Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1920 — 350 DELEGATES AT BIG MEET [ARTICLE]

350 DELEGATES AT BIG MEET

Women of Twenty Nations Attend Internationa! Congress. Christiania, Sept. 10.—Three hundred and fifty delegates, representing

20 natrons, were present at tne opening session of the International Congress of Women here. Roumanla. Cuba, Spain and Czechoslovakia are to be admitted to membership, and Uruguay, Ukraine, Russia, Ireland and Mexico were received at the session. Mademoiselle Van Eigen was appointed secretary, to succeed Dr. Alice Salmon of Germany, this step being necessary because of the fact that German women are not in attendance. At a meeting of the executive committee, under the chairmanship of Lady Aberdeen, the president of th£ congress, eulogies on members of the congress who have died during the past year were pronounced.