Evening star., 1934-02-11


y occasions to celebrate, regardless OF
L. how young or how old you may be.
Recently the writer had the pleasure
of joining a party of wen-wishers In
paying respect to veteran OF the
Civil War, who had reached his 90th year,
and to have heard him recount some OF the
stirring events around Washington when Gen.
Jubal Early attempted to capture this city
was more than worth the visit. OF course.
the old gentleman fully realized that, accord
ing to the laws of nature he could not carry
on much longer, and yet he seemed to enjoy
the evening to the fullest extent.
More recently, January 80, the President
celebrated his SD birthday anniversary and
the people all over the country participated
in making 1t an occasion long to be remem-
bered, because in doing so they not only paid
tribute to the Chief Executive but provided
besides q handsome fund for very worthy
cause that Is very near his heart.
February is q month in which many distin-
guished persons have been born and one in
which many notable people have passed to
their reward. Presidents Washington, Lincoln
and w. h. Harrison were born in February
and John Quincy Adams and woodrow Wilson
died tn this city during the second calendar
month.
In q few days woman who was born In
February will be eulogized in the Congress OF
the United States She will not be there in
the hesh Of course, for she passed into the
great beyond nearly % years ago, and yet the
memory Of this woman Susan B. Anthony,
grows brighter the days and the years
multiply since her death. In the upper
branch of the National Legislature, Senator
Arthur Capper Of Kansas will tell of the many
years of labor performed by this wonderful
woman In behalf Of equal suffrage Even
after having reached her seth year, and look
ing eternity In the face, she said to those
around her couch: "Just think Of It'll have
been striving for 90 years for . little bit Of
Justice, and yet I must die without obtaining
it. oh, It seems 30 cruel"
Not like many people who are willing
to concede defeat even in the face Of victory,
and who lack the indomitable spirit Of the
courageous John Paul JONES' who told the
captain Of the British sloop of Scraps
that he had not begun to fight, even though
his own vessel was sinking, Susan B. Anthony,
in closing her very last speech here In WASH
dore when she said to her audience, Failure
is impossible" Indeed, what q slogan this
would be for the American people today!
IN THE House of Representatives, next Thurs
sets will very httingly extol the deeds and
virtues Of Miss Anthony, who was born at
Adams in her State, February Is, 1920, and
to whose pluck and ability-as much 20, or
even more so, than to any other person-the
nineteenth amendment finally became q part
of the Federal Constitution. 1t is also planned
to celebrate the day elsewhere in the city.
Equal rights of the sexes was not q new
thought with Miss Anthony for the idea is
a very old one, and it is recorded that In
France under the leadership of Olympic de
Gonges and others a strong appeal was made
for social justice to women at the time Of the
French Revolution. Many years prior to this,
however, We find the thought being given
serious consideration in America A very early
appeal was made in 1647. by Margaret Brent,
~heir of Lord Calvert, the brother of Lord
Baltimore, and executor of the estate Of both
in the colony" who demanded place and
voice" in the Legislature of Maryland, for at
that time representation was based upon
property status.
Abigail Adams wife Of President John Ad-
ANS was surely one of the earliest advocates
in this country of equal rights and In 1776
We find her writing to her husband, then in
the Continental Congress: II long TO hear
that you have declared an independence; and
by the way, in the new code of7iays which
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