The Washington times., 1939-01-14
Mayflower Hotel
Scene of Pdrley
On Tuesday
By TINA MARRANZANO

ing every State in the Union,
will convene here next week at
the Mayflower Hotel for the mid
winter meeting, the first of the
new administration under the
presidency of Mrs. Sadie Orr
Dunbar.
Sessions will be held from
Tuesday through Friday, in the
morning at the general head
quarters, and afternoons and
evenings at the Mayflower Hotel.
These chairmen will present
their programs for the coming
three-year period: American
Citizenship, Mrs. F. H. Clausen,
of wisconsin: American Home,
DR.. Josephine L. Pierce, Ohio;
Education. Mrs. Wiley Morgan,
Tennessee: Fine Arts, Mrs. Carl
L. Schrader, of Massachusetts;
International Relations, Mrs.
Frederic Beggs, of New Jersey;
Junior Club Women, Mrs. DaVlo
s. Long. of Missouri; Leglsla.
ton, Mrs. Gustav Ketterer. OF
Pennsylvania; Press and PUP.
licity, Mrs. Fred R. Lufkln, OF
Illinois: Public Welfare. Mrs.
Edwin Bevens. Helena. ARK.
PERFECT PROGRAM
Mrs. Bevens arrived in Wash
tngton yesterday and is spend
ing the morning with Mrs. Dun
bar at the United States Public
Health Service perfecting the
program of her department. DR..
Thomas Parran, Surgeon Gen
eral, is chairman of the advisory
committee of the Public Welfare
Department which includes 2O
of the leading health and wei
fare experts of the country.
Mrs, Dunbar has called an all
dav meeting tomorrow OF the
five officers of the executive
committee and the four chair
men of the board of trustees, at
federation headquarters. Fed
eral aid for education Will oe
discussed, and plans for the
next council of the General
Federation to be held in San
Francisco, May 8-14, will be pre-
sented by Mrs. Frederick q:
BALI, of Indiana, chairman OF
the program committee; Mrs.
Duncan S. Robinson, president
of the California Federation
and Mrs. Edward Dexter Knight.
Discussions will also take place
on the plans for the post-councll
tour of Alaska.
The convention will begin
with a reception given by the
board of directors. in honor OF
the Congressmen and their
wives and Government officials.
The affair will be held on Tues
day evening at the Mayflower
Hotel, during the day the presi-
dents council, directors council
and department chairman will
meet for three sessions. More
than 1000 are expected to at
tend.
Mrs. Roosevelt will be guest of
honor and principal speaker on
Wednesday evening at BIS p. m.
and will address the members,
the board of directors, on Club
Women and Their Responsible
ity to Democracy. Members
Of the board will be entertained
by Mrs. Roosevelt at a tea at
the White House that after
noon.
RADIO WORK
On Friday, Miss Dorothy Cor.
don, will do her regular radio
network program over VOL
from the Mayflower Hotel,
where she will be presented by
Mrs. Harold Vincent Milligan,
chairman of the radio commit
tee of the General Federation.
Miss Gordon will tell THE Story
of Thomas jefferson" There
will also be a musical program.
The District of Columbia Gen
eral Federation of Women's S
Clubs will be represented by
Mrs. Lloyd w. Biddle, director,
who is the only one of the local
women allowed to vote on fed
Grafton affairs; Mrs. Ernest H.
Daniel. president: Mrs. Harvey
W. Wiley, chairman of the divi-
sion of Indian welfare, and Mrs.
W. w. Husband, chairman of
the house and headquarters
committee.
~ Speakers scheduled for the
mid(Winter meeting include DR..
John\M. CasSels, director of the
Institute for Consumer Educa.
tion at Stephens College, Co.
lumbia, Mo, on Wednesday
morning; Senator Arthur Cap.
per, of Kansas, Thursday morn.
ing, his address being a part
Of the program offered by Mrs
Gustav Ketterer. chairman of
legislation; DR.. Parran, DR.. Beat
rice Mcconnell and DR.. Martha
M. Eliot, of the Children's Blu.
reau of the United States De.
partment of Labor, who will
speak on the program devoted
to the department of public
health; DR.. Howard A. Dawson
director of rural service of the
National Education Association
Mrs. william Brown Meloney
editor of This Week.; Osca
L. Chapman, Assistant Secre
tary of the Department o
Interior. will speak at the FIR.
day evening session on tn
public welfare department
symposium, which will be lea
by Mrs. Bevens, and Franci
B. Sayre. Assistant Secretar