OCR Text |
Show I Advertisement I SPEAKING OF MONEY THE LA0V ON THE HEW $1 COIN By EZTRA T. CLARK , President Davis County Bank J. Sometime next year, in late spring ., "orly summer, you'll be seeing the : S1 U.S. coin. 1 The face on the f ' C is not that of r . I1 symbolic Miss Vl "H, whom - 've seen before , - 'he past. And i 's J !" il will be the ' ness of "Miss k J'wy" - Susan X ' rthony, the , J :-a(fette. She ' ."omar, 'U,te 8 f I ' y was the I : r f . .vonthe new $1 EZRA T.CLARK . " you have some vague idea that VI -jthony lived in the 1920's' L , better adJust your thinking by a j , nlUfy-Susan Brownell Anthony was ,,m in 1820 at Adams, jjsachusetts. Jnat was 100 years before American I j tne" would get the right to vote. y titafl y' Women's "ghts were Prac" S m "y nil a' the time. A woman lack-, lack-, aatus under the law. She had few "ghts in controlling money or Vftrti'guardianshiP. or divorce. C,, , Aphony was not the iw ot women's suffrage and Cu nghts- she was a 28-year-old I ."cher who expressed no m-lf m-lf m, m these subjects before her V ien,aan Lsister attended the first Fills lu "I"18 convention in Seneca ft York. I W after that convention in V Cady r Anthony met Elizabeth fclo8onhnton' the most articulate "Ihet- orator for women's rights ""nivC8- Mrs- Cady and Susan An" ,Darne a team. It was the younger woman's genius for organization and action in behalf of women's rights that led her to enduring en-during fame. Of course, Miss Anthony was not exactly unskilled as an orator, either. Witness this bolt of ironic and biting logic that she hurled at a convention in Rochester, New York, attended by male teachers: "So long as society says a woman has not brains enough to be a doctor, lawyer, or minister - but has plenty for a teacher - every man of you who condescends to teach admits that he has no more brains than a woman." Susan Anthony campaigned in New York State for three principal women's rights: 1) control by women of their own earnings, 2) guardianship in divorce, 3) the vote. Finally, in 1860, a law was passed in New York that gave women the right to own property, control their own money, sue in court, and other privileges. But they still couldn't vote. . . In 1872, Miss Anthony -- claiming her right to vote as a person and a citizen - was arrested, tried, and convicted. con-victed. But the spunky lady refused to pay the fine. Her leadership and constant crusading crusad-ing ignited the movement that caught fire over the years and led to the adoption adop-tion of the 19th amendment to the U S ' Constitution in 190. A" American women, at long last, could VSusan B. Anthony herself never saw the victory. She died in 1906 in Rochester, New York. So when you notice that new U.S. $1 coin in circulation next year --especially --especially if you're a woman - be grateful to the lady on the face of it. Shet for you the real Miss Ul-erty. First duality Wallcovering l A- Hundreds of patterns Y Thousands of rolls -ready; to (yM take home . : Many colors-styles-patterns A All washable-Many scrubbable-pre -pasted -strlppable. vsA Don't let tints run out! Hj I GrTlfnTii) I 10 20 Wh Main St., lUiiramS Bountiful 1 1 ' z 202-2474 r 1 |