The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-13
Fair Draws
Federation
of Women
Bust n e S S Professional
Clubs Hold Sessions
in Chicago.
BY MRS. MAURICE MURPHY
Times STAFF Writer

CHICAGO, July 13-The Chicago
worlds fair is attracting many
visiting delegates for the biennial
convention of the National Fedora
ton of Business and Professional
Women's Clubs, in session until
Saturday, with headquarters at the
Stevens hotel
Hundreds of women from Indiana
and the other states tour the eX-
position grounds when not attend
ing convention meetings, and they
have found the hall of social sci
ence a building of outstanding in
terest to club women, although they
also have visited as many OF the
other exhibits and amusements as
time would permit-from the hall
CT science to the concessions on the
midway
Monday was a busy day for In
dianans, as the Indiana group held
It's luncheon, n the Francis I room
az Gl4e OOIlSI6SS nOCel.
National President Honored
Mrs. Geline Macdonald Bowman.
Richmond, Va, national president.
was honor guest and greeted the
Indiana delegation.
Mrs. Lawrence Cole of Winnetka
chairman of the international rela-
tons committee of the Cook County
League of Women Voters and secre-
tary of the Disarmament Council
of Chicago, was speaker.
Illinois hoStesSes were Miss Mary
Baily Chicago. assistant to the
United States district attorney in
charge of narcotics, and Miss Char
lotte Slavitt, one of Chicago's prom
lnent women attorneys.
Miss Elizabeth F. Lenfestev. of
Marion, newly-elected president of
the Indiana federation, presided at
the luncheon and introduced the
national president, Mrs. Bowman;
the speaker, Mrs. Cole; and the
other incoming state officers. elected
Saturday at the state convention at
South Bend.
These include Mrs. Elizabeth L.
Shriner, South Bend, first vice
president; Miss Rosza Tonkle. Ft.
Wayne, second vice president; Miss
Margaret A. Cheney, LAFAYETTE,
treasurer; Miss Viola E. Hartman,
Bedford, recording secretary; Miss
Martha Babb, Marion, correspond
ing secretary; and Mrs. Lottie M.
Klroy, Bloomington, member at
large.
Mrs. Frost Absent
Mrs. Adah o. Frost. Indianapolis.
retiring president, did not make the
trip from South Bend to Chicago.
Miss Fern D. Martin, indianapolis,
transportation chairman for the
convention, was unable to attend.
The president of the INDIANAPOLIS
chapter, Miss Louise Ford, was pres
ent. Miss Ida Anderson of Moose
heart, formerly of Indianapolis. at
tended the luncheon.
Co-chairmen in charge of ar
rangements for the luncheon were
Miss Ada Iverson and Miss Cathryn
SWitzer.
Other meetings on Mondays pro-
gram OF interest to all states were
occupational round tables.
Mrs. Elizabeth Coyne, editor of the
Fort Pierre Times, Pierre, S. D.. who
spoke at the round table on journal
ism, recommended publishing and
editing weekly newspaper in a
small community as one of the fin
est jobs in existence"
That there still is plenty of room
Tor women in the beauty business
is the opinion of Miss Elizabeth A.
Oils, of Worcester, Mass, speaker
at the cosmetology round table.
Women Fit for Jobs
Miss Ora Lee Aimee, Lexington.
KY, in addressing the Retail Store
service, said that women with spe-
claI training, knowledge of stvle
promotion, changing market condi-
tlonS, and new methods of advertis-
ing are in demand and that even
though men still may be given pref
erence In department stores, it is
largely because women have not
aspired to these places.
Blanche S. Curtis, in charge of
the classification department of the
Vermont Fire Insurance Company.
declared that it has been demon
Strated that women successfully can
conduct agencies, taking care of all
details incident to such a business.
A staff dinner was held in the
grand ballroom of the Stevens Mon