Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-04-13
WOMAN'S PARTY
A-MODERN
Radio, Blocked Streets and
Address by President on
Dedication Program.

WASHINGTON, April 13-Ultra mod
ernism in everything from woman's rights
to the latest devices in science is the aim
Of the National womans party. if their
/ latest stunt is any indication of their
intentions.
Not satisfied with having vamped the
district commissioners into ordering all
street car traffic stopped and streets
blocked, opposite the capitol. when their
headquarters will be dedicated May 81
and having inveigled President Harding
himself to promise his presence, they now
announce that they are going to tell the
world" through no less an instrument
than the great amplifer used at President
Hardings inauguration and at the burial
of the unknown soldier at Arlington
Armistice day.
But that is not enough for Alice Paul
and her indefatigible group Of enthu-
siasts. They have directed Mrs. Marie
Moore Forrest, chairman Of the local COM
mittee on arrangements to arrange If
possib for the installation of radio
facilities so that the speeches and music
of the dedication ceremonies may be
broadcasted throughout the land, in ad
dition to reaching tens of thousands of
people grouped all over Capitol Hill.
Equal rights legislation has secured
victories in four States during the first
year of the National Womans Party
campaign to secure legal equality for
women.
Reports to this effect were received to-
day at a meeting of the National Council
OF the Womans Party, held at headquar-
ters here, when national officers and
State leaders were present.
Between greeting her new husband,
Prof. Albert Levitt, just arrived this
morning from the University of North
Dakota, and rushing Off with him for
dinner engagement in New York before
going to her Connecticut farm to spend his
spring holidays, Elsie Hill, the latest
suffrage bride thus summarized the re
ports presented today: THE first year
Of the Woman's Party campaign to Sc
cure equal rights legislation for women
has been occupied by campaigns waged
in nine States. all the way from Massa-
chusetts to Wisconsin, from New York
to Louisiana.
THE entire Woman's Party bin has
possed In one Wisconsin. Sepa-
rate bills embOdying some of the prln-
ciples included in the Womans Party
blanket bill have been passed in three
States. namely, Louisiana, Maryland and
Virginia.
'In Maryland the Legislature which
just adjourned passed bill admitting
women to all public offices in the State.
Previously women had been excluded
from certain offices owing to provisions
in city charters.
virginia Legislature at its session
which adjourned recently passed three
bills giving women greater rights than
they had previously possessed.
THE Louisiana Legislature passed
group of bills removing thirteen impor-
tant determinations against women"
Though Elsie Hill rushed Off to New
York with her new husband for dinner,
it was not to be tete- tete meal with
him. She was bound for public affair
in the Hotel Commodore where hundreds
of women will listen to both sides of
the much discussed equal rights legis-
lation proposed by the National Woman's
Party.
1t was Mrs. j. Borden Harriman's
bright idea to invite Mrs Florence Kelley,
secretary of the National Consumers
League and Miss Maud Younger legisla-
tive secretary of the National WOman's
Party to argue the thing out, if pos
sible Mrs. Kelley Is the leader of the
opposition on the ground that equal
rights for women will endanger pro
tective legislation for women in industry.
while Miss Younger is one of the
originators of the equal rights bills.
A similar debate will be heard in
Washington next Monday at the Woman's
City Club with the same participants
pro and con.-Copyright, 1922, by Public
Ledger Company.