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the floor, but there will be no balloting
or discussion. All this will be post
poned until May %, when the meet
ing will be resumed AS soon as these
\ preliminaries are over the Washing
ton delegation to the convention will
hurry away to Sandy Spring to take
the Whitehurst special train, on which
most of the clubwomen from this
immediate section attending the con-
vention will travel
Mrs. Lloyd w. Biddle. president of
the District of Columbia Federation,
will head the local delegation, which
will include Mrs. George Cook. Mrs
Charles Langley, Mrs. Charles P. Key
ser, and it is possible that at the
last moment, Mrs. Otto Hammerlund,
Mrs. Horace j. Phelps and Mrs. E.
Morgan Pryse and others will decide
to join the group. Mrs Edgar B.
Merritt and Mrs. w w Husband will
also take the special" but they will
attend the convention as national
officers. Mrs. Merritt being chairman
of radio for the federation and Mrs.
Husband being the chairman of the
House Committee.
Some Already in Kansas City.
Mrs. Lawson has already left for
Kansas City, as have most of the
staff members at the general head
quarters. Mrs. Tllalia S. Wood, Mrs.
Lawson's secretary, and Miss Caroline
Calvin, the assistant treasurer. accom-
panied Mrs. Lawson. Miss Lorraine
Sternberg Of the research and club
service left Thursday and Miss Vella
Winner and her assistant, Miss Mary
A. Woodwork, went yesterday
Miss WoodWprth, as a member of
the Junior Woman's Club of Chevy
Chase, is delegate in her own right
and will represent not only her own
club, but all Of the junior clubs of
the State Of Maryland. Miss Mildred
Alters. also OF the headquarters staff,
left yesterday.
Two representatives of the Woman's
Club Of Chevy Chase, Mrs. Frank NJ
Hoadley and Mrs. w. L. Redrcw will
leave tomorrow, along with a large
group of clubWomen representing
nearby clubs. In al it is estimated
that there will be some so or more
delegates from this immediate section
Have Two Objectives.
According to Mrs. Biddle, the Dis
trict of Columbia delegation is going
to the convention with two objectives
One is to invite the General Fedora
ton to hold the council meeting,
scheduled for 1899, in Washington,
and the other is to ask for national
endorsement of the sponsorship Of
the yacht, the Queen Arabella, offered
by Willard Rockefeller of New York,
for the use Of the clubwomen in rails
ing funds, for the cancer control work
they are undertaking.
The program of the convention
which opens May 10 and continues
until May II is a full one One of
the most interesting features will be
the election of officers for three
year term. The election of Mrs. Sadie
Orr Dunbar Of Oregon as president
has been conceded, as she has no
opponent. She is expected to come
to Washington at the close of the
convention to take up her residence
in the federation headquarters at
1874 N street NV. while Mrs. Law
son, the retiring president. will go on
to her home in Tulsa, Okla.
There is a spirited rivalry, however,
for the second place. Mrs. John L.
Whitehurst OF Baltimore has made a
strong bid for the Office of first vice
president. Within the last year she
has travelled extensively throughout
the country. speaking to hundreds of
women's clubs il her capacity as
chairman of the department of edu-
cation. One evidence of the backing
she has in this section Of the country
Is the fact that the special train on
which the delegates will travel has
been named in her honor. Her op-
ponent is Mrs. Walter W. Seymour of
Chicago, now second vice president of
the federation, and most Of her not
inconsiderable backing will come from
the Middle West. The results of the
election will be announced on the
morning of May II and the new Off
GERS will take over at the closing ses-
sion that evening.
Speakers Are Outstanding.
number of outstanding speakers
will be heard. Among them are DR..
Thomas Parran, surgeon general of
the United States, and j. Edgar
Hoover, director Of the Federal Bu-
reau of Investigation. Lady Nancy
Astor, whose address will be broadcast
from London, heads the list of women
speakers. symposium on De
mocracy and Religion" will be con-
Quoted by three speakers, with Jewish.
Catholic and Protestant viewpoints
being presented. Edward c. Lawson,
the son of the retiring president, will
also make an address.
There will be a special program for
the junior club women under the lead
ership of Mrs. Ebert w. Shirk. The
junior club women of the General Fed
Grafton, who range in age from 16 to
IS, now number 10000 They are
working to supply blind people with
talking book machines, with seeing
eye" dogs, Braille books, free clinics
and outlets for the sale of their prod
ucts.
Nine resolutions will be considered
by the convention. One of them
expresses the belief that the burden
of taxes, Federal, State and local,
borne directly and indirectly by the
American people. is retarding the free
expansion Of business and crippling
the consumers purchasing power. 1t
requests the Government of the United
States to revise or repeal existing tax
laws that taxes may be reduced, busi-
ness may make normal recovery. unem-
ployment be abated and that the peo-
pie need not buy more Government
service than they can afford Resolu-
tions indorsing the Hull reciprocal
trade treaties and seeking to guaran-
tee the sanctity of trade obligations
will be discussed
Support of the principal of uniform
regulation of marriage and divorce
laws and control Of the tra fir in mari