Show > 1 9PRL1NEAT ISSUE IIu u S < AttorneyGeneral Will Be r cAl d on to Decide Question Now Agitating Womens Clubs i f March 30The Attorney General l of the United States will be called upon to determine whether club wdmen can make discriminations on race color or previous condition of servitude ser-vitude 1 A committee of Chicago club women was appointed today to ask At torneyGenerU Knox about the constitutionality consti-tutionality of what the General const tion proposes to do at Los Angeles Thin committee represents the most Influen tat clubs In Chicago AVlthln the last year the Congress of theiUnltcd States has granted onBe General Gen-eral Federation Womens Clubs special sp cial corporation papers This charter provides for the organization of wo mens clubs engaged In philanthropic educational or charitable work or in literary art or music culture There are specific provisions against political rind religious discriminations The ques tloi now arises whether the clubs arc bound observe the constitutional provisions pro-visions Inregard to race color and pre vvious condition of servitude fMrsj R A Cole of Milwaukee who proposed the letter to AttorneyGeneral f oxis of the opinion that his answer Will throw the whole color question out at consideration at the Los Angeles mostinar The Federation proposes to rcorgnntee she says ant doing co must remember thfLlt will have to consult Congress which granted the charter In the present form That will be at once the question she believes whether Congress would have the right under the Constitution to authorize another federation which i n should recognize race and color |