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suggestions for stories. The Art Committee illustrated the special
editions and made cartoons. They held an exhibit of suffrage posters
with prizes and raised money through an exhibition and sale of the
work of women painters and sculptors. A new suffrage game was invented
and installed at Coney Island. They supplied the posters for $70,000
worth of advertising space on billboards and street cars which was
contributed by the owners during the final weeks of the campaign. They
organized and managed the suffrage banner parade, the largest which
had yet taken place.

Among the other publicity "stunts" of the council were suffrage
baseball games, a Fourth of July celebration at the Statue of Liberty
and Telephone and Telegraph Day, when the wires carried suffrage
messages to politicians, judges, editors, clergymen, governors,
mayors, etc., all of these "stunts" receiving a large amount of
newspaper publicity. The most effective was the One Day Strike, to
answer the argument used by the "antis" that "woman's place was in the
home" by asking all women to stay at home for only one day. The
suggestion was never intended to be carried out and did not go further
than a letter sent by Mrs. Whitehouse to the presidents of women's
clubs and some other organizations, asking them to come to a meeting
to consider the plan, copies of which were sent to the newspapers. The
effect was extraordinary. Department stores, telephone company
managers, employers of all kinds of women's labor, hospitals and
schools, protested loudly against the crippling of public service, the
loss of profits and the disruption of business which would result from
even one day's absence of women from their public places. Editorial
writers devoted columns to denouncing the proposal. Suffrage leaders
were bitterly criticized for even suggesting such a public calamity.
The favorite argument of the "antis" was answered for all time.

At the very end of the campaign the anti-suffragists began to
advertise extensively in the subway and on the elevated roads in New
York City but the firm that controlled this space refused to accept
any advertising from the suffragists. Woman's wit, however, was equal
to the emergency. For the three days preceding the election one
hundred women gave their time to riding on elevated and subway trains
holding up large placards on which were printed answers to the "anti"
advertisements. The public understood and treated the women with m