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thousand instruction slips, and the postage, expressage, and
sundries. Of this money $1,000 was the gift to this work
of the first chairman of the committee, Mrs. Catt. One thou-
sand four hundred dollars has been contributed from the
Anthony Memorial Fund (the fund collected by Miss Thomas
and Miss Garrett of Bryn Mawr), and the remainder has come
by appropriation from the national treasury.

The committee has the most profound faith in the results,
both direct and indirect, of the expenditure of so much labor
and money. We believe it to have been well directed effort, the
results of which will be felt and will travel in perhaps unex—
pected quarters. A part of the plan originated by Mrs. Catt was
to‘ have special petitions signed by men and women in different
professions. There were many difficulties encountered in carry—
ing this out, and the only real success was in the writers and
journalists’ petition which, under the direction of Miss Minnie
Reynolds, chairman, bears the signatures of several hundred
really eminent writers, both men and women, with the name of
William Dean Howells, the dean of American letters, at the
hea 1.

If Mrs. Catt’s original plan had been carried out, that each
State before sending in its petitions for presentation to Congress
had made a classification of the number of men and women
signers and the numbers representing different lines of profes—
sional, commercial and industrial work, the results would have
possessed greater value, but so few of the States have been able
to put upon the petitions the amount of work necessary to make
such a collation of these facts that the committee is unable to
make any comprehensive statement along these lines.

The petitions have come in so tardily that at this time the
count has not been completed. Had it not been for the fact
that State campaigns of great importance were in progress in
several States, and that State petitions were being circulated
in others, the number of signatures would have reached the
million at which we aimed. Whatever its influence may be
upon Congress itself, there can be no question that no educa-
tional work has ever been undertaken in this country which
has resulted in so much discussion upon the question, both
public and private, and which has enlisted in the work so
many new advocates of the cause.

RACHEL FOSTER AVERY,
Chairman.

l

REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON PETITION TO CONGRESS.

More than a quarter of a century ago the work of petitioning
Congress was practically abandoned by the National Association.
The demand for an amendment to the National Constitution
enfranchising the women. of the United States was presented at
the first session of every Congress and a hearing was secured
before committees in both the Senate and the House, but the
method of appealing to Congress upon our subject by petitions
from all over the country has been allowed to lapse for this past
quarter of a century.

When, at the Buffalo convention in the fall of 1908, Mrs. Carrie
Chapman Catt proposed that one of the chief lines of work for
the ensuing year should be to roll up the largest petition which
had ever been presented to Congress on any subject, the sugges—
tion was greeted with considerable enthusiasm and was voted
unanimously by the convention. A petition committee was
appointed consisting of Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, chairman,
and Florence Kelley and Rachel Foster Avery, members.

In spite of this fact, when Mrs. Catt appealed to the different
States to carry out the work, some of the very associations
whose representatives had voted in favor of the big petition
when assembled in convention at Buffalo calmly replied to the
chairman’s appeals with the statement that they had otherwork
to do which seemed to them of more importance. So the first
duty of the first chairman of your Petition Committee was to
make all the States feel that this was one line of'work which,
in order to be a real success, needed the active co—operation of
every State society.

In the latter part of November, 1908, Petition Headquarters
were opened at the Martha Washington Hotel, in New York
City, where the work went on actively for over two months,
until the departure of Mrs. Catt for England in the middle of
February, at which time Mrs. Avery was made acting chairman.

About 100,000 petitions were distributed from the New York
headquarters during December and January, and 10,000 indi—
vidual and form letters were sent out during those same months,
employing the Whole time of three stenographers, and half the
time of another. In addition to that, Mrs. Catt gave her entire
time during regular office hours and had the assistance of Miss
Hay and Miss Reynolds. A number of other members of the
local suffrage clubs assisted by folding and wrapping, addressing
envelopes, and doing all manner of clerical work.

During the month of February the work was taken to Swarth-
more, in the somewhat crowded quarters where the State work
of Pennsylvania was being done, in Mrs. Avery’s own home. Dur-
ing that time a number of different stenographers had to be
called in, and the work was done at a great disadvantage because

 

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of having no regular secretary whose whole time was devoted to
it. It was soon realized that it would be necessary to have
definite quarters, and the services of Rachel Brill Ezekiel, who
had worked with Mrs. Catt in New York, were secured to carry
on the work in the Washington headquarters at 1823 H street,
under the direction of Mrs. Avery as acting chairman of the
committee. Since the transference of the work from New York
60,000 petitions have been distributed and 11,000 more letters
and 185 postals were sent out. This does not include 1,000
postals sent out for return messages.

You will see that there have been fifteen months of secretarial
services in the Washington headquarters, entirely for petition
work, in addition to the month at Swarthmore, with stenog-
raphers secured by the day, and the two months and more
of very active work at the New York headquarters to begin the
petition campaign.

The work of the last five months has been almost entirely
devoted to securing the return of the signed petitions, although
there has been combined with this since January first the
appeal to 5,000 new people whose names have been
secured in divers ways, each appeal accompanied by one blank
petition.

Many of the letters have gone to State presidents and State
chairmen of petition work, containing suggestions as to
methods of work and the lines of effort which seemed to prom—
ise the richest returns.

A number of States which were not strongly enough organ—
ized for suffrage to undertake their own petition work have
been worked directly in detail from the petition headquarters,
and the results in these States will in many cases form a basis
for effective organization work in the immediate future.

Our newest State organization, that of Virginia, which has
brought a most valuable accession to the ranks of suffrage
workers in the persons of distinguished women citizens of that
Commonwealthfls in part the result very directly of the petition
work done from the National Petition Headquarters.

Kansas, which had been separated from the National Associa—
tion, has been aroused to new interest and a desire for renewed
alliance with the other States, as represented in the National,
through the petition work.

In a number of other States the petition work has aroused
hitherto dormant interest in the question of Votes for Women.

The National Chairman. who is a new State president, feels
that in Pennsylvaniaa large portion of the newlife which is felt
in all parts of that great Commonwealth may be traced to the

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petition work, by which over 20,000 friends of the cause have
come into touch with the State officers.

The National Petition Committee has urged upon the various
State workers the desirability of making card catalogues from
the petitions, and the fact that the petition blanks had a
column for the occupations of the signers has given an added
value to the signatures when thus tabulated.

The new Woman Suffrage Party of the city of New York owes
a measure of its successful organization to the thousands of
names which were secured through the petition.

Every effort will be made to secure the return of the petitions
after they have served their purpose in connection with the
Congressional Hearings, and we hope that they may be returned,
at least to those States which have not been able to keep their
own copy of the signatures secured.

The petition has been a means of introducing suffrage into
thousands of households, giving the suffrage workers an oppor—
tunity'to ask the direct question, “Do you believe in Woman
Suffrage,” when presenting the petition for signature. They
have been brought forward in hundreds and hundreds of meet—
ings of all kinds in which the subject had not before been '
mentioned. Even women's clubs have had to listen to suffrage L
when brought to them by eager seekers after signatures for the '
petition. It has given to many people who have never before
really done anything for suffrage an oppurtunity to work. In
some cases whole neighborhoods have been reached through the
work of a single energetic woman willing to go from house to
house circulating the petition, and leaving literature with fam—
ilies where she found little or no sympathy for our movement.
Each letter sent out from petition headquarters enclosed a
suffrage leaflet, and these letters carried to thousands of men
and women the first suffrage literature they had seen.

To some extent the Grange and the Prohibition Party have
assisted in the circulation of the petitions. Of the organiza—
tions outside of our own‘State and local associations of suffra-
gists, the Socialists and the Labor Union men have been our
effective helpers, but our most efficient ally has been the :
W. C. T. U., to whose active efforts we owe many thousands of
signatures.

The total cost of doing this national petition work, covering
a period of nearly eighteen months, has been $4,555. This in—
cludes rent of quarters in New York and for the last four
months in Washington (ten months in Washington have not
been charged to the Petition Committee), salary of secretary
and stenographers, printing of 160,000 petitions and many

 

 ‘“ ”failure 18, Impossible.”

“If I have lived to any' purpose, carry
on the work 1 have to lay down.”
Susan B. Anthony.

“The work that you’ve laid down, my
friend, we’ll carry to the end.”
Virginia A. Rugg.

SONG.

Our Cause Is Marching On.

(Air: Battle Cry of the Republic).'
.VVC are coming Sister Susan,
We are marching right along.
We are gaining fast in number,
And will reach a million strong.
VVC are coming with a hearty will,
VVe’re coming with a song. '
Our cause is marching on .

Chorus—
Glory, glory, hallelujah,
Glory, glory, hallelujah,
Glory, glory, hallelujah,
Our cause is marching on.

.2. \Ne are coming, Sister Susan,
See you not our banner bright?
It waves from every town and hamlet,
Where they are clamoring for the right.
“’0 are coming, Sister Susan,
We are ready for the fight.
Our cause is marching on.

Chorus.

‘ . Great and noble men are rallying,
Rallying with us in the fight
For a universal freedom,

And every human right,

\Ne are coming, Sister Susan,
\/Ve are coming with a might.
Our cause is marching on.

Chorus.

Virginia A. Rugg, Newport, Ky.

 

 SUSAN B. ANTHONY
WOMAN SUFFRAGE FUND

REV. ANNA HOWARD SHAW. CPL. JANE ADDAMS,
MOYLAN, PA. HULL HOUSE. CHICAGO. ILL.

FANNY GARRISON VILLARD, LAURA CLAY.
I45 WEST SBTH STREET. NEW YORK. N. Y. |89 N. MILLS ST.. LEXINGTON. KY.
KATE M. GORDON. LUCY E ANTHONY.
I80. PRYTANIA ST.. NEW ORLEANS, LA. MOYLAN, F'A
PAULINE AGASSIZ SHAW, ALICE STONE BLAQKWELL.
BOSTON, MASS. 6 BEACON 81".. BOSTON, MASS.

RACHEL FOSTER AVERY,SECRETARY, MARY McH. KEITH,
SWARTHMORE. PA. 2207 ATHERTON ST.. BERKELEY. CAI...

HARRIET TAYLOR UPTON. TREASURER. WARREN. OHIo.

 

TO PROFESSIONAL WOMEN.

In raising the Susan B. Anthonv Suffrage Fund, in memory of the great woman
who labored nearly sixty years to secure better opportunities for women, we turn naturally
to those classes of women Who have benefited most by her work. In speaking of her at
the time ofher death, Dorothy Dix wrote in the New York Evening Journal : “ She found
the doors of almost every college barred to women and the highly educated woman looked
upolli’ as a freak and derided as a monstrosity. She leaves nearly every university door
swinging on its hinges to admit women, and parents as anxious to educate their daughters
as their sons.

“ She found only three vocations—that of the domestic servant, of the factory hand
and of the school teacher—open to the woman who was under the necessity of earning her
own bread. She leaves every profession and every walk of commerce free to women, with
no bounds set to a woman’s achievements except the limitations of her own ability and
energy.

“ It is true that alone and single-handed Miss Anthony did not bring about these
enormous reforms. They are too great for any one individual to have accomplished, but
to her, above all others, is the honor due, for she was the head and front, the animating
spirit of the great movement for woman’s emancipation that has done so much to better the
condition of the female sex and to which the woman of today owes her ability to get an
education and to make an honest living at something better than servile drudgery.”

And a host of journals all over the world recognized and Spoke of the debt of the

self-supporting women of today to Miss Anthony and her cause. Yet many of these
women, who have never studied the history of the time which just preceded their own en—
trance into professional life, do not know of the struggle of the pioneers to open to these
younger sisters doors of opportunity which had been closed to themselves.

If you have enjoyed the fruits which others have planted, is it not your duty and
your pleasure to help in your turn to make things better for those who are to come? There
is no other work today which is laying the foundations for the real equality of women with
men and for the civic righteousness, from the lack of which we now suffer so deeply, as is
the work for the political emancipation of women ; this was and is Miss Anthony’s work
and to this will be applied the Memorial Fund to which we ask your contribution.

ANNA HOWARD SHAW, Cl]. aft/2e Fzmd.

RACHEL FOSTER AVERY, Secretary,

Swartbmare, Pa.
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 STANDING COMMITTEES

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Twenty-Fifth Legislative Assembly

RULES~3. Mr. Speaker, Maricopa; Bailey, Cochise; Bray,
Yavapai.

WAYS AND MEANS— 5. Bailey, Cochise; Bourne, Pinal;
"V1er1111,-(jmliam Hightower Yuma; Morris, Yavapai.

APPROPRIATIONS— W7.“ woolf: Maricopa Bailey, Cochise;
Bourne, Pinal; McCormick, Gila; DeSouza,Mar1copa 1)uffy,Sa11ta >-
Cruz; Coalter, (‘oconino

EDUCATION—5. Peterson, Navajo; Morris, Yavapai; Tobey,
Mohave; Moore, Pima; Reed, Maricopa.

J UDICIARY—7 . Duffy, Santa Cruz; Sutter, Cochise; McCor—
mick, Gila; DeSouza, Maricopa; Bourne, Pinal; Pace, Graham;
Doan, Pima.

CORPORATIONS—7. Bourne, Pinal; DeSouza, Maricopa;
McCormick, Gila; Duffy, Santa Cruz; Tobey, Mohave; Bailey, Co—
chise; Peterson, Navajo. ,

PRINTING—5. Duffy, Santa Cruz; Sutter, Cochise; Hog-
wood, Pima; Morris, Yavapai; Coalter, Coconino.

TERRITORIAL AFFAIRS—5. Sutter, Cochise; Hightower,
Yuma; Hogwood, Pima; Shaw, Pinal; Coalter, Coconino.

IRRIGATION—5. DeSouza, Maricopa; Roberts, Cochise;
Dufiy, Santa Cruz; Shaw, Pinal; Moore, Pima.

LIVE STOCK—7. Roberts, Cochise aMerrill, Graham; Hall,
Yavapai: McCormick Gila 3"“ , 1 Bray, ,‘Yavanaii
Shaw, Pinal. ' ' V ’

ELECTIONS—5. DeSouza, Marioopa; Bailey, Cochise; Pace,
Graham; Hall, Yavapai; Peterson, Navajo.

LABOR AND LABOR ORGANIZATIONS—5. Hall, Yava-i
pai; Bailey, Cochise; Pace, Graham; Tobey, Mohave; High-1
tower, Yuma. .5

CLAIMS—3. Tobey, Mohave; Hogwood, Pima; Reed,
Maricopa. '

MILITIA AND INDIAN AFFAIRS—3. Hightower, Yuma;
Merrill, Graham; Roberts, Cochise.

PUBLIC EXPENDITURES AND ACCOUNTS—3. Morris,
Yavapai; Sutter, Cochise; Pace, Graham.

ENROLLED AND ENGROSSED BILLS—3. Peterson, Nav—
ajo; McCormick, Gila; Gibbons, Apache.

PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS—3. Merrill, Graham; High—
tower, Yuma; Roberts, Cochise.

MINES AND MINING—5. Hall, Yavapai; Sutter, Cochise;
Merrill, Graham; Tobey, Mohave; Moore, Pima.

COUNTY AND COUNTY BOUNDARIES—5. McCormick,
Gila; Peterson, Navajo; Duffy,- Santa Cruz; Morris, Yavapai; Woolf,
Maricopa.

FEDERAL RELATIONS—3. Bourne, Pinal; Hall, Yavapai;
Peterson, Navajo.

AGRICULTURE— 5. Pace, Graham; DeSouza, Maricopa;
Hogwood, Pima; Doan, Pima; Gibbons, Apache.

PUBLIC BUILDINGS— 5. Woolf, Maricopa; Pace, Graham;
Morris, Yavapai; Bourne, Pinal; Doan, Pima.

TERRITORIAL LIBRARY—3. Hogwood, Pima; Bray, Yav-
apai; Reed, MariCOpa.

 

 Council Standing Cummitlees

Twenty-Fifth Legislative Assembly

MILITARY AND INDIANS.
Breen, Hampton, Morgan.

MINES AND MINING.
Goodrich, Burns, Weedin, Hampton, St. Charles.

CORPORATIONS.
Norton, Finley, Morgan, O’Neill, Burns.

WAYS AND MEANS.
Weedin, Day, Finley.

FEDERAL RELATIONS.
Finley, Weedin, Breen.

PRINTING.
St. Charles, O’Neill, Weedin, Breen, Finley.

TERRITORIAL AFFAIRS.
Morgan, Burns, Day, Weedin, Norton.

MEMORIALS AND PETITIONS.

Burns, St. Charles, Morgan.

ENROLLING AND ENGROSSING.
Hampton, Weedin, Breen.

EDUCATION.
Morgan, Hampton, Goodrich.

- COUNTIES AND COUNTY BOUNDARIES.
Burns, St. Charles, Norton, Goodrich, Finley.

JUDICIARY.
O’Neill, Hampton, Goodrich, Morgan, Burns.

CLAIMS.
Day, Norton, St. Charles.

AGRICULTURE.
Hampton, O’Neill, Norton.

ROADS AND FERRIES.
Finley, Morgan, St. Charles.

RULES.
St. Charles, O’Neill, Breen.

'Ph'oenlx Printing 60.. Phoenix. Aria.

 

 Statistics of White and Colored Population.

We are asked how woman suffrage would affect the race question. From the
figures below it is evident that the number of white women (possible voters) in the
Southern States is more than 611,000 greater than that of all the negroes, men and
women. In other words, with equal suffrage for women, admitting that both races
all voted, the white majority would be greater than the total white male vote of those
States. The figures are compiled from the latest U. S. Census.

 

“'IIITE. NEG ROES.

SOUTHERN

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1 M ALES. FEMALES.

1
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1

MALES. ,' FEMALES.

STATES' Under , 21 and L Under 21 and Under: 21 and Under 21 and
3 21. 1 over. 21. over. 21. over. 21. over.

Alabama . . . . 1 275.084 232.294 267.075 226 699 227,766 181.471 230.489 187,581
A rkansas . . . . 1 263,273 226 597 256.091 198.619 98,185 87,157 101,604 79,910
District of Col. . . 2 32.879 60.318 34.195 64.140 15.276 23.072 18.048 30,306
Florida. . . . . . 76,766 77 962 74 696 67.909 58.782 61.417 59.869 50 662
Georgia . . . . 315,632 277.496 310 590 277 576 286.796 223.073 298,146 226,798
Kentucky . . . . 478.842 469.206 467.120 447.141 67.345 74,728 68 878 73,760
Louisiana. . . . . 193.264 177.878 189 830 168 640 175 316 147.318 178.896 149.244
Maryland . . . . , 212.140 260.979 212,375 266.930 55.211 60.406 57,931 61.516
Mississippi . . . . 176.180 150 530 171.393 143.097 255.448 197.936 258.167 196.079
Missouri . . . . 704.180 809.797 694.458 736 408 34.788 46 418 35,776 44.252
North Carolina . . . 342 892 289.263 3331 791 297 657 176 510 127.114 181.190 139.655
South Carolina . . 150 772 130375 145.924 130.736 230 766 152.860 236.889 161.806
Tennessee . . . ‘ 407,656 475 046 394,310 363 174 126 152 112 236 127.161 114.694
Texas . . . . . 667.709 599.961 650.056 508.943 173 260 136.875 176.749 133.838
Virginia . . . . 300.617 301,379 293,687 297.172 177.337 146.122 181,957 155,306

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

14,597.886 4.439.081 4,495,591 4,194 841 2.158 938 1.778.233 2,211,745 1,805,407

 

Total White women over 21 in 14 States and District of Columbia, . . . 4.194.841
Total negro men over 21, 1,778 283; total negro women over 21, 1,805,407——3,583,640

Excess of white women over 21 above all the negro men and women, '. . 611,201

Evidently, therefore, if it be the wish and intention of the Southern States to
minimize as far as possible the political power of their colored population, and to do
it without prescription, injustice, or conflict with the U. S. Constitution, the exten-
sion of suffrage to women would accomplish this purpose. It may be said that in
some of the States, where the races are nearly equal numerically, the argument would
not apply. But the South, in all national questions, votes practically as a unit, and
if the race question were eliminated as a political issue by the extension of suffrage to
women, the States south of Mason and Dixon’s line would speedily regain national
supremacy. H. B. B.

 

   
 

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In all civiliZed countries, quietly, steadily, inevitably, a revolution is

taking place. The issue is the great matter of WOMAN ’S FREEDOM.
In the March issue of

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OLIVIA HOWARD DUNBAR writes of the woman’s rights movements of
the world in an article entitled “ THE WORLD’S HALF-CITIZENS.”
This article should be read by every woman as it is an attempt to fix
woman’s political, social and legal status—-

WOMAN | = CITIZEN

The March Everybody’s is for sale on all News—stands

 

 The Ohio

Equal Franchise Association

 

 

Honorary President:
MRS. BYRON STANTON
President: - - MRS. JOHN M. DIETZ
Vice-President: - MRS. CARL S. RANKIN
Secretary: - MISS FLORA E. WORTHINGTON
Treasurer: - MISS SOPHIA B. SPRIGG
Advisory Board:

DR. SAMUEL ALLEN MR. FENTON LAWSON
HON. L. A. BURRELL jUDGE \VM. LITTLEFORD
REV. CHAS. FREDERIC GOSS REV. SAMUEL TYLER

 

 

OUR PLATFORM
WmfiE THE OHIO EQUAL FRANCHISE
§< 34 E ASSOCIATION, realizing that wom-

3 Eiw an’s interests are the care of children,

the improvement of the public schools
and the Juvenile Court, the establish-
ment of playgrounds, the enactment
and enforcement of adequate child-labor laws and of laws
to protect women in industry and to safeguard morality,
and seeing that women are responsible for the health and
well-being of their households and are therefor vitally int-
erested in securing pure water, wholesome food and good
sanitary conditions: '
Resolve, that we ask for the ballot in order to elect
representatives who will give more attention to these import-
ant subjects than has been given hitherto in this State. We
wish for the suffrage not in order to compete with men,
but to co-operate with them in furthering the welfare of
this Commonwealth. We consider the exercise of the fran-
chise a duty that every intelligent woman owes to her
country and her home, and our motto is:
“The ballot for the better protection of our households”

MMMM

 

OHIO EQUAL FRANCHISE ASS’N
628 Lincoln Ave.-, Cin’ti, O.

 

  

 

To the Peemhers and Friends of the
GHIO EQUAL FRAHGHESE ASSDGIATION:

E have now enrolled four hundred mem-

bers in six counties, and our work needs

the interest and help of every one. Having no
dues, we depend altogether upon voluntary con-
tributions for the support of our society, and we
ask your subscriptions, large or small. If you
can give an hour a week to suffrage work, enroll
new members, distribute literature, or otherwise
aid us, let us know promptly. Your co-operation

will greatly increase our usefulness, and your

help may do much to make OHIO NEXT.

MRS. BYRON STANTON
FENTON LAWSON
WILLIAM LITTLEFORD

 

 

 

 Name and Address

III/III i )

T W E N T Y F I V E
GREATEST WOMEN

 

 

 

Guessmg Contest
of
NEW YORK STATE SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION
at its
February 14 & 15 FAIR 180 Madison Ave.

Four Volume “History of Woman Suffrage” the Prize

The Committee in charge of the above named
Fair makes the following announcement:

The History of \Voman Suffrage, the only

authorized and exhaustive history of the move-
ment, will be presented to the person who submits

the list of twenty—five greatest women in histon
which most closely resembles the list prepared b}
the Committee.

This copy contains the authograph of
SUSAN B. ANTHONY in each volume

Terms of Contest

The contest will close on the evening of Feb.
15, the last night of the Fair. Lists may be sent
by mail to the Fair Committee, 180 Madison
Ave., New York, or delivered during the Fair
at the Book and Stationery store, where the His—
tory will be on view.

 

 The contest is open to everyone except the
person who framed the list. Each list must be
plainly signed with the name and address of the
sender, and accompanied by ten cents. (Stamps
welcome.)

Nature of List

No Biblical characters are included.

The women named in the list have been chosen
because of what is considered essential greatness,
not fame.

Greatness, so far as the purposes of this list
are concerned, is held to consist of two elements:

I. Influence of their achievements upon life
and history, contemporaneous and in succeeding
generations.

2. Difficulty and pioneer quality of their
achievements.

I give herewith my list:

 

 no court or police system. In these school-
cities, girls as well as ‘boys vote and hold
office. This is a splendid ,preparation for
the future, encouraging as it does a feel-
ing of equality between the sexes, which

cannot but bring about Woman Sufirage.

The Committee on Education of the N.
A. W. S. A. was formed soon after the
meeting of that organization in Chicago,
1907.

For further particulars, address the
Chairman, '
A MRS. PAULINE STEINEM,

2228 Scottwood Avenue,
Toledo, Ohio.

Aims and Purposes of the

Committee on Education

 

 

NATIONAL AMERICAN
WOMAN SUF F RAGE
ASSOCIATION

 

 Realizing that the success of our work,
as of every lasting reform, must in the
last instance depend upon the develop-
ment of the individual, or in other words,
upon the education of our children, it is
the aim of this Committee to direct its
energies principally towards the Public
School, as the agency best fitted for this

purpose.

With this end in view the Committee

has outlined the following plan of work :

1. To encourage women to serve on
Boards of Education.

2. To secure text books showing a prop—
er reeognition of \Voman’s work and in—
fluence in the history and development of
nations, especially in History and Civics.

3. To organize Mothers’ Clubs and
Parents’ Organization or Patrons’Leagues
in connection with all school buildings.

These clubs and organizations serve the

cause of Woman Suffrage indirectly by

arousing women as well as men to a deeper
sense of their responsibilities, to a study

of the conditions under which their chil-

dren are working and to the need of

women on Boards of Education, While,
with the co-operation of the teachers they
may bring about many a vital reform in
the school, which will serve the cause of
\Voman Suffrage in a direct way. For in—
stance, pictures of the pioneers in our
movement may be placed on the walls of
our school-rooms and the opportunity se-
cured to tell something of their life and

work to the children.

School suffrage for women may be one
of the topics very properly considered at
a meeting of the Mothers’ Club or Parents’
organization, and above all the teachers
may be interested in the self-government
plan, more especially in the plan outlined
by Miss Jane Brownlee, which differs

from other school-city plans in that it has

 

 bond issues, mileage and cost of roads, organi—
zation work, etc.

Annually, the Association holds a Road Con—
gress for the discussion -of problems of road
construction, maintenance and administration,
and for correlation and co—ordination of the
work conducted by the various State and Inter-
state road organizations.

The Association co-operates with railroad com—
panies and the national government in educa—
tional campaigns through the medium of “Good
Roads Trains.” Under this plan the govern—
ment provides a miniature working exhibit illus—
trating types of roads and methods of con—
struction, a stereopticon with slides, and assigns
one or more demonstrators to accompany the
train at government expense for salary, travel
and subsistence. The Association at its own
expense provides an experienced organizer who
organizes in each count}T traversed, a practical
association, and suggests a constitution and a
working plan for it. Every agency for pro—
moting the movement for better roads is utilized
in the work which the Association has un—
dertaken.

The Association issues a Year Book contain—
ing all practicable data on road legislation, con—
struction, administration and economics. This
publication is for the benefit of the membership
primarily and is also given a wide distribution
outside of the regular membership.

Definite purposes, a practicable work-
ing plan, and continuous effort are the
three essentials which bring success to
the efforts of the‘Association.

American Highway
Association

ORGANIZED AT WASHINGTON, D. C., NOVEMBER
22, 1910

MR. L. W. PAGE
DIRECTOR. U. S. OFFICE PUBLIC ROAD.
PRESIDENT

MR. W. W. FINLEY
PRESIDENT. SOUTHERN RAILWAY co.
VlCE-PRESIDENT

MR. J. E. PENNYBACKER
SECRETARY

MR. LEE MCCLUNG
FORMER TREASURER OF THE UNITED STATES
TREASURER
MR. JAMES S. HARLAN
MEMBER INTER-STATE COMMERCE COMMISSION
CHAIRMAN. BOARD OF DIRECTORS

MR. CHARLES P. LIGHT
FIELD SECRETARY

gxzmtiuz Qtnntmittzs

MR. W. W. FINLEY. CHAIRMAN

@ummittnz nu mitiithzrship

MR. THOMAS NELSON PAGE. CHAIRMAN

Finantz QInmmittz}:

MR. LEE McCLUNG. CHAIRMAN

 

 Its purposes are:

To correlate and harmonize the efforts of
all existing organizations working for road
improvement.

To arouse and stimulate sentiment for road
improvement.

To strive for wise, equitable and uniform
road legislation in every State.

To aid in bringing about efficient road ad—
ministration in the States and their subdivi—
sions, involving the introduction of skilled
supervision and the elimination of politics from
the management of the public roads.

To seek continuous and systematic mainte—
nance of all roads, the classification of all roads
according to traffic requirements, payment of
road taxes in cash, and adoption of the prin-
ciple of State aid and State supervision.

To advocate the correlation of all road con-
struction so that the important roads of each
county shall connect with those of the adjoin—
ing counties and the important roads of each
State shall connect with those of adjoining
States.

To strive for the utilization of convict labor
on works of public improvement, where that
course is consistent with the local policy, so
as to involve the least possible competition with
free labor, the utmost public benefit, and a
healthy moral and physical development of the
convict. In many States these results can be
attained by using the convicts on road work or
the preparation of road materials.

The attitude of the Association toward Na—
tional Aid for road improvement is indicated

by the following resolution adopted by the
Board of Directors:

“That the Board of Directors of the Ameri—
can Highway Association approve of Federal
co—operation in highway construction and main-
tenance and that they believe the best results
could be obtained by first improving those main
highways which carry the greatest volume of
tonnage and serve the largest number of people,
taking into consideration the use of such high—
ways for the purpose of common traffic and
travel, and taking into further consideration the
equitable distribution of such highway improve—
ment among the several States.”

Working Plan

The control of the Association is vested in a
Board of Directors who in turn select an Execu—
tive Committee of five members. Committees
are provided for the various important lines of
activity. In addition to its volunteer non—paid
workers