Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-27
WOMEN TO PRESS
|. D. c. BALLOT FIGHT
Determination Aroused by
Observance of Anniversary
of 18th Amendment.

The Nationwide celebration of re-
| joicing over the tenth anniversary OF
women's enfranchisement through the
nineteenth amendment yesterday only
served to arouse the determination Of
prominent suffrage leaders here to work
all the harder in behalf of national
representation for the voteless people
in the District of Columbia.
In the absence of any demonstration
here similar to those held in New York
and other cities on a coast-to-coast
radio hook-up. members of the Vote
less District of Columbia League OF
Women Voters contented themselves &C
! a luncheon meeting in Stoneleigh
Courts to listen in" to the speeches.
of Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait. Miss
Belle Sherwin and other leaders IN the
hard-won battle for the ballot.
while other women throughout the
United States are rejoicing today over
the right to VOTE" declared Mrs. Henry
Grattan Doyle, president of the District
League, I'VE voteleSs women OF the Dis
trict of Columbia are not SO selfish that
we cannot join with them in their re-
joicing."
Fight VIII Be Pressed.
Pointing out that the women residing
at the seat of the Federal Government
are privileged only to enter into the
spirit of the celebration, Mrs. Doyle
served notice that the local league is
going to carry on the fight for national
representation in the District OF Co
lumbia harder than ever, believing as
we do in the inherent right OF every
citizen to cast q vote for President"
H.
at O'Clock, the District League, which
had as its guests a number OF noted
suffrage campaigners, celebrated the day
with q huge birthday cake with 10 can
dies. Miss Sherwin, the principal guest
and president of the National League
of Women Voters, cut the first slice
and Mrs. Doyle the second. Then
Miss Sherwin departed for Station WRC,
where she delivered an address in con-
junction with the New York League,
which was conveyed to the diners here
of 81 stations of the National Broad
casting Co.
Just before Q o'clock Mrs. Doyle In
troduced Representative Mary Norton
of New Jersey, Mrs. Ida Hustled Harper,
the grand little old lady of suffrage;
Mrs. e. A. Hartman, president of the
League Of Republican Women; Mrs.
Harvey Wiley of the National Woman's
Party; DR.. George G. Havenner, presi-
dent of the Federation of Citizens As
sociations, and other guests, including
the officers of the District League, all
of whom, she said, are working for the
ballot in the District. Representative
Florence Kahn of California was unable
to attend as expected.
Mrs. Mussey's Record Praised.
In a report on the national memorial
fund being raised by league members
throughout the country to perpetuate
the names of suffrage pioneers, Mrs.
Lyman B. Swormstedt reported on the
fund to honor Mrs. Ellen Spencer Mus
sey, the choice of the District League.
She praised Mrs. MusSey'S record In the
fields of education and law and as one
who has done much for the good of
the District, and particularly its chill
dren. Among her accomplishments on
the Board Of Education, she credited
Mrs. Mussey with being the mother of
the compulsory educational law" and
with obtaining the funds for the estab-
lishment of the first kindergartenS in
the city.
At the conclusion Of the informal
program Mrs. Mercer G. Johnston,
chairman Of the nominating committee,
presented the nominations of delegates
to the national convention of the
League of Women Voters in Louisville,
KY, next month. The delegates viii be
Mrs. Doyle, Mrs. Edna L. Johnston and
Mrs. Frank Hiram Smell. Alternates
are Miss Grace Abbott, Mrs. Clara M.
Boyer and Miss Ethel B. Ketcham.