Evening star., 1938-02-12
Country Women Seen as Hope
For Part of World Solutions
Mrs. Moseley Arrires
From London to Pro.
mote ParIey.
BY JESSIE FAINT EVANS.

BY JESSIE FAINT EVANS.
Mrs. Robert B. Moseley. organizer
OF the first Kappa Gamma and
Daughters of the American Revolution
chapters for American women in Lon
don and member OF the Executive
Committee of the American Women's
Club in London. is in Washington to-
day in connection with the London
1889 Conference of the Associated
Country Women of the World.
The London conference. Mrs Nose
ley says. will be the first to follow the
Washington conference, which had
such wide influence all over the
world"
Mrs. Moseley is staying at 2o2s
MaSsa achusetts avenue NV.
While nations Of the world appar-
emily are preparing to build bigger and
better navies and contrive means for
becoming more effective in case of war,
the Associated Country Women, Sc
rene in their knowledge that so per
cent of these nations are rural, are
confidently going ahead with plans for
their conference with the conviction
that some Of the answers to world
problems are in their hands.
Admires Mrs. Roosevelt.
Mrs. Moseley considers Mrs. Frank
lin D. Roosevelt IAN effective and con-
structive force for peace among think
ing women everywhere" Her enthu-
siasm for Mrs. Roosevelt is very real
and genuine. She said she found her
"a gracious hostess of aristocratic
bearing, absolutely calm and poised in
all she did and said, who in all likeli-
hood accomplishes more than other
individuals because in addition to per-
fact health. she has the secret Of man
aging her time more effectively"
Last Tuesday Mrs. Moseley attended
one of Mrs Robert c. Howard's cur.
rent event discussions at the Sulerave
Club and found it a most amazing
example of the interest which women
from every walk in life are giving to
public affairs in America"
Still an American.
The wife Of Robert Brainard Nose
ley. European manager of a large
American business enterprise, and
the first member of the American
branch Of his family to go back to
England since 1862" is an American.
She was born in Franklin, Ind. Her
father. DR. Arthur B. Chaffee, q
Princeton graduate. was q clergyman
and college professor in the Middle
West,
She has lived in London ever since
she was married almost Immediately
after her graduation from Denison
College, in Ohio, where she was
member of the Kappa Gamma So
rority.
In addition to her active interest
and furtherance of the London con-
ference of the Associated Country
Women of the World in 1899, Mrs.
Moseley in here in America to cast
a maternal eye in the direction of the
establishment Of their two sons in the
land Of which they are citizens. Rob-
ert, the older, has joined the United
States Army. William is at Exeter.
American farm women" she said,
are going places because of the clar-
ity Of their vision and their ability
to looks facts squarely in the face
without being dismayed by them"
Both Mrs. Moseley and her husband
are important factors in Anglo-Amer-
ican circles in London. He is the secre-
tary OF the Anglo-American lodges for
Masonry in London, having received
his London rank last April in recog-
niticn Of his services to English
Masonry. He is 33d degree Mason
in American Masonic circles.
To Contact Kappa Gammas.
Asked by the Kappa Gan1mas to
organize their first overseas chapter,
Mrs. Moseley was responsible for the
Inauguration of their London group.
Through this unit she has been able
to link the Associated Country Women
with other Kappa Gamma groups. At
present there are four Kappa Gamn1as
on the London Council Of this organ
ization. Mrs. Charlotte Barrell Weir,
national secretary Of the Farm and
Garden group Of the Associated
Country Women, who Is also Kappa
Gamma, has requested her to use a
part of her time in America In con-
tacting the Capital division of its
members who are expecting to at
tend the London conference.
Mrs. Moseley organized and was first
regent Of the first London chapter Of
the D. A. r.. now known as the
Walter Hines Page Chapter.
A member of the Executive Com
mittee Of the London American Wom-
ems Club, she believes with Mrs. Cur
It's Brown, its president for many
years, that wherever American worn-
en- are actively grouped together they
are power for good"
Intelligent and sincere, this group
OF American club women in London
is honestly trying to make the best
Of world affairs as it glimpses them
from its New World background In the
midst Of Old World conditions" she
said. go -.-
'Through lie influence Of this
group since 1870 and ths leadership