The Washington times., 1935-03-11
WOMEN MARK
VOTE VICTORY
IN |STANBUL
BY MARY PADGETT

BY MARY PADGEII
I Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt'
noted suffragist leader, who or
ganized the international ALI
ance of Women for Suffrage and
Equal Citizenship here in 1902,
will head a delegation OF 10
American women to the twelfth
congress of the alliance, April
1S to 25, in Istanbul, Turkey.
This is the first congress IN
the Near East. Women from 4O
countries will unite in a jubilant
celebration of the recent po-
litical advancement of Turkish
women, which gave them the
vote for the first time, and re-
suited in the election of II
women to the new assembly.
Mrs. Gait will be the principal
speaker at a mass meeting on
peace. The alliances work 1or
world peace and social justice
for women will be the general
theme of the weeks sessions. A
report on the status OF the
women of the present-day world
also will be featured at the con-
greSS.
The American delegation, Sc
1ected by the National League
of Women Voters, the only mem
ber organization of the alliance
in this country, will sail from
New York city on March 19.
Other members Of the dele
CATION are Miss Josephine
Schain, New York city, admin
istrative chairman of the Ma
tional Committee on the Cause
and Cure of War; Miss Louisa
K. Fast, Tiffin, Ohio, former
secretary of international! co,
operation for the National
League of Women Voters; Miss
Esther Ogden, New York CITY,
q leader in the Foreign Policy
Association; Miss Ruth Wooo-
small, New York city, interna'
tional specialist of the Y. w.
G. ,; Miss Ida Stokes Adams.
and Miss Emma Klahr, OF
Philadelphia; Miss Aida wilson
and Miss Mary Gray Peck, OF
New Rochelle, N. Y, and Mrs.
Frederick Beggs, Wykott, N. -
Dental Meeting
Headed by Mrs. Hugh B.
Meloy, president of the Ladies'
Auxiliary of the District OF
Columbia Dental Society, a
committee of wives of local den
lists is making plans for the
entertainment of the wives OF
dentists who will attend the
Five-State Postgraduate Clinic
at the Wardman Park HOTEL
March 1920.
Assisting Mrs. Meloy are Mrs.
c. T. Bassett, Mrs. c. D. Cole'
Mrs. w. I. Ogus, Mrs. T. j. Rice
and Mrs. A. S. Wolfe.
Sightseeing trips, bridge par
ties and luncheons are being
planned 20 entertain the several
hundred women who will come
with their husbands from Mary
land, Delaware, North Carolina
Virginia and West Virginia.
The outstanding social eveNt
of the program will be dinner
dance Tuesday night, March
10. to which many prominent
guests have been invited.
In connection with the Five
State Postgraduate Clinic, the
District of Columbia Dental Hy'
gienists' Association, a women's
organization, will hold a lunch
con Tuesday, March 10, in the
Wardman Park Hotel coffee
room.
Among the guest speakers will
be DR.. B. L. Erickson, president
of the District Dental Society;
Miss Marjorie Webster, presi-
dent of the Washington Sorop'
timist GLIB and head Of the
school which bears her name,
and DR.. John Ashton, president
of the Virginia State Dental
Society.
Other prominent guests will
be DR.. C. w. Camalier, secre-
tary of the District Dental
Board, and honorary member Of
the Dental Hygienists Associa-
ton; Miss Rebekah Fiske, Of
Walter Reed Hospital and past
president of the American Den
tai Hygienists Association, and
Miss Margaret Jefferies, editor
OF the Dental Hygientists Jour
nal.