BLACKWELL FAMILY Subject File Tributes to Lucy Stone LUCY STONE1250 Kilocycles WRMS 500 Watts Studio: Ware Transmitter: Coy's Hill, Warren Dec. 6, 1948 Dear Mrs. Blackwell: Thank you for your Christmas and New Year greetings, and it is with a feeling of deep appreciation I accept them from you and at the same time send along a copy of a brief five minute story I used on WRMS a week or two ago. I planned to send you the copy before this, but found myself quite busy preparing a couple of other stories which I use on Tuesday afternoons. These radio vignettes are short chats on interesting persons, things, the subjects depending on how much they interest the people within our Central Massachusetts area. I received numerous favorable comments on your mother's story, and know that will please you. Once more my thanks for your greetings, and may I return the same to you with the wish for your continued fine health and all the blessings that you deservedly merit. Sincerely, William C. O'Neil, News Editor WRMSCOPY WRMS Ware, Mass. Radio Vignette series 3 Nov.23,1948 Back in the days of our early schooling, we recall the story of George Washington cutting down his father's cherry tree; but best of all do we remember the First President as, "First in War, First in Peace, and First in the Hearts of Our Countrymen". But there lived in West Brookfield in later life a woman, whose firsts far exceeded those of Washington's record. Lucy Stone, the daughter of a farmer, who first saw the light of day on Coy's Hill, possessed the following firsts: she was the first woman in Massachusetts to become a college graduate: to lecture and battle for women's rights; to call a woman's rights convention; to keep her own name after marriage; to found a woman's newspaper, and too many other firsts to mention in this five minute chat. One of her sisters in law was the first wo man doctor in modern times; another the first ordained woman minister throughout the world. So its no wonder this unusual female attracted the attention of most of the world in her battle for women's rights for most of her lifetime. Lucy Stone, who later married Henry Browne Blackwell, was born August 13, 1818 when the world was a man's world. The work of married women consisted in bearing children, doing the farm chores, feeding and clothing their own large broods, a schedule lasting from early morn to late at nite. Husbands were legally permitted to beat their wives, many times to keep them in subjection, or for even slight errors in the management of their households. One minister boasted of twice-monthly beatings of his wife because she talked too much. Women were barred from schools after they had completed the first six or seven grades, and in many cases less. College was for the boys of the family, since it afforded them an opportunity for professional careers. No public high school was open for their sisters, and only in Massachusetts were women regarded as somewhere near the equal of men. Lucy Stone was a keen observer of these inequalities even as a child, and through her formative years devoted much of her attention to planning how she could help in freeing women from such serfage. She studied every available hour after her school sessions, and when she completed her schooling was appointed a teacher at the wage of one dollar weekly. Several years later she received the munificent salary of four dollars weekly, the top salary for women teachers. While teaching she carried on her study to relieve women of the heavy yoke they bore. She knew all professions were barred, no store or office or factory position was open to a woman, and she knew that employers daring to hire women clerks would be boycotted until they discharged such an employe. The only social organizations open to women in those early days were church sewing circles. Lucy spent her salary in further study; she attended Quabog Seminary in Warren, and Mount Holyoke Seminary, to add to her knowledge. In that period the anti-slavery question was under fiery discussion, and the West Brookfield woman became one of its champions. She met with the opposition of church and state; she lost many friends of life standing because of her stand in this battle. Yet she made it her principal cause, carrying on however her war against the restraints of women. She returned to her teaching duties to earn more money to more effectively campaign against slavery. She attended Oberlin College and then felt she was ready for her life's mission.Her first lecture was in her brother's church in Gardner, and from that first public entrance into women's rights ranks, she maintained a continuous campaign throughout her active life. She talked in every state in the union, and later toured the Continent to further the work and legislation to relieve women from their subjection. Lucy and her husband devoted practically every living hour to the battle until success eventually was achieved. State after state finally enacted laws making women the equal of men in the eyes of the law, except for some ancient laws which remain on the statue books of some states. Immediate aides of Lucy Stone were Susan B. Anthony, Julia Ward Howe and Carrie Chaplan Catt, three of the most famous women in America. Her dream of complete suffrage almost realized, Lucy had one final request to make as she lay critically ill at her home in Cambridge. She wanted to be buried near her home on Coy's Hill. But she later changed her mind, and even in death attained another first; at her request she was cremated, the first woman in New England to under go that experience. A plaque however remains on the Stone house on the hill, and the inscribed words pay a deep tribute to the life work of Lucy Stone from the women of the World; she freed them from their chains. Women the world over frequently gather there on her birthdays to pay tribute to the woman who possessed so many and well merited firsts in the nation, and in the world. Lucy Stone's daughter, Miss Alice Stone Blackwell, lives in Cambridge, and from her book, Lucy Stone, Pioneer of Woman's Rights, much of this story has been taken. Mrs. Blackwell was kind enough to present xxxxxx an autographed copy to your narrator. She is an author of note. Bill O'Neil[?] LUCY STONE Caption under picture in Boston Evening Globe, July 20, 1946, marking 98th anniversary of SenecaFalls meeting, "Magnetic Lucy Stone (1918-1893) Brookfield-born, was in her young womanhood called 'a dangerous radical' - and could she rouse 'em with the woes of her sex and the wrongs of the world! At first an anti-slavery agitator, she became, as Mrs. Stanton said: 'The first person by whom the heart of the American public was deeply stirred on the woman question.' She was Alice Stone Blackwell's mother."1940 WOMEN who have won fame by WORK, HEROISM, CHANCE or CHARM No. 43 - Lucy Stone, Mother of Alice Stone Blackwell (courtesy of Mrs. Guy Stantial, of the New England Committee for the Centennial Congress, New York.) The charming portrait reproduced above appears in an illuminated little volume called "Victory - How Woman Won It," issued by the National American Woman Suffrage Association for their great Centennial Congress, opening today in New York. There participating will be delegates from the national associations of church, university, club and professional and business women, to review their past struggles and triumphs and to plan for those still needed for the continued advance of both men and women toward full opportunity in our bewildered world. Much of the story has been suggested in earlier articles in this series. Today, we shall glance at the life of Lucy Stone, as told by our own distinguished Bostonian, her daughter, Miss Alice Stone Blackwell, herself a tireless worker in causes started by her mother and others since developed on the same wide front of progress. Her own account of her mother's early life is one of the profoundly moving stories of the sacrifices and the heroic courage that began the long struggle to make possible the entrance into the ranks of adult, educated, politically and professionally competent human beings. Lucy Stone, born on a farm in West Brookfield, Mass., was the eighth of the nine children of Francis Stone and Hannah Matthews, Americans with an ancestry of brave fighters for the freedoms won in American wars, from the French and Indian to Shay's Rebellion, but the father of little Lucy, like the majority of men of 1818, accepted without question his role as ruler of his wife and the arbiter of his daughter's destiny. His wife milked eight cows on the eve of Lucy's birth and groaned when she heard that the child was a girl, "Oh, dear; I'm sorry it is a girl. A woman's life is so hard." Lucy soon understood what that meant. Miss Blackwell says she was a good scholar and a hard worker, sometimes driving the cows by starlight before dawn through dew-wet grass, in which her little bare feet grew icy cold. She grew indignant at the way her own mother and other women were treated by their husbands and by the law. Her father thought her crazy to want to go to college, and refused the assistance her brother received as a matter of course. Lucy undaunted set about earning in tiny bits the money she needed and by the time she was 25, she started for Oberlin, the only college that then admitted women, sleeping among the freight and horses, on grain sacks on the deck of the lake steamer upon which she travelled. She had taught school at a fraction of the salary paid a man - and a less competent man at that - for the same work At college, she taught and also did housework at three cents an hour, to pay her way. To make ends meet, she cooked her own food in her room to keep the cost down to 50 cents or less a week. Nevertheless she found time to teach refugee slaves, for the town was a station on the "underground." Such was her preparation. Even more extraordinary was her solitary determination to educate other women and men to a realization of woman's needs and rights. She knew that a few people sympathized but she set out alone with practically no money and no backing, speaking with no admission fee to her meetings, tacking up her own announcements, and because she was the strange phenomenon, - a woman speaking from a public platform - attracting large audiences. The meetings were held despite hooliganism, such as catcalls, pepper burning, even hosing the speaker with ice-cold water, - nothing stopped Lucy Stone. Her "transparent sincerity, simplicity, and intense earnestness added to a singular personal magnetism and an utter forgetfulness of self, swayed those great audiences as the wind bends a field of grass." She was able to subdue mobs when others failed. At the meeting in Pennsylvania Hall on the night of its burning, described earlier in this series, she commanded silent attention as did no other speaker, says Miss Blackwell. At an open air meeting at which the mob attacked the platform, she adopted as her protector, the leader of the mob, who actually secured her a hearing. At a meeting in 1853, Henry B. Blackwell heard her speak and forthwith resolved that she should be his wife. He won her from her resolve no to marry, by co-operating wholly with her in the struggle for woman's rights. Needless to say, Lucy Stone became one of the growing group of women who joined forces and poured into their common cause, all the power of their combined intellects and unconquerable spirit. She helped organize the American Equal Rights Association in 1866 and in 1869 with the immortal band of men and women who carried on the struggle after the blow to women of the insertion of the word "male" into the Constitution as a requisite for citizenship, she organized the American Woman Suffrage Association and was chairman of the executive committee for nearly 20 years. (From "Woman Suffrage Leaflet," Vol. VI., No. 5, September, 1893, published bi-monthly at the Office of the Woman's Journal, Boston, Mass.) Tomorrow's Picture - Anna Howard Shaw TINY MISS' GIFT HEARTENS SANTA Girl of 3 Brings 100 Pennies to Help Cheer Others at Christmas--- And Early Gifts Count DONATION FOR POST SANTA Harriet Stott, aged 3, of 84 Moore street, East Boston, shown making a donation to Post Santa yesterday. To the little lady in blue the Boston Post Santa Claus wishes to give his thanks today. She paid him a visit at the headquarters of the Boston Post Santa Fund yesterday afternoon and made brighter than all the lights could the Christmasy room where he sat during the gray November Sunday. The little lady in blue is Harriet Stott, a dimpled, gay elf, with eyes that shine and a tongue full of the musical words of youth. On her lips there was laughter and in one hand there were pennies. BRINGS 100 PENNIES By comparison, such a little girl-- for she was only 3--was a millionaire to a grown-up. She had 100 pennies, some new, some old. These she I'D BETTER SWITCH TO BLACKSTONE CIGARS Successful men smoke BLACKSTONE CIGARS because these all-Havana filled cigars, made with the finest and costliest long-leaf tobacco, appeal to men with a keen sense of values. had saved herself, nor for a rainy day, but for other children. Her mother, Mrs. Harriet Stott, of East Boston, had told her the story of the Boston Post Santa Claus. In her little mind, Harriet comprehended a bit of the enormous Christmas tragedy--that there were children in the world who did not have a visit from Santa Claus. So she gave what she had saved gladly. She knew she would get more pennies. She also understood that other children would have a visit from Santa Claus because she gave to the only friend for 33 years of the needy New England children, the Boston Post Santa Claus, the Santa of the Boston Post readers. As the Boston Post Santa Claus rides out behind his reindeers on his 34th consecutive season of filling the empty stockings, he hopes that many others, in the spirit of the little lady in blue, will also visit his headquarters at 263 Washington street, with their contributions. But if they cannot come in person, they can mail in their donation. The mailing address is: BOSTON POST SANTA CLAUS BOSTON POST, BOSTON, MASS. The Boston Post Santa is pleased with the ready response of donors this year. They evidently wish to get that bit of their Christmas shopping out of the way early, so they are bringing in their donations or mailing them in right away, without waiting until the last few days before Christmas. One such gift was received from John W. Newton of Brighton, a freshman at the University of Alabama. He sent word to a relative from the famed Southern college to make the donation for him and yesterday the Boston Post Santa Claus received it. There was a fine contribution through the mail of $5 from a Somerville friend who asked that it be acknowledged "My Wishing Star." The beyond-Boston Have Letter The Boston Post Santa appeals to have them approved Thus the Boston Post Santa will ing children. Before the children ask their teacher or clergyman bottom of it. From other year knows that the teachers and cler assistance in this regard will be deserving. folks were not to be out-matched by Bostonians for giving, for in the same mall was a contribution of $2 from an old friend, "Muggins" of Manchester-by-the-Sea, and a gift of $1 from East Brookfield, to be acknowledged "In Memory of Mary Corcoran." His Annual Gift A donor who does not wish to be identified was in with an annual gift to be acknowledged in the annual way, in memory of relatives and bygone friends, his father, Moe Lerner, Frank "Spike" Hennessy, Ben Finklestein, Joseph P. Maguire and Billy Winbercker. In their names the good work goes on. Many passing through Newspaper Row yesterday not only stopped to look at the toys displaced in the window but also looked at the decorations, SANTA WARMED BY GENEROUS CHECK Post Santa's heart was warmed by a $100 check sent by Mrs. Constance Williams of South Hamilton, who has never failed to remember him. The receipt of the annual gift gave the campaign added impetus and encouragement. "With every good wish from an old friend," was Mrs. Williams' cheery message accompanying the check. among them Bob Coyne's famous cartoon, the original cartoon itself with the pencil strokes just as Bob drew it. It is the cartoon, "The End of the World," depicting the poor boy in the tenements who was forgotten by Santa Claus. Equally attractive is a mammoth enlargement of a Boston Post Santa cartoon by Post artist, Dinty Dugan. On the walls, too, are enlarged photographs of the work done annually at the Boston Post Santa Workshop, showing the volunteers at their happy labors of reading letters, tying up bundles and stacking the bundles away in the mammoth piles that reach from floor to ceiling. Sign Letters Clearly The first of the letters from the children which arrived yesterday showed they are having them endorsed as Post Santa requested. They will also help him and themselves if they will follow his suggestion of printing their names and addresses and being very careful to make legible the street number. If by investigation the Boston Post Santa finds the children are deserving of gifts, he does not want the bundle of good things to go astray. So he asks the little ones appealing to write their names and addresses clearly. He also wants to warn the children to be sure they have put down their name and address on the letter itself. If they wish, they can put it on the envelope, but be sure to put it on the letter itself. He would like to ask the children not to delay the letters until a few days before Christmas. Write them right away, for the handling of them entails a lot of work and if they come early the task is made light for Post Santa and his volunteers. So after writing the letter and having it endorsed by a teacher or clergyman, mail it right away. The list of contributions follows: The Boston Post...$1000.00 A. W. D....0.50 A Friend Indeed to Those in Need...1.00 The Shepherds Club, Boston...1.00 Martin J. Flaherty, East Boston...1.00 In Memory of Jou-Jou and Don...2.00 Barbara Lois and Sandra Esther Nesson, Belmont...5.00 In Memory of J. C. G....1.00 E. R. Campbell, Springfield...1.00 Federal Employees of the Federal Building...2.10 Annual Contribution, P. M., Walpole, Mass...1.00 In Memory of Grandmere and Mama, Beverly, Mass...1.00 Philip Schaffner White, 7th Annual, Falmouth...0.50 Susan E. White, 2d Annual, South Acton...0.50 Ruth Louise White, 1st Contribution, Framingham...0.50 Polly, a Parrot, From Roslindale, Annual Contribution... .00 Mary Kane, Boston... .00 Trudy, a Boston Terrier, and Her Pal, Smut, Athol, Mass... .50 Alice and Dave, Newton Highlands, 17th Annual Contribution...2.00 Clevy Learner...2.00 Harold Learner...2.50 Teddy Learner...2.50 L. J. Schneider, Cheshire, Mass....1.00 In Memory of Sweet Patricia...2.00 Paula and Robert Kirby, Arlington...1.00 There IS something new in styleBOSTON POST MONDAY NOV 25, 1940 WOMEN who have won fame by WORK, HEROISM, CHANCE or CHARMNo. 43 - Lucy Stone, Mother of Alice Blackwell. (Courtesy of Mrs. Guy Stantial of the New England Committee for the Centennial Congress, New York.) The charming portrait reproduced above appears in an illuminated little volume called "Victory -- How Woman Won It" issued by the National American Woman Suffrage Association for their great Centennial Congress, opening today in New York. There participating will be delegates from the national associations of church, university, club and professional and business women, to review their past struggles and triumphs and to plan for those still needed for the continued advance of both men and women toward full opportunity in our bewildered world. Much of the story has been suggested in earlier articles in this series. Today, we shall glance at the life of Lucy Stone, as told by our own distinguished Bostonian, her daughter, Miss Alice Stone Blackwell, herself a tireless worker in causes started by her mother and others since developed on the same wide front of progress. Her own account of her mother's early life is one of the profoundly moving stories of the sacrifices and the heroic courage that began the long struggle to make possible the entrance into the ranks of adult, educated, politically and professionally competent human beings. Lucy Stone, born on a farm in West Brookfield, Mass., was the eighth of the nine children of Francis Stone and Hannah Matthews, Americans with an ancestry of brave fighters for the freedoms won in American wars, from the French and Indian to Shay's Rebellion, but the father of little Lucy, like the majority of men of 1818, accepted without question his role as ruler of his wife and the arbiter of his daughter' destiny. His wife milked eight cows on the eve of Lucy's birth and groaned when she heard that the child was a girl, "Oh, dear; I'm sorry it is a girl, A woman's life is so hard." Lucy soon understood what that meant. Miss Blackwell says she was a good scholar and a hard worker, sometimes driving the cows by starlight before dawn through dew-wet grass, in which her little bare feet grew icy cold. She grew indignant at the way her own mother and other women were treated by their husbands and by the law. Her father thought her crazy to want to go to college, and refused the assistance her brother received as a matter of course. Lucy undaunted set about earning in tiny bits the money she needed and by the time she was 25, she started for Oberlin, the only college that then admitted women, sleeping among the freight and horses, on grain sacks on the deck of the lake steamer upon which she travelled. She had taught school at a fraction of the salary paid a man--and a less competent man at that--for the same work. At college, she taught and also did housework at three cents an hour, to pay her way. To make ends meet, she cooked her own food in her room to keep the cost down to 50 cents or less a week. Nevertheless she found time to teach refugee slaves, for the town was a station on the "underground." Such was her preparation. Even more extraordinary was her solitary determination to educate other women and men to a realization of woman's needs and rights. She knew that a few people sympathized but she set out alone with practically no money, and no backing, speaking with no admission fee to her meetings, tacking up her own announcements, and because she was the strange phenomenon,--a woman speaking from a public platform--attracting large audiences. The meetings were held despite hooliganism, such as catcalls, pepper burning, even hosing the speaker with ice-cold water,--nothing stopped Lucy Stone. Her "transparent sincerity, simplicity, and intense earnestness added to a singular personal magnetism and an utter forgetfulness of self, swayed those great audiences as the wind bends a field of grass." She was able to subdue mobs when others failed. At the meeting in Pennsylvania Hall on the night of its burning, described earlier in this series, she commanded silent attention as did no other speaker, says Miss Blackwell. At an open air meeting at which the mob attacked the platform, she adopted as her protector, the leader of the mob, who actually secured her a hearing. At a meeting in 1853, Henry B. Blackwell heard her speak and forthwith resolved that she should be his wife. He won her from her resolve not to marry, by co-operating wholly with her in the struggle for woman's rights. Needless to say, Lucy Stone became one of the growing group of women who joined forces and poured into their common cause, all the power of their combined intellects and unconquerable spirit. She helped to organize the American Equal Rights Association in 1866 and in 1869 with the immortal band of men and women who carried on the struggle after the blow to women of the insertion of the word "male" into the Constitution as a requisite for citizenship, she organized the American Woman Suffrage Association and was chairman of the executive committee for nearly 20 years. (From "Woman Suffrage Leaflet," Vol. VI., No. 5, September, 1893, published bi-monthly at the Office of the Woman's Journal, Boston, Mass.) Tomorrow's Picture--Anna Howard Shaw. ALICE STONE BLACKWELL 1010 MASSACHUSETTS AVE. CAMBRIDGE 38, MASS. Nobody had the courage to tamper with the name of Lucy Stone. LUCY STONE King Features Syndicate, Inc. Mr. Frank Reil, of the American Merchant Marine Institute, contributes more information about the naming of Liberty ships which have gone into the American Merchant Marine Service: "In the great majority of cases these ships were named after famous Americans, male and female. In fact, 114 Liberty ships were named after distinguished American ladies. "All womanhood can be justly proud of their war record. They had pretty good luck in dodging torpedoes, mines and airplane attacks, and only ten of them were lost in the war. "'Molly Pitcher' went down with her flag flying, but the Stars and Stripes still fly over 'Betsy Ross' and 'Barbara Frietchie.' "Several of these lady Liberty ships were lend-leased to our allies and had their names changed. For instance, 'Annie Oakley,' of complimentary ticket fame, was renamed the 'Samida.' The 'Priscilla Alden,' named after the gal who asked John why he didn't speak for himself, became the 'Samlouis.' "Incidentally, any time the British got these Liberty ships they invariable worked 'Sam' into the name. "However, the most important thing about all this trivia is that no one dared to tamper with the name of Lucy Stone, who campaigned against women changing their names in marriage. "Surely the spirit of Miss Stone must have protected her, not only against the perils of war but also against anyone seeking to change her name!" [*Pictorial Review Jan 13, 1946 Los Angeles*]Nix's "Strange As It Seems" Pasadena (Calif) Star News - Sunday, April 17, 1949 LUCY STONE -- renowned woman suffragist, 1818-93 WORKED HER WAY THROUGH COLLEGE DOING HOUSEWORK AT 3 CENTS AN HOUR-- HER PROSPEROUS FATHER DID NOT BELIEVE IN EDUCATION FOR WOMEN!BOSTON POST MAR 5, 1949 All mankind love a lovers - Emerson LOVES AND LOVERS Unique in many ways among the loves of distinguished individuals is that of Lucy Stone and Henry Blackwell. The romance of love at first sight and lifelong devotion were at its heart, but its development and deep integration with the social ideas and ideals to which both were dedicated in a period of tremendous fermentation in our country, set it apart from many of history's immortal loves. Both of these fearless and uncompromising fighters for human rights and dignity for slaves and women - and hence for all society - stemmed from ancestors who in their time had been in the forefront of similar movements. It was not surprising that Henry Blackwell sought in his life partner, a woman who was sensitively aware of the necessity of drastically changing the humiliating - even degrading - status of women. His father had been a liberal and a Dissenter during the Chartist period in England and had emigrated in 1832 with his eight children and wife and four sisters because he wanted to bring up his children in the freedom of America. The slavery situation, however, greatly shocked him and he at once joined the anti-slavery movement. His home became a refuge for abolitionists escaping from mobs. It was a bold step he took when he went to hear Frances Wright speak for woman's rights, at a time when it was considered irreligious for a woman to appear on a public platform. His daughter, Elizabeth, was the pioneer in getting even a toe- hold for the education of women in medicine. She was the first woman doctor and her sister, Emily, followed in her footsteps. The other sisters were more artistically inclined, but one brother married the first ordained woman minister in the United States, the Rev. Dr. Antoinette Brown, a college mate of Lucy Stone at Oberlin. Henry's father died while he was young, so the brilliant youth had only one year at college, but at 20 he had been successful enough in business to buy a pleasant home for the family. But it was not by any means only the radicalism and fearlessness of [picture] No. 25 - Lucy Stone, wife of Henry B. Blackwell (Courtesy of Alice Stone Blackwell. From her "Lucy Stone: Pioneer of Women's Rights," copyright, all rights reserved, 1930) Lucy Stone that attracted Henry Blackwell. It was her charm, which and truth; she holds her audience in perfect captivity," wrote a Vermonter of her at huge packed meetings speaking against slavery. "The conservative priests and hunker politicians as usual opposed her (she was expelled from the communion of the West Brookfield church and raised the hue and cry that Garrison was an infidel ... yet she seemed fully conscious that 'one with God is a majority anywhere.'" She was able at her woman's rights meetings, working entirely alone, to hold even riotous mobs with her peculiarly sweet voice, warm eloquence and absolute fearlessness, with, for example, disregard of a book thrown at her head, or a hose turned upon her on the platform. Henry Blackwell, too, as described by their daughter, our great New England publicist and writer, Alice Stone Blackwell, "was a man of great ability and much personal charm, an eloquent speaker, a good writer, a fine singer and an active, amounted to genius. "Her heart and mind seem all luminous with love capable man of business. He was full of energy and vivacity and constantly overflowed with wit and fun." Warm-hearted and chivalrous, he was a great favorite, with a winning smile, sparkling blue eyes and curly black hair. It was eventually his capacity for bold action in his anti-slavery activities, and his unequivocal support of woman's rights, plus his ardent wooing and brilliant reasoning that convinced Lucy that her resolve never to marry because of the disabilities the law imposed upon wives, was not the way to combat those evils. The extraordinary "Protest" which Henry Blackwell drew up enumerating these was approved by Lucy at the marriage, and rejecting them, was widey publicized. It read in part, "While we acknowledge our mutual affection by publicly assuming the relationship of husband and wife, yet in justice to ourselves and a great principle, we deem it our duty to declare that this act on our part implies no sanction of, nor promise of voluntary obedience to such of the present laws of marriage as refuse to recognize the wife as an independent, rational being while they confer upon the husband an injurious and unnatural superiority, investing him with legal powers which no honorable man would exercise and no man should possess. (These include) custody of the wife's person; exclusive control and guardianship of their children; sole ownership (with limitations) of her property; "and finally (we protest) against the whole system by which 'the legal existence of the wife is suspended during marriage.'" Their marriage was a beautifully integrated partnership of heart, mind and work. Each stimulated and co-operated with the other, and their achievement in furthering the freedoms long overdue the women of America is a testimony not only to the wisdom of Lucy Stone's decision to marry, but to the inestimable significance of woman's full use of her powers of mind and spiritual initiative. Today We Remember LUCY STONE, who devoted her entire life to the woman's rights movement, was born in West Brookfield, Mass., Aug. 13, 1818. Her father, Francis Stone, a well-to-do farmer and tanner, believed that men were divinely ordained to rule over women, and her mother, meek and docile, accepted this view. But Lucy, when still very young, became resentful of woman's lot. Her father refused her the college education she so eagerly desired, but she earned her way through Oberlin College, then went on the lecture platform. In 1855 she married Dr. Henry B. Blackwell who agreed that she should keep her maiden name and who worked for her cause the remainder of their lives. Lucy died in 1893, urging her daughter, Alice Stone Blackwell, to "make the world better." Her funeral, said a friend, was like a coronation.An Immortal Three Lucretia Mott whose warm heart felt for all Earth's downcast souls, And Lucy Stone a Pioneer who sought historic goals - With Elizabeth Cady Stanton who still reform controls - They sought not praise of men or race, but justice for the weak; In every land beneath the sun--O not in vain we seek, For the influence of those Christlike Souls, courageous, noble, meek. The World met them with apathy--with scorn and ridicule; And friends and relatives grew cold, than Arctic Zone more cool: But they leaned on The Almighty's Arm, who doth the centuries rule. They viewed a Golden Future-surpassing Eden's Prime; They sowed the seed for Harvests that brighten every clime, And never once did flinch or fail, their valor grand, sublime. They did not live to celebrate the Victory that they sought, But not in vain their struggles or the battles that they fought - For the Over-Soul protected them as they the Nations taught. Eternal praise and honor unto the Dauntless Three- Who broadened Opportunity for all Humanity, And strove and toiled, and not in vain for Woman's Liberty. DEDICATED to the Women of the Old World and the New BY WILLIAM KIMBERLEY PALMER Chicopee, Massachusetts U.S.A. 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DUDLEY FOULKE, President of the American Woman Suffrage Association, and LUCY STONE. Music. WEDNESDAY MORNING, 10:30. Music. LUCY STONE will report for the Executive Committee. Reports of State Societies: Dr. MARTHA G. RIPLEY for Minnesota; ALMA COLLINS for Wisconsin, Michigan, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont; H.B. BLACKWELL for Massachusetts; MRS. JULIA WARD HOWE for Rhode Island and Connecticut; MARGARET W. CAMPBELL for Iowa. Music. WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, 2:30. Music. Letters from MARY A. LIVERMORE, CHIEF JUSTICE GREEN, of Washington Territory, CHANCELLOR ELIOT of St. Louis, Mo., Etc. Addresses by MRS. SARAH BURGER STEARNS of Duluth, DR. KATE I. KELSEY, JUDGE HEMIUP, Mrs. MARTHA ANGLE DORSETT and C.H. DUBOIS. Resolutions and Discussion. Short Speeches by delegates. Music. WEDNESDAY EVENING, 7:30. Music. Addresses by MARGARET W. CAMPBELL, of Iowa; MAJOR J.A. PICKLER, of Dakota; and MRS. ABIGAIL SCOTT DUNIWAY, of Oregon. Music. THURSDAY MORNING 10:30. Music. Reports of State Societies continued: New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Ohio, HON. Wm. DUDLEY FOULKE, for Indiana; MARY E. HOLMES, for Illinois; MAJOR MERWIN, for Missouri; MRS. ABIGAIL SCOTT DUNIWAY, for Oregon; "A WOMAN VOTER," for Washington Territory; MAJOR J.A. PICKLER, for Dakota, Arkansas, Texas, Wyoming. Short speeches by delegates. Music. THURSDAY AFTERNOON, 2:30. Music. Nominations and election. Address by MRS. TRACY CUTLER, of Illinois. Short addresses by delegates, members, ministers and citizens of Minnesota; DR. MARTHA G. RIPLEY, and others. Music. THURSDAY EVENING, 7:30. Music. Addressed by HENRY B. BLACKWELL, MRS. JULIA WARD HOWE, REV. ADA C. BOWLES and MRS. LUCY STONE. Doxology.Lucy Stone - A Chronicle Play By Maud Wood Park Lucy Stone was the first Massachusetts woman to take a college degree. became the champion of women's rights in this country. lectured to immense audiences all over the nation between 1847 and 1857. headed the call for the first national Woman's Rights Convention. founded and edited the Woman's Journal of Boston which was the principal woman suffrage paper of America for half a century. married Henry Browne Blackwell, the one man in America who devoted his life to securing equal rights for women. became the sister-in-law of Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman in modern times to take a medical degree. also became the sister-in-law of Rev. Doctor Antoinette Brown Blackwell, the first woman in the world to be ordained a minister. died in 1893, after woman suffrage had been granted in only two states. left her work to be carried on by her husband and their daughter, Alice Stone Blackwell, until the death of Mr. Blackwell in 1909. Their daughter went on with the work until the adoption of the woman suffrage amendment to the Federal Constitution in 1920.SEVEN MEMORIAL TO LUCY STONE Lucy Stone, one of the early summer residents of Chilmark in former years, is to be commemorated by a stone in the Walk of Fame which President Hamilton Holt of Rollins College is building at Winter Park, Florida. Each stone in its pavement is brought from the birthplace or home of a famous American, and has the name and [[??]] carved upon it. As a specimen of the manners and wit of this inflated Mr. A. Bunn, take the following extract from his volume:-- We visited the same hall the following day, to hear Miss Lucy Neale (Stone, we beg the lady's pardon,) assert the rights of woman, and a very fine flourish she made of it. The doctrines which this lady preaches are becoming all the rage in America: and since Mrs. Bloomer put in force the old proverb of 'women wearing the b----s,' they are more followed up and acted upon than ever. The simple apparel (in which, by the way, Miss Stone was habited,) did not at all satisfy her views of men and things--she seemed bent upon going what is elegantly termed 'the whole hog!' Having graduated, herself, from Oberlin College, Ohio, she demanded equal educational facilities for her whole sex, to prevent their being disqualified, from want of scholastic acquirements, for fulfilling the duties of any avocation of life they might think proper to select. She insisted upon their right to vote, in all governmental and local matters--considering women far better judges, in most cases, than men. She had no idea of allowing any one on earth to legislate for her, nor any gentleman she might marry taking care of her property, and disposing of it in payment of his debts, or in an allowance to his mistress, 'certainly not,' said she; and in short, she seemed bent upon carrying out petticoat government in its most extensive form. If a husband chose to carry on a liason, to gamble, to drink, to race, to bet, and so on, she could not possibly understand why a wife should not be allowed to pursue the same game, if she thought Lucy Stone Addresses a Mothers' Meeting. The "mothers' meeting" at the Woman's Educational and Industrial Union yesterday afternoon was conducted by Mrs. Lucy Stone. The speaker urged the importance of requiring from children obedience, promptness, neatness and order. Children should not be allowed to acquire the habit of waste. They should be given the opportunity to earn their spending money and encouraged in saving a part of it. They should be made responsible for something; even at a very early age a sense of justice should be awakened. In reply to the question, "How can we teach our children the perfect equality of father and mother?" Mrs. Stone said, "Never say 'I'll tell your father if you do that.'" These meetings are held the first Tuesday in each month and are free to all women. Mrs. A. H. Spaulding will conduct the next one, March 1, at 3 P. M. South Boston Citizen's Association. The annual meeting of the South Boston travelling into German Lorraine are stopped on the frontier and sent back unless they can prove that they are not liable to military service. The Government's motive in doing this is to prevent possible future soldiers from gaining a knowledge of the typography of the annexed provinces. The Vienna Tagblatt claims to know that Emperor William has yielded to the opinion of his generals and has resolved to put an end to the French danger before his death. A despatch from Paris to the Pesther Lloyd says, "President Grevy and Premier Goblet are making superhuman efforts to prevent the outbreak of war." The British Government has granted, it is said, a subsidy to the White Star steamship line in consideration for the use of that company's boats as armed transports in case of war. A panic prevailed on the London stock exchange Tuesday, slightly abating towardsscribed and anathematized, by slave-traffickers and slave-owners, trimming politicians and profligate demagogues, hireling priests and religious formalists, mercenary journalists and servile publishers,--all that is tyrannical in the Government, and corrupt in the Church? How is it habitually characterized by 'the Satanic press'--Bennett's Herald, the New York Observer, the New York Express, &c., &c.? Can such a journal be 'hurtful to liberty and the progress of humanity,' in any rational sense? Can it be safely trusted only 'among intelligent, well-balanced minds, able to discriminate between good and evil'? Ah! here is the cause of your disquietude!--'What I fear is, that it will take from poor Uncle Tom his Bible, and give him nothing in its place.' And you say significantly, 'You understand me--do you not?' Frankly, I do not. First--I do not understand, if the Bible be all that you claim for it, and if every adverse criticism upon it in THE LIBERATOR is allowed to be met by a friendly one, why you should be anxious as to its just appreciation. The more the anti-slavery coin is rubbed the brighter it shines--does it not? The more 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' is assailed, the more impregnable it is seen to be. And the more the Bible is sifted, the more highly it will be prized, if it be all holy and true. Second--I do not understand how any one can 'take from poor Uncle Tom his Bible,' if that book be really a lamp to his feet, and a light to his path, and the word of the living God to his soul; and it seems to me thSTONE, LUCY (1818-1893), American reformer and women's rights leader was born on a farm near West Brookfield, Mass., Aug. 13, 1818. Refused a college education by her father, she studied at home, taught school, and then worked her way through Oberlin College from which she graduated in 1847. She at once began lecturing, particularly in the interests of the anti-slavery movement and women's rights. She participated in the first national Women's Rights convention in 1850. In 1855 she was married to Henry Brown Blackwell (1824-1909), but kept her maiden name. In 1858, while living in New Jersey, she allowed her household goods to be sold for taxes and then published a protest pamphlet on "taxation without representation." Active in the movement for woman suffrage and equal rights, she devoted much of her time to lecturing in their interest. She helped found the Woman's Journal in 1870 and two years later she and her husband assumed its joint editorship, which they retained for the remainder of their lives. She died in Dorchester, Mass., Oct. 18, 1893. T.R.H. Dear Elinor-- Mr Wm D. Linehau Asso. Editor Collier's Encyclopedia 640 5th Ave NY 19 sent me this as having appeared in the last publication. I suggested that he get in touch with you about a new article. He says-"We have not yet [?] in an author for the Lucy Stone article but are bearing [?] Hays in mind". after 1909--[*Hartford, Conn. (About 1893)*] PRESENTATION TO THE EQUAL RIGHTS CLUB Mrs. Emily P. Collins' Gift of a Portrait of Lucy Stone. The Speech Accompanying it W the Sincere Appreciation of Those Present at the Club's Opening Meeting The first regular meeting of the Hartford Equal Rights Club was held in Unity parlors Saturday afternoon, and was largely attended. Great interest was manifested by all present, and the earnestness of the discussion upon subjects which came up augurs well for an energetic season. Among other matters acted upon was the proposal made by Mrs. Isabella Beecher Hooker, president of the State Association, that the association and national conference be invited by the club to meet jointly in this city some time next month. The plan was heartily approved and the proposition adopted. Plans for the coming winter, as presented by the president, Mrs. E. O. Kimball, were discussed and committees appointed for their furtherance. The honorary president, Mrs. Emily P. Collins, presented the club with a portrait of Lucy Stone and her speech of presentation as remarkable for its conciseness of statement, the wit of its comment and the charm of its composition as a whole. It was as follows: "As a nation, our people are greatly addicted to hero worship, and I take much pleasure in presenting to this club the picture of one whose genuine heroism has not been surpassed in this, or any other age--Lucy Stone, whose courage was as much above that of the armed warrior, who amid the wild excitement of battle dashes on the foe, as is the cool, moral courage of a rational, human being above the bravery of the brute animal. The praises of Joan of Arc, who victoriously led the cohorts of France against their foes, have for ages run down through the grooves of history. "Lucy Stone attacked the accumulated prejudices of all the centuries against the equal rights of women, and both met the same fate. Jeanne was literally burned at an iron stake; Lucy was burned subjectively at the stake of public opinion. She early saw the many evils that afflict humanity, and to help remove those evils and 'make the world better' was the first and last object of her life. To be more fully equipped for this purpose, she determined to obtain that higher education which a college is supposed to impart. And here we first see that firmness and determination that characterized her. "At that time, the idea of a young woman going to college was popularly considered more preposterous and ridiculous than now to engineer a locomotive or command a battleship. There was then but one college that admitted women-- Oberlin, Ohio--and that was far away. Hampered by the poverty that pressed so heavily upon New England farmers and their families, how was Lucy to obtain the money to go and pay her expenses? She taught school at a dollar a week, and 'boarded round,' dressed plainly, and even picked berries and chestnuts. There were no sewing circles and church fairs to raise money to send her to college. These were to aid young men only. But at last she went, and while there paid her tuition by doing housework there at three cents an hour, lived on 50 cents per week, and had but one new dress (a cheap print) during her four years' course, and was graduated at the head of her class, and offered the honor of the commencement oration. "But she found that a man must read it, for it would be so unseemly for a woman to deliver her own paper. She pluckily objected to this method of being suppressed, and her oration was not read. Yet, even at that date, women with bare neck and arms, might sing on the platform and be applauded, for that was becoming and ladylike. But to deliver a rational discourse from the platform would be an evidence of woman's intellectual ability, and must not be tolerated. Possibly it was only that it was contrary to custom, but that custom originated in the idea that woman was an inferior being, and as such she should remain. "Lucy Stone believed in the right of the individual to work out his own destiny, and to develop his highest powers. To remove the impediments to the exercise of this right, such as slavery and subjection, she earnestly devoted her life. Of course, she was early in the anti-slavery field; and, naturally, as branches spring from the tree, came the demand from the anti-slavery ranks, for woman's emancipation; for what were the wrongs of three millions of the semi-civilized black race to the blighting effect upon the whole human family, of the enslavement of half its members, for the two sexes 'rise or fall together, bond or free.' "No one born in this last half century, in which the platform is almost as open to women as to men, can truly estimate the intensity of the prejudice so long fostered by church, state and society, against the speaking of women in public, or the amount of courage required in a woman to attempt it. Especially to publicly advocate such an unpopular idea as the equal legal rights of women required a heroine like Lucy Stone. But all the torrents of ridicule and abuse she endured with equanimity. The sons of Connecticut displayed their chivalry one cold evening, when she was speaking in a church, by removing a pane of glass and through a hose suddenly deluged her with cold water. She threw a shawl around her shoulders, and went on with her lecture as if nothing had happened. "But when she could get an audience to listen to her, the charming sweetness of her voice and manner, as also her logic, disarmed her bitterest opponents. "All woman suffragists claim the right of a wife to her own person and property; in fact, to be legally as free in all things as is the husband; consequently, nearly all of them earnestly deprecated the wife's promise of obedience in the marriage ceremony. For this especially they were denounced by the church as inculcating disobedience to a Divine command, for had not Paul said: 'Wives, obey your husbands.' But the clergy do not now reiterate all of Paul's injunctions as they did in the anti-slavery agitation, such as 'Servants, obey your masters in all things,' as that would have perpetuated slavery. Nor do they often quote his command, 'to submit to those appointed to rule over you,' for that would continue any despotism, however intolerable it might be. "But those three commands are equally binding. Paul was a Jew, and imbued with all the prejudices of his people. Their ancient estimate of women may be seen in the thirty-first chapter of Numbers, when the Israelites made war upon the Midianites and captured immense spoils, so many thousand sheep, and so many thousand beeves and asses, and 32,000 women and women children, dividing them and the domestic animals with his warriors. Mrs. Stanton thinks there should have been a William Stead then to have given Moses a lecture upon his abominable atrocity in delivering those helpless women children over to his savage soldiery for worse than brutish purposes. "Women were considered as property by both Jew and Gentile nations. Then a good, round price had to be paid for a wife. Jacob became Laban's hired man for seven years to get one of his daughters, and then the old man played a mean trick and palmed off upon Jacob an ugly daughter that he didn't want. But with praiseworthy constancy, Jacob worked for Laban seven years more to get the girl he loved. But at last he got even with his father-in-law and shrewdly reimbursed himself by means of his superior knowledge of the influence of prenatal impressions. "But in modern days, either that women are intrinsically of less value, or from over-production of them, they are now given away, except among savage tribes, where they seem to retain their original value. The price paid at the latest sale reported was 40 broncho ponies. To be sold for such a large sum might flatter the vanity of a woman, but to be regarded so valueless as to be given away must be the depth of humiliation. It is beyond my comprehension how any intelligent, self-respecting woman can submit to this semblance of her former degradation, that of being a mere chattel, to be disposed of as any other commodity. And then her promise to obey, thus perpetuating her former condition of servitude and subjection. "But few women made this promise, except in a Pickwickian sense, a mere, meaningless form; thus thoughtlessly and immorally, though without evil intent, impairing the idea of the sacred and binding nature of all marriage vows. It is no credit to any church to retain this medieval form in the marriage rites. Forty years ago it required no small degree of moral courage to protest against this iniquitous form, as Lucy Stone did. With inflexible resolution she determined to retain, not only her individuality, but also her name. To this Mr. Blackwell cordially assented. But knowing how this would be misconstrued by their opponents, at their marriage, they issued a statement of their views and a protest against the unjust and atrocious laws that robbed the wife of everything, even her own personality. "We are glad that she lived to see so much of the work accomplished for which she had labored, as the modification or repeal of many of our most unjust laws and the opening to all women of educational facilities, and all the industries and most of the professions, a partial recognition of woman's political rights in half of the States, and fully in two of our States. "This picture is a perfect likeness of her face as I last saw her, though then she was past her three score and ten years. It seemed proof against the ravages of time. It is well to cherish the memory of one who so ardently labored for the betterment of humanity, and to emulate her devotion to the cause of truth and justice."[*The Medical Woman's Journal, Page 50-51*] LUCY STONE -- PIONEER SUFFRAGIST In the January number of the Journal we published an old letter Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell had written to her sister-in-law and fellow-worker, Lucy Stone. The early struggles of Dr. Blackwell are so well known to members of the medical profession that repetition is unnecessary, but the early struggles of Lucy Stone for political equality for women are not so well known. We are indebted to the same source, her daughter, Alice Stone Blackwell, for the following short but extremely interesting biographical sketch. LUCY STONE Lucy Stone was a farmer's daughter born near West Brookfield, Mass., August 13, 1818. She early became indignant at the way in which she saw women treated by their husbands and by the laws. As the subjection of women was defended by Scripture, she made up her mind to go to college, study Greek and Hebrew and satisfy herself as to whether those texts were correctly translated. At the low wages then paid to women, it took her nine years to earn the money to carry her to Oberlin, Ohio, then the only college in the country which admitted women. She earned her way through, partly by teaching in the long vacations, partly by doing housework in the Ladies' Boarding Hall at three cents an hour. While at Oberlin she and Antoinette Brown organized the first debating society ever formed among college girls. Graduating in 1847, she gave her first woman's rights lecture in the same year, and for many years after she traveled up and down the country, lecturing, sometimes against slavery and for temperance, but chiefly for woman's rights. She headed the call for the first National Woman's Rights Convention, held in Worcester, Mass., in 1850. Lucy Stone was a small woman with gentle manners, wonderful eloquence and an extraordinarily sweet voice. Mobs would sometimes listen to her when they objected to every other speaker. Susan B. Anthony said she was converted to woman suffrage by reading the report of one of her speeches. She married Henry B. Blackwell, of Cincinnati, Ohio, May 1, 1855. She looked upon the loss of a woman's name at marriage as the symbol of the loss of her individuality, and, with her husband's full approval, kept her own name. She first consulted several eminent lawyers, including Hon. Salmon P. Chase, afterwards Chief Justice of the United States. All told her there was no law requiring a woman to take her husband's name; it was only custom. Mr. Blackwell proved a faithful and powerful co-operator with her ever after in her work for equal rights. She helped organize the American Equal Rights Association in 1866 and the American Woman Suffrage Association in 1869, and was chairman of its Executive Committee for twenty years. She raised most of the money with which the Woman's Journal was founded in Boston in 1870, and was its editor for many years, with the help of her husband and daughter. Her whole life was devoted to the cause of women. It is impossible in this short space even to enumerate her activities. She died October 18, 1893. Her last words to her daughter were, "Make the world better."MRS. MAUD WOOD PARK, Chairman MRS. EDNA LAMPREY STANTIAL, Secretary-Treasurer JUDGE FLORENCE E. ALLEN MRS. J. BORDEN HARRIMAN MRS. LEWIS JEROME JOHNSON MISS KATHARINE LUDINGTON THE WOMAN'S JOURNAL FUND COMMITTEE 21 ASHMONT ST., MELROSE 76, MASS. MRS. MALCOLM MCBRIDE MRS. JAMES PAIGE MISS MARY GRAY PECK MISS FRANCES PERKINS MRS. GIFFORD PINCHOT MRS. F. LOUIS SLADE MRS. HALSEY W. WILSON12 221 LUCY STONE An Appreciation of a Brave and Well-Beloved Suffrage Pioneer and an Appeal for Her Paper IT is always difficult to know just where to start the story of a noble life, and the life of Lucy Stone is so full of heroic action, of self-sacrifice, and of untiring service to humanity that it is indeed a bewildering task. Should we begin where, as a young girl, she picked berries and chestnuts and sold them to buy books, then, we are reminded to tell of her greater struggle to get herself through college; or do we want to write of her fight for abolition, then we are reminded that even at that time she mixed woman's rights with anti-slavery doctrines, because, as she herself said, "I was a woman before I was an abolitionist, and I must speak for women." Just how much of a big-hearted, fearless, and patriotic woman she really was, and how difficult was her work as compared with ours, the following incident shows. At an anti-slavery meeting held on Cape Cod, in a grove, in the open air, a platform had been erected for the speakers, and a crowd assembled; but a crowd so menacing in aspect, and with so evident an intention of violence, that the speakers one by one came down from the stand and slipped quietly away, till none were left but Stephen Foster and Lucy Stone. She said, "You had better run, Stephen, they are coming" He answered, "But who will take care of you?" At that moment the mob made a rush for the platform and a big man sprang up on it, grasping a club. She turned to him and said without hesitation, "This gentlemen will take care of me." He declared that he would. He tucked her under one arm, and holding his club with the other, marched her out through the crowd, who were roughly handling Mr. Foster, and such of the other speakers as they had been able to catch. Her representations finally so prevailed upon him that he mounted her on a stump, and stood by her with his club while she addressed the mob. They were so moved by her speech that they not only desisted from further violence, but took up a collection of twenty dollars to pay Stephen Foster for his coat, which they had torn in two from top to bottom. Lucy Stone was born August 13, 1818. Many clubs throughout the land will celebrate the day; many and many a woman, fighting like her for justice and equality, will offer up a silent prayer to the memory of this gentle-hearted, brave woman pioneer of our great movement. Won't EVERY SUFFRAGIST please remember that The Woman's Journal is Lucy Stone's paper? She started it in 1870 with money raised by her own efforts. Until the day of her death, she edited it and sent it forth to give encouragement and inspiration to the workers in the Cause. Though the suffrage movement is far bigger and stronger than it was in the days of Lucy Stone, it needs The Woman's Journal now even more than it did then-- and The Woman's Journal is in need of the help of EVERY SUFFRAGIST. Let the birthday memories of this pioneer of our Cause arouse your interest in her Journal. Pledge yourself to one subscription and send it in before August 13. If you are a subscriber, then get a friend to take it, or take it for her. 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Olmsted, LeRoy, N.Y. ---------------------------------------------- CRISIS IN OHIO ------------ But fifty-six working days remain for Ohio suffragists. On the night of September 3, Ohio women will be free, provided the gospel of woman suffrage has been carried to all rural communities. The large commercial centres are organized and forces are at work. The work in the rural districts is slow, but very effective. Traveling long roads, stopping at houses, we find only here and there a voter who is opposed. However, there are many counties where little or no work has been done, and the pity is that little or no work will be done, unless money is given with which to do it. No Ohio woman is receiving a cent of salary, few are getting their expenses. Yet to visit counties, secure chairmen of committees, instruct workers, takes money, since trolley fares must be paid, horses fed, or autos hired. Our enemies are well fortified with money. Men who oppose us have large accounts in banks to their credit. A wealthy man in Cleveland says he will be back the antis financially for any amount. If you have any thought of helping Ohio financially, do it now. Everyone can give something. Everyone has a friend who can give more. Ohio's victory means victory in the other campaigning States. Send your contributions! Harriet Taylor Upton. COMMONWEALTH HOTEL Inc. Opposite StateHouse BOSTON MASS. Offers rooms with hot and cold water for $1.00 per day and up, which includes free use of public shower baths. 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Five beautiful fragists made up the no with hair unbound and floa wind. The suffragist stood er dignified and courageous, trumpet and arousing grouped more or less abj her. It was a most progress The people gave their pra lowed the float as far as th eager attention would car Rosalie Jones and Miss Freeman were with us, few days, and then off after they had purchased named her "Suffragette." Journals on the street, had air meetings and left us debted to them for the br of them we had. --------- PRESBYTERIANS SH THEIR INCONSIS ------- Although it was reported meeting of the General A the Presbyterian Church were 3000 vacant pulpits nomination in this countr smelly refused to let down and admit women into the At the same time a reso passed at the Seattle meet Assembly paying tribute to voters of that city, who, recall, "set Seattle forwards ion by dethroning indecen acting righteousness to pov ----------- HIGH COST OF V ----------- The Senate inquiry has b the fact that the votes whi U.S. Senator Stephenson sin cost $3.48 apiece. InThis date in American History LUCY STONE'S BIRTH On Aug 13, 1818, Lucy Stone, a pioneer American suffragist, and often referred to as "the morning star of the woman's right movement," was born in West Brookfield, Mass., the daughter of a farmer. As a girl she was considered "queer" because she believed that woman was entitled to every social and political right enjoyed by man. Bent on practicing what she preached, Lucy traveled to Ohio to enter Oberlin, one of the first of America's co- educational schools, to learn Hebrew and Greek in order to know at first hand whether the biblical texts quoted against the equal rights of women were true translations. On graduation she gained the distinction of being the first Massachusetts woman to obtain a college degree. Following a tour of New England and Canada in which she lectured in behalf of the anti-slavery movement, she married Henry B. Blackwell. She maintained her maiden name with her husband's consent, a custom which has gained in popularity since her death in 1893. During political campaigns she lectured for woman's suffrage amendments and took the most prominent part in founding the American Woman's Suffrage Association, of which she later became president.82 EQUAL RIGHTS A Feminist Thinks Its Over By ALMA LUTZ A LESSON FROM LUCY STONE A FEW NIGHTS ago in Boston, I saw the Federal Theater production of LUCY STONE, a chronicle play, written by Maude Wood Park. I hope the Federal Theater will produce it in many cities, for not only is it good entertainment, but it is important for women of today to learn something of the woman's rights movement, to realize the determination and courage necessary for pioneering as Lucy Stone did, and to be inspired by her example to do the work that still remains to be done before women actually attain equal rights with men. The reaction of the audience and their gasps of astonishment showed plainly how little women know of their history. The play takes us through a series of episodes from 1830 when Lucy was twelve years old to the year of her death, 1893. We see her as a girl confronted with the traditions and legal disabilities that bound women, but rebellious enough to do something about it. Her first step was to put herself through Oberlin College, the one college then admitting women. She was the first Massachusetts woman to receive a college degree. At every turn she face discriminations against women and always resisted them. She refused to write her commencement address when she found out that because she was a woman she would not be allowed to read it before a mixed audience. She lectured against slavery, because she felt called to, although a woman lecturer was not only a curiosity but was severely criticized. She wore the Bloomer costume because for a time it looked as if women could introduce a dress reform which would free them from hampering clothes. When she married Henry Blackwell, she kept her own name, and they drew up a marriage contract, a protest against the legal disabilities of a married woman, an inspiring document, which they signed and which was read at the marriage ceremony. Lucy Stone was a militant when she did this, and later when she let her home be sold for taxes as a protest against taxation without representation. It is just as well for us who perhaps are growing conservative to realize how militant were some of the pioneers whom we reverence today. When the Amendment enfranchising the negro was dragged, Lucy Stone was on hand with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony to demand that it also include the enfranchisement of women. But they were told by the men with whom they had worked side by side for years for human rights, that this was the negro's hour, that the Nation could stand only one reform at a time, that their time would come later. It came fifty-one years later. Then, in 1920, women were enfranchised by Federal Amendment. They are still waiting for an Equal Rights Amendment to free them from many of the legal disabilities which Lucy Stone regarded as unjust and against which she protested. Surely with such power in their hands as the ballot and economic independence, women are not going to stand aside and wait another fifty years for the Equal Rights Amendment. We need some of Lucy Stone's spirit, some of her determination, some of her courage and her militancy.Council of Goucher College and Sarah Elizabeth Jarman, Recording Secretary, 1938-39 E. Halsey, present Chairman of the Maryland Branch of the National Woman's Party; Mrs. Robert H. Walker, prominent in Party activities; Hilda Yen, aviator and good-will ambassador from China; Señora Maria d Aya, leading feminist of Colombia; Señorita Anita Oyarzabal, sister of the former ambassador of the Loyalist Government to Scandinavia and Professor of Spanish at Wellesley; and Señorita Minverva Bernardino, a Santo Dominican living in self-imposed exile because of her feminist activities in her country. Members of the Goucher faculty have also spoken from time to time, and home-talent among the members has made interesting meetings. On a special Equal Rights Bulletin Board located in the main student thoroughfare of Goucher Hall are displayed interesting articles, newspaper clippings, and pictured concerning women. Arresting posters are used to advertise meetings. Publicity is also taken care of by way of Chapel announcements and write-ups in the Goucher Weekly. Among the more serious activities of the Council is the writing to legislators and others on matters of importance to women. Last year appeals were made to the Maryland senators in Washington to consider favorably the Equal Rights Amendment. The League of Nations was also approached in regard to an equal rights amendment to the League Covenant. This year the Council has undertaken to sell Equal Rights seals in the College. Membership in the Council is small, but it has not increased steadily in the last few years. It is the hope of the Council that it may interest students in the activities and problems before women, so that they will join the forces for the advancement of women when they leave college -- if not to participate actively, at least to consider seriously and open-mindedly the problems of the world's women. Florida from page 80) "But that day is in the past and the position of the married women in the world of business and social relations has changed. She is now found competing with all men (her husband included), in every endeavor of life, in every business, trade and profession. "The necessity, the reason and the logic for legal disabilities of coverture existing as to married women no longer exist. Such disabilities, we think, should be abolished, but this is the function of the legislature, nor of the judiciary." This able opinion, written by that illustrious Justice, Rivers Buford, and concurred in by the entire Court, mirrors the attitude of the majority of Bench and Bar. However, Florida is noted for the long strands of moss that hang from the branches of her Oaks. Unfortunately, all the moss it not upon the trees, but is to be found clinging, more tightly than second skin, to the backs of certain lawyers and members of former legislatures... Happily, it has been predicted that the moss-backs are of a minority and great hopes are felt for the future.DOWN MEMORY LANE WITH W.A. Allen SQUARE DEAL FOR WOMEN The names of the pioneers in their fight for woman suffrage stand out like bright stars in the firmament of human progress. Lucy Stone, the pioneer in woman suffrage, fought against the unjust discrimination of women for many years. She was noteworthy for many things. She was the first Massachusetts woman to take a college degree. She was the morning star of the woman's rights movement, lecturing for it, in the ten years from 1847 to 1857, to immense audiences all up and down the country. She headed the call for the First National Woman's Rights Convention. She converted Susan B. Anthony and Julia Ward Howe. She was the first married woman to keep her own name. She organized a nationwide association in which those suffragists could work who did not wish to have equal suffrage mixed up with free love and other extraneous questions. She founded and edited the Woman's Journal of Boston, which was the principal woman suffrage newspaper of the United States for almost half a century. She was a shining example of single-hearted and lifelong devotion to a great idea. Her husband, Henry Brown Blackwell, had great ability, and was the one man in America who devoted his life to securing equal rights for women. One of Lucy Stone's sisters-in-law, Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, was the first woman in modern times to take a medical degree. Another, the rev. Dr. Antoinette Brown Blackwell was the first woman in the world to be ordained a minister. After his wife's death Henry B. Blackwell carried on the work and lectured through out the country ad his last public appearance was at the National Suffrage Convention in Seattle in July, 1909. He was over 84 years of age when death took him and he was active to the end. He caught cold and died ten days later. He had outlived his wife by sixteen years. She died on October 18, 1893, and just before she died she said to her daughter: "Make the world better." During my long sojourn in Albany I heard some of the best speakers in woman suffrage work talk before the New York legislature. Carrie Chapman Catt I heard many times. Dr. Mary Walker, a little person, was the first woman I ever saw who dressed in man's attire-suit, silk hat, necktie, etc., and she could talk, too. I often heard her speak on various reform measures before the legislative committees. There was a Mrs. Pankhurst, an English woman, who came over here to aid her American friends in the "votes for women" campaign. And there was a small army of such women coming and going. Mrs. Stone and Mr. Blackwell took part in the movements to get a constitutional amendment permitting women to vote in the states of Vermont, Michigan, Nebraska, Colorado, and Rhode Island. Speaking at a memorial convention for Mrs. Stone, Mrs. Edna D. Cheney said of her: "We hold in our hearts the memory of a loving and gracious presence, a voice like the music of brooks in the ear of a thirsty traveler, a smile that brightened the day, a hand ever ready to help; a young Joan of Arc, who listened to the voices in her youth. and whose fidelity to their demands kept her ever young and beautiful." Carrie Chapman Catt summed up the feeling in many hearts when she called Lucy Stone and Henry B. Blackwell "One of the noblest of the world's women and one of the most heroic of the world's men." The lesson of such lives as theirs is summed up in a few words by Harriet Beecher Stowe, at a celebration in Boston of her birthday anniversary, at which Lucy Stone and Henry B. Blackwell were among the guests. After many famous men and women had paid their tributes to her in prose and verse, the sweet-faced, white-haired little old woman stood up to noteworthy for many things. She was the first Massachusetts woman to take a college degree. She was the morning star of the woman's rights movement, lecturing for it, in the ten years from 1847 to 1857, to immense audiences all up and down the country. She headed the call for the First National Woman's Rights Convention. She converted Susan B. Anthony and Julia Ward Howe. She was the first married woman to keep her own name. She organized a nationwide association in which those suffragists could work who did not wish to have equal suffrage mixed up with free love and other extraneous questions. She founded and edited the Woman's Journal of Boston, which was the principal woman suffrage newspaper of the United States for almost half a century. She was a shining example of single-hearted and lifelong devotion to a great idea. Her husband, Henry Brown Blackwell, had great ability, and was the one man in America who devoted his life to securing equal rights for women. One of Lucy Stone's sisters-in-law, Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, was the first woman in modern times to take a medical degree. Another, the Rev. Dr. Antoinette Brown Blackwell was the first woman in the world to be ordained a minister. After his wife's death Henry B. Blackwell carried on the work and lectured and his last public appearance was at the National Suffrage Convention in Seattle in July, 1909. He was over 84 years of age when death took him and he was active to the end. He caught cold and died ten days later. He had outlived his wife by sixteen years. She died on October 18, 1893, and just before she died she said to her daughter: "Make the world better." During my long sojourn in Albany I heard some of the best speakers in woman suffrage work talk before the New York legislature. Carrie Chapman Catt I heard many times. Dr. Mary Walker, a little person, was the first woman I ever saw who dressed in man's attire-suit, silk hat, necktie, etc., and she could talk, too. I often heard her speak on various reform measures before the legislative committees. There was a Mrs. Pankurst, an English woman, who came over here to aid her American friends in the "votes for women" campaign. And there was a small army of such women coming and going. Mrs. Stone and Mr. Blackwell took part in the movements to get a constitutional amendment permitting women to vote in the states of Vermont, Michigan, Nebraska, Colorado and Rhode Island. Speaking at a memorial convention for Mrs. Stone, Mrs. Edna D. Cheney said of her: "We hold in our hearts the memory of a loving and gracious presence, a voice like the music of brooks in the ear of a thirsty traveler, a smile that brightened the day, a hand every ready to help; a young Joan of Arc, who listened to the voices in her youth, and whose fidelity to their demands kept her ever young and beautiful." Carrie Chapman Catt summed up the feeling in many hearts when she called Lucy Stone and Henry B. Blackwell "One of the noblest of the world's women and one of the most heroic of the world's men." The lesson of such lives as theirs is summed up in a few words by Harriet Beecher Stowe, at a celebration in Boston of her birthday anniversary, at which Lucy Stone and Henry B. Blackwell were among the guests. After many famous men and women had paid their tributes to her in prose and verse, the sweet-faced, white-haired little old woman stood up to reply. She said nothing could have seemed more hopeless, in her youth, than the efforts to abolish slavery, so strongly was it entrenched in the seats of power; yet it had all been swept away. She told those who were seeking to do away with other wrongs never to be discouraged, no matter how great the odds against them might seem, and she added: "Remember, whatever ought to be done can be done." In the beginning the movement for woman's rights seemed even more hopeless than the movement against slavery. Today the flag that Lucy Stone raised and that her husband and daughter tried to keep flying, floats on every breeze. Women are voting throughout most of the civilized world. But the warfare between the kingdom of darkness and the kingdom of light goes on without ceasing. Other great wrongs still remain. They seem as impregnably entrenched as the injustices that confronted Lucy Stone and Henry B. Blackwell in their youth; yet they are destined to go down, and the lives of the old worthies are a bugle call to the new generation to take up the fight against them, and, in the new times and under changed conditions, still to do their part to "make the world better."April 12, 1945 A FINE GIFT FOR SOMEONE BURLINGTON This Week SAT. Thur-Fri-Sat Continuous from 2:00 p. m. Rosalind Russell Jack Carson ROUGHLY SPEAKING COMING NEXT WEEK! Sun.-Mon.-Tu.-Wed. THUNDERHEAD SON OF FLICKA with Roddy McDowell Preston Foster 8. What type of U.S. ship is being 9. How many Michaelmen are in 10. Who is Mayor of St. Albans? QUESTIONNAIRE NO. 469 1. Major-Gen. Leonard F. Wing Shimbu line, driving between two off the escape route for thousands 2. The House very nearly had a quorum, but a lack of quorum has of the Vermont House of Represent 3. William F. Sinclair, Johnson tive committee of the State Grange, Public Service Commissino. 4. About two thirds of the milk duced by 1,500 herds, is pasteurized 5. The Burlington Fire Depart Carl L. Levee, desk man at the Cen vice. 6. The Congressional Record re Vermont stood 27th in the country labor. 7. H. W. Cushman, of North B bution to the Vermont blood bank 8. A 10,700-ton Victory ship is Brandon was one of two Vermont past and exceptional war effort. 9. As of February 22, 1945, 518 S military service and 17 of them had 10. James El. Manahan, former the People's Trust Company, is ma Successful MRS. CATHE Associat RESPONSIBILITY - BUT NOT TOO MUCH Here's a family grudge, ex pressed in such a generous spirit that I know you'll feel, as I did that the letter writer is a grand older sister. Her letter reads: "My younger sister was always taking my clothes and wearing them without my permission. As she was large for her 13 years and as I am 16, she could wear my clothes easily. One day I asked her why she wore my clothes when she had so many of her own. Her reply was FARMERS! THE CONTROL OF Bang's Disease In Calves at this time of the Year is Important. OUR BRUCELLA ABORTUS VACCINE