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Show Y. W.C.A. CALLS ! BIG CONVENTION 2.000 Womr Expected to Oath, er in Cleveland the Week of April 13-20. 1920. for National Na-tional Convention. MEETING POSTPONED TWO YEARS BY WAr - mm Delegates Will Diacuaa New Member ' artip Baeia tor Students and Queation ot Future Support for Work. Many Other Thlnge. Tin Younn Wouifn'i Christian Mm elation of the L'nlted States of Aaeericn will Meet In national convention In I'lewlnnd, O,, the waak of April IA to 20, having poatponed tlie convention fmin tht spring of 1918 In onlei i comply with a government request ilm Opmasj and travel l rtthwttl to i minimum during the. war. Tht department on CtJaWMttong am (onfereneea of tha National Y C , of Which Mra Hull. KtniMsoli l''ns 4lk Is chairman, eail-jnates an attend aacaj of 2,'Mli) women, represent Ing nl departments of Y. W. C. A wml, hoard members, secret h lies. atUfrMltr cluh girls, lllrl Reserve, girls fiom In dtiMtrtuI Service Tenters, women fPWI the International Institutes fm forl I ; born women, members from city, IOW1 ami country Associations Bach Association In the ( nlled Ntntcs will ba entitled lo one rotrtlR delegate for every one hundred wiring members In the Association Two of the most Important questions which will come up before the con. en tlon will be the membership luisls and the question of aupport Of old bMl ness to be conaldered the most Impor tant question will he the membership basis for student associations, the granting of charter membership prlvl lege to the Chicago Y'oung Women's Christian Aaaoclatinn and a recommen datlon providing an mcrcnie In mem berahlp of the National Hoard of the Association will alao be presented. Hev Charlea W. Ollkey, pastor of j Hydo I'urk Baptist Church, Chicago, will give a aeries of morning addresses during the convention week. lr Roll ert K. Speer, aecretary to the Foreign Mission Board of the Preabyterlan Church, North, will also give an ad dress Mra. Speer Is chairman of the ' National Board of the Y. W. C. A I The convention will be In session morning and evening, the afternoon being given over to sectional meetings I held In varloua churches. Attendance "' at these meetlnga will be determined Ivy group membership and also by M 1 tlvltles Mrs W. P. Harford of Omaha, Neb, ' will preside at the opening session, having been elected ns president at I ha last convention of the Y'oung Women's Christian Association, held In Los Angeles An-geles In 1018, The committee on business to come before the convention has for Ha clmir woman Mrs. John French and Includes among Its member Mrs John I Rockefeller, Jr., Miss Elir.a Butler, sis ler of Nicholas Miirra Butler, presi dent of Columbia I'hlvcrslty j Miss Martha McCook, Miss Mabel Cratty, general secretary for the National Board of tha Y W c. , u Mrs Wll Ham Admns Brown, all of New York city. |