Evening star., 1945-11-25
Capital Sidelights
By Will p. Kennedy.

Back from flying IS missions with 500
hours Of combat time, as q heavy bonn
bardment navigator. Julius lotion,
unassuming youth with .
zeal for service with smile, is back at
his old job under the Capitol Dome. He
has taken OF his first lieutenant's uni
form, with its decorations and ribbons.
including the Asiatic-Pacific Theater
Ribbon with three Battle Stars, the Air
Distinguished Flying Cross with one
Oak Leaf Cluster, the Presidential Unit
Citation, the China Star and the Burma
Star OF Honor-and gone back ~ work
in the House document room. This
young man is one of the most hkable on
the Capitol payroll. He was first lieu
tenant in the Air Corps, 10th Air Force
He came to the Capitol with former
Representative Knute Hill. His present
Congressman is Representative John M.
Coffee, . noted athlete, lecturer and
radio broadcaster, who already was well
known at the Capitol as secretary to
former Senator c. c. Dill. Young Toll
ton was attending George Washington
University when he enlisted. He pre-
viously had attended the Business Ad-
ministration School at the University Of
Washington, expects to return there and
then follow up with 4 law course and
blossom out as an attorney with ousi-
ness training and background Those
who know his lack OF presumption and
his earnest devotion to duty predict
future" for this young man.
What price crusading for 4 cause!
Take the case Of Alice Paul, for more
than IS years q leader Of the Woman
Suffrage campaign that resulted in more
women than men voting in the most
recent national political election. She is
retiring to become chairman OF the
World Woman's Party. Starting In
suffrage work in Great Britain in 1905,
she was Jailed twice in England, once In
Scotland and three times in the United
States. Women seeking rights have
progressed long way in less than 800
years since Margaret Brent, in le47,
demanded Of the Maryland Assembly
the right to vote In that body, and
Abigail Adams, in March, l776 appealed
to her husband, In the Continental Con.
gress, to see that women had their rights
under the new laws and that they be
raised to more nearly an equality with
men.
Militant tactics were adopted in 1913
under the teamwork leadership Of Alice
Paul and Lucy Burns. They split from
the disapproving National American
Women's Suffrage Association and con-
tinued their pressure campaign Is the
Congressional Union and later the Ma
tional Woman's Party which resulted in
the nineteenth amendment ratified in
time for the 1870 national election
quarter Of century ago. Since then
Miss Paul and her cohorts persistently
have been campaigning for another
constitutional amendment giving women
equal rights with men.
With Miss Paul gone world conscious,
the national equal-suffrage drive is con-
tinued under Anita Pollitser, who years
ago picketed the White House and cam
paisned in 20 States for sufYrase and
equal rights. Associated with her Is
first vice chairman is another White
House picketer, Mrs.. Clara smell Wolfe,
wife Of IN Ohio State University pro-
fessor; Gladys Houston Creinsr of Mary.
land, treasurer, who packeted the White
House, was sent to prison, and later was
= member Of the prison Special" which
toured the country; Amslia Hines
Walker Of Maryland, chairman Of the
Lobby" COMMITTEES, who pieketed the
White House and served In prison, ana
Alice Morgan Wright Of New York, who
was imprisoned in England and whose
name is on the memorial plaque In the
Capitol ct Albany.