se of the W. C. T. U. with white. Mrs. William R. Woodall,
president of the Atlanta association, and Miss Katherine Koch had
carried on a suffrage school the first and second Wednesdays from
February 24 to December 1. The motion picture suffrage play Your Girl
and Mine had been put on in the Grand Opera House. The branch in Rome
published an official organ called _The Woman's Magazine_.

In February, 1916, the State association and its three auxiliaries in
Atlanta worked with the Equal Suffrage Party and the Woman Suffrage
League to secure 10,000 names to a petition to the city council asking
for the Municipal franchise. State Senator Helen Ring Robinson of
Colorado and Mesdames Brooks, Kenney and Horine of Washington, D. C.,
came to their assistance. There were street speaking from automobiles
at night and meetings at private residences and they secured over
9,000 names. The city council gave a hearing, the Hon. Claude Peyton
making the presentation speech. The members listened apathetically and
appeared much relieved when Attorney Robert M. Blackburn assured them
they could not give women Municipal suffrage, as the State
constitution declared only male citizens could vote. Letters were sent
to the delegates to the two national conventions of the dominant
political parties, asking them to put a strong suffrage plank in their
platforms and Mrs. Woodall and Mrs. Laura Couzzens responded to Mrs.
Catt's call for marchers at the Chicago and St. Louis conventions.
Governor N. E. Harris refused to include woman suffrage in the call
for the special session of the Legislature which made the State "bone
dry," but this year it enacted a number of laws for which the
association had long worked.

On Feb. 12, 13, 1917, officers of the National Association held a
suffrage school in Atlanta. When the Legislature assembled in June all
the members found on their desks a notice that bills granting
Municipal suffrage to women, also full suffrage, and one to raise the
age of consent from 10 years to 18 would be introduced. The State
association sent the national suffrage organ, the _Woman Citizen_, for
a year to the United States Senators and fourteen Representatives in
Congress; to the members of the Legislature and all State officials.
The Atlanta association again conducted a three months' suffrage
school. The State convention in December in the Assembly Hall of the
Piedmont Hotel closed with a luncheon at which many prominent men and