New Britain herald., 1930-08-26
Colby Signed the Measure Without Ceremony or Photographs, Leaders Today Discover - Stir ring Scenes of Days of Fight Recalled.

Washington. Aug. 2s P-Ten years ago today the right of women to vote throughout the United States Was proclaimed
 The slender, quiet man who made valid the instrument of announce ment-Bainbridge Colby. secretary of state-performed the act without benefit of news cameramen. l. was sweltering day A messenger ran up the walk of a spacious resid- ence; the secretary took the procla- nation, carried it to his desk, and quietly signed it. The nineteenth amendment to the constitution was in effect.
 Women's organizations preparing to celebrate this decennial anniver- sary of their victory discovered that not single picture was made Of the event. Its simplicity throws into sharper outlines the events of the strenuous years preceding.
 Leaders Recall Days
 Leaders were recalling those years today. They were calling up swift-moving succession of events, in each of which the same eager dc termined faces appear-Alice Paul, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, Dr. Anna Shaw, Mary Garrett Hay, Inez Mil holland, Maud Younger.
 While they reminisced, they look ed forward to another campaign for blanket declaration of equal rights" for men and women in the constitution. The national womans party is going after an amendment carrying this declaration.
 Rare in history is the campaign like that the women waged for the ballot. It goes back to 1878, when the Susan B. Anthony amendment was introduced. Forty years later to day the house passed the meas ure for the first time; but not until the last month of 1912 did the issue become a snowfall of public opin- lon.
 Miss Paul Begins
 Then Alice Paul, slim young so- cial worker, came from New Jer- sey and started work. Women flock ed to her command. Her general ship still is a thing for conversation,
 The day Woodrow Wilson came to town for his first inauguration she had parade in progress. The feminists say the president-elect stepped from his train asking. "Where are the people?" and was answered, Down on the avenue, watching the suffragsts." That procession was dispersed by the police, But within a few weeks, deputation of women was knock ing at the presidents door. Five times that year, they demanded his support in vain. They concentrated on adding to the number of states giving women the vote.
 Through the years more deputa- tions went to the president. On January g. 1917, President Wilson informed them he would receive no more; that their next step must be to concert public opinion. The next day found them picketlng the White House.
 Continue Picketing
 Peaceful picketing contnued-in rain, in sleet. in snow-until police began a series of arrests. Between 400 and 500 women were arrested before the en9, Miss Paul, the lead CT. had been placed under observI- tion in a psychopathiC ward. Some women actually went to the work house, served their sentences and returned to their picketing.
 But out Of prison was born fresh inspiration: a prison special" soon was steaming through the country, carrying the former prisoners to tell the story.
 In January, 1918, Wilson declar- ed himself in favor of the amend ment. The next day it passed the house, only to be defeated in the senate. Then began intensive lob- bying, which, Miss Paul later said, "cost s5O,o00 in five months, and re- suited in a gain of five senators. With the beginning of the special session in 1919-called to pass ap- propriation bills, the women renew-