nrolled for the full course and hundreds of men and women attended
the special lectures. The "faculty" of the school included the Chief
Justice of the Supreme Court, members of the faculty of the State
University and other well known men and women. Social Forces, a
topical outline with bibliography, published this year by the
Education Committee, Mrs. A. S. Quackenbush, chairman, was especially
designed for the instruction of women, first, in existing conditions,
and second, in the various movements made to improve them. Copies were
purchased by universities, organizations and individuals all over the
United States. Wisconsin Legislators and the Home was a valuable
pamphlet compiled by Miss James following the legislative session of
1913, giving the records of all members on the bills of especial
interest to women which came up that year. Wisconsin Legislation,
Topics for Discussion, was prepared in 1915 by Mrs. J. W. McMullein
Turner for the use of the legislative and educational committees.
Miss James served as legislative chairman in 1913; Mrs. Ben Hooper in
1915; Mrs. Joseph Jastrow in 1917; Mrs. Hooper again in 1919. She was
also for several years congressional chairman. Regular press service
was continued during the last decade, a weekly letter being sent to
100 newspapers. Mrs. Youmans had charge of all publicity during her
presidency. Mrs. Gudden supplied suffrage letters regularly to several
German papers and due to her ability they were always published.
In March, 1916, a Congressional Conference was held in Milwaukee with
Mrs. Catt, the national president, as the chief speaker. In June at
the time of the Republican National Convention in Chicago the
association sent to the great suffrage parade an impressive
contingent, accompanied by a G. A. R. drum corps. This year it gave
$500 to the Iowa campaign and among its members who assisted there and
in campaigns in other States were Mrs. Hooper, Mrs. Haight, Miss
Curtis, Mrs. Maud McCreery, Miss Edna Wright and Mrs. Youmans.
On Oct. 14, 1917, a branch of the National Woman's Party was formed in
the home of Mrs. Victor Berger and became active. There were two
anti-suffrage societies of women, one in Milwaukee and one in Madison,
and together they formed a so-called State association, of which Mrs.
C. E. Estabrook was president and Mrs. Francis Day an active member.
They provided speakers for legislative hearings and signed their names
to newspaper articles sen
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