Evening star., 1936-01-12
Club Federation Board
To Hold Winter Session
Directors to Hear COL John M. johnson and
Representative Disney at Meeting
This Week.

of the Board of Directors OF
the General Federation of
Il Women's Clubs will be held
this week at federation headquarters,
1874 N street, and will hear widely
known speakers, including Col. Jonn
Monroe johnson, Assistant Secretary
of Commerce, and Representative
Wesley E. Disney of Oklahoma.
Women from every State in the
Union and some foreign countries will
attend the sessions, which will open
Wednesday morning and con tinue e
through Saturday morning. The pres
ident, Mrs. Roberta Campbell Lawson,
and the two vice presidents, Mrs.
Saddle Orr Dunbar and Mrs. Walter
w. Seymour, will preside.
Education for Living" the keynote
of this administration of the fedora
ton, will be emphasized as it relates
TO the various departments of work,
especially e uc t on, citizenship,
American home and public welfare.
Mrs. Lawson visualiZeS as one forward
step in the field of education the
establishment of an academy of pub
lie affairs, simila, 20 West Point and
Annapolis, to tram women and men
for Government service both at home
and abroad. Representative Disney is
sponsoring a bill introduced at the last
session for the establishment of such
an academy, and he will explain the
provisions of the bill to the board
Thursday morning, at which time DR..
Walter E. Jaeger. professor of law and
instructor in the School of Foreign
Service of Georgetown University, also
will speak on the proposed academy.
Jay n Ding" Darling former chief
of the United States Biological Sur
vey, will present the program of the
recently formed North American Wild
Life Conference, of which Mrs. Lawson
is a member. The conference was
formed January 8, on the recon-
mendation of President Roosevelt Mr..
Darling will speak at the Thursday
morning session.
Surg. Gen. Hugh S. Cumming, who
heads the advisory board of the De-
partment of Public Welfare in the
general federation will speak Thurs
day evening, presenting some of the
major health problems of the Nation
and emphasizing ways in which or
ganized women can aid in solving
these problems.
Col. johnson and Kermit Roosevelt,
vice president of the United States
Lines, will discuss the American mer-
chant marine at the Thursday evening
session. Additional speakers at the
ri oct will i,11 r71I
S. woodward. assistant administrator
of the Federal Emergency Relief Ad-
mlnistration and the Works Progress
Administration, who vill speak
Wednesday evening; Miss Bertha
Nienburg, assistant director of the
Women's Bureau of the Department
of Labor. also to speak Wednesday
evening; Mrs. William Brown Meloney,
editor of This Week" whose address
will be Friday morning, and Mrs.
Grace Morrison Poole, vice chairman
of the Department of International
Relations, who will speak at the Fri
day afternoon session. There will be
a discussion of the proposed enfran-
chlsement of the residents of the
District of Columbia.
A dinner to honor the federation's
clubs in foreign lands will be given
Friday evening at the Hotel May
flower. Greetings will be brought by
Mrs. A. N. Connett, jr., of Paris, presi-
dent of the Federation of American
Women's Clubs in Europe; Mrs. Marie
Schahdine-Best, former president of
the American Women's Clubs of Ber-
I'm; Mrs, Richard L. Gary, member OF
the American Women'S Club of Lon
don, and by the wives of Ambassadors
and Ministers from countries in which
the General Federation has clubs
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt will give
the address of the evening. On
Wednesday afternoon, at the close of
the session, Mrs. Roosevelt will re-
celve the members of the board at
the White House.
The sessions of the board will be
preceded today, Monday and Tuesday
by meetings of the Executive Com
mittee, State presidents, State direc-
tors, the board of trustees and depart
ment chairmen, and on Tuesday eve
ming there will be held a reception at
federation headquarters, for which in
Vltatlons have been issued to members
OF Congress and their wives and other
persons prominent in Capital society.
The Soroptomist Club installed Of
ncerS at banquet at the Willard
Hotel January 4.
Mrs. Jean Bennett, director of the
South Atlantic region, installed Miss
Ella c. Werner as president; Mrs.
Marie Tedrow, first vice president;
DR.. Elizabeth Sohon, second vice pres
ldent; Mrs Charlotte La Fond, record
ing secretary; Miss Ruby Neal, CORE
spending secretary; Mrs. Mary
Chmylko, treasurer, and Miss Gene
Bearmore and Mrs. Laura Waters.
directors.
The speaker of the evening was
Miss Earlene White. The past presi-
dent, Miss Marjorie Webster, acted as
toastmistress.
Among the guests were Soroptimis:s
from Baltimore, New York, Atlantic
City, Westchester and Montgomery
County, Md. Civic clubs of the
city we're represented by Bynum E.
Hinton of the Kawanis Club, Roland
Whitehurst of Rotary. Miss Johanna
Busse of Quota, Ashhy L. Leeth O:
ClVltan, Miss Malinde Havey of
zonta, Miss Mae Murray of Business
and Professional Women's Club, James
E. Collifiower of Merchants and Man.
ufacturers' Association, John Saul of
the Washington Board of Trade, Mrs.
Dorothy Butler of the City Club and
the Juvenile Court by Judge Fay L.
Bentley.
The soloistS were Jean Bishop,
Charlotte La Fond and Earl Nails,
accompanied by Jewell Downs, Sorop-
timist
Northwest w. C. T. U. met at 1750
Massachusetts, avenue. with Mrs Will
liam N. Garner presiding Devotional
Uas lnd hy Mrs + p Wcrd An