cians. Purpose: To promote the idea that health is normal and realizable; to serve as the national representative of, and the authoritative agency and medium of co-operation of all organizations and movements having as ther object, the obtaining and maintaining of positive health for women; to foster the organization of other movements or agencies having the same or similar purposes; to establish, equip, maintain and operate the establishment of local health clinics or health centers, in all cities and large towns, where at nominal costs, women may receive health examinations and reliable advice regarding their health and health-building prescriptions. Officers: Pres., Dr. Martha Tracy, Women's Medical College of Philadelphia; First Vice Pres., Miss Mary Woolley, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Mass.; Second Vice Pres., Mrs. J. R. Schermerhorn, 82 Evergreen Place, East Orange, N. J.; Sec., Mrs. Drury W. Cooper, Parkhurst Place, Montclair, N. J.; Treas., Mrs. Eleanor Clarke Slagle, American Occupational Therapy Assoc., New York City Headquarters, 370 Seventh Ave., New York.

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Organized 1921. Purpose: Clearing house for organizations promoting congressional legislation of special interest to women. Prevents duplication efforts and furthers unity in support of legislation. Does not separately endorse but receives the endorsement of member organizations. A measure receiving endorsement from five members is sent to subcommittee

composed of representatives of all endorsees and this subcommittee works for that particular measure's passage. No organization is pledged to any policy other than cooperation when possible. Legislative measures sponsored by the Joint Committee include. Towner-Sterling Department of Education Bill; Carper-Focht Bill for compulsory education and school attendance in the District of Columbia; Fees Bill for increased appropriation for instruction in home economics; Fess-Capper bill for physical education; Child Labor Amendment. Monthly meetings held regularly at the Washington headquarters of a member organization. Organizations and representatives on Committee: American Association of University Women, Miss Harleen James, 1120-16th St., Washington, D. C.: American Home Economics Assoc., Miss Lita Bane, Grace Dodge Hotel, Washington, D. C.; American Nurses Association, Miss Lucy Minnegerode, Public Health Service, Washington, D. C.; Girl's Friendly Society in America, Miss Margaret Maule, 21 South 21st Street, Philadelphia, Pa.; Medical Women's National Association, Dr. Taylor Jones, 204 Rochambeay, Washington, D. C.; National Association of Colored Women, Miss Nannie

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Burroughs, National Training School for Girls, Lincoln Heights, Washington, D. C.; National Committee for Dept. of Education, Mrs. F. P. Bagley. 68 Beacon St., Boston, Mass.; National Congress of Parents and Teachers, Mrs. William Tilton, 11 Mason St., Cambridge, Mass.; National Consumers' League, Mrs. Florence Kelley, 156 Fifth Ave.. New York City; National Council of Jewish Women, Mrs. Alexander Wolf. 2653 Woodley Road, Washington, D. C. : National Council of Women, Mrs. Glenn Levin Swigget, The Mendota, Washington, D. C.; National Council of Women' for Home Missions, Mrs. Samuel Semple, Titusville, Pa.; National Education Association. Miss Charl Williams 1201 16th St., Washington, D. C.; National Federation of Business & Professional Women's Clubs, Miss Mary Stewart, Wardman Park Hotel, Washington, D. C.; National League of Women Voters, Miss Julia Lathrop, 532-17th St., Washington. D. C.; National Service Star Legion, Mrs. Henry Fenimore Baker, Emerson Hotel, Baltimore, Md.; National Women's Christian Temperance Union. Mrs. Ellis A. Yost, Bliss Bldg.. Washington, D. C.; National Board. Y. W .C. A.; Miss Elizabeth Eastman. 2266 Cathedral Ave., Washington, D. C.; American Federation of Teachers, Miss Selma Borchardt, 1741 Park Road, Washington, D. C.; National Women's Trade Union League. Miss Ethel M. Smith, 532-17th St., Washington, D. C. WOMEN LAWYER'S ASSOCIATION

Organized in 1899 in New York City. Began activities as national body in 1903. Composed of women who have been admitted to the bar and who are practicing law. It has state units and national vice presidents in forty-one' states and is affiliated with similar organizations in France, Italy, Australia, Porto Rico and Canada. Officers: Pres., Rose Falls Bres. 198 Jefferson Street, Brooklyn, New York; Rec. Sec., Marion Gold Lewis, 305 Broadway, New York; Cor. Sec., Katherine R. Pike, Customs Division, Treasury Department, Washington, D. C. Treas., Henriette A. Newhaus, 52 William Street, New York City. Executive Committee: Elizabeth C. Harris, Washington, D. C.; Ida V. Wells. Los Angeles, Calif.; Eva M. Reynolds. Indianapolis, Ind.; Virginia B. Blythe, Minneapolis, Minn.; Masie Jones Kagan. Kansas City, Mo.: Margaret J. Carns. Lincoln, Neb.; Lilla Day Monroe, Topeka, Kan.

WOMEN'S LEAGUE OF THE UNITED SYNAGOGUE OF AMERICA Founded 1918. Purpose: To advance traditional Judaism, to further Jewish education among women: to create and foster Jewish sentiment in the home. Among the numerous activities are adoption of Jewish War Orphans, organization of Jewish work in social settlements and establishment

of Student's Houses in college towns for out-of-town students. Subscribing membership 850. Over 200 societies affiliated representing a membership of 20,000 Jewish women. Officers: Founder: Mrs. Solomon Schecter; Pres., Mrs. Charles I. Hoffman; Vice Presidents, Mrs. Cyrus Adler, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Mrs. Benjamin Davis, Chicago, IIllinois; Mrs. Louis Ginsberg, New York; Mrs. Jacob Kohn, New York; Mrs. R. H. Melamed, Elizabeth, N. J.; Treas., Mrs. Louis Gottschall; Rec. Sec. Mrs. Samuel Spiegel; Exec. Sec., Rose E. Drapkin. Headquarters, 531 West 123rd St., New York City.

WOMEN'S NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CLUB

Organized New York City, 1918. Purrose: To promote patriotism and the Active in civprinciples of Democracy. Maintains ic, social and political work. committee on the Abolition of Capital OfPunishment. Membership 1200. ficers: Pres., Mrs. Lillian Sire, Hotel Wellington, New York! Vice Presidents, Edith J. Robinson, Anna W. Hochfelder, Miss Amelia Summerville, Hotel Hardng, New York; Rec. Sec., Mary F. Cagney; Cor. Sec., Mrs. A. Millinger, 48 St. Nicholas Place, New York; Asst. Cor. Sec., Miss Gertrude Horowitz; Treas; Katharine G. Daly; Historian, Anna C. Murphy; Auditor, Mary Cagney. Headquarters. 871 Seventh Ave., New York City. Next meeting, New York, April 30, 1926.

WOMEN'S NATIONAL REPUBLICAN CLUB

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Organized January 15, 1921. Purpose: Educational. Present membership 3000. All members are enrolled in the Republican Party and are active in campaigning at elections. Officers: Pres., Mrs. Charles H. Sabin, 22 East 47th Miss New York; Presidents: Vice Maude Wetmore, 105 West 40th Street, New York; Miss Helen Varick Boswell, 105 W. 40th St., Mrs. Courtlandt Nicoll, 149 East 78th St., New York; Rec. Sec., Mrs. Arthur E. Lott, 11 West 35th St., Horatio S. New York; Treas., Mrs. Shonnard, 320 Park Ave., Cor. Sec., Sarah Schuyler Butler, 60 Morningside Drive, New York. Headquarters, East 37th St., New York City. meeting, January 1926.

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WOMEN'S OVERSEAS SERVICE
LEAGUE

Organized March 1920 in New York City and Philadelphia. Composed of women who were in actual service during the war. Purpose: To keep alive and develop the spirit that prompted oversea service; to maintain the ties of comradeship born of that service and to assist and further any patriotic work; to inculcate a sense of individual obligation to the community, state and nation; to work for the welfare of the Army and Navy; and to assist in any way in their power men and women who

served and were wounded or incapacitated in the World War. Membershir 1500. Pres. Miss Helen Douglas, 722 Atlanta National Bank Bldg., Atlanta, Georgia.

YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Purpose: To advance the physical, social, intellectual and spiritual interest of young women, and to promote growth in Christian character and service, and to become a social force for the extension of the Kingdom of God. Officers: Pres., Mrs. Frederick Paist, Phila., Pa.; Vice Pres., Mrs. Chester C. Ashley, Los Angeles, Calif.; Miss Elizabeth Skinner, Dunedin, Fla.; Secretaries, Miss Bertha Pabst, Washington, D. C.; Miss Lois Klugler, Boston, Mass. The National Board of the Y. W. C. A. is the Executive Committee of the organization, to which the work of organization is entrusted during the interim of conventions. Officers of National Board: Pres., Mrs. Robert E. Speer; Chairman of Committee; Mrs. John French; Vice Presidents: Miss Clara D. Reed, Mrs. John D. Rockfeller, Jr.; Sec., Miss Katherine Lambert; Treas., Mrs. Samuel J. Broadwell; Asst. Treas., Mrs. Samuel Murtland. Gen. Sec., Miss Mabel Cratty. Operates through its headquarters and three regional offices. National Board interests itself in the city, student, town and country associations throughout the United States and its territories. Through its Foreign Division, it works with other members of the World's Committee of the Y. W. C. A. in carrying on Association work for the women and girls in the Baltic States, the Near East, The Orient and South America. Work in Oriental countries is undertaken by the Association only upon invitation of the Mission Boards already working in the country. At present work is being carried on under this department in eleven countries, There with a staff of 122 secretaries. are in the United States 2021 Y. W. C. A. centers in cities, towns, counties including those in schools and colleges. They have a membership of 545,000, real property amounting to over $41,975,000. Gross budgets of local associations for 1924 is approximately $23,160,537, about 75 per cent. of which is met by earnings from cafeterias, boarding homes, etc. Regional offices in Chicago, Denver and San Francisco. Headquarters and Na tional Training School, 600 Lexington Avenue, New York City.

WOMAN'S RESEARCH FOUNDATION

This Foundation is in process of organization. Its purpose is educational, its work-reasearch and investigation as to woman's legal, political, social and economic position; Director of Foundation, Miss Alice Paul; Director of Research, pertaining to legal status of women, Mrs. Burnita Shelton Mathews.