NAWSA Subject File National League of Women Voters Anniversary (10th) Minutes; Reports MINUTES The Executive Committee of the Tenth Suffrage Anniversary Celebration met at the league of Women Voters' headquarters on Monday, March 17th 1930 at 12:30. With Mrs. Simonson presiding, the following members of the committee were present: Mrs. Cranford, Mrs. Fairchild, Mrs. Leach, Mrs. Oliver, Mrs. Russell, Mrs. Wells and the Misses Hyde, Ogden Peck. Miss Brainerd and Miss Wright were also present. Mrs. Simonson reported on the work done by her and her office. It was moved by Mrs. Oliver and carried, not to mail the one dollar appeals to League members until after April 10th. Mrs. Simonson outlined the following plan for work in Manhattan Borough proposing to form a committee consisting of Mrs. Fairchild, Mrs. Oliver, Mrs. Laidlaw, Mrs. Edge, Mrs. Slade, Mrs. Russell, Mrs. Wells, Mrs. Berg, Mrs. Gutman and Miss Nina Bruere, Miss Hyde and Miss Ogden, and to ask Mrs. Timmo to take the chairmanship. The plan was accepted and the members present included in committee agreed to act. Mrs. Simonson reported that there was apathy shown towards plan by some League leaders. That some former suffrage leaders were actively opposed to it and many others heartily in favor. Also that misunderstanding arose concerning the National plan - in relation to raising definite sum to place names on Honor Rolls. Mrs. Cranford urged that this committee accent the point that the fund is being raised to carry on the work of the former leaders and that in itself is a great Memorial. It was moved by Miss Hyde and decided that the committee find suitable location to place the State Honor Roll in Albany and in the Capitol Building, if possible. (Mrs. Leach promised to talk to Governor Roosevelt about it). It was decided also to write to the National League at once and urge a more prominent place than the National League Headquarters for the National Honor Roll. -2- The following pledges were made to the fund: Mrs. Leach…………….. $1,000.00 Mrs. Wells…………….. $100.00 Mrs. Cranford…………… $100.00 Mrs. Fairchild (Miss Hay)…$25.00 The meeting then adjourned. Dec. 18, 1930 TENTH SUFFRAGE ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION A meeting of the 10th Anniversary Celebration Committee was called to order by the chairman at noon on December 8, 1930 at the headquarters of the NewYork State League of Women Voters in the Graybar Building, New York City. The committee voted approval of the following: (1) A committee composed of the chairman, Mary Gray Peck and Mrs. Grace Green was appointed with authority to complete all unfinished business in connection with the Honor Roll Tablet, including the arrangements for the setting up ceremony at Albany. Mrs. Mary H. Loines of Brooklyn was suggested as a very suitable person to take a conspicuous part in the ceremony to which the committee heartily agreed. A drawing of the tablet was submitted by Gorham to cost $245 at their plant in Rhode Island. (2) Mrs. Mabel Russell and Miss Clara Hyde were appointed to audit the accounts of the Honor Roll fund. The present condition of the Fund was reported as per attached sheet. It was agreed that no further general appeal for funds shall be made. (3) Voted as the unanimous opinion of this committee in full agreement with the unanimous opinion of the Board of the New York state League of Women Voters that the National Honor Roll should be placed in some Federal building or grounds in the National Capitol. Clara Hyde Secretary for the above meeting (PAGE 2) Dec. 18, 1930 TENTH SUFFRAGE ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION FINANCIAL STATEMENT HONOR ROLL (a) Cash receipts (without dollar subscriptions) 16,513.04 (b) Dollar subscriptions 179.00 (c) Mrs. Catt's subscription sent direct to National Headquarters 300.00 (d) Unpaid pledges 2,452.00 19,444.04 (e) Underwriting Fund for Expenses 1,000.00 Less expenses to date 857.24 Balance applied on Honor Roll 142.76 19,586.80 Contra 13 National Honor Roll Names @ $1,000 $13,000.00 65 State " " " @ 100 6,500.00 Total Honor Roll Names 19,500.00 Surplus on Honor Roll $86.80 TABLET Cost at Gorham's Rhode Island Plant 245.00 Freight & Setting Up Charges (estimated) 55.00 Total Cost 300.00 Less contribution from Mrs. Alfred Lewis 25.00 Deficit on Tablet 275.00 Net Deficit 188.20 3-17-31 TENTH SUFFRAGE ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION A meeting of the 10th Anniversary Celebration Committee was called to order by the chairman at noon on Tuesday, March 17, 1931 at the headquarters of the New York League of Women Voters, 420 Lexington Avenue, New York City. Moved and seconded that the chairman, Mrs. Simonson, be authorized to sign a contract with the Gorham Company for a tablet as per the specifications submitted by them to the commitee. Carried Moved and seconded that the name of Mrs. Anna Osborn Williams be added to the State Honor Roll. Carried. It was moved and seconded that a telegram be sent to Captain Berg, that the committee regretted the non-receipt of the $100.00 in honor of Portia Willis Berg and that the following telegram be sent Captain Berg. Carried. "Honor Roll Committee regrets non-receipt of balance as agreed to add Mrs. Berg's name. Committee agreed to extend time to twelve noon March eighteenth. This is final." Moved and seconded that Miss Eliza Macdonald's name be added to the State Honor Roll. Carried. Moved and seconded that Mrs. Simonson write a letter to the National League of Women Voters to the effect that inasmuch as they have reported to us that the books of the Suffrage Anniversary Rolls are closed that any additional names New York State may receive to be added to their State Honor Roll shall be added at the discretion of the New York Committee, and that any money they may receive for these names be used to pay the state deficits. Carried. Meeting adjourned at 2:00 o'clock. Mabel Russell Secretary for the Meeting Press Department National League of Women April 9, 1930 REPORT OF MARCH 26TH SUFFRAGE ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION (This summary of March 26 woman suffrage anniversary celebrations is based on telegrams, letters, special reports and newspaper clippings received at headquarters of the National League of Women Voters in Washington.) GENERAL PLAN The tenth anniversary of woman suffrage was observed Wednesday, March 26, in a cross-country chain of celebrations arranged by the National League of Women Voters, and its state, city and town leagues. Celebrations arranged to go on simultaneously at 3 o'clock (Eastern Standard Time) in 40 states and the District of Columbia tuned in to the keynote national celebration at the St. Regis Hotel, New York City under the direction of the New York League of Women Voters. The radio program from 2 to 2:30 o'clock was carried by a coast to coast hook-up of 37 stations on National Broadcasting Company's system. SPEAKERS The speakers on the national radio program were Miss Katherine Ludington, first vice-president of the National League of Women Voters; Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, honorary president of the League; Miss Belle Sherwin, president of the National League. STATIONS CARRYING THE RADIO PROGRAM WEAF New York WHAS Louisville WTAG Worcester KSTP St. Paul WGY Schenectady KSL Salt Lake City WFJC Akron WJAR Providence WHO Des Moines WRC Washington, D. C. WOW Omaha WGR Buffalo WTMJ Milwaukee KSD St. Louis WOAI San Antonio WPTF Raleigh KVOO Tulsa WJAX Jacksonville WEEI Boston WKY Oklahoma City WCSH Portland, Maine WMC Memphis WCAE Pittsburgh KYW Chicago WWJ Detroit KPRC Houston WRVA Richmond WIOD Miami WBT Charlotte WAPI Birmingham WFI Philadelphia KGO San Francisco KHQ Spokane KPO San Francisco KOMO Seattle KGW Portland, Oregon KOA Denver RADIO RECEPTION Reports from Clarksdale, Miss., said that due to static a part of the program could not be heard. Several Illinois Leagues reported very poor radio reception, traceable undoubtedly to the severe snowstorm on that date. Scattering spots in -2- New Jersey, particularly in small towns, reported poor reception. Static prevented clear reception in Wichita, Kansas, but most of the three talks were heard. La Crosse, Wisconsin, could not get program at all, because of Mid-West storms. Baltimore reported inability to get program. On the other hand, listening-in luncheon celebrations all along the Pacific Coast reported excellent reception, and for the most part, the hundreds of luncheon celebrations tuned in successfully to the New York keynote speeches. PUBLICITY RESULTS The publicity resulting from the hundreds of local celebrations and the National radio hook-up was particularly gratifying. The press department received more than 1200 newspaper clippings. The department issued two advance stories to the entire country, supplied advance copies of the three radio talks, and gave special material to news associations on the day of the broadcast. The Associated Press coverage was particularly good, carrying several stories, including a "day before" story, an "overnight," and a day and night report on the day of the broadcast. In New York City, the anniversary celebration resulted in half-column to full column stories with cuts, and in a large number of the cities and towns the Associated Press Story from Washington and the account of the local celebrations were recorded front-page space. A photograph taken in Washington, D. C. by the Associated Press, showing the cutting of the cake, ws carried all over the country. STATE BY STATE REPORT (All celebrations in local Leagues, regardless of geographical location, were timed to include the national radio program. In localities, where no formal celebration was held, members of the League listened-in either from their own homes, or a neighbor's where groups gathered just for the broadcast) ALABAMA Special listening-in parties all over the state, the largest group gathering in Birmingham. ARIZONA Douglas had a luncheon celebration and was one of the first Leagues to wire National League headquarters in Washington about the program and good reception. CALIFORNIA Special luncheon observances in San Francisco, Oakland, San Mateo, San Lorenzo, and San Jose, tuned in to national hookup. Mrs. Frank P. Nixon, National League Treasurer, guest at San Francisco luncheon. Excellent radio reception reported. COLORADO Special celebration in Denver under direction of state League president. CONNECTICUT Birthday cakes with ten lighted candles and the presence of suffrage pioneers featured celebrations arranged by the following Leagues: Stamford, Darien, Greenwich, Middletown, Danbury, Farmington, Hartford, Lebanon, New Haven, Norwalk, Short Beach, West Hartford, West Haven, Windsor and Woodstock. Several celebrations included review of "first ten years" of the League. -3- DISTRICT OF Luncheon celebration under direction of District of Columbia Voteless League of Women Voters. Miss Sherwin cut the birthday cake with ten candles before going to station WBC to speak over national radio hook-up. Suffrage pioneers, Congresswomen, and representatives of Republican and Democratic parties among special honor guests invited. FLORIDA Several local Leagues had luncheon parties, Miami conducting the largest. GEORGIA Principal luncheon observance in Atlanta, the University of Georgia giving up its time on station WSB so national radio program could be carried. Early suffrage workers honored. Reminiscences given of Atlanta suffrage parade in 1915, when Dr. Anna Howard Shaw rode in her historic little automobile entitled, "The Eastern Victory." Other luncheons in Athens, Augusta, DeKalb, Columbus, Rome and Decatur. ILLINOIS Several luncheons held by local Leagues, the principal one being in Chicago, with Miss Julia Lathrop and Mrs. Catherine Waugh McCulloch, active in suffrage work, as speakers. The roll of patron saints of woman suffrage, from Susan B. Anthony down to those of ten years ago, was called. Several members at Rock Island League observance were dressed as noted Suffrage leaders and reviewed their part in suffrage campaigns. A candidates' meeting followed the Rock Island listening-in party. Waukegan observance featured by reading poems, the theme of each being important things accomplished by the League. Decatur League had a luncheon, too. INDIANA Parties all over the state. A play depicting the work of the Indiana League for ten years was one of features at Indianapolis luncheon. In Evansville and in most of the other smaller cities, large groups of celebrations in homes of League officers. IOWA Luncheon observance in Cedar Rapids, was one of the principle events of the convention of the Iowa League of Women Voters. Sioux City League celebrated, and Mrs. McGavern, a classmate of Mrs. Catt at the Iowa State College, spoke of the early' interest of the suffrage pioneer. KANSAS Luncheon in Wichita, with Wichita University League of Women Voters as special guests, and Mrs. Charles E. Brooks, first chairman of the National League of Women Voters, as one of the speakers. KENTUCKY Louisville League had a luncheon party, with a birthday cake and reminiscences. MAINE Listening-in parties in homes of League offices in Portland and Augusta. MARYLAND State League board members at celebration luncheon in Baltimore prevented from hearing broadcast because of "static." Several members substituted for radio program by giving own personal experiences in suffrage campaigns. -4- MASSACHUSETTS Chief luncheon celebration held in Boston, March 26th being the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Massachusetts Suffrage Association. Alice Stone Blackwell, the pioneer, principal speaker. Brockton League and several other Leagues reported listening-in parties in private homes. Northampton League had luncheon as part of a one-day citizenship school. MICHIGAN Six county Leagues had luncheons with additional speakers following national hook-up. Detroit had a candle-lighting ceremony. Battle Creek's luncheon was at home of League president. Bay City and Lansing celebrations had birthday cake with ten candles. MINNESOTA Minneapolis League luncheon in private home. New League members were special guests. Special luncheon celebrations also held in St. Paul, Brainerd, Fairbault, Duluth and Olivia. MISSISSIPPI Luncheon celebration in Clarksdale as part of the convention of the Mississippi League of Women Voters. Static interfered with reception. MISSOURI Luncheon parties in seventeen local Leagues. In St. Louis, picture slides of old suffrage days were interpreted and the famous yellow parasols of suffrage parades carried around the tables at the luncheon. Suffrage anniversary birthday cakes sent to city editors of all St. Louis newspapers. Guests included former Governor Gardener, who signed the presidential suffrage bill for Missouri. Kansas City issued R.S.V.P. invitations for a breakfast to "The Birthday" of the Ballot, 1920-1930." In Kirkwood, the League had the Fire Department below the siren for ten seconds and all the churches range the bells for ten seconds each as the national broadcast went on the air. Kirkwood also had a luncheon honoring Mrs. Emily Newell Blair. St. Joseph, had special suffrage hostess for each table, a birthday cake and a skit, "Before and After." Newspaper reporters were invited to be special guests at Springfield luncheon MONTANA Luncheons with birthday cakes, in Helena, Great Falls and Billings. NEBRASKA Several leagues had luncheon parties. Lincoln's celebration included reviews of the first ten years of the League. NEW HAMPSHIRE Luncheon observances in Concord and Portsmouth. Reported especially clear reception of radio program. NEW JERSEY Practically every League participated. Westfield, Plainfield and Elizabeth had a joint party. Montclair had fifteen parties in as many homes. Newark had a luncheon at home of League President. The Orange League had a large gathering. Monmouth County League members had a box luncheon in the Municipal building before listening-in. Other celebrations arranged by Moorestown, Burlington, Towaco, and Nutley. -5- NEW YORK Principal New York event was the luncheon at the St. Regis Hotel from which the national radio program was broadcast. The national hook-up was followed by another half-hour program over station WEAF only in which New York state League leaders gave reminiscences of their suffrage career. Buffalo's luncheon celebration gave particular attention to newspaper clippings, photographs, and souvenirs of suffrage days. Women who marked in suffrage parades were given special recognition. Other luncheon observations in the state were held at Jonestown, Syracuse (where lantern slides were used to present account of early suffrage campaigns); Auburn, Lockport, Geneva, Middleport, Utica, Port Washington, Garden City. At Seneca Falls, where the woman suffrage movement was launched in the woman's rights convention held 82 years ago, a special local program, following the radio broadcast, paid tribute to the work of pioneers. NORTH CAROLINA Raleigh's celebration had Mrs. Kate Burr Johnson, retiring state commissioner of public welfare as honor guest. Mecklenburg County's party had past presidents as honor guests. Goldsboro's celebration took place at home of former state League president. OHIO Skits on suffrage days, birthday cakes, display of suffrage photographs, featured celebrations held in most of Ohio local Leagues. Many of the guests at the Cleveland luncheon appeared in costumes of suffrage campaign days and formed a parade in the hotel ballroom before the luncheon. There also was ' a burlesque of suffrage meetings. Five speeches reviewing suffrage activities and early League work were given at Toledo, as a prelude to the national broadcast. Dayton's observance had suffrage workers as honor guests, the meeting concluding with a pageant depicting the progress made by women in public affairs since 1860. The Cincinnati League presented a sketch depicting in a humorous vein the struggle for enfranchisement. Luncheons also held in Lakewood, Akron, Columbus, Athens, Girard, Ashtabula, Sandusky and Chillicothe. OKLAHOMA Luncheon in Tulsa and Norman, with reminiscences after the broadcast. OREGON State League observance in Portland, featured by a birthday cake, and a historical fashion review depicting the fashions of the different periods of development in the woman suffrage campaign, from 1829 to 1920. PENNSYLVANIA Five counties joined in celebrating at a large luncheon in Philadelphia. Luncheons also held in Altoona, Williamsport and Beaver. -6- RHODE ISLAND Luncheon in Providence with Dr. Anna Garlin Spencer, teacher, writer, and preacher since 1871, as principal speaker. SOUTH CAROLINA Celebration at home of state president in Columbia. A lighted birthday cake and reminiscences by charter members contributed to colorful program. SOUTH DAKOTA Luncheon in Huron. TENNESSEE Luncheon in Nashville, with local suffrage pioneers and former Governor Roberts as honor guests. The Former Governor served in 1920 when Tennessee, the 36th state, ratified the federal suffrage amendment. Luncheon in Memphis, with Miss Ruth Morgan of New York, third vice-president of the National League of Women Voters, as honor guest. TEXAS Celebrations held in many sections of the state. Austin's celebration included a program devoted to reminiscences and "goals for the future" in the world of education, business, social justice and politics. March 26th had double significance in Texas, because it was the 12th anniversary of the date on which the Texas primary suffrage bill was signed. Houston luncheon included short talks on suffrage campaigns and there was a lighted birthday cake. Galveston luncheon followed by annual citizenship school. The candles on its birthday cake were dedicated to national and local League presidents. Charter members were honor guests at Fort Worth party. UTAH Salt Lake City had a luncheon celebration. VERMONT Series of celebrations in private homes of League officers. VIRGINIA Celebration in Richmond included a suffrage pageant. Lynchburg's observance party was addressed by Mrs. John H. Lewis, an aunt of Lady Astor. WASHINGTON Seattle League members listened at 11 o'clock, then had celebration luncheon with Mrs. Bertha E. Landes, state League president, and former mayor of Seattle, as chief speaker. WEST VIRGINIA Special celebrations in Wheeling, Glendale, Morgantown and Fairmont. WISCONSIN Luncheons in most local Leagues. Several features, including the wearing of suffrage coats worn in the 1913 parade, added color to Milwaukee celebration. La Crosse League luncheon had suffrage pioneer as chief speaker. Ten Years of Woman Suffrage Ten years ago today in this state it was not only Election Day, but woman suffrage day, when the male electorate brought to a magnificent end the sixty-nine-year campaign for equal suffrage, land by a majority of approximately 100,000 returned an affirmative answer to the question "Are women people?" In the hours of rejoicing which followed, strange women smiled at one another in the subway, akin for the moment. There were speechmakings and prophecies, while the entire feminine population surveyed future history with a warm possessive feeling never experienced before. Few there were, men or women, who failed to anticipate in those first dramatic hours some subtle but definitely recognizable gain to the state from the extension of the suffrage to women. Even those who had opposed the movement awaited the outcome with a slight tingling of emotion, as spectators watch the curtain rise on an unknown play. To-day, it will be agreed, that emotion seems a bit sophomoric. Woman suffrage has proved anything but dramatic; it stands an accepted fact of the body politic, taken for better, for worse, as far removed as possible from the shining substance of which crusaders dream. It is easier to recall the things which, [???] happened since women voted. The first is that women have not made their power felt as a bloc, the failure of the effort to defeat Senator Wadsworth in 1920 having killed the theory that women would act as a unit outside the political parties. The second, equally conspicuous, is that women have failed to take hold of public office to the degree the optimists and the unthinking expected. On the day following the suffrage victory most of the women leaders in this state made public disavowal of their intention or desire to hold elective office, and to this they have been constant. The women who have been candidates for office, more noticeably those who have succeeded, have been women whose names were unknown during the suffrage campaigns. The record in this state is typical. In all only five women have been elected to the State Legislature, and one to the New York City Board of Aldermen. One has been Secretary of State and one Register of New York County. The only offices which have been held in any number are the small county and township positions to which the least glory is attached and where competition burns with least fury. Even if one of these must be set down as a tragic failure, the average of work done by women in politics, in and out of office, has been solid and effective, if limited in quantity. The notable victory of Mrs. Ruth Pratt at the polls yesterday, based on solid political training and a record of conspicuous courage and ability in office, is a shining example of this sort of service. It is a promise for the future that no doubting Thomas can ignore. Here is a leaven of character and clear-headedness that our politics urgently needs. Is it not enough that to-day the problems of the times command the attention of twice as many voters as they would if the women had not been enfranchised? Granted that not enough women WOMEN VOTERS NAME NATIONAL HONOR ROLL Tribute Paid 69 Suffrage Leaders at Anniversary Celebration in Louisville Louisville, Ky, May 1, 1930 (A. P.)-- The woman labor leader and the millionaire's wife were sisters sharing homage today when the National League of Women Voter announced the 69 illustrious names of its natinal roll of honor. A woman's hall of fame for the full sweep of the suffrage movement, it honored almost equally the living and the dead, in the 10th anniversary celebration of the victory of "the cause." They called it "a memorial hour," but 20 of those honored were present to hear the handclapping when their names were read in "the rollcall of the States." They were present to applaud from personal knowledge, the names of those who once marched shoulder to shoulder with them in suffrage parades. To every one of them the honor meant, not "singling out" by some faroff national jury, but a spontaneous expression of the appreciation of the community in which she served. With each "nomination" to the honor roll went at least $1000 for the foundation fund, which is being established to carry along the work they pioneered. That fund now totals about $75,000. Mrs. Upton Absent One notable absence was that of Mrs Harriet Taylor Upton. Member of the Ohio Public Welfare Board, she was too busily concerned with the recent Columbus Prison fire to keep her Louisville "date" to be lauded. Just in time for the celebration came Dr Harriet B. Jones, 74, of Glendale, W Va, radiant because the honor roll included her career--a lifetime spent as a pioneer physician in a small town. She lobbied for 20 years to get State institutions built, and finally was elected to the State Legislature. Mrs. Robert M. LaFollette, long a sharer of the glory of a husband and a son, was honored in her own right for the women of Wisconsin. The league officer's granddaughters, Gladys and Florence Harrison, and a speaker-stepson, Dr. Richard Olding Beard, shared the triumph of Mrs. H. G. Harrison, 82, of Minneapolis, a wee white-haired woman, who has taught the same Bible class 52 years, in addition to campaigning. Still a Leader at 91 But her record of activity was surpassed by an absentee protege of the California delegation, Mrs. Elmira T. Stephens, of whom it was said: 'At 91, she is still an outstanding leader in Santa Monica." An honor roll poster displaying photos of the 69 was brought from Washington headquarters to the convention Hall. The strong face of Mrs. Florence Kelley of New York, labor leader, once chief State Factory inspector of Illinois, and now general secretary of the National Consumers' League was right beside the very fluffy and feminine photo of Mrs. Guilford Dudley, who directed the ratification campaign of Tennessee, the 36th State that made effective the 19th amendment in 1920. Credit for that victory also went to the late Mrs. Frank Leslie, who left her entire estate of about $2,000,000 to the suffrage cause "at the critical hour." Thus was the suffrage story told--in 69 personality chapters--women educators, preachers, journalists. Echoes of a tempestuous past sounded again through the convention hall. There were tributes to Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, and the rest of the sturdy spirits who started the women's ballot snowball rolling in the Seneca Falls meeting of 1848--it has been piling up snow-drifts in Illinois lately, giving 1930 the first women candidte for Senator. Notable on the living list was Alice Stone Blackwell, 73, of Boston, "daughter of Lucy Stone and Henry Blackwell"--yes, the "Lucy Stoners" who prefer to keep their maiden names date back that far. The Honor Roll The honor roll follows: Susan B. Anthony (deceased), nominated by New York; Dr. Anna Howard Shaw (deceased), nominated by Michigan and Pennsylvania; Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, nominated by Iowa and New York. California--Mrs. Frank A Gibson, Los Angeles; Mrs. Caroline M. Severance (deceased); Mrs. Clara Shortridge Foltz, Los Angeles; Mrs. Elmira T Stevens (deceased); Mrs. Charlotte Lemoyne Wills (deceased). Colorado--Mrs. Sarah Platt Decker (deceased). Connecticut--Mrs. Isabella Beecher Decker (deceased). Connecticut--Mrs. Isabella Beecher Hooker (deceased); Miss Katherine Ludington of Lyme, Miss Caroline Routz-Reese of Greenwich, Mrs. Charlotte Perkins Gilman of Norwich. District of Columbia--Mrs. Helen Hamilton Gardner (deceased), Mrs. Ellen Spence Mussey, Washington, D.C. Illinois--Miss Jane Addams of Chicago, Mrs. Henry W. Cheney (deceased), Mrs. J. Paul Goode (deceased), Miss Julia Clifford Lathrop of Rockford. Indiana--Mrs. Zerelda Wallace (deceased). Iowa--Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt. Kansas--Mrs. Charles H. Brooks of Wichita. Massachusetts--Miss Alice Stone Blackwell of Boston; Mrs. Mary A. Livermore (deceased), Miss Fanny Osgood (deceased), Mrs. Maud Wood Park, formerly of Boston; Mrs. Lucy Stone (deceased). Michigan--Mrs Belle Brotherton of Detroit, Mrs. James G. MacPherson of Saginaw (now resident of Pasadena, Calif.), Dr. Anna Howard Shaw (deceased). Minnesota--Mrs. H. G. Harrison of Minneapolis, Dr Ethel Edgerton Hurd (deceased), Miss Isabel Lawrence of St Cloud, Mrs. Camp Noyes of St Paul, Miss Maria Sanford (deceased), Mrs Andras Ueland (deceased). Missouri--Mrs. Emily Newell Blair of Joplin. Mrs. George Gellhorn of St Louis, Mrs. Luella St Clair Moss of Columbia. Nebraska--Miss Grace Abbott of Grand Island. New Hampshire--Mrs. Armenia Smith White (deceased). New Jersey--Mrs. Mina C. van Winkle, formerly of Newark, now of Washington, D.C. New Mexico--Mrs. K. Webster of Santa Fe, formerly of Washington, D.C. New York--Miss Susan B. Anthony (deceased), Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt of New York city, Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell (deceased), Mrs. Florence Kelly of New York city, Mrs. Frank Leslie (deceased), Miss Harriet May Mills of Syracuse, Dr Anna Garlin Spencer of New York City, Mrs Elizabeth Cady Stanton (deceased), Mrs Charles L Tiffany (deceased), Mrs. Norman D Whitehouse of New York city, James Lees Laidlaw. Ohio--Judge E. Allen of Columbus, Mrs. Elizabeth J. Hauser of Girard, Miss Belle Sherwin of Cleveland. Mrs Harrier Taylor Upton of Warren. Oregon--Mrs. Abigail Scott Duniway (deceased). Pennsylvania--Mrs. John O. Miller of Pittsburg, Mrs. Lucretia Mott (deceased), Dr Anna Howard Shaw (deceased). Rhode Island--Mrs. Elizabth Buffum Chace (deceased), Mrs. Pauline Wright Davis (deceased). Texas--Miss M. Eleanor Breckenridge (deceased). West Virginia--Dr. Harriet B. Jones of Glendale. Wisconsin--Mathilda Franziska Anneks (deceased), Rev Olympia Brown (deceased), Mrs. Ben V. Hooper of Oshkosh, Mrs. Robert M. La Follette of Madison. Plenty of Equal Rights Details Left for Young Women Voters To Solve, Declares Mrs. Catt 1930 Asso. Press WASHINGTON, March 26 (AP)-- With Carrie Chapman Catt, for 40 years a suffrage campaigner as featured speaker, the National League of Women Voters today celebrated the tenth anniversary of votes for women. Silvery-haired, 70-year-old Mrs. Catt consigned the "innumerable odds and ends of claims to equal rights" to the younger generation of women voters. Speaking from New York, over the National Broadcasting Company chain, she said that "there are social problems enough boiling and seething around every woman of us to keep an army of keen thinkers and doers busy for a generation or so in order to clear them all away." She told of how the pioneer suffragists, "marching upward on the last lap of their century-old compaign, spied old age coming down to meet them." But they did not sorrow, she said, for glancing back they saw a younger army to whom they said "come, take hold, and finish." As unfinished problems she cited the wages, hours, working conditions, and trade union status of the woman in industry. She asked for a continued campaign against the spirit of hatred which, she said, was likely to fly about in state legislatures, and in national and international conferences. Mrs. Catt introduced Miss Belle Sherwin, the president of the league, who, speaking from Washington, mentioned a compulsory jury statute on the West coast and better budget in New York City as illustrations of what women voters are accomplishing today. Admitting that "performance in 10 years has not matched line for line, color for color the expectations for 1920," she nevertheless insisted the wisdom of the suffrage pioneers had been definitely justified. Miss Katherine Ludington, of Lyme, Conn., another speaker, touched most strongly on the "then and now" theme. "We have, rather conspicuously not fulfilled some of the prohesies," she said. "Our votes have not disrupted the home, destroyed the church or undermined the pillars of the state. On the other hand, our votes have not markedly purified politics—yet; nor made human welfare the main concern of the government, nor brought universal peace." She added, however: "If we hold to our self-imposed role of attending to the heretofore neglected aspects of government, if we supply a quiet and continuous infiltration of certain qualities into the electorate, we may rightfully claim to have justified the faith of the founders and to be fitting trustees for the honor roll of their names." The 35 names of the League of Women Voters' tenth anniversary honor roll of suffrage leaders will be announced next Monday, with Susan B. Anthony, Carrie Chapman Catt, Alice Stone Blackwell, Julia Ward Howe, and Dr. Annie Howard Shaw assured of prominent places. The complete list will be announced at a convention in Louisville on May I. A $250,000 foundation fund will memorialize the women named on the honor roll. THE ALICE STONE BLACKWELL FUND COMMITTEE 21 ASHMONT STREET, MELROSE 76, MASSACHUSETTS 15 Trustees MRS. ADA COMSTOCK NOTESTEIN MRS. MAUD WOOD PARK MRS. EDNA LAMPREY STANTIAL Transcribed and reviewed by contributors participating in the By The People project at crowd.loc.gov.