information to be utilized in debates, lectures and school
magazines.... The records show that we have replied to 1,214
adverse editorials and letters in papers from Maine to California
and secured space in New York City papers for 2,163 notices and
articles without any charge to us. We have received and read
62,519 clippings gathered for us by the press clipping bureau,
9,163 of them cut from New York papers alone. Representatives of
newspapers and magazines from the following countries have come
to us for material: Australia, Finland, Alaska, France, Germany,
England, Sweden, Norway, Japan, Wales, Denmark, Russia, Italy,
Mexico, Spain, Holland, Hawaii, South America and Canada, as well
as from nearly every State in the Union. A number of Sunday
papers in the large cities are devoting weekly space to suffrage
departments, beginning by publishing the press items and
gradually expanding.... Some of the more serious magazines have
recently solicited our cooperation, notably the _Literary Digest_
and the _American Review of Reviews_, whose political editor
called personally a few days ago and requested that we send him
regularly such suffrage news as we may have at hand, that the
items may be embodied in reports of the world's political news.
Another important feature of the work of the bureau consists in
furnishing material to press chairmen and others to be used in
answering attacks on suffrage in their local papers.

Miss Reilly complimented the work of the press chairmen in the States,
speaking especially of Mrs. D. D. Terry of Little Rock, who furnished
material to seventy-five papers in Arkansas and to a syndicate
reaching the weekly papers of the southwest.

A conference was held in the afternoon on the Proper Function of the
National Association, led by Dr. M. Carey Thomas of Bryn Mawr and Dr.
Anna E. Blount of Chicago. The first evening of the convention was
designated as Jubilee Night and Dr. Shaw said in beginning her
president's address: "The eighteen months which have elapsed since our
last convention have been permeated with suffrage activity. Never in
an equal length of time has there been such rapid progress in the
enlistment of recruits and the development of active service. By an
aggressive out-of-door campaign the message has been carried to a not
unwilling people. Never was there a more signa