The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-11
CLUB WOMEN
TO DISCUSS
WAR CURE
BY MARY PADGETT


tional Federation of Business and
Professional Women's Clubs at the
eleventh National Conference on
the Cause and Cure Of War, which
will be held at the Washington
Hotel, January 81 to "a inclusive.
These washington delegates are
Mrs. Cora C. Boterweg, 1717 Twen-
tieth st. N. W.; Miss Emily
E. Clark, 5618 Thirty-second st.
N. w; Miss Esther M. Colvin,
5618 Thirty-second st. N. W.; Miss
Carrie M. Davis, 1851 Seventeenth
st. N. W.; Mrs. Helen Duey Hoff.
man, 2744 Thirty-second st. N. W.;
Mrs. Lucy Somerville Howorth,
Hotel Roosevelt; Miss Emily Kneu-
buhl, 1000 Massachusetts, Ave-:
Miss Mae R. Murray, 6314 Second
st. N. W.; Miss Charl Ormond
Williams, 2727 Connecticut Ave-,
and Miss Bertha Wider Nienburg,
of Chevy Chase.
Miss Charl Ormond Williams,
president of the National Fedora
ton, will give a tea in honor of
all the Federation'S delegates at
tending the Cause and Cure of
we conference at her home on
January 81. The Washington
branch of the Business and Pro-
fessional Women'S Clubs will en-
terrain the delegates at dinner
in their honor on January % at
the Washington Hotel.
The Federation is only one of
the eleven national women's or.
CARNATIONS taking part in the con.
ference.
Directors Board Meets
Opening it's sessions Wednesday
morning, the annual mid-winter
meeting of the Board of Directors
of the General Federation of
Women'S Clubs, bringing together
women from every State in the
union and some foreign countries
will continue through Saturday
morning, January 10, the sessions
being held at Federation head
quarters, 1884 N st. N. w.
Mrs. Roberta Campbell Lawson,
president, and the two vice presi-
dents, Mrs. Sadie Orr Dunbar
and Mrs. Walter w. Seymour, will
preside.
Education for Living" the key
note Of Mrs. Lawson's administra-
ton, will be emphasized at the
sessions.
Mrs. Lawson visualizeS as one
forward step in the field of educa-
ton the establishment of an Acad-
envy of Public Affairs, approximate
ing West Point and Annapolis, ex-
cept that it would train women
and men for Government service
both at home and abroad. Repre-
sentative Wesley E. Disney. of
Oklahoma, is sponsoring bill in
troduced at the last session for
the establishment of such an
academy, and he will explain the
provisions of the bill to the board.
DR.. Walter E. Jaeger, professor of
law at Georgetown University,
also will speak on the academy.
DaF11Hg 10 speak
Jay N. Ding" Darling, former
chief of the U. S. Biological Sur
vey, will present the program of
the recently formed North Amer
lean Wild Life Conference, of
which Mrs. Lawson is a member.
Surg. Gen. Hugh S. Cumming,
who heads the advisory board of
the Department of Public Welfare
in the General Federation, will
present some of the most impor-
tant health problems of the ma
ton. emphasizing ways in which
organized women can aid in their
solving.
Col. John Monroe Johnson, AS
sistant Secretary of Commerce,
and Kermit Roosevelt, vice presi-
dent of the United States Lines,
will discuss the American Mer.
chant Marine. Other speakers
will include Mrs. Ellen S. Wood
ward. assistant administrator of
the Federal Emergency Relief Ad-
miniStration and the Works Prog.
ress Administration; Miss Martha
Neinburg, assistant director of the
Woman's Bureau of the DEPART
ment of Labor; Mrs. William
Brown Meloney, editor of This
Week, and Mrs. Grace Morrison
Poole, vice chairman of the De-
partment of International Rela.
lions for the General Federation.
OF interest to local women will
be a discussion Of the enfran-
chisement of residents Of the Dis
trict of Columbia.
The sessions of the board will
be preceded tomorrow, Monday
and Tuesday by meetings of the
executive committee, State direc-
tors, the board of trustees and
department chairmen, and on
Tuesday evening there will be
held a reception for which 1000
invitations have been issued.
The Ladies' Aid of the Rup-
pert Home for the Aged will meet
Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock
at the home of Mrs. Karl Egolf,
41O6 Legation st. N. W.
Mrs. B. Krumke, president, will
preside.
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