Evening star., 1937-10-31


tion of junior groups within the senior
clubs of such Importance that a spe-
cial department has been organized to
foster this work all over the country.
The American Foundation for the
Blind is the national philanthropy
with which all of these JUNIORS are CO.
operating They are selling pictures
of Helen Keller to help the fund along.
The Chevy Chase Woman's Club has
recently reorganized its Junior Sec
ton, the Twentieth Century Club has
group working for Goodwill Indus
tries and the Glendale tuberculosis
Hospital. The American Association
of University Women, receiving into
membership a continual influx of
younger college graduates, has a
group organized for social activities
and for some serious study as we'll.
The leader of the work with Junior
groups in the clubs belonging to the
D. c. Federation, is Mrs. Byron Coon.
A number of the member clubs spon-
sor junior groups, notably the Marietta
Park Club, which has two, of varying
ages.
The Takoma Park Junior Woman's
Club is the first with definite age
limitations to be organized in the Dis
trict. This is composed of college girls.
business girls and young married
women between the ages of 16 and 80.
It Is under the direction of Mrs. John
T. Lucker and meets once month at
the Jessup Blair Community House.
Having been established for more than
year it has sufficient standing for
admission into the D. C. Federation
of Women's Clubs, with which it is
afiliated. Its purposes are both cul-
tural and social.
District of Columbia Federation of
Women's CIubs-The report of the
Committee on Ethical Education, pre-
ssnted by Mrs c. H. Pierce. chairman,
at the meeting of the federation last
Monday stressed the fact that before
& further developments in character edu-
cation can be successfully carried out
in the public schools of the District. it
will be necessary to have increased fa-
cilities for fundamental education,
which is the basis of character educa-
ton. Asserting that the District
schools we're understaffed and under
equipped she asked club Representatives
to urge their organizations to support
the budget being asked of Congress by
the Board of Education and to discuss
the problem with their clubs.
Mrs. Pierce stated later she thought
Congressrhen from nearby States,
whose constituents benefit by the fact
that their children may attend the
District schools without paying tuition,
should be willing to support the re-
quested budget
Dean Virginia Gildersleeve of Bar !
nard College, international president !
of the Federation of University Wom
en-, was among the many distinguished
woman educators attending the coun-
Gil meeting of the A. A. U. w. last |
week at the clubhouse.
She said that general conditions In !
Europe were unfavorable to educated |
women and commented particularly on |
the plight of the Russian women in |
Paris, who, exiled at the time of the
revolution, are now growing old and
becoming unable to earn their own
living.
Although she sees no prospect Of |
q re-esta ablishing groups of educated |
women in Germany. she thinks there |
is some possibility of this taking !
place in Italy She asked for the CO.
operation of the American university |
women in establishing organized !
groups of university women in the |
Latin-American countries.
The Business and Professional Wom- |
ems Club, which is making a study of !
"Our Towns Business" began its in
vestigations Monday evening with a
survey of the local press.
There was speaker from each paper
and each speaker had a deadline to
meet. An extra" purporting to be
cola boration of the four papers was
issued by the Publicity Committee of
the Club. The real scoop" of the
evening was scored by Col l.. NJ Her.
ron, advertising director of The Eve
ming Star, who unaccompanied, sang
two improptu solos, "The Caissons Go
Rolling Along and Taps.
Miss Marjorie Webster, chairman
Of the Program Committee, will be
In charge of the next meeting, which
will have for its subject, What Wash
ington Does For Its Underprivileged
Children"
Mrs. Roberta Campbell Lawson,
president of the General Federation
of Women's Clubs, Is also one of
three vice presidents of the Pan
Pacific Women's Association, a con-
federation Of women's clups in coun-
tries bordering on the Pacific Ocean.
One of the other vice presidents is
from China and another from Japan.
The chairman of the Program Com
mittee for the next meeting, which
will take place in 1910, is lady
from New Zealand. Dean Mary
Louise Bollert of the University of
British Columbia is the president of
the association.
The Twentieth Century Club will
meet Thursday at IL am. at the
Y. W. c. A. Mrs. Georgette Ross
Howard will talk on Coronation
Commentaries"
The international outlook section
will meet tomorrow at 2:30 at the
Y. w. c.. A. Mrs. Charles Will
Wright will speak on Travelling in
the Balkans in Spring" Harry Lee
Franklin, an economist. will speak
on Germany. Yesterday and Today"
Mr. Franklin spent many years in
Germany. both before the Hitler re-
gime and after it was established.
Mrs. j. K. McClintock, vice chairman
Of the section, will preside.
The Takoma Park Women's Club
will meet Tuesday at 1890 pm. in
the town hall, with the president,
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