most efficient volunteer worker in Washington--Mrs. Helen H.
Gardener--who gave unstinted personal service in seeing that the
documents were obtained and franked when needed....
[Illustration: COURT HOUSE OF WARREN, OHIO
Headquarters of the National American Woman Suffrage Association from
1903 to 1910--on the ground floor.]
[Illustration: HOME OF SUSAN B. ANTHONY IN ROCHESTER, N. Y.
Headquarters of the National American Woman Suffrage Association until
1895.]
The convention accepted the recommendation of the board that it should
issue a monthly bulletin of facts and figures to be sent to every
paying member, thus establishing a real bond between the association
and its thousands of members. The report of the Press Bureau by its
chairman, Miss Caroline I. Reilly, showed remarkable progress in
public sentiment as expressed by the newspapers. It said in part:
The winning of California last year wrought so complete a change
in the work of the national press bureau that it was like taking
up an entirely new branch. Before that victory our time was
employed in furnishing suffrage arguments, replying to adverse
editorials and letters published in the newspapers and writing
syndicate articles. Now this department has resolved itself into
a bureau of information, news being the one thing required. Each
week we send to our mailing list 2,000 copies of the press
bulletin, giving brief items relative to suffrage activities the
world over. These go into every non-suffrage State in the Union,
to Canada, Cuba and England, and the demand for them increases
daily. Almost every mail brings letters from newspapers asking to
be placed on the regular mailing list.... Since the winning of
the four States on November 5, newspapers and press associations
from all over the United States have written us asking for help
to establish woman suffrage departments. The time has come when
our question is a paying one from a publicity point of view, ...
We now have twenty syndicates on our list and are no longer
obliged to write the articles ourselves but simply furnish the
information which their own writers work up. These syndicates are
both national and international and cover all of this country as
well as some foreign countries. An interesting thing happened
last week, when the representative of a European pre
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