Evening Star Newspaper, November 13, 1936, Page 15

WONEN T0 START NEW REATS WAR Biennial Party Convention Seeks Amendment on Sex Prejudice. B the Associated Press. NEW YORK, November 13.—Mem- bers of the National Woman's Party, which picketed the White House in the fight for woman suffrage and sald “Give us liberty!” assembled in New York today for their biennial convention, still militant for “‘wom- en’s_rights.” Although they and the other suf- frageties: won what they sought for | ‘years—the right to vote—:'sex preju-. dice is stil widespread in this coun< Or“; leaders of the party said as: they prepared to unch & campaign for . another constitutional .amend-.| ment. . “Equal rights for women under the | Jaw.and in the economic feld,” ‘wasi tielr slogan today. The amendment® they seek is stated in 18 words: “Men ‘and women shall have equal- rights throughout the:United States | and every place subject to-its juris- | dietfon.” > | “Watch Fires” Recalled. There’s less 3olor than in the old | 5T BVENING STAT O’Neill, Nobel Prize Winner, ~ Plans 8-Play B5 the Associated Press. SEATTLE, November . 13.—Eugene O'Neill believes his play “Mourning Becomes Electra” was the chief fac- tor in his winning the 1936 Nobel prize for letters. But he obtained the greatest per- sonal pleasure from writing “The Great God Brown” and “The Hairy Ape.” The famed playwright was outlin- ing four years' work—an eight-play saga of American life—when he re- ceived word of the Novel prize yes- terday. 3 “Naturally I'm very happy,” he said. “I feel like a horse that has just been given a biue ribbon. “I did not think an American would get the award so soon &fter Sinclair Lewis received it in 1930." Then the playwright, slender, ner- vous, his brown eyes sparkling, turned to a discussion of the eight plays he is planning. He and his wife, the former actress, Carlotta Monterey, ar- ' M¥ed here 10 days ago to make Seat- tle their home while Q'Neill gathers background for his new drama series. Island, Ga. He plans two plays a year until the series is complete. “I feel like the old man of the sea,” he commented when asked if thought of the long series of plays didn't tire him. He said he never has attended a days, when Alice Paul, founder of thé party, burned. her indignant | “wafch fires” on Pennsylvania avenue | in - Washington under the Senate’s | nose~but no less spirit. | “We may be getting older, but we £HIl’ have young ideas,” said some of the leaders who rode off to jail in | a patrol wagon several times in the | suffrage campaign, for picketing be- hind Miss Paul, “the suffrage fire- brand.” Helen Hunt West, national congres- eional chairman of the party, said “this is our most important meeting since suffrage was accomplished, be- | cause. after a 16-vear fight for equality, | we Row see daylight.” | She believes the equal rights amend- ment will be passed in the next ses- sion of Congress. | There are still more than 1,000 1,000 Discriminatery Laws. Etate laws discriminatory against women, she said. “There are States where a married woman's earnings | belong to her husband, where women | are excluded from jury servicé, where a father can will a child away from its mother.” | Miss Paul is mow in Geneva, bat- | tling for international "equality of women. | Presiding at one session is Mrs. Flor- | ence Bayard Hilles, national, chair- man of the Woman's Party, whose father, Thomas F. Bayard, was Presi- dent Cleveland's Secretary of State. After the White House picketing epi- sode 16 years ago she was sentenced | to 60 days, but received a presidential | pardon. The party's secretary, Rebekah Greathouse, a Washington attorney. niece of the late Dwight Morrow and ® cousin of Anne Lindbergh, will pre- side at another session. 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