subjects considered. It voted to ask the War Department to abolish
saloons in the soldiers' concentration and mobilization camps.
Resolutions were passed pledging "loyal and untiring support to the
Government." The convention expressed itself in no uncertain tones in
the following resolution telegraphed to President Wilson: "For nearly
seventy years the women of the United States have tried the State
rights' route with its long and tortuous path. Since the Texas
Legislature has repeatedly refused submission of the suffrage
amendment to the voters, thereby repudiating the State rights'
principle of the Democratic party, the State Equal Suffrage
Association hereby urges your support of the Federal Suffrage
Amendment to enfranchise the women of our country."

Mrs. Cunningham was literally conscripted president again, with a
budget calling for the expenditure of $30,000 and only $66.38 in the
treasury! Other offices were filled and then the women hurried home to
engage in Red Cross work, Liberty Loan work, anti-vice work; to knit,
to sew, to tramp the highways and byways for the various "drives"; to
make speeches before all sorts of audiences--women who a year before
were too timid to second a motion. Following the instructions of the
convention Mrs. Cunningham in June called together in San Antonio the
heads of all organizations of women and out of the conference was
formed the Woman's Anti-Vice Committee. Living in such close proximity
to the training camps, Texas women early learned with sinking hearts
of the unspeakable conditions obtaining there and their efforts to
remedy matters and to arouse the proper authorities were strenuous and
unceasing. Thousands of mothers whose sons were in training in far
away Texas will never know how earnestly the mothers of this State
labored to do by their sons as they would have wished their own done
by.

The Federal Amendment work was not neglected during this time, neither
was State work and organizations rapidly multiplied. The year 1918 is
one never to be forgotten by Texas suffragists. January was given over
to intensive work for the Federal Amendment. Day letters, night
letters and telegrams poured into Congress at such a rate that the
national president, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, referred to them as the
"heavy artillery down in Texas." The Executive Committee of the State
Association in session at Austin, on the 23rd authorized Mrs.
Cunningham and Mrs. Hortense Ward to call