to its chairman, Miss Mabel Caldwell
Willard, chairman of the social activities; Mrs. George Bass and
Mrs. Medill McCormick, representing respectively the
organizations of Democratic and Republican women affiliated with
the national party committees; Mrs. J. Borden Harriman, Mrs. C.
W. McClure and Mrs. William L. McPherson. No report of the
Washington headquarters would be complete without mention of the
help given in innumerable ways by our house manager, Mrs.
Elizabeth W. Walker, whose patience, tact and good judgment have
made comfortable living possible under the most trying
circumstances.

Members of the National Board who have been called on to assist
are first and foremost our honorary president, Dr. Shaw; Mrs.
Katharine Dexter McCormick and Mrs. Horace C. Stilwell of
Indiana. Upon Mrs. Catt, the national president, your committee
has constantly depended for advice and direction. Our misfortune
has been that we could not have her continually in Washington.

To these a list of names was added of those who assisted during long
or short periods. There was an account of the social uses of the
Washington headquarters. In January, February and March of 1918 Miss
Willard, with the help of Mrs. Louis Brownlow, arranged a series of
weekly teas on Wednesday afternoons. Among the hostesses, the guests
of honor and those serving at the table were some of the most
prominent women in Washington--wives of the members of the Cabinet,
Senators and Representatives. Social affairs were finally given up as
war relief work absorbed other interests. Under the direction of Mrs.
Brownlow, daughter of Representative Sims (Tenn.) and wife of the
Chief Commissioner for the District of Columbia, the Washington Equal
Franchise League established a Red Cross Branch at headquarters, where
valuable work was done by suffragists. Several entertainments for the
benefit of the Oversea Hospitals were given at the house and over
$1,000 raised.

At the close of this report the convention gave a rising vote of
thanks to Mrs. Park and a number of delegates paid special tribute to
the excellent work of the chairman and the committee. A discussion
which followed by Miss Katharine Ludington (Conn.); Mrs. Andreas
Ueland (Minn.); Miss Anna B. Lawther (Iowa); Mrs. Lila Mead Valentine
(Va.) and Mrs. Leslie Warner (Tenn.), under the head "And Now--What?"
was devoted to ways and