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honOr at IunCHeoll VI Iile
4 4 District of Columbia League
of Women Voters at the MayfloWer
Hotel on April s. The woman men,
bers of Congress have also been in
Nted.
The program will include skits on
the 40-hour bill, to be presented by
Mrs. John Allen Morgan'S department
of government and economic welfare;
on national representation. to be pre-
sented by Mrs. Hedley v. Cookies de-
partment of government and its
operation; on the Kerr Coolidge i'm
migration bill. to be presented by Mrs.
Louis Ottenberg's department of gov
ernment and the legal status of wom-
en-. and THE Little Red Rider" by
Mrs. Edward Chapin's department of
government and education. A report
will be made on the Juvenile Court bill
for the District of Columbia, which
Is now being considered in Congress.
The executive board met at the
BrookingS Institution on March 20.
Mrs. Clara Boyer and Mrs. Louis
Gutenberg were named delegates to
the biennial convention Of the Ma
tional League of Women Voters, which
is to be held in Cincinnati April %
to May /.
The board requested support for
District of Columbia appropriation
large enough to cover salaries for all
teachers and other school employees
requested by the Board of Education.
They also protested against denying
the character education experiment
its important third year.
Mrs. Gutenberg was authorized by
the executive board to conduct study
of conditions at the National Training
School for Girls, and to bring in
recommendations.
Mrs. John Allen Morgan enter
tained with a luncheon March % in
honor of Mrs. Roger Corbitt, chair
man of the Subcommittee on Housing,
who is leaving Washington. Mrs j.
c. McCaskill will succeed Mrs. Corbitt
as chairman of the Housing Com
mIttee.
Miss Sybil Baker, director of play
grounds; Miss Louise Mcclure, direc-
tor of social work in the Juvenile
Court, and Joseph Kassius of the
crime prevention department of the
metropolitan police, met March "a
with Mrs. A. j. Altmeyer's depart
ment of government and child well
fare to discuss various interests and
activities which might be developed
among young persons with view to
preventing delinquency. Mrs. Nc
CaSkjll led the discussion
District of Columbia Federation of
Women's Clubs-The Senate Appro-
priations Committee was requested TO
retain the four probation officers on
the District of Columbia pay roll and
to repeal section Is of the economy
act, which pertains TO married women
in the Government service. at a meet
ing last Monday at the Raleigh Hotel
Mrs. Ernest H. Daniel, vice president,
presided.
Mrs. E. Morgan Pryse. chairman of
legislation. will be glad to come before
any club to speak on one or both of
the bills, upon request.
Mrs. Arthur C. Watkins, second vice
president, presented several suggested
changes in the constitution and by
laws of the federation, upon which
action will be taken later.
The federation voted SIS to the
Symphony Orchestra fund and S25 to
the Red Cross food relief fund.
The music was presented by the
music department of the Takoma Park
Woman's Club. 1t presented a choral
ensemble, with Mrs. E. L. Green as
director, Mrs Catherine Sale English
soloist, and Mrs. Waldo Schmidt, ac-
Companist.
Miss Mary Ward, commissioner Of
immigration at Boston, spoke on the
work of the immigration Office.
Mrs. E. w. Shaw, chairman of the
Bible literature section, announces
on April Z her section will join in the
Lenten service to be conducted by Dr.
Sizoo at the Mayflower Hotel at 1870
am.
"Contemporaneous Poetry" will be
the subject of the book review to be
held under the auspices of the Lit
erature Committee at the Little Thea
ter at Jelleff's, 1916 F. street, at II
am. Wednesday.
Miss Althea Anderson, readers ad-
wiser of poetry and fiction at the main
Public Library, will give the review,
under the direction of Mrs. K. Hiding
Bell, vice chairman of the Literature
Committee.
American Association of University
Women.-Tomorrow, following the tea
at 4 pm, DR.. Charles Moore, chair
man of the National Commission of
Fine Arts, will give an illustrated
talk on washington Tomorrow" Miss
Adele Hager Stamp dean of women
of University of Maryland, will be the
hostess.
The Hospitality Committee has ar
ranged a club amateur night next
Wednesday. There will be supper
at $50 o'clock. Following, at 8
o'clock, Mrs. Lyman Swormstedt, i'm
personating Maj. Bowes, will hear all
applications.
The Martha MacLear poetry group
will meet Thursday at II am. iii the
lounge. The program for April and
May will be given over to a study of
some of the most outstanding of the
British poets of the postwar period.
Mrs. Howard Torbert will read and
discuss the poetry of w. H. Auden.
Following luncheon, Mrs. Joseph T.
Owens will read the poetry of Leonie
Adams and talk of her as a meta
physical poet.
The duplicate contract section will
play Friday at 7:30 pm. In the large
dining room and the auction section
will play in the private dining room
District Division, U. d. c., held a
bridge party at the Mayfower Hotel.
Mrs. Richard A. Allen, president, was
assisted by Mrs. Rosa Wood, chairman
of the entertainment.
The Children of the Confederacy.
under the direction of Mrs. William H.
Do third viro 1rnci6ent and