Evening star., 1938-01-09

Roberta Campbell Lawson, president
holidays in Tulsa, Okla, has returned
and will preside. The board members
have already begun to arrive to at
tend the preliminary meeting sched-
uled for Tuesday and Wednesday and
to look after various matters con-
nected with their individual clubs.
The program for the week is
crowded. 1t includes both business
and social affairs Plans for the tri%
ennnal convention of the federation,
which opens May 10 in Kansas City,
will be formulated and reports of the
more than 125 federation activities
will be heard. Co-ordinated under
ton, Education for Living" these
activities are grouped under nine de-
partments, whose chairmen will sum-
mariH recent progress. Preliminary
meetings on Tuesday and Wednesday
will include group conferences of the
State presidents, the board of trustees,
department chairmen and the State
directors.
The Right Rev. James e. Freeman,
Bishop of Washington, will open the
formal sessions on Thursday. Other
speakers who will be heard are John
Calvin Brown of the National Reform
Club Representative Wesley Disney of
Oklahoma, DR.. Carl c. Taylor of the
Department of Agriculture and Miss
Elizabeth Achelis of the World Calen-
dar Reform movement. Miss Marga-
ret Cuthbert Of the National Broad
casting Co. will also speak.
It is expected that Secretary Of
Agriculture Wallace will address the
forum luncheon at the Department
of Agriculture on Wednesday. when
consumer producer problems will be
discussed. A program feature of local
interest will be a recital by the sextet
from the music section of the Woman's
Club Of Chevy Chase, of which Mrs.
Philip Gott is the director.
The social high lights of the meet
ing will precede the formal opening.
On Wednesday afternoon Mrs. Roose-
welt will entertain the visitors at
tea at the White House. That eve
ming the annual reception will be
held at the federation headquarters.
A thousand invitations have been
issued for this reception and the guest
list includes the congressional dele
cations from all the States, as well
as many persons prominent in the Of
fetal life of Washington. Still an
other important social event will be
the dinner meeting of the Presidents
Council to be held Friday night at
the Arts Club. Mrs. John H. Kim
ball Of Boston is chairman of this
4 group. Arrangements for the dinner
are being made by Mrs. Frank M.
Hoadley of Maryland. On Wednes-
day Mrs. Felix T. McWhirter Of In
dianapolis will entertain the delega-
tions from Illinois, Indiana, Iowa.
Michigan, Missouri and Ohio at
luncheon at the Iron Gate Inn.
At odd moments during the con-
ference there will be much unofficial
discussion of politics. New officers
OF the federation will be selected at
, the convention in May. This will be
the last board meeting to be held be-
fore that time. Perhaps the slate will
be pretty well made up before the
meetings are over The first vice
president, Mrs. Sadie Orr Dunbar is
the mopposed candidate for president,
but the second place on the ticket is
being contested by Mrs. Walter w.
Seymour, now second vice president,
and Mrs. John L. Whitehurst of Bal
timore. Mrs. Whitehurst is chairman
of the department of education and
the candidate of the Maryland fed
Grafton. She has recently Travelled over
the United States urging club women
to take more active interest in edu-
cational matters and, more specifically,
to indorse the inclusion of character
education In schools as a means Of
checking crime at the source.
There are four candidates for the
post Of second vice president, two for
corresponding secretary and one for
treasurer.
Local representatives who will at
tend the meetings are Mrs. Howard
L. Hodgkins, recently elected director
Of the District Of Columbia Fedora
ton Of Women's Clubs, and Mrs.
Lloyd w. Biddle, president of the
organization. Mrs. Hodgkins, as di-
rector, will be q voting member of
the assembly, and Mrs. Biddle will
attend as a conference member. Mrs.
Edgar Merritt, chairman Of radio, and
Mrs. w. N. Husband, chairman of
headquarters House Committee, will
take part in the discussions as board
members.
It Is not expected the request for
mdorsement Of the resolution calling
for national representation for the
District Of Columbia will come before
this body, as 1t Is not customary for
tho board to consider resolutions at
this meeting. It Is sure to be much
discussed, however, and If 1t is con-
sidered as an emergency resolution
this would bring 1t before the board.
The resolution, II accepted by the gen.
erI federation for Endorsement, will
be presented at the convention in May
by Mrs. J. D. Atwood Of New Mexico,
chairman Of the Department of Amer
~ican Citizenship.
The District federation Is composed
Of 30 clubs, some Of which are also
directly afnliated with the general
federation. These are the Columbia
Heights Art Club, the Philo- Classics
Club. the Excelsior Literary Club, the
Marietta Park Woman's Club, the
Petworth Womsn's Club and the Ia
kokha Park Woman's Club Two clubs.
not members Of the District of Co.
iumbda federation, are directly af1ll-
. lated with the general federation,
They are the Twentieth Century Club
and the Junior Women's Club, No. l,
Of Takoma Park.
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Members Of the League of Women
Voters will make two field trips this
week Is part of their studies Of local
conditions. One Of these will be
visit to the District Jail, with special
interest centering in the quarters as
signed to woman offenders, This trip