BLACKWELL FAMILY ALICE STONE BLACKWELL SUBJECT FILE BIOGRAPHICAL PAPERS, PRINTED[?] [?] $28,000 [?] [?] [?] E. D. JAMAKORDZiAN SERVICE ANY DISTANCE ANY HOUR UNDERTAKER 154 EAST 29TH SF. N.Y.C. LEXINGTON 2-2660 [?] C. MARDiROSiAN FUNERAL DIRECTOR 4 LLOYD ROAD cor. 574 MT. AUBURN ST. WATERTOWN, MASS. TEL. WA 4-0606 904 MAIN ST., WORCESTER, MASS. TEL. 3-8297 [?] 25 [?] [?] 12 [?] Corner fifth and walnut sts. [?] 12 [?] [?] 12 30 [?] [?] 12 [?] 12-30 [?] 1 [?] [?] [?] [?] 25 [?] 8 [?] [?] 580 [?] 187 [?] [?] ARARAT CAFE 71 Broadway, Boston, Mass. [?] (KOKO) [?] [?] 12-12 [?] Tel. DE 8-8875 [?]Miss Blackwell Dies, Editor, Suffragist Miss Alice Stone Blackwell, a champion of women's rights through two generations, died last night after a week's illness at her home, 1010 Massachusetts avenue, Cambridge. She was 92. Miss Blackwell did not inherit her firm opinions and forthright courage, but her parents and other members of her family did set the precepts by which she guided her long and useful life. Able Editor Her mother, Lucy Stone, was the first woman of Massachusetts to go to college. Her father, Henry B. Blackwell, gave a lifetime of service to the cause of woman's freedom. One of her aunts was the first woman to be ordained a minister. Her own brightest weapon was her pen. For 34 years she was assistant editor-in-chief of the Woman's Journal. She wrote the story of her mother's busy life in "Lucy Stone, Pioneer of Woman's Rights." She was secretary of the National American Woman Suffrage Association for 20 years, and president of the New England and the Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Associations. Many of the speeches, pamphlets, articles and other things she wrote appeared anonymously. Journalists regarded her as an editor of marked ability, and others know her as a wise, dauntless and dedicated woman. Her long fight, and that of her parents was won with acceptance of the 19th Amendment granting women the vote. Miss Blackwell immediately set about educating and organizing the new voters for citizenship. She became honorary chairman and an active member of the Massachusetts League of Women Voters. Her interests included not only the civic, but the all-round education of women. Since 1908 she had been a trustee of Boston University, from which she was graduated in 1881 and which conferred upon her the honorary degree of Doctor of Humanities in 1945. Her heart and mind were enlisted in scores of struggles against oppression. Aroused by the Armenian massacres of the Nineties, she became a lifelong champion of that people. She worked actively with the American Friends of Russian Freedom whose object was to lift the oppressions of the Czars. The cause of organized labor was one of many interests, and always she was the foe of exploitation, suppression of free speech and violation of civil liberties. She was devoted to the cause of world peace, and sought for years to promote that ideal by building bridges of culture among the nations. Among her published works are volumes of the verse of many lands which she translated into English. Among many who praised her works was Carrie Chapman Catt, a leader of the woman suffrage movement. Mrs. Maud Wood Park wrote a eulogistic biography of Miss Blackwell for the Boston University Alumni Bulletin on the occasion of the conferring of an honorary degree on Miss Blackwell. "Her courage," wrote Mrs. Park, "is not the mere buoyancy of the physically strong to whom nerves are unknown, but the reasoned, sustained courage of a person forcing herself to be brave because bravery is needed to accomplish the work in hand." In 1936, when her business agent had dissipated her assets, Miss Blackwell's friends raised the Alice Stone Blackwell Fund to provide her with financial security through annuities. It was presented by William Lloyd Garrison Jr., with a sonnet he had written. Miss Blackwell leaves two cousins, Howard L. Blackwell and Mrs. Anna Blackwell Belden, both of Cambridge.A WOMAN LEADER Miss Alice Stone Blackwell, who slipped out of life at the age of 92, was emphatically the child of her parents and beside that she was decidedly herself, going on brilliantly with the mission in which they had blazed the way. Her mother was always Lucy Stone, declaring by retaining her maiden name after marriage insistence on the right of a woman to an independent existence, instead of being merely the wife of the man she had taken as a husband. Her father, Henry B. Blackwell, was, so many believe, the only man who gave his life to the suffrage cause to which his adored wife was devoting hers. In addition, he had two famous pioneering sisters. Elizabeth Blackwell, M.D., was the first woman in this country to take a medical degree. The other sister, Rev. Antoinette Brown Blackwell, was the first woman to be ordained a minister. With such a background young Alice might have been fed up with the Woman Suffrage crusade, which had started less than a decade before she was born, when the first woman's rights movement was organized at Seneca Falls, N.Y., in 1848. As a child she had personal experience of the struggle when her mother, protesting against taxation without representation, permitted the baby's cradle to be sold for taxes. Yet when the little girl came to Boston, with her family at the age of 13, she was committed to the family cause which she held to be also the cause of humanity. Year after year she never wavered, speaking, writing and working in order that her half of the race should receive justice in what was than a man's world. When Alice Blackwell took her bachelor's degree at Boston University in 1881 there were only a very few ways in which a woman could earn a living except by abiding at home in the house of her father or her husband. Beyond that the opportunities were small. There was schoolteaching, sewing or doing housework for some wealthier woman. Invention began to come to the aid of the so-called weaker sex in the '70s with the typewriter and the telephone. It was found profitable to have girls tend switchboards and also to employ them in business offices. Somewhat later the drop-frame bicycle appeared to give cruising radius to such women as could obtain them. That did not help them economically, but it offered an opportunity to get about, making them feel more like "people." Boston Globe Uncle Dudley Editorial March 16, 1950 The colleges for women, Vassar, Smith, Wellesley and Bryn Mawr, founded during the two decades beginning in 1861, offered higher education to girls and gave the entire sex increased dignity. Meanwhile the agitation for extending the right to vote to all American women continued, with Alice Blackwell one of the leaders. The voluntary service rendered by women during the First World War gave them additional standing and helped to bring the Suffrage Amendment in 1920. A terrible disaster occurred in New York city in 1911, when the factory building in which many girls were employed burned, killing 145 of them. It stirred that community bringing out, in efforts to prevent any recurrence of the tragedy, a number of citizens who went on to social leadership. Among them were Alfred E. Smith, Robert Wagner and Frances Perkins. The cause of women advanced as the horror sank into the public mind. Care for the public health as a profession for women has been developing systematically since 1873, when the first school for training was developed. Together with the enlargement of hospitals, the concern of insurance companies for their policyholders, the Public Health Departments and the new interest in employees' welfare taken by many industrial companies, many opportunities for nursing are opening in this profession requiring great skill. There is no doubt that the standing of women has increased during the past two generations. But all the time it was the work of those who, like Miss Blackwell, have pushed for enlarged opportunities for their sex. To be sure, some years ago she expressed regret that they have not done more, but that may be set down to her continuing interest, Women are finding their way into public office. In some states they sit on juries, and there is no sense in thinking that they are not going as far as any qualified human being should. UNCLE DUDLEY. The Jewish Advocate - (Boston) June 14, 1938 PANORAMA A Weekly Survey of People and Ideas by ISAAC GOLDBERG A Noble Lady I should like to speak to you today about a noble, frail old lady who, in September of this year, will be eighty-one. If you read the liberal press, or watch the letter -columns of the more important daily newspapers, you may have seen her name signed to occasional communications - communications always of a humanitarian nature. Ever since girlhood she has carried on the liberal traditions of a noted father and a famous mother. In herself she unites the qualities that made her parents the outstanding citizens that they were. I can think of few women in contemporary America who have deserved more of their communities and who--I fear--have received less. Not that this outstanding American sounds any complaints against her fellow-citizens for neglect of herself. She is much more likely to chide them for neglecting their duties toward humanity. Herself, for all her frailness, for all the misfortunes that have attended her, she remains a bulwark of optimism, of courage, of devotion, in a world that for the nonce seems bent upon self-destruction. She has been cheated of money that had been saved up for her old age; she has lost her sight at her unceasing labors; she has lost her health; but never her hope for a better humanity. (Continued on page 12) PANORAMA By ISAAC GOLDBERG (Continued from page 1) A Gentile, she early became interested in the cause of the Jews, even to the point of translating Yiddish poetry into English. An American, she early associated herself with the cause of freedom all over the world, even to the point of interesting herself in Armenian culture. American, moreover, to her meant not only the land that lies above the Rio Grande, but the cluster of nations that lies below. She has done much to interpret, for us of the North, the culture of the Spanish- American republics. Her father was Henry B. Blackwell; her mother was Lucy Stone. Is it any wonder then, that the name of Alice Stone Blackwell is to be heard wherever the cause of freedom sounds its call? That name should be better known. It is not a name that you will find blazoned forth on the pages of the popular women's magazines, although it belongs there by right of the services that Miss Blackwell's parents, and Miss Blackwell herself, have rendered to womankind. It belongs, indeed, wherever the cause of woman - or of man - has been fought and won. It belongs with the best causes that one day, because of such spirits as she, will emerge victorious. Her allegiance is determined, not by the numbers of armies, but by the justice of causes. I have sometimes thought what a relief it would be to discover, on some miraculous month, the picture of a woman's journal, instead of the pretty, pretty things that too often adorn that cover. I am not insensitive to womanly beauty, nor am I ungrateful, let us say, to the Hollywood lasses who populate the movies. But we see so much of them--too much of them--in the movies. Why do they have to smirk at us from every magazine cover? Why can't they make room, once in a while for a face that contains character, and that suggests an inner beauty? For that matter, a book could be written on the significance of magazine covers. They could easily be made into the basis of a monograph on human psychology in general, and on the American mind in particular. Miss Blackwell has been an editor, and an editor of woman's magazines. They weren't the kind that carry sleek females on shining covers, however. Miss Blackwell began her literary and sociological career as assistant to her parents, who published the "Woman's Journal" in Boston. After they died, she took over their duties and remained editor-in-chief until 1917-- a period of more than twenty years. It is characteristic of her that, with complete blindness threatening her, she smiles and says that she can enjoy herself from the eyes up, if need be. The lady has brains. I recall a visit to her when she lived in Roxbury. She is now spending the evening of her years in Cambridge. Her desk was littered with documents; it looked for all the world like what it really was--the heaped-up table of a city editor. She had her intellectual tentacles stretched out in every direction, all over the world. She still has. That little room, on the upper floor of a modest apartment house, was an eyrie that looked out upon the universe. It was like the beacon of a lighthouse shining out into the emotional intellectual darkness of benighted humanity. I am very much younger than Miss Blackwell; but on that afternoon she made me feel so old! Her concentrated spiritual energy was a tonic--and a silent reproach. The world is full of bored women who need to know sisters like Alice Stone Blackwell; I am only sorry that as I write these lines it may be too late for them to make profitably the acquaintance of this receding figure. There is one excellent way of honoring her for her unselfish services, and that is to emulate her example. I am happy to say that there are a number of Jewish women who possess the depth of feeling and the width of the interests that have distinguished this American. As there should be more American women like her, so should there be more Jewish women like them. Surely there never was a time in the history of the world that called more loudly for women of courage and vision. Alice Stone Blackwell possesses both these qualities in abundance. To honor her is to proclaim adherence to the aims and achievements that have lifted man from barbarism to civilization, and that keep him from slipping back into the primal slime.THE SPRINGFIELD DAILY REPUBLICAN, SPRINGFIELD, MASS.: WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 1934 - - ABOUT SPRINGFIELD PEOPLE - - Banquet, Tea and Group Discussions Among Activities On Opening Day of League of Women Voters Convention (Republican Staff Photos) Top left: Group at head table of banquet at Hotel Bridgway last night, left to right, Alice Stone Blackwell, daughter of Lucy Stone and for many years active in women's movements; Mrs Abby P. MacDuffie, Mrs William C. Atwater, president, Springfield League of Women Voters; Prof Frank L. Simpson, principal speaker; Mrs Roland D. Baker, retiring president; Mayor Henry Martens, Mrs Henry Randolph Bridgham, who will be elected state president today; John MacDuffie, and Dr. L. L. Doggett, president of Springfield college. Top right: Mrs L. W. Hopkinson discussing league activities with Mrs Roland D. Baker at afternoon tea at First Church. Lower left: Mrs William C. Atwater and Alice Stone Blackwell, at afternoon tea. Lower right: Tea table group, left to right: Mrs Mildren Whaples, Mrs. G. Dashwood Barker, Mrs John Kugler, Jr., Mrs Orley Duffin, Mrs W. A. Wheeler, Mrs Guy Brackett, chairman of the tea; Mrs A. W. Fehnel and Mrs [missing] Darrah. THE SPRINGFIELD DAILY REPUBLICAN, SPRINGFIELD, MASS: WEDNESDAY, MAY 23 1934 NO SHIFT LIKELY IN POLICE ISSUE, POLL DISCLOSES Aldermen Express Surprise at Report That Change of Front Was in the Air on Collins Question No sign of a shift toward confirmation of John F. Collins as police commissioner was disclosed by a poll of the board of aldermen last night. All members of the board expressed surprise at the report that there had been a change of heart and declared that they personally had not changed and knew of no foundation for the report. It was the consensus among the board members that Mayor Henry Martens would present the name of Harry G. Webster Monday night as a member of the license commission to succeed Isadore Hurowitz. Universal backing for such an appointment was forecast. Mayor Henry Martens revealed yesterday he would submit his choice for the license board but kept silent as to who the identify of the man he will name. Reports that a conference between the board and the police commission was in the offing persisted yesterday although no one could say when such a meeting would be arranged. When each member of the board was questioned last night concerning his stand on Mr. Collins, the universal reply was that he personally had been presented no reason why he should vote for confirmation and that the front still appeared to be united against approval. Mayor Henry Martens does not intend to resubmit Ms. Collin's name until two weeks from Monday and there is still a possibility that something may be brought to light before then which might change the unanimous opposition registered on the 21st. But any shift sufficient to bring confirmation appeared doubtful. The report that Collins would win confirmation came from sources outside city hall and has been current for several days. In light of the poll last night and of the reaction of the board little weight appeared to have been attached to the rumor. COUNTY "Y" CLUBS PLAN ROUNDUP ON SATURDAY Track Meet to be Feature of Meeting at Springfield College The final roundup for the year of [?] the clubs connected with the [?] [?nty] Y. M. C. A. will be [?] college Saturday. [?] [?ll] attend [?] Local Recreation Project Likely To Be Included in June ERA Plan State Administrator Records His Enthusiastic Support for Such Proposals at Boston Conference -- Madden Already in Favor -- Underground Fire Alarm and Police Signal Systems May be Extended Inclusion of a Springfield recreation project in the June ERA program became virtually certain yesterday when State Administrator Joseph P. Carney recorded his enthusiastic backing of such projects at a conference at Boston. Dr. Harry Clark of Springfield college, who has been coordinating local plans along this line, reported last night that the only step left to be taken was official endorsement of the local administrator, John F. Madden. Mr Madden will be out of town until the end of the week but since he has already gone on record as favoring such a project, remaining sanction was regarded as a foregone conclusion. "Baby playgrounds" are one of the items in the setup as announced Monday by Prof Clark. Mr Carney declared yesterday that he was in favor of recreational and leisure-time projects such as that drawn up here and suggested that such undertakings be submitted through the local project committees and ERA administrators. The local committee is pushing this project in Springfield and two members of the group accompanied Prof Clark to the state capital yesterday. Stresses Employment Need. Mr Carney said he was mainly interested in the problem of relief and that need for employment should be the basis on which workers should be taken on. Skilled workers may be employed when they are necessary, he declared, adding that such special groups should be recruited from residents of the municipality concerned who were actually in need of work. The state administrator believes that a recreational or leisure time project definitely benefits an entire city and although June's activities may be confined to the actual work project of constructing apparatus and preparing playgrounds, the possibilities for development are considered almost without limit. Boston has a city-wide emergency committee meeting on health and recreation headed by an executive secretary. The organization functioning there has departmental committees and each community has its own committee and community chairman, organizer and activity director. W. Duncan Russell, executive secretary at Boston is cooperating with the park department at Boston and Arthur R. Wellington, New England representative of the National Recreation association, has worked with him in obtaining sanction for four definite ERA recreational and leisure time projects in the June program for Boston. These are: Leadership for park department playground activities to employ 50 playground directors with 50 assistants, three stenographers, five district supervisors, six regular instructors and an office manager; leadership of park department activities for older girls which will employ 25 directors, 25 assistants, two stenographers, five district supervisors and a general director, and two other projects, one for choral and orchestral organization in 15 communities and one for dramatics. Special Fund Sought State authorities on recreation are trying to obtain a special federal appropriation for projects of this nature, Prof Clark reported. If such a direct appropriation could be received a program taking in all groups classified as to age and sex could be inaugurated which would be of untold value in education on the use of leisure time, recreation experts believe. Meanwhile, however, regular EPA programs will be set up. Arthur Gardner, local director of recreation for the park department, Councilmen Grant B. Cole and Leon G. Ratell and Proj Clark made up the local delegation at the Boston meeting. Also present were Mr Wellington, Ernst Herman, director of the Sargent school of physical education, representatives from the Boston university school of physical education, Mr Carney and members of his staff. Extension of the system of underground cables for the fire alarm and police signal system to connect the circuits at Indian Orchard with the rest of the city will not be included in the list of new projects under consideration for ERA work. The large percentage of cost of materials in comparison with the outlay for labor is a barrier that cannot be overcome at the present time. Labor for excavating the shallow trench will represent less of cost than is involved proportionately in road and sewer work, throwing more of the expense upon the city for the materials used. The plan is held in abeyance in view of the possibility that it may be decided upon next fall when the city may have a sufficient balance available to finance the purchase of the cables and other materials needed. At the present time the crosstown boulevard, the recreational program and the construction of water holes in the outlying districts for the additional fire protection are the only projects already approved for the new ERA work. The new projects committee of which Alderman Raymond D. Jewett is chairman is considering the entire list and will submit all that are approved to the ERA officials within a few days. Work on the unfinished projects now under way will call for most of the men now on the ERA lists, the plan being to transfer them to the cross boulevard and to the minor projects on the list as fast as the present jobs are done. Decision on the actors' projects awaits the return of Administrator John F. Madden from the national convention of social workers at Kansas City, Mo. RED CROSS RAISES $9261.50 TO DATE IN ITS ROLL CALL Officials Confident of Satisfactory Number of Memberships --Failure Means Lessened Welfare State Red Cross roll call returns have passed the $9000 mark, with $9261.50 reported to date. The officials of the drive feel confident that membership contributions will reach a satisfactory point, and are determined to use every effort to secure the quota as soon as possible. Failure to secure the amount would mean would Red Cross activities in this city would be curtailed, which would be disastrous to Springfield because of the extensive welfare program carried out during the past three years by the local Red Cross. The returns listed to date follow: Women's division, Mrs M. F. Peterson, chairman, $3171.61; as reported by the colonels, Mrs Edward Appleton, $678.72; Mrs Frank Hayden, $7[?].65; Mrs M. F. Peterson, $141.55; Mrs Warren Kinsman, $392.40; [?] Fay Parker Holdridge, $210.42; [?] Charles Foster, $219; Mrs Paul [?] Sanderson, $340.05; Mrs G. Walter Fish, $172.35; Mrs Harold D. Stickney, $301; Mrs John Corcoran, $205.85; Mrs Joseph A. O'Brien, $80.37; Mrs Harold Wurm, $214.55; Mrs Wallace Dibble, $132.45; West Springfield, $12.25. $2032 from Business District Mrs C. B. Hancock, colonel of the business district, which is included in the women's division, reports memberships to the local Red Cross chapter totaling $2032.59. Mrs Robert A. Baldwin, Jr., colonel of the Longmeadow branch, reports $789.60; West Springfield, $114.75; East Longmeador, $59.25; Hampden, $36; Agawam, $165.90, a total of $1165.50 for the branches. An outstanding contribution to Red Cross support in this city was reported yesterday, which announcement that the Indian Motorcycle company has given $306.50, the second largest subscription to the roll call, the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance company sending in $312. Other industries reporting yesterday Alice Stone Blackwell, Famed as Suffragist, Succumbs Here at 92 Alice Stone Blackwell, 92, nationally known suffragist who helped bring to fruition the sweeping social changes advocated by her famous mother, the late Lucy Stone, died last night at her Cambridge home, 1010 Massachusetts av. She had been ill about one week. Miss Blackwell had championed the cause of womankind during her entire life as did her mother, who was the first Massachusetts woman to go to college, an ardent lecturer against slavery and a leader in the fight for women's rights. Miss Blackwell was born in East Orange, N. J., Sept. 14, 1857, the daughter of Henry B. Blackwell and Lucy Stone. The latter was the founder of the Lucy Stone League whose members retained their maiden names after marriage. --- Also Poet and Translator Along with her other accomplishments Miss Blackwell was internationally known as a poet and translator. She was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humanities degree from Boston University in June, 1945. She graduated from the same university in 1881. From 1881 to 1893 Miss Blackwell assisted her father and mother in editing the Woman's Journal. She was editor-in-chief until 1917 when the paper was consolidated with the Woman Citizen and the Woman Voter (National American Woman Suffrage Association). Miss Stone graduated from Oberlin College in 1847. She and her husband were among the pioneer suffragists and abolitionists. At her 89th birthday, Miss Blackwell told interviewers: "Women's suffrage hasn't done all the good we intended it should, and on the other hand, neither has it done the harm its opponents predicted." --- Nearly Blind, But Keen At the time of her last interview, Miss Blackwell was nearly blind. But she was eager to keep up with the changing times. "I have become an addict of the radio," she said. During the last few years she had a reader come for three hours every morning to read current topics to her. That same interest in everyday doings characterized her life. The history of the equal rights movement in the United State had been covered by the experiences of Miss Blackwell's family. Her mother began her work in behalf of suffrage in 1847, when it was considered shocking for a woman to even speak in public. When Alice was a baby, her mother permitted her household goods, including the baby's cradle, to be sold for taxes as a protest against taxation without representation. --- Came to Boston at 13 Her father was an abolitionist as a young man and once at a public meeting in the South a reward of $10,000 was offered for his head because of his part in the rescue of a young slave girl. Miss Blackwell came with her family to Boston when she was 13 years old. She frequently accompanied her parents on lecture tours and helped distribute literature advocating women's suffrage. She received her early education at Chauncy Hall before being graduated from Boston University. Among the first of her notable achievements was the union of the National and American Woman Suffrage Associations which had been divided for 20 years. Miss Blackwell was recording secretary of the National American Woman Suffrage Association for 20 years and for many years headed the New England and Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Associations. She was honorary president of the Massachusetts League of Women Voters since its organization in 1920. She was a presidential elector for LaFollette in 1924, and was an honorary trustee of Boston University. She had membership in the American Association of University Women and was past president of the Boston chapter. She was honorary vice chairman of the Boston Evening Clinic and Hospital. In 1930, a book entitled "Lucy Stone, Pioneer of Women's Rights," was published under her authorship. She had edited "The Little Grandmother of the Russian Revolution," Catherine Brshkovsky's story, in 1917. --- Many Affiliations Besides writing poetry, she had translated and compiled "Armenian Poems," "Songs of Russia," "Songs of Grief" and "Gladness" (from the Yiddish), and "Some Spanish-American Poets." She helped compile "The Yellow Ribbon Speaker" in 1911. In 1919 she received the Ford Hall Forum gold medal for honored service to humanity She is survived by two cousins, Howard L. Blackwell and Mrs. Anna Blackwell Belden, both of Cambridge. --- Gave Her Home Away Miss Blackwell and her parents were not the only famous members in the family circle. Her aunt, Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, was the first woman to take a medical degree. That was in 1849. A second aunt, Dr. Antionette Brown Blackwell, was the first woman minister, ordained in 1853. Miss Blackwell's unselfishness was unbounded. Some years ago she felt it wrong to spend money upon herself. She moved into an apartment and donated her large house and grounds in Dorchester to the New England Hospital for Women and Children. The property was returned to Miss Blackwell when hospital authorities decided it would prove too costly to remodel. She subsequently gave it to poor Russian and Jewish women for vegetable gardens. --- Powerful Writer, Speaker The pen was her chief weapon and she authored numerous pamphlets, articles, and letters along with her other writings. Sh also was a pursuasive speaker. Her topics changed with the times. She advocated reform wherever oppression existed. She didn't restrict her reforms to America. Armenia, Spain, Russia were some of the foreign lands where the impact of her work was felt. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, who was instrumental in adoption of the Woman Suffrage Amendment to the Federal Constitution once said: "No words can express the gratitude I feel for the service of Miss Blackwell and her dear father and mother who aided the woman suffrage movement through the Journal. Without it we would still be unenfranchised." Her eloquence was outstanding. A distinguished lawyer once said he attended suffrage meetings whenever he could because he considered Miss Blackwell's rebuttal speeches the ablest presentation of controversial matter he had ever heard. She had always regretted not having married and having been a mother. "But I never fell in love and I would not consider marriage without being first in love," she said on her 90th birthday. LEFT TO RIGHT MRS STANLEY MCCORMACK; MISS ROSE HEINZF.N; MRS SUSAN B. FITZGERALD; MRS E.G. PANKHURST; MRS GEORGE H. PAGE; MISS ALICE STONE BLACKWELL. --- Mrs Emmeline G. Pankhurst, the English suffragette leader, got a royal reception from about 100 members of the Massachusetts woman suffrage association when she stepped from the 3 o'clock New York train yesterday with her private secretary, Mrs. Pethick, in the South station. The welcoming delegation came from the headquarters in Copley sq in 12 automobiles, led by a beautiful machine decorated with purple and white wistaria, evergreens, purple ribbons and flags. In front was the purple, white and green banner of the English suffragettes and behind was the yellow banner of the Massachusetts association on which was inscribed in black letters "Votes for Women." All of the other automobiles were decorated with both large and small yellow banners, and each member of the party carried a little yellow banner on the end of a [?] with "V" for "W" inscribed on it. [??] Susan W. Fitzgerald and Alice [?] Blackwell escorted Mrs. Pank[hurst and Mrs.] Pethick to the automo[biles?? the ?? the ??] who carried flags, which they [?waved?] frantically, and then this lane [??me] a marching escort behind Mrs. Pankhurst. A crowd of 1000 or more had collected at the Summer-st entrance of the station, and when Mrs Pankhurst stood up all eyes were centered on her. She is a woman past middle age, of medium hight, rather thin but energetic, with a face that shows determination as well as graciousness. Her eyes sparkled and she seemed pleased with her reception. --- Headed the Procession. The automobiles then formed in procession with the decorated machine in which Mrs Pankhurst was seated in the lead and went up Summer st to Washington st, down Washington st to Cornhill to Tremont [?row?] and Tremont st to Boylston st, and thence to the headquarters on Copley sq. Here Mrs Parkhurst received the press representatives and spoke freely of the great militant movement for woman suffrage she has led and for which she has suffered imprisonment. "You are a suffragette, not a suffragist, Mrs Pankhurst" she was asked. "Yes, there is such a distinction. We suffragettes are the practical politicians. We have made them sit up and recognize us. The old methods of the suffragists, which had been going on for 40 years, were very pleasa[nt] but they accomplished nothing, or [?next] to nothing. We have compelled [?our/the?] government to recognize the movement." "When do you think wom[en's suff]rage will be realized in England?" At no very distant day - [prob]ably it will come up at the next [?session] of parliament." "Who will introduce the [???} the government at the opening of parliament. First the king in his speech at the opening of parliament will recommend the legislation, then the government will introduce a bill in accordance with the king's suggestion." --- Does Not Fear the Outcome. "Is parliament favorable to such a measure?" "A majority of the members are pledged to woman suffrage." "How about the cabinet?" "Premier Asquith has said that a majority of the members of the cabinet are in favor of woman suffrage." "Then you have no fears for the outcome if the bill is introduced?" "No. I see no reason to fear the outcome." "Was the previous cabinet under the late Campbell-Bannerman favorable to such a bill?" "Yes. If Campbell-Bannerman had lived I think a woman suffrage bill would have been introduced before this." --- Movement is Independent. "Is your movement affiliated with any of the other political movements in England -- the shorter hours for working women, the trades union movement, or the home rule movement?" "No. We have not affiliated with any of those movements. We have stuck to the one idea of getting the vote; then we will attend to these other matters." "When did the suffragette movement to which you belong really begin?" "About three years ago, during the elections that returned the present liberal government. You see the failure of the movement in the 1884 discouraged most of the [?] who had been interested in the movement. Many of us saw that different tactics must be adopted if the movement would be recognized. So we began the suffragette movement and just harried the politicians everywhere. Many of our people have been thrown into jails and prisons, but we expected that and are not in the least discouraged. We have compelled recognition; that is the main thing." THE BOSTON GLOBE[—] Y, OCOTBER 22, 1909. MRS PANKHURST SOUNDS THE SUFFRAGE SLOGAN. English Leader of Votes for Women Movement Welcomed to Boston by American Sisters—Her Views. [*I will title*]WOMEN HONOR THEIR LEADER Alice Stone Blackwell Receives Many Loving Tributes on Her 62d Birthday Miss Alice Stone Blackwell on 62D birthday The great woman suffrage leader is here shown being wished "happy returns" by Mrs. Ellen F. Adams, former vice-president of the Massachusetts Suffrage Association. Those who love her the world over united yesterday to honor the 62d birthday of Alice Stone Blackwell. Crowning the joys of the year that has permitted her to witness the success of the cause for which, like her mother Lucy Stone, she has toiled all her life--the passage of the federal suffrage amendment--came telegrams, letters of congratulation, flowers, tributes of poetry, not only from Boston and Massachusetts, but from every State in the Union, from Russia and from Armenia. SUBSTANTIAL PROOF Substantial proof of devotion to her and the memory of her parents, Miss Blackwell was presented with $5000, with the request that she use it to defray the expenses of writing the life of Lucy Stone and of her father, Henry B. Blackwell. The presentation was made at a reception tendered her by the Massachusetts Suffrage Association at the College Club yesterday afternoon. "O, wonderful woman, one of the most wonderful God ever made, how grateful I am that you were born, and born of such a father and such a mother. May you live long in full enjoyment of the great achievements of your life. Had you not lived and her you not devoted your life and talents to the suffrage cause it would not now be victorious. It is strange that a single human being can wield such an enormous influence upon the trend of civilization, but you have done it." Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, president of the National Suffrage Association, thus lauded Miss Blackwell, in a touching letter of congratulation. Mrs. Maud Wood Park, who was among the speakers, referred to the guest of honor as "one of Massachusetts' most precious possessions, a woman posessed of the truest sort of courage, and the noble, fine and heroic spirit that we hope our daughters of this later day will try to copy." Message from Nebraska That Nebraska lays claim as well as Massachusetts, that the West is proud as well as the East, and equally grateful for her achievements, was the message that Mrs. S. Barkley, president of the Nebraska suffragists, came all the way from Lincoln to deliver. Mrs. Judith Winsor Smith, Massachusetts' oldest living suffragist, an old friend of Lucy Stone, mounted the platform, and in a firm voice heard by every one of the more than 500 guests, wished "dear Alice" as many happy birthdays as I have had, 98." Presiding for the occasion was Mrs. Wenona Osbourne Pinkham, who introduced as the first speaker Mrs. Charles Sumner Bird, first vice-president of the State Suffrage Association, who welcomed Miss Blackwell; from Chicago came Mrs. Catherine Waugh McCullock, with greetings from the women voters there and reminiscences of Miss Blackwell's father and mother. Before the six ushers bore in the great frosted birthday cake with its 62 gleaming candles, Miss Blackwell responded very simply and humorously to the almost overwhelming tributes from admirers the world over, which were read by Miss Florence Luscomb. "The victory of suffrage is the result of ceaseless, sacrificing toll made by thousands of women the world over--I only was a little more in the limelight," she modestly said. Jokingly she referred to the rumor that she would be a candidate in the presidential elections. "The dear antis, although they have been riding backwards, have come far on the road to suffrage, but they still will circulate such nonsense as that. "I have long had a guilty conscience at not having written the life of my mother and father. Now I am in honor bound," she said, as she expressed her thanks over the gift. Mrs. Ida Porter Boyer gave "Snapshots" from the lives of the Blackwells, after which tea was served. Josephine Preston Peabody sent the following letter: "All honor and love and blessings on the name and the voice of Alice Stone Blackwell. It is a pride to have lived in her generation. "From one lover of the woman cause to whose earliest childish endeavors at poetry she gave the earliest kindly praise. Her most devoted, (Signed) "JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY." Three Other Greetings Three other greetings which afforded Miss Blackwell particular pleasure follow: "It seems to me a great privilege to participate even in a small way in your tribute to Alice Stone Blackwell. I lay my little offering at her feet in admiration and reverence and gratitude for the service that she has given these many years. She has been a lightbearer to her generation, my generation and I think to the gemerations that follow. "Cordially yours, (Signed) "LILLIAN D. WALD." "My dear Miss Blackwell: "There may still be unenlightened people who think the alphabet begins with a, b, c, but to suffragists A. S. B. will always represent the alpha and omega of education in democracy. "Please keep on teaching us for many years to come. "With love and best wishes, "Affectionately, (Signed) "ESTHER G. OGDEN." "If all the deeds of A. S. B. Were hung upon a Christmas tree, There'd be a gift for everyone The moon or sun doth shine upon. American, Celt, or wild Fiji, Armenian, Serb, or far Chinee, Man or woman, bond or free, All owe thanks to A. S. B. "GRACE ALLEN JOHNSON." Three Women Were Named for Presidency To the Editor of The Herald: Alice Stone Blackwell recently named, in a letter in your Mail Bag, two women who had been nominated for President of the United States. In 1924, at the Democratic National Convention, which was held in New York, Emma Guffy Miller of Pittsburgh was nominated for President by the present postmaster of Brockton, Arthur A. Hendrick. Mr. Hendrick also cast his vote for her. This makes the total three. Boston. JOHN H. MOYNIHAN. Herald 9-25-45 Boston Globe May 10 1939 THE STAGE COPLEY THEATRE "Lucy Stone" "Lucky Stone," a Chronicle Play by Maud Wood Park. Staged by Eliot Duvey. Presented by Federal Theatre. The cast: Prologue ...................Elsa Tashko Jim Murray.............Harry E Lowell Mrs Stone....................Ann Baker Lucy Stone...............Lillian Merchal Mr Stone..................Bertram Parry Luther Stone..............Jack Granfield William Spencer............Edward Dillon George Washington Watts. Charles McFarland Antoinette Brown......Muriel Woodward Miss Emery.................Anita Webb Mrs Mahan..........Cordelia MacDonald Professor Thome............Burt Kelsey William Lloyd Garrison..William Warren Stephen Foster.........Roger MacDonald Mrs Marianna Austin..Winifred Douglas Joe Coffin...................John Lyons Samuel Blackwell.........Basil Burwell Henry B Blackwell........Glenn Wilson Mrs. Widgery.................Fern Foster George................Fritz Eisenmann Mary Livermore........Elizabeth Gerrish Alice Stone Blackwell....Florence Walsh Also Men and Women of a Cape Cod Town, Etc. The life story of a brilliant, courageous woman, Lucy Stone, pioneer of American womanhood, was sketched in dramatic form for the first time in Maud Wood Park's play of prologue, three acts, and 10 scenes by the Federal Theatre players last night at the Copley Theatre. A pleasing person touch which added to the interest of the play itself was the presence in the audience of a sweet old lady, Alice Stone Blackwell, daughter of Lucy Stone, who carried on her mother's fight for women's rights until the adoption of the woman's suffrage amendment in 1920. As was also fitting, the play was presented under the auspices of the Boston University Women's Council, Miss Blackwell's alma mater, and for the benefit of scholarships for two Chinese graduate students. The play, although centering around one main character, included a large cast and was thoroughly enjoyed by a large audience. In its coverage of a period of 63 years the play was quaint, humorous, romantic and forceful. The opening scene is the kitchen of the Stone farmhouse in West Brookfield, Mass. Working in the kitchen with her mother Lucy becames sensitive to the subserviency of women to men, the fact that they have no legal rights, and must do as they are bid. She reads a sentence from the family Bible that women must be ruled over by their husbands--suddenly, she decides she will go to college and study Greek to ascertain if this is a correct translation. This embarked her on the career which led her to world renown. Lillian Merchal merits praise for a splendid performance in the role of Lucy Stone. She veritably "lived" the life of a strong, colorful personality she was portraying. Glenn Wilson was well cast as Henry Blackwell. Ann Baker made a sweet, charming Mrs. Stone, Fern Foster was delightful as Mr. Widgery, and others lent talented support. Following the first act Mrs. Everett O. Fisk, president of the Women's Council, Boston University, introduced Miss Alice Stone Blackwell, who expressed her appreciation of the commemoration and remembrance of her mother. Miss Betsy Merrow and Miss Barbara Stantial acted as pages. Boston Transcript Radiotalk by Edwin Francis Edgett About Books and Authors Oct 11, 1930 They who fight the good fight, they who keep the faith, often emerge the victors. Even when they do not, they may realize that awareness of the justice of their cause has made the battle worth the fighting and life worth the living. They also know that if they themselves do not win, those who come after them are bound to see the light of victory. If you will read William Wetmore Story's poem, "Io Victus," you will readily understand what I mean. Sometimes fighters for a great cause do not live to share with their comrades the gratification and the glory of victory. Lucy Stone did not live to see the abolition of Negro slavery, which came nearly sixty years before the abolition of female slavery, and in some degree she was thereby enabled to see that right and justice have a place in this inconsistent world of ours. The story of "Lucy Stone, Pioneer of Women's Rights," is at last told in a biography written by her daughter, Alice Stone Blackwell, and there we may read not merely what was accomplished after her death, but also the story of many phases of the woman suffrage movement. Exactly ten years have passed since women were placed, throughout the United States, on practically equal terms with men in the conduct of public affairs. There are, as was to be expected, both men and women who sneer at woman suffrage, who declare that women politically should be on a par with children, idiots and criminals, who claim that woman suffrage has not bettered the world. If to better the world is to give equality to those to whom it belongs, then there has certainly been no greater factor in human progress than woman suffrage. If you read "Lucy Stone, Pioneer of Women's Rights," you will certainly learn that and doubtless much more.