Junior League of Nations

Last week from many a U. S. city, from Canada, Honolulu, Mexico, went 236 delegates to a Manhattan convention of the Association of Junior Leagues of America, socialite welfare organization. After electing officers, they ratified a proposal for establishing an International Junior League. Next autumn their committee will consider applications for admission from ladies in Europe and Asia. Charter members of foreign city leagues must be mostly natives there. The first international committee meeting will be financed by the A. J. L. A.

Delegates then heard energetic Mrs. Carleton H. Palmer of Fairfield, Conn, and Brooklyn, past president of the Association, say: "The Eastern and the Western Hemispheres shall meet. Thirty years ago the Junior League and the 20th Century were born. . . . The time has come. . . . The youth of America should lead the advance guard of an international movement endorsing general disarmament. . . . The ideals which have inspired the Junior League to a steady onward march of evolution and progress are an example to the world of the dynamic power of fearlessness, of goodwill, and of faith in mankind."

Efficient, busy hostesses were the members of New York's League to the visiting delegates. The outlanders were billeted in fine homes, bundled into busses for sight-seeing tours, determinedly dined both ashore and on the docked S.S. Paris, taken to theatres.

Elected 1930 President: Mrs. Roger S. Sperry of Waterbury, Conn. To be treasurer: Mrs. Horatio H. Armstrong of Hartford, Conn.

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