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Show (Mm m0m ' wiv the Ghos t WdKsl ths National Worn an't party Intends to wipe oat by passing the Twentieth amendment to the Constitution. B v t ' In the meantime Ju$t ee what suffering It tnfllcti upon oar American women I "Who's Who" corroborate! cor-roborate! thli sad tale In part Mlaa Doris Stevens Is not ' listed, but Dudley Field Melon Is and It says that he married mar-ried Doris Stevens of Omaha, "writer, economist and member mem-ber of the executive committee ot the N tlonal Woman's party," par-ty," December 11, 1921. Mr. Field. It says, was collector j-" " tale in part Miss D 'S0 ,t "N-, Doris Stevens Is not JAM IM'- ' fWw ' J7S&M -listed, but Dudley SlIlv --.VN. MK?MJ)l mjlSr Field Melons Is and Fst5&'-'jr vV S&k- . I! VF-i I TZi&jMiSr It says that he mar- f 'V""" -v rr ried Doris Stevens I . , . sv , , tf ' of Omaha, "writer, , ." '' v ' economist and mem- . . J i ' , - . A ber of the executive I V , i- - ia committee ot th Ns. I ' I '" ' i ll HH tlonal Woman's par-I par-I I i , ' C, 'tf fH . ty." December 14, I 'tP&j W 1921 ' Mr. Field. It -v 4 t -ajfcPv says, was collector f J2 , vvH W ;. us. -Wn "jJJv!. ; v Comptroller J XWjf-J U General Vi-K Js3&rm' . ! . McCarPs Rutins u V Y" of the 1)011 of New York-191317, 1 1' . II - - "resigned as a public protest agalust , Stirs Up Controversy! J,yJ yLTVC X j K. SV. I tne wo,nan suffrage amendment." t-- y 1 '-tiZZt I y And who are the Lucy Stoncrst ' - wy "le members of the Lucy Stone 1 . C M league, of course. The league Is com- By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN M A. A I posed of married women who refuse T-f S COMPTROLLER GEN- mj)jis7 " Fro?JrM t0 take thelr ,1U8banlJ', met. It ri ERAL JOHN RAYMOND Jjf 5!en VK wan organised In 1921, and has Its III I McCARL a "federal bu- lj gtyrj wcn f J y headquarters In New Tork city. Its 1. 1 I -4tl ..... 1 . 1 la. T)..h lint. Xr T.V of the port of New York, 1913-17, mi "resigned as a public protest agalust the failure of I .esldent Wilson and his administration to urge and pass the woman suffrage amendment." And who are the Lucy Stoncrst Why, the members of the Lucy Stone league, of course. The league Is composed com-posed of married women who refuse to take their husbands' names. It was organized In 1921, and has Its headquarters In New York city. Its president Is Ruth Hale of New York and Ruth Hale has been Mrs. Dey-wood Dey-wood Broun since 1917. Its secretary is Jane Grant It has been printed that she Is the wife of Harold Rosa, editor of Judge. Rut why the "Lucy Stone" league! Probably Lucy was our very first "woman rights' woman. Elisabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Andiony, Julia Ward Howe and the other rsrlv to change her name on the hospital payroll. Presumably the amount Involved In-volved Is not staggering, but Just Imagine Im-agine whet the totals would run to If every Lucy Stoner defies Comptroller Comptrol-ler General McCarll For example, there's Mrs. Helen Hamilton Gardener, who Is, according to the Congressional Directory, one of the three civil service commissioners commission-ers and receives $5,000 a year. But that well-known and Justly famous collection of autobiographies, "Who's Who," says that Helen Hamilton Gardener Gar-dener (no "Mrs.") has been the wife of Col. Selden Alden Day, U. 8. A., since 1901. Nevertheless, Mrs. Gardener or Helen Hamilton Gardener or Mrs. Day should know what she is doing, for she's a graduate (1872) of the Ohio State Normal school. She has spent many years In travel In 20 countries, collecting pictures and data on social and political conditions. She's a member mem-ber of clubs In Washington, New York, London, Paris and Rome. She's the author, since 1890, of six works. She's a member of the executive board, vice president and vice chairman of the congressional committee of the National Nation-al American Womun Suffrage associa tes ders used to say that Lucy "first really stirred the nation's heart on the subject of woman's wrongs." Anyway, Any-way, Lucy was the first American to hang on to her own name after marriage. mar-riage. At thirty-seven years of age she married In 1855 Henry B. Black-well, Black-well, a Cincinnati merchant and Abolitionist Aboli-tionist brother of the famous Dr. Elisabeth Blackwell (1821-1910) who opened the medical profession to women. Lucy Stone (1818-03) early dettr-mlned dettr-mlned to get a real education.' Why! Well, when she talked "equal rights for women" somebody was always quoting texts from the Bible against It Therefore she decided to get s college education so she could read the Bible In the original and see If those texts were correctly translated. Lucy was graduated from Oberlln In 1847. By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN S COMPTROLLER GEN- ERAL JOHN RAYMOND McCARL a "federal bureaucratic bu-reaucratic snooper" or a "brave official?" The newspapers call him both. He may be both. But he certainly Is the latter. For he has bearded the married maidens In their den, the Lucy Stoners In their hall. This sounds a bit mixed, but it's Just exactly what he has done. And, what's more, he has run right smack up against the serried runks of the National Woman's party, led by Alice Paul and Legal Research Secretary Secre-tary Burnlta Shelton Mathers, marching march-ing at the double-quick for the fray. Comptroller General McCarl, In short, has made the ruling that a married mar-ried woman employee of the federal government who wishes to be carried on the government payroll must enroll en-roll under her married name. He quotes various marriage laws and then lays down this ultimatum: The law of thla country that th wife takes the surname ot the husband Is at well settled as that the domicile of the wife merges In the domicile of the husband. hus-band. A wife mlsht reetde apart from her husband, but ae long- as she remains re-mains his lawful wife she has but one legal domicile and that Is the domicile of her husband. So it Is wltli the name. Ehe may have an assumed name, but she has but one legal name. Now, why did McCarl do ltt He's been a married man since 1905 and lias presumably learned not to rush In where angels fear to trend. Probably Prob-ably the poor man Is Just playing safe. For, you see, as comptroller general he's bead of the general accounting office and It's his business to watch all disbursements of the public funds to the lust penny. So, of course, If the Lucy Stoners are being Illegally paid that means trouble for him. For Uncle Bum be It whispered when It conies to the pnylng out of real cash Is Just a bit near, as they say In Cul-vln- Coolldge's neck of woods. Comptroller General McCarl Is s lawyer and he may be right about the law In the case. Nevertheless, here's the other side: The National Woman's party has pointed out In the brief submitted that none of the cases cited by Mr. MoCarl has any bearing on this case; that no statute or court decision exists In any stats supporting the principle that a woman must take her husband's name; that contracts, decrees, deeds, made In the maiden name of a married woman ars everywhere valid at law; that the law allows any one, man or woman, to aeeum any name he or she chooses. The casus belli, so to sieak, Is the case of a nurse In St. Elizabeth's hospital, hos-pital, under the Interior department, who married lust summer and refused Evidently she had found the translations transla-tions of those texts all wrong, for 'that same year she delivered from her brother's pulpit at Gardner, Mass., the very first lecture on woman's rlKhts. The next year she lectured In New England, the "West" and Canada for the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery society soci-ety also on woman's rights. Aftet her marriage she became still more energetic. In 1809 she founded, with Julia Ward Ilowfe, the American Woman Suffrage association which later merged with the National Woman Wom-an Suffrage association. It took these devoted women end their successors 51 years to obtain the suffrage by constitutional amendment. The Lucy Stoners seem to be getting along fulrly well aside from Comptroller Comp-troller General McCarl. They can get life Insurance In some companies. They have little trouble with realtors and with landlords, with butcher and baker and candlestlckmaker. The postmaster general Is Indifferent and the Income tax people don't give a whoop. But hotelkeepers are s bit nervous. The State department soys when It comes to pussports that they can use their husbands' names or stay at home. And of course the mothers Invoriobly say, "my married daughter, daugh-ter, Mrs. So-ond-So. tlon. And, finully, she was appointed to the civil service commission In 1920 the first woman member Is It' likely that a woman of her experience and official position would take $410.60 every month from Uncle Sam contrary con-trary to law! McCarl certainly Is right as to the "domicile" part of the law, as he lays It down. And here's a pathetic case that proves it! Miss Doris Stevens was permanent chairman of the recent election conference con-ference of the National Woman's party, at which the delegate decided to cut loose from the whole tribe of male polltlcans, to elect 100 women to congress this fall and to establish a woman's bloc In the house. The delegates begged and Implored Miss Doris Stevens to be one of those 100 candidates. And that Insistent demand brought out this pitiful story: It appears that Miss Doris Stevens in private life Is Mrs. Dudley Field Mulone; that Mr. Malone had established estab-lished a legal residence In Paris; that Paris was therefore her legal residence; resi-dence; that she and her husband had been restored to American citizenship but hud not resided long enough In their American home to have even a vote. Of course, this sume-domlelle-for-lmsbund-and-wlfe law Is one which A girl mny strike a man as a pretty Miss and hit bun later as an angry I wife, |