Evening star., 1951-01-10
Wonnen's
Clubs
Volume Presented
To Library Honors
Suffrage Leader
By Frances Lide
Women's Club Editor

A memorial volume in tribute
to Carrie Chapman Gait was pre-
sented to the Library of Congress
yesterday in a ceremony COM
memorating the 91st birthday an
niversary of the woman suffrage
leader.
Bound in embossed brown mo-
rocco leather from the desk pad
which Mrs. Gait used for many
years, the book is symbolic of a
living memorial in her honor
the Carrie Chapman Gait Memo
rial Fund.
Created by the League of
Women Voters in 1947. the fund
has the two-fold purpose of help
ing women in foreign countries
who seek American aid in the
use of their citizenship and of
helping American college and uni
versity students to become more
active and effective citizens.
The memorial book explains the
purpose of the fund and lists the
names of the contributors, in
scribed by hand by Miss Aida Will
son, confidential companion to
Mrs. Gait and an executor of her
estate. A total of $75 900 has been
contributed to the fund to date.
Miss Wilson was among the
friends and associates of the late
Mrs. Gait who gathered with
league members and others in the
Whittall pavilion of the Library
of Congress for yesterdays cere-
mony.
In keeping with the spirit of
Mrs. Gait, who was always look
ing ahead as one of the speakers
put it, the occasion also was
marked by the preview of Sec
ond volume -" Self Government:
U. S. A."-written especially for
the fund by Kathryn A. Stone,
prominent leader in the league.
A 32-page pamphlet, the book
let is designed to give ANY recep-
tive citizen-American or foreign
visitor-a bird's-eye view of Amer
ican Government in one sitting" ~
the author explained.
The pamphlet has been added
to other sapphire booklets"
financed by the sapphire grant"
This grant" is $4,000 fund real
ized from the recent sale of the
star sapphire brooch given to Mrs.
Gait by her fellow workers at
the victorious close of the cam
paign for woman suffrage.
Mrs. Charles Heming of New
York. president of the Carrie
Chapman Gait Memorial Fund,
presided at the ceremony yester-
day. The memorial volume was
presented to DR.. Luther H. Evans.
Librarian of Congress, by Mrs. r.
Louis Slade of New York, last
president of the National Ameri-
can Woman Suffrage Association.
A lifelong friend of Mrs. Gait,
Mrs. S!ade emphasized that the
objective of the memorial fund
to strengthen the basic ideals of
free democracy for a free people
was a fitting tribute to the suf-
frage leader, who also worked
ardently for peace.
Expressing sympathy with the
movement, DR.. Evans stressed that
the only way to have a peaceful
situation in the world is through +
the democratic form of govern
ment.
Italy was the first country to
benefit from the memorial fund
and its work there for Women's
groups was briefly discussed by
Miss Augusta Mandosso, assistant
to the Cultural Attache of the
American Embassy in Rome, VINO
Is visiting in this country. Mrs.
Marc Law, CCC Fund representa-
tive to Italy, also was introduced.
Others on hand for the cere-
mony included Mrs. John G. Lee.
national president of the League
of Women Voters; Miss Anna
Lord Strauss, former president:
Mrs. Reinold Noyes of Princeton,
N. j.. who headed the committee
arranging the program. and Mrs.
Rachel B. Ezekiel a former sec
retary of Mrs. Gait.