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Show Own Your Own Moniker Even Though Wedded and Mother of Children, Is Slogan of Lucy Stone League, Explained in This Article KY (.1.1 M W II. KINS Special to in.- stniidard-Examiner iCopyrihi. 1932. pj the Suinclard-Exa Suinclard-Exa miner. ) , KSW rORK, March IS The next onkeridment tf ihc odnstitutlon wHI make n compulsui y fr a hiiHlund t' tuk- his ljriu-'s n nne instead of a bride h-r husband's. Thus when James j . 1 1 . .-, marries Hourtense Brown, he becomes Mr. Hsrtcnse P.rown i h, ollrirht. if you're Kolnvr to make sueh a fus about such a simple mal- ter. wc ma" as well confess that wc : were only joking. No BUCb amend-j amend-j incnt Is Rrppi Bed. Bo calm. And tiavihg become calm, how do yon think ' i,. , , i use hi- -s It? How do you think i or ten i BroM likes to toss aside thoir own nano and becomc-iner becomc-iner Mrs. James r Jones? A lot of times she likes it ths way you did. Sblrsk! Yow! That's her opinion. And' that's the reason for the buoy stone league, a group of 100 distinguished New York women, organized for th- sole purpose o! putting put-ting ths "Sblrsks" and vows" Into word" They put"em into .sui h ef?e tlve words .'t their tlrst iui banquet tht even blase New York has list, ned with dropped Juw and widened eyea. 5 :l II S N AMI! "Own your own name'' is, the rally- In'g cry of the iuey Stone league, which points out that Shaksspeare wrong. What s in a name makes all the difference between a human ami a fi."h. providing the name Is your maiden name. The league is h-i' to state that a woman after marriage in ; Ut I" remain Miss Hrown or Ml--Bmlth it she exiecls to become n worthy citlssn, wife and mother, The league wants a man to refer to his hride as "my wife. Miss Hrown " It wants a child to refer to "Bl mother. Miss Hrown." . It wants a man to sign the hotel register as "J. Smith and wife, H or tense Hrown." MOTID R CALLED Miss And. m.irk you. though the league is but an infant it has in various Instances In-stances accomplished all of th'- little things, thdeed, It has accomplish them In its founder and president Mls; Ruth ETale, wife ir Efeywo 6 Broun Miss H.'lr 1,. m.I- l nu writer and publicist of wide experien is the mother of Haywood Broun. I who cat's lier "Huthle" v.r whet! nccersary "Miss. liale" Hsywoocl Broun, besides being a widely know n writer and dramatic critic, is an ard supporloe nf rhe Lucy Stone learue. Mies Hnlr's bcdlefs have eiultn tr championship, for other members the own-ybur-owri-name assoclatl i are among the foremost writers, artists ar-tists and profe?sionril women t tl country though the Organisation malntnlns that it is by no means only the professional women who feel sol strangely about their names. Bleb Ferguron Is n member. So Is Zona Gale. And so. too. are Charlotte Perkins Per-kins Gilman Snsnn G. LaSpelT, Fannie I Hurst Olga Petrov.n Michael Strange" the wife of John Barryinore Bophlel Treadwell, and (;ilda Varesi Th league does not seek to impose! la new custom oti any one: It seeks only on-ly to help those women who wish t. follow a new custom All wives do n i feel about their names ns Mis II ! does. Bnt mrn, many wives do and that If the whv and wherefore .,f rh. Lucy Stone league. Ki l l's. OWN ur "Before my marriage, when I read that LUcy Stone the pioneer suffragist., refused to take her husband s name, I thought 'how absurd.' And what fits over nothing' But when the minister, at the ond of the marriage ceremony., said to rne 'I hope you'll he very happv. Mrs. Brnun I could have hit' him.'' Miss Rate's dark eyes crinkled I with laughter ' It ramc to me ,ii gud I denly as that, lh fact that I cbuld !i I endure Klvlpg up my name. i Bald: Stop it ; an.J tho minister looked surprised sur-prised A little later soma one else called me 'Mrs Broun' T said 'you most not call me that T won't b Mrs. Broun.' Mr. Broun who of coursi i was Standing at my side and who , , the broadest mind In the world aaid 'If you want to keep on being Mi-; Hale let' beam rixht now to make people call you that'.' And so. thn-i mlnuti-s after the nmi rl.i(fH t-ereinon . ' and three feet from the altar. It waa accordingly settled in the midst of a) larrre and lnterepted crowd " ri.r,s rr TYRANNl Miss Hal- SXplalnod that the drni- natlnn of tha woman's name and the imposing upon her of his own wa s one of the many tyrannies practiced on woman by man throughout the centuries. cen-turies. In Miss Hale's opinion It was the most subtle tyranny of all. and for this reason perhaps the most enduring endur-ing bit of bondage. "Yet It's a curious thing," she added, ad-ded, "that this was never a legal bit of bondnge, many people are unawjrc of the fact, but It is true that there is no law compelling a woman to take her husband's name and there m notn-, in? illegal In a woman's retaining her i i 1 1 1 e 1 1 name after marriage. She may legally sign hr maiden name to documents of the most portentious sort Kven to real estate deeds. In-' surance papers, army documents facts which I proved to innumerable doubting officials on Innumerable occasions oc-casions after innumerable weary hours of challenging them to prove the contrary. con-trary. ) l SE PASSPORT "People, of course, ask at once. 'But what name shall the children Their father's name. The league has no intention of trying to Change that custom and for three reasons. rea-sons. First, we hive no right tu Interfere In-terfere with a child because the second sec-ond reason when the child Is of age it many change Its name by process of law If It so desires and the third reaa n there are Intricate inheritance and legitimacy laws tangled up In the giving of the father's surname to the child " There is ample proof thi' .:,'s I ' ' and her colleagues do not regard this matter as a fad. Not long ago in-physiclan in-physiclan ordered Miss Hale to take a trip to the Alps The state department Issued a passport to Kuih Hale. But on the back of it they insisted uyon i iblng her not as Ruth Halo, wife 1 1 lieywood r--0ian iut as "Mrs. Hey-rtoml Hey-rtoml Broun." After weeks of argument. argu-ment. Miss Hale dec-lined to use the passport even though to decline it meant a serious risk to her health. on |