methods of publicity work and the
signal success they had achieved. A Chicago office had been opened for
organization and a system established of thorough congressional
district work, a detailed account of which filled half a dozen pages
of the printed Minutes. Miss Lillie Glenn and Miss Lavinia Engle had
been appointed field organizers and a number of States were canvassed,
speeches made indoors and out in scores of counties, women's societies
visited and many suffrage clubs formed. Every kind of transportation
was used, from muleback to automobiles, and many hardships were
encountered. The report closed with several pages of valuable
suggestions for what would be a thorough political campaign if carried
out. Mrs. McCormick also gave an interesting report of her
chairmanship of another committee, saying:

Early in the summer of 1914 Mrs. Desha Breckinridge advanced the
valuable idea of a special campaign committee to be appointed by
the National Board for the purpose of giving aid to the campaign
States by establishing a speakers' bureau for their benefit and
devising means for raising necessary funds, which the National
Board approved. My indorsement would have been less enthusiastic
could I have foreseen that I would be selected as chairman. A
special finance committee was appointed, Mrs. Stanley McCormick,
chairman; Miss Addams, treasurer, and I, secretary. Miss Ethel M.
Smith, of Washington, D. C., spent her vacation establishing a
speakers' bureau in the Chicago headquarters and it has been
conducted by Mrs. Josephine Conger-Kanecko. As many national
speakers have been routed through the campaign States as our
finances would permit. We were faced with the discouraging fact
that to do really active campaign service we would need a fund of
not less than $50,000 and we had less than $13,000. We collected
and distributed in cash a less amount than would be used on the
campaign of a city alderman in an off year.

The plan of self-sacrifice day had been suggested to Mrs.
Breckinridge by a Wisconsin suffragist and adopted by the
National Board and a general appeal went out to the women of
America to sacrifice something in aid of suffrage and contribute
the amount to the general fund for use in the campaign States.
[$9,854 were realized.] Mrs. Funk, while walking through the
Capitol one day, obser