The Washington times., 1938-05-16
Attention Focused
On Federation
Convention
Nv MARY PADGETT

BY MARY PADGETT
washington club women have
their attention focused today
on Kansas City, Mo. From that
j point comes exciting news Of
! the triennial convention Of the
, General Federation Of Women's
Clubs.
: Our own women who are ct.
tending the convention include
Mrs. Lloyd w. Biddle, president
Of the District Federation Of
! Women's Clubs; Mrs. Edgar B.
| Merritt, national chairman Of
: radio; Mrs. W. w. Husband, ma
tional chairman Of the house
committee; Mrs. Charles P. Key
ser, Mrs. Charles Langley, Mrs.
H. X. Fulton and Mrs. George
e. Cook, ST., delegates.
| ELECTION TODAY
! Principal interest today Is in
the election of officers for the
next three years. Mrs. Sadie
Orr Dunbar, of Portland, Ore,
who is Just completing ten years
service in the general fedora
J., tons executive committee, is
the unopposed nominee for presi-
! dent. Mrs. Roberta Campbell
Lawson, Of Tulsa, Okla, is the
retiring president.
Mrs. Johr L. Whitehurst, Of
Baltimore, and Mrs. Walter Sey'
: mour, Of Chicago, are candidates
! for first vice president. There
are four women running for Sec
ond vice preSident-Mrs. George
w, Adams, Of AndaluSia, Ala;
Mrs, La Fell Dickinson, Keene.
Il, H; Mrs. John Speed Harvey,
Huntington, w. va, and MRS.
Harold c. Bogert, of Akron, Colo.
News Of interesting speakers
and reports Of national chair
men at today's gathering also
comes to us. Mrs. Ebert w.
ehirk, of Redlands, Cal, chair.
man Of the Department OF
Junior Club Women, told the
convention that the great ma
tiooal dream Of the junior club
women is to supply all blind
people with talking book ma
chimes seeing-eye dogs, Braille
hooks, free clinics and outlets
for the sale Of their crafts. Mrs.
Ehirk declared:
JUNIORS ACTIVE
- Seventy thousand Junior
women, ranging In age from IL
to IS. form q lively department
Of the General Federation. They
are organized in nearly every
Htate. with two clubs in Alaska,
one in Australia, and some In
other foreign countries. All
across the country the Junior
club women are putting their
shoulders to the wheel where
ever needed in communities. not
univ filing the role of Santa
Claus for hundreds Of thousands
OF families, running Red Cross
drives and Community Chest
campaigns, but performing an
amazing array Of fine commuln-
ity-buil di ng accomplishments,
establishing public libraries.
working for hospitals and run
ming summer camps"
Mrs. ]. =. Johntz, Of Abilene,
kan, chairman Of the war vet
Grams committee, told the Tri-
ennial Convention, in the report
OF her committee work, that
"eternity can never erase the
horror and the disappointment
Of the experience Of the World
War for veterans"
1T is for these men, broken
i IN body and spirit, that we carry
on our work with enthusiasm
| and purpose, asserted Mrs.
,Johnts. "Ht Is we'll to answer the
! call Of the disabled war veterans
! and to hold high their torch Of
! patriotism, and sacrifice. The
! women of the general fedora
ton are carrying on their spirit
and building for q warless world
and Q democracy Of justice,
faith and right"
7 STUDYING WRITING
: Thousands Of clubwomen are
finding their way back to school
70 study journalism or thePtech-
nioue Of writing for the press,
according to the report of Mrs.
J. Henry Highsmith, Of Raleigh,
N. c., chairman of the Depart
ment of Press and Publicity.
Mrs. Highsmith said, More than
half the States are now engaged
In some method of training club
women to write more acceptably
for the press and this is result
ing In higher type of club news
and a finer working spirit be-
tween newspapers and women's
clubs than has been known BE-
fore"
One of the distinguished
speakers today also included
Milo Perkins, assistant admin
istrator of the Farm Security
Administration, Washington, D.
C. He stated that nearly 1,700..
900 farm families have an an