NATIONAL AMERICAN CONVENTION OF 1917 515 ment of the war had not entirely overshadowed what had now became a national issue. Under the auspices of Mrs. Helen H. Gardener, resident in Washington, an Advisory Council was formed to act in an honorary capacity and extend official recog- nition to the convention, Senators, Representatives, Cabinet officers, Judges, clergymen and others prominent in the life of the capital, with their wives and other women of their family, cheerfully giving their names for this purpose. 1 The evening before the convention opened a reception by in- vitation was given in the ball room of the New Willard Hotel to Dr. Shaw, Mrs. Catt and the other officers and the delegates, the following acting as hostesses : Mrs. William Gibbs McAdoo, Airs. Newton D. Baker, Mrs. Thomas W. Gregory, Mrs. Albert Sidney Burleson, Mrs. Josephus Daniels, Mrs. Franklin K. Lane, Mrs. David F. Houston, Miss Agnes Hart Wilson, Mrs. James R. Mann, Mrs. Philip Pitt Campbell. The first seven were the wives and the eighth the daughter of the members of President Wilson's Cabinet, only Mrs. Robert Lansing being absent, who, like her husband, was an anti-suffragist. The last two were the wives of prominent Representatives from Illinois and Kansas. Because of the war the other social festivities that were usually 1 On the list were: All the members of the Cabinet except Secretary of State Lansing; nineteen U. S. Senators and fourteen prominent Represetatives; Speaker Champ Clark; U. S. Commissioner of Education Philander P. Claxton; Assistant Secretary of Agricul- ture Carl Vrooman; Justices of the Supreme Court of the District Wendell P. Stafford and Frederick L. Siddons; Secretary to the President Joseph P. Tumulty; Commissioners of the District Louis Brownlow and W. Gwynn Gardiner; former Commissioners Henry F. MacFarland and Simon Wolf; Major Raymond S. Pullman, Chief of Police; Resident Commissioner and Mme. Jaime De Veyra (Philippine Islands); Resident Commissioner Felix C. Davila (Porto Rico); John Barrett, director of the Pan-American Union; Major- General W. C. Gorgas; the Reverends U. G. B. Pierce, Henry N. Couden, chaplain of
- James Shera Montgomery, Rabbi Abram Simon, John Van
k, president of the School Board; Theodore Noyes, editor of the Evening Star; Arthur Brisbane, the Times; C. T. Braincrd, the Washington Herald; W. P. Spurgeon, the Washington Post; Gilbert Grosvcnor, editor of the National Geographic Magazine; J. Leflwich Sinclair, president, and Thomas Grant, secretary of the Washington Chamber of Commerce; Dr. Harry A. Garfield, president Williams College and director Fuel Administration for the United States; Edward P. Costigan, U. S. Tariff Commission; Frank A. Vandcrlip, V. Everit Macy, on War Boards; Samuel Gompers, president American Federation of Labor; Alexander Graham Bell; Gilford Pinchot; Dr. Ryan ux; General Julian S. Carr, commandcr-in chief United Confederate Veterans. Miss Julia Lathrop, chief of ihe Children's Bureau; Mrs. Mary C. C. Bradford, presi- dent, and Mrs. Ella Flagg Young, secretary Natiu ,11 Association; Mrs. George Tbacbcr Guernsey, president-general Daughters of the American Revolution; Mrs. Cordelia R. P. Odenhcimer, president-general Daughters of the Confederacy; Miss Janet Richards; Mrs. Charles Boughton Wood; Mrs. Illaine -. Ellis Meredith; Mrs. Christian Ilemmick; Mrs. Herbert C. Hoover; Mrs. A. Garrison McQintock.
