s address--Wake Up America--was an appeal
for special sessions to ratify in those States where there were
to be no regular sessions until 1921 and an appeal to both men
and women to use their votes for a better America. Ratifications
in North Dakota December 1; South Dakota December 4; Colorado
December 12; Oregon January 12; Nevada February 7--were in answer
to those stirring appeals. California ratified November 1; Maine
November 5; Rhode Island and Kentucky January 6; Indiana January
16. Following soon New Jersey ratified by regular session
February 9. Idaho by special session February 11; Arizona
February 12. The special session is called in New Mexico February
16 and in Oklahoma February 23. [Both ratified.]

In the story of our ratification campaign there occurs often the
name of our second vice-president, Miss Mary Garrett Hay, whose
work for the National Association has always been valuable but
who has made her greatest contribution in work for the passage of
the Federal Amendment in the campaign to secure special sessions
and the overwhelming number of ratifications in Republican
States.

Mrs. Shuler told of the Oversea Hospitals, which are considered in
another chapter. She gave an eloquent tribute to Dr. Anna Howard Shaw
and spoke of the beautiful memorial booklet prepared by a committee of
officers of the National Association, who distributed 5,000 copies. It
also aided in circulating 10,000 copies of her last speech--What the
War Meant to Women--prepared as a memorial by the League to Enforce
Peace. She spoke tenderly of the death of Mrs. Rachel Foster Avery,
corresponding secretary of the National Association twenty-one years;
of that of Mrs. Elizabeth Wheeler Walker, who presided so charmingly
over the headquarters in Washington, and of Miss Aloysius
Larch-Miller, who as secretary of the committee on ratification in
Oklahoma sacrificed her life through her work for it. Reference was
made to the contributory work of the National Board in stabilizing the
League of Women Voters; to the Citizenship Schools and Travelling
Libraries, and the very complete report closed with a testimonial to
the immeasurable value of the national organization which read in
part:

Our State suffrage associations welded into a great chain have
made the National Association. Our members have been one in
heart, one in hope, o