dents, took part in these valuable discussions.

Mrs. McCormick related how her work as chairman of the national Press
Committee had been taken over by the press department of the Leslie
Bureau of Education when it was organized the preceding March and a
merger committee appointed consisting of Miss Rose Young and Mrs. Ida
Husted Harper of the Leslie Commission, and Mrs. Shuler and herself of
the association.[112] The report of the Leslie Bureau filled over
thirty pages of fine print as submitted by Miss Young, director, who
said in beginning:

By January of 1917 it had become apparent that the National
Association had an increasingly direct and comprehensive part to
play in State and Federal campaigns through its Press department
as one of its various points of contact with the suffrage field.
To inaugurate news and feature propaganda and information
services that would be live wires of connection between 171
Madison Avenue and the State affiliations all over the country
and the Capitol at Washington and the public press was the
immediate prospect of the then Press department.... Its
accumulated task included not only the conduct of its federal
political campaign at Washington, not only its definite program
of State propaganda and organization for constitutional amendment
campaigns, it had on its hands as well the great "drive" for
Presidential suffrage that had been initiated.

By spring Mrs. Catt's custodianship of the Leslie funds had been
determined by court decision and plans that she had been
mothering since 1915 could be put into execution. Those plans had
for their central detail the founding of a bureau for the
promotion of the woman suffrage cause through the education of
the public to the point of seeing it as essential to democracy,
and in March the Leslie Bureau of Suffrage Education was
organized for that purpose. From the beginning the outstanding
feature of the work was its size, and the outstanding need was to
get it housed and departmentalized, with department heads and an
adequate clerical staff. This done, the bureau, with a staff of
twenty-four, swarmed out over the whole 15th floor, besides two
small rooms on the 14th floor. It now includes six departments,
counting the Magazine Department, which is an everlasting story
by itself.

Miss Young told of