y to city and from
town to town, reaching from one-half to two-thirds of the registered
voters, averaging about 1,500 calls per week and leaving the rest of
the work to be carried on by local women. By election day over 250,000
voters had been interviewed, 100,000 had signed pledge cards and more
than 50,000 others had expressed themselves as favorable.

Much of this work was made possible by the activities of the Ways and
Means Committee of the State Association, under the chairmanship of
Mrs. B. F. Pitman, who, during the many years that she served in that
capacity, repeatedly rescued the association from the verge of debt
and filled up its treasury. Her committee accomplished this by a Bay
State Bazaar held every year at the Copley Plaza Hotel in Boston; by
balls, theatrical performances, outdoor fetes, pageants and other
entertainments.

As an extra provision for the campaign of 1915, the Bay State Finance
Committee was formed in 1914 by Mrs. Park, chairman, which with the
State association raised and spent about $54,000 in the campaign. This
was exclusive of the money spent by the various leagues and branches
throughout the State, including $10,820 by the Boston Association for
Good Government.

For two years educational work was pushed in every way. It was carried
into the country districts by systematic trolley and automobile trips,
parties of workers carrying out well planned itineraries in different
parts of the State, involving usually from two to four open-air
meetings per day. Audiences were secured in all the small and
scattered places, even the most remote, by postal notices mailed from
State headquarters several days in advance to every registered voter.

Among the means employed to draw attention were huge "Votes for
Women" kites, voiceless speeches (a series of placards held up to view
in a store window or other public place), distribution of literature
in the baseball parks; a suffrage automobile or a section in the
parades on Labor Day, Columbus Day, etc.; a pilgrimage to Worcester on
the anniversary of the First National Woman's Rights Convention, led
by Miss Florence Luscomb in old-fashioned costume, in Lucy Stone's
carriage; the running of propaganda films in the moving pictures and
the placing of 100,000 brightly painted tin Blue Birds in conspicuous
places throughout the State, each bird bearing the words "Votes for
Women, Nov. 2, 1919." There were speakers and debates at men's clubs,
church