Evening star., 1924-02-10
D. C. ANTHONY LEAGUE
PLANS TO CELEBRATE
Will Meet to Commemorate 1O4th
Birth Anniversary of Pioneer
Suffragette.
EVENING OF FEBRUARY Is
Plans to Build Memorial to Susan
B. Anthony.

Plans have been completed for a
mass meeting and celebration. under
the auspices of the Anthony League
of the District of Columbia. in COM
memoration of the 104th birthday an
niversary of Susan B. Anthony. pio-
neer suffragette, to be held in the
auditorium of the Central High
School Friday evening, February Is
at o'clock.
Personal "reminiscences of Miss An
thony. to be delivered by Miss Janet
Richards, and a memorial ceremony
in which 104 pretty girls will partici-
pate will furnish special features
for the occasion. Each will drop a
gold coin in pot and this money
will be appropriated toward the erec-
ton of memorial building to Su-
san b. Anthony. which the Anthony
League hopes to have erected in this
city in the near future.
Symbclixes Yellow Rose.
Each dollor thus deposited, it is
stated, will be symbolic of a yellow
rose. This symbolization was chosen,
it is pointed out, because Miss An
thony on her eighty-sixth biril day
anniversary was presented with
eighty-six roses roses Each; eaSh Of that nat
presenting her with rose. The
group of girls will be in charge Of
Mrs. Nanette B. Paul and Mrs. Maud
Wood Park. president of the National
League of Women Voters. Amer
lea will be sung by Mrs. Wayne +.
Wheeler.
Those who are invited as honor
guests to be on the platform include
the Commissioners of the District and
representatives from civic organiZa-
tions. They are: DR.. William Tindall,
Theodore w. NoyeS, president of the
Association of Oldest Inhabitants: !:
Isaac Cans, president Chamber of
Commerce; Jesse c. Suter, president
District of Columbia Society of Ma
tives; Charles NJ. Baker, president
Federated Citizens Association; Ed
Trade and Charles T. Lloyd, president
board of education. Among the speak
ers will be: Mrs. Hester NJ. Poole,
ninety-three years of age and a char
ter member of the Anthony League; ;
Representative Isaac X. Sherwood OF
Ohio, lightweight years of age, old
est member of the House of Repre-
SentativeS; Senator Robert l.. owen
of Oklahoma, who helped women win
the franchise; REPRESENTATIVE Henry
r. Rainey of Illinois, Mrs. Ida Hus-
ted Harper, who wrote the Life and
Works of Susan Be Anthony; Mrs.
Ellis Meredith, writer; DR.. Kate
Waller Barrett of the International
Council of Women; Mrs. Harriet Tay-
lor Upton, vice chairman of the re-
publican national committee; Mrs.
Emily Newell Blair. vice .presi-
mittee; Mrs. Nanette Paul and Mrs.
Maud Wood Park, president National
League OF Woman Voters.
A short address will be delivered on
various subjects in connection with
other activities of interest to women,
as follows: Mrs. Helen H. Gardner of
the United States Civil Service Com
mission will speak on Women in
Government Service" while others
will talk on subjects in the order
named below: Women in Law" by
Mrs. Ellen Spencer Mussey, founder
and honorary dean of the Washing.
ton College of Law; college Women"
of the Woman's City Club; "Women's
Work for Temperance" Mrs. Emma
Sanford Shelton, president Of the, w.
G. T. u. of the District Of Columbia !:
Business and Professional Women"
Judge Mary .O'Toole of the District
Municipal Court; and Judge Kathryn
Sellers of the Juvenile Court, Women
AS Teachers" Miss Elizabeth E. Hay
uen, tedCneT III tne puOIlc SCnoOiS VI
the District: Women as Home Makers. -
Mrs. Harvey w. Wiley, president of
the Housekeepers' Alliance; Jewish
Women" Mrs. Alexander Wolfe, pres
ident of the Council of Jewish Women
of the District Of Columbia; Fed
Grated Club Women" Mrs. w. ]. Friz-
Zell, president of the Federation Of
Women's clubs of the District of Co
iumbia; "Fraternal Organizations,
Miss Minnie Evans Keys, right
worthy grand secretary of the Order
of the Eastern Star; Patriotic Or
saniZations," Mrs. Howard L. Hodg-
kins, past president of the Federation
of Women's clubs, and an address on
'Colored Women of America" by Mrs.
Robert H. Terrell. former member
of the board of education.
Heads of Committees.
Mrs. Anna E. Hendley, president Of
the league is chairman on speakers;
Mrs. Nanette B. Paul, vice president
of invitations; Mrs. Evelyn Chatterton
Widney is chairman on arrangements
in the auditorium for the occasion,
while Mrs. Edgar C. Snyder is chair
man of arrangements for club and
organization cooperation. Mrs. Percy
NJ. Bailey is chairman of printing.
Mrs. Eva C. E. Chase is general
chairman of the committee of ar
rangements for a sketch with Mrs.
Virginia Peters Parkhurst as her as
sfstant.
At a business meeting of the league
Thursday night. a resolution of SYM
pathy to Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, wife
In the resolution Mr.. Wilson was
praised as a champion of the nine
teenth amendment, which gave the
women the ballot