Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-24

General discussion will close the morn
ing session.
The meeting will reconvene at 2
o'clock in the afternoon, when the re-
ports of the chairmen of the national
standing committees will be the order
of buslnesS-committee on organiza
ton, ways and means, membership,
printing, publicity and bulletin.
DR.. Mary Meek Atkeson, first vice
president, will address the meeting on
the subject OF the Manuscript Service
Bureau" and Mrs. Ida Donnelly Peters
will speak on Markets" General dis
cussion will follow.
y REPRESENTATIVE ELECT RUTH
~ BRYAN OWEN will be the guest OF
honor at the annual dinner of the
Woman's National Democratic Club on
Wednesday, February n. The dinner
is for members ana their guests and
will be at o'clock.
The day will begin with a pilgrimage
to the tomb of Woodrow Wilson, when
wreath will be placed by the club
members Those desiring to go will
meet at the clubhouse, 1920 New Hamp-
shire avenue at II O'Clock, and trans
portation will be provided. Mrs.
crank S. Bright is in charge of this
event.
Luncheon will follow at 100 o'clock,
when Mrs. Huston Thompson, second
vice president, Will preside. There will
be an informal discussion of Club
Interests"
The sixth annual business meeting
will begin at o'clock and election OF
officers will take place.
Mrs. Edward b. Meigs, first vice
president, will preside at the dinner,
when report will be made on the cleo
ton and the newly elected officers will
be introduced.
MRS. MARGARET E. COUSINS OF
4NA Ireland, leader of suffrage move
ments in England, Ireland and India,
discussed her recent activities in India
at a meeting of the National Womans
Party at the headquarters of the organ
ization on Capitol Hill Thursday after
noon.
India is ahead of America in the
fact that the men and women have
equal opportunities" said Mrs. Cousins.
Although the men outnumber the
women in India by 100000, their OPP
portunities are the same" she declared.
Mrs. Cousins was a leader of the
early suffrage movements in England
and Ireland. She has been in India
since 1915 and organized the first
woman's deputation demanding SUI
frage for women in India. She is the
wife of DR.. James H. Cousins, writer
and educator in India.
What women can do they may"
Mrs. Cousins quoted as the Indian slo-
gan applied to the fields of activity
IN a c
the advanced ideas of India the fact
that woman suffrage was passed unani-
mously by the local government as soon
as England put the question in its
hands, while she suffered imprisonment
twice in her fight for the vote in Eng
land and Ireland.
Mrs. Valentine Winters of Dayton,
Ohio, presided at the meeting.
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NINE. SARoJINI NA1DU of India
A'A discussed the feminist movement
in India at meeting of the National
Woman's Party at the headquarters Of
the organization en- Capitol Hill last Sun
day afternoon. Referring to so-called
chivalry which demands the protection"
of women, Nine. Naidu declared the
highest chivalry of a man toward a
woman is found when he considers her
as a comrade, sharing responsibilities
equally. A woman who accepts privi-
leges and exemption from hardships
must necessarily pass down weaknesses
to her children"
Nine. Naidu offered challenge,to the
women of this country by saying that
if women of the United States have
legal disabilities, 1t is their own fault.
mo individual race or sex suffers sub
lection unless they have qualities
which cause them to permit such sub
lection"
Nine. Naidu was the first woman
elected to the Office Of mayor in India
and the first woman president of the
Indian National Congress. She is
known in the field OF English litera-
ture as a writer of poetry and prose.
Nine. Naidu was the guest Of honor
at a dinner at the Woman's Party Sun
day night. Hostesses at the dinner were
Miss Emma Void of Oregon, legislative
secretary of the organization, and Miss
Mabel Vernon Of Delaware, national
executive secretary.