Evening star., 1938-02-16
TRIBUTE IS PAID
SUSAN B. ANTHONY
McAdoo and BigeIoW, in
Speeches, Review Her
Fight for Vote.

Before the marble statue OF the
j., suffrage leader, banked with flowers
from Al women's organizations, Sena-
tor McAdoo of California and Repre-
sentative Bigelow of Ohio paid tribute
yesterday to Susan B. Anthony. 1t
was the 118th anniversary of her birth.
Reviewing the dramatic days before
the woman suffrage amendment passed
the Senate. Senator McAdoo told the
audience of more than 100 men and
women of the sensation caused by
President Wilson when he broke all
precedent to appear personally before
the Senate to urge passage of the
amendment.
1t was the first time any Chief
Executive in any country had ever
spoken for equal rights for women,
he said, and the tumult it caused
insured passage of the amendment
The women suffrage amendment was
ratified by the States in 1920, just 100
years after Susan B. Anthony's birth
Calls for Further Fight.
The Senator urged the women
present yesterday to campaign for
community property laws which have
already been granted in eight States,
seven of which. he added. are in the
West
Let us dedicate ourselves anew to
equality among both men and women
under the lofty inspiration which
Susan B. Anthony has given us"
Senator McAdoo said
Referring to Susan B. Anthony as
"a little slip of Quaker girl who
belonged to the true aristocracy of
those whose hearts rebel against old
wrongs" Representative Bigelow COM
pared the woman emancipator to
Thomas Jefferson.
They we're both supreme servants
of democracy" he said. Her face
should be carved on the same Dakota
mountain as Jeffersons.'
Representative O'Day Speaks.
Representative Caroline ODay Of
New York spoke briefly in tribute to
Susan B. Anthony, declaring that
neither she nor any other woman
member of Congress would be there
today if it had not been for the suf-
frage pioneer.
Miss Laura Berrien, national officer
in the National Womans party. which
sponsored the ceremony, presided.
Miss Dorothy Ashby Moncure read
EDNA ST. Vincent Millay's poem. The
Pioneer" which was read first at the
dedication of the statue in 1921. The
work of Adelaide johnson. Washing
ton sculptress and longtime friend of
Susan B. Anthony, the statue also
bears the figures of two other pioneers
for emancipation, Lucretia Mott and
Eliza beth Cady Stanton.
Many Groups Represented.
The Women's organizations and
their representatives who participated
in the ceremony included National
Woman's Party, DR.. Frances Dickln-
SON, District of Columbia Branch OF
the National Woman's Party, Miss
Gloria Chavez: Government Workers
Council, Mrs EdWina Austin Avery;
Susan B. Anthony Forum, Mrs. Cles-
telle Lewis; Susan B. Anthony-League
Foundation, Mrs. Ada Van Loon B.
MacGee; D. c. Federation of WomenS
Clubs, Mrs. Lloyd Biddle; National
League of Women Voters, Mrs. Elwood
Street; Women's International League
for Peace and Freedom. Mrs. Ebert K.
3urleW; American Association of Uni
versity Women of the District of Co.
lumbia. Miss Amy Verhoff; National
Federation of Business and Profess
sional Womens Clubs, Miss Nina Kin
sel,a.
National Association of Women
lawyers, Miss Helen E. Jamison; Wom-
ems Bar Association of the District
of Columbia, Miss Moncure; American
Medical Womens Association of the
District of Columbia, DR.. Anna
Bartsch Dunno: Association of Amer
ican Women Dentists. DR.. Rosalind
Moore Balm; Osteopathic Women's
National Association, Mrs. Thomas J.
Howerton: American Federation of
SoroptimiSts Mrs. Caroline Stephen;
zonta Club, Miss Winifred Burwell;
Quota Club, Miss Mary J. Winfree;
Altrusa Club, Miss Olga Jones; League
of American Pen Women, Miss Inez
> Sheldon Tyler, Teachers Alliance of
the District of Columbia, Mrs Page
Kirk.
Womens National Democratic Club,
Miss Parletta Guffey; League of Re-
publican Women, Mrs. Frank w. Mon
dell; American War Mothers, Mrs.
Irving Fairweather; Ladies of the
Grand Army of the Republic Mrs
Annie E. Hendley; Eugenia Washing
ton Chapter D. A. r.. Mrs. Charles
G. Hoffman: Young Womens Chris
tiap Association, Mrs George Win
chester Stone National Association of
Coiored Women, Mrs. Phyllis Terrell
, Parks Women's Christian Temper
ance Union, Mrs. Jennie E. Wright
Inter American Commission of Women,
Miss Minerva Bernardino
College Clubs Represented.
The college clubs represented were
Bryn MaWr, Mrs. Henry L. Abbott;
Emira. Mrs. Clifford Hurley; Goucher,
Mrs. Carl l.. Sleman: Hollins, Mrs
Elizabeth Noteworthy; Mount Holyoke
Mrs. McFall Kirbey; Oberlin, Mrs.
Theodore E. Whiting: Radcliffe. Mrs.
George Hankins; Randolph Macon,
Miss Dorothy Mills; Sophie Newcomb,
Mrs. w. E. Scull; Vassar, Miss Elsie
Hill; Wellesley, Miss Della jackson
Miss Katherine Warren, formerly of
the St. Louis Municipal Opera, was
the soloist. The United States Marine
Band Orchestra played during the
ceremony
Miss Anthony's birthday anniversary
also was observed at ceremony in the
crypt of the Capitol in the morning.
Representative Jenckes of Indiana,
delivered a eulogy and Mrs. Lloyd
Biddle, president of the District of