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Show THE DESERET NRW& ommt .jTryr d&efrf&sg?. Many Years of HardandUn-ceasin- Work WereNeces-saryToConvin- CZ nr g s ce Man That Woman Meant To Have Political Equality. Copyright, lflCO.Tb International Syndicate. of the suffrage by the Kth etate end of century - long etruggle for Independence. First Ballot 1873 The tactlce of the National Womans Party were employed long ago In 1171 by Ousan B. Anthony, when aha east her ballot at the polls and The Identical amenderas arrested. ment drafted by Susan B. Anthonyvln 1171, Is the one which the National Woman's Party hag fought for during the last seven yeara Previous to tie organization of the National Womans Party, by ' Alice Paul and Lucy Burns, In 1111, the campaign for suffrage had been carried on in the different States by the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Alice Ful ..realized ..that, suffrage should be won for the States as a whole and not as units. When she founded the Congressional Union, predecessor of the National Woman's Party, It was for the purpose of securing a federal amendment to the women. Constitution enfranchising When the Union was organized, no' action or even debate on the Susan B. Anthony amendment. Introduced Into Congreis In 1178. 'had taken place since 1887. Politicians refused to be concerned with suffrage and the President said that It was a matter to 3 Vc'jc. Ratification . - 'n r 4 ' c &r:vnr which he had given no thought. Women then had the right to vote In nine States. National Womans Party Organized With political leaders declaring that suffrage could not be won nationally for fifty years. Alice Paul decided to organise the women who already had voting power and to use their ballota as the weapon with which to fight for a Federal amendment The National Womans Party was organised In 1818 at the Convention of Women Voters In San Francisco. A suffrage special toured the West In the early spring of 1111, and further aroused the Interest of women. In June of .that year, the National .Woman's Party was fcrmed at a convention In Chicago. After the convention, political parties for the first time Ina cluded a suffrage plank In their plat-form- During the seven-yea- r campaign which followed, one principle has been consistently observed. The party has always held the political party tn power responsible for the passage of While the the federal amendment. amendment was still before Congress, the Democratic Party and Its leader. President Wilson, were, held responsi When In lilt the amendment ass sent to the States, the party In power In each State was held responsible for favorable action ' 4k by that State. On Capital Centered tight From 1813 to ltlt. the Woman's Party centered attention upon the Administration's apathy toward suffrage by a country-wid- e organization with branches In every State, by a lobby at the national capital, and by continuous demonstrations at the White House and the Capitol. Most spectacular of the Woman Party demonstrations to force their cause to the attention of thi party In power was the .picketing of .the Whit House, which continued from January, It 17. to November, ltlt. Between 400 and 500 women pickets were arrested for using the President's own words on liberty to remind him that they were still unenfranchised. They were sentenced to prison terms of from three days to seven months, later declared by the District Court of Appeals to be illegal. Two weeks after the last pickets were released from Jail and one year from the day the first picket line went out to the White House January 10. ble for Its fate. State was typical of the obstacle la moet of the difficult State. The opposition was not to suffrage but to a special session. The campaign la California began In Juno and lasted until October when the demand of the people of the State for ratification was e organised that the . governor wea forced to cell n special session. The remaining ratifications bv befn secured since January 1, 112. Washington ratified on March 82. State. the thirty-fift- h In Sight Of Victory With only on more star needed la the suffrage ratification flag the Women's Party Is exerting every effort to State In time for get the thirty-sixt- h women to vote at the naUonal election In the autumn. The influence of political leaders and State powers wee sought to secure ratification la Delaware, but It was defeated. No bot flvpo,bi!itle remained, two In the North and three la the South .Vermont. Connecticut, - Tennessee, North Carolina and Florida. A special session was celled la North Carolina for July 20. Then, after the Ohio referendum decision by the Bupreme Court Indicated tbet ratification by Tennessee or Florida la 1820 would be constitutional. Governor Robert, of Tennessee, called a special session for August I. Thus within eight years after the organisation of the Woman's Party, suffrage he been mad on of the leading Issues of the presidential cam- - ' palgn, every political party ban tn,-eluded a suffrage plank In It platform, end political leaders vied with each other for the credit of giving the State. :( ZZSAC9 K&je ivma&nw. g7 Zttarjpjrtxaer ltlt the federal suffrage amendment passed the lower House of Congress. When - the amendment- - passed the lower House, nine votes were lacking In the Senate, tbs amendment was called up In the Fenate on June 27ih. after nine votes had been gained for the cause. " But a Democratic preentedlhe vote. Ready For The States , On May 21 the House repassed the On June 4 the suffrage amendment. Senate passed it with two votes to , spare. Now came a new phase of the Party's history the campaign for rat ification, necessitating special organization la every State. .Ratification, was. not easy. In the South the race problem and the State rights Issue had to be overoome. Many Northern State held the deblre of political group to avoid certain local Issue of more Importance than womEven In States an's Independence where women already were voter end where politicians jar supposed to have accepted suffrage as a matter of course, special sessions were considered too expeiiaU'e." In some States governors refused to call lpto session legislatures which they knew had a majority for enfranchise . fllll-bust- er anti-suffra- ment. In the first month after the passage of the amendment by Congress, nine States ratified: Wisconsin, Michigan. Ohio, Kansas, New York, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Massarrhuoettaand Texas-- . Kansas, the first full suffrage 8tat to act. called a special session on June 16, the members of the legislature, at their own suggestion, paying their, own expenses and meeting without selary. New York was the second 8tat to meet specially for this purpose, and then Texas, the first Southern 8tat to act. met In special session June 28. Half Way To Goal California's ratification on November 1 established the half-wa- y mark. The situation encountered In that thlr-tv-alx- th PK3M o I th' f Society Girl Makes Good A Follies Star Started , T o Paint Everythin g But Time Comparing Girth. - KENNEDY'S career th pictures during tb three years has earned i the pleasant sobriquet, The First Lady of the Screen. Mias Kennedy was born In California, and developed a taste for art which led, her to' come to New York and study painting. During the summe.-Whlcfollowed she went to a camp of the New York Art Students League, and participated' tn eoarife amateur the-- 1 atrtcals whlchbappened to be witnessed by JRrary Woodruff, with th Interest jr.esult that Miss Kennedy' Vakipermanentty deflected from th brush to th stage. Beginning with Th Genius. In 1812, she rapidly assumed a position of Increasing popuShe began larity on the boards a screen star with her career' - of Baby Ooldwyn tn a film version some three ' years ago. and Mine. ranktoffay among Use great favome of the shadow world. In Clyde Fitrhe'e film, ghe proThe Truth. her vides th most Interesting characterization of her yrreen career. ' FI Ice Haauacrvtelli eplctur e ate lliu gray roadster that will go as fart as you feed It gs Elaine and no ume to ran it Selznirk rta'r. is talking.' Ficturs a Summer home on .the. mi j h 1at Ham-xnerste.- ocean, where there' is always a breeze occupied all dey long by servants. In short picture all th luxuries of summer life and no time to enjoy them. Then visualise a motion picture Stiidio, with a glass top where thousand of electric bulb pour forth their concentrated sunlight; where director go mad vrlth heat and actors end actresses let their temperament run wiid and you know how I feel thee hot daya William R a sedl William Russell, th popular Fox motion picture star, has much to be thankful for. Face to face with th apparent fat of being a cripple for life, due to an Injury received in early boyhood, this sterling star, by sheer' gbit and determination, la today regarded as on of the foremost athletes and exponents, of Western drama on th screen. Mr. Russell was limping badly when he passed hie twenty-secon- d birthday anniversary, but he refused to share th opinion of hi physicians that he would remain thus for th rewt of his life. The fact that he was the premier athlete of his else at high school had to be reckoned Sftth, .By constant and systematic dally exercise he sought to get the crippled leg in shape.. and It wasn't long before he succeeded. Then he went on' th stage, playing small parts la Support jf several prominent stars. Including Blanch Bates end Chauncey Olcott. Russel's Success before th footlights was rapid end after having mode's brilliant reputation In strongmen part, he went Into motion pictures A year ago he was signed as a etar by William Fox. His most recent production Is "Tains of Suffering Creek. with "The Man Who Dared. Joetlnc JobeMone Justine Johnstone, who 'has been acknowledged th most beautiful gjrl la rt star. in - Amerh-.t- e Mis Johnston ha had but very little screen experience, as she has only appeared In on picture. Nothing But Lie." a leading lady to' Taylor Holmes But th new beautiful blonde etar has ha rajher a varied stage career. She wea a member of th It II Folllee." and a 'principal In 'The Follies of III. During Intervals Follea" engagement, she with her supported th Ctles in Wuh Your Later she appeared in prinStep. cipal role with QaByTkeslys in Stop! Look! listen! Raymond Hitchcock Ih In the Betty aftrUBrE0F: season of 1118 came her first starring engagement with Ed. Wynn in "Over th Top; later cam The Victory Girt. The - new star ha "already started work pn her first picture for Real art. 'BJickbirds.' t Grace Davison Mos. motion picture actreeees elher have risen from ranks or hive d AT cnee.. Da risen- - who will soon appear In .a photoplay in which she will be tfi sole star, is perhaps th only leading woman tn. the. films I s wb mad herself. Long Island society girt Two year ago she determined t feet her sbllfty a an actress against stars a bo had or In the lived their lives on fb tudio: - She ployed a email rote In been hi photoplay in which Florence Reed was starred. So convincing was her work that she decided to form a company of her etrm. She ha met with aaeceas. r a year and afer a period of little In which she was with sevn arbor i successful ers! Is new .entering fifil- h film well-know- fledged stardom. The Two Arbockk-Maclyn Arbuckl. who created ihert1 of Slim -- Hoover, th Sheriff, In tb nd stage vers'on of Tke Round-D- p Rosro f Fatty) ArburVle. who ptsvd e role to Paramount scree vtrswe of play. Sam |