e as automobilists and of
their worth as public speakers. They have suffered actual
privations crossing the desert and more recently in the Bad Lands
of the northwest. They were on the Mexican border during the
raids and their car had to be pulled out of rivers during the
floods; their courage has never faltered and they have given
another proof of the well-known fact that you can't discourage a
suffragist. They set out to make a circuit of the United States
with the same determination that we all have set out to win our
enfranchisement and they will not give up until the circuit is
made. So far nineteen States have been included in the itinerary
and it is planned to cover six more. The newspaper publicity has
been nation-wide....

Later Miss Ogden made her report for the National Woman Suffrage
Publishing Company. "We exist," she said, "for two purposes--to serve
the suffrage cause throughout the country and to prove that we can
serve that cause and also develop a successful business." She spoke of
the devoted office staff, under the business manager, Miss Anna De
Baun, who had made personal sacrifices again and again when necessary.

The report of the recording secretary, Mrs. Mary Foulke Morrisson
(Ills.), to whom had been entrusted the organization of the great
parade of suffragists during the National Republican Convention in
Chicago and especially its financing, stated that $6,699 had been
raised by the State and Chicago Equal Suffrage Associations; $200 by
the Chicago Political Equality League and some hundreds of dollars by
local leagues and individuals. She paid high tribute to the unwearying
work of Mrs. Medill McCormick, who, speaking and organizing in the
city and outlying towns "won the support of whole sections of the
community that had hitherto been utterly indifferent." Mrs. Morrisson
herself had spoken fifty times in the interest of the parade in
Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Iowa and the Mississippi Valley Conference.

The report of the national treasurer, Mrs. Henry Wade Rogers, was
received with much appreciation of her money-getting ability and
satisfactory accounting. The total receipts for the year were $81,863
and the close of the fiscal year found a balance on hand of $8,869.
The largest contributions had been $500 each from the State
associations of Illinois, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey and
Pennsylvania. The National College Eq