ttee on Peace and Arbitration, gave her usual
able report describing her extensive work during the past year, which
neither in this or any other year was exceeded by that of any one
individual. After her return from the International Peace Congress in
London she succeeded in having the presidents of the suffrage
associations in fifteen States appoint supervisors of peace work and
others were about to do so. The educational authorities in every State
had been requested to arrange celebrations for May 18, the anniversary
of the first Hague Conference, and she should notify the suffrage
clubs to do this. Equal suffragists will aid the cause of justice for
themselves in the nation by working also for justice between the
nations. The abolition of war will do more than anything else to make
women respected and influential. It will substitute moral force for
brute force, reason for passion and will forever remove one of the
most popular arguments against giving political power to those who are
incapable of military service."

Mrs. Isabel C. Barrows (Mass.), the well known writer on social and
economic subjects, took part in the symposium that followed. Miss
Alice Stone Blackwell presided over the conference on What the Home
Needs for its Protection--Women on Health Boards, School Boards and in
the Police Department, and these subjects were considered by Mrs.
Susan S. Fessenden (Mass.), Mrs. Upton and Mrs. Barrows. It closed
with a paper by the Rev. Marie Jenney Howe on Woman's Municipal Vote.

One of the most important evening sessions was devoted to the question
of Municipal Government, with Dr. William H. Welch, Professor of
Pathology in Johns Hopkins University, presiding. A leading feature
was the address of the Hon. Frederick C. Howe of Cleveland, O., The
City for the People. He reviewed the mismanagement and political
corruption of the large cities, "controlled by great financial
interests and yet filled with eager, energetic people, struggling to
organize a good democratic movement of humanity focused on a
democratic ideal." In voicing the hope for the future he said:

There is an upward movement in all our cities. We are endeavoring
to work out democracy and are doing amazingly well. When it is
possible to organize the ideals of this new democratic movement
it will be a city not for men alone but for men and women. It is
business which has made our cities take the illogical position
tha