ril 17, 18, a meeting of the Executive Council of the
National Association was held in Indianapolis. The Board took
action on Oklahoma, agreeing to give organizers, press work and
literature to the amount of $13,650, provided the State would put
two more trained organizers in the field immediately and raise
the rest of the "budget," about $11,000. Mrs. Threadgill
attending this meeting and agreed to the plan.

On May 1 Miss Marjorie Shuler was sent by the National
Association to take entire charge of press and political work,
and, to quote from Miss Katherine Pierce's report, "to her
effective work with the newspapers of the State was due in a
great measure the success of the campaign." Three hundred were
supplied with weekly bulletins and two-and-a-half pages of plate,
and the last week 126,000 copies of a suffrage supplement sent
from national headquarters in New York were circulated through
the newspapers. As a unit the suffrage organization was used for
the 3rd and 4th Liberty Loans, and a statewide Unconditional
Surrender Club, in which nearly 100,000 members were enrolled,
was organized by Miss Shuler. In the face of these activities the
men paid little heed to the charges of pacifism and lack of
patriotism made against the suffragists by paid "anti" speakers
sent in from outside the State.

May 1 found the Campaign Committee without funds and a meeting
held in Oklahoma City early in the month passed the following
resolution: "On account of the unusual conditions prevailing at
this time which have caused the Oklahoma State Campaign Committee
to find itself unable to meet the expenses of the campaign, said
committee does hereby dissolve and stands ready to cooperate in
any way possible in any plans that may be evolved by the National
Board, hoping for its continued aid and support and expressing
warmest thanks and most earnest appreciation of the generous aid
and assistance already given." This resolution was unanimously
carried, the committee dissolved and Mrs. Clarence Henley was
made chairman, Mrs. Frank Haskell, vice chairman, Mrs. A..
Crockett, secretary, Mrs. Blanche Hawley, treasurer, and Mrs. C.
B. Ames, chairman of finance of a new one. As the State had not
put in the two trained organizers, the National Board sent Mrs.
Ma