Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1941-04-18
WOmen's Init.
League Region
Meet April 1873

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Freedom, and Mrs. Mildred Scott
Olmsted, National Organization
secretary, will come to Minneapolis
for the Regional Conference of the
organization to be held at the Cur
tbs Hotel April 10 and 10. DR.. Bus
sey is professor of philosophy at
Goucher College, Baltimore. She
will arrive in time for the perform
ance of the pageant, Toward the
Light" at p. M, Friday, which
will share honors with the seven
o'clock dinner on Saturday as the
highights of the two-day meet
ings. ... H.. ..
The conference theme is "Educa-
ton for Peace and Freedom in a
World at War" Attention the
first morning will be conferred on
problems facing a community in
war time. Rev. Raymond B. Bragg,
minister of the First Unitarian So
ciety, will lead a panel of speak
ers on this subject, composed of
John Thomas from the National
Youth Administration for Youth,
DR.. Gaylord Anderson, Professor Of
Preventive Medicine at the Univer-
sity on health problems, Mr.. Hy-
man Edelman, attorney in Mime
apolis on employment and econom-
ic problems, and Mrs. Robbins Gil
man, from the Northeast Neigh
borhood House in Minneapolis on
civil rights.
At lunch Mrs. Olmsted will be the
featured speaker on ''The Organi-
cation of Community Forces for
Peace and Freedom" and, she will
preside at the meeting irnmsdiately
following to organize the members
and delegates from seven states in
to the North Central Region. Wis
consin, Iowa, North and South Da-
kota, Kansas and Nebraska will be
represented, besides Minnesota.
DEMONSTRATION Processes at Work
in the Nation" will be discussed at
an afternoon round table led by
Mrs. Jean McGilvra Wilcox, state
president Of the organization. The
work of the National Service Board
in providing Volunteer Work camps
for the Conscientious Directors to
War will be explained by Rev. Roy
Burt, associate pastor at Wesley
Church; Jack McLanahan, educa-
tional field worker for the Midland
Cooperative Wholesale, will discuss
consumers cooperation as a posi-
tive trend in the field of economies;
Mr.. Milford Sutherland, instructor
in the Union Educational Center
in Minneapolis, will discuss building
the labor movement. Alice God
frey of st. Paul, member of the
Pacifst Action Fellowship, will dis
cuss the work of the Youth move
ment for social reconstruction, and
Rev. Eliot Marsten, chairman Of
the Minnesota Fellowship of Recon
Citation, will report the Malvern
Conference in England and tell
what the churches are doing in this
country about the basic problems
underlying the present conflict.
Other panels on Saturday will
center on Reconstruction Proc
esses at Work in the World" Be-
ginning at $3.50 Mrs. Henry Benson
VIII lead the discussion on "Mak-
ing the Good Neighbor Policy
Work" Mrs. Allen Roberts Of
Milwaukee will present the w. ]. L.
plan for Western Hemisphere Rela-
tions which viii be discussed by
DR.. James Cuneo, an Argentinian
on the staff Of the University, from
the point Of view Of the South
American nations; while Mr..
Gideon Seymour, editorial writer
on the Star-Journal, will discuss
the same plan from the point of
view of the u. S. business man and
the general public.
From 10:45 to 1900 Mr.. Irving
Levy, chairman of the st. Paul
Jewish Refugee Service, will dis
cuss Refugee Resettlement and
the Migration of. Peoples" and
Mrs. Carl lie Fevre will present
the w. I. L. work with refugees.
DR.. John G. Rockwell will be the
luncheon speaker on Saturday. 1t
will be his first public address since
he was suspended as State Com
missioner Of Education. His sub
Jet will be "The Place of Educa-
ton in a Functioning Democracy"
Later In the afternoon at ESQ Mr.,