ved a bride with much gold jewelry in
evidence and expressed the wish that a little of the gold used
for personal ornament might find its way into a treasure chest to
be sold for the campaign States and so the idea of the "melting
pot" was suggested.... The plan was endorsed and put into
operation as follows: A carefully selected list of names of women
was taken from among the various suffrage organizations,
colleges, churches, etc. These women received a letter asking for
a contribution to the melting pot and further urging them to
accept a sub-committeeship, making themselves responsible for
soliciting from at least six people a contribution and keeping
track of this group until their possibilities had been exhausted.
The names of these persons were carefully scanned by the general
committee and two or three out of each group of six were asked to
go at the head of a further sub-committee and so something not
unlike an endless chain was created. Although this was put into
effect hastily and during the intense heat of a Washington
summer, it was an enormous success and now at the close of the
campaign contributions are still coming in and we consider that
the top soil of melting pot possibilities has not been scratched.
[$2,732 were realized.]

Mrs. Funk's report of her campaign work was an excellent showing of
the situation which the suffragists faced in State campaigns and had
done from the beginning:

From the time I left Washington August 25, until I returned to
Chicago October 27, I covered approximately 8,000 miles. After
speaking three days in Indiana, where the suffragists were
straining every nerve to secure a constitutional convention, I
spent two days in Chicago and then started into the western
States. My first three days were spent in Omaha, and, although my
original itinerary contemplated my coming to Nebraska for the
last ten days of the campaign, this was afterwards changed and I
went back to Montana a second time, so my observations regarding
Nebraska refer to Omaha alone. Here existed an almost
unbelievable condition of opposition. The brewers had come openly
into the field against us and the brewing interests are connected
with many of the big financial ventures in that city. Bankers,
merchants, tailors and other business men whose