Evening star., 1922-07-30

profession, ana d little pamphlet 70
prepared. which concisely boils down
the facts In zach case and shows just
what the pretudices and actual dis
examinations against women are. The
was sy dsSsss 4hich 20 ara aeAfa ss,ns ns
work4n qn or which win be handled
In the: mar future are acting. archf.
lecture. art, comm ercial work, dentis-
try; tournaitsm. library work. clerical
work. music, nursiny, osteopsthy.
work, teaching. writing ana govern
ment work of all kinds.
The supervisor of this work Of the
Womans Party 10 Miss Alice Paul, the
sunragist leader, who personally has
had some unusual experiences. She
receiyed rec her LII B. degree from the
Misc Paul. completed her studies in
law in an unusually short space of
time by devoting herself with great
concentration to them. In the morn
ings she studied law at George Wash
she stpdisd it at the washington COL
lege OF Law, and in the evening she
was always off to lecture or study
ing 1t somewhere else. :,
As girl Miss Paul attended n pri-
won a scholarship to Swarthmore
college. from which she graduated in
1905. In Swarthmore she won a
scholarship of the College settlement
Association, and so spent a year at
the Rivington Street College Settle
ment OF New York. She also studied
that year at the New York School of
Philanthropy. receiving = diploma in
1906. The next year she got her
NJ A. degree from the University of
Pennsylvania. Again. she won a
scholarship, this time to the Wood
brook Settlement for Social Work in
Birmingham. England, and while
work. especially along lines of In
vestigations Of women's factory en-
ployment. She even worked herself
as factory hand in London.
She studied during 1868 as a grad
uate student In the School OF Econom-
les at the University Of London, and
the next year saw the beginning Of the
most sensational phase Of her varied
career. when Miss Paul took an active
part in the English suffragist campaign.
During the year 1sos-lo she was inn
prisoned three times In British jails
and arrested four additional times in
connection with her suffragist activi-
ues She was very successful in man.
aging the hunger-strike method Of
counter-attack. SO that in nearly every
case ner sentence was considerably
Upon her return to the United States
in, 1910, Miss Paul entered the graduate
schooi OF the University of Pennsyl.
vanfa and the following year received
fellowship of the university. In 1911
,..n, she -, received her Ph. D. degree. for
ton Of Women in Pennsylvania" She
was already associated with the voman n
sunragist movement OF the state, and
IN lsl2 became chairman Of the con :
eressional committee of the Nattonal
american Woman Suffrage Associatton
IN 1873 she was one Of the organizers
OF the Congressional Union for Wom-
an Sunrage (the same organization
NOV NOV TX known WA as the Woman's Party)
tll It's reorganization after the suf-
frage amendment was won.
AS result of participating in suf-
traee demonstrations in the United
states. she was sentenced to seven
months In prison in Washington in
lslI, but the hunger-strike method
pn,,1 w1rken 60, again and her sentence lasted
years was she imprisoned for a ten-dav
and nve-day sentence. Both times She
went on hunger strike Throughout the
sentence. 'iie