volume on the Federal Amendment, Mrs.
Annie G. Porritt's Laws Affecting Women and Children and Miss Martha
Stapler's Woman Suffrage Year Book. A number of pamphlets were printed
in lots of 100,000, and 700,000 copies of the amendment speech of
Senator John F. Shafroth of Colorado before the Senate.

The report of the Art Publicity Committee was made by its chairman,
Mrs. Ernest Thompson Seton, and related principally to the poster
competition, which closed with the exhibition at the national suffrage
headquarters in January. About 100 posters were submitted and $500 in
prizes awarded. Afterwards the prize winners and a selection from the
others, about thirty in all, were sent to the Washington suffrage
headquarters for display and then around to various cities which had
asked for them.

One of the largest evening meetings was that devoted to American
Women's War Service, with Mrs. Catt presiding. The first speaker was
Secretary of War Newton G. Baker and a few detached paragraphs can
give little idea of his eloquent address:

I sometimes ask myself what does this war mean to women? War
always means to women sorrow and sacrifice and a mission of mercy
but one of the large, redeeming hopes of this particular
struggle is that it will bring a broadening of liberty to women.
This war is waged for democracy. Democracy is never an
accomplished thing, it is always a process of growth, an endless
series of advances. President Wilson has called it a rule of
action. It is a rule that adapts conduct to environment. What was
called a democracy in Greece was a small privileged class ruling
over slaves. The members of the ruling class had certain
democratic relations with one another. There was no more of real
democracy in Rome. The first constitutional convention of the
French Revolution had a very restricted electoral system with a
property qualification. It was so with our own government in 1776
and 1789. It was a rule of conduct adapted to the environment of
that time....

The whole environment has changed. In 1789 we might quite
possibly have defined ourselves as a democracy, although women
did not vote, but not now. We speak of this as a war for
democracy. Women are making sacrifices just like men. The
activities of women in aid of the war are a necessary part of it.
If all the women were to stop their work tonight