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Show Leader tells women: be modest virtuous A former president of the National Council of Women of the United States Tuesday night offered of-fered University women what she called a "blueprint.. .for living well-adjusted, well-adjusted, happy productive personal per-sonal lives." The speaker, Mrs. Belle S. C Spafford, also has headed the U.S. delegation to the International Council of Women conference. From this background she said ' "the same set of values that '. brought the young women of (my) day through the shoals of life to ' peaceful and secure shores will also '. bring you safely through." ; Those values, Mrs. Spafford told some 200 University women, will create women who "...will be modest in dress and refined in speech and manner.. .seek after those things which are vir-tuous...and vir-tuous...and praiseworthy. ..seek learning.. .respect the viewpoints of ' others but in no wise adopt them as her own if they run counter to...truth. She will be tolerant but ; not self-righteous. She will be a '. woman of integrity." In maintaining good relationships with others, Mrs. Spafford said, the ' problem "is not (in knowing) the '. way, but rather...in mustering the stamina to stay on the right track i when others, whose goodwill we would court, invite or entice us to follow a path of their choosing." Where to turn for the "knowlege, insight and understanding that enables one to develop (conviction) sufficiently strong instinctively to carry over into application in our lives?" Mrs. Spafford says the first place is the home where both father and mother teach by precept and example. The second place to search for individual integrity, she said, is in "the scriptures-the great source of truth which is available to all." She said she had often had to use all her personal courage in council debates on such lively issues as abortion, birth control, sexual promiscuity, women in the military, the Equal Rights Amendment Amend-ment and similar current topics. She told of a time as president of the council when she gave a formal dinner party. She wanted to maintain her personal standards as president of the IDS Relief Society by not serving cocktails or cigarettes. She felt it would be courteous to notify her guests of the plans ahead of time but the , council executive director told her, ! "There is not need for that, Mrs. , Spafford. They would not expect you to go counter to what you Drofess." |