Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-12
WOMEN TO SEEK
WAR CURE HERE
Carrie Chapman Gait Will
Preside at Conference to
Open Tuesday.

Promising q concrete program look
ing to world peace, the Conference on
the Cause and Cure Of War will open
at the Washington Hotel Tuesday, with
the international viewpoint. represented
by five women from Europe, appearing
for the first time. Opening on the
eve of the London conference on the
limitation of naval armament, the
meeting of women here, rejecting IL
American national women's organ1Za
tons, hopes, after five years Of study. to
present definite program aimed al
ascertaining a cure for war.
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait is chair
man Of the conference.
English Delegate Noted Worker.
Miss Kathleen D. Courtney, the Eng
lish delegate. one of the best known
women In public life in Great Britain,
for years has been a student of inter-
tary of the British Women's Peace
Crusade, an association of nearly all the
great national woman movements.
A relief worker in the war, Frau
Dorothee Won Velsen of Germany, an
other of the group of foreign visitors
also is keen for world peace. She Is
president of the German League fol
Equal Citizenship Of Women.
The French representative, Nine
Marie-Louise Puech, is graduate Of
the Sorbonne, a former lecturer and
assistant professor at MacGill Univer.
sity in Montreal, a vice president OF
the French Association Of University
Women, editor of peace magazine
and an active worker for peace.
The delegate from the farthest dis
lance is Mime. Tsune Gauntlet, the
Japanese wife of a British professor al
Toxic University Of Commerce, one OF
the organizers and a director Of the
Japanese Woman's Peace Association.
Ruth Morgan Represents U. 8.
With Miss Ruth Morgan represent
ing the United States. the foreign
guests will take part in an open forum
discussion of what women can do tc
build international peace-making ma
chinery.
Another high light of the convention
will be the banquet at the Hotel
washington Tuesday evening, at which
Gen. Jan Christian SHUTS of South
Africa and Bishop Francis John Nc
Connell will speak.
Mrs. Gait will preside over the con-
ference. Speakers will include Mrs
Gait, who will point out the gaps in
Macdonald of the Foreign Policy As
ISOLATION. Prof. John Howard Latane
of Johns Hopkins University, United
States Senator Gerald B. Nye, Edward
p. Warner, Parker T. Moon of Column
bia University, Reinhold Niebuhr OF
Union Theological Seminary, Julius H
Klein. Assistant Secretary Of the
United States Department Of Com
merce, and Ernest M. Patterson Of the
University of Pennsylvania.
Miss Josephine Schain of New York
is secretary of the committee. Other
officers are Miss Ruth Morgan, Miss
Henrietta Roelofs and Mrs. Edgerton
Parsons of New York, vice chairmen
and Mrs Ben Hooper Of Oshkosh, Wis.
secretary.
Mrs. William z. Darby is general
chairman of the committee of Wash
ington women, which has charge OF
local arrangements, including Mrs
Clara Wright Smith, Mrs. T. E. Brown
Mrs. w. e. Chamberlin, Mrs. John w
Frizzell, Mrs. j. Claude KEEPER, Mrs
chairmen Of subcommittee: Mrs. H
r. Cameron, information: Miss Ethel
Ketchum, registration; Mrs. T. j
Howerton, ushers; Mrs. E. C. Dinwiddie
utility; Mrs. Harry Hull, house; Mrs
F. E. Edgington, banquet: Mrs. Ray
mond B. Morgan, hostesses.
Organizations under whose sponsor
ship the conference will be held include
the American Association of University
Women, the Council Of Women for
Home Missions, General Federation OF
Women's Clubs, Federation of Women's
Boards of Foreign Missions of North
America. National Board of the Young
Women's Christian Associations, Ma
tional Council OF Jewish Women, Ma
tional Federation of Business and Pro-
fessional Wornens Clubs, National
League of Women Voters, National
Women's Christian Temperance Union
and National Womens Trade Union
League.