NAWSA GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE International Suffrage Alliance - 1928 CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT, FEB 24 1928 (stamped) Room 821, 420 Lexington Avenue, New York, N. Y. February 23, 1928 My dear Miss Brainerd: As an honorary officer of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance, I get the communications sent to the officers. Usually I keep silent and let the League take action. I have received this remarkable questionnaire. It is so learned,(underlined) it has no sense: I note in the printed circular, last page, that there is an office of this projected exhibition in New York. I suggest that you go to see it and if you learn anything, let the National League Press Chairman know what it is. If any person had the time to look up connections a fine showing could be made and one with sone intelligence in it, but time, I fear there will not be much that can be done. I'm thinking that perhaps I know more about the early phases than later arrivals in this world of ours and if you find I am wanted for evidence, let ne know when I get back about April 1st. Please preserve this precious document Miss Brainerd, -2- continued, As a matter of fact, the noet startling thing I know is that the contacts of the woman novenent with the press are the reverse of all other lines of its development. A woman, I recall, issued the first daily paper: Very sincerely, Carrie Chapman Catt N?? Typed from copy sent from Florida. Nov. 6. 28 Am sending one of your circular letters to my feminist friend Mrs. Marion H. Holmes - 4743 - 39. St. San Diego + also asking Can . Pac office in S. F. to sens stuff to Les - also urgent letter as she wrote me of possible travel plans after Nov. 16-Hope you get your share of Hoover prosperity. I voted for Thomas. Yours Alice Park On side of page "6 hour day now" printed 6 hour day now (stamp} Palo Alto one cent stamp Nov 6 2 30 PM 1928 CALIF. . Reply Card . THIS SIDE OF CARD IS FOR ADDRESS Mrs. Sara M. Algro (Rimstick Pt.) Barrington R.I. 1928 TELEPHONE VICTORIA 0285 TELEGRAMS: VOCARAJTO International Alliance of Women for Suffrage and Equal Citizenship. HEADQUARTERS: 190 VAUXHALL BRIDGE ROAD, LONDON. S.W. 1., ENGLAND PRESIDENT: MARGERY CORBETT ASHBY, 33, UPPER RICHMOND ROAD, LONDON. S.W. 15. ENGLAND. This letter is addressed to Presidents of Auxiliaries and copies are sent to Members of the Board for their information. February 1928 Dear Madam, A large International Press Exhibition is being organised in Cologne from May to October of this year, with a special Women's Section. At its last meeting in Amsterdam the Board of the Alliance agreed to notify its Auxiliaries of this undertaking and to ask them to give their co-operation in the Women's Section. I enclosed some literature dealing with the Exhibition which the organiser has sent me for distribution, and I also attach a set of questions to act as the basis of a short Report for which the organiser would be very grateful in order to permit her to prepare - in addition to the actual exhibition of literature - a general survey of the literature of the woman's movement throughout the world. I think that you may find that to reply in detail to this Questionnaire would involve you in too great an amount of time and work, but possibly on the basis of these questions you could supply a short general survey of the growth of your movement. It so happens that this request coincides with the despatch by the Alliance Enfranchised Women's Committee of a questionnaire on the History of Woman Suffrage which covers much the same ground. Possibly, therefore, you may be able to use the information collected for that purpose in sending a reply to the Press Exhibition. The following particulars as to the organisation have been sent me: 1. In the case of historical material, large quantities are not asked for, but only a few typical and specially striking examples. 2. In the case of the current periodicals, pamphlets, etc., a bound volume for the current year or for last year, which could easily be looked through, would be preferred. 3. Actual printed material should be received in Cologne by the middle of April; but the report based on the questionnaire is regarded as of great importance and, as it involves a considerable amount of compilation work by the organiser, it is necessary that it should be received by the end of March. 4. All material and correspondence should be addressed to: Fraulein Dr. Wingerath, Frauenabteilung der Pressa, K8ln, Kaiser Freidrich 5. All material will be returned at the close of the Exhibition. 6. Those sending material must pay the cost of its despatch to Cologne, but no charge is made for its exhibition. -2- We hope that you may be able to co-operate with the organisers of the Women's Section, as this Exhibition will no doubt give a striking picture of the extent and force of the international woman's movement. It is also to the advantage of your own publications to get the advertisement ensured by their display. Yours sincerely, Emilie Gourd Secretary QUESTIONNAIRE 1. When did the woman suffrage movement find its first literary expression? In what papers? 2. What grounds for the grant of woman suffrage were given in these first articles? 3. What echo did these articles wake in the general press? Agreement or opposition? What grounds was the opposition based on? 4. What publicity material was used by women in their campaign for suffrage (special woman suffrage papers, hand-bills, pictures, posters, proclamations etc.)? It would be most desirable that specimens of the most important and interesting of these should be sent to the Press. 5. How was the evolution of the principles underlying the woman suffrage movement shown in these publications? 6. Indicate the development and evolution of the pros and cons in the general press. 7. To what circle of readers was the woman suffrage press directed? 8. What types of people co-operated in the movement? 9. What was the attitude of the press towards the introduction of woman suffrage (evolution in the views of the opposition)? 10. What ways and means have been adopted by the women's papers for the education of the woman citizen since the grant of woman suffrage? February 24th, 1928 International Press Exhibition Cologne 1928 New York Information Office, 461 Eighth Ave., New York, N.Y. Messrs.: I am asked by Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt to talk with you about material that might be contributed from the United States for the press exhibit in Cologne. I do not find your telephone on the folder that has been sent me. May I ask you to call me up and arrange some time when I may call and talk this over? Very truly yours, Eveline W. Brainerd Editor, Weekly News February 29th, 1928 Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, Hotel Seminole Winter Park, Fla. Dear Mrs. Catt: Thank you for letting me look into this matter of the International Press Exhibit. Miss Germer came to see me yesterday. It seems that she wants a great deal beside a suffrage exhibit, and in that matter all present and past general publications edited or published by women. I was able I think to give her a few suggestions. I am sending a few more to her today. The request to gather the suffrage literature for the exhibit came to the National League and Miss Sherwin has written Miss Mary Gray Peck asking if she could collect this special material. Of course if Miss Peck can undertake this you are the person to whom she would turn first for advice. If you can use me conveniently as a go-between, I should be very glad to serve you both. All material has to be in by March 20th. An interesting feature of this whole affair is that, as Miss Germer tells me, the press in the United States, so far as the men are concerned, will take no interest in this exhibit. The plan is to make it a very great exhibit and of an international character. All the countries of Europe have bought space but the United States has not. Not willing to have this country entirely left out, the exhibition has allotted certain space for the free use of any who will send exhibits. Thus far I understood Miss Germer the Christian Science Monitor was the only newspaper that was sending material. If this is so then the women have a wonderful opportunity to make an impression abroad. Have you any suggestions as to periodicals devoted to peace and internationalism that we could collect? Sincerely yours, Eveline W. Brainerd Editor, Weekly News February 29th, 1928 Miss Emma Bugbee New York Herald-Tribune 225 W. 40th St., New York, N.Y. Dear Miss Bugbee: I telephoned you the other day in regard to the International Press Exhibit. It seems it takes place in May and June in Cologne and is intended to be a very big affair. All the countries in Europe have bought space for exhibition. The United States has not bought any but the management is putting aside a space for free use by any one who will exhibit from the United States. Mrs. Catt, having word from the International Suffrage Alliance about this sent to me to find out what was wanted, and Miss Germer, the representative here in charge of collecting material for the women's part of this exhibit, came in to see me yesterday. She had been told, to get at the press women in New York, she should write to Jane Dixon, she doesn't know who told her. Neither do I. Anyway Jane Dixon never answered and I told her that she was quite mistaken; that the one person to talk with was yourself. I hope you may be able to give her a little time and possibly you will find that the matter is big enough to be brought to the attention of Mrs. Maloney and Mrs. Leavitt. I mentioned those two names to her. Sincerely yours Evaline W. Brainerd Editor, Weekly News February 29th, 1928 Miss Grannis Grolier Club 47 East 60th St., New York, N.Y. Dear Miss Grannis: Probably you know better than I of the International Press Exhibit taking place in Cologne in May and June. The young woman, Miss Germer, in charge of collecting material for the women's part of the exhibit, that is, papers owned or edited by women, came in to see me yesterday and last night Ira suggested that the catalog of early newspapers published by the Grolier might have something in it for her. I have suggested Miss Germer that she come to see you and look over this catalog. Although she is especially engaged on the women's exhibit, she is nevertheless interested in securing what she can for a general press exhibit for the reason that so far as the men are concerned the press in this country will take no interest in this international exhibit. Miss Germer tells me that the United States newspaper folk have refused to buy any space although all the countries of Europe have bought space, and that the management has reserved free a certain portion in order to put anything that may be sent from the United States. Really isn't the United States sometimes a little funny? Sincerely yours, Eveline W. Brainerd Editor, Weekly News February 29th, 1928 Miss Germer New York Employee Printers Assn., 461 Eighth Ave., New York, N.Y. Dear Miss Germer: Over night I had thought of two or three other people who might be of use to you or whose publications you might like to include in a general women's exhibit. When you see Miss Bugbee ask her about the magazine section of the Herald-Tribune edited by Mrs. Maloney. Mrs. Maloney, before she took this magazine was for years editor of the Delineator and made of it a most successful woman's magazine. You could certainly get copies of that from the Delineator office, Butterick Publishing Company, 223 Spring St., New York City. Another person in the Herald-Tribune office to whom no doubt Miss Bugbee could give you access is Mrs. Helen Leavitt. She was one of the notable suffrage leaders. She is now in charge of the Herald-Tribune publicity. I am sure that she would be interested and helpful. The Grolier Club, 47 East 60th St., New York City, published some time ago a catalog of the early newspapers of this country. The librarian, Miss Granniss, knows a great deal on this whole subject and would be very glad I am sure to show you the catalog and to talk over the early publications with you. It is not unlikely that among members of the club there are men having collections who would be very glad to help you in the exhibit so long as their material was properly safeguarded. I am writing Miss Graniss that you may come in to see her. I am anxious to get for you a set of the publications by international and peace societies and I shall write you about this later. Sincerely yours, Eveline W. Brainerd Editor, Weekly News P.S. One of the largest women's magazine in the country is the Woman's Home Companion. Although it is owned and published by men, the editor is a woman, Miss Lane. She has been its editor for many years, I would say from its beginning, and has made it a most influential paper. Address, 250 Park Avenue. Miss Gladys Harrison National LEague of Women Voters 532 - 17th St., N.W., Washington, D.C. Dear Miss Harrison: I have sent on your letter to Miss Peck and I do hope that you can secure her for this piece of work. She is just the person. I had an interview with the young woman who is in charge apparently of gathering material in the United States for this exhibit. She was in yesterday. Mrs. Catt, as a member of the Board, had received the questionnaire and finding that the representative was in New York City, had asked me to see her and find out what I could about a matter that seemed not perfectly clear. Miss Germer fortunately so far as my usefulleness was concerned, wanted a great deal besides suffrage material and I gave her what suggestions I could as to gathering periodicals and papers either edited or published by women and I suggested various people for her to see in New York. I was the more pleased to be of the least use because she tells me that the United States press so far as the men are concerned, is not interested in this exhibit and has refused to buy any space. The managers of the exposition have however set aside free quite a large space for the use of any American exhibit that may be sent over. Miss Germer told me that this was really a great disappointment to the managers of the exhibit because they expected to make it a very great press exhibit and they wanted it to be a friendly occasion having an international spirit. I understood her that only one newspaper thus far had promised an exhibit and that was the Christian Science Monitor. This seems to me a most unfortunate attitude on the part of the press, but it does seem a chance for the women to make quite a good showing. Should we get a fine exhibit there it would be a bit of ajoke, wouldn't it? I don't suppose that I could be of any use as to the suffrage side of this exhibit, but any suggestions as to a general exhibit that you would care to make to me I would pass on at once to Miss Germer and of course anything that I could do for Miss Peck I would be delighted to do. Mrs. Russell surely would be a help to Miss Peck. Sincerely yours, Eveline W. Brainerd Mrs. J.M. Keyes, 3 Castleton Park New Brighton, S.I. , N.Y. Dear Mrs. Keyes: Would the woman's part of in the International Press Exhibit to be held in Cologne in May and June be anything you would want to look into? The woman getting material in the United States for the exhibit is Miss Germer, New York Employee Printers Assn., 461 Eighth Avenue, New York City, telephone Lackawanna 9060. By the way Miss Germer tells me that the newspaper men in the United States take no interest in this exhibit and I understood her to say that the Christian Science Monitor was the only paper that had treated the matter seriously and was arranging to send an exhibit. There has been no space bought for the United States exhibit although all European countries have purchased space. The management, however, has set aside space free for all who will exhibit from the United States. I am rather hoping that she may be able to get a fine exhibit of women's work since the men leave the field free to us. Sincerely yours, Eveline W. Brainerd Editor, Weekly News 461 EIGTH AVENUE NEW YORK CITY TELEPHONE LACKAWANNA 9060 EXTENSION 10 MARCH 2 1928 AMERICAN COMMITTEE INTERNATIONAL PRESS EXHIBITION COLOGNE 1928 March 1, 1928. Miss Eveline W. Brainerd, Editor, Weekly News, New York League of Women Voters, Room 821, Graybar Bldg., New York City. Dear Miss Brainerd: - I wish to thank you for your kind cooperation in regard to the contribution towards the Exhibit "The Woman and The Press" at the INTERNATIONAL PRESS EXHIBITION to be held at Cologne from May to October this year. I shall follow your suggestion and either call or write to the names given me. I hope that we may be successful in assembling some interesting material from this country. Sincerely yours, Lisa Germer, Secretary. International Press Exhibition Cologne May to October 1928 This is to be the first international exhibition of its kind ever held. Most of the countries of the world, including the United States, are to send exhibits; so that the Exhibition will be truly international, as well as strikingly unique as a showing in graphic form of the immense importance of the Printed Word in news and advertising, with the methods and processes involved in making it effectual in business and social life. The management of he Exhibition has announced that the main departments are to be Daily Newspapers, Periodicals, Books Printing Art, Technical and Auxiliary Installations, Associations and Unions, Press and Traffic, Press and Art, Press and Advertising, Newspaper Science, Paper, Photography and Kinematography, etc. United States interests have been invited to take a prominent part in this Exhibition, because in this country the activities enumerated have been brought to a state of perfection and a degree of influence not shown in every country, and because the methods and processes employed in the application of hte Printed Word in business and social life have been here intensively developed and scientifically applied. The present extend of the interest in this Exhibition in America is indicated by the makeup of the Committee; but in addition other branches of allied industries have expressed interest, and large individual business interests have agreed to lend their countenance and active cooperation. So far as the Committee has as yet extended its inquiries it has met the good will of individuals and organizations. It is manifest that the Exhibition is timely and that it is to mark and express a feeling htat the influence of the Printed Word in the world of business and social life is to be not only defined but spread and made even more efficient. There is to result a larger measure of unification in the methods of applying the Printed Word to the business of living, of progress, and of the cooperative spirit in the world. In the words of the announcement of the general management of the Exhibition, it is: THE AMERICAN COMMITTEE The leading promotors of the great show have visited New York, and have given assurances of close cooperataion with the American Committee and all exhibitors. The American Committee having charge of the arrangements is constituted as follows: JOHN CLYDE OSWALD, Chairman Managing Director, New York Employing Printers Association, New York JAMES WRIGHT BROWN, Vice-Chairman Publisher, "Editor and Publisher," New York VICTOR F. RIDDER, Treasurer New Yorker Staats-Zeitung and Journal of Commerce, New York DR. JAMES MELVIN LEE, Assistant Treasurer Director School of Journalism, New York University, New York GEORGE FRENCH, Executive Secretary EDWARD E. BARTLETT Chairman, International Typographic Council, New York H.H. CHARLES Charles Advertising Service, New York E. F. EILERT President, United Typothetae of America, New York F.M. FEIKER Managing Director, Associated Business Papers, Inc. New York HARRY L. GAGE Bartlett-Orr Press, New York ALBERT J. GIBNEY The Munsey Company, New York CHARLES E. HEITMAN Manager, Christian Science Publishing Society Boston, Mass. GILBERT T. HODGES The New York Sun, New York BERNARD LICHETENBERG Alexander Hamilton Institute, New York HENRY G. LORD President, Textile World, Boston, Mass. ABRAHAM MERRITT American Weekly, New York FREDERIC G. MELCHER Editor of "Publishers' Weekly," President The American Institute of Graphic Arts, New York PROF. JOSEPH M. MURPHY President, Columbia Press Association Columbia University, New York HUGH A. O'DONNELL Assistant Business Manager, New York Times JAMES O'SHAUGHNESSY Executive Secretary, American Association of Advertising Agencies, New York A. J. POWERS President, Photo Engravers Board of Trade, New York DR. JOHN O. SIMMONS School of Journalism, Syracuse University; Secretary, American Association of Teachers of Journalism HAROLD STONIER Vice-Pres. University of Southern California; Pres. Pacific Advertising Clubs Association; Vice-Pres. International Advertising Ass'n, Los Angeles, Cal. PROF. WALTER WILLIAMS Dean, School of Journalism, University of Missouri Columbia, Mo. EXPOSITION GROUND PLAN "To GIVE the world an impressive picture of the educational and economic importance of the Press in all its aspects, and therby awaken and deepen the comprehension of the huge task of the Press in international life. On this foundation it is to cultivate still further the development, and extend the influence, of the Press, and is also to further the idea of the international cooperation of the Press. "The Exhibition will reveal the individual national mind peculiar to every nation, as reflected in its Press; it will also show a might, so often used in battle, in peaceful competition and in the service of understanding and equity." The work of the American Committee has progressed so far as to assure the success of the American representation at Cologne. The plan contemplates a carefully arranged series of exhibits which shall, as a whole, give a true and graphic presentation of the exten, growth, efficiency, and progressiveness of those industries which are engaged in the distribution of news and business promotion in the United States, including collateral activities essential to them. The efforts of the Committee have been, and will continue to be, exerted to make a complete and expressive exhibit, rather than to the selling of space to be filled haphazard. We are assured of all the space we need, and exhibits will, of course, be arranged and located with a view to giving each exhibitor due prominence. A plan for the American exhibits has been worked out by the Committee, assisted by experts in various lines involved, which will be explained to interested individuals or firms. The American Committee has been accorded generous treatment in the way of rates, and it will function for the exhibitors. Judging from responses already in hand, the American Committee believes that this participation by American interests will constitute a good showing of what this country is doing in publishing, printing, advertising, and allied activities. April 5, 1928. Mrs. Margery Corbett Ashby 33 Upper Richmond Road. Putney, England. My dear Mrs. Ashby: Perhaps I told you and perhaps not, that the $5,000.00 is already in our hands and in the bank of the Woman Citizen Corporation awaiting the papers to authorize us to turn it over to you. I shall probably speak about that on a separate sheet, or if not, send you another letter to-morrow. I am writing particularly to forward to you the translation of the Argentina circular which will clear a little more the nature of the proposed meeting. It is my private opinion that it will come to very little so far as the Alliance is concerned. I do, however, want to say something in connection with that topic. The Woman's Party was "dead set" upon securing an amendment to the Federal constitution which should give equal rights to women. That was purely an American question which probably no one in another country could understand, one way or the other. No one but the small group composing the Woman's Party favored that proposal. All of us who had labored long and hard over the Federal Woman Suffrage amendment hesitated to accept any amendment. More, it made conflict with the laws already enacted in the forty-eight states; therefore, everybody opposed it. Nevertheless, they persisted in working for it some five or six years, always announcing that they were going to have this amendment passed. They could not get anyone to introduce it for them and I suppose they saw they had to turn in some other direction. Therefore, it was their idea to get into the Alliance; pursuade that body to adopt a blank resolution endorsing equal rights for women in some fashion which would enable them to come back to the United States and say that this was approved by the women of the world. Failing there, it is my opinion that they made some connections with women who believed in the principle, as do we all, of equal rights for women, but who fail to take into consideration the fact that in some countries there may be handicaps to the legislation which they may not understand. They did one clever thing of which I entirely approve. They went down to Havana when the Pan-American Union was sitting there. They gathered the women who came as wives of the delegates and they managed to get a hearing before some portion of the body and pleaded with them to grant equal rights for women. Now, the laws are rather bad in a good many of the Latin American countries. They have made great improvements in a few of them. They then came back to New York, held a dinner, and managed to get some Consuls from Latin countries to speak for them. It put the idea into my head that some time they probably will have what Miss Boyle would call a "real feministic international conference". If that should happen, I want to tell you that you need not be scared. Page 2 Mrs. Ashby, continued Page 2 You have the solid women of all the countries with you. Miss Boyle is a fair example. I know her quite well and I like her personally. The only difference between her and the rest of us is the point of emphasis. I do not know what she means in the sentence concerning me and her article. I do not know whether or not it is an attack. I think you have done very well with the first letter and that you can do it with the second. I would suggest, in doing so, that you might say the Alliance has an Open Forum to hear the grievance of any women anywhere in the world and that so far as it is able to do so, it will not only hear, but it will assist. You have already said it, but I think you should say it again - that any organization has a right to set up a new department and since the Alliance voted to set up a Department of Peace, it was within its legal right to do so; if the majority of the Alliance believe that the best way to serve the woman's cause is to abolish war, it does not follow that the Alliance has trailed away from its original ideas. I, for instance, am a pacifist because I am a feminist and I suspect that that is pretty much the case with all of us. We would never have been obliged to have a woman movement if there was not so large an institution of war. I want to tell you I have bought a new home. It is at 120 Paine Avenue, New Rochelle, New York. Please put this address down in your address book. We shall be living there in about a month and forever after letters and papers will find me there. We shall live the all the year around. I am not yet prepared to say whether I shall come over to speak in Albert Hall. It depends upon how I feel during the summer. I am very sure of one thing and that is, I shall not go on any traveling jaunts again. Very cordially, CCC:HW. [header] TELEPHONE: VICTORIA 0285. TELEGRAMS: VOCORAJTO, LONDON. INTERNATIONAL ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FOR SUFFRAGE AND EQUAL CITIZENSHIP INTERNATIONAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE ALLIANCE. AFFILIATED ASSOCIATIONS IN: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bermuda, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cuba, Czecho-Slovakia, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Holland, Hungary, Iceland, India Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jugo-Slavia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Newfoundland, New Zealand, Norway, Palestine, Peru, Porto Rico, Portugal, Rhodesia, Roumania, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United States, Uruguay. HON. PRESIDENT AND FOUNDER: CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT. BOARD: PRESIDENT: MARGERY I. CORBETT ASHBY, 33, UPPER RICHMOND ROAD, LONDON, S.W. 15. ENGLAND. 1st Vice-President: ADELE SCHREIBER (Germany). Vice-Presidents: MARGHERITA ANCONA (Italy); GERMAINE MALATERRE-SELLIER (France); ROSA MANUS (Holland); FRANTISKA PLAMINKOVA (Czecho-Slovakia). Corresponding Secretary: EMILIE GOURD, Crets de Pregny, Geneva, Switzerland. Treasurer: FRANCES M. STERLING, Home Wood, Hartfield, Sussex, England. Assistant Treasurer: SUZANNE GRINBERG-AUPOURRAIN. Members: JULIE ARENHOLD (Denmark); MILENA ATANATSKOVITCH (Jugo-Slavia); HODA CHARAOUI (Egypt); PAULINA LUISI (Uraguay); FREDERIKKE MORCK (Norway); RUTH MORGAN (U.S.A.); EUGENIE DE REUSS JANCOULESCU (Roumania); BESSIE RISCHBIETH (Australia); MARQUESA DEL TER (Spain); AVRA THEODOROPOULOS (Greece); DOROTHEE VON VELSEN (Germany); INGEBORG WALIN (Sweden). LIST OF INTERNATIONAL STANDING COMMITTEES: Committee for an Equal Moral Standard and against the Traffic in Women. Chairman: DR. PAULINA LUISI, Uraguay Committee on the Nationality of Married Women. Chairman: MISS CHRYSTAL MACMILLAN, Great Britain. Committee for Like Conditions of Work for Men and Women. Chairman: FRU JULIE ARENHOLD, Denmark Committee for Family Allowances. Chairman: MISS ELEANOR RATHBONE, Great Britain. Committee for the Unmarried Mother and her Child. Chairman: SENATOR PLAMINKOVA, Czecho-Slovakia. Committee for Work in the Enfranchised Countries. Chairman: FRAU ADELE SCHREIBER, Germany. Committee for Peace and the League of Nations: Chairman: MISS RUTH MORGAN, U.S.A. Committee for Women Police. Chairman: MEJ. ROSA MANUS, Holland. Committee for the Equal Status of Women under the Law. Chairman: MME. GRINBERG-AUPOURRAIN, France. OFFICIAL MONTHLY ORGAN: ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION. 6s. THE INTERNATIONAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE NEWS (JUS SUFFRAGII). HEADQUARTERS: 190, VAUXHALL BRIDGE ROAD. LONDON, S.W.I., ENGLAND. HEADQUARTERS SECRETARY AND EDITOR: KATHERINE BOMPAS TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY. ELEVENTH CONGRESS, BERLIN, JUNE 17-22, 1929. [body] Home Wood, Hartfield, Sussex. 1st October 1928. Dear Mrs. Chapman Catt, In enclosing the formal receipt for the Hussey bequest money may I thank you personally and all who have taken so much trouble for us for this fine result of your labours. I'm not lying awake o'nights either, expecting claims, after signing that indemnity bond! Nor is Mrs. Ashby. It is good to hear that the heirs are making themselves responsible for any claims for tax. The Board will have to give much anxious consideration to the best disposition of the money and will be very grateful to you for sending us your thoughts on the subject in time for our meeting. I have already been pondering the question of an endowment fund, and am naturally tempted - but I feel with you that though the Alliance may be valuable for a time (even a good many years may be) its certainty of continued existence is hardly enough to tempt people to leave large sums to us by will; if not, the income of the present legacy alone would not get us a long way with our annual expenditure. Maybe, your plan of putting the money on deposit and taking slices out of the cake either for special needs or so much each year would be more in accordance with the probably length of useful life of the Alliance than would spending the 5% income from investing the capital. We can get 3 1/2% on deposit at 12 months for all that isn't in actual use, so the loss would not be very heavy meantime. Now, as to our financial position. We estimate that the total cost of the Congress may be £1,360 9 or say £1,400). I have been hoarding £700 on deposit and we have a few small balances besides, but we must raise £600 to £650 more. Towards this we may get a few donations in answer to my appeal (gone out with the "Call"), the [second page] -2- Dutch Auxiliary is having a shopping week in November and we may get something out of the International Stall at the Congress itself. The English Auxiliary raised about £800 for last Congress but we may not get more than £500 this time; however, suppose we get enough to clear the Congress cost, what is our future outlook? There is always hope of raising something at the Congress. In Rome we got about £673 (spread over three years) and in Paris £770 (also spread over three years). Leaving the Hussey legacy out of consideration for a moment, and supposing the Leslie Commission should be unable to do anything more, we should have to find £1,000 a year for three years (including "Jus") we estimate at £4,680, but £1,500 to £1,700 of that would be covered by affiliations, subscriptions, etc., so that about £3,000 remains not provided for. I feel that it would be a sore pity to eat our whole legacy in the three years on ordinary work but as yet I see no other resources beyond what the Congress may subscribe, unless you were able to find some miraculous gold mine to replace the Leslie. In Amsterdam you asked me to let you know our needs and resources and you would see what could be done. Well, here is the information as far as it is anyhow possible to budget. What are the chances? As we agreed in Amsterdam the chief sources of income always have lain and do now lie in U.S.A. and Great Britain - Great Britain is drained dry when a Congress fund has been collected and some folks have subscribed at Congress. We never do any good in the way of money-raising here between whiles. I still feel that rich Egyptians and Indians might be tapped but probably not without going to look for them (which is beyond my means as to journey-money), and of course, the present political excitement in both countries would be against us. I really hope that our Geneva work and Mrs. Ashby's going to their annual meeting at Berne may have done solid good for the Swiss Suffrage cause and France seems well on the move, but Italy seems completely hopeless so long as Mussolini reigns, doesn't it? Anything that can be done for or squeezed out of South America I feel that you know more about than any of us - even Rosa, who is a walking "Who's Who", for the time when she was there, is a bit out of date about it now. We are much hampered in Spain by hardly ever getting a letter or any answer to a letter from there. The Japanese lady who attended last Board meeting was most interesting and cheering about progress there. One of my greatest disappointments in not getting abroad this autumn was being prevented from going to Brussels to see our newly- formed 2nd Society there - on paper it looks exactly what we want (and sorely needed!) but it would have been as well to get into personal contact before the Congress. Dear Mrs. Catt I hope all this long yarn will not be the last straw. At this sad time I would gladly have left you in peace, but work will go on whether or no! I did not write about your trouble as I knew you would be snowed under with letters from old colleagues and friends from all the world over and it seemed that one less to read must be a gain to you, but of course I have thought of you constantly and with deep sympathy. Yours in affectionate admiration, Frances. M. Sterling Telephone: Victoria 0285. Telegrams: Vocorajto, London INTERNATIONAL ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FOR SUFFRAGE AND EQUAL CITIZENSHIP. INTERNATIONAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE ALLIANCE. AFFILIATED ASSOCIATIONS IN: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bermuda, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cuba, Czecho-Slovakia, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Holland, Hungary, Iceland, India, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jugo-Slavia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Newfoundland, New Zealand, Norway, Palestine, Peru, Porto Rico, Portugal, Rhodesia, Roumania, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United States, Uruguay. Hon. President and Founder: Carrie Chapman Catt. BOARD: President: MARGERY I. CORBETT ASHBY, 33, Upper Richmond Road, London, S. W. 15, England. 1st Vice-President: ADELE SCHREIBER (Germany). Vice-Presidents: MARGHERITA ANCONA (Italy); GERMAINE MALATERRE-SELLIER (France); ROSA MANUS (Holland); FRANTISKA PLAMINKOVA (Czecho-Slovakia). Corresponding Secretary: EMILE GOURD, Crêts de Pregny, Geneva, Switzerland. Treasurer: FRANCES M. STERLING, Home Wood, Hartfield, Sussex, England. Assistant Treasurer: SUZANNE GRINBERG-AUPOURRAIN. Members: Julie Arenholt (Denmark); Milena Atanatskovitch (Jugo-Slavia); Hoda Charaoui (Egypt); Paulina Luisi (Uruguay); Frederikke Mörck (Norway); Ruth Morgan (U.S.A.); Eugenie de Reuss Jancoulescu (Roumania); Bessie Rischbieth (Australia); Marquesa del Ter (Spain); Avra Theodoropoulos (Greece); Dorothee von Velsen (Germany); Ingeborg Walin (Sweden). LIST OF INTERNATIONAL STANDING COMMITTEES: Committee for an Equal Moral Standard and against the Traffic in Women. Chairman: Dr. Paulina Luisi, Uruguay. Committee on the Nationality of Married Women. Chairman: Miss Chrystal Macmillan, Great Britain. Committee for Like Conditions of Work for Men and Women. Chairman: Fru Julie Arenholt, Denmark. Committee for Family Allowances. Chairman: Miss Eleanor Rathbone, Great Britain. Committee for the Unmarried Mother and her Child. Chairman: Frau Adele Schreiber, Germany. Committee for Work in the Enfranchised Countries. Chairman: Senator Plaminkova, Czecho-Slovakia. Committee for Peace and the League of Nations. Chairman: Miss Ruth Morgan, U.S.A. Committee for Women Police. Chairman: Mej. Rosa Manus, Holland. Committee for the Equal Status of Women under the Law. Chairman: Mme. Grinberg-Aupourrain, France. Official Monthly Organ: Annual Subscription, 6s. THE INTERNATIONAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE NEWS (Jus Suffragii). Headquarters: 190, Vauxhall Bridge Road, London, S.W.1.., England. Headquarters Secretary and Editor: Katherine Bompas. TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY ELEVENTH CONGRESS, BERLIN, JUNE 17-22, 1929. 28th September 1928 RECEIVED of Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt on behalf of the Woman Citizen Corporation the sum of one thousand and nine pounds, eleven shillings and five pence (£1009. 11. 5), being legacy bequeathed to the International Alliance of Women for Suffrage and Equal Citizenship by Dr. Mary Dudley Hussey. for and behalf of the International Alliance of Women for Suffrage and Equal Citizenship Frances M. Sterling Treasurer. Telephone: Victoria 0285. Telegrams: Vocorajto, London INTERNATIONAL ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FOR SUFFRAGE AND EQUAL CITIZENSHIP. INTERNATIONAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE ALLIANCE. Hon. President and Founder: Carrie Chapman Catt. BOARD: President: MARGERY I. CORBETT ASHBY, 33, Upper Richmond Road, London, S. W. 15, England. 1st Vice-President: ADELE SCHREIBER (Germany). Vice-Presidents: MARGHERITA ANCONA (Italy); GERMAINE MALATERRE-SELLIER (France); ROSA MANUS (Holland); FRANTISKA PLAMINKOVA (Czecho-Slovakia). Corresponding Secretary: EMILE GOURD, Crêts de Pregny, Geneva, Switzerland. Treasurer: FRANCES M. STERLING, Home Wood, Hartfield, Sussex, England. Assistant Treasurer: SUZANNE GRINBERG-AUPOURRAIN. Members: Julie Arenholt (Denmark); Milena Atanatskovitch (Jugo-Slavia); Hoda Charaoui (Egypt); Paulina Luisi (Uruguay); Frederikke Mörck (Norway); Ruth Morgan (U.S.A.); Eugenie de Reuss Jancoulescu (Roumania); Bessie Rischbieth (Australia); Marquesa del Ter (Spain); Avra Theodoropoulos (Greece); Dorothee von Velsen (Germany); Ingeborg Walin (Sweden). LIST OF INTERNATIONAL STANDING COMMITTEES: Committee for an Equal Moral Standard and against the Traffic in Women. Chairman: Dr. Paulina Luisi, Uruguay. Committee on the Nationality of Married Women. Chairman: Miss Chrystal Macmillan, Great Britain. Committee for Like Conditions of Work for Men and Women. Chairman: Fru Julie Arenholt, Denmark. Committee for Family Allowances. Chairman: Miss Eleanor Rathbone, Great Britain. Committee for the Unmarried Mother and her Child. Chairman: Frau Adele Schreiber, Germany. Committee for Work in the Enfranchised Countries. Chairman: Senator Plaminkova, Czecho-Slovakia. Committee for Peace and the League of Nations. Chairman: Miss Ruth Morgan, U.S.A. Committee for Women Police. Chairman: Mej. Rosa Manus, Holland. Committee for the Equal Status of Women under the Law. Chairman: Mme. Grinberg-Aupourrain, France. Official Monthly Organ: Annual Subscription, 6s. THE INTERNATIONAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE NEWS (Jus Suffragii). Headquarters: 190, Vauxhall Bridge Road, London, S.W.1.., England. Headquarters Secretary and Editor: Katherine Bompas. Oct 28, 1928 My dear Mrs Catt, You were constantly in our thoughts throughout the Board meeting & we are counting more than I can say on your being with us next year to celebrate our quarter of a century. It was a good Board meeting & we worked hard & peacefully together. The work seems to become more necessary, more complicated every week. Carefully the organization of the League has rendered the work of the International Organizations more fruitful but we are also working in the face of constant & expert criticism! It was amusing & encouraging this year in Geneva to watch the anxiety or the W.O. that we should be friendly towards them & their policy. I thought it diplomatic to ask Sir Eric Drummonel if there were any League questions he would like ask to discuss & he sent in time for the Board meeting the suggestions disarmament & of the economic side of peace , a somewhat ambitious program for one afternoon at tea congress. I am so glad Rosa is going to see you as she will give you a much more vivid picture of what we are doing than I can give you by letter. The peace commission is doing good work & the interest already shown in Germany in our congress makes me hopeful that it will be a great success. You will be glad to hear that the acoustics of the hall are excellent. Your wonderful voice would carry [every] anywhere but it makes an enormous difference to less practised speakers. The germans have promised to defray the cost with the help of a government subsidy. The Board was quite of your opinion as regards the £1000 legacy and we have voted to invest it & only use the capital. I could not have attempted to raise money in England for the congress with £1000 lying idle. It is very different to say that the alliance has an assured income of only £40 per year. We had a terrible paucity of ideas for the festive side of the congress but we have set up a small sub committee to work with some artists so as to divise plans which are worthy you and us. Only your evening peace meeting will be in the Kroll Hall, the other evening meetings will be in different halls to interest a different public. We want yours to be the speech of our opening morning. I shall open, then will come greetings of empire, prussia & Berlin, then of the German auxiliary. Then we plan a little ceremony & then we ardently hope you will give us the celebration speech "25 years of Suffrage work and victory." In the afternoon we hope for three speeches 25 years work & victory in morals, law & economic situation, these under better titles. On the second day we settle down to necessary administrative business but we must give. [*the press a run on the first day. The peace committee meeting The peace committee meeting at Dresden went well & I have had two good meetings at Hamburg & Oldenburg. Forgive a badly written letter I am returning to other neglected correspondence of a week Yours affectionately Margaret I Corbett Ashby.*] Transcribed and reviewed by contributors participating in the By The People project at crowd.loc.gov.