Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-23
CLIJBWOMEN OF THE NATION |
Survey of Women in Politics Made by League of Women
Voters-Mss Borchardt Outlines Program She Will Head
at World Education Confer ence-Feminsts Entertain

In the judicial branch OF the Gov
eminent women also are taking an
active part. the survey shows. Two Ohio
women, Florence e. Allen and Genevieve
r. Cline. have the distinction Of occu-
plying the highest judicial posts ever
| held by a woman. Miss Cline was APP
pointed in the Spring of 1928 associate
| Judge of the United States Customs
| Court. She had previously served as
| appraiser of merchandise for the port
| of Cleveland Miss Cline's position
carries with 1t salary of $4,000 and
life commission. Miss Allen. who was
/ reelected in November, 1928. to her
second term as member OF the SUI
preme Court of Ohio, Is the only woman
serving on q Supreme Court In the
United States
! Several women are serving as judges
| in the municipal courts. among them
Judge Mary O'Toole. who serves here
in Washington. Several juvenile courts
! likewise have women as presiding ON
GERS. Judge Katherine Sellers holds this
position in Washington and there are
some half dozen women in similar posi-
tons in other cities.
| Miss Genevieve Brown is reporter Of
! the Supreme Court of Indiana. the sec
ond woman to hold that position in
Indiana. The clerkship of the State
Supreme Court is held by women in
three States: Minnesota, Oklahoma
and South Dakota.
In number OF States women may
be found serving as probate judges.
Three phases Of social adjustment
through education will be studied by the
section of the World Federation of Edu-
cation Association which viii be headed
by Miss Selma BorchArdt Of Washing
ton, Business High School instructress,
who is one of the three women to serve
on the board of the federation which is
composed in all of Is educators from
all parts of the world.
Miss Borchardt, who sailed for
Europe Friday night. expecting to stop
of in England, France and Belgium for
preliminary conferences with other edu-
Gators en- route to Geneva, where the
conference will be held July Is to
/ August A. outlined briefly the phases of
the question to be studied by her sec
ton during the giant conclave which
brings together man and women from
~ countries, in an interview just be-
fore her departure.
I'm our first session." said Miss
Borchardt, Eve will take up the ques-
! ton of how education can be made
, more socially responsive and in this
connection will hear from two speak
ers who should bring intensely interest
ing reports to the conferences rep-
resentative OF China who will tell of
the success of the new mass education
movement in China and one from Eng
land who viii talk on the Hadow re-
port.
"At the second of our three sessions,
. my division of the conference will view
the social aspect of commercial educa-
ton. DR.. Frances Moon Butts of WASH
: ington has been selected as chairman
of this section and a comprehensive
, program Is being planned by her.
The various media through which
these problems can be considered will
be discussed at the third and final ses-
sion," continued Miss Borchardt. AT
this time DR.. Dora Wagner, the well
, known German educator, who visited
Washington last year, will discuss the
, effect of the feminist movement on
education. This discussion will be Of
, special interest to the women of
clubs both here and abroad who have
) been devoting all of their efforts to
! furthering the catise of women in their
struggle for political, economic and
educational equality since the birth OF
the woman'S movement"
,, Miss Borchardt pointed out also that
! much interest would be attached to
, that feature of the general sessions Of
/ | the conference which would bring forth
r a discussion of the relationship of the
i World Federation to the International
I, VI fGQuCdLlUi1 al C6uGV6, one
E OF the quasi-ofhcial international move
/, ments which have sprung up In Geneva
/, in the wake of the League Of Nations
), but not directly connected with it.
] OF the other two women who serve
( on the board of directors of the World
e Federation with Miss Borchardt one is
an American, Miss Annie Carleton
: Woodward of Massachusetts,, who served
for three years as president of the
e Massachusetts Federation of Teachers.
! The third of the trio, Miss Mary Twee-
, die, halls from Edinburgh, Scotland.
Miss Borehardt, in addition to her
D high post in the World Federation of
r Education Associations, is a prominent
clubwoman in other circles For sew
4 eral years she was president of the
!. Women's Trade Union League of the
5 District of Columbia, and Is a member
I, of the Womens Joint Congressional
. Committee on which she represents the
American Federation of Teachers.
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1 Mrs. Florence Bayard Hills Of Will
1 mington, DEL, vice chairman of the Ma
: tional Woman's Party and member Of
the committee in charge of renlodeling
the house recently purchased from Sem
I ator Dale for the new Woman,s Party
!. headquarters. comes to Washington on
: Tuesday, June rs, to confer with other
, members of the committee. The new
: headquarters ere at the corner of Sec
ond and B streets northeast. Other
members of this committee are Mrs.
Richard Wainwright Of Washington q.
C.; Mrs. John Winters Brannan of New
: York City, and MIS- Valentine Winters
o. Dayton, Ohio.