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Show WOMEN FROM TWO CONTINENTS WILL MEET IN BALTIMORE TO DEBATE DIFFICULT PROBLEMS WASHINGTON' Subjects ot prime importance to women will be consld-l ' ered :: their Pin-American ronfer-nnce ronfer-nnce to b: held In Baltimore April IT l t, JS, during th- atir.ua I convention conven-tion of Ihe National Leage of Wo-! man Voters. Th- program for a sories of round: 1 taTble ronfereUt es, to be a part of the Pan-Am"ertcan conference blrfady has I been worked out. 11 lnclnudes: i !hil I welfare. Education. 1 Women i-i Industry. Prevention of Traffic in Women; I civil status of Women'. Political Status iff Women. The fight of women in the L'nited i States to h t'.er condilloris for women and children will be extended to the( I whole we tern continent. It Is hoped; ! the conference may develop a rivalry i In the case of children and mothers j that may be a powerful factor in sum- , ulatlng effort. ilSLD WLL! AUK Grace Abbott, chief of the child i ren's bureau of the L'nitrd States La- j j bor Department, who will led the; r dlscussibnti on child wclfsire. says: It ought to be possible to work ( out, as result of these meetings, what might be n f,-..rdr-d bii Pan-Amer- lean standards in the several fields of I child welfare. At least four specific I phase's of the problem of public pro-, I vision for children will be considered. These are: "1. Maternity and Infancy. ' 2. Child hygiene. "3 ('hlld labor and industrial prob-' lems affecting children. "4. Conditions for assisting children child-ren needing special care the dependent, depend-ent, neglected, defective and delln-l qucnt children." r.Rfl i. ntf.iiTM I Mabei Walker Willebrandtv .-sist-'; I ant l'nited States attorney general, be-' be-' lle.es the conference will have a gn a pari In shaping tho future civ 1 1 and economic status of women. "We find! everywhere." she says "an awakening recognition of woman as a civil and economic factor. "Lega'lv, however she Is just emerging emerg-ing from coveture. Hardly anywhere I have tho laws giving her property and j personal rights kept pace with thr advance ad-vance of public opinion on these questions. ques-tions. Any effort, thon, to stabilize ' her advanced position by laws protect- 1 lng It are of the greatest Import mcc. The coming together of women from the two Americas In the Pan-American Pan-American conference cannot but give th greatest impetus toward complete j recognition of the partnership status between ir.on and wome'n." 4 v. omf: in INDVBTRIl Mary Anderson, hief of the department depart-ment of Labor's bureau of Women in Industry declares. "It Is most significant nnd Important j not onlj to the women in Industry but ( to all women In the l'nited States titat , a conference is to he held wbe.vo ia-dustrial ia-dustrial standards can be dlscusse.ij and understood. "Women in the Industries of all the; countries represented at the conference," confer-ence," fche says, "are faced with common com-mon problems which must be Bblvt I In co-operation. Industrially the two, continents are linked; the standards of' one must affect the other. The health. happiness, prosperity and efficiency of, both Individuals and Industries will ho; furthered by the observance bt common com-mon alms and common standards." i TB1ITH IN WOMEN The better protection of family life I nnd parenthood Will be sought by the! discussions on the prevention of traf-fic traf-fic in women, led by Dr. Valeria H. Parker, executive secretary of tho In-1 tedepartmental Social Hygiene board. I "American countries should lead the ; wav In proclaiming continence to be I not incompatible with health," saysj Dr Parker. ' The Pan-American con-1 t'erence Is one of the media by which tills may be accomplished. "No subject will arouse more active Interest A conference of intelligent women citizens should aid In bringing! about conditions under which health; and character may be better sare-guarded sare-guarded in all the nations represented." repre-sented." i ii t ITTON VL KJSYXOl I "Education is the keynote to all the problems of the conference," Julii, Wade Abbot of the Bureau of Education, Educa-tion, will tell the delegates. 'The term 'American Education,',"' Prominent figures at Pan-American woman's meet. Top to botton, Mrs. Currlo Chapman Gatt, ltonorarj' chairman. chair-man. National League of Women Voters: Vot-ers: ailsa Julia Abbott, of tho United States Bureau of Education; Miss M i , Anderson, chief of Bureau of Women In Industry, Department of Labor Mrs. Mabel Walker Wllle-brandt, Wllle-brandt, Unite! States assistant attorney attor-ney general. she says, "should lie applied not aljnc to the systems in the 48 states of the j United States, but to those prevailing in tho whole of both western continents." conti-nents." Woman's political status will bo presented pre-sented by Carrie Chapman Catt, who will urge active work by her listers in Canada and Central and South America toward obtaining an effective power in government. |