SUBJECT FILE Anthony, Susan B., Ceremonies in honor of, 1940-41 [*Page 3 1*] PROGRAM Ceremonies in honor of SUSAN B. ANTHONY oni the 121st Anniversary of her Birth Saturday, February 15, 1941, 8 P.M. Crypt of the Capitol Washington, D.C. "I do pray, and that most earnestly and constantly, for some terrific shock to startle the women of the nation into a self-respect which will compel them to break their yoke of bondage and give them faith in themselves; which would make them proclaim their allegiance to women first. . . . .The fact is, women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize it. O to compel them to see and feel and to give them the courage and the conscience to speak and act for their own freedom, though they face the scorn and contempt of all the world for doing it!" Susan B. Anthony, 1872. Presiding: Pinckney Estes Glantzberg Legislative Chairman New York Federation of Business and Professional Woman's Clubs. LARGO HANDEL United State Marine Band Orchestra William F. Santelmann, Leader Musician William F. Pfeiffer, Conducting HOW THE REPUBLICAN PARTY FURTHERED THE WORK OF SUSAN B. ANTHONY Hon. C. Wayland Brooks Junior Senator from Illinois MELODY OF PEACE MARTIN United State Marine Band Orchestra SUSAN B. ANTHONY, THE VOTER, ADDRESSES THE COURT. Maud Howell Smith HOW THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT FAILED. Helen Elizabeth Brown [*2*] -2- EXTASE GANNE United States Marine Band Orchestra. A CONGRESSMAN'S IMPRESSIONS OF SUSAN B. ANTHONY. Hon. John W. Flannagan, Jr. of Virginia GREETINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WOMAN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION Ida B. Wise Smith, President. HOW TO MAKE THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT A SUCCESS. Hon. Joseph E. Guffey Junior Senator from Pennsylvania TRIBUTE TO SUSAN B. ANTHONY. Mrs. George Mesta Congressional Chairman of the National Women's Party. The following organizations will participate:- Altrusa American Federation of Soroptimists Clubs. Lorraine Good, President. American Medical Women's Association. Dr. Malone, President. American Woman's Society of Certified Public Accountants and American Society of Women's Accountants. Julia Hopkins. Association of American Women Dentists. Dr. Rosalind M. Bain. Bryn Mawr Alumnae Association. Emma Guffey Miller. Daughters of the American Revolution. Eugenia Washington Chapter. Mrs. Charles Hoffman, Registrar. District of Columbia Federation of Women's Clubs. Mrs. Ernest Daniel, President. -3- Elmira College Club. Mrs. Frank E. Finch, President. Government Workers Council. Dr. Margaret H. Sebree, Chairman. Hollins Alumnae, Harriet Ann Jackson. Inter-American Commission of Women. Minerva Bernardino, Delegate of the Dominican Republic. International Reform Federation. Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic. Bessie Pierce, President. League of Republican Women of the District of Columbia. Mrs. E. E. Gann, President. Lewis Hotel Training School. Catherine Lewis, President. Michigan Alumnae Association, Washington Branch. Mt. Holyoke Alumnae Association. National Association of Women Lawyers. Laura Berrien, Chairman Equal Rights Committee. National Council of Jewish Women, Washington, D. C. Section. Mrs. Edward Sonneborn, President. National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs. Judge Lucy Somerville Howarth, Chairman, Public Affairs. [*Mary Church Terrell Program*] National Federation of Colored Women. Mary Church Terrell, Honorary President. National League of American Pen Women. Mrs. H. Lyle Campbell, President. National Legion of Men and Women of America, Inc. Lady Louise Montague. National Poetry Centre of New York City. Ada Van Loon Brandow McGee. National Woman's Party. Mrs. George Mesta, Congressional Chairman. District of Columbia Branch. Lucy Cooper Shaw, Chairman. -4- Illinois Branch. Junior Council. Katherine Garrett. New Mexico Branch. Mrs. Karl Greene, Acting Chairman. Pennsylvania Federation of Democratic Women's Clubs. Emma Guffey Miller. Rhode Island Branch. Mary Doyle Heffernan, Chairman. Texas Branch Mrs. Clyde L. Garrett, Chairman. Virginia Branch. Elsie M. Graff, Chairman. Osteopathic Woman's National Association. Mrs. Thomas J. Howerton, President. Pilot International. Roseileen Smith. Quota. Susan B. Anthony League Foundation. Anna E. Hendley. Teachers' Alliance of the District of Columbia. Woman's National Democratic Club. Mrs. Claude Pepper. Woman's Single Tax Club. Mrs. H. H. McEvoy, President. Women of Alabama. Esther Frederick. Women of California. Caroline Stephen. Affiliated Teachers' Association of Los Angeles. Altrusa Club of Los Angeles. Business Women's Legislative Council of California. California Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs. [ ? ] -5- California Federation of Legal Secretaries. Motion Picture Progressive League of Hollywood. California Branch National Women's Party. Native Daughters of the Golden West. Santa Paula Business and Professional Women's Clubs. School Women's Council of Los Angeles. Women's Overseas League (San Francisco Unit). Wise Men's Civic League and Women's Division of Los Angeles. Women of Maryland. Mrs. Horace Pote. Women of New York. Evelyn Powley. Women of Ohio. Ethel Morand Weber. Women of Oregon. Marjorie Moon. Women of Pennsylvania. Margaret Dock. Women of Puerto Rico. Alice Esteva Williams. Women's Bar Association. Elizabeth V. Franzoni, Treasurer. Woman's Christian Temperance Union. Mrs. Earle Wilfley, President. Women's City Club. Gladys B. Middlemiss, President. Women's International League of Peace and Freedom. Mrs. Horace Eaton, President New York Branch. Women's Overseas Service League (Washington Unit). Mrs. W. Wallace Chiswell, Past President. Women's Relief Corps. Delia L. O'Brien. -6- World Woman's Party. Marie Moore Forrest. Young Women's Christian Association. Zonta. Winifred S. Burwell, President. THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER United States Marine Band THE MARCH OF THE WOMEN Orchestra "WOMEN HAVE WORKED TO PRESERVE DEMOCRACY EVER SINCE THE UNITED STATES WAS FOUNDED. EVERY TIME THEY HAVE DEMANDED EQUAL RIGHTS WITH MEN BEFORE THE LAW, THEY HAVE STRENGTHENED DEMOCRACY. TODAY IN EXERCISING THE RIGHTS THEY HAVE WON TO A FULL SHARE IN DEMOCRACY, THEY ARE HELPING TO DEFEND FREE GOVERNMENT. WOMEN OF TODAY FACE A GREAT OPPORTUNITY, FOR THE NATION AND THE WORLD NEED THE VISION AND THE COURAGE OF SUCH AS SUSAN B. ANTHONY." Christian Science Monitor February 11, 1941. "Failure is Impossible." Susan B. Anthony, 1906. Address delivered by Hon. Joseph F. Guffey on the occassion of the Birthday Anniversary of Susan B. Anthony, Saturday evening, February 15, 1941, in the Crypt of the United States Capitol, under the auspices of the National Woman's Party. It has always been a mystery to me that for ages men have set themselves up as the makers and arbiters of all law. To deny a woman the right to earn a living because she is married is as logical as it would be to force me, a bachelor, to get married before I could vote on laws affecting married women. To make laws that deny women the right to bargain for their own wages and hours of labor is not only primitive reasoning but the acme of selfishness and indifference. It remained however for the fourteenth amendment to define more clearly the rights and liberties of individuals. It reads, "All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the United States and of the state in which they reside. No state shall make or enforce any laws which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the law." What an explicit definition of equality before the law and yet in the light of court decisions what an empty hope it has been for American women. Men and groups of men operating as corporations have received every right guaranteed under this amendment but the highest courts do not look upon women as coming under the protection of the 14th amendment. Since the passage of this amendment a number of tests of the status of women have been made but all decisions have left women exactly where they were before the Constitution was written. Despite rights and privileges which have been granted by some federal and state statutes, the only guaranteed constitutional right which women possess is the right to vote. Other rights and privileges granted by the states and the Congress to women may be repealed at will, hence the need for a constitutional amendment which will guarantee them "Equal Justice Under the Law." These words are carved over the portals of the marble palace where the Supreme Court resides but what a travesty that sentiment becomes when we examine the many laws regarding women which are entirely contrary to the spirit of the 14th amendment. Chief Justice Hughes wrote a number of years ago, "The Constitution is what the Courts make it." Even though the membership of the Supreme Court may at times render decisions under the 14th amendment favorable to women, another membership may annul them; Therefore, the only secure method to establish equal justice for wo men is by writing into the Constitution an amendment which will state; "Men and women shall have equal rights throughout the United States and every place subject to its jurisdiction." HELEN ELIZABETH BROWN, SPEAKING AT THE CRYPT OF THE CAPITOL UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE NATIONAL WOMAN'S PARTY, AT THE CELEBRATION HONORING THE MEMORY OF SUSAN B. ANTHONY. HOW THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT FAILED After the courts have mauled it around for years, it is doubtful whether anyone knows what the Fourteenth Amendment now means. The one certainty about it is that the courts have rendered it useless to women. In defiance of the plain language of the Constitution, American women in many states are denied a trial by a jury of their peers. In spite of the Fourteenth Amendment, nearly every state in this Union makes and enforces laws that abridge the privileges and immunities of women citizens. Practically every state in this Union denied to women the equal protection of the laws--and the Supreme Court upholds them. About a quarter of a century ago, American women under the necessity of pointing out that half the citizens of this country had no voice in a government that was dedicated to the proposition that "governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed" and that democracy should begin at home. Hardly a state legislatures meets which, regardless of the Constitution, does not threaten the inherent rights of women by proposing fool restrictions of one kind or another. Women who have committed matrimony are usually the first selected for this particular form of persecution. Married women shall not have jobs, they shall not do this, the shall not do that. When this favorite indoor sport starts in 48 or more legislatures, women are under compulsion to spend vast amounts of time, effort and money needed for other pursuits in fighting for rights that should have been, once and for all time secured to them by the Fourteenth Amendment bu which must now be obtained by the Equal Rights Amendment because of warped and distorted judicial interpretations of the Fourteenth Amendment. This question reaches down to the very foundation of human liberty -- the right of all human beings as free men and women to be the arbiters of their own destinies. This attempt to dictate by law what a woman shall or shall not do, or what her work shall be is one of the worst symptoms of totalitarianism. It is definitely a domestic danger that must be remedied if democracy means anything at all. ORGANIZATIONS PARTICIPATING IN SUSAN B. ANTHONY MEMORIAL SERVICE Crypt of United States Capitol 120th Anniversary of Susan B. Anthony's Birth Thursday, February 15th, 1940 8:00 o'clock P. M. American Federation of Soroptimists Mrs. Caroline B. Stephen American Medical Women's Association Dr. Cecile Fusfeld Daughters of the American Revolution (Eugenia Washington Chapter) Mrs. Franklin A. Refert, Regent District of Columbia Federation of Women's Clubs Mrs. Lloyd A. Morrison, Chairman of American Citizenship Florida State College For Women Alumnae Club Mrs. Helen Hunt West Government Workers' Council Mrs. Emily Newman, Treasurer Inter-American Commission of Women of the Pan American Union Miss Minerva Bernardino International Reform Federation Dr. Clinton N. Howard, Editor of Progress League of Pen Women Mrs. Inez S. Tyler, Chairman of Committees of Committees League of Republican Women Mrs. Mary Logan Tucker Mt. Holyoke College Club National Association of Colored Women Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, Honorary President National Association of Women Lawyers Miss Helen McGorr, Chairman Equal Rights Committee National Federation of Business & Professional Women's Clubs Judge Lucy Howorth, President of District of Columbia Branch National Woman's Party (National Council) Miss Gertrude Crocker District of Columbia Branch of National Woman's Party Mrs. Horace W. Pote, Vice Chairman -2- Illinois Branch, National Woman's Party Miss Rosalie E. Levin New Mexico Branch, National Woman's Party Mrs. Karl Greene, Acting Chairman New York Branch, National Woman's Party Mrs. Howard Nyman Ohio Branch, National Woman's Party Miss Mary Downey Pennsylvania Branch, National Woman's Party Miss Betty Mayer Rhode Island Branch, National Woman's Party Mrs. Mary Doyle Heffernan, Chairman Virginia Branch, National Woman's Party Miss Dorothy Ashby Moncure New Jersey Dr. Cornelia J. Brown, Chairman of Committee to Eliminate Disctiminations Against Women Osteopathic Women's National Association Dr. Lulu I. Waters Mrs. Thomas J. Howerton Pilot International Miss Louise Boynton Quota Mrs. Marie Moore Forrest, Past President Susan B. Anthony League Foundation Mrs. Ada Van Loon B. McGee, President University of Michigan Club Mrs. Martin T. Fisher Women's Christian Temperance Union Mrs. William H. Ramsey, President Women's City Club Mrs. Nadine Lane Gallagher Women's International League for Peace & Freedom Mrs. E. K. Burlew Women's National Democratic Club Mrs. John W. Barriger Women's Overseas Service League Mrs. Dele Hurst World Woman's Party Mrs. Alfred Strong Thomson, Membership Chairman Young Women's Christian Association Mrs. Harold E. Doyle Transcribed and reviewed by contributors participating in the By The People project at crowd.loc.gov.