Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-09-23
|DR. CAREY THOMAS
TO ADDRESS WOMEN
President of Bryn Mawr Will Be
Among Speakers at
Suffrage Jubilee
VICTORY BELL is READY

DIR. NJ. Carey Thomas, president OF
Bryn Mawr College and one Of the most
,rominpnt suffrage workers Of the coun /.
trv. will speak at the celebration of
uomcn's political freedom in Inde
nendence Square Saturday afternoon.
Doctor Thomas. who returned to this
country from two-year trip around
tbc world after the suffrage amendment
had been ratified, will deliver a tribute
N the pioneers Of the women's move
ment.
She was closely associated with DR..
Anna Howard Shaw for many years,
/ and has an intimate knowledge Of the
,plendid work of the organizers of the
suffrage cause.
Two nieces of Susan b. Anthony
will be on the platform during Satur-
DAYS celebration. They are Mrs. Ann
Anthony Bacon, Of New York city, and
Miss Lucy e. Anthony, who lives in
Doctor Shaw's old home in Moylan,
Pa.
The suffrage liberty bell has been
placed in position at Independence
square. prepared to ring out tidings of
women's political freedom Saturday.
Under the direction of the Bureau of
City Property platform has been
erected for the wOmen's bell, within q
short distance of the precious Liberty
Bell. Mrs. Charles Wentworth Ruschen-
berger, of Strafford. Pa, member of
the League of Women Voters. and ma
tional custodian of the bell, had it re-
moved from the Automobile Club of
Philadelphia, % South Twenty third
street.
1t had been there since the Victory
loan drive. That was its last public
appearance.
Governor to Speak
The ringing of the suffrage bell will
be feature of the Indepdndepce
Square exercises celebrating the adop-
tion OF the nineteenth amendment. The
program, announced by the League of
Women Voters, calls for addresses by
Governor Swoul Mrs. Carries Chan
man Gait. Mrs. Maud Wood Park,
Mrs. George A. Piersol and Mrs
Ruschenberger. Mayor Moore will
preside. Community singing at 2:3O
o'clock will precede the speechmaking,
winch STARTS at Is clock.
Ninety thousand women have quail
ned to vote. This Is the estimate of
Mrs. Walter s. Thomson, Philadel-
pnia chairman of the Republican
women'S committee of pennsylvanio
OF a total of 26S. $50 persons reg.
Etered on September . and IA ono
third are women, Mrs. Thomson esti
mates. The Registration Commission
mas not classified the registrants ac-
sordihg to sex, and only guesses can
pe made as to the number of women
VINO went to the polling places on
'ne nrst two registration days.
Issues Her Appeal
Mrs. Thomson has issued an appeal IN
women to register on October =, The final
IresStratlon day, between the hours OF
~ a. m. and p. m, 4 D. m. and <
2. m, and p. NJ. and 10 D. m. In
avoided. '"n NC
Suffrage victory" So contributions
TO the Republican ways and means com
mlttee have been declared successful nv
WIN ii. Hays. and his congratulations
nave been extended to Mrs. George Hor-
aye LOrlmer, who originated the idea.
nays declares the suffrage victory
contribution idea will be launched In
other states. ~
Mrs. lorimcr has announced her in
tention of attending the Social Justice
Day celebration at Marion. o., on
october /, at which time committee,
OF men and women from every section
OF the country will be present to hear an
address to be delivered by the presiden
Sal candidate. Mrs. j. Willis Martin,
Ms MrS' Barclay II. Warburton and Mrs.
Htord Pinchot have been invited us the
olher members of the Republican
wo'nens committee to attend the ccle-
Dratlon at the home of Senator Harding.