New Residence; Peace the Great Objective Shanghai, Oct. 2. THE Joint Committee of Women's Organizations held their first meeting of the season last Wednesday in the rooms of the new Business Girl's Residence at 66 Great Western Road.
The sponsors of this new scheme, to provide reasonable accommodation for working girls receiving only small salaries, the Y.W.C.A., were the hostesses of the afternoon, and as one of the objects of the Joint Committee is to promote the welfare of women and children they were very grateful of this opportunity to vis this new project. The business of the afternoon included reports on the Business Girls' Residence, the Mental Welfare Committee and the Fresh Air Fund Committee, a number of children were given a chance to enjoy a summer holiday who otherwise would have had only back lanes and alleyways for their play ground.
Mrs. J. S. Barr, who has just returned from a holiday in England and America, was the speaker for the afternoon and told of various International women's organizations with which she had had contact during the last year in America and England, She was in Glasgow last May to attend a conference celebrating "Status of Women Day". This meeting. was called to show interest in the appointment of a League of Nations Commission to make a world survey of the status of women. Besides considering desired improve. ments ju the status of women in Scotland, the conference listened to addresses on the status of women in Sweden and in China, 'Women's International' Week was held im Stockholm the first week in July, Each year" several hundred Women gather for discussion of tual" problems, exchange of ideas, sight-seeing, and fellowship.
X.W.C.A. Conference The Biennial Conference of the Young Women's Christian Association of Great Britain was really an me ternational group, said Mrs. Barr, as more than twenty countries were represented there, She attended as the fraternal delegate of the ¥.W.C.A. of China, and had some opportunity to learn from the delegate from Geneva of the very fine work being carried on by the World's Y.W.C.A, London Mrs. Barr met Miss Mery Dingman, president of the Peace and Disarmament Committee of Women's International Organiza-ya. This committee was formed In 1931 to focus attention on the Disarmament Conference then about to be held. It has 17 consti-{uent groups as members and repr sents 45,000,000 women in 53 countries, Since 1085 the committee has worked on a broader basis than in The past' to spread knowledge and understanding of the great issues underlying the organization of peace and to enlist the support of women. in alt parts of the world im the service Of peace. Mrs. Barr said she asked Miss Dingman' what a Peace and Disarmament Committee could, expect to accomplish in a world such. swe have today, and the answer was "We feel that the next step is to work for the total abolition of air League for Peace Through Miss Agatha Harrison, who visited Shanghai in the early days of the Joint Committee, Mrs. Barr came in touch with the fater-national League for Peace and Freedom which studies and works on each problems as Status of Refugees, Intwmationalization of Civil Aviation, In spite of a very difficult year hardly anything else is worth talk-Ing about, especially if we feel that, civilization cannot survive another world war. We, who have seen before our eyes the last few months what war means, are the very ones to work hardest for peace,
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