The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-04-16
School OF Government
For Women Opens May z
Seven Cabinet Members With Govt Department Build
ings for Class Rooms to Feature National Institute

Curriculum for school of gov
eminent for women, with seven
cabinet members as instructors, has
just been issued by Mrs. Thomas
F. McAllister, head of the Women's
division of the Democratic national
committee.
Government department. buildings
will serve as class rooms for this
three-day National Institute of
Government to be held in Washing
ton, D. c., May 2, 3 and 4.
Instructor in political technique
will be James A. Farley postmaster
general, often acclaimed as greatest
party organizer of present times. He
will address the opening session at
which the round table subjects will
be How to Win Votes with Facts"
Financing Organization" "Princi-
pies of Effective Speaking" Con
tacting First Voters" and How to
Organize the Precinct"
National Defense will be discussed
by the secretary of war, Harry H.
Woodring. Conservation of our ma
tional resources, a subject on which
Secretary of Interior Harold L.
Ickes is a acknowledgements author
ity, will be discussed by him, and
conservation exhibits will be shown.
From the secretary of the treasury,
Henry Morgenthau, the women stu
dents of government will learn
about the budget and the national
debt. Attorney General Robert H.
Jackson will lead the discussion
Can Business and Government
Work Together" Presentation of
"The Farm Program of the Roose-
welt Administration" by the secre-
tary of agriculture, Henry A. WAL
lace, will be followed by the show
ing of two famous federal films,
1.-THE River" and Farm and City
Forward Together" Labor Secre-
tary Frances Perkins will instruct
on 1.-THE Labor Policies of the
Roosevelt Administration" and ex-
hibits showing Labor Advances
Under the New Deal" will furnish
visual education for the institute
enrollees.
On other governmental subjects
also, the students in this intensive
short course will lhave information
directly from the sources. The pro-
jected health program for the ma
ton will be presented by Miss Jo-
sephine Roche, chairman of the in
terdepartmental health committee,
and two o her aides, DR.. Warren F..
Draper, assistant to the U. S. sur
geon general, and DR.. Martha Eliot,
assistant chief oh the Children's
Bureau. Social security will be dis
cussed by two members of the So
cial Security board, Arthur ]. Alt
meyer, chairman, and Ellen S.
Woodward. Mrs. Florence S. Kerr,
assistant commissioner of the work
projects administration, will have
as her subject Federal Aids to Un-
employment" Nathan Straus, ad-
ministrator of the United States
Housing Authority will talk about
low-cost housing and removal of
city slums. Representative Mary T
Norton of New Jersey, chairman of
the house labor committee, will be
leading speaker at a round table on
wage and hour legislation. The
work of the much-discusSed ma
tional labor relations board will be
presented by Charles Fahy, its gen.
eral counsel Federal services to
women and children will be dis
cussed by Miss Mary Anderson, di-
rector of the women's bureau, and
Miss Katharine F. Lenroot, chief of
the Children'S Bureau.
1t is highly probable that no such
array of national talent was ever
before massed on one-short course
faculty. The newly-published cur
riculum sets forth: Administrators
you have read and heard about will
answer your questions about issues
and problems of government. EX-
hibits and motion pictures will por-
tray seven years of New Deal ac-
compliShments. Round tables will
give instruction in party organiza-
ton and campaign technique"
Extra-curricular activities at the
Institute of Government will be al
most as remarkable as the faculty
lineup.
The reception of the opening eve
| ming will introduce the students Of