f Bryn Mawr College
spoke under the auspices of the State Collegiate Alumnae on the Need
of Woman's Ballot and made a strong impression on this conservative
university city. From May the College League assumed the office duties
and the State association carried on the field work. This year a booth
was secured at the Food Fair of the Retail Grocers' Association,
where thousands of new members were enrolled, tens of thousands of
leaflets were distributed and much publicity work was done. The
"suffrage map" was in evidence, showing the many States that had been
won, an irrefutable argument against the emanations of the
anti-suffrage booth. At no other time and place could so many classes
of persons be reached. The arduous work involved was carried on by
Miss Alice F. Porter, Miss Nettie E. Bauer, Mrs. George E. Dunbar,
Miss Enid Peirce, Miss Althea L. Hall, Miss Margaretha Dwight, Mrs.
Caroline Dowell, Miss Ethel Parks and a score more of like unselfish
workers.[158] At the annual meeting in October Mrs. Homer, who had
been the efficient corresponding secretary for six years, declined
re-election and Mrs. Sara L. Fittz was elected to the office, which
position she retained until the end. She served also as chairman of
the Publicity Committee and was always in demand as a speaker. Miss
Hall went to assist in the Ohio campaign, accompanied by Mrs. Camilla
Von Klenze, president of the College League. In April Dr. Shaw
addressed a large audience at Infantry Hall. In the summer suffrage
headquarters were established on Franklin Street, Newport, mainly
through the energy of Mrs. Belmont, a member of the Newport League,
and meetings were held here every afternoon during this and other
seasons.

In 1913 the work of the year opened with a lecture by Miss Mary
Johnston, the novelist, on Woman in Politics and one by Mrs. Carrie
Chapman Catt on the White Slave Traffic. Mrs. Catt also addressed a
meeting in the interests of the Woman Suffrage Party, which had been
organized under the leadership of Mrs. Sara M. Algeo. The State
association and the College League being dues-paying organizations
there was an open field for the non-dues-paying Suffrage Party formed
along political lines. Nearly all the members of the older
associations joined it and at the same time continued to maintain
their own lines of propaganda. Miss Yates, the State president, was
invited by the municipal government to deliver the Fourth of July
address at City Ha