Lucretia L. Blankenburg, wife
of the chief executive of this city, to whose eloquent words of
welcome you have just listened; in the name of the first
president of our State association, of whom the poet Whittier
wrote: "The way to make the world anew is just to grow as Mary
Grew." We welcome you in the name of our national president, the
Rev. Anna Howard Shaw, who, although a citizen of the world,
comes back to her Pennsylvania home to get fresh strength and
courage.

Mrs. James Lees Laidlaw, a national officer, made a graceful response
for the association. Fraternal greetings were given by Mrs. Barsels,
from the Pennsylvania Woman's Christian Temperance Union; by Mrs.
Branstetter of Oklahoma from the National Socialist Party; by Mrs.
Campbell McIvor of Toronto from the Canadian Woman Suffrage
Association and later by Miss Leonora O'Reilly from the New York
Women's Trade Union League.

Miss Laura Clay, chairman of the Membership Committee, announced the
admission of nine new societies to the National Association. There
were 308 delegates in attendance. Mrs. Mary Ware Dennett,
corresponding secretary and chairman of the Literature Committee, said
in the course of her report:

We are often asked at headquarters and by mail what the national
headquarters is for and what it does. The briefest answer that
can be given is that we furnish ammunition for the suffrage
fight. The ammunition is of many sorts, from money, leaflets and
buttons to historical data, slide lectures and advice on
organization.... One decided advantage in making headquarters
more useful to visitors has been the enlargement of the main
office. A partition was removed which gave us a large, light room
where all our publications are accessible for consultation or
purchase, all the chief suffrage periodicals of the world are on
file, the gallery of eminent suffragists is on exhibition and all
the various kinds of supplies, like buttons, pennants, posters,
etc., are shown. It serves as reference library as well, for
beside the History of Woman Suffrage, the Life of Susan B.
Anthony and the bound volumes of the _Woman's Journal_, there is
a collection of books on interests allied to suffrage, which have
been selected and approved by the board. These are also on
sale.... During the summer of 1912 a questionnaire was sent to