The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-15
Alice Paul, Chairman ErecutiDe Committee 0t the National Womd1'S Party, Talks of] War, Suffrage and Anthony Amendment
By DOLLY DALRYMPLE

ny OOLLN DALKN
 (C1OMETIMES the man is a politician; IN sometimes he is a militarist; some
 times he is a humanitarian; some
 times it is world peace; sometimes it is child labor; sometimes it is Votes for Women;' sometimes it is whether the country will let Colonel Roosevelt raise
 an army of 5OO,OOO and fight the Germans,
 but all these pale into insignificance when the question flickers on the hori- : zon:
 1 What would happen if all the women 1 in the country should get together on ! any issue of large concern?'
 1 The humanitarian says: Think what We could do to child labor if all the women stood shoulder to shoulder" The l mil1tarist says: Would the women let us have war;" The average citizen ob- serves: What would they likely do to
 us and what would happen to beer and skittles?"
 without pausing to parry with the pain fuI suspense between questions and an- swers let it be said right here that Bir- mirgham will have an opportunity to hear through Miss Alice Paul. chairman of the executive committee of the na- ticnal womans party during the present week, the answer to the question which her party is advocating namely: What would happen if all the women of fhe country got together on the suffrage uues- tion."
 And the answer be it said is a very simple one; namely, that if the SOOO,UUO women who now have the right to vote as well as the others who are suffragists at heart, would get together and con- centrate on Congress to enfranchise the women of the United States as the other countries of the world are doing the women would have the vote
 Miss Alice Paul is one of the mildest hammered, most demure and unmilitant looking people in the world, yet this tiny under 30 years of age college person, graduate of Swathmore and with a Ph degree from the Pennsylvania university, besides several years of study in Eng land and other European countries, is at the head of party which has undertaken to place before Congress an amendment to the constitution of the United States extending the right of suffrage to women: in other words, the Susan B. Anthony amendment" and which when ratified shall be valid as part of said constitu- tion, namely:
 "Article-Sec, 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United | states or by any state on account of sex l
 Sec. ?. Congress shall have power, 1 by appropriate legislation, to enforce the 1 provisions of this article
 Moreover this same, demure looking l Puritan maid was a member of the first | delegation four years ago which called | upon President Wilson and brought his l attention to the great need of suffrage 1 for women.
 With a modesty seemingly out of pro- l portion to the work she has accomplished | in the organization and promotion of the | national woman's party, Miss Paul tells | the casual observer of the difficulties and | obstacles which have been overcome in l it's building; but she does not tell you | (and this is a keen example of her mod esty and retiring dispositon) that two | years ago after she had legislated and | brought about the formation of the | party and the big convention | was held in Chicago when her name was | mentioned and every person present arose to their feet and cheered her and l applauded and called for her that she l couldn't be found; with her usual mod 1 esty she had slipped out of the great 1 hall and was standing on a l nearby balcony entirely willing to be the | man DeHlnu the gun, so to Spedk-Dut | not seeking any personal praise or adul- teration.
 But with all the modesty and elimina- tion of self in her great world-work, probe a little deeper and you'll find fire lurking in the veins of this clever young 1 woman as she tells you of her acquaint- | ance and her friendship with Mrs. Plank | hurst when she was living in England and of how much more she thinks this great militant suffrage leader has done for English women than any other one individual in Great Britain Indeed. as she relates how with Mrs. Golden San derson, the first woman mayor or Eng land, and Mrs. Ethel Smythe, the great composer and others she marched un- ]