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NOTED IS TRIBUTE TO MRS. DUNIWAY
Birthday Party Unique in Oregon History

PROMINENT FOLK DO HONOR
H. L. Pittock, Governor West and Others on Platform.

SUFFRAGIST WRITES HYMN
Author, Singer and Composer Loudly Applauded at Gipsy Smith Auditorium as Last Beautiful Notes Die Away.

Seated in a comfortable armchair beneath the figures “78” in evergreen against the white background of the decorations, with many of the most distinguished citizens of Oregon, men and women, seated at either side, and facing an audience of 1500 friendly faces, Mrs. Abigail Scott Duniway, pioneer Oregonian and suffragist, was tendered a “brithday [sic] party” at the Gipsy Smith auditorium last night as perhaps has never been given to another woman in the state.
When Mrs. Duniway appeared and was wheeled across the platform, which was tastefully decorated with evergreens and Autumn leaves, to her place of honor in the easy chair, she was long applauded, acknowledging the ovation with graceful inclinations of her gray-haired head. To her right sat her son, W. C. Duniway, and to her left, her son, Ralph Duniway, with their families.
Others who sat at the left of the guest of honor were: H. L. Pittock, F. V. Holman, Governor West, C. W. Fulton, J. A. Jeffrey, F. W. Cottrell, Robert A. Miller and A. E. Clark. At the right were many prominent suffragists, including Mrs. Mae Arkwright Hutton of Spokane; Mrs. Frederick Eggart, Miss Emma Wold and Mrs. H. M. Senn.

Mrs. Coe Presides

Mrs. Henry Waldo Coe, president of the State Equal Suffrage League, who presided, announced that the programme would be opened with the singing of the new suffrage hymn of which Mrs. Duniway is the author and for which Mrs. A. E. Clark composed the accompaniment. With Mrs. Clark at the piano, Mrs. Jane Burns Albert, in a sweet, clear soprano, sang the three stanzas of the hymn, which are as follows:
God of our fathers, by whose guiding hand,
We all were led to this Pacific land,
To raise on high the standard of the free,
We women bow with reverence unto Thee.

Good men and women came together here,
With strenuous effort and courageous cheer,
They toiled and builded on the Western shore
An empire that shall last forevermore.

God of our fathers, we are half the race,
By men forgotten till this year of grace,
When they in majesty arise and say,
“All shall be free in an approaching day”

Great is Applause

As the last beautiful notes died away its author and the singer were vigerously applauded, and great armfuls of yellow carnations were handed to the platform and piled at Mrs. Duniway’s feet.
The first speaker was Frederick V. Holman, who gave an historic perspective of the life of Mrs. Duniway, whom he called a “noble, grand and glorious woman.” He told how she crossed the plains to Oregon in 1852, when she was 18 years old, and touched upon the hardships and privations that tried the hearts and tested the strength of those who dared the wilderness in the middle years of the last century.
“Those were people who were willing and able to do and dare and to suffer in order to accomplish,” said Mr. Holman. “They turned their faces unflinchingly to the West, without doubt that they would get there. It took just the same courage as was required of the pioneers to inspire and sustain Mrs. Duniway in her early work for the great cause of equal suffrage.

Pioneers Never Faltered

“The pioneers never faltered in their long march, nor has she. But the hands that never wearied in building and developing are tired now, and in her hands we must place the ballot, as a tribute and a reward to this courageous, forcible and yet withal gentle worker for the rights of women.”
Mrs. Hutton, a prominent worker in the suffrage ranks in Washington, was next introduced by Mrs. Coe.
The Spokane visitor paid one of the greatest tributes of the evening to Mrs. Duniway, concluding her remarks as she laid a magnificent bouquet of yellow carnations at the aged leader’s feet.

Washington Gives Greetings

Mrs. Hutton said:
“Friend, champion of women’s political enfranchisement, in the Nation and the world, mother of woman’s suffrage in the Northwest, I bring you greetings from Washington women on this, your seventy-eighth birthday. Your labors for nearly half a century for the emancipation of your sex have borne fruit. You have lived to see the ballot given to the women of six states of this glad free West.
“Ere the ides of November wax and wane your beloved Oregon will be added to the list that will complete the chain of free states from Canada to the Gulf. You have lived to see heathen China become a republic and her women

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NOTED IS TRIBUTE
Birthday Party for Mrs. Duniway Most Unique

SUFFRAGIST WRITES HYMN
Author, Singer and Composer Loudly Applauded at Gipsy Smith Auditorium as Last Beautiful Notes Die Away.

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given the ballot. You have beheld the flag that represents justice to women wave over the mountain peaks of Alaska, welcoming the sons and daughters of the world to the treasure-house of the mother lode, and pour her products into the channel of commerce.
“You have seen Portland grow from a frontier village to the largest city in the Northwest. On the fifth of November the men of Oregon will forge a key of gold with which the 2,00,00 women voters of the Pacific Coast states must unlock the portals of the Nation and make all women free. What more fitting spot could be found for the culmination of your life’s work, for the inauguration of a forward movement to make this burning question a national issue and enfranchise all the women of the National. Here, where the memories of your girlhood, wifehood and motherhood linger like the blossoming fragrance from your rose-laden city, and the resting place of the companion of you life’s joys and sorrows; here, ‘mid scenes of your greatest activities and achievements in this great cause, for the betterment of the race; here, ‘where rolls the Oregon,’ where Bryant placed his Thanatopsis; here, where a noted lecturer said, ‘the finite pray, the infinite listens, and the immensity looks on’; here we have gathered tonight to do you honor, and to show to you and the world that we appreciate your efforts.

Pioneers Now Honored

“These chrysanthemums represent the development of flower life. In your time you have seen them grow from a ragged wayside weed until today they are the triumph of the floral kingdom. You can remember when the woman suffrage movement comprised a few struggling women, who were ridiculed and villified for their opinions. You have watched its progress and helped in it development, until it has become a respected reform, an assured fact, and the pioneers in the cause honored women of the world.
“Mrs. Abigail Scott Duniway, we, your daughters in the cause you have mothered, and whose untiring efforts have so greatly aided in making possible our political freedom, I present you these chrysanthemums in the name of the enfranchised womanhood of Washington.”
Mrs. Mary Cartwright, who said that she came as an old pioneer of Oregon to give greetings from California, recalled memories of the early struggles of Mrs. Duniway.

Men Called to Account

“It is enough to make some of the men blush to remember how they treated her sentiments in those early days,” said Mrs. Cartwright.
She told how the women of California, having been given the ballot, are fast becoming proficient in its use, how they are studying civil government and public questions and how they are already helping the men to solve the problems that arise. Mrs. Cartwright told of admiring the work of Mrs. Duniway and of her sympathy in her early reverses and disappointments.
A letter from Judge Stephen A. Lowell, of Pendleton, was read by B. Leo Paget and was warmly applauded at several places. Judge Lowell referred to Mrs. Duniway as “Oregon’s most distinguished woman” and assigned her a place in history with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott and Susan B. Anthony. He admonished all who admired Mrs. Duniway, her life and work that the greatest tribute that can be paid her, that will please her more than anything that can happen, is to vote for the suffrage amendment two weeks hence.
A telegram from Governor Hawley of Idaho, to Mrs. Coe expressed his warmest congratulations on Mrs. Duniway having attained her 78th birthday, together with the hope that election day will see Oregon swing into the suffrage column.
Governor Carey, of Wyoming, congratulated Mrs. Duniway in a telegram read by Mrs. Coe and extended best wishes for the success of the suffrage cause in Oregon.
B. Lee Paget, Prohibition candidate for United States Senator, directed attention to the fact that his was the first party that had gone on record as favoring votes for women and with that abandoned any mention of party to make an earnest appeal for equal suffrage. Mr. Paget said that he hoped that Mrs. Duniway would be permitted to exercise the right of the ballot. He expressed his contempt for the man who fails to vote and for the woman who does not desire the right to vote he confessed that, in a modified way, he classified the same.

A.E. Clark Pays Tribute

A. E. Clark, Progressive candidate for the United States Senator, declared that great movements need great leaders, not leaders who can achieve victory alone, but leaders who can face defeat unflinchingly time after time and be patient until the final triumph. Such a leader was Mrs. Duniway, he said, who, after 50 years of defeat, had never turned from nor struck her colors to the enemy. “One of the greatest citizens of Oregon and of the world”. Was the speaker’s eloquent estimate of Mrs. Duniway, and he predicted from the fruition of her labors in the adoption of equal suffrage amendment.
A telegram from Senator Jonathan Bourne expressed his sorrow a being unable to pay honor in person to one who in striving for the recognition due her sex, had done so much to advance the entire cause of human progress.
Mayor Cotterill, of Seattle, dated his conversion to the cause of woman’s suffrage from the time he became acquainted with his mother. He related hearing Mrs. Duniway speak to Tacoma 28 years ago, when he had first come to Washington, telling how the territory had suffrage for three years, only to lose it by a hair splitting Supreme Court decision. In the 21 year struggle for votes for women that followed the attainment of statehood in 1889 he gave due credit to Mrs. Duniway for her able assistance and he expressed his gratitude for her life and labors, trusting that life and those labors will be crowned with the victory which they merit on November 5.
And if the cause of equal suffrage is indeed, as so many of the speakers predicted, victorious at the polls, Governor West, in his talk announced that he would violate precedent to extent of writing the Gubernatorial proclamation that is required by law to announce the new condition of things, not in the State Capitol at Salem, but in the parlor of Mrs. Duniway’s home in Portland. Then instead of depositing the first copy of the proclamation with the Secretary of State, he will deposit it with Mrs. Duniway, as a token of her life-long labors in making it possible for him to have written it. Then, returning to Salem, the Governor will write another copy of the proclamation which he will deposit in due form with the Secretary of State.
A pioneer not only of the Northwest, but of the world of human thought and endeavor, was ex-Senator Fulton’s characterization of the guest of the evening. The speaker, in reminiscent vein, recalled with pride that as a member of the State Senate in 1880, under Mrs. Duniway’s suggestion and guidance, he had had the honor of introducing the first resolution in favor of equal suffrage in the Oregon Legislature. The pioneer women of Oregon were lauded by Mr. Fulton, who said that “if we would properly evidence our appreciation of the greatest courage and purest patriotism ever shown, we would, on some historical spot, dedicate to the greatest heroines the world has ever known, the pioneer women of Oregon, a monument of the whitest stone, as a perpetual reminder, were any needed, of their greatness and glory.”
A message of congratulation from the National convention of the W.C.T.U was handed in and acknowledged by Mrs. Coe.
Colonel Robert G. Miller, who spoke on behalf of the Native Daughters and Native Sons of Oregon, has the same birthday as Mrs. Duniway, his mother telling him as he put it that he “came to Oregon October 22, 1854,” He eulogized the evening’s guest as a splendid type of splendid race, and for the organization of native Oregonians, of which he was formerly president he extended the hope that the realization of her dreams is not far distant.
Following the speaking, Mrs. Duniway was greeted on the platform by hundreds of her old friends, who, as they clasped her hand, made glad her heart with warm words of congratulations and well-wishing.

 

Conditions in Colorado Today After Nineteen Years of Women Voting

It was in the year 1893 that woman suffrage was granted in Colorado. For 19 years the suffragists have used this state as a sample of good government, brought about by the womans’ vote. The anti-suffragists ask the men of Oregon to read the words of a Colorado woman—one who has been and is now politically prominent. She tells the conditions of politics in her state today.
Mrs. Elizabeth Cass Goddard, of Colorado, a former ardent suffragist, has held the following offices, namely: Delegate to city and state conventions, deputy sheriff, watcher at the polls and member of the Republican state committee from El Paso county.  She has been represented on various boards of the city and state organizations. For example, vice-president for Colorado of the mother’s congress, second vice-president of the Y.W.C.A. of Colorado Springs, first vice-president of the boys’ club, trustee of the city federation of women’s clubs, president of the Humane society only woman member of the Anti-Tuberculosis Committee of Colorado Springs and president of the Colonial Dames of Colorado. We wish to quote from a letter written by Mrs. Goddard to a member of the board of anti-suffrage association of Portland. She says in part:
“I am in a peculiar position, for while I disapprove most emphatically of equal suffrage, and while I have yet to see one good result from it, while the women of Colorado have the responsibility, I must do my part toward trying to make matters better.  But I frankly say I do not see how this can be accomplished. It certainly has not yielded any such results up to this date. We have no cleaner politics, no purer politicians, no less graft, no better laws for women and children than Massachusetts has, in spite of the often-repeated assertions of the suffragist, not one of the laws we have is the result if the votes of women. As far as this goes the influence of women outside the suffrage is better than with the exercise of it. I have found the professional suffragist or politician hard, aggressive, loud in voice and manner, and ready to antagonize any one to carry her point.  It is not with her an “appeal to reason” but an appeal to sentiment, to passion and to fancied wrong done to women. There is very little now to say on the subject excepting that my observation has only intensified my feelings on the subject. The better class of women do not want to vote. It is hard for me to induce them to come to the polls, when any stirring question comes up, and on ordinary matters they neither feel nor even pretend…feel any interest.”
Judging from the conditions as they now stand in Colorado, do we honestly feel that the women’s vote will better our state of Oregon?
Oregon State Association opposed to the extension of suffrage to women.
MRS. FRANCIS JAMES BAILEY, President.

 

Oregon’s Pioneer Woman Suffrage Advocate Is Honored
Hundreds at Rally at Which Prominent Leaders Speak

Mrs. Abigail Scott Duniway, Who Was Guest of Honor. Men and Women Conspicuous in Business and Professional life Join in Tendering Words of Praise for Aged Woman Who Has Fought Valiantly for the Cause of Votes for Women. Governor West and Mayor Cotterill of Seattle Among Speakers at Representative Gathering.

[Large Photograph of an elderly Duniway]

Seventy-eighth Birthday of Beloved Woman Made Occasion for Expression of Many Kind Words in Recognition of Her Unselfish Devotion to Her Work

Distinctive and unique in the history of Portland was the gathering last evening in the Gipsy Smith auditorium, when thousands of representative men and women of the northwest gathered to pay homage to Mrs. Abigail Scott Duniway, pioneer woman suffragist, who yesterday celebrated her seventy-eighth birthday anniversary; also to add a word of encouragement to the cause of suffrage, just now a paramount issue in Oregon. The linking together of a birthday celebration for Mrs. Duniway and a rally for the cause of suffrage was a most happy one, for Mrs. Duniway is the acknowledged leader of the cause of women’s emancipation in the northwest. Her thought and her effort have been concentrated upon this thing for 50 years.

It was indeed an inspiration—the sight of this venerable woman seated upon the platform last night welcoming the happy faces that smiled upon her, the light of affection in her eyes, surrounded by children and grandchildren, friends and neighbors, Oregon flowers and foliage within and a typical Oregon shower without, where she has been given to walk amid the twilight privacies and down lone alleys of delight in serene contemplation and enjoyment, during the sunset of her long and blessed journey.

Stage Beautifully Decorated

In honor of the notable occasion the spacious stage was hung with red, white, and blue tartan and effectively decorated in spruce, fir, Oregon grape, autumn leaves and English Ivy, and directly over Mrs. Duniway’s chair were the significant figures, “78,” wrought in evergreen.

Seated on either side of the honored guest were her sons, W. C. and Ralf Duniway, and their families. Others occupying seats on the stage were: Mrs. Henry Waldo Coe, who presided with her accustomed grace and tact; Mrs. May Arkwright Hutton of Spokane; Miss Elma Buckman, Mrs Helen Miller Senn, Mrs. Frederick Eggert, Mrs. Mary Cartwright, Mrs. M. A. Dalton, Mrs. H. R. Reynolds, Dr. Esther Pohl Lovejoy, Mrs. Lord, Mrs. Newell, Mrs. Emma Wold, Governor Oswald West, Senator Fulton, Sennator Chamberlain, W. C. Davis, Colonel Robert A. Miller, ex-Governor Geer, H. L. Pittock, A. E. Clark, B. Lee Paget, Father Black, F. V. Holman, F. W. Cuttrell, J. A. Jeffrey, George H. Himes, W. M. Davis, and others.

The program was opened with the singing of the suffrage hymn written by Mrs. Duniway and the music composed by Mrs. A.E. Clark. June Irene Berns Albert sang the song with much spirit and was heartily applauded. Mrs. Clark was at the piano. The first speaker was Frederick V. Holman, representing the Oregon Historical Society. He paid a beautiful tribute to Mrs. Duniway and in the course of his speech traced the evolution of existence in Oregon from the early pioneer days down to the present time.

Woman Brings Greeting

“You pioneers were willing and able to do and dare,” said the speaker, “in order to lay the foundation for what is now one of the greatest states in the union. There are but few of these intrepid pioneers now and we should consider it a privilege to do them honor. Mrs. Duniway, may you live for many more years.” Mrs. Mary Arkwright Hutton of Spokane bought greetings from Spokane saying: “Your labors for nearly half a century for the emancipation of women have borne fruit. You have lived to see the ballot given to the women of six states of the west and ere the tides of November wax and wane your beloved Oregon will be added to the list. You have lived to see women reach progress in many countries; you have seen Portland grown from a frontier village to a great city; here where you have spent your girlhood, your wifehood, and your motherhood, we are gathered tonight to help you in celebrating your birthday. What more fitting could be done and what more fitting place could be found.” In closing Mrs. Hutton presented Mrs. Duniway with a cluster of magnificent chrysanthemums.

Mrs. Mary Cartwright of California said: “I come back to Oregon to bear greetings from California. Although that is my home, my home is in my native state, Oregon. I want to tell you that I am a citizen of the United States, and I have voted three times. Already the women of California are accomplishing things. Sacramento has been practically regenerated and the Sacramento Bee recently said in its editorials, ‘the women did it.’”

Judge Lowell’s Letter Read

A letter from Judge Stephen A. Lowell of Pendleton was read by B. Lon Paget. It was in part: “I am heartily in accord with the spirit of the occasion—the celebration of the birthday anniversary of Mrs. Abigail Scott Duniway, and the advancement of the cause of suffrage. I want to hereby renew my pledges to the cause of suffrage and to place the token of my deepest regard and respect at the feet of Oregon’s most distinguished woman. Her place in history will be alongside that of Elizabeth Katy Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and other such women. A great vote for suffrage on the fifth of November will be the greatest tribute Oregon can pay her.”

A telegram from Jonathan Borne was read in which he expressed his sincere regrets at his inability to be present and pay tribute to a great champion of a great cause. A message from Governor Hawley of Idaho was also read in which he expressed his appreciation of the wonderful work done by Mrs. Duniway for suffrage, a movement in which he had always been interested and for which he had voted for ten years. In a message of congratulations and good wishes Governor Joseph Caray of Wyoming told of the splendid success of woman suffrage in that state.

[Suffrage hymn lyrics listed]

Suffrage Hymn

God of our fathers, by whose guiding hand,
We all were led to this Pacific land,
To raise on high the standard of the free,
We women bow with reverence unto Thee.

Good men and women came together here,
With strenuous effort and courageous cheer,
They toiled and builded on the Western shore
An empire that shall last forevermore.

God of our fathers, we are half the race,
By men forgotten till this year of grace,
When they in majesty arise and say,
“All shall be free in an approaching day”

The next speaker was B. Lee Paget who expressed the wish that the honored guest might live to cast a ballot, thus realizing the fondest dreams of her life-time. “I am proud of the fact,” said Mr. Paget, “that the Prohibition party which I represent was the first to put a suffrage plank in its platform.” The ‘goody-goody’ man who refuses to dabble in the dirty pool of politics and the woman who refuses to exercise her right as a voter after she has it are practically in the same class and I won’t tell you what I think of that class.”

A.E. Clark said, “Great movements need great leaders, those who can face defeat and with courage rally their forces and press forward again. Such a woman is Mrs. Duniway whom we meet tonight to pay tribute to. She never turned from the foe. It takes courage to fight when day after day your best sentiments are trampled in the dust, but on the fifth of next November she is going to witness the fruition of her labor. All progress may be traced to the personality of the people and so we expect great things in Oregon when our noble women are given the ballot.”

Seattle’s Mayor Pays Tribute

Mayor Cotterill of Seattle paid a splendid tribute to suffrage and to Mrs. Duniway, saying: “Twenty-eight years ago in the then new city of Tacoma I first heard Mrs. Duniway speak and I never forgot that address, although my belief in suffrage dates from the time I made the acquaintance of my mother. The men of Washington are heartily in accord with suffrage and I believe you suffrage advocates of Oregon will win at the forthcoming election and thus pay tribute to Mrs. Duniway and her great work. After all it is sentiment that counts in the affairs of life and we do ourselves honor in gathering here to pay respect to one who has done such a wonderful thing.”

Governor West said in part: “Thirty tears when I was a small boy the first speech I ever heard was on suffrage and it was delivered by Mrs. Duniway. When I learned to think for myself I became a suffrage advocate and I have been such ever since. I hope and believe suffrage will win at the election next month. Women will have a much higher sense of honor than men and are just as capable.”

“Did you even notice that women are always cleaning up; they are either cleaning the house, cleaning up the baby or cleaning up after their husbands. Well when they get the ballot I think we have every reason to think they will help clean up politics, and conditions generally in their state, country, and city. If suffrage carries my first proclamation will be written in the home of Mrs. Duniway and will then be presented to her and then I will go to Salem and write another.”

Senator Fulton said: “Mrs. Duniway is essentially a pioneer not only in the development of the northwest but in the great world of thought and human endeavor. She is a splendid representative of her sex and has been a valiant supporter of the equality of sex, and now we trust she will live to see her efforts crowned with success. No greater heroism could be displayed than that shown by the pioneer women of Oregon. And I would like to see erected on some historical spot in the state a monument of pure white marble to the pioneer women of the state. I don’t know what our women are going to do with the ballot, but it makes no difference: it is their right and they should have it. And when they do get it they should exercise it”

Suggests New Bill

“I would like sometime to introduce a bill making it an offense for a voter to refuse to exercise his or her right punishable with disenfranchisement for a period of years and for a second offense by permanent disenfranchisement.”

The closing address was delivered by Colonel Robert A. Miller, who, representing the native sons and daughters of Oregon.

A score or more of young women, prominent in the suffrage movement, dressed in white with yellow scarfs, acted as ushers. They were: Mrs. William F. Amos, Mrs. G. A. Johnson, Mrs. Taylor, Misses Lana, Catherine Therkelsen, Clen Nickerson, Florence Hoffman, Raebel Reston, Helen Wilson, Elma Rudkman, Frances Dayton, Helen Gillespie, Elizabeth Wagner, Amanda Oatfield, Grace Gliber, Bessie Grant, Elizabeth Watters, Mabel Hines, Lillian Hackelman, and Bertha Carroll.

What Suffragists Are Doing

The Stenographers’ Equal Suffrage league held a social session Saturday evening at the home of the president, Mrs. E. O. Gardner, 370 Vista street, with a large attendance.  Mrs. A. C. Newell, president of the Civic Progress circles, addressed the league, telling the members of the advantages to be derived from forming circles for the study of civics and citizenship.  Mrs. Weathered also spoke, mentioning some of the things that have been accomplished by the women of Washington since they have had suffrage.  Refreshments were served at the close of the meeting.

Writing from Grants Pass, Bess Gunnison Conklin tells of the splendid progress which is being made there, and in nearby sections.  She sends an urgent request of more literature.  A moving picture and a sentiment for suffrage is being used by the local moving picture show at that place.  In Ashland successful rallies are being held.  At Rogue River a luncheon, followed by speeches on suffrage, was held.  Suffrage was introduced at the last meeting of the Pomona county grange.  Reports from Medford are good, concludes Mrs. Conklin.

Letters are being received at the club compaign (sic.) committee headquarters from Kansas suffragists, who are making inquiry concerning Rev. Clarence True Wilson, formerly of this city, who is now in Kansas lecturing and debating against suffrage, being employed by the anti-suffrage organizations of that state.  Learning that Mr. Wilson is formerly of Portland, the Kansas women are writing for more information concerning him and his record here.

Mrs. Mary Tubbs of Yreka, Cal., who is spending some time in Oregon, lectured at Klamath Falls, Friday evening, on the advantages of suffrage in California.

An equal suffrage meeting was held this afternoon at 2 o’clock.  Reports wehe (sic.) heard equal suffrage organizations from the various counties.

Mrs. Duniway’s Birthday is Being Celebrated

Rising superior to the weakness following a long and severe illness and filled with eager enthusiasm over her certainty of approaching success in the long fight for woman suffrage which she has headed in Oregon, Mrs. Abigail Scott Duniway is to receive messages of greetings from thousands of people in the United States today, on this, her 78th birthday, and her friends everywhere are joining to wish her “many happy returns” of the day. And long enjoyment of the fruits of victory, which seems imminent.