Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-16
BY CoRINNE FRAZIER.

I'm addition to the comprehensive
program already announced by the
American Home Economics Asso-
i citation for it's twenty-second an
nual meeting in Boston, July to 5,
there will be two intensely interesting
speakers, one of whom, Charming E.
Sweitzer, will head the program at the
only open mass meeting to be held by
the converting delegates, with the ex-
ception of the joint session with the
conference of supervisors and teachers
of home economics, in which they will
participate on Monday evening, July /.
James Ford of Harvard University is the
other speaker whose recent acceptance
of an invitation to appear on the A. E.
A. program will add interest to the
gathering. DR.. Ford will speak Tuesday
afternoon on Housing in Relation to
Family Life"
Mr.. Sweitzer. who is managing direc-
tor of the National Retail Dry Goods
Association, will speak before the open
meeting Tuesday evening, July 2, on
THE Consumer and the Present Mar
ket." His talk will be from the angle
of the market owner, based upon OBJ
Servations made by him and his asso-
citation, and will follow an equally in
teresting discussion of the subject from
the angle of the buyer, presented by
DR.. Faith Williams, economist, In the
American Economics Association, who
will reveal the Problems of the Home
maker as Buyer
Further discussion of the present
market from the standpoint of buyers
will be held on Thursday afternoon,
July T. at the meeting of the home
makers section, when DR.. Louise STAN
ley, head of the United States Bureau
of Home Economics, gives report on
the results of her research in refrigera-
ton. and Miss Mildred weigley Wood Of
Phoenix, Ariz. gives comparison of
costs of food in service and non-serv-
ice stores.
Marketing problems are but one of
the several economic issues to be
brought before the meeting. however.
The program includes discussions of
the responsibilities of the housewife as
the largest purchasing unit in the pres
ent economic system, the growing de-
mand of homemakers for the adoption
OF engineering principles of standard
1zatfon and Simplif1cation by producers
OF household equipment and reports on
The recent progress in research in the
fields of nutrition, child welfare and
scientific home management.
The announcement of the completed
convention program from headquarters
OF the association here in Washington
states that Government experts, teach
erS and research workers in home
economics problems and educational
experts cooperating with the associa-
ton will deliver series of addresses
dealing with the general phases of
home management in its relation to
national welfare and public health, as
well as the more specific problems in
volved in the feeding and training of
children, modern house furnishing,
choice of clothing and textiles, and the
adoption Of labor saving devices in the
home.
According to officers of the associa-
ton, emphasis will be placed on the
discussion of plans for enlarging the
national campaign for establishment
of generally accepted and understood
standards in all commodities entering
into the field of household management,
to protect the homemaker from much
bewildering and high-powered COM
mercial advertising aimed at the family
pocketbook in current periodicals and
newspapers, and the establishment of
closer relations between producer and
consumer. In its recent efforts to
create public demand for standard
1zation OF household commodities the
association has worked In cooperation
with the Department of Commerce and
has sent representatives to many Of
the conferences called by the Bureau
Of Standards. It has taken an active
part in the movement for establish
ment of standard specifications for
bedsheetS, blankets and refrigerators,
upon which a report will be made at
made covering the program for stand
ardization in production of other articles
of home equipment In which the asSo-
citation has engaged as a member of
the American Standards Association.
At the opening session of the Boston
convention on July l, which will be the
joint meeting with delegates to the
fourth national conference of super
VisorS and teachers OF home economics,
called by william T. Cooper, United
States Commissioner Of Education, the
general topic Of application of funda-
mental PHILOSOPHERS of present-day edu-
cation to the organization Of the
American home will be considered in a
forum discussion led by Prof. James e.
Russell, dean emeritus of Teachers Col
lege, Columbia University. Margaret
M. Justin, president Of the American
Home Economics Association, and DR..
John w. Withers, dean of the School Of
Education, New York University, will
speak on Progressive Movements in
Education"
Research in problem of food and
nutrition, textiles and clothing, plan
ming. equipment and general manage
ment of the home. and the relation Of
family welfare to the public health will
be discussed at the group session on
July Q. at which the leaders will be
Miss Margaret CLANCY of the depart
ment of food and nutrition. and Miss
Esther Bruner of the clothing and
textiles department, Kansas State Agri-
cultural College; Miss Marion Buffers
assistant State director of agricultural
extension for New Jersey; Miss Ellen
a-Ns l..
University of Wisconsin, and Mrs
Chase Going woodhouse, director of the
recently organized Institute OF Women's
Professional Relations at the North
Carolina College for Women. Two out
standing features of the closed sessions
on July will be a group conference