e number, political, religious, agricultural, labor, etc. Mrs.
Dennett estimated that such endorsements had now been given by
organizations representing 26,000,000 members.

Mrs. Pauline Steinem, chairman of the Committee on Education, reported
sub-committees in sixteen States working for suitable text books,
encouraging the placing of women on school boards, organizing mothers'
and parents' clubs, offering prizes for essays on woman suffrage,
encouraging methods of self-government in schools, etc. The chairman
for New Jersey announced that Governor Woodrow Wilson approved of
School suffrage and that State Senator Joseph S. Frelinghuysen,
president of the State Board of Education, recommended it in his last
report.

College Women's Evening, as always, attracted one of the largest
audiences of the week. In the course of an address on What Women Might
Accomplish with the Franchise, Miss Jane Addams said:

Sydney Webb points out that while the wages of British working
men have increased from 50 to 100 per cent. during the past sixty
years the wages of working women have remained stationary. The
exclusion from all political rights of five million working women
in England is not only a source of industrial weakness and
poverty to themselves but a danger to English industry. Working
women can not hope to hold their own in industrial matters where
their interests may clash with those of their enfranchised fellow
workers or employers. They must force an entrance into the ranks
of responsible citizens, in whose hands lies the solution to the
problems which are at present convulsing the industrial world.

Much of the new demand for political enfranchisement arises from
a passionate desire to reform the unsatisfactory and degrading
social conditions which are responsible for so much wrong doing.
The fate of all the unfortunate, the suffering, the criminal, is
daily forced upon woman's attention in painful and intimate ways.
It is inevitable that humanitarian women should wish to vote
concerning all the regulations of public charities which have to
do with the care of dependent children and the Juvenile Courts,
pensions to mothers in distress, care of the aged poor, care of
the homeless, conditions of jails and penitentiaries, gradual
elimination of the social evil, extended care of young girls,
suppression of gamb