Leaguers Confer

With a good deal more seriousness than would have been evidenced at a similar meeting three or four years ago, the young ladies of the Junior League last week held their annual national conference in Philadelphia. There were luncheons and a visit to socialite Mrs. Richard Haughton's rock gardens, but for the most part the session had the aspect of a four-day retreat for political education.

A pilgrimage to Valley Forge followed an address to the Junior Leaguers by President Marion Edwards Park of Bryn Mawr on "clear thinking and honesty in projects undertaken." President Gertrude Ely of the Pennsylvania League of Women Voters--who felt "inflated"' rather than depressed by the times--advised the Leaguers to "keep newspaper clippings of important events in order to become familiar with history in the making." Owen D. Young stood up and placed the blame for the Depression squarely upon the U. S. attitude towards War Debts.

A resolution inspired by strike-leading Mrs. Gifford Pinchot (TIME, May 15) was passed suggesting that "the Junior League acquaint its members with wage and working conditions that prevail in the factories, shops and stores in their own neighborhoods and to take an active part, through the molding of a civic consciousness, to secure the eradication of such unhealthy and uneconomical conditions as may threaten the welfare of our citizens."

After recommending that Leagues reduce national dues, discussing tea room management, organization bookkeeping and social service work, the Leaguers voted to continue annual meetings, adjourned. Next year's will be at Toronto.

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