The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-18
Future of
Women to
Be Debated
World Congress to Weigh
~. Topic at Chicago
Conclave.

ByNEA Service
CHICAGO, July 18.-Feminism is
being weighed in the balance mere.
And it is the outstanding feminists
from all over the world who are
holding the scales!
Women from twenty-eight coun-
tries, attending the international
congress, held under auspices of the
National Council of Women, have
gathered at A Century of Progress
fair to debate the question whether
feminism really has won or whether
it is faltering.
Marianne Beth of Austria, who
forced her way through a school
of theology with every mans nand
against her, and became the first
woman theologist in Austria, then
turned to law and was Vienna'S first
woman barrister, has come to testify
the struggles of European women.
Baroness Is Spokesman
Baroness Shidzue Ishimoto, who
left the School of PeereSSeS to learn
typewriting and stenography in an
American school and was Tokio's
first business woman, has come a
long way to demonstrate that the
desire for feminine equality has
penetrated even to Cherry Blossom
land.
Alice Kandaleft of Syria, who
holds the ranking educational posi-
ton in Bagdad, has many fascinat-
ing illustrations of the difficulties
women have in the Near East to win
equality.
Lily Kelly, who organizes nation
wide peace demonstrations for the
women of the Argentine, brings
messages of the eagernesS with
which dark-eyed senoraS Of her
native land await real equality.
Any s-elf-satisf1ed feminist fares
better away from Chicago, for her
peace of minds sake. For women
have no bed of roses in the far
reaches of the earth. The world
wide depression has brought about
a r~etrogression of the feminist
movement in many corners of the
globe.
Sad Privileges Are Endangered
Everything we have been fight
ing for for ages is endangered in
some countries, lost in Others" one
European Spokeswoman said.
"WOmen'S organizations have fall
len speedy victims to recent political
changes abroad" added a German
delegate.
However, all reports are not so
gloomy. There still is a sunny side
to woman's story.
Selma Ekrem, a cropped-haired
representative of young Turkey, has
arrived to prove the strides that
feminism has taken in Turkey
since 1923, when the republic was
established. Gone are the wells, and
gone too are the archaic customs
which the wells symbolized.
Reports Are Encouraging
Other countries, too, have encour-
aging reports about the progress
wonnen are making. midas women
never nave enjoyed western stand
ards of freedom, but their lot is
easier than it was a few decades
ago, according to DR.. Mathilakshmi
Reddi. Finland, too, sends encour-
aging reports, via Cecilia HaSsel-
from, her spokesman.
The conference has for it's general
subject, Our Common Cause, Civil
lization." Therefore, only part of
the conferences time is spent dis
cuSSing strictly feminist problems.
The speakers convened for this
international congress of women
range from Yi-Fang-Wu, head of
the biggest women's college in
China; Jane Adams, and Carrie
Chapman Gait, to young Christine
Galitzi, an intimate friend of Prin-
cess Ileanna of Rumonia, and vi
ola lima, 23-year-old editor of the
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