Women's Congress

Minneapolis was also the scene of the organization convention of a National Association of Women Lawyers. Brought together by the industry of Mrs. Rose Falls Bres, Editor of the Women Lawyers' Journal, nearly 100 of the country's 1,500 Portia representing 38 states, constituted themselves the nucleus of a body national to supersede the Women Lawyers' Association, a New York State organization founded 35 years ago.

Wholesome, pleasant, alert, girlish or gray-haired, motherly-looking or businesslike, none with bobbed hair, none in " mannish" clothes, the delegates sat in session, elected their officers for 1923-24, followed a program arranged for them by able Mrs. Bres. Miss Emily M. Bullowa of New York was elected President. Miss Bullowa, formerly an Assistant District Attorney of New York, is said to be the only woman admiralty lawyer in America. Her address as President sounded the note of equal rights but dedicated the new Association to service of a national policy rather than a women's policy.

Mrs. E. Jean Nelson Penfield of New York, chairman on uniform state laws, urged standardization of marriage and divorce laws.

Dr. Ellen Spencer Mussey, founder and now Honorary Dean of the National Women's College at Washington, spoke on legal education. Women attorneys, she said, do not forget their femininity.

The delegates were also addressed by Mr. Chief Justice Taft and Mr. George W. Wickersham.

The next convention will be held when and where the American Bar Association convenes. The Women's Law Journal, patterned after the A.B. A. Journal, will be issued quarterly.