Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-13
BY CoR1NNE FRAZIER.
r. MILDRED W. D1CKERsoN,

as the national president OF
the Association of American Women
Dentists for 1880. DR.. Dickerson's
election took place during the annual
meeting of the association held in con-
junction with the sessions of the Amer
lean Dental Association in the Capital
DR.. Dickerson, who in private life is
Mrs. Darlington McCallip, served three
years ago as secretary of the associa-
ton she now heads. She is held in
the highest regard, both professionally
and as q clubwoman. She is afhliated
with the Zonta Club, the American As
ISOLATION of University Women and tbs
League of Women Voters. She is a
!, graduate of the University of Michigan
and is q native Of Marion, Ohio.
At the annual banquet at the Carl
ton Hotel Monday, Mrs. Dickerson was
presented formally to the association,
together with the other newly elected
officers, who included DR.. Pauline Nc
Donald Heibert of Akron, Ohio. vice
president; DR.. Wilhelmina Yeretsky of
Grand Rapids, Mich, Secretary-treas-
urer and the seven regional councillors,
DR.. Leila Taylor of Boston, DR.. Anna
E. Jameson of Pittsburgh, DR.. Rosa
lind Moore Balm Of Washington, DR.. S.
F.. Wagner-E aston of San Francisco,
Or. Mabel Younger of Cleveland, DR..
Josephine Wander Wolfe of Chicago and
Miss Juanita Wade of Dallas, Tex.
Dr. Haidee Weeks, retiring president,
made the presentations.
\
A MONG the special features on the
IA program of the national conven-
ton Of the National Womans Party,
to be held in Washington, December
6, z and 8, will be a memorial meeting
IN honor of Mrs. Pankhurst, the British
militant suffrage leader, and the dedi-
cation of the new headquarters OF the
Woman's Party in Washington. pur-
chased recently by the organization to
take the place OF the present headquar :.
on Capitol Hill, which has been taken
over by the Government as the site
for the proposed Supreme Court Build
ing.
The new headquarters will be called
the Alva Belmont House in honor of
Mrs. o. H. P. Belmont, president of the
National Womaa's Party Mrs. Bel
mont, who is now in France, is expected
10 attend the convention.
Discussing the memorial meeting for
Miss Pankhurst, Miss Mabel Vernon,
executive secretary of the Woman's
Party, said: This Is the first national
gathering the Woman's Party has held
since Mrs. Pankhurst's death, and, we
desire at this time to honor a woman
whose courageous leadership In the
British fight for votes for women. in
spired the American women to agrees
sive work which led to their entran-
chisement. We feel that the women
Of this country owe much to Mrs. Pank-
hurst, and we desire at our convention
to pay tribute to her memory"
Plans for national and international
work for equal rights will be discussed
in the business sessions of the conven-
ton, the principal national undertaking
to be discussed being the equal rights
amendment providing that men and
women shall have equal rights in the
United States and every place subject
to its Jurisdiction. This amendment is
sponsored in the present Congress by
Senator Gerald P. Nye of North Dakota.
In connection with international ac-
tivities the December meeting will de-
eide on a covenant regarding the
nationality of women to be presented
by the feminists to the conference on
codification of international law meet
ing at The Hague next Spring. Plans
will be made, also, for pushing the
equal rights treaty, introduced last year
at the Pan-American Conference IN
Havana.
The convention will be attended by
officers and delegates of the branches
OF the Woman's Party, which Is organ
ICED in practically every State. Mem
bers of the National Council in. charge
Of the national convention are: Mrs.
Jane Norman Smith, New York City,
chairman; Gail Laughlin, Portland,
Me; Florence Bayard HilleS, Whining
ton, Del; Anita Pollitzer, Charleston,
s. c.; Mrs. Richard Wainwright, Mrs.
Anne Archbold, Mrs. Harvey Wiley, Miss
Laura Berrien, Mrs. Florence Boeckel,
Washington, D. c.; Mrs. John Winters
Brannon. Inez Haynes Irwin, Mrs. Eliza
beth Selden Rogers, Doris Stevens, Mrs.
Stephen PeI, Mrs. Ruth Lift, New
York City; Mrs. Isaac Dixon, Mrs.
Edith Houghton Hooker, Mrs. Dora
Ogle, Baltimore, Md; Mrs. Bertha w.
Fowler, Colorado Springs, Colo; IONA
Gale, Portage, Wis; Mrs. William Kent,
Miss Maud Younger, San Francisco;
Mrs. Burnita Shelton Matthews, Mis-
sissippi; Mabel Vernon, Wilmington,
Del; Margaret Whittemore, Santa Bar
bara; Mrs. Valentine Winters, Dayton,
Ohio; Miss Emma Void. Portland,
Greg.
MISS MABLE VERNON, opening the
AVA National woman's Partys weekly
broadcaSting program TO go on the air
each Wednesday, from S to 5:15, over
q coast-to-coast network of the Ma
tional Broadcasting Co. spoke last
WEu1lCS0dy Oh 4AAC f1l1tAaudbEO A1d nS
of This Country Relating to Women"
This week the speaker will be Senator
Nye of North Dakota, who will talk on
1.-THE Equal Rights Amendment"
Speakers of prominence In public life
and the club world will appear on the
program throughout the Fall and Win
ter.
MINE Southern States and the Dis
trict of Columbia will be repre-
scented at a conference Of the third
region Of the National League of Wom-
en- Voters in Birmingham. Ala, Oc-
tober $3.50. The preliminary pro-
, grams sent out by Mrs. r. l.. thurman
. of Atlanta, Ga. the regional director,
indicate a working conference on ways
of promoting the league program and
on organizing for carrying out the
program.
Delegates themselves will demonstrate
IS how to conduct study group and
q round table discussion, and will put
on a membership skit. Members of
the college leagues in Alabama are to
give a pageant concentrating the
birthday OF DR.. Anna Howard Shaw at
one of the 1uncheons.
One evening meeting, with the In
dustrial South" as its theme, is the
only one to be open to the public. Three
speakers will discuss the subject from the
angles of women in industry, the welfare
Of children and living costs and the
fi4rae IF the in1Yl0rtanf fiVi-