Evening star., 1937-11-14

Assemble Tomorrow.
The outstanding woman's organiza-
ton in legislative matters is perhaps
the National League of Women Voters
Its Executive Board C Is members, will
assemble tomorrow at 726 Jackson
place for a weeks session and will dis
cuSs the legislation to be considered
in the special session of Congress.
According to Miss Marguerite M
Wells, the president, the Leagues in
tensive campaign against the spoils
system will continue to be of primary
importance. This campaign is carried
on under the direction of Mrs. George
Gellhorn of st. Louis, Mo. The dis
cussions of foreign policy legislation
will be led by Mrs. Louise Leonard
Wright of Chicago, who recently re-
turned from years intensive study in
Geneva. The League has consistently
advocated discretionary features in the
neutrality law because it believes that
through these, every possible avenue is
left open for settlement of disputes by
conference. The recent deaths from
sulfanilamide have increased the in
terest in the proposed pure food and
drug bill Mrs Harris T. Baldwin of
Washington, second vice president, and
Mrs. Marion A. Cheek of Snyder, N
Y, are working on this law in the hope
of preventing recurrance of such
tragedies.
League Dinner Features
National Representation Talks.
Here in Washington, our community
interest is in the Voteless District of
Columbia League of Women Voters,
the local branch of the national Or
ganization, which concentrates its
efforts on measures of local impor-
tance. 1t has a comprehensive program
of work, which includes, Government
and Its Operation, Economic Welfare
Child Welfare, Education, Legal Status
and Foreign Policy.
The semi-annual dinner meeting oi
this league will be held Wednesday
evening at o'clock at the Y. w. C. A
The feature will be symposium on
national representation for the District
of Columia. Mrs. Louis Gutenberg,
the president, says that each speaker
will be given exactly 3 minutes and
not second more. Before the
symposium is presented Capt. Rhoda
Millikin, the vice president, will move
the adoption of the work program
for the winter. Mrs. Gutenberg will
then turn the meeting over to Mrs.
Charles Weston, who will conduct the
clude Mrs. Eugene Meyer, wife of the
publisher of the Washington Post;
Mrs. Eleanor Patterson, publisher of
the Washington Herald and the Wash
mgton Times; Theodore w. Noyes,
editor of The Star; Mrs. Richard
Hogue, president of the District of
Columbia branch of the A. A. U. w.,
who will represent the home; Mrs.
Henry Grattan Doyle, president of
the Board of Education; Mrs. Gertrude
McNally of the Federal Employees
Union, who will represent labor; Mark
Lansburgh, representing the mer-
chants; Commissioner George E. Al
len, representing the District Govern
ment; Edward F. Colladay, District
Chairman of the Republican National
Committee; Malcolm McConihe, Dis
trict chairman of the Democratic
National Committee; Mrs. Walter
Greenough, National League, chair
man of the Department of Govern
ment. and Mrs. E. B. Mclean.
Acceptances for the dinner have
been received from q number of
guests including Frederic William Vile.
Miss Gwen Geach, Mr.. and Mrs. FL
wood Street, Mrs. Clark Warburton,
Mrs. William Kittle, Mrs. L. B.
Swormsted, Miss Constance Roach,
Mrs. Thomas Howerton and Dr.. Car
rie Weaver Smith.
A reception will be held at $50
when the president, Mrs. Gutenberg.
will receive the guests.
Women's Clubs to Aid
In Census Work.
Women's Clubs all over the United
States are being asked to cooperate
IN the Government unemployment
census. Their contribution to the
work will be with the publicity. Lead
ers are being asked to bring the mat
ter to the attention of their own
groups, to include references to it in
radio speeches, to speak before schools
and to talk about it informally when
ever they have an opprtunity to do
so. In most places, club leaders are
appointed on the Mayors Committees,
but in Washington they are part
Of the District Commissioners Com
mittee, which held its first meeting
last Monday.
The club women appointed to the
committee are: Mrs. Lloyd Biddle,
president, District of Columbia Wom-
ems Club; Mrs. Louis Gutenberg, presi-
dent, Voteless District of Columbia
League of Women Voters; Mrs. Harvey
w. Wiley, president of the Woman's
City Club; Mrs. Richard Hogue, presi-
dent of the A. A. U. W.; Mrs. Karl
Fenning, president, Twentieth Gen.
tury Club, and Mrs. Oscar Nelson,
president of the Petworth Woman's
Club.
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At the Zonta Club anniversary ban
quet last Monday night the president,
Miss Winifred Burwell, explained that
the name was an Indian word mean
ing trustworthy and honest. She said
though the organization was only 18
years old, it had branches In Canada,
Australia, Sweden, Hawaii and Dem
mark, with others in process of forma-
tion.
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Miss Alves Long, who will speak at
the meeting Of the Chevy Chase Club
wednesday and 1t the Womeu's City