Evening star., 1933-07-16
WOMAN LEADERS
IN SESSION TODAY
World Massing of Feminine
Opinion to Be Undertaken
at Chicago.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, July 15.-A world mass
ing of feminine opinion on questions
of the day will be undertaken at the
international Congress of the National
Council of Women, which opens to-
morrow.
Woman leaders in virtually every
field and vocation. from every impor-
tant country. were in Chicago for the
gathering, which was expected to be
historic.
The object of the conclave is to con-
centrate the thinking of the worlds
best feminine minds on what's wrong
with the world-and what to do about
it. 1t is perhaps the first time in his
tory that women have made frontal
attack upon world problems in an Ell
fort to direct feminine thought in the
channels Of feminine aims and efforts.
The gathering was called by the Ma
tional Council of Women, headed by
Miss Lena Madesin Phillips, New York
1888, is pyramided upon other fedora
tions of won is org g1nizationS and
down through its units has an approx
mate membership of 100000, the
worlds largest feminine association.
1t expects to consolidate women'S
thoughts on every important question
of the day. and release that thinking
into action"
Agenda Topics.
Women's place in the new forms of
government Communism, fasciSm
dictatorships-in the American new
deal" in business, in recreation and
the home are few of the issues on
the agenda of the gathering.
They will be discussed by represent
ative women of the countries in which
such governing ideas exist, by the lead
ing feministS OF America ana OF the
world.
The keynote Of the convention
Shall 1t Be Progress?"-wil be sounded
by Miss Phillips in her presidential ad-
dress at the elaborate reception tomor-
row in honor of the foreign visitors
which opens the Congress.
The scope of the meetings is inter-
national and is based upon the general
theme, Civilization, Our Common
Cause" It will be discussed in general
sessions and at round tables by women
of brilliant achievement from the Occi-
dent to the Orient and drawn from
the six continents.
Noted Men to Speak.
But the varied program of more than
100 speakers is not limited to women,
for, recognizing the contributions of
the male mind, 1t includes score or
more men noted in their fields. Among
these are:
Henry T. Rainey. Speaker of the
House OF Representatives; Gov. Clifford
Pinchot of Pennsylvania; Clarence
Dykstra, city manager of Cincinnati,
Ohio DR.. Charles A. Beard Of New
Milford, Conn, historian: Dr. Yi-Fang
WI, president of Ginling College
Marking, China.
On the list of woman speakers, rep
resenting the cream of feminine bril-
liancy abroad and at home, are:
Dame Rachel Crowdy. Engiand's war
heroine and former head of the social
questions section Of the League OF Ma
tions; the Right Hon. Margaret Bond
field, former British minister of labor;
Baroness Keichi Ishimot of Japan,
leading feminist Of her country; DR..
Maria Castellani, first woman to head
a government bureau in Italy under the
Mussolini regime; Miss Lilly Kelly of
the Argentine; DR.. Marianne Beth
first woman lawyer in Austria; Dr.
Marie M. Monk, first woman judge in
Prussia, and from the United States:
Secretary CT Labor Frances Perkins,
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait. Mrs. Mary
r. Beard, author and historian; Dr.
Lillian M. Gilbreth, leading woman
engineer: Mrs. Grace Morrison Poole
president OF the General Foundation of
Women's Clubs; Miss Jane Addams,
social worker.
Youth to Have a Say.
Among the topics which these women
will handle are discussion of 1.-The
Philosophy of a New Day" Can the
Machine Age Pull Us Through?" when
Nations Cooperate" The War Racket"
and Getting Job After Forty"
A symposium of national and inter-
national opinion will be held on THE
Woman Movement-Lost, Won or Fall
teHng?"
In addition youth will have its say on
how it thinks the worlds problems
should be handled, and women old in
experience will listen to the theories of
college students from 13 colleges and
universities and to youth forging its
way in industry and labor.
Not neglected are the colored women
of the United States. They, too. will
have place ON the program and will
She Climbs" given by the National
Association of Colored Women
In connection with the congress there
will be an international conclave of
woman writer's.
The countries represented In the
congress are:
Argentina. Austria, Canada China,
Cuba, Denmark, England Finland,
France, Germany, India. Ireland, Italy,
Japan, Latvia Lithuania Mexico, Nor
way, Panama, Poland Rumania. Russia,
South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland,
Syria, the Netherlands, Turkey, Uru-
quay and the United States.