Evening star., 1942-07-19
Aides Are Named
For Woman's
Party Fete
Affair VII Marx
Anniversary OF
'48 Convention

'48 Convention
A group of junior hostesses and
pages will assist today at the tea to
be given by the National Womans
Party at Alva Belmont House IN
celebration of "Woman's 1ndepend-
ence Day." The observance Will
mark the Gath anniversary OF the
first woman's rights convention held
July 10, l848, in Seneca Falls. N. 7.
The Junior hostesseS will 1nclude
Miss Katherine Keyser, grand
daughter of Representative end Mrs.
Louis Ludlow, and Miss Barbara
Ballard, daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs.
Frederick Ballard
The pages, all daughters of mem
bers of the party, will be Miss Edith
Cannon, Miss Ruth Shelton, Miss
Nellie Vincent, Miss June Whitaker
and Miss Johnsie Bryan Wright.
Mrs. Hughes Brings Greetings.
Mrs. James H. Hughes, wife of the
Senator from Delaware, will bring
greetings from her husband. Sen
ator Hughes, who was to have shared
honors with his wife at the tea, was
injured last week end at Rehoboth
Beach and is now in the hospital.
Mrs. Harvey w. Wiley, chairman
Of the National Woman's Party, and
Mrs. George Mesta, congressional
chairman, will be assisted IN re-
ceiving by Mrs. Hughes and by Miss
Mathilde Bahar, chairman OF the
District of Columbia Chapter.
Mrs. Ernest Humphrey Daniel,
chairman Of arrangements, will have
Mrs, Mesta and Mrs. Emma Guney
Miller, Democratic national commit
teewonan from Pennsylvania. aS
aides.
Heads Music Committee.
Mrs. Charles L. McNary. wife OF
the Senator from Oregon, heads the
Music Committee which includes
Miss Muna Lee Of Puerto Rico, and
Mrs. Marie Manning Gasch.
Assisting Miss Ellen LaMotte on
the Refreshment Committee will be
Mrs. Mary D. Heffernan, Mrs. Lud-
low, Mrs. U. S. Guyer, wife OF the
Representative from Kansas, and
Mrs. Dora Ogle.
Mrs. Karl Green h hospitality
chairman.
Mrs. Amy C. Ransome, second vice
president of the organization, Is ex-
pected to arrive from her home in
California in time for the celebra-
ton, while several party members
now 1T Alva Belmont House are re-
naming over for the affair. These
include Miss Josephine Casey OF
New York and Miss Arabel Clark
of Pennsylvania.
The rights demanded at Seneca
Falls are the rights that women
in the Fascist fighting world to-
day are struggling to achieve, re-
store or retain. In the countries
occupied by Hitler, the right OF
women to vote, to hold public ONCE,
to control their earnings or their
children have been utterly and COM
pletely obliterated.
4, In America, the Susan B. Anthony
Amendment giving women the rignt
to vote in 1920 was a successful fin
ish to one struggle started by the
. l848 convention. Today, "a years
later. American women risk the loss
of that right should the Hitler theory
that women must breed and feed
only dominate the world.
Ninety-four years ago the pio-
neers of the woman movement set
forth the premise that "All men and
women are created equal" These
spiritual sisters of Patrick Henry
Thomas Paine and Thomas Jener-
son shocked 10th century America
. no less than their brothers had
stunned the monarchical society OF
the 18th century.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia
Mott, Martha C. Wright, Mary Ann
McClintock, and the Negro leader
). Frederick Douglass convinced the
members of the first woman's rights
convention in the world that the
right to vote should be womens Is
well as mems.
They set forth woman's griev-
ances. protesting the lack OF de-
nnocracy then existing which pro-
hibited women from entering edu-
cational, religious, economic and
nolitical institutions on the same
footing as men. They deplored the
customs and laws Of the day. which
made woman mans inferior IN al
respects.
The words Of the Declaration
rang through the Nation and opened
A movement for woman suffrage un-
eoualed in its intensity OF struggle
and in its duration since that time
Seyenty-two years later, when the
pioneer leaders had long since died,
women won the vote.
Today, "a years after the keystone
of the woman movement OF the
United States was presented to the
world, American women are once
more fighting, not for any narrow
feminist" gain which will benen'
onlv themselves, but they are strue'
cling with their brothers to insure
defeat of Fascism the greates'
menace to their rights as people evel
to exist.
The anniversary Of the Trst wom
ans rights conventions Is being cele
brated not alone by the meeting q
the National Woman's Party head
quarters on Capitol Hill. 1t Is be
ing celebrated in the heroic sum
labor of British women. Amerlcal
women, Chinese women and Russial
women whose efforts are making tn
destruction Of Fascism posslbilit
not for 10 years from now, but il
1912.