Evening star., 1933-07-02

tlOnal WOman'S Party In me-
Il mortal service to woman lead
ers Saturday, July 8, at 7:30
pm. at the Sylvan Theater on the
Monument Grounds. This is expected
to be the greatest demonstration of
women here since the days OF the
suffrage campaign.
The National Woman'S Party has ar
ranged the ceremony at this time in
tribute to Mrs. Oliver H. P. Belmont,
its former president who died last
January The public Is invited. A
thousand women will participate in a
colorful procession carrying banners
honoring the great leaders of the wom-
ans movement.
Carmela Ponselle Of the Metropolitan
Opera, an ardent feminist, will make
her first appearance in the National
Capital in these ceremonies. Her songs
en-, Weep No More" written by Mrs.
Belmont shortly before her death. and
Horizons Widen Ever" by Josephine
Preston Peabody. DR.. T. Tertius Noble
of New York has composed special
music to these songs for this occasion
Mrs. Marie Moore Forrest, who Is
directing the pageant, points out that
it will be symbol of life and the
future rather than of death and the
past, for the ceremonies have double
significance carried in the words Of
the special banner which will lead the
long line of memorial tribute-"In
Honor of the Past, in Pledge to the
Future"
Tribute to Early Leaders.
Women of national and international
leadership in the woman's movement
will pay tribute to the earlier leaders
during the ceremonies. The invoca-
ton will be offered by Dr. Rietta NJ.
Emerson, assistant pastor of st. Paul's
Methodist Episcopal Church Of Will
mington. Del. and president of the
International Quota Clubs. Mrs. Flor
ence Bayard Hilles of Wilmington,
Del, national chairman of the Wom-
ans Party, will offer the resolution
pledgirg the women of today to carry
the struggle Of freedom to final sue
cess. Miss Doris Stevens Of New York,
chairman of the Inter American Com
mission of Women. known throughout
Latin America for her work in con-
nection with the Inter-American Com
mission of Jurists. and who is to rep
resent the women of the Americas
at the Montevideo conference in De-
| cember, will speak in praise of the VIC
tories of the past and of the need of
women today to summon all their
courage to meet the present economic
situation which threatens again to re-
! duce women to dependent class.
In an especial interview with The
Star, Miss Anita Pollitzer. vice chair
man of the Woman'S Party, who has
recently come to washington to take
charge of the equal rights campaign,
recalled that "at each crisis in the
Woman'S movement women turn back
for inspiration to the first leaders who
nearly a hundred years ago laid down
PRINCIPLES along the lines of which
women are still working.
In 1923. when, after the winning Of
the suffrage amendment, we were TAX
ing up the second phase of our work,
the removal of legal determinations.
we held great meeting in honor of
the pioneers. at Seneca Falls, where
the first woman's rights convention
had been held rs years before. This
memorial service in Washington on
July is the first time since that
meeting in Seneca Falls, just 10 years
ago, that women have joined in re-
calling the leaders and the triunphs
of the past.
To-day we face another crisis.
brought about by the world economic
collapse, and by the forces created by
this depression. Women, handicapped
more than men, have been less able
to meet present conditions. They are
losing the gains they have won. They
Also for lack of power, have been less
able to make their proper contribu-
ton to the worlds recovery. There is
urgent need that they unite and con-
solidate their power"