Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-13
PALWOMEN'S
MEETING IS CALLED
Family, International Rela-
tionS and Religious Thoughts
to Be Studied.

A study Of women's relation to pres
ent-day world problems will be the
chief feature of the Triennial Con-
vention of the Woman's Auxiliary OF
the Episcopal Church meeting in Den
yer September Is to 30, a call for
which has been issued by Miss Grace
LindIey. executive secretary of this
organization
Meeting contemporaneously with the
Fiftieth General Convention Of the
Episcopal Church. the auxiliary Off
Gals have listed five subjects-famlly,
property and economic contacts, inter-
racial contacts, international relations
and religious thinking of today, as
representing the vital problems of the
generation; and the greater part of
the two-week session of the conven-
ton will be given over to an intensive
study Of these questions.
Will Conduct Forums.
1t is planned to have each subject
presented by authorities at a general
meeting of the convention, and there
after TO conduct five open forums, in
which the delegates, five from each
of the 1T dioceses and missionary dis
tricts of the church will, under a
selected leader discuss the problems
presented. The findings of each group
body of the auxiliary for action.
Some of the leading women of the
country will be among those who will
either make the presentations of the
subjects on the FIVE major topics, or
lead group discussions Mrs. F. Harper
Sibley of Rochester N Y, chairman
of the executive board Of the auxiliary,
will present the subject of Family"
Hoover Adviser to Speak.
Another speaker, who will present
the problem of Property and Economic
Contacts" will be Spencer Miller, jr.,
conSultant on industrial relations of
the social service department of the
church, and member in an advisory
capacity of President Hoover's special
Committee on Unemployment. Two
speakers have been selected to present
the problem of interracial contacts
Sterling Takauchi. japanese publicist,
who is at present doing research work
at the University of Chicago, and Miss
Claudia Hunter. wellesley graduate.
with 25 years experience in the public
schools of Washington. D. c., who will
speak for the Negro race.
Rev. D. H. McGregor of Evanston,
Ill. will discuss international relations,
while Religious Thinking of Today
will be presented by the Rev. Angus
Dun of the Cambridge Theological
School. Other speakers will be Mrs.
John Glenn Of the Church Mission of
Help Dr. Adelaide Case of Teachers
College, Columbia University, and Miss
Florence L. Newbold, executive secretary
of the Girls Friendly Society of the
United States.
Will Present Gift.
Interest centers in the presentation
on the morning of September II, at a
service of holy communion of the 1881
gift Of the organization to the
general church. The united thank of
fering of the Woman's Auxiliary, better
known as The U. T. o. is a trien-
NAL gift made by the auxiliary for the
general missionary work of the church.
Efforts have been made during the
past year to bring the total of the
gift for the three years which will end
at Denver up to a round million and
a half dollars.
The women's convention will be
merged for one day. September 49, into
the general convention, at a joint ses-
sion OF the House of Bishops, the
House of Clerical and Lay Deputies
and the Womans Auxiliary Miss
Elizabeth Matthews of Cincinnati will
preside at the business sessions of this
auxiliary convention.