were invited. The National Association sent some
of its best teachers, among them Mrs. Arthur L. Livermore, Mrs. Halsey
W. Wilson and Mrs. Shuler, members of its official board. The climax
of the week was a parade, street speeches and a mass meeting, at which
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, national president, was the principal
speaker. An outcome of the school was the printing in Maryland
newspapers of the suffrage literature supplied by the National
Association.

When the United States entered the World War Mrs. Ellicott, president
of the league, was appointed by the Governor a State member of the
Woman's Council of National Defense and the league cooperated in all
of the departments of war work created by the National Suffrage
Association. A Red Cross Circle was established in its headquarters
and it entered actively into the sale of Liberty Bonds. Its war work
brought into it many new members.

In the work for ratification of the Federal Amendment the League
joined the other suffrage societies in the headquarters at Annapolis
and in public meetings, house to house canvass, interviews with
legislators and the other work of a vigorous campaign. The officers
were: Mrs. Ellicott, president; Mrs. Edward Shoemaker, Mrs. William
Milnes Maloy and Mrs. Sidney Cone, vice-presidents; Miss Julia Rogers
and Mrs. Robert Moss, corresponding and recording secretaries; Mrs.
Frank Ramey, treasurer; Mrs. George Crawford and Mrs. William Silver,
auditors.

The officers of the Equal Suffrage League of Baltimore were Miss
Caroline Roberts, president; Miss Clara T. Waite, vice-president; Mrs.
William Chatard, secretary; Miss Mary Claire O'Brien, treasurer: with
eight directors.[78]

LEGISLATIVE ACTION. This has been described. A Ratification Committee
of Men was formed in 1919 with N. Winslow Williams chairman, De Courcy
W. Thom vice-chairman, Arthur K. Taylor secretary, Donald R. Hooker,
treasurer. Prominent members of the Allied Building Trades Council,
Carpenters' Union and other labor organizations were on the committee
and every county had a chairman. In Allegany it was Francis J. Drum,
president of the Maryland and D. C. Federation of Labor; in Baltimore
county B. John Black, master of the State Grange. In other counties it
was a member of Congress or the Legislature or a Judge or some one of
influence.

FOOTNOTES:

[73] The History is indebted for this chapter to Mrs. Emma Maddox
Funck, president of the Baltimore Suffrage Club