Evening Star Newspaper, March 17, 1929, Page 27

Woman Voters Announce Radio Citizenship School—Clergy Aid Mrs. Sherman in Home Campaign—Mrs. Owen at Celebrity Breakfast-——Feminists BY CORINNE FRAZIER. RADIO Citizenship School. in which four consecutive weekly will be devoted to of “Problems of Our Federal Government™ is to be augurated Tuesday as a Spring fea- Service” programs the ~National . e speakers will be Prof. Raymond T. Bye of the Univ of Pennstiva d Lyman Edn of the Institu ings Institution the firs Ity subsequent program on March 26, April nd April 9, will deal with an im- ant problem in the Federal Govern- 2t The topics selected are “Federal ecponsibility for Public Welfare s of Federal Reorganization The Party System and Legislative The citizenship school is designed to give the radio audience the background of important and ever-present issues in the conduct of the Federa! Government. Each speaker will be authoritative on his subject. 'This period between the adjournment of the regular session of | the Congress, and the convening of a special sossion under a new administra- % g tion was selected by the program makers Discussing the matter last week with as a particularly appropriate month for | the writer, Mrs. Shermian declared tha the consideration of those subjects of | the true seriousness of the problem w ie\'ldented by the fact that the ministers MLLE. FANNY BUNAND-S Of Paris, who will address the National ‘Woman's Party at a reception in her honor at headquarters Thursday eve- ning. interest to all voters because of their 1 bearingg_on the successful func- oning of the National Government | ful attention have had the greatest 16 school is modeled on the plan of | difficulty in answering her questions. successful citizenship schools | One of them said to her in this con are conducted by the League of | nection, “The more you Know of pre men Voters in co-operation with col- | ent-day conditions, Mrs. Sherman, the who have given the subject most care- | Jeges and universities, and plans are 2 made for listening-in “radio with an enrollment of students | llow the entire course of four pro- | The schedule of the three other | ograms is: more difficult it is to give adequate answers to such queries as yours.” Mrs. Sherman has asked four ques- tions of the clergy: 1. How best can religious training be { given by mothers and fathers to chil- Entertain. Outstanding among the replies re- | ceived is that of Bishop James F. Free- | man, Episcopal Bishop of Washington, | | who' urges regular habits of family | worship as being essential. He writes | as follo * ¢ = “T am deeply interested in the | whole question of religious training in | the home. I believe it to be vital and | | fundamental, and the neglect of it in | our generation has brought about a sit- | uation fraught with great peril | 'Answering your several questions: Religious training can best be | given by fathers and mothers through | | both precept and example. To my ! | mind, the family altar, grace at meals | | and punctilious recognition of a whole- some Sunday practice are indispensable. | Precept is futile without example. . Religion can be made appealing | | and vital only in so far as it affects | habit and concuct in all things. | hurch should more largely ddress itself, as well as such splendid “ganizations as your own, to the mat- | €r of parent training, placing emphasis | here it belongs, upon religion—the | ristian religion—as the prerequisite | 1 w moral and ethical development and to upbuilding of strong character. | 4. I believe it is quite feasible to| have religious instruction given on week | days in connection with the training of | { our children, but, as you know, this| | can only be effected by co-opemunn) with boards of education, and obviously it must be left to the discretion of par- | ents to determine under what auspices this should be had. | “You are entirely right in assuming there is no problem before us compar- able to_ that of religious training of our | | youth.” | Mrs. Sherman’s query was sent out to | ministers of every denomination, and | she has received answers from prac- | tically all of the leading sects, including | the Catholic, Jewish, Congregationalist, / Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian, Epis- | copalian, Christian and Lutheran. | Another feature of ‘the better homesi | law and clearly than in the Bulletin lof the National League of American Pen Women, of which she is a member, belonging to the Florida branch. Asked to give her opinions on this subject, Mrs. Owen wrote for one of the recent issues of the Bulletin the following: “We have often heard that woman’ place is in the home, and I believe that that just as true today as it has always bcen in the years past. I believe t' a ce is in the home, b mother has begun to s it limit on the home from a limit which the mothers of a few generations ago recognized. hen if a woman | pt the insid r home clean and itary she had done her duty by her b ve that my home my family and m; ¢, and I find that my chil- dren can move about in a space as big n automobile can travel in every direction from the and 1 believe that nceless for me the of one hous iary if the town that I live in is not a safe place for my boy or my girl “In building A republic our fore- hers saw a vislon of a government resting eq in the hands of every citizen. Now t the women of Amer- fca have been made citlzens before the law. thev have no alternative sponsibility has been given to them. We will have a 100 per cent American Government. when 100 per cent’ of our citizens, men and women, are bearing this responsibility loyal La: Spri S wen Clarence M. Buscl aech other success in the candidacie in which the were interested, Mrs. Owen in winning a seat in Congr Mi Busch in being elected to th presidency fo the largest hization of litera riistic women in the world, the National League Amce n Pen Women. Both were successful and and Mrs e that I live in, | The re- | re both wishing | | on Friday of this week Mrs. Busch, as | presiding officer of the celebrity break | fast of the league, honor and speakers of the occasion, Representative Ruth Bryan Owen of | Florida, who is as charming as she is intelligently brilliant, Mrs. Owen is vice president of the | board of regents of the University of Miami and an interesting story in con- nection with the university is that when it was founded she was asked {o head its first public speaking de- partment. She did so, but accepted no | salary, taking her compensatiom in the | form’ 0f scholarships to need; She is ardently interested in young people, and sees in_them, as ever, the capacity “to hold high the torch” if v are_but properly guided. M ate Speake Penney, who another speaker on the breakfast pro- gram, is @ a member of the pen women, being af- fllated with the Birmingham, Ala | branch, of which she is & past presiden Her books were part of the “Author: Exhibit,” staged at Memphis, Tenn last Fall, in which the work of Soutk ern authors was presented to those at- tending the exhibit. “Land Poor,” recently published, has © Mrs, Penney added recognition It is an “engaging pi hern plantation, broug as a novelist wrote of it in a recent book review. Characters include the family on the plan . their Northesn cousins and folk in the community, Romance is | there, and also the hard facts concern- ing the precarious labor conditions of the new South. Mrs. Reed will discuss | the book briefly at the breakfast on Friday. Concerning its writing, Mrs. Penney has said: “It is the years one spends in thinking that count more than the actual time of writing. For years the theme of my book has been milling, or working or germinating, you might say, wjll introduce to (my thoughts on paper.” those attending, one of the guests of | students. | is | o a Southern woman, and | in my mind, but it is only in the past | several months that I have really put | * k% { LLE. FANNY BUNAND-SEVASTOS of Paris will discuss “International | Feminism” at a reception to be given at National Woman's Party headquar- | ters in her honor Thursday evening | at 8 o'clock. | Mlle. Bunand-Savastos has come to Washington to assist the Inter-Ameri- | can Commission of Women. She is well known in her own country as a | | feminist leader and co-operated with Doris Stevens and other feminists in their attempt to have an equal rights treaty presented to the international representatives assembled at Rambouil- let last Summer to consider the Kellogg peace pact. ‘The niece of Antoine Bourdelle, world- renowned sculptor, Mille. Bunand-Sa- | vastos has won recognition as a painter | herself. Her works were exhibited in | | the Salon des Tulleries in 1927 and | 1928. She studied with Bourdelle and rks in his studio with him, | PR | ’l‘HE national headquarters of the Na- | alm_Reed, who | tional Woman's Party is sending workers out into the States to push | equal rights bills through the State Leg- | clatures. Mary Moss Wellborn has just returned | from Richmond, Va., where she spoke | before members of the Virginia branch |of the Woman's Part | program of the party. Plans were laid for the equal rights bills to be intro- duced at the next session of the Virginia | Legislature. Miss Mabel Vernon of Wilmington, Del., national executive secretary of the Woman's Party, will address a_class studying the problems of citizenship at | Maryland University on the significance | of the feminine movement in the United | States Wednesday morning at 10'20‘ o'clock. 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Would special training of mothers | 3 EPRES; . /AN | ment of public_welfare, Mrs. La Bic | and fathers be feasible %o that. they owm’,:"-‘;frgfimfum ?,f:“‘l‘:;j Brown. Boston, Mass. | might in turn teach religion to their “woman's place"—ideas 2—Problems of Federal reor-| children? g which she has expressed often in the ganization: 1. Tendencies in adminis- | 4. Do you believe that religious in-| nast months, but nowhere more suc. frative reform, Arthur E. Buck, the Na- | struction” during school hours can be | BSSttion 1% JUT_TOWhere More Suc: tonal Tnstituie of EPublic Administra- | given by the churches, co-operating with | tion, New York ossibilities of Fed- | the school systems, the parents desig- | TR g eral reorganization, Lewis Meriam, In- | nating the church they wish their cbil- | e AND EXTERIOR WORK Renoyate Your Home Mofiday’s not a man’s shopping day—but it will be tomorrow! ale! 1,800 Men’s End-O-End Woven Madras | A distinct achievement—here are well made, high-grade pajamas at a dollar a suit! stitute for Government Research, Brook- | dren to attend. with beneficial results? tnzs Institution, Washington, D. C. | (I am aware that this is being done April 9—The par tem and legis- | in some places, but I do not know with | Mative bodies: 1. The Congress and our | what success). rty svstem, Prof. Lindsay Rogers, Co- | In addressing her questions to the | fumbia University, New York. 2. 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