nt women must not be left out. "This
Americanization is a function peculiarly appropriate to suffragists,"
she said, "as a woman married to an alien must herself forever remain
an alien unless her husband becomes a citizen, and as the States
enfranchise women hundreds of thousands will still be left without the
vote. Every married alien whom suffragists help to take out
naturalization papers means not only a vote for him but also for his
wife.

During the convention in December, 1917, the plan for Oversea
Hospitals was presented to the delegates by Mrs. Charles L. Tiffany of
New York, at the request of Mrs. Catt, the national president, to whom
the matter had been suggested by the action of the Scottish Suffrage
Societies in sending to France in 1914 the Scottish Women's Hospitals,
units managed and staffed entirely by women, and was accepted. Mrs.
Tiffany was made chairman of the Hospital Committee and Mrs. Raymond
Brown director of the work in France. At the convention of March,
1919, in St. Louis, Mrs. Brown made a full report, from which the
following is an extract.

"At its convention in 1917 the National Suffrage Association, as
part of its war work, agreed to support a hospital unit in France
and undertook to raise $125,000 for its maintenance for a year.
This unit was already in process of organization by a group of
women physicians of the New York Infirmary for Women and Children
and was to be composed entirely of women. Since the U. S.
Government does not accept women in its Medical Reserve Corps,
and at that time neither it nor the Red Cross was sending women
surgeons for service abroad, the unit was offered to the French
Government, which accepted it by cable. The first group of the
unit sailed on Feb. 17, 1918, and expected to establish a
hospital for refugees in the devastated area. Before they could
be installed the villages to which they had been assigned were
taken in a new drive by the Germans and about half the group,
headed by Dr. Caroline Finley, was suddenly called upon for
hospital service within the war zone. The hospital to which they
were assigned was evacuated before they could reach it and they
were finally placed in Chateau Ognon, a few miles north of Senlis
on the road to Compiegne.

"Soon after the first group was sent into the war zone, the
French Government asked the remainder of