Evening star., 1923-11-13
PRESIDENT TO HEAR.
EQUAL RIGHTS PLEA
Woman's Party Committee Of
200 Saturday to Explain
Need of Amendment.

President Coolidge will be told next
Saturday by a committee of 200 wom-
en- why the National @sNoman's Party
to be adopted during the ensuing
. year to secure them. Reasons for Sc
curing the rights by federal amend
ment will be pressed.
The deputation will be led by Mrs
o. II. P. Belmont. president of the
Woman's Party, and by Alice Paul,
vice president. Maud Younger. con-
gressional chairman, will explain the
benefit to women to be derived from
the program Of equality.
Mrs. Stephen Pell OF New YORK CITY
Mrs. Victor du Pont of Wilmington.
Del; Mrs. J. D. Wilkinson of Shreve.
port, La; Mrs. Valentine Winters OF
Dayton, Ohio, and Miss Zona Gale-will
be on the committee.
Business Session.
In the afternoon a business session
is to be held at the Woman's Party
headquarters. at which plans are 70
be made for the political policy to be
, adhered to the coming. year. Mrs.
John Rogers will preside at this meet
ing.
Among some Of the prominent
women from various states VINO are
are to join the deputation TO the
President are: Mrs. Peter Drury, Mrs.
Florence Boeckel, Mrs. John Walker
Holcombe. Mrs. Richard Wainwright,
DIR. Sophie Nordoff- Jung. Mrs. Anna
Archbold. Mrs. Randolph Keith For
rest, Mrs. Alice Barney. DR.. Cora
Smith King, Miss Mary Pittman. Mrs
Edmund Brennan, Mrs. Elizabeth MUIR
ray Byers,. Miss Elizabeth Berrien,
Mrs. Mary Macarty. Miss Carrie Har-
rison. Miss Mary Gertrude FendaH,
Burnita Shelton Matthews, DR.. s. M.
Huddleson, Miss Emma johnson, La
! vfnia Dock, Alice Young and Mrs.
Harvey Wiley.
On Sunday an impressive memorial
ceremony will be held by the Wom-
ans Party in the Capitol.
This ceremony, staged by Hazel Mac
Kaye, is one honoring the women who
initiated the equal rights movement
seventy-five years ago. This meeting
in the Capitol will also be the closing
celebration Of the seventy-fifth anni-
versary year of the birth of the equal
rights movement in this country.
The statues of Lucretia Mott.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan
B. Anthony. which are in the crypt
at the Capitol. banked with purple,
white and gold flowers. will form the
center of the meeting. A choir of
twenty-five girls. led by Mrs. John
Stahl, will then appear down the cor
oI TIE Sdpiloi, SiH6lHS, dS lHSS
approach, the words that were car
4 ried by Inez Milholland on the BAN
ner of the first suffrage procession
in this country. and which have been
used by the Woman's Party at all Of
its gatherings.
Holding aloft the Woman's Party
standards of purple, white and gold.
will come 100 banner bearers down
the two main corridors.
Will Bear State Flowers.
Following them will come women
from every part OF the country. carry
Ing wreaths made up Of state flowers.
The speakers at the ceremony will
be Mrs. o. II. p. Belmont. president
of the Woman's Party: Inez Haynes
Irwin, Mrs. Dudley Field Malone and
Mabel Vernon. who is in charge of
the ceremony.
Assisting Miss MacKaye in the cere-
mony are Alice Young of New York
city. Elsie Hill, chairman of the
national council; Rowena Eastwood
Graves of Colorado Springs, Clara E.
Sackett, Mabel<yan Dyke and Mrs.
John Walker Holcombe, chairman OF
the District branch of the Woman'si
Party.