Evening Star Newspaper, May 19, 1929, Page 45

Resolution on Great Falls to Be Introduced at Biennial Council of General Federation—Henry Minor to Speak—Woman Voters. BY CORINNE FRAZIER. HE General Federation As It [ Serves the Community” will be the keynote of the bien- niel council meeting of the General Federation of Wom- en's Clubs, to be held in Swampscott, Mass., May 26 through May 31, bring-| ing representatives of the 14,000 clubs | of the federation together from every | State in the Union and from many foreign countries. The efforts of the general federation, | the largest body of organized women in the world, toward raising standards | of life and lving in the home, the| community and the Nation will be re-| flected in addresses of pationally known | experts, as well as in the reports, | plans, programs and discussion on com- | bell of the Campbell Folk School, Brass, town, N. C. “A Challenge to the Amer- ican Home” is the topic of the address to be given by Dr. Thomas Sherrard Roy. pastor of the First Baptist Church of Worcester, Mass. Mrs. Edith Nourse Rogers, Repre- sentative from the State of Massachu- setts, will be a speaker on the legisla- tive luncheon program, and Dr. W. F. Draper, assistant surgeon general of the United States Public Health Serv- ice, will be a speaker on.the public weifare’ luncheon program. _Dr. Samuel MacCauley Lindsey of Boston will speak on some phase of the American home at the luncheon of that depart- ment. “Vision Training Method of Art Study” will be discussed at the art luncheon by A. K. Cross. Announcement of the winners in the munity service, the home, citizenship. | national essay contest. “Why Should I Williams, Mrs. Kate T. Abrams, Mrs. Y. B. Roberts, Mim Sinclair 'Lyon, | J. B. Silvester, Mrs. Mrs. Tomlinson, e, Dan . | Roper, Mrs. C. C. Dill, Mrs. Henry Rickey, Mrs. Charles Warren, Mrs. Claude Porter, Miss Ethel Ketcham, Mrs. Hugh Wilson, Miss Mary E. Coul- son, Mrs. Joseph T. Robinson, Miss Evie Morris, Mrs. Hartley A. Moon, | Mrs. Charles Hamlin, Mrs. J. H. Small, | Mrs. ton, Jano, David Lawrence, Miss Smith and Mrs. Eugene Barrett. | EEE | (QFFICIALS of the National League [the wing recently visiting State con- | ventions, addressing league meetings and assisting in the organization of newly affillated groups. Miss _Belle | Sherwin, national president of the | Mrs. Edward Keating, Mrs. F. H. De- B of Woman Voters have been on | i o vy e | ONAN' EQUALTY i I MRS. TRVING KOCH, ! Formerly Miss M. Rebecca Long of 1826 North Capitol street, who, following her marriage April 24, left for a Mediter- TRAGED TO GREECE Movement for Emancipation Proceeded Along Social and Intellectual Lines. BY RALPH V. D. MAGOFFIN, Ph. D, LL. D, Professor and Head, Department of Classics, N. Y. U. One should refrain from quoting any of the mean things said about women by the crusty misogynists of ancient times—how Hesiod said they were a pernicious race; how many wrong con- clusions were drawn from the fact that & Greek flirt in Egypt had the nails in her shoe soles so driven that every footprint left the impression akolouthel, that is, “follow me”; how the man who escaped from an expedition against Aegina was surrounded by the wives of men who did not escape and was stuck | to death with their dress and brooch | pins; how even immortals like Circe poisoned men and turned them into of an.overgentle and supermild Penel- ope awaiting him with friendly de- meanor, but we cannot pass the utter incapacity—-with the one partial excep- tion noted below—of women to contract with one another the friendships that | gave rise to glorious unselfishness. |~ Consider the stores of Achilles and | Patroclus, Damon and Pythias, David |and Jonathan, Epaminondas and Pel- |opidas, Hadrian and Antinous, Har- modius and Aristogiton, Pylades and Orestes, Socrates and Alcibiades. No- where do we find women adorning the “n‘alms of mutual friendship, with that partial exception noted in the case of those inseparable characters, Dan and Beersheba. It cannot be denied that there were | bad women in Greece and that they seem to have had more influence than they deserved, nor ought one to try to excuse the custom of exposing either to_death or to servitude many girl| babies, and practically all deformed | children, even though it should bv,'l granted that it served its purpose and | gave to the world the finest specimens of womanhood and manhood that have ever lived. Followed Social Lines. And, too, one must say that the physical perfection of the Greeks was | kept by the simple undistinctive dress of the times. The expensive and e cruciating parts of women's wearing ap- parel had not yet been evolved. But it is to the uneducated, simply dressed. neglected, long-suffering women of Greece that the modern girl and wom- -~ e - Smart Women Will Wear These Lovely Frocks of Jelleff’s Paris right of course, for that is where Jelleff's fash- ion eves are turned . . . bringing forth those modes that have the endorsement of the smartest women in the world! We Believe White Important for Evening The white family . . . the pure white and off white tones have it for evening! White en- hances the loveliness of sun- tanned skins and fits into the Paris mood perfectly! For that reason it is backed by Jelleff’s and here is a copy of a Lelong model in white flat crepe accenting snug hips and circular, long back. $49.50 And here are those that Paris and Jelleft's will approve for Summer! public welfare, health and child wel- | Vote?” will be made by the chairman | fare, the fine -ru.dinurrlmionll rcln-}cr the American fluzenshlg tli)epn{ltm{endt. tions, education and legislation. | This contest was sponsored by the fed- | Of special interest to the people of eration, and prizes sggregating sx.ooo\'&'}&;"c cg;‘evmgg: Hampshire State ‘Washington is the resolution to be in- were donated by John Hays Hammond. | ““Vitc® “Harris” T. Baldwin, national troduced at Swampscott by Mrs. Charles | Mrs. Charles Cyrus Marshall of ““"‘chalm’mn of the le e's wm‘m"u! on Cyrus Marshall, chairman of forestry | York will announce the winner in the |FURERES, Of S TEaBILS, CORENEE B0 and natural scenery of the xmerlflnmonal parks essay contest, conducted | v} 0 Ol n mittee, promoting the or- federation, pledging the support of the | by the committee on forestry, of which' oo vovion”or round tables on the sub- several million clubwomen of her or-|she is chairman. Se-matier of hier semisities Jumgtam ganization to the Cramton bill for the | The chairmen of the elght major de- | JeCt-matier of her comevtiee program Preservation of the Great Falls of the |partments of work in the federation will |\ Vit20%8 SHEC 808, QVIC, FOUES BJ Potomac and the surrounding_region, | give brief reports, and will outline plans | : league, has just returned to Washington from Concord, N. H., where she at- an owe the beginning of a fairer and better age. The movement for the emancipation of Greek women proceeded toward correspondent of the St. Louis Post-| Still there were frailties of women | women of Rome fo obtain legal and Dispatch, the second speaker, Will pre- | which we may be safe in mentioning. | personal equality,.and it has been re- sent his fortnightly review of “What/Let us pass the possibility that the |served. for the women of today to gain | Congress Is Doing. | misfortunes of Ulysses in hitting every | political equality, and to assume equal As_editor of The Forum since 1923 Circean promontory and Calypsonian | culpability for moral delinquencies with | Mr. Leach holds an important place in|island in the Mediterranean as he men. and to have the same responsi- pigs; how women like Scylla, Calypso, | | the 'Sirens, the Furies, Thais, Xan- | thippe, killed, caught, enticed, pursusd and exasperated the lords of mankind. ranean cruise and will live at 3942 Liv- ingston street, Chevy Chase, on_their return, —Clinedinst Photo. and Charles G. Ross, chief Washington Other white evening gowns $39.50 to 8§75 Women's Frock Shop—Second Floor N T N S e N N N Lace Presented in Patou’s Mermaid known as the Upper Potomac Forge. “Save the Potomac” is Mrs, Mar- for the future and introduce the heads of the several divisions and committees working under them. The heads of shall's plea in introducing her resolu- | tion, a measure simliar to one wmch‘(hsse departments are: was to have been presented at the bi-‘ ennial convention of the federation last | Okla.; American home, Mrs. John D. vear, but which was not submitted to|Sherman, Denver, Colo.; education, Dr. the resolutions committee in time to|Aurelia Henry Reinhardt, Oakland, be incorporated among the measures to | Calif.; fine arts, Mrs. Joseph E. Priend, be considered. |New Orleans: international relations, “The division for the preservation of | Mrs. Ben Hooper, Oshkosh, Wis.: legis forests and natural scenery is the ‘Sal- | lation, Mrs. Clarence Fraim. Wilming- vation Army’ of the conservation de-|ton, Del.; press and publicity, Mrs. partment of the general fedfl'l'.ion,"iwflllnm R. Alvord, Detroit, and public said Mrs. Marshall, discussing her pro- | welfare, Mrs. Saidie Orr Dunbar, Port- posal recently, “We have bsen calling land, Oreg. upon the people of the country to help| All departments will have on display ‘save Yellowstone park,’ ‘save Franconia | exhibits of the work from the several Notch,’ ‘save Mount Monadnocks,' ‘save | States, many of them including pic- the Yosemité, and now our war cry is | tures, graphs, etc. ‘save the Potomac.' American citi- Mrs. John F. Sippel, president of the zenship, Mrs. J. C. Pearson, Marshall, | “Private interests have been seeking| the establishment of power develop- ment which would destroy o~ impair the "natural' beauty of the Potomac River in the vicinity of Washington, and Congress has, through the resolu- tion approved May 20, 1928, prohibited the issuance of any power permits by the Pederal Power Commission until further action by Congress. “The passage of the Cramton bill would, in the opinion of the foremost conservationists who have made a study of the situation, be the most effective way to bring about the permanent pro- tection of the historic, scenic features along the Potomac River near Wash- gton. “This bill for the acquisition, estab- lishment and development of the George Washington Mg-nmll Parkway along the river from"' Mount Vernon and Fort Washington to Great Falls Provides also_for the acquisition of ands in the District of Columbia and Virginia requisite to the comprehensive park and playground system of the National Capital. It passed. the House of Representatives' at the last session of Congress, but too late for considera- tion in ‘the Senate. y “It is my intention to introduce at the biennial council at S tt a federation, will preside over all sessions, assisted by the first vice president, Mrs. Grace Morrison Poole of Brockton, Mass, and the second vice president, Mrs. Eugene B, Lawson, Tulsa, Okla. Members of the board of directors will be honor guests at a dinner to be given on the evening preceding the opening of the convention, and a reception will be given in Boston by the clubs of that district to honor Mrs. Sippel. ‘The one day given over to recreation, which has been designated as ‘“play day,” will be devoted to motor trips to historie points of interest, to a shore dinner and to visits to some of the historie buildings and spots of Boston. Mrs. Arthur Devens Potter, general federation director for the State of Massachusetts, is chairman of the local biennial board. It is expected that the attendance at the council of Massa- chusetts women will be larger than usual, since Massachusetts has the largest per capita paying membership in the entire general federation, the number being more than 54,000. 3 ENRY MINOR, author of “The Story of the Democratic Party” and other works widely known, will be the guest of honor and speaker at the weekly forum luncheon of the Woman's National Democratic Club Monday. His resolution’ which - will embod{ an in- dorsement of the Cramton biil. Before bringi to’ the attention of the club- ‘women-*the need of heip'in the preser- vation of anl featyre it is my custom ‘to visit"tfie place which appears to be in danger. Therefore, I made a special trip to' Great Falls. I went there in ‘ember, when the place could not possibly have appeared at its best. I.had just returned from a tour alb)gf:l will be “Political Value of His- Dr, Fred A. Moss, assistant professor of psychology in .George Washington University, will be the guest of honor at the club luncheon the following Monday, May 27. He will give an ad- dress on “The Psychology of Politics.” Mrs. Woodrow Wilson was among the guests at the luncheon last week, when of the gk ; national parks of, the | the guest of honor and speaker was ‘West, yet G Raymond ick, whose subject was of| “The .New Approach in International grandeur. It far surpassed my expecta- | Relations.” tion. Among the other guests Mrs. J. “I think we &ll:feel that our National | Borden 'Hnrrlmm, fl“zs RE:L l: Capital should be the most. beautiful 3 city in the world, and no satisfactory | Brigl Mrs. results can be obtained unless the nat- | Eckels, Mrs. G. H. Ricker. Miss Sonari ural beauties of its environs are pre- s — o BEACON INN served and made accessible.” It has been predicted by many club- 1801 Calvert St. N.W. SUNDAY DINNER, $1.00 women in close ‘touch with federation 12:30 to 7:30 P.M. affairs. that Mrs. Marshall’s resolution will have easy sailing in the council session, which would release the tre- mendous force of thousands of affili- ated clubs all over the country to be| 2dded to the strong support already shown for the Cramton bill. | * o k x ! LARGELY through the efforts of lhe; general federation housekeepers and | homemakers who have previously been | listed in the United States census as having no occupation will be listed in | the 1930 census as “homemakers,” and | L. E. Truesdell, chief statisticlan for| population, Bureau of Census, Depart- | ment of Commerce, will tell the club- | women how they can assist in the cen- | sus taking. Lowell Amos Norris, fea- ture writer of the Boston Herald, will| deliver an address on “Not for Publi- | cation” during the publicity program. “What We Are Doing That Concerns You” is the subject of an address to be given by R. M. Hudson, assistant direc- tor of the Bureau of Standards. Emphasis is being placed by this ad- ministration of the general federation on community service, the first step in the new program being city planning. Hence special interest attaches to the illustrated address “Woman's Part in Community Planning,” to be given by John Nolan, town planner and fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects, Cambridge, Mass. “Values| n Recreation” is the topic of an address to be given by John William Faust of | the Playground and Recreation Asso- ciation of America, New York. Senor Don Crestes Ferrara, Ambassa- dor from Cuba, will be speaker on the | president’s special program Thursday | evening, May 30. Dr. B. L. Scott, direc- tor of the Bureau of Restoration, Penn- | sylvania Department of Welfore, will also speak. | “What Has Beauty to Do With Art?" 1s the topic announced b~ Curt Ducasse of Brown University, Providence, and Dr. Willlam Von de Wall of the Penn- sylvania Public Welfare Department | will speak on *“Music Contribution to Social Health” “The Need for Adult Elementary Education” is the subject of an addre b; hi Roast Duckling ace key Cranberry Sauce Soring Chicken Fritters Roast Sprine Lamb Prime Ribs of Beef au jus Baked Vircinia Ham New Potatoes or Candied Sweets Roast Capon Roast Vermont Tori Hait Brojled Corn fee C hone Col. 10028 For wide, narrow, long, short, small or large feet. N & FIT SNUG AT THE HEEL Custom-Made Stylish Stouts $7.50 to $11.00 Nurses’ White Calf and Cloth Oxterds OYCE & LEWI CusToM FITTING SHOE 439-7=St NW. Just Below B 3. T. Nerris and H. 0. Brubaker Are Assocl; Ts and are exclusit carried on during the Summer months. Mrs, Baldwin has attended a num- ber of State conventions in the course |of her trip. including those of Ohlo, |Oregon and California, and will visit | the leagues of Salt Lake City, Reno, | San Prancisco, Los Angeles, Douglas, | Ariz, and Kansas City. She also will ’a'lond the Colorado State TLeague | meeting at Denver May 28, which will | be of special interest, as this is a new | State organization, just affiliated at the last annual council meeting, held in Washington in April. Mrs, Baldwin will assist this group in the set-up of its permanent committee work. Miss Katherine Ludington, first vice president of the league, attended the | Missouri State League convention May 15 to 17 at Columbia, Mo., and Mrs. Frank Hixon, national treasurer, is on |her way to attend the Rhode Island State League conclave at Providence May 21. From there she will go to the Massachusetts League convention at Holyoke May 22 and 23. Miss Florence Harrison, regional sec- retary from the fourth region, will be the opening speaker at a round table on “Citizenship and Education” of the American Association of Adult Educa- tion at Chapel Hill, N. C., May 22. A program of unusual interes scheduled for the “Voters’ Service” half hour, from 6 to 6:30 o'clock Tues- day evening, when Henry Goddard Leach of New York Citv. editor of The Forum, will discuss “The Jones Law,” Madelon Bags are Jelleff Fashions That accent newly accepted Paris fashions ly here in Washington Every month new Madelon bags appear and Washington recognize, as Jel are outstanding value! beautiful bags re Top Handles . . . Wooden Frames are the newest Paris accents . . . we present A. Hermes’ double-handle bag copied in two- smooth calf or strippings. ..wood zipper closing. ,.Madelon color smooth calf Lanvin’s double-handle bag reproduced in awning. striped strippings of smooth cal &, The colors: Black, tan, red. 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