Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-16
Worldwide Banquet
Series Tuesday Evening

The annual banquet Of business and
professional women throughout the
world will take place Tuesday evening,
and the celebration in the District of
Columbia will be staged at $50 o'clock
in Barker Hall of the Young Womer'S
Christian Association, which is sponsor
ing the international women's event.
Prominent business and professional
women Of the Capital will be guests at
the banquet Tuesday evening. which has
been arranged by committee repre-
senting the various business and pro-
feSsional womens groups afflliated with
the Washington Young Women's Chris
tan Association. The program as ar
ranged for the party includes the main
address, The New Day." by Rev Moses
r. Lowell, %. D., of this city introduced
by Mrs. William Adams Slade, chairman
Of the business and professional wom-
preside at the banquet. which is ex-
pected to fill to overlooking the big au-
ditorium at Seventeenth and X streets.
Music will play an important part In
the program, with two we'll known
Washington musicians as soloists, Miss
Katherine Moritz, violinist and Miss
Mary Apple, contralto, with Miss Edith
Dawson at the piano. The Presidents
message to the Women Of the World
will be read as high point in the eve
ning's events.
The outstanding guests Tuesday will
include, among others, Miss May
Thorpe Bigelow, president of the Wom-
ems Bar Association; Miss Gertrude
Bowling, director of the Instructive
Visiting Nurse Society; Miss Eleanor
Eckhardt president of the Quota Club
Of washington; Miss Janet Fish, super
intendent of nurses at Emergency Hos
pital; DR.. Kate Karpeles. president of
the Women's Medical Society; Mrs.
Mary Catherine Lewis, president of the
Soroptomists; Mrs. Moses r. Lowell, Miss
Alice E. McWhorter, superintendent of
nurses at Garfield Hospital; Mrs. Sallie
v. H. Pickett former president of the
Womens National Press Club; Mrs.
Thomas Edwin Brown, president of the
Christian Association, and Miss Hettie
P: Anderson, general secretary of the Y.
w. C. A.
No less than $4,000 women in 300
cities of the world will unite Tuesday
evening at this worldwide banquet
table, in spirit II not in fact. The coun-
tries to be represented in this giant BAN
quet are the United States, Canada.
England, Belgium, Syria and Japan, and
already radiograms, cablegrams and
kilograms are being received from all
over the world at the Washington head
quarters of the Young wcmen's Chris
tan Association. r.
| The greetings so far received have
come from Madras, India: Beirut Syria;
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Shanghai,
China; Honolulu, Hawaii. and Brad
ford, Nottingham, Croydon. Newcastle
and London, England. Also from st.
GATHERINGS, Peterborough, Halifax, Sas-
katoon, st. Thomas and Toronto, Cam
ada; as we'll as from cities In our own
country, among them being messages
from Los Angeles, Calf: Portland Me-;
Minneapolis, Mimi; Boston. Maiden
and Newton. Mass: Charleston, w. Va;
Milwaukee, Wis; Williamsport, Pa, and
Louisville, KY.
The Washington committee Of busi-
ness and professional women, who have
attended to all arrangements for the big
banquet, includes Miss Winifred Mar
low, Miss Lillian Findlay, Miss Gladys
Fitzgerald, Miss Margaret Hibble. Miss
Elizabeth Roland, Miss Flora Robinson,
Miss Marie Zandonini, Miss Ida Lar
son, Miss Rebecca Kanode, Miss Emily
Raynor, Miss Jessie Smith. Miss Lois A
White, Miss Maude Steele, Miss Emily
Knots, Miss Lois Gates German. Miss
Edith F.. GiddingS, Miss L. E. Bourgeois
Mrs. Anna Bohannon and Mrs. Cecilia
Iden.
Miss Bertha Pabst, who is in charge
of the business and professional wom-
EMS section of the Y. w. G. A., has
charge of reservations for the banquet
which can be accepted only up to and
including tomorrow.