Evening star., 1939-03-19

AIiSu 1lSllt VI IIlc SEASON. LOT memD(
the spring council meeting of the c
re- Is to be held out in San Francisco,
Calf. its program also is of wide
local interest, not only because of the
Washington women who will attend
but because action taken at the
meeting will affect local club pro-
grams.
Hotel Strike Changes
Place of Meeting.
Details of the Democratic women's
conference were carefully outlined
several weeks in advance. but the
strikes at the local hotels resulted
IN two changes in the places of
meeting. Because the organization
did not wish to run the risk of
having a picket line to cross it was
decided yesterday to hold the mass
meeting Wednesday night at the
parish hall of st. Thomas Episcopal
Church, l772 Eighteenth street
NV, which is the church President
Roosevelt attends. 1t was originally
planned for this meeting-the high
light OF the conference.-the be held
at the Shoreham Hotel Francis
B. Sayre, Assistant Secretary of
State, is to deliver the principal
address on international Co-opera-
ton" Other speakers include Clark
Eichelberger, president of the League
of Nations Association of America,
and DR.. Frank Bohn, lecturer and
author. A panel discussion will
follow.
The meeting place of the banquet
Thursday closing the conference,
which was to have been held at the
Mayflower Hotel. with Secretary of
Labor Frances Perkins as one of
the prominent Democratic women
hSpeakers, also will be changed.
!. A. r. House Committee
nairman Busy.
~The opening date of the D. A. R.
Congress seems just around the
corner to Mrs. Frank H. ToWner,
. a local member, who for the fourth
year is acting as chairman of the
House Committee which sets up
1iiC oCt-uP, do oAC CAPAo1Aeu,
smiling.
It's tribute to Mrs. Towner that
she still can smile. for her job in
wolves endless detail Answering the
letters of persons who don't know
what House committee is, and of
others who write for general infor-
nation about what to do while in
Washington, is just minor problem.
What shall I do with my hus-
band while I'm in Washington" is
q popular query, Mrs. Towner said.
II just send an outline Of places in
Washington which should be of in
terest to men sight-seers," she ex-
planned. The Federal Bureau of In
vestigation heads the list and I in
clude the Capitol and the Archives
Building next"
Mrs. Towner said she also expects
to keep bulletin posted during
the conference to give tourists in
formation.
Her committee will have 300 men,
bers from all over the country-10
OF whom will be District representa-
tives. Mrs. Frank S. Clark will be
chairman in charge of the registra-
ton line-"one of the hardest jobs
OF ALL" Mrs. ToWner observed. Mrs
Edward Ryan is chairman Of infor-
nation and Mrs John Louis Homer,
Chairman of badges.
LAcal women will also work out
Transportation for two sightseeing
trips Nto various sections of Vir-
ginia which will follow the confer
ence-trAS, by the way, which
proved very popular when inaugu-
rated last y&ar.
"Our committee IS also in charge
Of concessions" Mrs. Towner added.
These will include exhibits Of the
D. A. r. approved schools as we'll as
booths for florists and persons hand
ing genealogical records, coats of
arms and post cards.
Mrs. Towner works directly with the
ONCE OF the D. A. r. president gen.
eral, though she personally handles
a great deal of her correspondence.
Mrs. Wiley to Make Survey
OF Indian Reservations.
Though the Federation Council
meeting doesn't open until May g.
Mrs. Harvey w. Wiley, one of the
delegates from the District fedora
ton, will begin her trip West in April
Is and will not return to Washing
ton until June IA.
AS new chairman of the division
OF Indian Welfare of the general
Federation, Mrs. Wiley expects to
make her first official surveys of
Indian reservations in Oklahoma,
Arizona and New Mexico.
She also expects to take the H.
day cruise to Alaska which is to leave
Seattle. Wash, May 16. Mrs. Sadie
Orr Dunbar, president of the gen.
eral federation, spent three sum-
mers in Alaska before coming to the
Washington headquarters, and is to
give informal talks throughout the
trip, which more than 100 club
women attending the council are
expected to take. The party will
touch every major port in Alaska
and will also visit some of the towns
in which member clubs of the fed
Grafton are located.
Mrs. Ernest Humphrey Daniel,
president of the District federation,
and Mrs. Lloyd w. Biddle. a di-
rector in the general federation, are
entitled to attend the council in
San Francisco. Delegates from the
District federation, in addition to
Mrs Wiley, include Mrs. lie Verne
Beales, Mrs. Ruth H. Snodgrass and