Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-04


Woman's Party on Capitol Hill We'd
nesday night, when members OF the
delegation to the Paris convention OF
the international Woman Suffrage
Alliance were rendered Il reception at
which they gave a detailed report or
their activities in Paris and outlined
Il new plan of action for the adVo-
Gates of equal rights for women, rs
ing out of the decision of the congress
not to admit the WOmanS Party 10
membership in the alliance.
Both Miss Mabel Vernon of Della
ware, member Of the national council,
and Miss Jesse Dell, civil service
commissioner the principal speakers
of the evening, stressed the need lor
an international feminist committee
which would meet together at ire
quent intervals for concrete action TO-
ward obtaining, not merely the vote,
but equal rights for men ard women
both socially and politically.
Each speaker declared that the al
verse action of the Paris congress
proved to he a boom rather than
drawback to those urging equal rights,
as it brought the issue before the
eyes Of the world in the press re-
ports of their exclusion from the al,
lance. Greater interest was aroused
through this controversy, it was de
clarcd. than could have been aroused
in years, perhaps. through ordinary
mediums.
The question of equal rights for
women" declared Miss Dell, has now
become one Of the great feminist ana
economic questions before the Wor4u
TODAY One Of the two OUTSTANDING
results of the Paris meeting was the
lifting Of this question before the
eyes of the world. II has made pos
sible for the first time an lntefna-
tiunal body Of feminists who seek
equal rights for women. The lorna
ton Of such IT body will come before
the executive committee OF lhe
Woman's Party at it's next meeting
The cause of equal rights, con
tinued Miss Dell, lis seen today by
the women Of the world as the ques-
ZION which presses next Tor a II az Nti'
Following the exclusion of the Ma
tional Woman's party from the lh'
terna1ional Suffrage Alliance and the
consequent withdrawal oil Lazy
Rhonda's English group. women from
every country III sympathy WIN our
position met together ana dlsCNSSth
the formation OF an international leIIl-
mist committee for action. W hlic the
women of the alliance talked about
~
equally of men and women, this little
eInup discussed possible methods OF
securing for all women control over
thejl. own lives and equal control oil
the government of the world.
THE Woman's Party Will no longer
anneor alone before international
bodies as it did before the Interna
tional Parliamentary Union in support
Of the equal rights program, but III
company with women from many
other nations, will press the claims
of women.
"The impetus given the subject OF
equal rights by the discussion IN
Paris carried it not only around the
world but far ahead in point of time
toward it's solution. The feminists of
the world now stand revealed and in
close cooperation will carry this new
fight for human liberty ahead"
CPEAKIN(i of the necessity for con
~ certed action brought about
through close contact in an
international body. Miss Vernon de-
clared that at present women meet
internationally NJ infrequent intervals
of only once in three years, whereas
If women and Women's interests are
not to be outGistanced permanently,
they must be organized at once for
daily action The world is thinking
and moving today" she said. w hen
national governments were formed.
the women We're not organized To de
mand their share in their control, but
today. when the international orGani-
cation Of the world is taking place
before our eyes, we have the strength
to make the demand that women be
given equal control with men in world
affairs There are tremendous OBJ
stacles ahead which make it neceS-
Sary for us 70 act unitedly and
quickly"
Other delegates briefly addressed the
meeting. telling Of their impressions
of the Paris conclave. Mrs. Florence
Bayard HilIes. chairman of the Della
ware branch and member of the na-
tional council, predicted that, with the
new interest and sympathy evoked
in the WOman'S Party, the organiza-
ton in the near future will find itself
internationally where it now stands
nationally.
Mrs. Isaac II. Dixon of Baltimore,
a new life member of the party, and
Miss Margaret Hallett. daughter of
Prof. Hallett of the University of
Pennsylvania. also addressed the gath
ering Miss Hallett made a plea for
the younger women to join in the
equal rights campaign.
Mrs. Donald K. Hooker of Balti-
more, chairman OF the national coun-
ell of the Womans Party, introduced
the speakers and acted as chairman
Of the reception committee. Mrs
Hooker and the members of the Ma
hn
District branch in receiving the guests
Among those in the receiving line
were Mrs. c. G. Calhoun. Mrs.
Dwight Clark. Mrs. Howard Nyman,
Mrs. Harvey Wiley. Mrs. Anabel Ruth
of Reading. Pa: Mrs. Morris J.
Pierce. Mrs. c. r. Rhodes, Miss Maude
Younger of California. Mrs. Mary
Church Terrell, Mrs. NJ. d. Dixon of
Houston, Tex, and Miss Fanny Wolf
son.
WDO not be stampeded into con
~ demnation of the direct pri-
mary for faults which are not in
herent in the primary itself Miss
Belle Sherwin, president of the Ma
tional League of Women Voters. adj
vised woman voters on her return to
w dSnlISIOH lillS Woeh HUN al
1.-The astounding disclosures in con-
nection with the primary election in
Pennsylvania are made the pretext
for a renewed attack upon this meth
cd of nominating candidates by those
who never have become reconciled to
the abandonment of the old conven-
ton system" Miss Sherwin said.
mo political device is perfect. All
are operated by human beings, and
however excellent any system may be
theoretically 1t cannot be expected to
work perfectly while man remains
fallible.
THE League of Women Voters
stands for the direct primary. not be-
cause it regards it as an ideal instru-
ment. but as definite advance on the