its attention on Los Angeles and the country districts throughout
the State. The Executive Board, composed of the following
members, Mrs. Simons, president; Mrs. Tolhurst, chairman of the
Speakers' Committee; Mrs. Berthold Baruch, of the Meetings
Committee; Miss Louise Carr, Literature; Mrs. Edson,
Organization; Mrs. Martha Nelson McCan, Press; Mrs. John R.
Haynes, Finance; Miss Annie Bock, secretary, concerned itself
with effective publicity work--public meetings, the distribution
of literature and the press....

Leaflets and pamphlets that appealed to every type of mind were
printed to the amount of over a million.... Votes-for-Women
buttons to the number of 93,000 and 13,000 pennants and banners
added their quota to the publicity work.... One of the most
effective means of publicity was that of letters of a personal
nature addressed to members of the various professions and
vocations. A letter was sent to 2,000 ministers asking their
cooperation; 60,000 letters were sent through the country
districts. Leaflets in Italian, German and French were given out
at the street meetings in the congested districts of Los Angeles.
A circular letter was sent in September to every club and
organization asking that they give an evening before the election
to a suffrage speaker to be supplied by the league. Suffrage was
presented to every class from the men's clubs in the churches to
the unions' meetings in the Labor Temple.

The importance of getting the endorsement of large bodies of
women was recognized. A few of these endorsing were the Woman's
Parliament of 2,000 members; State Federation of Women's Clubs,
35,000; Federated College Clubs, 5,000; State Nurses'
Association, 800; State W. C. T. U., 6,000; Woman's Organized
Labor, 36,000, and the Los Angeles Teachers' Club, 800. All of
these endorsements were secured at conventions held in Southern
California and the Northern women pursued the same policy. These
do not include those made by organizations of men, or of men and
women or of clubs for suffrage alone and these in the South
exceeded fifty. In a large measure success was due to the
inestimable assistance given by the eminent speakers, among them
supreme court judges, prominent lawyers, physicians, ministers,
noted educators and philanth