HOME AND EDUCATION

...Alice Paul's genius is her power to concentrate on one issue and to overcome all obstacles in the way of its achievement...

...the announcements gave reason to believe that the future policy of the Party was to be determined by the convention and that delegates would be free to express their convictions, and speak for their constituency...

...Miss Paul was chosen chairman of the newly organized party with the understanding she was to have several months' rest before assuming the responsibilities of her position...

...Then instead of ordinary reports of committees, there followed a series of brief addresses by the chairmen of the various committees, among whom were Mrs...

...None have worked more eagerly than women and their victorious banner alone is free from the stain of blood...

...Further consideration of the subject has convinced me that a general sales tax or turnover tax is altogether inexpedient...

...It would apply not only to the necessities of life — the food and clothing of the very poor — but it would similarly raise the prices of the materials and equipment used in agriculture and manufactures...

...Certainly, there was great disappointment on the part of some of the most enthusiastic supporters of the Party...

...Mabel Kittredge for the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom...

...Harvey Wiley presided...

...shall this splendidly equipped organization seize the opportunity to help save civilization and the human race—women's elemental work—or shall it turn a deaf ear to the call of the millions of women it has helped enfranchise, and be content to limit its usefulness to a self-defined field of feminism...

...Only three issues reached the floor of the convention, however, and only one of these was supported by a minority report...

...The conduct of the debate on the floor of the convention was fair to both sides...

...But she fought for it as a right, rather than as an instrument of service...

...Jane Addams presided at the exercises following the unveiling of the statue...

...Noting that the statue just unveiled was placed beside that of Lincoln, Miss Addams said: "It is fitting that they should Stand next to the great emancipator of another group, who has also long since transcended national boundaries...

...It should be remembered, however, that this was in the nature of a left wing jubilee convention...

...I may be mistaken, but I think this action was a concession to Alice Paul's leadership rather than an expression of the actual wishes of the majority of the delegates...

...One speaker stated that the work of remedying inequality of laws affecting women was already well organized in many of the States...

...If you followed these addresses closely you might have observed there was some overlapping even of the feminist program...

...This sentiment was greeted with prolonged applause...

...Again the thought in Mrs...

...Alice Paul called the convention to order...

...Throughout Mr...

...For, it should be noted, the convention under the spell of its desire to follow its leader, refused to specify what feminism might include...

...women hold the balance of power...

...Please do not think for one moment, however, that the rejection of the minority report signified that the majority of the delegates to the Woman's Party Convention were not in favor of disarmament...

...In the course of her brief address, Miss Addams said: "We are solemnly gathered here to place a significant milestone on the long road of self-government, which has slowly widened to include one enfranchised group after another...

...Mary Ware Dennett for the Voluntary Parenthood League...

...they stood with the banners, making a complete circle about the rotunda, beautiful and wonderful to behold...

...Hundreds of women in white robed costume, singing in chorus, bearing banners, carrying flowers, representing every well-known woman's organization in the United States, passed in stately procession by the statue of Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Lucretia Mott, and laid their tribute at the base of the block of marble from which the group is carved...

...The ceremonies that marked the exit of the militant suffragists at one stage door and their entrance as intrepid leaders of feminism at the other, were characteristically successful and distinguished...

...and working for the absolute equality of men and women...

...the great masses of women are eager to use their newly acquired vote to end war...

...Taken together these speecses afforded a panoramic view of the glorious victories won by the National Woman's Party and left the impression that the day had been planned to immortalize its achievements...

...Prof...

...Now at last the women are coming into their own...

...Henry Villard for the Woman's Peace Society...

...Otherwise the speakers generally announced that they favored disarmament and agreed that it was up to the United States to initiate the move-ment for world disarmament...

...The entire floor space of the rotunda, except an outer circle reserved for pageant purposes, was filled long before the hour for the exercises to begin...

...It must have been very flattering to the National Woman's Party to have so many advo-cates of different causes appeal to them for support...

...It was no great surprise, therefore, when it developed that the national committees agreed in recommending an exclusively feminist program...

...One delegate, "a farmer," said she had come all the way from Oklahoma, at heavy expense, in the belief that her party was going to help women use their ballots to end war, and she dreaded to go home and report that the convention had refused to support disarmament...

...Ethel Smith for the Women's Trade Union League...

...to establish motherhood endowment...

...No one not present can imagine how beautiful and impressive the pageant in their honor...

...Taken together they constitute a most valuable survey of women's activities...

...never in history could there be greater need or greater opportunity for organization and leadership...

...Reverend Olym-pia Brown offered prayer...

...So now apparently she has one goal in view—the ultimate legal, political, and economic equality of men and women...

...Ellis Yost for the National W. C. T. U...

...Miss Paul personally spoke to some who were supporting the disarmament resolution and expressed the objection that they were new to the Party and had not earned by long service and sacrifice, the right to shape its future policy...

...there was no suggestion of length of service being a qualification...

...The group of independent producers would pay several taxes, the combinations would pay only one tax...

...The suffrage memorial statue was accepted by Speaker Gillett of the House of Representatives on behalf of Congress...

...When they had filed by and marched to the places assigned them...

...A board was selected to direct the affairs of the party during the interregnun.Sales Tax Condemned In his 1920 annual report Secretary Houston condemns a proposed sales tax: "In the Treasurer's opinion there are many grave objections to a sales tax...

...I could not but think how little those courageous women when they were being ridiculed and jeered and rotten egged for their convictions, ever dreamed of such a triumphal tribute to their memory under the very dome of the nation's Capitol...

...As I remember it, only one person opposing the adoption of the minority report, did so from the militarist standpoint—for the reason that we must be prepared...

...The invitation to join the Party and to send delegates to the convention had been general and urgent...

...to repeal laws denying scientific information concerning parenthood...

...Florence Kelley for the Consumer's League...

...The convention divided on the question of whether the National Woman's Party should make the issue of disarmament a part of its immediate program or not, and the majority of the convention voted against making the issue a plank in the platform...

...Home and Education By Belle Case La Follette National Convention of the National Woman's Party BRILLIANT" is the word most common-ly allotted to the National Woman's Party — the group that under the leadership of Alice Paul, hounded the Capitol, picketed the White House, went to prison, and hunger struck for Votes for Women...

...Seven members of the resolutions committee signed a minority report which differed from that of the majority in proposing that the National Woman's Party take up the fight for world disarmament as an immediate object This was defeated after a sharp debate under the five minute rule...

...Resolutions to rewrite marriage and divorce laws, inheritance laws, guardianship laws, sex laws, on a basis of equal rights, standards, and responsibilities...

...Margaret Woodrow Wilson spoke for Community Centre Organization...

...The first event was a reception by Mrs...

...The fourth day had been assigned to "Dis-cussion Future of the Woman's Party.'' Throughout the convention the resolutions committee had been graciously listening to the many different groups appearing before them...

...Her point of view seemed to me unwarranted...

...it will be decided SOON whether mankind shall choose some less barbarous means of settling differences, or whether the world shall continue to waste its substance in preparation of more and more terrible instruments of war...

...Kent's service as member of Congress and later as member of the Tariff Board this house was a center of hospitality and interest...

...You would not believe that a day given over to the reports of committees could be so full of absorbing interest as that of the National Woman's Party, February 16...

...It would confer in effect, a substantial bounty upon large corporate combinations and place at corresponding disadvantage the smaller or disassociated industries which carry on separately the business operations that in many combinations and trusts are united under one ownership...

...A rare blend of conservative and radical, she has been from the beginning a sort of mother superior to the National Woman's Party, which owes a large degree of its power and prestige to her sympathetic support and wise counsel...

...Gilson Gardner, Mrs...

...The afternoon program of this day bad been planned to clinch this recommendation...

...They represent those who gave life, not took it...

...Donald Hooker, Mary Winsor, and others...

...She made tremendous sacrifices and suffered real martyrdom for the cause of suffrage...

...Mary Anderson for the Woman's Bureau, Department of Labor...

...And so through their likenesses we are dedicating the woman's protest against war...

...Simplifications of the tax laws and restriction rather than extension of its scope are as important from the standpoint of successful administration as from that of the tax-payers interests...

...Kent is ideally equipped for social leadership at the nation's capital...

...It occupied four days—February 15, 16, 17, 18...

...seeing that political freedom shall not be lost in any association of nations that may be established...

...the National Woman's Party is ready, it has the experience, the zeal, the power to organize the mass sentiment and bring it to bear on Congress...

...As she rose to speak and stood next the Vinnie Ream Hoxie statue of Lincoln, his extended hand appeared to offer benediction...

...This course was upheld in notable speeches by Mrs...

...Julia Lathrop for the Children's Bureau...

...The memorial services to the Pioneer Suffragists were held in the rotunda of the Capitol on the evening of February 15, the 101st anniversary of Susan B. Anthony's birthday...

...The convention was satisfied to coldly set forth the immediate work of the new organization to be: Removing political and legal disabilities of women...

...T. S. Adams, a Treasury income tax expert, says: "If you have the income tax with all the necessary difficulties and you have the corporation tax with all its necessary difficulties and you have the principal present consumption taxes it is going to be a dangerous thing from an administrative standpoint to add a general sales tax which will bring in possibly a million new taxpayers to take care of, together with all the added complications of a new and nation-wide tax...

...Mrs...

...Lida Hafford for the General Federation of Women's Clubs...

...On the contrary, the debate brought out conspicuously that the delegates individually were overwhelmingly for disarmament...

...To those accustomed to read the signs and forecast the outcome of conventions, it had early been plain that the future policy of the National Woman's Party would be very much in accord with Alice Paul's wishes...

...Its manifest purpose was to demonstrate that every field of women's interest other than feminism was well covered by other women's organizations...

...William Kent, Mrs...

...These short intensive talks were highly interesting and instructive...

...Florence Bayard Hilles, Mabel Vernon, Inez Haynes Irwin, Maud Younger, Florence Boeckel, Sue White, Abby Scott Baker...

...William Kent, who had come all the way from California purposely to open her Washington house, 1925 F Street, for this occasion...

...The historic paintings, familiar to our school days made a colorful background to the extraordinary scene...

...It is a picturesque, old fashioned residence remodeled and made homelike without loss of any of its fine dignity...

...To me, the stake in the adoption or rejection of the disarmament resolution by the convention was this: Now is a crucial hour in history...

...were voted down...

...Sara Bard Field of San Francisco made the speech presenting the statute to Congress...

...to make home-making women partners in the family income...

...The morning of the third day was devoted to reports of the several national committees...

...The program of the convention was widely heralded, carefully prepared, and splendidly executed...

...Mrs...

...Finally, it would add a heavy administrative load to the Bureau of Internal Revenue which * * * is already near the limit of its capacity...

...Maude Wood Park for the National League of Women Voters...

...A resolution proposed from the floor for the enforcement of the nineteenth amendment in order to ensure the vote of the colored women of the South was defeated...

...when the right wing held its celebration of the adoption of the Susan B. Anthony Amendment, it is safe to assume there was no division of bouquets or, credit...

...Personally charming, a traditional wife, mother, and home maker, she is at the same time interested in public questions, and is modern and forward looking in all her many activities...

...Field's address that received greatest approval from the audience was the declaration that: "It makes my heart glad to realize that these busts, the first gift of women to the nation's gallery, represent no military heroes...

...The program of the convention was criticised by outsiders on the ground that it was too self-laudatory—that it did not recognize the existence of any leadership except that of Alice Paul, nor mention any suffrage organization except the National Woman's Party...