ers of women would not work but that those who
were willing were untrained and inefficient. It was at first
proposed to charge for instruction in the schools but this plan
had to be abandoned and the National Association assumed most of
the financial obligation.

Our first school was held in Baltimore in December, 1916. The
manager was Mrs. Livermore, the instructors herself, Mrs. Wilson
and Mrs. Geyer. The second was in Portland, Me., January 8-20,
1917. The nineteen schools were all under the direction of the
organization department. They began with Maryland and extended
through fourteen of the southern and middle-west States, closing
March 30 in Detroit, Mich. Three instructors, Mrs. Halsey Wilson,
Mrs. Cotnam and Miss Doughty, taught Suffrage History and
Argument, Organization, Publicity and Press, Money Raising,
Parliamentary Law. The chairman of organization, Mrs. Shuler,
taught Organization, Parliamentary Law and Money Raising in the
Portland school and in the last five schools of the series.

Mrs. Shuler referred to the war work of the association, which is
described elsewhere, and told of the wide field that had been covered
by organizers, who had reached the number of 225 during the year, many
of them employed by the States. The organization work was classified
and standardized. A conference of organizers met in New York where
they were instructed by Mrs. Catt, and a pamphlet, the A. B. C. of
Organization, was prepared by Mrs. Shuler. As an example of the work
done, nine organizers reported 385 meetings in eleven weeks in 25
States and organization effected in 178 towns. The report told of the
work done from the headquarters for the Presidential suffrage that had
been obtained in various States and in campaigns.

The report of the Committee on Presidential Suffrage was of especial
interest, as for the first time in all the years, with one exception,
there were victories to record. This report had been made annually by
Henry B. Blackwell, editor of _The Woman's Journal_ until his death in
1910, but although he had implicit faith in the possibility of this
partial franchise he did not live to see its first success in Illinois
in 1913. Miss Elizabeth Upham Yates (R. I.) followed him in the
chairmanship but met with an accident which caused her to relinquish
it to Mrs. Robert S. Huse. She believed the granting of this form of
the fr