"STRATFORD EVENING POST." TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1926. COUNCIL OF WOOLEN.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume LVIV, Issue 2, 5 October 1926, Page 4

"STRATFORD EVENING POST." TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1926. COUNCIL OF WOOLEN.

A good deal of interest is being manifested in the forthcoming conference at London of the ' National Council of Women of Great Britain, "Women's Parliament" is the picturesque title given to the annual conference, which brings together leisured, professional, and working women in every sphere of life. The ultra-modern women and women who adhere to Victorian standards, extreme feminists, social workers, professional women, teachers, and public women meet together at this conference and air their widely different views on the questions of the. day. There are affiliated to the council 148 organisations of very varied interests, such as the Girl Guides, the Actors' Association, the Society for the Overseas Settlement of [British Women. In addition, there {ire 1839 societies and branches which have played an important part in encouraging women to uifdortake public work on local councils and committees. Tho council's activities have resulted in the formation of several useful organisations, among them the Itura\l Housing and Siinitatibw Association and the Association o'f Teachers of Domestic. Science. Tho eight hundred delegates who attend the conference this year from 19tli to 2nd October will represent- no. fewer than 1,500,000 women, London women will have tho opportunity, which rarely occurs, of acting as hostesses to the visitors. With the exception of the war years the council has never met in the capital during the twenty-seven years of its existence. The meetings will take place in the Church House, Westminster, under the presidency of jljho Hon. Mrs Franklin. An outstanding feature of the programme, gays the London "Daily Telegraph," is tho very evident desire that the discussions should bo of practical value ■dike to tho housewife, the scejaj worker, and tho public woman. Another feature is the recognition of tho opportunities opening up to girls and of the fact that an apoeal to them to co-operate with their elders must give promise of full scope for their energy and enthusiasm. During the recent popular presidency or Mrs George Morgan a great deal was done to strengthen the tie between the council and the younger generation. A junior organisation will possibly be the outcome, for young people fresh from schools and colleges are eager to learn all that there is to know about social and political work. 'Hie conference will Ik> inaugurated on Tuesday, 10th October,, 'by a devotional meeting in the chattel at Mary Sumner House, the headquarters of the Mothers' Union. Tt will be conducted by Mrs George Cadhury, the Quaker preacher, who had the distinction of being the first woman president of the National Council of Evangelical Free Churches. Tho annual meeting for girls will, he the chief event on the second day. The Object of many of the addresses in the programme will he to give the delegates information as to what the special committees are doing. In addition, a largo number of resolutions, relating tt» housing, equal franchise, and social problems, will be dealt with.