Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-29
BY coRINNE FRAZIER.

N the department of public
4 welfare Of the General Esd
Grafton of Women's Clubs and
dean of department chairmen, who has
been chosen to serve on President
Hoover's committee for the White
protection, declared, upon a rscent
visit to washington. that the work of
this group will include the most sweep
ing study of child welfare that has
ever been made In the world
THE purpose Of the conference is to
study what is being done for the child"
said Mrs. Dunbar. Each section or
committee unit will report its findings
to the conference and will make recon-
mendationS as to the future
Mrs. Dunbar has been made a men,
Der Of the public health service and
administration section of the confer
ence, of which Surg. Gen. Hugh S.
Cumming, head of the Federal Public
Health Service is chairman. Mrs Dun
bar is peculiarly fitted for her work on
the committee. and General Federation
ofhcials have expressed themselves as
confident that their organization could
not have been more ably represented.
In addition to heading the Depart
ment of Public Welfare in the feder-
alton. Mrs Dunbar is a past president
and General Federation director for the
State of Oregon, and was for two years
chairman of the tuberculosis division
Of the Department of Public Welfare of
the General Federation. She has served
for the past IA years as executive secre-
tary of the oregon tuberculosis Asso-
citation, during which time she has
written a handbook for tuberculosis
workers and has conducted institutes
for volunteer workers in different parts
of the United States She is a men,
Der of the faculty of the University of
Oregan, teaching community organiza-
ton in the School of Social Work, and
Is a past president of the Oregon So
cial Workers Association.
The whole problem of child health
and protection is divided into four
sections. The first of these is medical
service. which is to be headed by Dr.
Samuel McC. Hamill of Philadelphia,
eminent authority on child health and
former president of the American
Pediatric Society. The second section
will be that Of public health service
and administration. Serg. Gen. Hugh
8. Comm1ng will preside over this Sec
ton.
Section will be devoted to education
and training. Thus it is shown that the
study is to be much broader than mere
~ one Of health in the usually accepted
sense. This section is headed by DR.. F.
]. Kelly, president of the University of
idaho.
Section 4 is devoted to the handi-
capped child, considering prevention,
maintenance and protection. At its
mead Is 9. G. Carstons, director of the
Child Welfare League of America.
The chairmen of these sections and of
the several sub-sections and many of
the members of the committees have al
ready been chosen. In all some 500
outstanding authorities will be mar
ehaled for the work. It is believed that
1t will require more than a year to
gather all necessary facts and prepare q
report. The conference will not be held
Until all studies have been completed.
These findings are intended to set I'D
the picture of what has been done and
TO point out the way to future action to
the end that oncoming generations may
make their maximum contribution to
the citizenship Of the nation.
\
NATIONAL League of Women Voters
will inaugurate a new Voters Serv-
ice on the air Tuesday evening, January
Z, at 6:45 o'clock, when DR.. Ray Lyman
Wilbur. Secretary of Interior, speaks
over WRC and a nationwide network
on Education by Radio" The leagues
programs will be broadcast every Tues
day evening at this same hour by the
National Broadcasting Co.
A notable group of speakers is being
lined up for this series of talks by Miss
Belle Sherwin, president of the league,
who promises a program of vital inter-
est TO all voters which will rival all
previous series sponsored by her group.
X X x
N New Year message to members of
the National League of Women
voters, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait, the
honorary president of the league, pro-
poses goal for the next decade Of the
organization. On the tenth anniver-
sary Of woman suffrage and of the
league itself, she urges look straight
into the future.
plans" she says. why not fix a glo-
rious goal to be attained in a decade?
Why not indicate the steps to be taken
IN each year and keep a record of the
progress made, step by step?
NO organization has ever done this.
They only 60 ahead by the year. Why
not make 1t decade and do something
bigger and finer than anybody ever did
before? One great man said recently
that he credited votes of women as
one Of the five great influences bearing
upon the future of our nation. Why
should we not make it one of two great
nnuences-women'S votes and mems
votes? I suspect that when the peace
Of the world is finally established, and
It is coming fairly soon, it will honestly
be written that women have had fully
half the responsibility for bringing it
about"
MRS. Harvey w. Wiley, chairman Of
@'A the homemaker's council of the
National Woman's Party. and recently