality laws, report
ed that while the women she was repre-
senting unoff1cially had always accepte'
the ruling that woman takes her nus
bands nationality regardless of her owl
and that their children should accep
his also, there Is distinct leaning i
some circles today toward the principl
of jus soil Fright Of SOLD, which is tn
law In this country, giving child tn
nationality of the country in which n
Is born regardless of ancestral blood.
| After hearing the proposals of tn
Inter-American Commission DR.. Gle
ditsch expressed herself as favorabl
impressed by thsm, and indicated tina
she would make point Of presentin
them to the European women for thei
consideration upon her return, urgin
their support of the commissions rec
ommendation to the Hague conference
4 DR.. James Brown Scott, president {
the Institut du Droit International an
president Of the American Institute 4
international Law, who led the dis
cussion, brought out the point that til
modern changes In all information;