ok active charge of the
work from July 10 to September 12, during the absence of the
chairman. The management of the office and the Department of
Publicity have been in the hands of the executive secretary, Miss
Ethel M. Smith.

Social activities through the spring and early summer were in
charge of Miss Heloise Meyer, assisted by Mrs. J. Borden
Harriman. Miss Mabel Caldwell Willard has represented the
committee in undertakings involving the house as a center for
local work. These have included getting hostesses to receive
visitors at headquarters, supplying speakers for local meetings,
providing cooperation with the suffrage federation of the
District of Columbia for the daily afternoon teas, and looking
after hospitality for delegates to conventions meeting in
Washington. Among the organizations for which receptions have
been arranged are Daughters of the American Revolution,
Association of Collegiate Alumnae, Confederate Veterans, Sons of
Veterans, Daughters of the Confederacy, Congress of Mothers,
Parent-Teacher Associations and Farm and Garden Associations. Ten
of the fourteen members of the committee, in addition to the
executive secretary, have given highly valued service in
Washington during the last nine months. Other suffragists not
members have kindly devoted days or weeks to our work and the
local suffrage associations have been most cordial in their
response to our requests.

Any attempt to state our obligations to our national president
would be futile. Our high hope for the adoption of the Federal
Amendment by the 65th Congress is linked inseparably with our
faith in her leadership.

[Illustration: A LECTURE IN THE BANQUET HALL OF THE WASHINGTON
SUFFRAGE HEADQUARTERS.

Formerly occupied by the French Embassy.]

The report of Mrs. Walter McNab Miller (Mo.) first vice-president,
described a year of continuous work, almost from ocean to ocean,
speaking to State suffrage conventions, federations of women's clubs,
federations of labor, trade unions, universities, normal schools,
churches, meetings of all kinds and without number. In the two Dakotas
she spoke twenty-nine times. She referred to her visit to Jefferson
City, Mo., her luncheon with the wife of Governor Frederick D.
Gardner, the suffrage meeting "which put the State capital in a
ferment and caused the po