Evening star., 1936-03-08


MISS GRACE E. FRYsINGER.
ference of Associated Countrywomen
of the World.
This last group will meet in Wash
ington from May 81 to June IL and
the Craftsmanship Of 1t for the United
States would be q full-time job in it
self for most women, not the avoca-
tional interest that Miss Frysinger is
making of it as her present pet side
line.
To the plans for this meeting Mrs.
Franklin D. Roosevelt has already de-
voted two of her women's press con-
ferences. About $50 United States
farm women have given their inten-
ton to attend from that area over
which Miss Frysinger has jurisdiction,
with $500 expected as delegates when
the convention gets under way. From
New York State there will be 40 mo-
torcades alone, with a car for each
county. A hundred farm women have
indicated they plan to attend from
Kansas and Kentucky alone Fifty
women are enrolled from Indiana,
with registrations coming in every day
from such divergent communities as
California, Nevada, Utah and Missis-
sippi.
Mass meetings, White House gar
den party with President and Mrs.
Roosevelt both receiving the delegates,
a special Sunday service at the Wash
ington Cathedral, evening receptions,
round table conferences. pilgrimages
to nearby points Of interest and land
grant colleges, pageant Of the ma
tions, with the international delegates
and many of Washington's diplomatic
corps in national costume, and final
ceremony around the Washington
Monument, with a display of the flags
of all nations. will be among the fea-
lures of this conference.
Mrs. Roosevelt to Speak.
Mrs. Roosevelt and Mrs. Wallace,
wife of the Secretary of Agriculture,
are taking great interest in the con-
vention and will be in attendance at
its forum meetings as we'll as at its
social functions.
Mrs. Roosevelt will be the conven-
tons guest of honor at its opening
meeting at noon on June l, at which
time she will deliver an address.
Mrs. Alfred Watt of London, presi-
dent of the Associated Farm Women
of the World, will preside at the meet
ings and Lady Aberdeen of Scotland,
at whose instigation the first inter-
national meeting of the organization
was held In London in 1929, will greet
the delegates at the same opening ses-
sion.
The farm women of Virginia are
sending special invitation to Lady
Nancy Astor to attend because she is
a native Of their State.
Kentucky women are hoping that
Mrs. Robert Bingham, wife of the
United States Ambassador to the Court
Of st. James, who represents the Ken
lucky Federation of Farm Women on
the Executive Committee at interna-
tional headquarters in London, can ar
range to come to be a member of their
State delegation.
Among the foreign delegates will be
Mrs. Frank Gresham, Mrs Miriam Nc
KenZie and Miss Elsie NJ Zimmern
from London; Mrs. Godfrey Drage, j.
p, president of the Carnavonshire
Women's Institutes, Wales; Lady Cam
pion, representing West Australia. who
Is social worker in Girl Guides, Red
Cross and nursing; Mrs. Henrietta Ir-
wellstanding. for the Palestine coun-
trywomen; Frau Martha Silverhjelm,
the representative of the Swedish
Housewives Association: Mrs. An
struther Gray, magistrate in Fife,
Scotland, representing Scottish Rural
Women's Institutes: Miss Lille Large,
New Zealand; Mrs. A. E. Walker of
Ontario, president of the Federated
Women's Institutes Of the Dominion
Of Canada; Miss Esther Thompson, di-
rector of Women's Work Extension
Service, Department of Agriculture,
Winnipeg, Manitoba; Mrs. r. B. Colo
ton. Lorne Park, Ontario, chairman of
Peace Education and International Re-
lations. and many more from the four
corners of the earth.
Simple Clothes to Be Worn.
In all Of the committees advance
literature, Miss Frysinger, as general
chairman for the United States, Is
emphasizing that this is to be one
gathering of women where simple
clothes are to be the order of the con-
vention, even for its most elaborate
occasions, for she does not want one
woman to be able to say Il would
have gone to that conference If I
could have afforded the new clothes
necessary for the trip" The stress of
this coming together Of country women
is to be upon ideas not upon clothes.