of
propaganda were being used. During the State Fair the City Council of
Suffrage Clubs in Des Moines arranged for the photoplay Votes for
Women to be shown in a river front park near a band stand where
nightly concerts were given and literally thousands of people had
their first education in suffrage through the speeches made there.

The State convention met in October, 1913, in Boone and Miss Flora
Dunlap was made president. An automobile trip crossing the State
twice, with open air meetings in thirty towns, had been undertaken in
September. Governor George W. Clark and Harvey Ingham, editor of the
Des Moines _Register_, a long time supporter of woman suffrage, spoke
at the first meeting and other prominent men, officials, editors and
clergymen, joined the party for one or more days. Two reporters from
Des Moines newspapers went with it and there was excellent publicity.
Mrs. P. J. Mills of Des Moines managed the trip and accompanied the
party with her car, Miss Evangeline Prouty, daughter of an Iowa member
of Congress, acting as chauffeur. Miss Dunlap also made the entire two
weeks' journey, while other workers joined for briefer periods. J. R.
Hanna, Mayor of Des Moines, wrote the Mayors of all towns in which
meetings were scheduled asking the courtesies of the city for the
party, and this, with the Governor's opening speech, gave a helpful
official sanction.

The annual meeting took place in October, 1914, at Des Moines and Miss
Dunlap was re-elected president. In March the Mississippi Valley
Conference, with many interesting delegates, had been held in that
city and made a very favorable impression. Miss Jane Addams and Mrs.
Harriet Taylor Upton, president of the Ohio Suffrage Association, had
spoken at a Sunday afternoon mass meeting in the largest theater. When
the convention met at Des Moines in October, 1915, a woman suffrage
amendment to the State constitution had at last been submitted by the
Legislature to be passed upon by the voters in June, 1916. Miss Dunlap
was again re-elected and arrangements were perfected for continuing
the vigorous campaign already under way. By the time the association
held its convention at Waterloo in September, 1916, the amendment had
been defeated but nevertheless the meeting was large and enthusiastic.
Miss Anna B. Lawther was elected president and arrangements were made
for securing as soon as possible the re-submission of the amendment.

The convention of 1917 met in Oct