Evening Star Newspaper, December 16, 1928, Page 67

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., CLUBWOMEN OF THE NATION Youth Defends “Devil.” Great crowds assembled at Innerlei- then Peeblesshire, Scotland, on a recent Saturday to witness the annual cere- mony of “The Cleikum,” referred to in Sir Walter Scott’s “St. Ronan’s Well.” The origin of the ceremony is based on 737. The patron saint was represented by the head boy of the public school, who was duly installed and armed with a monk's' pastoral staff to “check the devil.” Having “checked” him, he saw that the effigy of his satanic majesty was duly destroyed by fire. The cere- mony was impressive, and the youth's DECEMBER 16, 1928—PART German Women Lead Men. Women are vying with men for domi- Buring the last Summer semester 1 nance in the business and professional world of Germany, according to statis- ties just issued. At the present time 11,005,000 German girls and women are full-time workers in professions, busi- nesses and trades, which is nearly one- o O . tail trade are women, as are nearly 75 er cent of the assistants in stores. SIS AR Sl GOTH URG, Sweden (#).—One of of every 10 students in the 23 universi- | o vo,- amps in the world, a Swed- ties of Germany was a woman. At Ber- | lin University alone were 1,318 female | ish thre students pleted shows that the intense applica- tion that is required to insure profi- alling sticker of 1855, mis- An investigation just com- | printed in yellow instead of the regular green, has just been acquired by a third more than in pre-war years. More victory over the devil .was loudly than half of all persons engaged in re- Important Meetings Scheduled Here in January—Mrs. Sippel jine fnaary siory of & combat with the devil engaged in by St. Ronan, In- ciency in the higher professions has not lfiolhmburt philatelist, John Ramberg, i nerleithen’s patron saint, who died in injured women'’s natural faculties. for 37.500 crowns. cheered by the throng of students. — Speaks—Lady Heath Addrcsses National Woman's party—Homc Economists. BY LEILA MECHLIN, WO meetings of importance to clubwomen will be heid in Washington in January. The annual Midwinter meeting of the board of directors of the General Federation of Women's Clubs will be held at hestiquarters the week of January 7, with$Mrs. John W. Sip- pel, president, in the chair. The fol- jowing week, Washington will play host- to the delegates to the Fourth Na- | pnal Conference on the Cause and Cure of War, who will convene here January 15 to 18. Many of the feder- 2tion board members are expected to remain over for this meeting. which is of special interest to the clubwomen of this organization as it is the larg- est of the several organizations spon- soring the conference. Forty-one State conferences will be held prior to the Washington conclave to urge ratification of the Kellogg peace pact by the United States Senate. These are being held under the aus- pices of the national committee. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt will pre- side over the conference sessions. E: laining the campaign being sponsor v her group, Mrs. Catt said recently “Our campaign has no connection | with the presidential election, candi- | dates or platforms. A great movement has been sweeping over the world de- manding peaceful methods as substi- tutes for war in tie solution of dis- putes between nations. That yearning of the human race for peace Izs found jts expression in the Briand-Kellogg | treaty, now sometimes being referred | to the Paris pact. In organizing public sentiment in _ communities | throughout, the United States for the | pact, we have adopted the slogan, ‘Build friendships, not warships, for | national defense.’” Every State in the Union and the District of Columbia will be represented | at the board meeting of the General | Federation, opening the second week in | January. The board consists of the | officers, State directors, trustees and | department chairman, State presi- | dents and division chairmen attend the | board meetings s conferance members, It is expected that the meeting will bring* to the Capital City between 75 and 100 of the leading clubwomen of | the country. | The early days of the week will be given over to meetings of the executive committee. There will also be special conferences of directors, State presi- dents and department chairmen, and the later days will be devoted to meet- ings of the full board, at which time, many important and interesting subjects germane to federation work will be thoroughly discussed. The outstanding social event connect- ed with the board meeting will be the reception, which will be held in the | evening early in the week. It is on this occasion that the lesders in the life and thought of the club movement of the country receive the members of Congress and thelr wives and other leading representatives of the official and social life of Washington. Invi- tations to this function are extended ot only in the name of the federa- tion, but in the case of Senators and Representatives the cards of the club- women from their States are inclosed, thus giving the affair a real personal element. These receptions are account- ed among the brilliant and notable events of the Washington social season. * K ok * JMRS. JOHN W. SIPPEL, giresident of the General Federation of Wom- en’'s Clubs, is fulfilling December speaking engagements in Illinpls and in nearby Maryland and Virginia, On ‘Wednesday of this week she wi" wake her last address of the vear, speaking before the Woman's Club of Chevy Chase, Md. This past week she ad- dressed the Woman's Club of Roanoke, Va., and the Danville Woman's Club, Danville, Va. During the first week in December she spoke to the National Council of Women in Chicago and be- e the Kensington Woman's. Club of | ‘est Kensington, Md. 8 .On the occasion of the opening of the Pederal Industrial Institution for Wom- en at Alderson, W. Va., Mrs. Sippel made a notable address, reviewing the Jong struggle to obtain a Federal prison for women which was initiated by a clubwoman and which was final crown- ed with success largely through the untiring effort of women’s organiza- 5. “The first proposal came from one: of the organizers of the District of Co- lumbia Federation, Mrs. J. Ellen Foster, in 1908, said Mrs. Sippel. Mrs, Foster, as inspector of Federal womair prisoners in the Department of Justice, reported to the women of the Nation the intol- erable conditions under which women convicted of violating the Federal laws ‘were maintained. She challenged .the ‘women's organizations of the Nation to secure proper institutions where these women might be trained and helped to overcome the defects which had led them to commit crime. Mrs. Foster aled the year she made this appeal to the women of America. “The years went on, women Wwere anted the vote; a woman, Mrs. Walker illebrandt, was called to the office of | Assistant Attorney General, and found that' the PFederal prisons were in her department. She also found that still| there was not institution for woman | prisoners. and that their number was | steadily increasing. “Mrs. Willebrandt appealed to, the General Federation and the Women's Christian Temperance Union for help. Both organizations responded. The Ge! f@%@%@flg A Permanent (S = Bift Commercial Art Interior Decoration Costume Design Day and Evening Adult Classes Childven's Satarday Morningf®) Class Felix Mabhony’s PRational School Fine & Applied Art @oun. Auve. & M 1747 Rhode Island Ave. North 1114 PEREREDIER ERCRERERERERERCRERE : Ngpreazess | eral Federation called a conference in| in international law. “The rapid growth September, 1923, at which were present | of education among women is inevitably the representatives of 22 national or-| accompanied by an increasing demand ganizations of women and leaders in| for industrial equality between men and work with delinquent women, including | women,” said Mrs. Litt, “many of the Dr. Katharine Bement Davis and Mrs.| educational leaders themselves being Jesse D. Hodder. | strong advocates of complete equality “As a result of this conference legis- between the sexes.” lation was introduced into Congress in| In the various countries visited by December, 1923, sponsored in the Sen-| Mrs. Litt she reports active work of na- ate by Senator Curtis. All clybs fed- | tional organizations, whose purpose is erated with the General Federation re- | to bring abdut industrial equality, Far ceived a report explaining the facts.| back in the remote Lebanon Mountains Over 2,300 wdmen'’s clubs, representing | a group of 40 women has been or- every Stale, adopted resolutions request- | ganized to work for this end. Mrs. Litt ing Congress to pass the biil. Congress | sees these organizations as a part of a responded and the bill was passed dur- | world-wide movement for complete ing the time of the biennial conven- quality between men and women. tion of the General Federation at Los | Angeles in 1924, President Coolidge, at | N, J, said to be the youngest lobbyist the request of (he federation, appointed | in {he halls of Congress, is staying at Miss Jafiray as the representative of | the National Woman's Party headquar- the federation on the board of advisors | ors, while she lends her efforts to the to the institution, and she has kept the | font being waged by the feminists to Miss Constance Carpenter of Newark, | Christmas | federa.ion fully informed as to the progress of the institution.” * ok ok R ’l‘l{E reception in honor of Lady Mary | Heath of England was the high spot in the activities of the National Wom- an's Party for the past week. The af- fair Tuesday night was said to be the most brilliant which has ever been held by the feminists in their historic head- quarters on Capitol Hill. mrs. Harvey W. Wuey presenied th> zuesis to Lady Hcath. She was assisted i the line Represntative ddiih Nourse Rogers, Katherine Langley of Kenti Miss_Ruth Litt of ivew York, Mrs. Emile Berliner, Miss Doris | Stevens, Mrs. Isabel McDermott, Miss Maude Younger, Mrs. Bernita Sheiton Matth>ws and Miss Mabel Vernon. Lady Heath discussed the advantages of. aviation over other modes of com- mercial travel from the standpoint of economy, safety and adventure in an informal address, She emphasized the safety of her favorite method of travel. poiniing out that the passenger lines of the British had been in operation for several years now and had not had any fatzl accidents in that time. With proper training for pilots and properly cd-for planes, she declared, commt cial flying should be as safe as iravel by rail or by motor. And, for some trips. it is even more cconomical if one owns | the machine, she said, illustrating her point with her own experience in her recent African tour, which she com- pared to cne she took overland some ume ago. “It cost me $500 and required much more time on that first trip,” she said. | “My airplane made the trip in so short a time that my expenses were but $50. So my travel by air proved an economy not only of time but money.” Lady Heath #aid that the field for wemen in light planes was broad and she looked ‘to the day when training schools for woman pilots would be estab- lished and the aviatrix would be no more of a novelty than the woman driver of a motor car. It 'was through the efforts of the dis- tinguished English airwoman that the international license for women became available. In 1925, when Lady Heath applied for one, it*was denied her be- cause there were no provisions for ranting them to members of her sex. he took the matter up with members of the women’s clubs of England, and with their aid succeeded in obtaining a ‘change in ruling which permitted wom- en to be licensed to fly in foreign fields on ‘the same terms as their brother aviators, Assisting in the dining room at the reception were Mrs. Legarg Obear and Misses .- Elizabeth Hooper, Florence Hooper, Doretta Von Thaden, Mary Moss Wellborn, Louise Weir and Con- stance Carpenter, More than 250 guests were present. * k ok % RS. RUTH LITT of the New York Branch of the National Woman's Party recounted her experiences during a recent tour of some 10 countries, where she studied the progress of the feminist- movement, at a dinner of the District branch given at the national headquarters Thursday evening. Mrs, Litt stressed the need of an international woman'’s ganization to prevent discriminations against women from being incorpora‘ed o i ol Bl ot Specifl Pen Sale ‘Beginning Today Sheaffer’s, Swan’s & Conklin Gold and Silver Pens Reduced !, Price A Full Line of All Stancard Makes Reduced 209, Discount on Christmas Cards RICHARDS’ LOU HARVEY'S Successor 1225 Pa. Ave. NW. Metropetitan 9241 We Repair Fountain Pens & Pencils industrial or- | secure the passage of the equal rights | amendment to the Constitution of the United States. . Miss Carpenter is a graduate of Wel- lesley College and & member of the In- ternational League for Peace 2nd Free- dom. Before coming to Washington she served as treasurer of the New Jersey Branch of the Woman's Party. She s * R ok K l:OLLOWINO a recent meeting in Washingien of the executive com- mittee of the American Association of Home Economics, the date and tenta- tive plans have teen announced for the iwenty: ond annual meeting of the association. It will be held in Boston, | |Mass., July 1 to 5. Headquarters will be at the Hotel Statler. | Dean Margaret Justin will preside over the sessions. Mrs. Gladys Beckett | Jones of the Garland School, Boston, is {chalrman of the committee on local ar- rangements, while Dr. Alice Blood, head of the home economics department of Simmons College, Boston, is the local representative on the program com- mittee. The program in Boston will include a celebration of the associa- |tion’s twentieth anniversary. It was fcunded here in 1909. Among the officers of the association who were here for the recent executive committee meeting and who attended | essions of the Land Grant College As- sociation meeting at the same time, are Dean Margaret Justin, president of the association; Frances Zuill of Iowa State University, secretary; Dean Agnes Ellen Harris, University of Alabama, and Miss Margaret Sawyer of New York, vice presidents; Miss Agnes Dunham of Boston, controller; Mabel Campbell, University of Missouri; Miss Jessie Harris, University of Tennessee, and Miss Annig MacLeod of Syracuse, N.Y. A tea was tendered the officials at the close of the meeting by members of the Washington staff of the associa- tion, consisting of Miss Helen Atwater, Miss Janet Richards and Miss Alice Edwards. 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