Show v 1 Wa 0 Cm B BB A A. A CALLS B me CONVENTION 2000 Women Expected to Gather Gath Gath- er in Cleveland the Week of April 20 13 1920 for Nation National National Na Na- tion 1 Convention MEETING POSTPONED TWO YEARS BY WAR i Delegates Will Discuss New Membership Membership Member Member- ship Basis for Students and Question Quest of Future Support for for Work Many Other Things The Young Women's Christian AssocIation Association Asso Asso- of or the tho United States Stales of America merka will meet In national convention In lu Cleveland 0 O. the week week- of April 13 to toO 20 O having postponed the convention fr from m the spring of ot 1918 In or order er to comply with a u government request that expense and travel be reduced reduce to a minimum during the war The rhe department on conventions and und conferences of ot the National al Y YV W. C. C A. A of or which Mrs Irs Harry Em Emerson Fosdick Fosdick Fos Fos- dick Is chairman estimates an nn attend attendance ance ante of 2000 women representing all aU departments of Y W. W C. C A A. A work- work board members secretaries students club girls Girl Reserves girls from In Inv Industrial Industrial Service Centers women from the International Institutes for foreign born women members from city town and countr country Associations Each Association in the United States will b be entitled to one voting Toting delegate for every e ery one hundred bundred voting members in the Association Two of the most Important questions which will come up before the conven conven- convention tion will be the membership basis and the fhe question of support Of Ot old busIness business business busi busI- ness to be considered the most important tent tant question will be the membership basis for tor student associations the granting of ot charter membership privilege privilege lege to the Chicago Youn Young Women's Christian Association and a recommendation recommendation recommendation dation providing an Increase in membership mem memo of ot the National Board of ot th the Association will also be presented Rev ne Charles Charl s W. W Gilkey pastor of at Hyde llyde Park Baptist Church Chicago will give ghe a series of ot morning addresses during the convention week Dr Robert Rob ert E. E Speer secretary to the Foreign Mission Board of ot the Presbyterian Church North will also give an am address address ad ad- dress Mrs Irs Speer Is chairman of ot the Ole National Board of ot the Y Y W. W C C. C A A. A The convention will be in session morning and evening the afternoon being given over to sectional meetings held In various churches Attendance ut at these meetings will be determined by group membership and also by ac acv Mrs W. W P. P Harford of ot Omaha Neb will preside at the opening session having been elected as president at the thelast thelast thelast last convention of ot the Young Women's Christian Association held beld in Los Angeles Angeles An An- geles In 1910 1915 The committee on business to come couie before the convention has for its chairwoman chairwoman chairwoman chair chair- woman Mrs John French and includes among its members Mrs Irs John D D. n It Rockefeller Jr Mist Mis Us Eliza Butler sister sister sis sis sis- ter of ot Nicholas Murray ray Butler president president president dent of ot Columbia University Mist Mise Martha artha McCook Miss Mabel Cratty general secretary for tor the National Board of ot the Y W. W C. C A. A and Mrs William Wil Wil- liam Adams Brown all of ot New ew York city |