Evening star., 1938-12-25

Gu III llle WlSlllllS game Wele. Ml D.
Sadie Orr Dunbar, General Fedora
ton of Women's Clubs; Mrs. Ernest
Humphrey Daniel, District Fedora
tiQn of Women's Clubs; Mrs. Louis
Gutenberg, Voteless District of Co.
iumbia League of Women Voters;
Mrs. Robert Olesen, Washington
branch of the American Association
Reynolds, National Council of Cath
olic Women; Mrs E. c. Montgomery,
Twentieth Century Club; Miss Ear
line White, National Business and
Professional Women's Clubs; Mrs.
Edgar B. Merritt Political Study
Grub: Miss Marjorie Webster, Wom-
ems City Club; Miss Emma T. Hahm
lonta Club and Mrs Frank A. Lin
eel WomanS Council of the Wash
ington Federation of Churches.
Mrs. Dunbar Hopes
For Test of Strength.
Here are the wishes they are
thinking about this Christmas Day:
Mrs. Sadie Orr Dunbar: Il wish
for clubWomen challenge during
the coming year that will test their
potential strength. I think it may
come. don't know which field it
will come in, whether in world peace
or public welfare, but l think women
have been in training long enough to
make rich contribution to human
welfare. I wish, too, that women's
organizations will unite for the So
luton of some major problems"
Mrs. Louis Gutenberg: It wish for
better understanding and appre-
citation Of the principles of Democ-
racy among people and a determi-
nation to work for those principles
in order that Democracy may work
for us. 1 wish that in a country,
which prides itself in a government
OF the people, by the people and for
the people, the residents of the Dis
trict of Columbia might be accorded
the same rights and privileges of
government as now obtain
throughout the Nation.
IT wish that womens clubs in the
District would make an effort to in
terest the wives of the incoming
members of Congress, who are to re-
SIDE here for a number of years, in
the civic and social welfare pro-
gram of the city as well as in its So
cial life. Many of these congress
sional women have been civic lead
ers In their own communities and
have much to contribute. Last, but
not least, I wish for an incoming
Congress that will be sympathetic
and understanding in its attitude to-
ward the Capitals welfare problem"
Mrs. Robert Olesen: The Amer
lean Association of University Wom-
en-, it has been said, is a design for
living for the educated woman. NV
Christmas wish would be that this
design should increasing reflect the
complex aspects of our age. To be
an effective pattern it must not only
reflect the culture of the era but
also the social and economic, ma
tlonal and international problems of
!, the day.
Merely being aware of these prob
lens is not enough. knowledge
mEst be translated into action based
upon the facts. In assuming such
community leadership, the college
woman can cancel some of the debt
she owes society for her education.
1t is my wish that the coming year
will see more college women aware
of this obligation to the social order
|. in which they live, ready to keep
abreast of the times and willing to
put their training to effective use.
Miss Webster Hopes
For Understanding for Peace.
Miss Marjorie Webster-"I wish
for the Women's City Club that its
Goth anniversary will be the finest
because of the efforts for 10 years of
its past leaders and all those who
have served
"And for the Nation as a whole,
wish that in the hearts of all great
leaders of nations and within all
countries, great and small, the real
meaning of peace on earth and
good will toward men could be
found
Mrs. Earl Reynolds-"Two thou
sand years ago, the message of peace
on earth to men of good will rang
out over the hills of Bethlehem.
Shepherds and kings met together
in the stable where lay the Christ
Child and knelt in simplicity, offer
ing their gifts.
"It is the hope and the prayer OF
the National Council OF Catholic
Women throughout the United
States that through deeper and
m6fe universal consideration OF the
tremendous import of Christs COM
ing amongst us, there may come
about in the hearts of men a re-
birth of that good will whose fruit
Is the peace that men and nations
so widely and universally crave
Mrs. Frank A. Linzel-'I wish that
men of whatever race or creed may
on this day so reflect the peace OF the
Christmas season as to SOW the seed
Of world sympathy and understand
ing, which alone can save our civil
ization.'
Miss Earline White-"I am wish
ing for year of happiness brought
about by the accomplishment OF our
hearts desire and a fullness OF serv-
Ice to others. The Joy of the year
will be measuring up fully to the
privileges of American citizenship
through local clubs, State groups and
the national federation
Mrs. Ernest Humphrey Daniel
The incest thing I could wish for
clubwomen is that they might catch
the deeper meaning of the day and
carry the spirit of Christmas through
the year, that the spirit of self
effacement, the JOY of family re-
union, the love of little children and
the kindly thoughts which prompt us
to do the noble things at this season
may abide with us always"
Sees Christmas Spirit
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