ing upon the 125,000 enrolled members to "show their patriotism by
doing their utmost to help their country and the world," especially
along the five lines recommended by the National Suffrage Association;
urging nation-wide prohibition as a war measure and commending the
efforts to minimize moral dangers at the training camps; protesting
against "any attempt to lower educational standards or to weaken the
laws safeguarding the workers, especially women and children," because
of the war emergency. The Twentieth Century Club rooms were crowded at
the New England Conference and Festival. Miss Blackwell presided. A
greeting from the National Association was brought by Mrs. Nettie
Rogers Shuler, its corresponding secretary, and speakers were present
from all the New England States. Pledges and a collection were taken
for the Maine campaign and it was voted to give $2,000, a bequest from
Miss Marian Shannon, to the National Association, to help it.

1918. At the winter business meeting held in Fitchburg February 26
Mrs. Pitman reported that more than $30,000 had been raised by the
association for war work. The State annual meeting in Boston on May
24, 25 was crowded and exciting. A resolution pledging the
association's support to the country in the war was passed by
acclamation, and it responded to the request of Mrs. Catt, president
of the National American Suffrage Association, to follow its program
of war work. The convention voted with enthusiasm to take up the
circulation of the national petitions for the Federal Amendment and
also to give $600 to the National Association to finance an organizer
in Oklahoma, where a suffrage campaign was in progress and the
Massachusetts "antis" were financing the opposition. In the evening a
magnificent meeting was held in the Opera House with Mrs. Grace A.
Johnson presiding and addresses by Mrs. Catt and Dr. Shaw. The
collection of $1,124 was given to the Red Cross.

On August 13 the State and Boston associations celebrated the
centenary of Lucy Stone's birth by a luncheon at the Hotel Somerset,
Mrs. Charles Sumner Bird presiding, with addresses by ex-Governor
Walsh, the Rev. Antoinette Brown Blackwell, D. D., 93 years of age;
Mrs. Judith W. Smith, almost 97; Miss Blackwell and Mrs. Maud Howe
Elliott. Letters and telegrams of appreciation were received from
President Wilson's secretary in his behalf; from Theodore Roosevelt,
ex-Governor McCall, Mrs. Catt, Mayor Andrew James Peters of