Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-03


and the only effective weapon is
accurate knowledge of their work and
ability to cope with its problems
Among those entertaining at the
luncheon we're Mrs. Alvin Dodd, Mrs.
David Tucker Brown, Mrs. Samuel
Major. Mrs. o. M. Spencer, Mrs. John
F. Shafroth ST., and Mrs. John F.
Shafroth, jr; Mrs. Eugene Barrett, Miss
Eleanor Smith, Mrs. George M. Eckels,
who presided, and Mrs. Samuel Herrick,
Mrs. Frank S. Bright, Mrs. Annie E.
Voight, Mrs Claude Porter, Mrs.
Donald Mcdonald, Mrs. Charles Hamlin,
Miss Agnes Winn, Mrs. L. T. Hyatt of
Detroit and her mother, Mrs. Tucker;
Mr.. and Mrs. Wilbur w. Hubbard, Mrs.
T. w. Harrison, Miss Charl Williams.
Mrs. B. MeigS, Mrs. j. G. Tomlinson,
Mrs. J. Harry Covington, Mrs. Huston
Thompson, Miss A. w. Robertson, Miss
Caroline Reilly, Mrs. Charles Creson,
Mrs. Henry Rowland, Mrs. Wrisley
Brown and Mrs. Barr and others
worthy of note.
Members of the National Womans
Party. proponents of the equal rights
amendment, were accorded hearing
before the subcommittee of the Senate
judiciary committee Friday morning, at
which time an imposing delegation of
feministS presented their case, with
Miss Maude Younger presiding. Miss
Younger spoke for the measure herself
and introduced each of the other
speakers, including Mrs. Florence
Stillman Kelley of Ohio, Mrs Bernita
Shelton Matthews, chairman of the
lawyers council Of the Woman's Party;
Miss Emma Void, Miss Mary Murray,
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nurses council of the organization;
Mrs. Gustav Hyske Of Wisconsin, where
an equal rights law already exists; Mrs.
Dora Ogle of Maryland, Miss Con-
stance Carpenter of New York, Miss
Mary Murray, Miss Mary Moss We'll
borne and Mrs. Isaac Dixon of Mary-
land, who represented the farm women.
letter from Secretary of Laber
Davis led the opposition to the meas
ure, which included speakers from a
number OF women'S organizations as
well as several men speaking for in
duStrial organizations. William Green,
president of the American Federation
of Labor, filed an argument defending
protective legislation, as did the other
speakers, who included Mrs. Maud
Wood Park, former president of the
National League of Women Voters, who
presided; Miss Rose Schneiderman,
president of the National Woman's
Trade Union League; Miss Betty Hill
CERT, for the Y. w. c. A. and the East
Central Region of Industrial Girls
Clubs; Miss Dorothy Kenyon, lawyer;
Miss Gertrude Mentally, Prince Georges
County, Md, Secretary Woman's Union
of the Bureau of Engraving and Print
ing; B. L,oring Young of Boston, former
Speaker of the Massachusetts, House
of Representatives; Miss Margaret
Maule, Philadelphia, Girls Friendly
Society; Mrs. Clarence Fraim, Whining
ton, General Federation of Women'S
Clubs; Mrs. Florence Kelley, New York
City, National Consumers League, and
the following from washington, D. c.:
Miss Alice Edwards, American Home
Economics Association; Miss Selma
Borchardt, American Federation of
Teachers; Miss Agnes G. Regain, Ma
tional Council of Catholic Women; DR..
Louise Taylor Jones, Medical Women's
National Association; Mrs. Lester j.
Pollock, National Council of Jewish
Women; Miss Ethel M. Smith, National
Women's Trade Union League, and Mrs.
E. E. Danley, National Board of Y. w.
C. A.
Another group, headed by Mr.. Frank
Peckham. a Washington lawyer, rep
resenting the SentinelS of the Republic,
also filed reports in opposition. The
speakers included Mrs. Rufus Gibbs,
WomanS Constitutional League of
Maryland; Mr.. Thomas F. Cadwalader
of Baltimore, representing the Sentinels
of the Republic; Mrs. Charles Gulick of
Massachusetts,, secretary of the Massa-
chusetts Public Interest League, and
Miss Mary c. Kilbreth, president Of
the Woman's Patriotic Publishing Co.
This is the first hearing which has
been granted the measure by the Sem
ate committee in more than two years
and 1t is expected that 1t will be re-
ported out Of committee before the end
of the short session.
Mrs. Julius Young Talmadge, vice
president general Of the Daughters of
the American Revolution, is spending
a fortnight at the New Willard Hotel,
having come to Washington this past
Conference on National Defense.
Mrs. Talmadge, who is from Athens,
Ga, and is candidate for president
general of the D. A. r., has been paying
a series OF visits on her trip North.
While in New York she was the guest
of Mrs. William Mason Harris, D. A. r.
regent of the Manhattan Chapter, and
attended the reception held there for
the regents Of New York City, at which
she made an address on citizenship.
In New London, Conn.,, where she was
entertained by Mrs. Ernest Rogers. wife
of the Lieutenant Governor of Connec-
ticut, Mrs. Talmadge addressed the Of
f1cerS and chapter members of the D.
A. r. and the D. A. r. magazine.
Senator Harry B. Halves. Democrat,
of Missouri, and one of the younger
members of the United States Senate
in point of service, will be the guest
speaker in the February Voters Serv-
ice program to be broadcast from Sta
ton WRC, Washington, at 7 o'clock
eastern standard time). The program,
which is one of the weekly series being
sponsored by the National Broadcast
ing Co. and the National League of
Women Voters, will be carried by 81
stations on the broadcasting company's
system.
The subject Of Senator Hawes' talk
will be 1.-THE Duty of Congress to Con-
serve Wild Life" It is topic in which