interest and the gradual adoption of a
definite line of effort."

(2) Food Production. The chairman, Mrs. Henry Wade Rogers, treasurer
of the association, after speaking of the cooperation received from
the Department of Agriculture, said in part: "We appealed to all State
suffrage presidents to appoint chairmen and encourage their local
leagues to cooperate in every way possible in increasing the food
supply and a splendid response came. We urged the importance of
enlisting women to undertake practical gardening or farming and to
provide training for women to this end. We urged the opening in every
State of two or three Farm Employment Bureaus for women through which
graduates of Agricultural Colleges and others with less training could
be placed on farms, and farmers who were progressive enough to want
women's help could be reasonably sure of securing it. We arranged with
the largest overalls company in the United States to design and put
out a suitable farm uniform for women, which was extensively sold and
used.... The reports at the end of the season testified to the
millions of gardens worked by suffragists, to the thousands who helped
on farms or went to farm training schools, to canning kitchens and
home canning on a scale hitherto unthought-of."

(3) Industrial Protection of Women. The chairman, Miss Ethel M. Smith,
said in part:

"This committee was created by the National Suffrage Board to
secure women workers to fill the places of men called for
military service and it promised to 'protect the work of such
women.' A letter was sent to five hundred Chambers of Commerce
over Mrs. Catt's signature, asking for their cooperation in
behalf of women workers against the danger of excessive overtime
and underpay. The slogan of 'Equal Pay for Equal Work' was
utilized and vigilance committees were planned for each State to
note the conditions in industrial localities and report back to
Washington. The questions of equal pay for equal work and equal
opportunity for women were then taken up with the Government
departments, which have been quite as unfair to women employees
as have private firms. The scale of pay is notoriously less than
for men, and women have been excluded from the civil service
examinations for many positions which they are well equipped to
fill. We therefore sent a letter to the Departments of War,
Navy, State and