stantial and solid that it was possible for
us to meet the new conditions and increased volume of work with
systematic and business-like methods. Then came Mrs. Ida Husted
Harper, with her literary ability and historical knowledge, to
open a new field for suffrage propaganda through the magazines,
the great syndicates and Sunday papers in the large cities. Thus
you will see that when the present chairman took charge of the
bureau it had been so splendidly developed by her predecessors
that she found only hard work and plenty of it.

During the eighteen months since the last convention the records
show that we have written 5,584 letters. We are in constant
receipt of letters from all over the world written in various
languages, the majority containing inquiries regarding suffrage
methods in this country and what has been accomplished by our
enfranchised women.... We have furnished material for one hundred
magazine articles, which have appeared in various periodicals....
Our list of newspaper syndicates has increased to nine, some of
which are international, and since the last convention we have
furnished them 1,314 articles, many by special request. Every
one of these syndicates asked for detailed accounts of this
convention, together with personal sketches of the officers and
speakers. The Associated Press has sent out suffrage news as
occasion warranted and has solicited our cooperation.... Last
December we resumed the weekly press bulletin and since then we
have mailed 31,200. These weekly items are regularly mailed to
press chairmen and newspapers in forty-one States, also to
Canada, Alaska and Cuba, and every day brings requests for more.
A number of monthly pamphlets issued by women's clubs use them.
Papers devoted to the labor movement publish them regularly and
very often give helpful suggestions. The bureau is impressed with
the fact that in future the farm papers should receive serious
consideration.... One of these, with a circulation of nearly
400,000 has offered us space for suffrage articles to be supplied
regularly and this work should be carefully looked after,
especially in agricultural States like Kansas and Wisconsin,
where campaigns are now in progress.

We have responded to fifty requests from schools and colleges for