The Washington times., 1938-08-01
WOMEN's CLUBS ACTIVITIES:
World Congress Told
OF Earners' Tasks
New York Leader
Speaks at Buda-
pest Session
BY MARY PADGETT

At the opening session of the
International Federation of Busi-
ness and Professional Women
last night in Budapest, Hun
gary, Miss Lena MadeSin Phil
lips, Of New York city, interna-
tional president, told the women
OF many nations that profes-
sional and wage-earning women
throughout the world have q
two-fold task-that of self-pro-
lection and that of service to the
state.
Miss Phillips declared that
each woman had to bring to the
national policy of her own coun-
try her courageous, aggressive
thought and action. The club
leader declared that each pro-
fessional woman must conse-
crate herself to the task of pro-
tecting and promoting the in
1luence and uSefuln eSS Of
women.
! DISTRIBUTION, PROBLEM
Miss Phillips message also car
ried the following views:
"Today's problem is as much
social and spiritual as material.
1t has been found possible to
create enough for all, but we
have not yet been willing whole
heartedly to seek a pattern
which will distribute that
plenty in a way to insure peace
and protection for all men and
women everywhere.
Woman has been the creator
and preserver of life. She has
been charged with the welfare
OF human beings and the friend
" maintenance of human re-
lationShip. Now she must de-
mand that the technique she
has learned in the home be ap-
piled in individual nations and
throughout the world.
In the countries where the
rights of the individual are of
paramount Importance, We must
defend our right to work on
equal terms with men. In the
present chaotic struggle for jobs
we can easily, if illogically, be
sent back to the home. Prob
ably every country has seen a
partial attempt in this direction.
Labor legislation, presumably
for our protection, laws against
work by married women, dis
elimination without law, these
and their kind are familiar to
all. And for them, women, be-
cause of their apathy, are pri-
marily to blame"
3-YEAR OBJECTIVE
Miss Phillips completed her
talk by pointing out the three
year objective adopted by the
Federation last year in Sweden.
Miss Phillips urged the group
to put more women in public
office. to put more women in
executive positions, because
"they have the experience and
the abilities" and she further
urged the women to expose the
fallacies, "relics of another
age. if they ever had vitality,
concerning business and pro-
fessional woman" She con-
cluded:
More than all else, I urge
you to arouse women them
selves to a sense of their own
power and responsibility - be-
cause it offers a sensible way of
putting into practice that
higher social order which our
experience teaches us is possible,
and the imperative need of
which constitutes the crux of to-
days crisis"
Miss Earlene White, of the Dis
trict of Columbia, president of
the National Federation Of
BUSINESS ana PROFESSIONAL Wom-
ems Clubs, has an important
part in the program Of the Con-
gress, which will continue
through Friday.
FEDERATION REPORT
Miss White will present the
Penort of the American Fedora.
ton, and is also scheduled to
address the convention at two
of it's sessions. Her first talk,
scheduled for tomorrow, will be
1.-THE Advantages of the Busi-
ness and Professional Woman in
the New Social Order" and her
second address, on Thursday, is
to be developing Worldwide
Cooperation Among Women"
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