NAWSA Gen. Corresp. Algeo, Sara, M. 1917 ADVISORY COUNCIL LYMAN ABBOTT FRANK L. BABBOTT EARL BARNES ALFRED J. BOULTON R. R. BOWKER JOHN GRAHAM BROOKS EDWIN M. BULKLEY NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER ANDREW CARNEGIE LINCOLN CROMWELL JOHN DEWEY SAMUEL B. DONNELLY JOHN L. ELLIOTT JOHN H. FINLEY FRANKLIN H. GIDDINGS SAMUEL GOMPERS LUTHER H. GULICK JAMES H. HAMILTON NORMAN HAPGOOD MRS. J. BORDEN HARRIMAN MRS. L. EMMETT HOLT CHARLES H. INGERSOLL ANNIE B. JENNINGS JOHN BROOKS LEAVITT V. EVERIT MACY HOWARD MANSFIELD WILLIAM H. MAXWELL LEONORA O'REILLY GEORGE FOSTER PEABODY JAMES B. REYNOLDS JACOB H. SCHIFF SAMUEL SCHULMAN EDWIN R. A. SELIGMAN ISAAC NEWTON SELIGMAN ALBERT SHAW ANNA GARLIN SPENCER LINCOLN STEFFENS LILIAN D WALD PAUL M. WARBURG MORNAY WILLIAMS THE PEOPLE'S INSTITUTE CHARLES SPRAGUE SMITH, FOUNDER 70 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK TELEPHONES: CHELSEA { 7565 { 7569 EDWARD F. SANDERSON, DIRECTOR SAM A. LEWISOHN, TREASURER TRUSTEES HENRY DE FOREST BALDWIN CHAIRMAN JOHN G. AGAR GEORGE W. ALGER JAMES BYRNE THOMAS C. HALL FREDRIC C. HOWE SAM A. LEWISOHN JULIUS LIEBMANN J. HOWARD MELLISH EDWARD F. SANDERSON MRS. CHARLES SPRAGUE SMITH FRED M. STEIN JAMES P. WARBASSE LESTER F. SCOTT SECRETARY AND ASSISTANT DIRECTOR April 25, 1917. Miss [*Mrs*] Sara M. Algeo, 394 Angell Street, Providence, R.I. My dear Miss [*Mrs*] Algeo: I am sending under another cover what literature we have on the forum movement. I hope that it will prove to be the information for which you are looking. Both Mrs. Sanderson and I have been tremendously interested to think that Rhode Island has fallen into line on the woman suffrage question. It seems a bit out of keeping with the conservative traditionalism of the dear old state. Every once in a while we hear of something splendid which was totally unexpected and then we get a double joy. That is the case in this action of Rhode Island. Very sincerely yours, Edward F Sanderson CRANE THEOLOGICAL SCHOOL TUFTS COLLEGE, MASSACHUSETTS DEPARTMENT OF APPLIED CHRISTIANITY April 26/ 17. Miss Sara M. Algeo, 394 Angell St., Providence, R.I. Dear Madam, Practically everything in the way of information about Forums can be had at one of the two following places: - Ford Hall Foundation Ford Hall, Boston Mass or Miss Mabel Ury 26 Pemberton Sq. Boston Mass. all the literature of the movement is kept in these places, and an office force is busy keeping people informed. If you should fail to be completely satisfied at either of those addresses, let me know and I will do what I can to help you. yours truly C.R. Skinner. OPEN FORUM NATIONAL COUNCIL "Let there be light!" CONSTITUTION and PLATFORM of PRINCIPLES (Adopted at Chicago, April 17th, 1917) Office of the Secretary Harold Marshall 359 Boylston Street, Boston CONSTITUTION Name: Open Forum National Council. Object: The development of the open forum movement. Membership: Any forum organization is eligible to membership on approval of the executive committee, and any such organization shall be entitled to be represented at the meetings of the Council by two delegates, including its director, or his alternate. Dues: An Annual fee of five dollars ($5.00) shall be paid to the treasurer by each forum entitled to membership, and no delegates shall be entitled to vote until the forum they represent has paid its dues for the preceding year. Officers: This organization shall have a president, a first and second vice-president, a secretary, a treasurer, and a board of directors of twenty-five, including the officers. They shall be elected at the annual meeting by ballot. The board of directors shall appoint an executive committee of seven of its members, including the president and secretary. The officers shall perform the duties that generally pertain to their respective offices, and the executive committee shall transact all necessary business between the meetings of the Council, subject to a right of initiative and referendum on the part of the other directors. All officers and the board of directors shall serve for one year, or until their successors are elected. Annual Meeting: There shall be an annual meeting at a time and place to be determined by the board of directors. Amendments: This constitution may be amended by a two-thirds vote of the delegates present and voting at any session of the Council, providing notice of the proposed amendment shall have been mailed to the secretary of each member-forum at least thirst days in advance of the meeting. Platform of Principles The Open Forum stands for: 1. The complete development of democracy in America. 2. A common meeting-ground for all the people, in the interest of truth and mutual understanding, and for the cultivation of community spirit. 3. The fullest and freest open public discussion of all vital questions affecting human welfare. 4. For free participation from the forum floor, either by questions or discussion. 5. The freedom of forum management from responsibility for utterances by speakers from the platform of the floor. J. Frank Hanly Oliver Wayne Stewart Edward E. Mittman Hallie McNeil President Vice-President Exec. Sec'y-Treas. Gen'l Secy. Flying Squadron Foundation 747-762 Lemcke Annex Indianapolis, Indiana February 27, 1917. Mrs. J.W. Algeo, 394 Angel Street Providence, R.I. Dear Friend:- We have been advised by our advance representative, Mr. Hamilton Mercer, that he has made arrangements for a meeting to be held in your city, under the auspices of the Flying Squadron Foundation, on Sunday, March 11th at 3:30 P.M., in the Casino Theatre, with Hon. Oliver W. Stewart as the speaker. He also advises that you have kindly consented to attend to the details of the publicity in connection with the arrangements. Permits us to thank you for your interest and courtesy. The window cards will be sent direct to your address, and we would suggest that you have them put on display about a week or ten days before the meeting so as to secure an adequate amount of publicity through this source. In addition, we have received a selected mailing list which we will circularize with announcements, similar to the enclosed. The papers in all of the cities where Mr. Stewart has visited, have been glad to print the articles, which we are enclosing, without charge, and they will in all probability be of assistance to you in compiling a suitable announcements for your city. We are also sending you a cut of Mr. Stewart, under separate cover, which we kindly request that you return just as soon as it has served your purpose, as our supply is limited. We would also appreciate receiving clippings covering any notcies that may appear. Mrs. Thomas Hadley, 353 Potter Ave. is the Chairman of the Committee and we trust you will keep in close touch with her in an endeavor to render her any assistance you may be able in completing satisfactory repliminary arrangements. Expressing the hope that you will have a most successful meeting, and that you will feel free to communicate with the writer if in need of any further information or assistance, I am Sincerely yours, EE Mittman Mrs. Deborah K. Livingston 149 Cedar Street Bangor, Maine February 19, 1917 Mrs. Sara M. Algeo, 394 Angell St., Providence, R. I. My dear Mrs. Algeo: Your letter received. I am booked to speak for the Pawtucket Y. W. C. A. on the afternoon of March 4. This is an engagement of nearly a year's standing and it would be impossible for me to break it. Just now, with the strain and stress of the work in Maine, it seems impossible for me to give you a Sunday, but perhaps next winter we can arrange early enough for me to do so. Very sincerely yours, Deborah Knox Livingston Postal Telegraph - Commercial Cables Clarence H. Mackay, President Telegram [*Delivery No. 250*] 35b 11 115p x Boston Mass Apr 18-17 [*Del*] Mrs Sara W Algeo 394 Angell St Providence R I Hearty congratulations from Massachusetts on your work and it's splendid results Gertrude Halladay Leonard National American Woman Suffrage Association Branch of International Woman Suffrage Alliance and of National Council of Women Honorary President Dr. Anna Howard Shaw President 3rd Vice-President Recording Secretary Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt Miss Esther G. Ogden Mrs. Thomas Jefferson Smith Louisville, Kentucky 1st Vice-President Treasurer 1st Auditor Mrs. Walter McNab Miller Mrs. Henry Wade Rogers Miss Heloise Meyer 1626 Rhode Island Avenue, Washington, D. C. 2nd Vice-President Corresponding Secretary 2nd Auditor Mrs. Stanley McCormick Mrs. Frank J. Shuler Mrs. Pattie Ruffner Jacobs Altamont Road, Birmingham, Ala. National Woman Suffrage National Headquarters Congressional Committee Publishing Company, Inc. 171 Madison Avenue Chairman 171 Madison Avenue, New York New York Mrs. Walter McNab Miller Telephone, 4818 Murray Hill Headquarters President 1626 Rhode Island Avenue, Washington, D. C. Miss Esther G. Ogden April 18, 1917 Mrs. Sarah M. Algeo, 394 Angell Street, Providence, R. I. My dear Mrs. Algeo: Please accept from Mrs. Catt and the resident members of the Board congratulations on your splendid victory for Presidential Suffrage in the State of Rhode Island. Our rejoicing is great, as it is the first break in the New England States. With best wishes for your and gratitude for the splendid work your have done to achieve this victory. Faithfully yours, Nettie R. Shuler S-S (Mrs. Frank J. Shuler) Corresponding Secretary Woma n's Committee 1814 N Street Council of National Defense May 24/1917 Washington Mrs. Sarah M. Algeo 394 Angell Street Providence R.I. My dear Mrs.Algeo:- Your letter sent to Moylan was forwarded here, and I hasten to reply that it will be impossible for me to go to Providence during the month of June. I have been obliged to cancel all the dates which I made for May and June on account of this government work to which I have been called. As you probably know, I have been appointed chairman of the Woman's Committee of the Council of National Defense, and am obliged to give up all exclusively suffrage work for some time. I do not quite understand what you mean when you say that you had a little difficulty in raising your quota of $2,000 pledged as your share of the million dollar budget, and then that you are having great difficultly in raising the $400., which is 20% that you pledged to the National. I supposed it was the understanding that the 20% was to be taken from the $2,000 of local money and not that it was 20% in addition; so that if you had deducted 20% from your $2,000 when it was raised you would have had the full amount of the National's pledge. You see it would be impossible for the National to exist if after the States made a pledge, I or someone else had to go into the States to raise the money to pay their pledge. That, however, is not what prevents my coming to Providence as you suggest. I simply have not the time, as I have undertaken the greatest task of my life in accepting the Government's appointment to carry on the work of organizing the woman power of the nation at this time of our country's need. I am leaving all my own work at home and in the field, living in one room in Washington as a volunteer in the woman's army of National Defense, and except to be here most of the summer. I feel that in doing this I am helping the suffrage cause to a far greater extent than in any other way just now. I congratulate you on securing presidential suffrage. You must feel very proud in Rhode Island to be the first white State on the Atlantic coast when you were so very black. It may be that the National Association can suggest to you some other woman to come to Providence and hold a meeting. With kindest regards, believe me, Faithfully, Anna H. Shaw Chairman Woman's Committee Council of National Defense NATIONAL AMERICAN WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION (BRANCH OF INTERNATIONAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE ALLIANCE AND OF NATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN) HONORARY PRESIDENT DR. ANNA HOWARD SHAW PRESIDENT MRS. CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT 1ST VICE-PRESIDENT MRS. WALTER McNAB MILLER 2ND VICE-PRESIDENT MRS. STANLEY McCOPMICK 3RD VICE-PRESIDENT MISS ESTHER G. OGDEN TREASURER MRS. HENRY WADE ROGERS CORRESPONDING SECRETARY MRS. FRANK J. SHULER RECORDING SECRETARY MRS. THOMAS JEFFERSON SMITH 1ST AUDITOR MISS HELOISE MEYER 2ND AUDITOR MRS. PATTIE RUFFNER JACOBS 171 MADISON AVENUE, NEW YORK 1626 RHODE ISLAND AVE., WASHINGTON, D.C. PRESS BUREAU ROSE YOUNG, DIRECTOR TELEPHONE, 4818 MURRAY HILL EDITORIAL SECTION MRS. IDA HUSTED HARPER WASHINGTON REPRESENTATIVE MR. GEORGE MOSSHART NEW YORK April 20, 1917 Mrs. Sara M. Algeo, 394 Angell Street, Providence, R.I. My dear Mrs. Algeo: In accord with your letter of April 19th, I have enrolled on our on our bulletin mailing list the City Editors of the Providence Journal, the Providence Tribune and the Pawtucket Times. I should think you would feel proud of Rhode Island and proud of yourself. Sincerest congratulations. Cordially Yours, Rose Young RY/MR 394 Angell Street, February 5th, 1917 Fellow Suffragists, Owing to the great demand both in national and state work funds are greatly needed so it seems wise to our City Committee to send out a general appeal, will you not help us in one of the following ways: First: By subscribing to the Providence Civic Forum which is conducted by our Providence Woman Suffrage Party which Sunday afternoon at Casino Theatre, Mathewson street at 3:30 p.m While successful in every other way it has not paid for itself and we are looking to our friends to help make up the deficit. Second: By subscribing some sum, however small, to general expenses, such as, printing, postage, etc. Third: By purchasing tickets at one dollar each for the benefit to be given in Churchill House next Friday evening, February 9th, at eight o'clock. for the payment of our four hundred dollar pledge made at the National Convention in September for national work. Tickets will be mailed you promptly on receipt of price. The Woman Suffrage Cause needs your help as never before. Will you not send at this time a donation, however large or small, to assist your Board of Directors who are working very hard to bring about freedom for women. Please send requests for tickets or contributions stating for what purpose you desire them, to be used, directly to me and I will see that they reach our treasurer. Cordially yours, Algeo NATIONAL AMERICAN WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION (BRANCH OF INTERNATIONAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE ALLIANCE AND OF NATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN) HONORARY PRESIDENT DR. ANNA HOWARD SHAW PRESIDENT MRS. CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT 1ST VICE-PRESIDENT MRS. WALTER McNAB MILLER 2ND VICE-PRESIDENT MRS. STANLEY McCORMICK 3RD VICE-PRESIDENT MISS ESTHER G. OGDEN TREASURER MRS. HENRY WADE ROGERS CORRESPONDING SECRETARY MRS. FRANK J. SHULER RECORDING SECRETARY MRS. THOMAS JEFFERSON SMITH LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY 1ST AUDITOR MISS HELOISE MEYER 1626 RHODE ISLAND AVENUE, WASHINGTON, D.C. 2ND AUDITOR MRS. PATTIE RUFFNER JACOBS ALTAMONT ROAD, BIRMINGHAM, ALA. NATIONAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE PUBLISHING COMPANY, INC. 171 MADISON AVENUE, NEW YORK PRESIDENT MISS ESTHER G. OGDEN NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS 171 MADISON AVENUE, NEW YORK TELEPHONE, 4818 MURRAY HILL CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN MRS. WALTER McNAB MILLER HEADQUARTERS 1626 RHODE ISLAND AVENUE, WASHINGTON, D.C. April 12, 1917. My dear Mrs. Algeo: If you were present at the Atlantic City Convention you will remember the educational Resolution introduced by Miss Mayer of Louisiana and passed by the Convention. This Resolution directed the National Board to form a Committee with the object of making suffrage propaganda "in the Boys' and Girls' High Schools and Men's and Women's Colleges throughout the States". When the National Board came to carry out the purpose of this Resolution it realized that the National College Equal Suffrage League is organized to further suffrage propaganda in Men's and Women's Colleges, and that at a recent Meeting of the College League, Normal Schools were added to its field of work. Consequently it was deemed best not to duplicate the work of the National College League but to co-operate with them towards the same end. Inasmuch as the College League does no work with High Schools except as the Normal School work may be considered to affect the High Schools such High School propaganda was left to be met in some other way. The College League expressed willingness to have the National Association co-operate with them in their propaganda work, so I was appointed by the National Board to represent the National Association on the College League in furtherance of suffrage propaganda in Men's and Women's Colleges all over the country, and if you will lend aid to the Committee in the following way: Let us have any names you can of women (or men) connected with any College or Normal School who, although their school or college may be either opposed to or favorable towards suffrage, are themselves known to you as believing in suffrage. It is only through such personal knowledge of individuals that we can in many cases gain a hearing and so a foothold, in various schools and colleges, as we Mrs. Algeo -2- 4/12/17. Beg such assistance in this way as you can give. The Executive Secretary of the College League, who is also the Chairman of this Committee, Mrs. Ethel Puffer Howes, 70 Fifth Avenue, New York City, shall be glad to receive any names you may be able to send, and we shall, make every effort to get in touch with their schools and colleges. We are most anxious to obtain a foothold in the following Normal School and College in your State: Normal School- Rhode Island State Normal School, Providence College- Women's College in Brown University, Providence Thanking you in advance for such assistance, I am, Sincerely yours, Katherine Dexter McCormick (Mrs. Stanley McCormick) Second Vice President KDMcC-V OPEN FORUM SPEAKERS BUREAU Successor to the Co-operative Forum Bureau Managing Committee Chairman, Harold Marshall, Melrose, Mass. Secretary, Mabel B. Ury, 26 Pemberton Square, Boston, Mass. John Graham Brooks, Cambridge, Mass. George W. Coleman, 220 Devonshire St., Boston, Mass. A. Lyle DeJarnette, San Diego, Cal. Paul Pearson, Swarthmore, PA. Charles Zueblin, Winchester, Mass. *Fred A. Moore, 43 No. Robey St., Chicago, ILL. *Morris H. Turk, Kansas City, Mo *John W. Ross, Buffalo, N.Y. *Edward Krehbiel, Stanford University, Cal. *Will act as local chairmen in their representative districts Boston Office: 26 Pemberton Square Telephone Haymarket 4278 January 31, 1917 My Dear Mrs. Algeo: Miss Freda Rogolsky, who came to this country from the same town in Russia as Mary Antin, and who has been a regular attendant at Ford Hall for years, will go to you next Sunday as representative of Ford Hall. Mr. Coleman regrets that he will be unable to speak for you himself, but he must be at his Italian Forum that afternoon. Both he and Mr. Foster recommend Miss Rogolsky very highly, and I know she is a good speaker, for I have heard her several times. I hope that you send notices to the newspapers of these meetings, as Miss Rogolsky is a very interesting speaker and one whom the newspapers always like to write up. Please let me know by return mail the hour and place of meeting, the length of time you want Miss Rogolsky to talk, etc., and if you want her to tell the story of Ford Hall or its influence or both. I enclose a short story of her, which I would be pleased to have you lend the newspapers, with the request that they return it after they are through with it. Very sincerely yours, Mabel B. Ury [*Miss Julia Williamson 10:30 A.M.] Mrs. Sara M. Algeo, 384 Angell St., Providence, R.I. LCB/LWM (U) Encl: F R (FHF) Gen. Direct C. Fellowship of ante Chas. H. Pend.- PROVIDENCE, .R.I. WSP VOTES FOR WOMEN 394 Angell St., February 2, 1917 Mrs. Edward L. Marsh, Providence, R. I. My dear Mrs. Marsh, AT the Convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association held in Atlantic City in September the Providence Woman Suffrage Party pledged four hundred dollars toward national work. The time has now come to redeem our pledge. This we hope to do through an entertainment in Churchill House the evening of February 9th at which, through the kind permission of Mme. Nazimova a group of our local young people under the direction of Miss Mabel Woolsey of Pawtucket will give an amateur performance of "War Brides" and Miss Julia Williamson, supervisor of Story [H] Hour in the Free Libraries of Philadelphia will talk on "The Art of Story Telling." The price of seats will be one dollar. The calls upon the National Association are so numerous that it is almost impossible for it to meet them unless each state does its share. Owing to this great need will you not help us in raising our promised four hundred dollars by disposing of the enclosed tickets and granting us the honor of using your name as patroness? An early reply will be appreciated. Yours sincerely. Sara M. Algeo Chairman. 394 Angell St., Jan. 9 1917, Providence, R. I. My dear Mr. Mead-- My husband was so pleased with your presentation of "Damaged Goods" at the Providence Civic Forum last Sunday that I am writing to ask if it had occurred to you that the reading of this play is a particularly appropriate way of bringing before [people] found throughout the country the problem of the Social Evil and leading up to a frank discussion of a subject about which, in spite of our desire for enlightenment, there still hands like a black cloud a conspiracy of silence. I would suggest that a physician be present to answer questions prompted by your reading of the play. Again expressing our appreciation of a most profitable and enjoyable meeting, I am, Yours Sincerely, Sara M. Algeo Chairman Program Committee Providence Civic Forum. Mr. Edward A. Mead, New York City. you can change this letter if you you desire. I enjoyed your little visit in our home. Come again. S. M. Algeo Jan 17, 1917 Mr. Bryant, 158 West 58th Street, New York. My dear Mr. Bryant: Last week I wrote you in regard to the presentation of "War Brides"; the one act play as it appeared on Keith's Circuit, by a group of amateurs in Providence. They wish to present this play for the benefit og the Suffrage cause. Knowing how strongly Marion Craig Wentworth feels on this subject, I am sure there could be no objection. I have been told that you have present control of this play and if there is any objection to andamateur presentation, will you kindly wire me at once at my expense, as it is necessary in order to prepare the play for February 9th, the day set for our entertainment, to be begin rehearsals at once. We have a copy of the play as it appeared in the Century Magazine. Trusting to hear from you immediately, I am, Very truly yours, NATIONAL AMERICAN WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION (BRANCH OF INTERNATIONAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE ALLIANCE AND OF NATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN) HONORARY PRESIDENT DR. ANNA HOWARD SHAW PRESIDENT MRS. CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT 1ST VICE-PRESIDENT MRS. WALTER McNAB MILLER 2ND VICE-PRESIDENT MRS. STANLEY McCORMICK 3RD VICE-PRESIDENT MISS ESTHER G. OGDEN TREASURER MRS. HENRY WADE ROGERS CORRESPONDING SECRETARY MRS. FRANK J. SHULER RECORDING SECRETARY MRS. THOMAS JEFFERSON SMITH LOUSIVILLE, KENTUCKY 1ST AUDITOR MISS HELOISE MEYER 1626 RHODE ISLAND AVENUE, WASHINGTON, D.C. 2ND AUDITOR MRS. PATTIE RUFFNER JACOBS ALTAMONT ROAD, BIRMINGHAM, ALA. NATIONAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE PUBLISHING COMPANY, INC. 171 MADISON AVENUE, NEW YORK PRESIDENT MISS ESTHER G. OGDEN NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS 171 MADISON AVENUE, NEW YORK TELEPHONE, 4818 MURRAY HILL CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN MRS. WALTER McNAB MILLER HEADQUARTERS 1626 RHODE ISLAND AVENUE, WASHINGTON, D.C. 1626 Rhode Island Ave., Washington, D.C., May 24, 1917 Mrs. Sara M. Algeo, 394 Angell St., Providence, R. I. My dear Mrs. Algeo: You received a short time ago a letter from Mrs. Catt enclosing a copy of a latter written by her to the chambers of commerce of cities all over the country in behalf of women workers. Mrs. Catt asked, if you will recall, that the chambers of commerce cooperate to prevent excessive overtime work by women under the war-time pressure, and secure equal pay for equal work by women who take men's places. I am sending you herewith copies of two letters that have come to us from commercial organizations in Rhode Island, in reply to Mrs. Catt's letter. The later one, from the Employers' Association of Rhode Island, seems to be rather ambiguous. I wonder if you can tell me just what it means. I am enclosing a copy of the resolutions which we are suggesting for adoption by chambers of commerce; i.e., we are suggesting that local suffragists attempt to secure the adoption of such resolution. Do you think this would be practicable in these two instances, and if so, will you let me know what luck you have? I have merely acknowledged both letters in Mrs. Catt's behalf. Very sincerely, Ethel M. Smith Executive Secretary Enclosure EMS-LA C O P T THE PROVIDENCE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE May first Nineteen Seventeen. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, President, National American Woman Suffrage Association, 1626 Rhode Island Avenue, Washington, D.C. Dear Madam: This office is in receipt of your circular letter of the 27th ultimo, which will be presented to our board of Directors at their next meeting. Respectfully yours, (Signed) Clarence A. Cotton General Secretary HA C O P Y EMPLOYERS' ASSOCIATION OF RHODE ISLAND 420 Butler Exchange Providence, R.I., May 22, 1917 Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, Pres. Natl. Amer. Woman Suffrage Ass'n. Washinton, D.C. Dear Madam:- Your letter to the Providence Chamber of Commerce asking for support of various organizations in maintaining present conditions for protection of women workers, would say, that this matter is one of the objects of our Association. I will bring your letter to the attention of our Board of Managers at their next monthly meeting. Yours very truly (Signed) E. F. Walker Secretary. EFW/AME RESOLUTIONS SUGGESTED FOR ADOPTION BY CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE. WHEREAS, Millions of women are employed in the industries of this country, and it is apparent that with the progress of the war many more will be employed, taking men's places in business offices, stores, factories, and other occupations; and WHEREAS, Because of the unusual pressure for increased output of industrial establishments it has been proposed in some instances that the working hours be lengthened, notwithstanding English experience during the war which has demonstrated that excessive overtime diminishes the output; and WHEREAS, Justice demands that the work performed, not the sex of the worker, should determine the pay, therefore be it RESOLVED, That it is the sense of this body that public health and national efficiency demand conservation of the strength of the women workers, and we hereby declare our opposition to the lengthening of their working hours; and RESOLVED FURTHER, That is the sense of this body that where women are employed at the same work that men are or have been doing, they should be paid the same, and we hereby urge our members to maintain this principle in their respective business establishments. OR If the state has an eight-hour law for women, or other restrictive legislation, the following: WHEREAS, It is apparent that the military requirements of the country will make it necessary in many instances to employ women in men's places in business offices, stores, factories, and other occupations; and WHEREAS, Justice demands that the work performed, not the sex of the worker, should determine the pay; therefore be it RESOLVED, That is the sense of this body that where women are employed at the same work that men are or have been doing, they should be paid the same, and we hereby urge our members to maintain this principle in their respective business establishments. RESOLUTIONS SUGGESTED FOR ADOPTION BY CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE. WHEREAS, Millions of women are employed in the industries of this country, and it is apparent that with the progress of the war many more will be employed, taking men's places in business offices, stores, factories, and other occupations; and WHEREAS, Because of the unusual pressure for increased output of industrial establishments it has been proposed in some instances that the working hours be lengthened, notwithstanding English experience during the war which has demonstrated that excessive overtime diminishes the output; and WHEREAS, Justice demands that the work performed, not the sex of the worker, should determine the pay, therefore be it RESOLVED, That it is the sense of this body that public health and national efficiency demand conservation of the strength of the women workers, and we hereby declare our opposition to the lengthening of their working hours; and RESOLVED FURTHER, That is the sense of this body that where women are employed at the same work that men are or have been doing, they should be paid the same, and we hereby urge our members to maintain this principle in their respective business establishments. OR If the state has an eight-hour law for women, or other restrictive legislation, the following: WHEREAS, It is apparent that the military requirements of the country will make it necessary in many instances to employ women in men's places in business offices, stores, factories, and other occupations; and WHEREAS, Justice demands that the work performed, not the sex of the worker, should determine the pay; therefore be it RESOLVED, That is the sense of this body that where women are employed at the same work that men are or have been doing, they should be paid the same, and we hereby urge our members to maintain this principle in their respective business establishments. NATIONAL AMERICAN WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION (BRANCH OF INTERNATIONAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE ALLIANCE AND OF NATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN) HONORARY PRESIDENT DR. ANNA HOWARD SHAW PRESIDENT MRS. CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT 1ST VICE-PRESIDENT MRS. WALTER McNAB MILLER 2ND VICE-PRESIDENT MRS. STANLEY McCORMICK 3RD VICE-PRESIDENT MISS ESTHER G. OGDEN TREASURER MRS. HENRY WADE ROGERS CORRESPONDING SECRETARY MRS. FRANK J. SHULER RECORDING SECRETARY MRS. THOMAS JEFFERSON SMITH LOUSIVILLE, KENTUCKY 1ST AUDITOR MISS HELOISE MEYER 1626 RHODE ISLAND AVENUE, WASHINGTON, D.C. 2ND AUDITOR MRS. PATTIE RUFFNER JACOBS ALTAMONT ROAD, BIRMINGHAM, ALA. NATIONAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE PUBLISHING COMPANY, INC. 171 MADISON AVENUE, NEW YORK PRESIDENT MISS ESTHER G. OGDEN NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS 171 MADISON AVENUE, NEW YORK TELEPHONE, 4818 MURRAY HILL CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN MRS. WALTER McNAB MILLER HEADQUARTERS 1626 RHODE ISLAND AVENUE, WASHINGTON, D.C. April 25, 1917 Mrs. Sara M. Algeo, 394 Angell Street, Providence, Rhode Island My dear Mrs. Algeo:- Your letter enclosing one dollar, and thirty cents in postage has just been received. Since I wrote you the letter on April 20th, it has just been decided to send a copy of Mrs. Catt's book, "Constitutional Federal Amendment", with the compliments of the National Association, to the presidents of all the organizations in membership with the National. We therefore have the $1.30 which you sent to return. Our bookkeeper has suggested that there may be something else that you would like to have in place of it. If so, kindly let us know or if you prefer, we will return the money and postage. With best wishes for you and your organization, Faithfully, Nettie R. Shuler (Mrs. Frank J. Shuler) Corresponding Secretary PJS-BMS My dear Mrs. Algeo, I am returning the tickets as I am not in favor of Woman Suffrage! I am afraid I am very old fashioned. Very sincerely Mrs. Merrine White 17 Benevolent St Wednesday January 31 1917 2 tickets ret 59 Rotch St. Fairhaven Mass - Feb, 8, 1917 Mrs. Algeo, Your kind, very kind letter ought to have been answered days ago, but getting settled in addition to the regular daily grind of fuding and caring for the needs of my family has kept me on the jump from sun and until long after sun. During my three years in R.I., - I aways felt like the fifth wheel to a coach. Was never at my best for the ever present fuling that I was sure to please one faction at the expense of displeasing the other. I like them all but was never happy cwing to the unfortunate atmosphere of jealousy so apparent. As for your gracious proposition, I could not accept. I have never accomplished anything in R.I. and deserve no credit. I expect to be in Providence occassionally and hope to see you some day. The children are delighted with their school. Lucie has returned and thinks she can keep up with school and music both. Arthur is in a class of Americans there being only 3 others, and they are Portugese. Lucie says out of thirty, there are only four other than Americans. It does seem good to be back in Mass. As you haven't a big family to tie you down - do break away some day and take a trip down here where the ashes are collected and a server installed, even in this little burgh - but then we must remember this is Mass. However - I just love R.I. Nature has done wonders for it - but I hate the government of the State. Gratefully yours - (Mrs. Geo. E.) Ettie Lowell-Dunbar 92 Fourth Ave., Woonsocket, R. I. Jan. 22, 1917. My dear Mrs. Algeo, If I knew how I could make some money in this town I would be out making it for my daughter's college education. That is providing I had the time. It takes me the whole A.M. to get my house-work done and my Babe washed and dressed for the day. Then I have a couple of hours in the P.M. while she is asleep to sew or mend or write. As Mr. Fowler can't get home at noon I have a Dinner to prepare, and that means drop everything at about four so you see, Mrs. Algeo I have no time for Suffrage. I would like to have some outside interest and will just as soon as I can see my way clear, for I think that every woman should but try as I will I can not seem to get my work arranged so that I have any more time, and I consider myself quite systematic. You see I do everything for Babe Althea right on the minute so that takes a good deal of time. You are so efficient, I presume you could do all I do in half the time. I will tell you what I will do for the dear old party - if anyone wants to come up here and work and try and have something to make money, I will gladly supply, "Bed and Board", while they are so doing. You didn't tell me when you wanted the Suffrage Edition in the local paper, but I will go see the Editor just the same. Will any data be supplied or will they have to find there own? I had planned to get down there to-day but I can not push the carriage thru all this snow. Will attend to it on my next trip downtown, however. Allow me to extend to you my heart - felt sympathy. Not loving your poor kitty, I cannot realize how profound your sorrow must be. You see, I do not consider a kitty a sanitary article so would not own one, but I was truly sorry for you when Miss Hall told me of you great loss. I know you thot the world of it. I was planning to hear Mr. Thos. Mott Osborne, next Sunday but will not be able too. I expect to have a house full of company, Now that I have read his article in, The Feb. Ladies' Home Journal, I feel more than sorry that I can't go. In regard to this Machine - I sure do enjoy it but would enjoy it more if I knew to whom I owed the price of it and how much I owe. My husband thinks It is his Xmas gift to me, and Miss Hall comes up and says that part of it is her gift and tells about the fine arrangements she has made to pay you and I to pay her etc. until I am all muddled up. If you can straighten me out I will sure be grateful. I guess my Husband wishes it was where it came from. Every time he asks me if the thing is paid for and to whom I am indebted, I am ashamed to answer, "I don't know". At the time I was down home I loaned some Cash that has not been returned and then we moved in about fifteen minutes, so I was at that time Financially embarrassed, and Miss Hall knew it so I presume that is why she did as she did. She knew that I wanted a machine. The spacer don't work just right and it needs a good oiling so I have written Mr. Sanborn to see if he will come up here at a moderate price. One of those little round nuts that hold the ribbon spools in place was missing when it arrived. Have you that or was it lost in transit? My Babe is getting along nicely. She weighs 17 lbs. now and is as good as gold. Just at present she is having an old tussle with tooth No. 4. I will let you hear from me in regard to the old WOON. CALL. Very truly yours, Emma Elizabeth Fowler PAWTUCKET, RHODE ISLAND April 19, 1917 My dear, dear Friend:- Just a word to say how happy I am over the outcome of last Tuesday. I am sure that you are happier even than I am, because you have done such a tremendous lot of work and have been so perfectly devoted,-with purse, hands, head and heart to the Cause. Mr. Ames just said: "I would have liked to see Mrs. Algeo in that picture of the group around the Governor." And I said: "Yes, and if the case had been reverse Mrs. Algeo would have sent to the other lady to join that group." But never mind, Victory for the Cause is with us. Now about that sort of threat held over you for so long, was it, that they would abuse you in public because you had spoken against some politicians on the street, - well, I did not see that they gained anything by mentioning your name. You looked as unruffled as possible, and I think the speaker made no friends or credit for himself on account of his speech. Well, I thought that Westerly man was a King. I must close now, but had to say just a word. Many questions arise in my mind which I must ask you to help me out with, later, as, for instance, how will it be with foreign women now, in our State. If their husbands are naturalized, will their nat. follow automatically, as now, or will their being voters make it necessary for them to get out papers, also? In case of single women, foreigners, won't they have to take out papers? Seems to me one of our next jobs will be to get all the women in a state of mind where they will want to vote, and we must have them prepared, else they will be turned down in the registry offices if they have not complied with all requirements. No more at present, but with all love I am Yours, A. L. H. April 19, 1917 The Woman's Journal Boston, Massachusetts Office of the Publisher George Brewater Gallip 45 Boutwell Avenue Dorchester, Boston May 17, 1917 Mrs. Sarah M. Algeo Chairman Providence Woman Suffrage Party 394 Angell Street Providence, Rhode Island My dear Mrs. Algeo:- I thank you for your complimentary ticket for the Jubilee Dinner at the Y.M.C.A Saturday evening. I am planning to be present and am enclosing some publicity matter as you request. I should be very glad if you will notify by telephone, Mr. Henry A. Barker, also, Mr. George Danielson, President, Town Criers Club,- Mr. V.H. King, of Otsby & Barton, -A.W. Holmes, The Holmes Company, 380 Elmwood Street,-Henry A. Carpenter, General Manager, General Fire Extinguisher Company, -Granville S. Standish, 290 Westminster Street, -George R. Hussey, President, Baird North Company,-W.S. Stone, Treasurer, Gorham Manufacturing Company,-Erling Ostby, General Manager, Otsby & Barton Company, -Henry D. Sharp, Brown & Sharp Company,- and Mr. F.W. Aldred, First President of the Town Criers, and General Manager of the Gladding Stores. I hate to trouble you to do this but I should much prefer not to write these friends of mine myself asking them to attend a meeting at which I am to speak. There is also a Rev. Clarence M. Gallup in Providence whom I have never met but of whom I have heard favorably for many years. Perhaps he would turn out if notified for the help of the ancient clan of Gallup. I shall come directly to the Y.M.C.A. on my arrival in Providence. Yours very truly, Geo. B Gallup Publisher GBG.VK Skowhegan, Maine Feb 7, 1917. Mrs. Sara M. Algeo:- 394 Angell St Providence, R.I. My dear Mrs Algeo. Your letter with enclosure was mailed to me here from Providence. I am sorry that I shall be unable to do anything about the matter. Yours sincerely Mary E. March Mrs. E.L. March 19 [Sumter?] St Providence RI. The Crown Fred Mansfield, Prop. European Plan Exclusively Providence, R.I. Oct 22 1917 Dear Mrs. J.W. Algeo, As I am fond of flowers, looking around at the show windows last evening discovered some nice rose buds ordered Doz. sent to your address for you and your good husband - As token of esteem as I hold Both you. think you are happy couple well mated and take pleasure out home and life- only way to live. feel jealous of both your Conditions this Life of single Bliss In Later day Life I do not fancey The Crown #2 Fred Mansfield, Prop. European Plan Exclusively Providence, R. I. 191 Now is the time in my life need a Companion Must get new fishing line. Cast my lot Among some middle-aged Domestic Lady. See if can't get one. Look cross eyed at me- Dread long winter nights up in that Big Castle of mine now Drawing near. Cold and Dreary winter. With all due Respect and Kindness to Both of you am away this morning for Manchester N.H. Good Bye Yours, Frank Hamilton Miss Alice Stone Blackwell Mrs. Robert L. De Normandie Mrs. Susan Lewis Ball President Clerk Treasurer MASSACHUSETTS WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION 585 BOYLSTON STREET, BOSTON Mrs. Gertrude Halladay Leonard, First Vice-President and Chairman Executive Board Mrs. Benjamin F. Pitman, Chairman Ways and Means Committee Miss Mary W. Dewson, Chairman Legislative Committee Mrs. Claude U. Gilson, Chairman Organization Committee Mrs. Lewis J. Johnson, Chairman Congressional Committee May 1, 1917 Mrs. Sarah M. Algeo, 394 Angell St., Providence, R.I. My dear Mrs. Algeo: We are depending on you to be with us the evening of the 10th. We are not intending to have any discussion that evening on Agriculture and Thrift, but shall include that in the program the next morning, when we have decided to have a short business conference at 585 Boylston St. at ten o'clock. If Miss Pierce can be here at that time we shall be delighted to have her speak of your plans in Rhode Island. Cordially yours, Dict. GHL/M Gertrude Halladay Leonard Chairman Executive Board. ESTABLISHED IN 1884 ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY THE MANUFACTURING JEWELER ORGAN OF THE JEWELRY TRADE THE JOBBERS' HANDBOOK 42 WEYBOSSET STREET WALTER B. FROST AND CO. PUBLISHED ANNUALLY ROOMS 23 AND 24 PUBLISHERS PROVIDIENCE, R. I. Jan. 29, 1917. Sara M. Algeo, Chairman, Providence Women's Suffrage Party, 394 Angell St., Providence, R.I. Dear Madam: Your circular letter of the 17th has been received by me as doubtless by other editors in the state. While personally I am in a receptive mood as to the women's suffrage question, THE MANUFACTURING JEWELER, as perhaps you do not understand, is distinctly a paper dealing with the discussion only of those problems touching upon the business of the manufacturing and sale of jewelry, silverware, watches, etc. While we have our views about the war, politics and the liquor problem and other questions we are obliged to remain distinctly neutral. Therefore it would be of no advantage to the Women's Suffrage Party to send us their literature. Yours very truly, Walter B. Frost STATE OF RHODE ISLAND AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS OFFICE OF THE LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR PROVIDENCE May 15th 1917 Mrs. James W. Algeo 394 Angell St Providence My dear Mrs. Algeo: Your cordial invitation of April 24th, to attend the Jubilee Dinner of the Woman Suffrage Party, in Y M C A Assembly Hall, on the evening of May 19th, was duly received : and I have been holding same, hoping to be able to make arrangements to accept. I regretfully find, however, that my engagements are such that it will be impossible for me to attend the Dinner, although I would take the greatest pleasure and interest in being present. Thanking you for the courtesy extended, and wishing you and your co-workers still more signal success, I am Very sincerely yours, [????] NATIONAL AMERICAN WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION (BRANCH OF INTERNATIONAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE ALLIANCE AND OF NATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN) HONORARY PRESIDENT Dr. ANNA HOWARD SHAW PRESIDENT 3RD VICE-PRESIDENT RECORDING SECRETARY Mrs. CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT Miss ESTHER G. OGDEN Mrs. THOMAS JEFFERSON 1ST VICE-PRESIDENT TREASURER 1ST AUDITOR Mrs. WALTER McNAB MILLER Mrs. HENRY WADE RODGER Miss HELOISE MEYER 2ND VICE-PRESIDENT CORRESPONDING SECRETARY 2ND AUDITOR Mrs. STANLEY McCORMICK Mrs. FRANK J. SCHULER Mrs. PATTIE RUFFNER JACOBS PRESS BUREAU ROSE YOUNG, DIRECTOR TELEPHONE, 4818 MURRAY HILL EDITORIAL SECTION WASHINGTON REPRESENTATIVE Mrs. IDA HUSTED HARPER Mr. GEORGE MOSSHART NEW YORK April 26, 1917 Mrs. Sara M. Algeo, Chairman Woman Suffrage Party, 394 Angel Street, Providence, Rhode Island. My dear Mrs. Algeo: Your suggestion about publicity is a good one and I hope to be able to get it to work effectively in the near future. The only way to do this is to have each association appoint some local woman who is to attend a convention to handle the convention news from the view point of her own papers. The next time we have a big convention I hope to have established connection with local women in all the big centers, who will make it their particular business to take the general stories that we will get out as convention news and write their own local leads and get the stories to their newspapers. We should be lost on an order like this without such cooperation from the local women because nobody but local women [are] as familiar with local personalities and publicity value. Cordially yours, RY/MR Rose Young National American Woman Suffrage Association (Branch of International Woman Suffrage Alliance and of National Council of Women) Honorary President Dr. Anna Howard Shaw President Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt 1st Vice-President Mrs. Walter McNab Miller 2nd Vice-President Mrs. Stanley McCormick 3rd Vice-President Miss Esther G. Ogden Treasurer Mrs. Henry Wade Rogers Corresponding Secretary Mrs. Frank J. Shuler Recording Secretary Mrs. Thomas Jefferson Smith 1st Auditor Miss Heloise Meyer 2nd Auditor Mrs. Pattie Ruffner Jacobs 171 Madison Avenue, New York 1626 Rhode Island Ave., Washington, D.C. Press Bureau Rose Young, Director Telephone, 4818 Murray Hill Editorial Section Mrs. Ida Husted Harper Washington Representative Mr. George Mosshart 139 New York January 31st 1917. Mrs. Sara M. Alger, 394 Angell Street, Providence, Rhode Island. My dear Mrs. Alger:- I will send you tomorrow several sets of proofs with four pages which the National is offering to plate using papers. The proofs will I think serve your purpose better than a list of the articles. We are lining up a number of large dailies, and hope to have the Providence papers on the list with suffrage features of one kind or another. Papers like your Providence "Times" will not, of course, want plate, but there may be features on the pages of which I send you proofs that would be adaptable for city papers' uses, and I can send cuts of any of the pictures that may be wanted. Sincerely yours. RY:EK. Rose Young per O.H. National American Woman Suffrage Association (Branch of International Woman Suffrage Alliance and of National Council of Women) Honorary President Dr. Anna Howard Shaw President Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt 1st Vice-President Mrs. Walter McNab Miller 2nd Vice-President Mrs. Stanley McCormick 3rd Vice-President Miss Esther G. Ogden Treasurer Mrs. Henry Wade Rogers Corresponding Secretary Mrs. Frank J. Shuler Recording Secretary Mrs. Thomas Jefferson Smith 1st Auditor Miss Heloise Meyer 2nd Auditor Mrs. Pattie Ruffner Jacobs 171 Madison Avenue, New York 1626 Rhode Island Ave., Washington, D.C. Press Bureau Rose Young, Director Telephone, 4818 Murray Hill Editorial Section Mrs. Ida Husted Harper Washington Representative Mr. George Mosshart 139 New York January 30th 1917. Mrs. Sara M. Algeo, 394 Angel Street, Providence, R.I. My dear Mrs. Miller:- Plates for the Special Suffrage Editions of newspapers are now ready, and I can send you as many sets of proofs as you may find it convenient to have for distribution among newspaper editors who may be likely prospects. The plate itself will be released February the 19th, but we will ship it out from New York as rapidly as we receive orders. Please bear in mind that the plate must go to the office of a newspaper and not to the address of any private person. This is because of the arrangements between the plate makers and the local newspapers whereby the latter agree to return the metal to the former. I am enclosing with this some copy of the "pattern advertisements" which you may find helpful in lining up advertisements for the newspapers that give Special Suffrage Editions. Yours cordially, RY:EK. Rose Young (Enclosure) per O.H. PATTERN ADVERTISEMENTS WOMEN, LOOK BEFORE YOU VOTE! There is time between now and November to make a thorough inspection of the Bargains offered every week at (Blank's). . . . . . SUFFRAGE LASTS Wherever it Comes Wear our Shoe Lasts Wherever You Go. Blank's. . . . . . The Demand for SUFFRAGE and for (Blank's) Ice Cream may be resisted It cannot be conquered. (Blank's) Candy Store. . . . . . Lozenges for Suffrage Speakers Foot Ease for Suffrage Hikers (F.A. Blank) Pharmacist SUFFRAGISTS Read (Newspaper Name) Why? Because it's Always on the Side of Justice DEEDS - NOT WORDS . . . . . . Real Estate EVERYONE VOTES FOR . . . . . . Dry Goods, House Furnishings, etc. WHAT IS A VOTER Without a Home? WOMEN VOTE AT SIGHT FOR HOMES (Blank's) Addition . . . . . . , Real Estate Necessities: VOTES FOR WOMEN PURE DRUGS FOR EVERYONE (Blank's) Pharmacy. . . . . . MODERN HOUSEWIVES VOTE for (Blank's) FINE GROCERIES ROSES FOR SUFFRAGISTS' BIRTHDAYS LILIES FOR ANTIS' FUNERALS . . . . . . , Florist WOMEN ATTENTION! Do your own voting But Let me do your Building John Blank . . . . . . THE BALLOT is a Domestic Necessity EVERY DOMESTIC Necessity (except the ballot) at. . . . . . UP-TO-DATE CLOTHES for UP-TO-DATE WOMEN PATTERN ADVERTISEMENTS -2- VOTES FOR WOMEN and BARGAINS FOR MEN (Blank's) $2.00 HATS . . . . . . Store . . . . . . Street . . . . . . Town EQUAL RIGHTS FOR WOMEN CAREFUL ATTENTION TO ALL AT . . . . . . . . . . . . WE VOTE FOR THE WOMEN THE WOMEN VOTE FOR US LADIES' SUITS (Blank) Tailor . . . . . . Street . . . . . . Town VOTES FOR WOMEN IN HOMES FOR WOMEN at (Blank) Real Estate Office . . . . . . Street . . . . . . Town COMING! VOTES FOR WOMEN (BLANK'S) SPRING OPENING . . . . . . Street . . . . . . Town ON THE WAY TO THE BALLOT STOP at (BLANK'S) EMPORIUM . . . . . . Street . . . . . . Town January 3rd, 1917. Mr. John R. Rathom, Editor, The Providence Journal, Providence, R. I. Dear Sir:- First of all let me express our cordial appreciation of the co-adjutor that we recognize in the Providence Journal under your editorship. It is a signal satisfaction to us to be able to count such a paper as listed under the suffrage banner. We are keenly interested in your contemplated Special Suffrage Edition of the Journal and I want to pledge you the help and co-operation of the Press Department in the undertaking. On a separate sheet you will find listed some of the features that we shall be able to supply you for the Edition. Proof sheets on all this matter will be ready for distribution early in February. Do you propose to scatter your suffrage material throughout the body of the paper or will you bulk it on a few pages? Have you considered the feasibility of putting a committee of local suffragists in nominal charge of the paper for "Womans Day" in the Providence Journal Office. Such committees have been utilized to great mutual advantage by some New York State papers. The solicit special advertising for the Edition, sell the papers on the street, work up local features, etc. You get the advantage of the special publicity, the net profits in the undertaking to go to the local Suffrage Association. January 3rd, 1917. JRRathom. #2. As soon as I know your plan of procedure, I will begin to advertise the Edition and your date of issuance, in the letter press going out from this Office. The choice of date set by Mrs. Catt includes the week of February 21st to 28th. As that means that they first publication day will fall on Ash Wednesday, I am trying to arrange to change the dates to February 19th to 26th. Will advise you later as to the conclusion reached. Let me thank you again in behalf of the entire Association for your suffrage stand and let me again pledge you our hearty co-operation all along the line. Cordially yours, Director Press Department. RY'B Enc. NATIONAL AMERICAN WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION (Branch of International Woman Suffrage Alliance and of National Council of Women) HONORARY PRESIDENT Dr. Anna Howard Shaw PRESIDENT 3RD VICE-PRESIDENT RECORDING SECRETARY Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt Miss Esther G. Ogden Mrs. Thomas Jefferson Smith 1ST VICE-PRESIDENT TREASURER 1ST AUDITOR Mrs. Walter McNab Miller Mrs. Henry Wade Rogers Miss Heloise Meyer 2ND VICE-PRESIDENT CORRESPONDING SECRETARY 2ND AUDITOR Mrs. Stanley McCormick Mrs. Frank J. Shuler Mrs. Pattie Ruffner Jacobs 171 MADISON AVENUE, NEW YORK 1626 RHODE ISLAND AVE., WASHINGTON, D.C. PRESS BUREAU Rose Young, Director Telephone, 4818 Murray Hill EDITORIAL SECTION WASHINGTON REPRESENTATIVE Mrs. Ida Husted Harper Mr. George Mosshart NEW YORK January 15th 1917. Mrs. Sara M. [Alger] Algeo, 394 Angel Street, Providence, R.I. My dear Mrs. [Alger] Algeo, I have ordered twenty copies of the Special Features for the Suffrage Edition sent you today. Please bear in mind that this is only a skeleton list, and that to it will be added some of the best features we have to offer. They are unfolding as we progress. The dates now set for the Special Editions are the Nineteenth to the Twenty-sixth. I thought it wise to act upon your suggestion about Ash Wednesday, and took up the matter with Mrs. Catt; she doesn't know Ash Wednesdays much better than I do, but she was open to conviction on the strength of your argument. Yours sincerely, Rose Young RY:EK. P.S. I enclose five copies of the Special Features for the Suffrage Edition; the balance will go forward tomorrow. R.Y. NATIONAL AMERICAN WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION Branch of International Woman Suffrage Alliance and of National Council of Women HONORARY PRESIDENT Dr. Anna Howard Shaw PRESIDENT 3RD VICE-PRESIDENT RECORDING SECRETARY Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt Miss Esther G. Ogden Mrs. Thomas Jefferson Smith Louisville, Kentucky 1ST VICE-PRESIDENT TREASURER 1ST AUDITOR Mrs. Walter McNab Miller Mrs. Henry Wade Rogers Miss Heloise Meyer 1626 Rhode Island Avenue, Washington, D.C. 2ND VICE-PRESIDENT CORRESPONDING SECRETARY 2ND AUDITOR Mrs. Stanley McCormick Mrs. Frank J. Shuler Mrs. Pattie Ruffner Jacobs Altamont Road, Birmingham, Ala. NATIONAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, Inc. 171 Madison Avenue CHAIRMAN 171 Madison Avenue, New York New York Mrs. Walter McNab Miller Telephone 4818 Murray Hill HEADQUARTERS PRESIDENT 1626 Rhode Island Avenue, Washington, D.C. Miss Esther G. Ogden January 3rd, 1917. Mrs. Sarah L. Algeo, 394 Angel Street, Providence, R.I. My dear Mrs. Alger[sic]:- Enclosed herewith is a copy of the letter that I have written to Mr. Rathom. I hope that it will meet the needs of the situation. It is clear to you now that we will make no charge for Suffrage material supplied to those papers that will set their own matter. Our charge is to cover the cost of the metal where we have to supply the plate itself. Do let me hear from you as rapidly as you get your papers lined up and command me whenever and wherever you see that the Department can be of service in this undertaking. Cordially yours, Rose Young Director Press Department. RY'B The Free Library of Philadelphia [JOHN THOMSON, Librarian] JOHN ASHHURST, Librarian. Thirteenth and Locust Streets PHILADELPHIA, PA. January 23rd 1917. My dear Mrs Algeo: Your letter didn't arrive until the second mail yesterday, so I didn't receive it until after my return from the Library and therefore had to wait until this morning to make my arrangements. I only wish your dates came later as I already have an engagement for over that Sunday at Plainfield, N.J. I should be delighted to come for the 9th, though on top of "War Brides" my talk would seem rather tense. Would it be impossible to have something for children on Saturday morning thus getting in the two any way? If absolutely necessary I might be able to alter the Plainfield date though it isn't strictly ethical or good business on my part. However if you want me for the ninth, I am thrilled at the prospect. I could hardly come for the one talk for less than you offer as I shall have to have substitutes, etc. here. Cordially yours, Julia W. Williams Supervisor of Storyhours. "L'ALBA" Italian Tri-Weekly Independent Newspaper Marco A. Russo, Editor & Proprietor Direction and Office of Administration: 67 Brayton Ave Providence, R.I. TELEPHONE UNION 297-W Well! You Meet Italians Every Where Inquire How we Will Reach Them for You Jan 27th, [1916] 1917 Mrs. Sara M. Algeo- Providence R.I. My Dear madam, I do not know what you thought of me for not answering your letter before, the cause was that I have been out of the state on business to often. In L'Alba of Jan 20 - I publish what you mail mail me. I told in my office to mail you copies, but to be [?], I mail two copies to you today - if you care I will insert your name on L'Alba mailing list free of charge. I am pleased to inform you that I am glad to give you this upon which you desire in L'Alba free of charge. In short time I will make time, because I would have [gradual?] of it, to my disposal ; I will call upon you. I beg to remain my Dear Madam- Sincerely always, Marco Russo I am writing to you from my home. National American Woman Suffrage Association (Branch of International Woman Suffrage Alliance and of National Council of Women) Honorary President Dr. Anna Howard Shaw President Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt 1st Vice-President Mrs. Walter McNab Miller 2nd Vice-President Mrs. Stanley McCormick 3rd Vice-President Miss Esther G. Ogden Treasurer Mrs. Henry Wade Rogers Corresponding Secretary Mrs. Frank J. Shuler Recording Secretary Mrs. Thomas Jefferson Smith Louisville, Kentucky 1st Auditor Miss Heloise Meyer 1626 Rhode Island Avenue, Washington, D.C. 2nd Auditor Mrs. Pattie Ruffner Jacobs Altamont Road, Birmingham, Ala NATIONAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE PUBLISHING COMPANY, Inc. 171 Madison Avenue, New York President Miss Esther G. Ogden NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS 171 Madison Avenue New York Telephone, 4818 Murray Hill CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE Chairman Mrs. Walter McNab Miller Headquarters 1626 Rhode Island Ave., Washington, D.C. 139 May 26, 1917 [Miss] Mrs Sara M. Algeo, 394 Angell Street, Providence, R.I. My dear [Miss] Mrs Algeo: Thank you for the $10. additional for the Russian fund. We hope very much to be able to complete this fund satisfactorily in a short time; if not, I shall be very glad to use the money in the General Treasury for our own needs. I am sorry to say that I did not receive any money from the names sent by you. I wrote them all and had a few nice answers saying that they were very busy with war work and many other excuses. I do not think any good suffragist is excused from making her regular contribution or more to the National Treasury this year. I simply say, let them give as much more to the war service work or ten times as much, as they wish, but not intrench upon the fundamental work of suffrage. I call it "robbing Peter to pay Paul"! Cordially yours, [?] [?] Rogers (Mrs. Henry Wade Rogers) Treasurer R-S NATIONAL AMERICAN WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION Branch of International Woman Suffrage Alliance and of National Council of Women HONORARY PRESIDENT Dr. Anna Howard Shaw PRESIDENT 3RD VICE-PRESIDENT RECORDING SECRETARY Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt Miss Esther G. Ogden Mrs. Thomas Jefferson Smith Louisville, Kentucky 1ST VICE-PRESIDENT TREASURER 1ST AUDITOR Mrs. Walter McNab Miller Mrs. Henry Wade Rogers Miss Heloise Meyer 1626 Rhode Island Avenue, Washington, D.C. 2ND VICE-PRESIDENT CORRESPONDING SECRETARY 2ND AUDITOR Mrs. Stanley McCormick Mrs. Frank J. Shuler Mrs. Pattie Ruffner Jacobs Altamont Road, Birmingham, Ala. NATIONAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, Inc. 171 Madison Avenue CHAIRMAN 171 Madison Avenue, New York New York Mrs. Walter McNab Miller Telephone 4818 Murray Hill HEADQUARTERS PRESIDENT 1626 Rhode Island Avenue, Washington, D.C. Miss Esther G. Ogden February 2, 1917 My dear Mrs. Algeo: I am glad you approve of our Dollar Post Card Plan and am sure you would use it if you had not other plans better adapted to your work on hand. You may want to use it later after trying other things. I congratulate you on the success of your civic forum work and hope you will be able to continue it throughout the season. It is a pretty difficult matter to recommend speakers just now when everyone is so driven with work. I think you might possibly get Dr. Shaw on her return in early April to the North. She has become very well and strong, for her, again and is to do some speaking work in the South. She is being paid for this work at the regular rate of $50. per lecture and entertainment, as she has to take care of herself and has given everything all in her life to suffrage. I am sure you could without the least trouble raise the money to pay for her coming to you and no one will draw as she will. Mrs. Beatrice-Forbes Hale is an unusually brilliant speaker and able woman. I think you should by all means have her, and I think her terms are about the same as Dr. Shaw's. The fact is you cannot get women who are speakers of great ability unless you pay them, and it is only right that you should do so. Mrs. Winston Churchill is in New Hampshire, busily engaged with getting presidential suffrage through the New Hampshire Legislature. I doubt if she could take the time, and I know that she does not claim to be a speaker, although she does talk very often at suffrage meetings. I think she would be willing to be one of perhaps two or three others who would help to fill an evening and give you some interesting facts. She is a very charming woman and able as well in many lines. How would it do to have her, if you can get her, with some one or two brief speeches by really good local people. She is very much interested in the question of girls' and women's employment in industrial establishments and has Mrs. Algeo -2- 2/2/17 some personal knowledge or it, besides, of course, being very well informed on suffrage. Her address is 22 Marlborough Street, Boston. Mrs. Stanley McCormick might be able to come, though I doubt it. Her address is the Plaza Hotel, New York. She is going to California in a short time. Mrs. Medill McCormick is in Aiken, South Carolina for the winter. I know nothing of Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. as a speaker and never heard that she speaks at all, though she is a good suffragist. You might be able to get Mrs. Walter McNab Miller, our First Vice President sometime during the course. She has a good deal of experience, is an attractive woman and is a good speaker. Her address is 1626 R.I. Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. Of course, you should pay her expenses, entertain her, and I think give her a small fee, for instance, $5. or $10. to just cover wear and tear. Mrs. Thomas N. Hepburn, 55 Pratt Street, Hartford, Conn., si the President of our Connecticut State Suffrage Association; a very good speaker and debater and an attractive woman. Perhaps this list will do for the present. You might write them all at the same time and get one or two of them from this group. Of course, you know of Mrs. Raymond Brown and Mrs. James Lee Laidlaw. They are both charming women and excellent speakers. Letters sent to them at 303 Fifth Avenue, New York would reach them. Rabbi Wise and Max Eastman and Dr. Aked, all of New York, are fine speakers and would draw splendidly. Very cordially yours, [?] [?] Rogers (Mrs. Henry Wade Rogers) Treasurer R-S P.S.-- Can you not send me before lont[sic] a list of some wealthy R.I. suffragists - women or men to whom Mrs. Catt or I can write for $100. or more or less, as contributions to the National Treasury? Whatever we secure will be counted on your pledge to the National. Of course, you understand, as do most of our good friends, that the pledges made by the States at the Atlantic City Convention will not more than half meet the expenditures of the National treasury for 1917. They may realize $50,000. for us, but in addition to them we shall have to raise at least $40,000. more, and I think $50,000., so that no State need hesitate to push on after having its pledge raised. From every source in the Union of States the National treasury must draw its necessary maintenance funds. Massachusetts has already contributed far beyond its pledge, and I hope many states will follow its good example. E.W.R.- NATIONAL AMERICAN WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION 171 MADISON AVENUE, NEW YORK CITY Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, President CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE Chairman, Mrs. Walter McNab Miller Vice-Chairman, Mrs. Maud Wood Park Secretary, Miss Ruth White HEADQUARTERS 1626 Rhode Island Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. March 22, 1917 Mrs. Sara M. Algeo, 394 Angell Street, Providence, R.I. My dear Mrs. Algeo: Thanks once more for the additional information about Senator Colt. Miss Willard and I went to call on the young Mrs. Colt but found her unable to see us owing to the illness of her little boy. Later, on the same day, she called me up by telephone to say that she was sorry not to see us but would be glad to make an appointment later on. I have to go to Boston this week but I promised to let her know when I return in order that she may come over to Headquarters. Cordially yours, Maud Wood Park W. Chairman, National Congressional Committee. MWP:MHH [Left Column:] MEMBERS: Miss Heloise Meyer, Massachusetts Mrs. Frank M. Roessing, Pennsylvania Mrs. Medill McCormick, Illinois Mrs. Helen Gardiner, District of Columbia Mrs. J. Borden Harriman, New York Miss Mary Garrett Hay, New York Miss Martha Norris, Ohio Mrs. Winston Churchill, New Hampshire Mrs. William Jennings Bryan, Nebraska Mrs. Robt. Griffin, New York Mrs. C.W. McClure, Michigan Mrs. T.T. Cotnam, Arkansas Mrs. Emma Smith DeVoe, Washington Mrs. Seward Adams Simons, California STATE CONGRESSIONAL CHAIRMEN: Mrs. C.H. Collier, Alabama Mrs. Frances W. Munds, Arizona Mrs. O.F. Ellington, Arkansas Mrs. Mary McKenry Keith, California Mrs. Lucy J. Harrington, Colorado Mrs. A.E. Scranton Taylor, Connecticut Miss Mary A. Ospina, Delaware Rev. Mary Safford, Florida Mrs. Richard Burke, Idaho Mrs. Judith W. Lowenthal, Illinois Miss Anna B. Lawther, Iowa Mrs. Alexander Hugh Scott, Indiana Mrs. W.Y. Morgan, Kansas Mrs. Samuel C. Henning, Kentucky Mrs. Lydia McKliffe Holmes, Louisiana Mrs. Katherine Reed Balentine, Maine Miss Emma Weber, Maryland Mrs. Lewis J. Johnson, Massachusetts Mrs. Orton H. Clark, Michigan Mrs. Andreas Ueland, Minnesota Mrs. Charles Passmore, Missouri Miss Pauline V. Orr, Mississippi Mrs. Harvey Coit, Montana Mrs. E.L. Burke, Nebraska Miss Felice Cohn, Nevada Mrs. Robert P. Johnston, New Hampshire Mrs. Robert S. Huse, New Jersey Mrs. W.E. Lindsey, New Mexico Mrs. James Lees Laidlaw, New York Mrs. Frances L. Bolley, North Dakota Mrs. Harriet Taylor Upton, Ohio Dr. Esther Pohl-Lovejoy, Oregon Mrs. J.O. Miller, Pennsylvania Miss Elizabeth Upham Yates, Rhode Island Mrs. John Pyle, South Dakota Mrs. Henry J. Kelso, Tennessee Mrs. Helen Moore, Texas Mrs. Emily Richards, Utah Mrs. Frances H. Rastall, Vermont Mrs. John H. Lewis, Virginia Mrs. George A. Smith, Washington Mrs. Ellis A. Yost, West Virginia Mrs. Ben Hooper, Wisconsin Dr. Grace R. Hebard, Wyoming CONGRESSIONAL AIDES ALABAMA: Mrs. Solon H. Jacobs Mrs. Lillian Roden Bowron Mrs. John A. Lusk Mrs. Milton Humes CALIFORNIA: Mrs. James Ellis Tucker Mrs. Mabel Craft Deering COLORADO: Mrs. Mary C.C. Bradford Mrs. Ellis Meredith CONNECTICUT: Mrs. John Prince Elton Mrs. Frederick S. Chase DELAWARE: Mrs. John S. Brassington DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: Mrs. Newton D. Baker Mrs. Louis Brandeis Mrs. David F. Houston Mrs. Anson Mills GEORGIA: Mrs. Emily C. McDougald Mrs. Mary L. McLendon ILLINOIS: Mrs. Grace Wilbur Trout Mrs. Harrison Munro Brown Mrs. Raymond Robins Mrs. William Severin Mrs. Hannah G. Solomon Miss Harriet Vittum Mrs. Francis D. Everett Mrs. Charles H. Zimmerman Mrs. George Bass Mrs. Mary Morrisson INDIANA: Mrs. T. Arthur Stuart Dr. Amelia Keller Anna Dunn Noland Mrs. Lewis Cox Mrs. Horace I Stillwell Mrs. Orid B. Jameson KANSAS: Mrs. Lucy B. Johnston KENTUCKY: Mrs. John G. South Mrs. T. Jefferson Smith Mrs. Henry R. Whiteside Mrs. Joseph Alderson Mrs. Herbert W. Mengel Mrs. Robinson A. McDowell Mrs. Edwrd M. Post LOUISIANA: Mrs. John F. Odom MASSACHUSETTES: Mrs. Katherine H. Millard Mrs. Gertrude Halliday Leonard Mrs. Samuel Powers Mrs. Oakes Ames Mrs. Robert Gould Shaw Pres. Mary E. Wooley, Mt. Holyoke College Mrs. Walter Pritchard Eaton Mrs. Glendower Evans Mrs. Jeannette B. Peabody MARYLAND: Mrs. Robert Moss Mrs. A. C. Hill Mrs. Charles E. Ellicott Mrs. T. J. Linthicum MICHIGAN: Rev. Caroline Bartlett Crane Mrs. Carey W. Dunton Mrs. Abby Beecher Roberts Mrs. John R. Santo Mrs. James B. Balch Mrs. E. A. Blakeslee Mrs. E. L. Calkins Mrs. Wm. H. Anderson MISSOURI: Mrs. Morrison Fuller Mrs. John B. White Mrs. Emily Newell Blair Mrs. Philip Fouke MINNESOTA: Mrs. Charles C. Moller Mrs. Harrison Gardner Foster NEBRASKA: Mrs. W. E. Barkley Mrs. Charles H. Dietrich NEW JERSEY: Mrs. Otto Wittpenn Mrs. George Mason La Monte Mrs. Everett Colby Mrs. Philip McKim Garrison Mrs. Thomas G. Haight Mrs. John Jay White NEW MEXICO: Mrs. A. A. Kellam NEW YORK: Mrs. Ernest Thompson Seton Mrs. Henry White Cannon Mrs. George Hubbell Mrs. Bernhard Hoffman Miss Mary Wood NORTH DAKOTA: Miss Mary E. McCumber OHIO: Mrs. Samuel B. Sneath RHODE ISLAND: Mrs. James DeWolf Perry TENNESSEE: Mrs. Guilford Dudley TEXAS: Mrs. B. J. Cunningham Miss M. Eleanor Brackenridge VIRGINIA: Mrs. B. B. Valentine VERMONT: Dr. Grace W. Sherwood Mrs. Oliver C. Ashton Mrs. Henry W. Clement WEST VIRGINIA: Miss Florence Hoge WYOMING: Mrs. Joseph Carey Richard B. Comstock John E. Canning Patrick P. Curran Henry C. Hart Joseph P. Canning COMSTOCK & CANNING Law Offices, 10 Weybosset Street Telephone 1866 Union (Branch Exchange) Providence, R.I. May 1, 1917 Mrs. Sara M. Algeo, 394 Angell Street, Providence, R. I. Dear Mrs. Algeo:- I am in receipt of your favor of April 24th and I appreciate very much the invitation to attend the jubilee dinner of the Woman Suffrage party and speak on the subject of "What Next, but I am going to ask you to excuse me. I have for some considerable time necessarily refrained from making any speeches whatsoever and hence you will have to omit me from the program. I would have replied to you sooner but I have been out of the city for some considerable time. Again thanking you for thinking of me in this connection. I am, Yours sincerely, Richard B. Comstock R/M NATIONAL AMERICAN WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION Branch of International Woman Suffrage Alliance and of National Council of Women HONORARY PRESIDENT Dr. Anna Howard Shaw PRESIDENT 3RD VICE-PRESIDENT RECORDING SECRETARY Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt Miss Esther G. Ogden Mrs. Thomas Jefferson Smith Louisville, Kentucky 1ST VICE-PRESIDENT TREASURER 1ST AUDITOR Mrs. Walter McNab Miller Mrs. Henry Wade Rogers Miss Heloise Meyer 1626 Rhode Island Avenue, Washington, D.C. 2ND VICE-PRESIDENT CORRESPONDING SECRETARY 2ND AUDITOR Mrs. Stanley McCormick Mrs. Frank J. Shuler Mrs. Pattie Ruffner Jacobs Altamont Road, Birmingham, Ala. NATIONAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, Inc. National Headquarters CHAIRMAN 171 Madison Avenue, New York 171 Madison Avenue Mrs. Walter McNab Miller PRESIDENT New York HEADQUARTERS Miss Esther G Ogden Telephone, 4818 Murray Hill 1626 Rhode Island Avenue, Washington, D.C. 129 March 22, 1917. Mrs. Sarah M. Algeo, 394 Angell Street, Providence, Rhode Island. My dear Mrs. Algeo:- Please tell Miss Laura Clay to stop over in New York on Monday. It is my understanding that she will arrive at 2:19 PM on that date. We will send to the train to meet her and I will gladly have her stay with me over night. Unless I hear to the contrary, we will meet that train. Cordially yours, Carrie Chapman Catt CCC-BMS President 152 West 58th Street New York City 10th. Febry 1917 Mrs. M.A. Nichols Providence, R.I. Dear Madam, I have to acknowledge receipt of your cheque for $50.00, being royalty for one performance of "WAR BRIDES" by amateurs. Will you kindly let me have a programme and newspaper cuttings, as arranged. Very truly yours, [Cha?] [B?] Feb 3. '17 12 Benevolent Street Mrs. Sara M. Algeo- My dear madam, As I think the present a most improper time to agitate for any change in the laws concerning the ballot you will see I am not a proper person to act as a Patroness as you suggest The women who are mercifully engaged in aiding sufferers are not as I observe. Those most active for suffrage now. The equal suffrage is a simple matter of justice and will come and is coming but agitation should be laid aside until times are more normal. At least! see it that way. Very truly [?] A. Brown $2 & Two Tickets enc A.H. ESTEN Dyer and Spooler of Worsted and Cotton Yarns East Greenwich, R.I. Jan 31, 1917 My Dear Mrs. Algeo, I thank you for your kind invitation to meet with your Forum Sunday, but a prior engagement prevents me from accepting. Dr. Walsh does not arrive from New York until 6.18 PM so that it will be out of the question for him to be present. Wishing your Forum the best of success I remain Yours truly AH Esten FORD HALL FOUNDATION BOSTON February 1, 1917 Dear Mrs. Alger:- It has been suggested that the forums of Greater Boston and of the towns and cities throughout New England send representatives to a gathering on Wednesday evening, February 7, to consider the advisability of forming a Congress of Forums. Arrangements have been made to meet at dinner at the Women's City Club of Boston, 40 Beacon Street, at six o'clock, Wednesday, February 7, and spend the evening in discussing the matter. Will you not please see that your forum is represented by its chairman and one other delegate? Please advise us as soon as possible who your delegates will be. The price of the dinner will be 50 cents. It is thought that such an organization would enable us to improve our own forums through a mutual exchange of ideas and methods and also enable us to take our proper share in promoting the forum movement at large, as represented by the National Open Forum Council and the magazine, THE COMMUNITY FORUM. Yours sincerely, George W. Coleman N.C.M. Mrs. James W. Alger, Leader of the Civic Forum, 394 Angel Street, Providence, R.I. John H. Cady [?] Bldg Mr. Clarence Cotton U9350 M. St. Church Greater B. 32 38-R Portland, Maine. March 16th 1917. My dear Mrs. Algeo, I am writing the very first day that I know my plans definitely. I find that in some way I have unfortunately lost Mrs. Rooke's address; so I will have to ask you please to let her know that I can return to Providence and speak at her meeting on Mar. 23rd, if she still desires me to do so. Please ask her to write at once to Miss Martha S. Kimball, Portsmouth, N. Hampshire, if she wishes me to come; and what her arrangements are for me. I shall probably be at Newton, Mass. on Thursday, and come from there to Providence, if Mrs. Rooke desire me at her meeting. If you have not some very definite plans for me which you think will be useful to your League, I shall go at once from Providence to Richmond, Virginia. I have enjoyed 3. my trip through New England very much, and the friends have been kind enough to say that I have done the cause good. But you must not feel obliged to make any engagements unless you are quite certain they will be useful. And especially I must ask that you do not make any that will require waiting for idly for several days. Please let me hear from both you and Mrs. Rooke at Portsmouth. Very cordially yours, [S?a?a] Clay. The American Red Cross Washington, D.C. Neutrality Humanity Campaign Headquarters 136 Industrial Trust Building Providence, R.I. Telephone, Union 12000 March 19, 1917. Mrs. James W. Algeo, 394 Angell Street, Providence, R.I. My Dear Mrs. Algeo:- In compliance with your request I inclose information concerning the American Red Cross. We are very anxious to obtain five thousand members here in Providence in the coming campaign which comences on March 26th and ends on the 4th of April. If you feel that you could use some enrollment blanks in your association I wish you would communicate with me and I will send them to you with instructions as to the use of them. Trusting to hear from you in this matter, I am, Very truly yours, James Blaine J Chairman, Campaign Committee 1916 NEW HAMPSHIRE EQUAL SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION Headquarters, 92 North Main St., Concord CORRESPONDING SECRETARY Mrs. Robert P. Johnston, Manchester RECORDING SECRETARY Dr. Inez Ford Nason, Dover TREASURER Mrs. Vida Chase Webb, Lisbon PRESIDENT Miss Martha S. Kimball, Portsmouth 1ST VICE-PRESIDENT Mrs. Winston Churchill, Cornish 2ND VICE-PRESIDENT Mrs. Frank Knox, Manchester AUDITORS Mrs. Susan C. Bancroft, Concord Miss Anna Stearns, Nashua FIELD ORGANIZER Mrs. Mary Post Portsmouth, N.H., December 19th. 1917 [*Aus*] Mrs. Sara M. Algeo #394 Angell Street, Providence, R.I. My dear Mrs. Algeo:- I have not answered yours and Miss Lent's letter[s] about the suffrage coffee, because I was waiting to tell you what we have done about it. I brought it up two or three times to our finance committees but they have not been willing to undertake it. We are trying to raise our money by private subscriptions and by assessing the different towns just as the National has assessed the states. Dr. Effie McCollum Jones spent a week with us recently and started us with the individual pledge cards, pledging monthly to our local leagues, half of which is sent to the State. I think this is going to work very well. We made about $40 in Portsmouth last week at a White Elephant sale. although the day was a bad one: but we shall depend more and more upon the pledges. I hope that your suffrage work is going well in Rhode Island and that you have peaceful times in Providence in spite of the disturbing element. I believe, however, that I heard that she is in New York State now. If you ever come this way we shall be glad to see you in New Hampshire. Won't you come up and speak for us some time in the Spring? I suppose a good deal of help now must be given to Maine, but we have to do our own work also, and we are more hopeful than ever before of our legislature, but only time will tell what it will do for us. Thanking you for sending us the circulars about the coffee, I am, Yours very sincerely, Martha S. Kimball. A very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! 1916 NEW HAMPSHIRE EQUAL SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION Headquarters, 92 North Main St., Concord CORRESPONDING SECRETARY Mrs. Robert P. Johnston, Manchester RECORDING SECRETARY Dr. Inez Ford Nason, Dover TREASURER Mrs. Vida Chase Webb, Lisbon PRESIDENT Miss Martha S. Kimball, Portsmouth 1ST VICE-PRESIDENT Mrs. Winston Churchill, Cornish 2ND VICE-PRESIDENT Mrs. Frank Knox, Manchester AUDITORS Mrs. Susan C. Bancroft, Concord Miss Anna Stearns, Nashua FIELD ORGANIZER Mrs. Mary Post Portsmouth, N. H. , February 9, 1917 My dear Mrs. Algeo:- You have probably seen what happened to us in the Senate the other day. The hand of the liquor interests was seen very clearly as we heard that some of the senators who voted for us were approached by them, and some of the speeches against us were ridiculous. However, we shall go on working now for the same bill which is in the House, for the educational value, but we can not think of New Hampshire as a progressive state for yet awhile. We certainly want to help Maine this Summer and as she is just across the river from us, as soon as I am sure about the referendum, I shall offer our services for the part that we can reach easily, as we have many workers who can go away for the day but no longer. If you come to Maine then we would love to have you stop off for out-door speaking, for we have very few who will do that in New Hampshire. I may see you in Washington, although as my mother has been very ill this Winter, I have not, so far, been able to get away very much, but I am hoping it will be all right by that time. Yours sincerely, Martha S. Kimball. Feb 10, 1917 R My dear Mrs. Alger:- I wish to thank you for inviting me to address your Civic Forum. It is a disappointment to me that my crowded calendar makes it impossible for me to avail myself of this privilege. Very sincerely yours, Abraham M Ribbany STATE OF RHODE ISLAND & PRVIDENCE PLANTATIONS EXECUTIVE CHAMBER PROVIDENCE April 19, 1917 Mrs. James W. Al[ego]geo, 394 Angell Street, Providence, R.I. Dear Mrs. Alego: - Governor Beeckman wishes me to send you with his compliments the enclosed pen and holder, which was one of those used in signing the Woman's Suffrage Bill. Very truly yours , J.H. Reuter Executive Secretary NG/Enc. THE PROVIDENCE JOURNAL THE EVENING BULLETIN JOHN R. RATHOM EDITOR AND GENERAL MANAGER Providence, R.I. May 8th, 1917 Mrs. Sara M. Algeo, 394 Angell St. Providence, R.I. My dear Mrs. Algeo, - I am very sorry indeed that it will be impossible for me to accept your very kind invitation to attend your jubilee dinner next week. Very truly yours, John R Rathom JRR-S [*Rankin*] JEANNETTE RANKIN MONTANA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES WASHINGTON, D.C. May 9, 1917 Miss Sara M. Alger, 394 Angell St., Providence, R.I. Dear Miss Alger: Miss Rankin wishes to thank you for your kind letter and invitation to speak for the Providence Woman Suffrage Party, and I am writing to tell you that although she deeply appreciates your cordial invitation, she regrets that official business prevents her making arrangements to speak for you. I trust you will understand that the necessity of refusing your request is in no way indicative of any lack of appreciation on her part of your courteous invitation. Cordially, Florence Leech Secretary Dorchester, Mass. May 7, 1917 My dear Mrs. Algeo: It would give me pleasure to come & help R.I. rejoice, but on May 19 I am to have an operation on my jaw - not a dangerous one but I don't expect to be in condition to do public speaking that day. Hope you will all have a delightful time. Cordially, Alice Stone Blackwell CENTRAL CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH PROVIDENCE May 2nd - 1917 My Dear Mrs. Algeo: - I shall be very glad to dine with the Woman Suffrage party Saturday evening May 7th and speak for 5 minutes on what next. I am sincerely yours, [?] Elma Artums Dear Co-worker: An appeal to help in the thrift stamp drive from June 22 to June 28 comes to our organization from the Field Secretary, ,Mrs. Hope Shepley Hollister of the Womans' Committee of the Council of National Defense, Rhode Island division. She asks me to secure the co-operation of our workers throughout the towns and cities of Rhode Island to assist in the house to house canvass and planned by the Womans' Committee of the Council of National Defense. She further requests that everyone who is willing to assist, send her name to her Ward or Town Chairman. Will you please give your name and secure as many workers as possible for who is Chairman of the Council of National Defense in your section. Sincerely yours, Sara M. Algeo Chairman R. I. Suffrage Party. - 2- should be taken on the question of the extension of suffrage to women upon same terms as to men and we are in favor of the necessary referendum measures required to ascertain the opinion of the qualified electors of the state. Office of the Auditor City of Attleboro, Massachusetts CITY OF ATTLEBORO, MASS. INCORPORATED 1914 EDGAR F. BOSWORTH CITY AUDITOR Murray Manse, 140 County Street Attleboro, Mass., May 1, 1917 My Dear Mrs. Algeo: - The Open Forum National Council has adopted the following Platform of Principles: - 1. The complete development of democracy in America. 2. A common meeting-ground for all the people in the interest of truth and mutual understanding, and for the cultivation of the community spirit. 3. The fullest and freest open public discussion of all vital questions affecting human welfare. 4. For free participation from the forum floor either by questions or discussion. 5. The freedom of forum management from responsibility for utterances by speakers from the platform or the floor. That might be better stated but it shows the trend of the forum movement throughout the country. Any institution which sets the people THINKING is doing a great service. That is the forum idea. Any institution which sets the people THINKING TOGETHER is doing a still greater service, and that is the better forum idea. Any institution which sets the people COOPERATING TOGETHER TO THINK, that is managing in full cooperation, is doing the greatest service and that is the forum movement at its best. If I may so express it, any institution which calls the whole community into ACTIVE COOPERATION TO MANAGE AND TO THINK TOGETHER and otherwise work together is doing a super-service and is the Community Fellowship idea or what might be called the super-forum idea. We are all extremists in something and need to get the other man's point to moderate our spirit and rationalize our viewpoint. That is safety-valve, against our own and other people's extremes getting into too much social control. Everybody has something to offer for the good of the PUBLIC ORDER, and has both a right and a duty to be heard somehow in contribution to the common intelligence. The very opportunity itself is helpful to the sense of sovereignty of individuality, the fundamental principle and challenge of democratic life. Even if one does not use the opportunity every season a forum is one the forum platform or floor makes one feel good in king power. Demoncracy can only move forward rightly as each individual citizen has the chance and the ambition to take part in making up the public mind and the community consciousness. Democracy is now at the crisis when we see that we must go back to the "efficiency" of the government of the few or we must go ahead to the habit and way of everybody acting a real part. Democracy is not really itself except as the average man and (2) all in time are responsibly concerned in the discussion of the vital issues of citizenship. We need to see that the community must be liberated as well as the individual. The public life of all is vital to the community and no one can avoid the duty of vital interest without holding the community progress in check. We are either community minded or we are not. We are to be so actively interested that it can be said that we help the community consciousness to come to its own selfhood. Come let us REASON together, reason TOGETHER. Come let us REASON TOGETHER. Not so much heat. Real light and not heat. To[l] learn how to give and take ideas as a regular schooling is a great training [schooling] for social safety and a common-confidence. It is a liberal education for the adults in the things upon which community progress most depends. When we learn how to hold our own convictions in loyalty to everybody's else right and duty to hold earnestly to their honest convictions, when we have learned this all valuable lesson and become possessed, in fact, of the spirit of that socially necessary truth THEN WE shall have become c i v i l i z e d against the occurrences of many troublesome and tragic events. Our minds are all made for truth, as truth is made for our minds, and in the long run we shall be able easily enough to get workable platforms of living together in peace and progress. It has been my own invaluable privilege to actually witness the facts beneath all the racial and manifold other differences all the people need the same essential opportunity of TOGETHERNESS, and that given a chance to get together in free and regular community fellowship they all rejoice to recognize themselves as members of the all inclusive unity. I told you in my last note you were as well qualified as anyone to tell of the movement. I do not know if I have said anything to help you. I have let my thoughts run along in this free and easy way. I trust my letter has arrived in due time and that you will have a good "Forum Day" time of it at the Providence W.C.T.U. Once again I congratulate the Rhode Islanders on their good sense and good spirit in recognizing the women as real citizens in presidential suffrage. You have a right to feel a peculiar sense of satisfaction yourself, because your wise and faithful leadership has contributed an untold amount to the success. With every good wish to you and Mr. Algeo, I am Sincerely yours, Charles H. Pennoyer. Charles H. Pennoyer Transcribed and reviewed by contributors participating in the By The People project at crowd.loc.gov.