Evening star., 1934-01-07
NOTABLES LISTED
ON CLUB PROGRAM
Mrs. Roosevelt and Gen.
Johnson Among Speakers at
Women's Group Sessions.

Mrs. Franklin D. RooseveltS Senator
Poyal S. Copeland, probably Gen. Hugh
S johnson, N. r. A., and other prom
inent speakers will address sessions OF
the annual Midwinter meeting OF the
board of directors of the General Fed
Grafton of Women's Clubs, to be held
at national headquarters, 1734 N street,
this week.
The sessions will open Wednesday
and close Saturday. Mrs. Grace Nor
riSon Poole, president, will preside, as
sisted by the other four officers: Mrs.
Roberta Campbell Lawson, Tulsa, Okla.
first vice president; DR.. Josephine l..
Peirce, Lima, Ohio, second wee Rrest-
Greg. recording secretary, and Mrs.
Edward Hammett, Sheboygan, WIS,
treasurer.
Mrs. Roosevelt will be the honor
puest and speaker at dinner TO oe
given Friday evening at the MaynoWer
Hotel Senator Copeland will address
the board on the proposed pure FOODS
and drug act; Byron Price, chle1 OF
the Washington Bureau OF the ASso-
ciated Press, will speak Friday after
noon on publicity as 1t relates 10 tne
activities of organized women; MISS
Jessie Kray, president of the National
Fducation Association, Thursday morn
ing will present the serious aspects OF
education in America today brougnt
about by decreased budgets.
johnson Speech Conditional
Gen. johnson will address the club
women If his busy schedule Will per,
nit. Additional speakers Scheouleo
include Clarence Pickett OF the ouD,
sistence Homestead DIVISION. VINO WIZ
speak on New Homes for the onoel-
privileged; DR.. Paul H. Douglas OF I tne
SEonsumers' Advisory Board, who Will
sneak on the Consumers Counclls
Dr Frederic c. Howe, consumers coun-
sel of the Agricultural Adjustment Au-
n7inistration: Mrs. Ellen S. WOODWARD
director of women's work OF the req
oral Emergency Relief Administrator,
and Clinton Robb who Will present tIle
reoative side of the proposed foods ana
drug act. o,,,r.,,+
Other speakers on topics OF current
interest will be Miss Henrietta f1ou1IOai'
sixth deputy commissioner, FoIl.e
nartment of New York CITY, WHOSE a.
dress on crime prevention Is Scneooie0
for Friday afternoon, ana ". n. ~
1tnovood of the American Forestry AS
.on;otiOn Who will speak that morning
IN "Conservation Under the New Deal
Count Rene d'Harnoncourt Oh the
American Federation of Art, who soon
will bepin a series of national oroao-
casts on art appreciation under sponsor
shin of the general federatlon's DIVISION
of ART will address the board on Wed
nesday evening on Art in the Com
munitv." On the same program Will ne
the general federation's two scholar
shin girls" Miss Elizabeth Haines,
holder of the medical loan scholarship,
and Miss Hortensia VaraS, Pan
American scholarship who will tell what
their scholarships mean to them. The
music for that evening will be furnished
by the District of Columbia Federation,
and the musicians who will appear are
Mrs Ralph P Barnard, contralto ac-
companied by Mrs. James Shera Mont
zomery and Mrs. Rose Maxwell Dickey,
violinist, accompanied by Louise Vincent
Freitag.
Other Distinguished Guests.
In addition to Mrs Roosevelt, dis
tinguished guests at the Friday evening
dinner will include Mrs. Edith Nourse
Rogers, member Of Congress from MaSSa-
C.luSettS; Mrs. Howe, wife Of Col. Louis
Howe, secretary to the President; Mrs.
Mary H. Rumsey, chairman of the Con-
sumers' Advisory Board of the N. r. A;
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait, honorary
chairman of the National Committee on
the Cause and Cure of War; Miss Lena
Madesin Phillips, president of the Ma
tional Council of Women; Miss Jessie
Gray, president of the National Educa-
ton Association; Mrs. Russell William
Magma, president general of the Daugh-
ters of the American Revolution; Mrs.
Geline Macdonald Bowman, president
of the National Federation of Business
and Professional Women'S Clubs; Miss
Belle Sherwin, president of the National
League of Women Voters; Mrs. Clara
Keck Hef1ebower, president of the Ma
tional League of American Pen Women,
and Mrs William John Cooper, presi-
dent of the Washington branch of the
American Association Of University
Women.
Department chairmen have been left |
to their own devices in featuring their
work. Some will present prominent
speakers and others will give a dram
atization or other unusual presentation. |
The departments and their chairmen |
are: American citizenship, Miss Emily |
Louise Plumley; American homa Mrs.
Walter w. Seymour; education, Mrs.
Fred L. Pigeon; fine arts, Mrs. Henry
G. Taylor; international relations, Mrs.
Laura NAPLES McMullen; juniors, Mrs,
Edward M. Land; legislation. Mrs. S.
Blair Luckie; press and publicity, Mrs. |
Arthur G.. Christensen, and public well
fare, Miss Julia K. Jaffray.
Reception on Tuesday.
Preceding the regular sessions of the
board, the General Federation will hold
its annual reception Tuesday evening.
At this event the directors will have as
their guests their members of Congress
and wives. Three other social affairs
have been planned. They are the tea
at which the Woman's Club of Chevy
Chase, Md will be the hostess Friday
afternoon, at the home of Mrs. j. Craig
Peacock; the tea on Thursday after
noon at the Women's City Club, with
Mrs. Harvey w. Wiley, president of
the District Federation, hostess. and
the reception by Miss Helen Norris
Cummings, president of the Cameron
Club Of Alexandria, Va, at historic old
Gadsby's Tavern, on Wednesday after
noon.