Evening star., 1940-02-15
Ceremony
Tonight Honors
Miss Anthony
Capitol Exercises
To Mark 10th
Anniversary Of Birth

American women will pay tribute
tonight to Susan B. Anthony, pio.
neer In the fight for equal rights for
women, at a ceremony at 8 o'clock
in the crypt of the Capitol COM
memorating the 120th anniversary
Of her birth.
Speakers for the annual obsery-
ance will be Senator Gillette of Iowa,
Representative Bender of Ohio, Who
is president of the National FEEDER.
alton OF Republican Clubs; Repre-
sentative Sumner of Illinois and DR..
Cornelia Brown, chairman of the
New Jersey Committee to Eliminate
Discrimination Against Women. DR.,
Brown takes the place Of Represents
atlve Norton of New Jersey, unavoid-
ably absent because of illness.
Inc ceremony will be held before
the Adelaide johnson statue of the
equal rights pioneers-Susan B An.
thony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and
Lucretia Mott, often called the In
Separable Three" Mrs. Margaret
Dugan Bodziak, Democratic ma.
tlonal committeewoman for Della.
ware, will preside.
Women's Groups Represented.
Millions of American women will
be represented at the memorial
service through their organizations,
which co-operated with the National
Woman's Party, sponsors of the
ceremony.
Susan B. Anthony was born in
Adams, Mass, of Quaker parentaee.
She devoted 60 years of her life
crusading that women might be
free to the same extent that men
are free. For 80 years she trudged
up the steps of the Capitol demand
ing that women be given the vote.
Equal suffrage, which women con-
sldered their most radical demand.
was the first point of their program
won. but Miss Anthony did not live
to see it accomplished. She died in
1906, 13 years before the 10Th amend
ment was submitted to the States
for ratification.
Seventeen national and several
hundred State and local organiza-
tlons are now campaigning to have
Congress submit to the States for
vote an equal rights amendment.
guaranteeing men and women equal
legal rights.
Marine Band Orchestra to Play.
The program at the memorial
service tonight will be opened with
music by the United States Marine
Band Orchestra, with Henry Weber,
principal musician, conducting. The
orchestra will play throughout the
meeting, and will conclude with
The March of the Women" bv
Ethel Smyth. Representatives Of
organizations participating will Law
wreaths at the foot of the statue Of
Miss Anthony.
Participants, and the organiza.
tions they represent include: Mrs.
Caroline B. Stephen. American Fed
Grafton Of Soroptimists; DR.. Cecile
Fusfeld, American Medical Women's
Association; Mrs. Franklin A. Refert.
regent OF Eugenia Washington Chap
ter, Daughters of the American Rev
olution; Mrs. Lloyd A. Morrison.
District of Columbia Federation of
Women's Clubs; Mrs. H lien Hunt
West, Florida State College for
Women Alumnae Club; Mrs. Emily
Newman. treasurer of the Govern
ment Workers Council; Miss Mi
nerva Bernardina, Inter-American
Commission of Women of the Pan.
American Union; DR.. Clinton N,
Howard, International Reform Fed
GRAFTON; Mrs. Inez S. Tyler, League
OF American Pen Women; Mrs. Marv
Logan Tucker, League of Republican
Women; Mount Holyoke College
Club; Mrs. Mary Church Terrell,
National Association of Colored
Women; Miss Helen McGeer, Ma.
tional Association of Women Law
yers; Judge Lucy Howorth, District
branch OF the National Federation
OF Business and Professional Won.
ems Clubs; Miss Gertrude Crocker.
National Council of the National
Woman's Party, and Mrs. Horace
w. Pote, District branch of the Ma
tional Woman's Party.
National Woman's Party.
For the National Woman's Party.
Miss Rosaie E. Levin, Illinois
branch; Mrs. Howard Nyman, New
York branch; Miss Mary Downey.
Ohio branch; Miss Betty Mayer.
Pennsylvania branch: Mrs. Mary
Doyle Heffernan, Rhode Island
branch; Miss Dorothy Ashby Mon.
cure, Virginia branch, and DR.. Cor
neha j. Brown, New Jersey branch,
DR.. Lulu I. Waters and Mrs.
Thomas j. Howerton, Osteopathic
Women's National Association: Miss
Louise Boynton, Pilot International:
Mrs. Marie Moore Forrest, Quota:
Mrs. Ada Van Loon B. MCGEE.
Susan B. Anthony League Founda-
ton; Mrs. Martin T. Fisher, Univer-
sity OF Michigan Club; Mrs. Will
nam H. Ramsey, Women's Christian
temperance Union; Mrs, Nadine
Lane Gallagher, Women's City Club:
Mrs. E. K. Burlew, Women's Inter-
national League for Peace and
Freedom; Mrs. John w. Barrigcr.
Women's National Democratic Club:
Mrs. Dele Hurst, Women's Overseas
Service League; Mrs. Alfred Strong
thomson, World Woman's Party.
and Mrs. Harold E. Doyle, Young
Women's Christian Association.