NAWSA Subject File The Woman's Journal (1917-1949) [*Miss Blackwell*] (Postponed) Annual Meeting 1920 Of Stockholders of Woman Citizen Corporation Held Friday, March 5, 1920 The Meeting was called to order at 10 A.M. by the President, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, Miss Nora Newell, Secretary. The President called the roll with the following results: No. of Name of Stockholder Present Absent Shares Catt. Carrie Chapman Mrs. Catt 1 Hay, Mary Garrett Miss Hay 1 Blackwell, Alice Sheldon Mrs. Blackwell 1 Wells, Harriet Sheldon Mrs. Wells 1 Livermore, Henrietta W. By Proxy to Mrs. Catt Leslie Woman Suffrage Commission by Carrie Chapman Catt 99 Mary Garrett. Hay 99 Henrietta Livermore (by proxy) 99 representing 300 shares of the Leslie Commission being present and all stockholders having been duly notified of the meeting, the business proceeded. The Secretary then read the minutes of the annual meeting of January 16, 1920, at which there was no quorum and the affidavit of the Secretary as to the mailing of the notices for the meeting; the affidavit of Charles Faske for New York Tribune, verified the 4th day of January 1920 and the affidavit of S. Wolfenden for the New York Sun, verified the 19th day of January, 1920, as to the publication of notice once a week for two weeks immediately preceding the meeting in their respective papers.- also notice of said meeting which was sent to each stockholder. It was moved by Miss Hay and seconded by Mrs. Catt that this be approved and filled with the record of that meeting. Carried. The Secretary then read the notice of this meeting together with the affidavit of the Secretary, verified the 5th day of March 1920 showing that notice had been mailed on the 24th day of February postage prepaid and addressed to each stockholder at the address of each stockholder as last shown on the books of the Company. Moved by Miss Hay the seconded by Mrs. Catt that this be approved and spread upon the minutes. Carried. -2- The Secretary then read the affidavits of G. Wolfenden for the New York Sun, verified March 3, 1920, and Charles Faske for the New York Tribune, verified March 3, 1920, as to the publication once a week for two weeks immediately preceding the meeting of the notice of meeting in their respective papers. It was moved by Miss Hay and seconded by Miss Catt that these be spread upon the minutes. Carried. The stock ledger, transfer book and stock certificate books were open for inspection at all times and were produced at the meeting and remained during the meeting. The President call for reports of officers. Miss Newell, the secretary, in the absence of Mrs. Wells the Treasurer, reported that the auditors had submitted a report of their examination of the books and this was examined by those present. It was moved by Miss Hay and seconded by Mrs. Catt that this report be accepted. Carried. Miss Young for Mrs. Wells presented the Treasurer's report. It was moved by Miss Hay and seconded by Mrs. Catt that this report be accepted and made part of the minutes. Carried. Miss Young then submitted a report of the years work done on the Women Citizen schedule: Report of Rose Young As Manager and Editor of the Woman Citizen Analysis of the financial showing of the Woman Citizen for 1919 is covered in the Treasurer's Report which I have presented on behalf of Mrs. Wells. It remains for me to add a word as to the record made in the advertising and the circulation departments. Advertising: Business booked increased over 100% as compared with 1918. Business booked in 1918 totaled $12,026.34. For 1919, $25,895.67. Our selling cost of advertising is fairly high, as we pay Mrs. Dittenheimer 33 1/3% of all business she brings in. On the other hand, she takes all her own risk and finances herself on trips out of town. The total amount paid her for 1919 was $5,702.80 of this $2,600 covered commission paid in advance on advertising that applies to 1920. In point of circulation the magazine's net change in individual subscribers is small, only a few more lost than gained. The number of delinquents - the last of the Woman's Journal's deadheads who never would pay - cut off in January was some 2,000. About six hundred more cut-offs were account of South Dakota newspapers, Georgia Assembly, Alabama Assembly, etc. - names put on for campaign purposes and cut off when campaign ended. All told twice as many names have been cut off (6318) as have been added (3073). This covers not only the above items, but the individual subscribers who dropped out because of the increase in price, the full force of the readjustment of the subscription list to the new price having caught us in 1919. That is to say, we didn't get but one dollar from many subscribers who stayed with us because they took advantage of our one-dollar hurry-up offer in December 1918; while we lost many subscribers who couldn't or wouldn't come up to the $2.00 scratch. In 1920 we are beginning to get the advantage of the higher subscription price. For instance, in January 1919 our cash subscription receipts were $1,096.21. In January 1920, they were $2,050.94. As a propaganda proposition the testimony of active suffrage workers shows that the service of the magazine has been at all times indispensable. That testimony is not uniformly favorable. One subscriber, for instance, will write in to complain that we favor the present administration entirely too much, that she is a Republican, and can't stand anything Democratic, and hard on the heels of that will come a complaint from the Democratic lady to the effect that the magazine is playing up the Republicans to an extent that gives her the heart-burn. It is a fact of record, however, that the great body of testimony shows that there has been a supreme reliance on the magazine as a source of propaganda and information all through there initial three years. In justice to the magazine and its management, it must be borne in mind that in holding it to the measure of a propaganda journals we have had to hold it away from the measure of a popular magazine. Its larger circulation prospects have been deliberately sacrificed to intensify its usefulness to organization women who have needed help along lines of propaganda. Its development along other and more general lines, loudly called for by the general reader and the business department, has had to make headway through the limitations imposed by its propagandistic function. The day of suffrage propaganda is about over. The demand for a magazine that can be a mouthpiece for modern women, a magazine that will attack controversial subjects, take sides for and against issues and people, unhampered by consideration for some particular propaganda, voice the woman view - the demand for that sort of magazine grows louder and louder. Whether the WOMAN CITIZEN is to be that magazine, or not, that magazine is to be. It was moved by Mrs. Catt and Seconded by Miss Hay that this report be accepted. Carried. It was moved by Miss Hay and seconded by Mrs. Catt that Miss Rose Young, Manager and Editor of the Woman Citizen be re-elected for the ensuing year at the same salary. Carried. -4- It was moved by Miss Hay and seconded by Mrs. Catt that Miss Blackwell be continued as Editorial Correspondent for the ensuing year at a salary of $2,000. Carried. It was moved by Miss Hay and seconded by Mrs. Catt that Miss Rose Young and Miss Nora Newell be Inspectors of Election to serve for one year. There being no other nominations for the office of Inspection of Election the nominations were closed and the vote put. The President then declared Miss Young and Miss Newell elected Inspectors for the ensuing year, 500 votes being the entire amount of stock of the corporation, 300 shares represented at the meeting. Miss Young and Miss Newell thereupon, took pursuant to Section 31 of the Stock Corporation Law of the state of New York, their oaths as the Inspectors of Election. Miss Hay nominated as directors for the ensuing year Carrie Chapman Catt Alice Stone Blackwell Henrietta W. Livermore Harriet Sheldon Wells Mary Garrett Hay Mrs. Catt seconded the nomination of such stockholders as directors of the company for the ensuing year. There being no other nominations the stockholders thereupon proceeded to vote by ballot with the result that Carrie Chapman Catt Alice Stone Blackwell Henrietta W. Livermore Harriet Sheldon Wells Mary Garrett Hay each received three votes for the office of director or the Corporation for the ensuing year and until a successor is elected and qualified in her place and stead. Miss Young and Miss Newell as Inspectors of Election thereupon examined the ballot cast for the election of directors for the ensuing year and thereupon made their certificate and report pursuant to Section 31 of the Stock Corporation Law of the state of New York and pursuant to the by-laws of the company and declared the following names as duly elected directors of the company for the ensuing year and until successors are elected and qualified in their respective places and stand. -5- 1. Carrie Chapman Catt 2. Alice Stone Blackwell 2. Mary Garret Hay 4. Henrietta W. Livermore 5. Harriet Sheldon Wells Mrs. Catt then stated that the Directors of the Woman Citizen had, at a meeting held December 31, 1919 voted to recommend to the Leslie Woman Suffrage Commission that the Women Citizen be continued during 1920, and that the Leslie Woman Suffrage Commission, at a meeting held in Chicago, February 15, 1920, voted to confirm the action of the Woman Citizen Corporation to continue the Woman Citizen at least until January 1921, and to furnish at least $3,000 per month to meet the deficit. It was also voted at that meeting of December 31, 1919 that the Woman Citizen be offered as an organ of the League of Women Voters until January 1, 1921 at which time it was believed that they should have an organ of their own. It was moved by Miss Hay and seconded by Mrs. Catt, to recognize the confirmation by the Leslie Woman Suffrage Commission of the action in regard to continuing the Woman Citizen at least until December 31, 1919 and offering it as an organ of the League of Women Voters, that these actions be adopted. Carried. There being no further business before the meeting, Miss Hay moved and Mrs. Catt seconded that the meeting be adjourned. Carried. The meeting adjourned at 12:10 P. M. Secretary Report of the Treasurer of the Woman Citizen Corporation Presented by Miss Young for Mrs. Wells From the auditors' report for the thirteen months ended December 31, 1919, I quote the following: "The operations show credits of $34,675.85, representing advertising, subscriptions, etc., against which are publication costs of $39,423.13 and general expenses, etc. $22,133.36, together $61,556.49, thus leaving a balance of $26,880.64, representing a lose on the business for the period as against the deficit for the year ending November 30, 1918, $53,073.23." In explanation of this cutting of the loss half in two, as between 1918 and 1919, attention is called to the fact that the difference is not so great as the auditors' report makes it appear. At the close of the fiscal year 1916 we had on hand paper stock of a purchase value (representing each paid for it) of $5,886.61. Instead of getting this amount on his inventory the auditor entered $1,536.23, which was the amount paid out for December stock. There was, therefore a credit due on that year's showing of the difference between $5,866.61 and 1,536.23 ———— 4,330.33 The auditor also failed to credit to that year's subscription account $5,000 in past due subscriptions carried over from 1918 into 1919. We got the money for those subscriptions in 1919. They were a perfectly good asset and should have taken account of as such at the end of the fiscal year 1918. Adding the $4,330.38 in paper stock and the 5,000.00 in subscriptions we get ———— 9,330.38 as the amount due and uncredited at end of 1918. The loss charged to 1918 was $53,073.23 from which substract 9,330.38 ———— Leaving 43,742.85 as the correct figure representing the loss for that year. The auditor's report on 1919 also takes no account of the fact that to the amount listed as paid out for paper in 1919 must be added the $4,330.38 left over in paper stock from 1918 and not credited on inventory. Adding this amount to 26,880.64 listed by auditor as loss for 1919 4,330.38 we get ———— 31,211.02 as the actual loss for 1919, a gain over 1918 of the difference between 43,742.85 and 31,211.02 ———— 12,531.83 I make this analysis so that we may have a record in the minutes to show that the business was not so much in the hole as the auditors' report has made it appear for 1918 and did not, therefore, make such a saving in 1919 as his 1919 report makes it appear. All that he reports as saved was saved, but 9,330.38 of the credit belonged to 1918 and 19,862.21 to 1919. The total Cash Receipts of the Woman Citizen business for the 13 months, ending December 31, 1919 as follows: Subscriptions 14,954.26 Cash Sales 295.55 ————— 15,249.81 Advertising 14,551.17 ————— Total 29,800.98 ————— The total cost of the business was Manufacture 39,423.13 Plus the paper paid for in 1918 4,330.38 ————— 43,753.51 Overhead Charges 22,133.36 ————— 65,886.87 ————— Cash Assets of record December 31, 1919 ware as follows: Accounts Receivable 14,929.31 Deduct Advertising unearned-contracts 11,882.05 apply on 1920 Less commission thereon paid Cash in advance to Mrs. D. 2,642.16 Allowed in advance to agts. 1,069.82 3,711.98 8,170.07 ———— ———— ———— Net, due in 1919 and carried into 1920 6,759.24 Inventories Paper Stock for Magazine 6,060.33 " " " Wrappers 586.62 6,646.95 ———— Cash Bank 11,018.76 On hand .64 11,019.40 ———— ———— Total Assets of Cash Value 24,425.59 Office Equipment 1,133.08 ———— 25,558.67 ———— For purpose of comparison the items and overhead are listed side by side. MANUFACTURING 1918 1919 Paper for magazines. . . . . . . . . *18,621.14 **8,952.58 Printing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21,571.85 22,431.33 Illustrations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,573.52 3,022.72 Paper for Wrappers . . . . . . . . . 2,033.98 286.65 Bulk Postage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,189.39 2,904.75 Mailing List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,884.09 1,825.10 ——————————— 48,873.97 36,423.13 ——————————— GENERAL Staff Salaries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,149.18 6,410.05 Clerical Salaries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,462.17 7,731.75 Rent. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,479.96 2,773.29 Stationery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 569.97 512.21 Postages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,848.85 1,015.19 Promotion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 994.45 996.34 Telephone & Telegraph . . . . . . . 297.08 434.24 Express . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.50 16.10 General Expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,160.42 1,686.23 Job Printers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181.06 328.25 Depreciation on Equipment 10% of $1,398.86 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139.88 Depreciation on Equipment 10% of $1,258.98 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125.90 Bad Debt written off. . . . . . . . . . . 28.80 163.21 ——————————— 25,315.32 22,133.36 ——————————— 74,189.29 61,556.49 * Paper bought in bulk for 1918 and 1919 ** Plus $4,330.38 on hand December 31, 1918 for use in 1919. BALANCE SHEET December 31, 1919 ASSETS Goodwill............................................................................................ 24,950.00 Investment "The Woman Journal".......................................... 10,250.00 Office Equipment: Amount as of December 1, 1918.....................1,258.98 Less: Depreciation [?] 10%................................. 125.90 1,133.08 ———— Subscription Lists.......................................................................... 10,000.00 Accounts Receivable................................................14,929.31 Deduct: Unexpired Advertising..11,882.05 Less: Commission thereon............ 3,711.98 8,170.07 6,759.24 ———————— Inventories: Paper for Magazines........................................... 6,060.33 Paper for Wrappers............................................. 586.68 6,646.95 ———— Cash: At Bank.................................................................. 11,018.76 On hand................................................................. .64 11,019.40 ———— ———— 70,758.67 PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT: 1918 Dec. 1 To Debit Balance, per last Account...80,794.47 1919 Dec. 31 Loss for Period, as per annexed Statement...........................................26,880.64 ————— 107,675.11 ————— 178,433.78 ————— Liabilities Capital Stock Authorized and Issued.............................................................. 50,000.00 Accounts Payable................................................. 5,056.72 Leslie Commission Loan Account.............. 123,377.06 128,433.78 ————— ————— 178,433.78 ————— PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT December 31, 1919 To Publication Cost, Etc : Paper for Magazines.................................................... 8,952.58 Printing.............................................................................. 22,431.33 Illustrations....................................................................... 3,022.72 Paper for Wrappers........................................................ 286.65 Bulk Postage..................................................................... 2,904.75 Mailing List........................................................................ 1,805.10 39,423.13 General Staff Salaries...................................................................... 6,410.05 Clerical Salaries............................................................... 7,731.75 Rent...................................................................................... 2,773.29 Stationery........................................................................... 512.21 Postage............................................................................... 1,015.19 Promotions........................................................................ 996.34 Telephone and Telegraph............................................. 434.24 Express................................................................................. 16.10 General Expenses............................................................. 1,626.83 Job Printers......................................................................... 328.25 Depreciation on Equipment 10% of $1,258.98..... 125.90 Loss on Cancelled Contracts........................................ 163.21 22,133.36 61,556.49 By Advertising............................................19,585.34 Less: Agents Commission 5,381.50 Advertisers Dis. 62.30 5,444.30 14,141.04 Cash Sales......................................................................... 297.12 Subscriptions................................................................... 19,493.19 Contributions................................................................... 124.00 Interest Account........................................ 157.52 Exchange Account.................................... 40.98 Cash Discount............................................ 422.00 620.50 Balance, loss for the period 26,880.64 61,556.49 Woman Citizen Corporation 30 THE NEW YORK SUN TUESDAY, JUNE 16, 1931. News and Views of Interest to Women in Professional and Domestic Fields Women Boosters Lend Color and Perfume to Advertising Meeting Fill Corridors of Hotel Pennsylvania With Style and Comeliness—Hold Big Jobs and Get Good Salaries by JEAN LYON The woman booster of big business can be seen today and tomorrow at the Hotel Pennsylvania up in Room 822, where she meets her sisters in success, or at the general meetings of the convention of the Advertising Federation of America, where she lends color and perfume to the atmosphere. The 1931 model of a successful model of a successful business woman is smartly groomed and gowned, generally young, vivacious, brainy and very feminine. With typical feminine grace she has been arriving late at meetings, leaving her pocketbook in her seat, and forgetting her appointments over cups of tea. But she is being very busy at her business nevertheless. "Contacting," you know. Approximately 500 women have arrived at this annual advertising convention as delegates. Probably not ——————————————— Miss Dorothy Crowne, president of the League of Advertising Women of New York. ——————————————— one of these 500 women earns a salary of less than $5,000, according to Miss Jeannette Carroll of Providence, president of the Federation of Women's Advertising Clubs of the World. Many of the delegates earn considerably more than this. One is even reputed to have turned down a job recently at $25,000 because her present job was better! The Average. Perhaps it is because of some of these interesting tales that advertising has been considered a gold that she had simply inherited her business from her husband. but the fact remains that for ten years she has been running a company capitalized for more than $250,000 entirely alone. She had never done any work before but the managing of a home. But she succeeded her husband as president of the company, and has done an excellent job. National Accounts. Frances M. Buente, another of the delegates, is the originator, owner and manager of her own agency in New York. She handles national accounts of all sorts. Of course, products which are especially in a woman's province come to her most frequently. Yet she handles other things as well, from automobiles on down. Miss Bertha Bernstein is another manager of an agency, handling a variety of large accounts. And there are others—about seven in all in New York—who are the successful managers of successful advertising agencies. A job which would seem to be unmistakably what is considered a "man's job" is the one held by Miss S. Emmanuel. She is the advertising manager of a financial paper—and the only woman to hold that type of job in the country as far as she knows. She worked up to her job from a secretarial position in the company. "I think that I have earned as much as I do and been as successful as I have been," she said yesterday at the convention, "partly because I am a woman." There are other types of jobs in advertising that these delegates to the convention represent. There are women who lecture for companies, women who promote advertising itself, women who run retail stores and have to do their own promotion and advertising work, copywriters, direct mail advertisers and even a few young and spirited fashion artists and minor office workers who are eager to learn more about the business. Advertising State. One visitor from Texas, Mrs. Edith Axell, is planning to do some promotion work for her State. She will go abroad soon to boost Texas products in Europe. She will not do it by writing or by selling "ads." She is going to "contact" the business men and the officials of Europe. And with an eye for profitable enterprises she plans to take a bunch of tourists ———————————————————————— A Cape for the Negligee Photo by Bonney. A square kerchief-like cape which ties in front is used by Mary Nowitzky of Paris for a charming negligee. The material is soft printed satin showing pink flowers on a pale blue ground. ———————————————————————— [?]tor and promoter of new business for a financial organization; Miss Bernice Ormerod who thinks up new ways to make blankets appeal to the housewife. Miss Rose Kiehl who brings advertisers to some three Bridgeport newspapers; Miss Florence E. Wall, who uses her training as a chemist to help sell cosmetics; Miss Dorothy Pfeister, who succeeds three men in a job which promotes most successful of America's successful advertising women. These advertising women, with all their independence and their combined two or three millions of earning power, seem to like to stick together. They rush to their own women's "boudoir" in between speeches and meetings. There they can talk about the best bargains on Fifth avenue and the best shade of stockings Famous Suffrage Organ Makes Its Exit Woman's Journal, 'America's Most Powerful Voice' for Woman's Progress, Waged Many a Stirring Battle. By ANABEL PARKER McCANN. After sixty-one and a half years of continuous publication, the Woman's Journal has written finis to its [cover] career. Such is the announcement in the June issue of this famous magazine which championed suffrage for women through the strenuous years preceding the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, and has since continuously aimed to guide the woman voter aright in the exercise of her political powers. So passes what has been "America's most powerful voice in behalf of woman's progress." In the files of the Journal, leading back to January, 1870, are to be found the most accurate and complete record existant of the struggle which started the enfranchisement of the women of the United States and paved the way for the woman of today, here and elsewhere, who is free to enter the professions and to carve out a career for herself outside her own fireside. Its issues constitute a historical document of outstanding value. Started by Lucy Stone. The Journal was started in Boston by Lucy Stone and "her brave husband." Henry B. Blackwell, as Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt has characterized him. Mrs. Mary Livermore was its first editor and her assistant editors were Lucy Stone, the famed Julia Ward Howe, Col. Thomas Wentworth Higginson, distinguished litterateur, and William Lloyd Garrison of "Liberator" fame. At this time only one State in the world, Wisconsin, "like a lone morning star shedding its glow upon a stubborn and prejudiced world"— again we [*to*] quote Mrs. Catt—had given the suffrage to women. Vassar College was four years old, but Wellesley, Smith, Bryn Mawr, Goucher, Radcliffe and Barnard had not been born. There were no flocks of typewriter girls and girl stenographers sallying forth every morning to compete in the business world. For the first typewriter was not put together until 1870 and the first telephone was not exhibited until 1876. The first woman lawyer had been admitted to practice only the preceding year. Disorderly Characters. Women who were demanding their places in the sun were looked on askance. By some, even they were held to be disorderly characters, and to merit much the same degree of ———— An M.P. in the Mother Role ETON, England. Looking more youthful than ever, Lady Astor, the American-born member of the English Parliament, is shown with her son Michael at the traditional June 4 celebration at Eton. Regular rotogravure perusers will remember Michael as a small boy. He's as tall as his mother now. —————— Lucy Stone, made a campaign journey to Vermont in winter and on arriving at the first town where a meeting was to be held found that the chairman of the committee of arrangements had met with such opposition and ridicule that he had left the town. A vulgar ballad had been circulated in which the three women speakers were referred to as "The Three Old Crows." In 1872 as further evidence of guilty and fined. But like the valiant fighter she was, she refused to pay the fine, nor was she imprisoned. It was the unflagging and indomitable spirit of Lucy Stone, her husband, and later her daughter, Alice Stone Blackwell, who is still living, that carried the Woman's Journal through the greater part of its existence. They were continuously trying to break down prejudices and Pleasant Homes Articles on home furnishings are published every Monday in the Woman's Page of The Sun. Miss Boykin will be glad to give the names of shops where the things mentioned in her articles can be purchased and also to help out with problems in home furnishing. Address Miss Elizabeth MacRae Boykin, care of Woman's Page, New York Sun. Next Monday—The new towels. Suffrage Commission, headed by Mrs. Catt, was in position to finance an expansion of the magazine, it was purchased by the commission and moved from Boston to this city, where it became an increasingly important factor in the final winning of suffrage. Miss Rose Young then became manager and editor and Mrs. Catt president of the board of directors. Later the magazine came under the direction of a group of guarantors with Mrs. Raymond Brown as managing director and Miss Virginia Roderick as editor. This management has continued to the present time. Under the reorganization the Journal made progress both in advertising and in circulation, and but for the business slump, its official state, would have continued in the field. In recent years it has been the official organ of the National League of Women Voters, which was formed after the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to supersede the old suffrage organization and to help educate the new woman voter. ——— Club Federation to Aid Disabled Women of War WASHINGTON, (A. P.). The General Federation of Women's Clubs will aid the Women's Overseas Service League in assisting disabled women who served overseas during the world war. Each unit of the federation will report the names of overseas women in its locality, stating those who are disabled, with what organization they served and if they now are in need of medical or financial care. The survey will include women who served otherwise than in the army. ——— BRIGHT IDEA Don't you realize that men get tired of an unvaried menu . . . huh? Anglo Corned Beef for Supper! That's the idea! Anglo is delicious, served in hash, New England Boiled Dinner, cold cuts. The whole family loves it. Serve Anglo to night! Miss Dorothy Crowne, president of the League of Advertising Women of New York. one the 500 women earns a salary of less than $5,000, according to Miss Jeannette Carroll of Providence, president of the Federation of Women's Advertising Clubs of the World. Many of the delegates earn considerably more than this. One is even reputed to have turned down a job recently at $25,000 because her present job was better! The Average Perhaps it is because of some of these interesting tales that advertising has been considered a gold mine for women. Salaries so large do not often happen in a woman in any business. "According to a survey recently made," Miss Carroll said in answer to a question about salaries, "the highest salary in the progression $10,000. The mean average salary that is for women was from $2,500 to $3,000." Miss Carroll went on to explain that the representatives to the convention ——————————— Miss Elsie Wilson, chairman of the hospitality committee for women visitors during the convention. ——————————— were more successful financially than the average girl in advertising. As to discrimination against women —well, it does and it doesn't exist. Some of the women questioned felt that there was discrimination in salaries on the whole. Others said that they had never felt any discrimination at all. Practically all of them - and some twenty women were questioned— felt that there was absolutely no difference in the personal relationship of the woman to her employer or her clients and the man's relationship to his. One honest lady claimed that the fact that she was a woman stood her in very good stead - she was sure that she got more business from the men of the South than a man can. They still seem to be susceptible to feminine charm, these astute business men! Forming Leagues. Advertising has become so well established as a profession for women now that even college girls are forming advertising leagues. One group of college girls out West who are studying to be "practitioners in advertising," are trying to form an advertising fraternity—Greek letters and all. Yes, they're going to call it a fraternity even if it is feminine. It is no wonder when you glance at the array of successful women that this profession has produced. There are the women who run their own agencies. Mrs. Louise Wharff Rogers, a New York delegate to the convention, who is president of an advertising company with a factory for electrical signs and window displays in Buffalo and an agency in New York, modestly explained when she was cornered yesterday at a convention headquarters job in the country as far as she knows. She worked up to her job from a secretarial position in the company. "I think that I have earned as much as I do and been as successful as I have been," she said yesterday at the convention, "partly because I am a woman." There are other types of jobs in advertising that these delegates to the convention represent. There are women who lecture for companies, women who promote advertising itself, women who run retail stores and have to do their own promotion and advertising work, copywriters, direct mail advertisers and even a few young and spirited fashion artists and minor office workers who are eager to learn more about the business. Advertising State. One visitor from Texas, Mrs. Edith Axell, is planning to do some promotion work for her State. She will go abroad soon to boost Texas products in Europe. She will not do it by writing or by selling "ads." She is going to "contact" the business men and the officials of Europe. And with an eye for profitable enterprises she plans to take a bunch of tourists with her, to whom she will show the sights. There's a woman with energy for you! —with three children and a home of her own, a shop of her own in Houston, twenty years' experience in business behind her and all these bright ideas for doing new things. Miss Jeanette Carroll, the president of the Women's Federation, is a publicity director for a business college in Providence. She arrived at her job through work on the stage. She played in stock companies in Pittsburgh and New England, and began writing press notices for her plays. From that she went into publicity, and now she is considered an outstanding woman in advertising. Some of the many others at the convention who are doing astoundingly important jobs selling the goods of this nation are Miss Florence Stieler, who is an advertising director —————————————————————— A square kerchief-like cape which ties in front is used by Mary Nowitzky of Paris for a charming negligee. The material is soft printed satin showing prink flowers on a pale blue ground. —————————————————————— and promoter of new business for a financial organization; Miss Bernice Ormerod who thinks up new ways to make blankets appeal to the housewife, Miss Rose Kiehl, who brings advertisers to some three Bridgeport newspapers; Miss Florence E. Wall, who uses her training as a chemist to help sell cosmetics; Miss Dorothy Pfeister, who succeeds three men in a job which promotes Chicago's business; Miss Marion Denyven, a copy writer with a reputation; Mrs. Minna Hall Carothers, who promotes the use of photography for advertising; Miss Dorothy Dignam, a Philadelphia copy writer who is said to be the best woman in her field; Miss Marie Creamer, who sees that Americans don't forget to buy candy; Miss Rita Otway, who lectures on electricity; Miss Catharine McNelus, who publishes four magazines to promote one company, and has the reputation for having made more money in less time than any other woman in the world. From Far Away. Women representatives have come to the convention from as far away as Texas, New York, Providence and Philadelphia, however, have sent the greatest number of delegates. These cities seem to harbor some of the most successful of America's successful advertising women. These advertising women, with all their independence and their combined two or three millions of earning power, seem to like to stick together. They rush to their own women's "boudoir" in between speeches and meetings. There they can talk about the best bargains on Fifth avenue, and the best shade of stockings to wear with a blue gown, as well as show great wisdom about consumer psychology and the state of business. The League of Advertising Women of New York is doing the entertaining, under the direction of Miss Dorothy Crowne, the league's president, and Miss Elsie Wilson, hospitality hostess. 'Not as Bright as the Others' - It Often Means Tragedy to a Child By ALICE JUDSON PEALE. THE problems of family life would be much simpler if brothers and sisters possessed equal mental abilities. But the children within a single family group may vary all the way from genius to sub-normality. Even when the disparity is not so extreme as to be noticeable to the casual observer, it may yet be sufficient to cause cruel jealousies and feelings of inferiority with their attendant impairment of abilities and disturbances in adjustment. Before it is possible for parents to help their children to make the necessary adjustments, they must themselves learn to accept the limitations of the less gifted child without feelings of personal disappointment and humiliation. Only when they have learned to love and accept him for what he is, to think of him in terms of his own best development and happiness, will the child have a fair chance of making the best of himself. Above all things it is necessary to avoid rivalry. Children of unequal endowments never will run the same course and it is grossly unfair and destructive to pit them against one another. It is well to remember, too, that there are other assets than intelligence necessary for successful living. It is necessary for the more gifted child to learn that his superior endowment brings with it certain greater responsibilities and self-control, self-discipline and consideration for others. The less gifted child should be made to feel that he too has something to contribute. Through being given responsibilities which require for their satisfactory fulfillment dependability and good will rather than brains, he will feel that he also counts for something in the family circle. Swanky LONDON ladies are pretty generally insisting on short skirts for their countryside tweeds; skirts often remarkably near the knee. The tweeds, including those in a dim plaid-like pattern, are likely to have a belt in front and on the sides of the jacket, but not in back, and the skirts have three pleats on each side for active walking. In the Housekeeper's Little Handy Book A NORMAL active adolescent boy should eat more than his father. —— Shoes should be chosen, first of all, for their comfort and support. —— Choose window shades for their opaqueness, durability, and color. —— When buying cotton or linen tear a small strip and notice if white dust flies from it. If it does, it means that the cotton has too much sizing or filler. —— Test silk by burning a small sample. If it curls up in a black charred ball, it contains practically no weighting, rayon, or cotton adulteration. —— A child should definite hours for play, just as his father has certain hours every day for his work. However, a definite routine of eating, sleeping, dressing and the like should have first consideration in the child's dainty schedule. More White and Black AND Paris, after a good deal of thought, has managed to evolve another variation on the black and white costume. For evening the black georgette gown with its probable inset of white lace somewhere or other, is accompanied by a short cloak of white, sometimes lightly covered with a floral pattern in pastel tints and trimmed with black fur. Those Ankles ONCE more it may be noted that the longer the skirt grows the more important is any length of limb still left to public view. Ankles are pretty vital this season. And the smart colors in which smart ankles are clothed include at present peach, tan, sun, blush, rose ash and mole. Of those mole looks particularly well with darker frocks. Cutey WHEN Paris makes a tight little bonnet these days the bonnet is likely to be of ribbon straw. There isn't so much of the bonnet, either; so in order to give it a kind of balance Paris puts three little, soft plumes in the general vicinity of the left ear and allows them to thrust out across the left cheek. A cutey effect if you have the cheek for it. New Costume Jewelry Heavier and Simpler PARIS (A.P.). COSTUME jewelry is growing heavier and simpler with each new design. Bracelets and earrings are rarely seen by day, and necklaces are becoming increasingly plain. One of the smartest neck ornaments is a heavy black cord with a single pendant of jade, coral or crystal suspended in front. Necklaces of nickel chains or brilliants like tiny mirrors are other favorites. Enna Jettick Melodies Sundays, WJZ ENNA JETTICK SHOES FOR WOMEN $5 $6 YOU NEED NO LONGER BE TOLD THAT YOU HAVE AN EXPENSIVE FOOT AAAAA to EEE Sizes 1 to 12 177 Sizes and Widths Correct Fit is Priceless --- yet we have it at only $5 and $6 Beautiful Hosiery, $1.00 Exclusively ENNA JETTICK NEW YORK CITY. . . .28 West 47th St. NEW YORK CITY. . . .84 Nassau St. NEW YORK CITY. . . .16 East 37th St. BROOKLYN. . . .316 Livingston St. JAMAICA, L.I. . . . .89-65 164th St. FLUSHING, L.I. . . . .37-28 Main St. MT. VERNON, N.Y. . . . . 52 So. 4th Ave. NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. . . . .514 Main St. STAMFORD, CONN . . . .97 Atlantic St. BRIDGEPORT, CONN . . . . . 1219 Main St. HACKENSACK, N.J. . . . .193 Main St. MONTCLAIR, N.J. . . . .508 Bloomfield Ave. NEWARK, N.J. . . . . 899 Broad St. PATERSON, N.J. . . . . 221 Main St. WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. . . . . 91 Main St. band," Harry B. Blackwell, as Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt has characterized him. Mrs. Mary Livermore was its first editor and her assistant editors were Lucy Stone, the famed Julia Ward Howe. Col, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, distinguished litterateur, and William Lloyd Garrison of "Liberator" fame. At this time only one State in the world, Wisconsin, "like a lone morning star shedding its glow upon a stubborn and prejudiced world" - again we quote Mrs. Catt - had given the suffrage to women. Vassar College was four years old, but Wellesley, Smith, Bryn Mawr, Goucher, Radcliffe and Barnard had not been born. There were no flocks of type-writer girls and girl stenographers sallying forth every morning to compete in the business world. For the first typewriter was not put together until 1870 and the first telephone was not exhibited until 1876. The first woman lawyer had been admitted to practice only the preceding year. Disorderly Characters. Women who were demanding their places in the sun were looked on askance. By some, even, they were held to be disorderly characters, and to merit much the same degree of scorn and contumely as are now given to the I.W.W.'s and Communists. A story of the early days of the Journal editors illustrates this. The gracious Julia Ward Howe, together with Mrs. Livermore and Lucy Stone, made a campaign journey to Vermont in winter and on arriving at the first town where a meeting was to be held found that the chairman of the committee of arrangements had met with such opposition and ridicule that he had left the town. A vulgar ballad had been circulated in which the three women speakers were referred to as "The Three Old Crows." In 1872, as a further evidence of the lack of esteem accorded the suffragists, came the arrest of Susan B. Anthony for having dared to vote under the Fourteenth Amendment to the Federal Constitution by way of test. She was tried, pronounced guilty and fined. But, like the valiant fighter she was, she refused to pay the fine, nor was she imprisoned. It was the unflagging and indomitable spirit of Lucy Stone, her husband and later he daughter, Alice Stone Blackwell, who is still living, that carried the Woman's Journal through the greater part of its existence. They were continuously trying to break down prejudices, and many notable movements found support in the columns they so ably edited. In 1917, because it was felt necessary to have a suffrage organ in New York and because the Leslie ETON, England. Looking more youthful than ever, Lady Astor, the American-born member of the English Parliament, is shown with her son Michael at the traditional June 4 celebration at Eton. Regular rotogravure perusers will remember Michael as a small boy. He's as tall as mother now. WASHINGTON. (A.P). THE General Federation of Women's Clubs will aid the Women's Overseas Service League in assisting disabled women who served overseas during the world war. Each unit of the federation will report the names of all overseas women in its locality, stating those who are disabled, with what organization they served and if they now are in need of medical or financial care. The survey will include women who served otherwise than in the army. BRIGHT IDEA Don't you realize that men get tired of an unvaried menu ... huh? Anglo Corned Beet for Supper! That's the idea! Anglo is delicious, served in hash, New England Boiled Dinner, cold cuts. The whole family loves it. Serve Anglo tonight! ANGLO CORNED BEEF A Beauty Secret in her Dishpan MY HANDS LOOK DREADFUL BUT NO WONDER - THEY'RE IN THE DISHPAN 3 TIMES A DAY WHAT KIND OF SOAP DO YOU USE? OH- ANYTHING HANDY - WHY NOT TRY LUX? ORDINARY SOAPS DRY UP THE OILS OF THE SKIN - LEAVE HANDS ROUGH AND NAILS BRITTLE OF COURSE I USE LUX FOR FINE THINGS - TRY IT FOR DISHES TOO - IT GIVES YOUR HANDS BEAUTY CARE 3 TIMES A DAY I'M GOING TO TRY IT TONIGHT YOU'LL BE DELIGHTED! I CAN'T TELL THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE HANDS OF A WOMAN WHO USES LUX AND THOSE OF A WOMAN WITH MAIDS Lovely hands for 1 cent a day The big box does six weeks' dishes Beauty Experts Beauty Experts advise using Lux for dishes and all soap-and-water tasks, because its softens and soothes the skin, preserves the natural oils. Even a few dishwashings with Lux leave your hands ever so much whiter and lovelier. It's the easiest, the most inexpensive beauty care in the world! THE NEW YORK SUN, TUESDAY, JUNE 16, 1931. 29 WHAT DO YOU THINK? Asks Information as to What Became of Money Tammany Got for Jobless. To the What Do You Think Editor - Sir: What became of all the money Tammany managed to get for the "jobless" this winter? Where have these people been employed and what have they to show for all the money they supposedly received? FRANK BALDWIN What Some Others Think AS ANOTHER SEES IT. Staten Islander Gives Results of Watching Ships Anchor To the What Do You Think Editor - Sir: Referring to LeRoy Francis's query regarding the facing of trans- atlantic steamers out toward the ocean instead of up the bay, my solution is based purely on personal observation during a four years' resident at Quarantine. Upon entering Quarantine the ships usually drop anchor to await the boarding of the health officer or his deputies. The tide at that point of the Narrows is extremely strong and if coming in, will swing the ship around causing the anchor to act as a pivot. However, if the ship is turned around by its own power before [dro]pping anchor, perhaps it is the intention of the pilot to change the ship's position before the tide has an opportunity to do so. STATEN ISLAND SPEAKING. FAVORS HAPPY MEDIUM. Objects Both to Sloppy Sentimentality and Sadistic Cruely. To the What Do You Think Editor -Sir: For the second time in the many years I have read your interesting symposium of opinions I take my typewriter in hand - this time to remark that the discussion of corporal punishment contributes might little of constructive value. There has been some sense in it; also some preposterous stupidity. You have heard from the weak sisters who think little Willie should be permitted to run loose without a judicious bit of the only kind of correction some little Willies can grasp. Then on the other hand you have heard from the sort who recount with gusto, in ghoulish detail, hot to spank an eighteen-year-old girl so that she "cannot sit down for days afterward" - sweet mind! Between waterish sentimentality and sadistic cruelty there is a reasonable medium which ought to be apparent to any intelligent human being of this age without all this talk. I respectfully submit that this happy medium, with parents sufficiently self-disciplined to grasp it and apply it, is the only answer to the whole question. RUSSELL ANDERSON. SORRY SHE COULDN'T PHONE. Flag Incorrectly Hung on Washington's Home, Writer Says. To the What Do You Think Editor - Sir: One evening last week I read a letter on your page of The Sun telling how to hang our flag, and I also have the American Legion pamphlet telling how to display and respect the flag of the United States of America. Yesterday I noticed a picture of George Washington's home in Mount Vernon. Sorry I am not able to telephone the caretaker to change his flag to the other side as I did some of my neighbors on Memorial Day. I live on about the longest block in Brooklyn and on a holiday it certainly is a beautiful sight to see so many lovely flags displayed in unison. Perhaps a little more publicity will help the idea along, for I am sure all those who own flags will be glad to comply with an authentic code. MRS. JOHN HEASTY. Old New York in Pictures - No. 802 - Red Cloud Delivering Address. Toonerville Folks. By Fontaine Fox. GRANDMA FUTTY DIDN'T KNOW SHE HAD TURNED OUT ONE OF THE LATEST THINGS IN FEMININE HEADWEAR. "THAT NIGHTCAP I CROCHETED FOR CLARA SHE'S WEARING RIGHT OUT ON THE STREET!"! "NIGHTCAP!" ASKS FOR ADVICE. Worried Sees Friend Satisfied in Marrying to Save Brother. To the What Do You Think Editor - Sir: May I have a word of advice on an important thing which has given me no little worry? A young woman friend of mine living in the Middle West is about to do what I consider an insane act. Her brother, who is very dear to her, is in very bad financial straits and about to lose his farm, which happens to be the family's only source of income, and the farm itself is a splendid piece of property. Naturally, my friend is distraught and frantic over the brother's predicament, and while she herself is unable to help the brother, she vows she will marry any man of fine character with money, who will put her brother on his feet financially, although she has turned down more than one offer of marriage, as she has preferred her state of widowhood. Here is a charming, refined and talented woman ready to sacrifice herself (or so it seems to me) for her brother's family and happiness. Even though she might or might not be happily married, it is her brother's happiness which is all in all to her. Now what do you think? To me it is tragic and I feel she is almost insane to even contemplate such a thing, yet I fail to dissuade her from her act. What can be done to thwart it? WORRIED HOW MUCH DOES TOWER SWAY Correspondent Asks Official Figures on Empire State Building. To the What Do You Think Editor - Sir: To settle a controversy which is raging in our office we would appreciate the official figures from yourself or from the readers of your column as to how much the Empire State Building sways at the top. Numerous opinions have been expressed as to the actual amount of sway and same range from three inches to twelve feet. Would appreciate your advice on the matter. L.A. HARLEY. APPROVES OF BETTY'S STAND. Writer Thinks Girls Who Smoke and Drink Lose Charm. To the What Do You Think Editor - Sir: I would like to reply to a letter written by "Betty" printed in your column on June 3, concerning the habits of modern girls. First of all, I wish to commend "Betty" on the stand she takes against smoking and drinking by girls. She is one girl in a thousand having such a viewpoint in this lamentable jazzed-up age. Secondly, I am "one of the few males left who abhor that type," and as to why, there are several reasons. 1. The smoking and drinking type appear to me to have lost their charm and attractiveness. The less difference there is as to habits, actions, appearances, &c., between boys and girls, the less, it seems to me will be the desire for companionship and friendship between the two. 2. I believe the most of these girls are victims of style, ie, if left by themselves, they would not smoke or drink. However, when among others, the like to "show off." This indicates a lack of will power and an over-abundance of sophistication. The girl who can refuse to indulge among dozens who are indulging does nothing wrong herself, and in addition shows that she has self control, self respect and a good deal of common sense. 3. Those girls who smoke and drink as an aid in attracting men show thereby quite some stupidity by failing to realize that if they didn't smoke and drink, the men wouldn't stay home after supper and play solitaire. If smoking and drinking is to attract men, what became of all the poor girls during the centuries of time when women knew enough not to smoke or drink. More power to "Betty" and her kind. HERMAN RINKE. SETS MR. ABBOTT RIGHT. Critic Denies That Jesus Used Hypnotism in Healing the Ill. To the What Do You Think Editor - Sir: H.D. Abbott's recent statement that Jesus used hypnotism for healing purposes is incorrect in a way. Jesus's system of healing did not depend upon suggestion and hypnotism. He chiefly asked His Father to help and the miracle happened. This is in no way that which is understood as hypnotism, an application of collected thoughts united into one forceful action that may be constituted of instincts, ideas or other primitive functions of an imperfect and fallible mind trying to express itself suggestively in another being. Hypnotism means putting to sleep. If the Greek philosophers used hypnotism for their spiritual development they were all wrong. The ruins of their civilization indicate aplenty. Hexers also use lower forces of the mind to attain certain ends and things. And every faithful Christian knows how even the devil can work miracles if you sell your soul to him Jesus Christ's perfect being was exalted far above the plane of persons with suggestive and hypnotic desires who should know better. ERICH STIRNEMANN. Advertisement. 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There has been some sense in it; also some preposterous stupidity. also have the American Legion pamphlet telling how to display and respect the flag of the United States of America. Yesterday I noticed a picture of George Washington's home in Mount Vernon. Sorry I am not able to telephone the caretaker to change his flag to the other side as I did some of my neighbors on Memorial Day. I live on about the longest block in Brooklyn and on a holiday it certainly is a beautiful sight to see so many lovely flags displayed in unison. Perhaps a little more publicity will help the idea along, for I am sure all those who own flags will be glad to comply with an authentic code. MORS. JOHN HEASTY. ASKS FOR ADVICE. Worried Sees Friend Satisfied in Marrying to Save Brother. To the What Do You Think Editor - Sir: May I have a word of advice on an important thing which has given me no little worry? A young woman friend of mine living in the Middle West is about to do what I consider an insane act. Her brother, who is very dear to her, is in very bad financial straits and about to lose his farm, which happens to be the family's only source of income, and the farm itself is a splendid piece of property. Naturally, my friend is distraught and frantic over the brother's predicament, and while she herself is unable to help the brother, she vows she will marry any man of fine character with money, who will put her brother on his feet financially, although she has turned down more than one offer of marriage, as she has preferred her state of widowhood. Here is a charming, refined and talented woman ready to sacrifice herself (or so it seems to me) for her brother's family and happiness. Even though she might or might not be happily married, it is her brother's happiness which is all in all to her. Now what do you think? To me it is tragic and I feel she is almost insane to even contemplate such a thing, yet I fail to dissuade her from her act. What can be done to thwart it? WORRIED. HOW MUCH DOES TOWER SWAY Correspondent Asks Official Figures on Empire State Building. To the What Do You Think Editor - Sir: To settle a controversy which is raging in our office we would appreciate the official figures from yourself or from the readers of your column as to how much the Empire State Building sways at the top. Numerous opinions have been expressed as to the actual amount of sway an same range from three inches to twelve feet. Would appreciate your advice on this matter. L.A. HARLEY. Old New York in Pictures - No. 802 - Red Cloud Delivering Address. THE Sioux chief, Red Cloud, is shown delivering an address in 1870 at Cooper Union, on the wrongs done to his people. Red Cloud headed an Indian delegation of braves and squaws, several of whom are shown in the picture. Behind Red Dog (with toy wheels as earrings) is Peter Cooper, philanthropist, after whom Cooper Institute was named. Tomorrow - French Volunteers' Parade. HAS MUCH BEEN AIDED. To the What Do You Think Editor - Sir: I wish to thank you for the valuable information which I received during the past year from some of the contributions which your correspondents submitted on various subjects. I am especially indebted to Mr. W.L. Clarke for the authorities which he quoted in his defense of Chaucer during what was referred to as the "Clarke-Vizetelly debate." While preparing my thesis on Chaucer's contribution to English literature I studied the works of the authors quoted by Mr. Clarke and Dr. Vizetelly, and my professor informed me that Mr. Clarke's references were both reliable and trustworthy. ROSE KERSHAW. Handkerchief menace removed by KLEENEX Disposable tissues are used and destroyed - economical, no laundering "AN ACTUAL boon to mankind," many are saying about Kleenex, the new handkerchief tissue that is replacing the ordinary, unsanitary handkerchief. Kleenex costs so little that it is used and destroyed. Thus countless germs are destroyed, too. The old-time handkerchief carried these germs back to your face again and again! Causing self-infection during colds. It infected clothing, purses, laundry bags - because germs live in handkerchiefs for days. Softer than handkerchiefs Kleenex is not only safer. It is gentler, softer, more absorbent. Kleenex is wonderfully soothing during colds and hay fever. Children like it. Office workers find these disposable tissues convenient and clean. Kleenex costs less than having handkerchiefs laundered - let alone the cost of buying them. You'll find Kleenex at drug, dry goods, and department stores, in packages at 25 cents, 50 cents and $1.00. It has many other uses: for removing cold cream; for manicuring; for the nursery; for polishing spectacles or crystal. Bacteriological Tests Show: 1. That handkerchiefs used by persons having colds may contain as many as 4,170,000 bacteria per handkerchief. 2. That organisms representative of those associated with colds, when impregnated upon linen and rinsed in boiling water and soap water, were not killed nor appreciably inhibited from growing. These reports are based on tests performed on handkerchiefs in the laboratories of Dr. Bertram Feuer, Chicago bacteriologist. KLEENEX Disposable TISSUES "YOU BET I'M WISE!" I KNOW BLACK FLAG COSTS LESS AND KILLS QUICKER!" "WHY SHOULD I pay more when I can get Black Flag Liquid for less? And the way Black Flag kills flies and mosquitoes is nobody's business!" To see how sure - how quick - an insect-killer can be, just close the windows and fill the room with Black Flag's stainless, pleasant-smelling mist. It has more powerful killing ingredients that make every last fly or mosquito drop - dead as a doornail. Kills moths, ants, roaches, bedbugs, too. Black Flag can't harm humans or pets. Sold on a money-back guarantee: Get the surest, quickest insect-killer ever put on the market - get Black Flag Liquid to-day - and save money! P.S. Black Flag comes in Powder form, too. Just as deadly. Kills all insect pests. Many people prefer Black Flag Powder for crawling pests. It stays were you put it - kills pests when they crawl through it. BLACK FLAG LIQUID KILLS FLIES AND MOSQUITOES - DEAD! Woman's Journal - Advance Proof April 28 Orders for extra copies will be filled immediately at the following rates: less than ten, 3 cents each, ten to one hundred, 2 1/2 cents each. Two dollars per hundred. Recent Victories Michigan - Presidential suffrage was won in Michigan last week just as we went to press. This week we are able to print the full story of the seventeenth suffrage state. Nebraska is the latest state to fall into line. The bill which has been passed by the legislature and signed by the Governor grants to Nebraska's women citizens the same generous nine-tenths suffrage, recently won by the women of Indiana. Jeannette Rankin introduces National suffrage amendment. What could be more fitting than that the amendment to the constitution of the United States completely enfranchising women, should be introduced into congress by its first woman member? Read what happened on this historic occasion. It will make you realize more than ever that "The women's hour has struck." City Planning Watertown, Massachusetts, has a planning board which it is finding a practical civic asset. The board works in connection with the regular town departments, with a twofold purpose in view:- (1) The gradual correction or elimination of undesirable features of the city as it already exists. (2) The careful surveying of undeveloped areas in advance of building operations, so that such corrective work will be unnecessary in the future. A Recent Memorial To Carrie Chapman Catt by Lois Bannister Merk A recent acquisition of the Library of Congress and of the Woman's Rights Collection at Radcliffe College is a microfilm of the complete file of the Woman's Journal and The Woman Citizen, which together cover the years 1870-1931. The Woman's Journal was a weekly newspaper of immeasurable value in the cause of woman's rights. It was begun in 1870 as the organ of the branch of the suffrage movement which centered in Massachusetts and was known as the American Woman Suffrage Association. It was edited almost from the start by Lucy Stone and her husband, Henry B. Blackwell, and later by their daughter, Alice Stone Blackwell. When the American Woman Suffrage Association united with the National Woman Suffrage Association in 1890, the Woman's Journal continued without interruption its record of the struggle for woman suffrage until 1817. At that time it was merged with two younger suffrage papers to form the Woman Citizen. The first twenty years of the files of the Woman's Journal are a complement to the History Of Woman Suffrage, which was prepared from the viewpoint of the National Woman Suffrage Association by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. But it was more than an organ of the "Massachusetts" branch of the suffrage movement. It was more than a suffrage paper. It was a record of woman's progress economically, legally and intellectually, both in the United States and abroad. Its circulation extended over the entire country and even to foreign countries. The Woman Citizen, established in 1917 under the leadership of Carrie Chapman Catt, was the official organ of the National American Woman Suffrage Association in the final days of the suffrage campaign. Yet, the Woman Citizen, like the Woman's Journal, was much more than a suffrage organ. It is a record of the work of woman in other respects; for example, their various enterprises in support of the Lois Bannister Merk, page 2. government during World War 1. Furthermore, the Woman Citizen, as a monthly, provided a record of woman's activities as voters for more than ten years after their enfranchisement. The relatively few extant files of the Woman's Journal, and the crumbling condition of many of its most important issues, led Mrs. Catt to urge repeatedly its preservation through microfilming. At the time of her death, however, this had not been accomplished. It so happened that Mrs. Catt's death occurred a few months before the ninetieth birthday of Alice Stone Blackwell. In this interval a Woman's Journal Fund Committee was formed in Massachusetts, which sent out an appeal for financial aid to persons who had been interested in the cause of woman suffrage, and in the work of Mrs. Catt and Miss Blackwell. The response was generous. At an informal birthday celebration on September 14, 1947, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the announcement was made to Miss Blackwell that the project was launched which would preserve against the ravages of time the historical record upon which she and her parents had labored so long and so devotedly. Now, a little more than two years later, the microfilming has been completed and the files deposited in Washington and in Cambridge, in honor of Mrs. Catt, whose foresight had a started the movement for preservation. The Committee, to whose initiative the accomplishment of Mrs. Catt's plan is due, was composed of Mrs. Maud Wood Park, Chairman, Mrs. Edna Lamprey Stantial, Secretary, Judge Florence E. Allen and Mrs. Malcolm McBride of Ohio; Mrs. J. Borden Harriman and Miss Frances Perkins, of Washington, D. C.; Mrs. Lewis Jerome Johnson of Massachusetts, Miss Catherine Ludington of Connecticut, Mrs. Edward P. Costigan of Colorado; Mrs. James Paige of Minneapolis, Minnesota; Miss Mary Gray Peck of NewRochelle, N.Y., Mrs. Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania, and Mrs. Halsey W.Wilson and Mrs. F. Louis Slade of New York. Proxy for Stockholder's Meeting Know all men by these presents, that I, Alice Stone Blackwell, being the holder of one share of capital stock of The Woman Citizen Corporation, do hereby constitute and appoint as my proxy to attend the special meeting of the stockholders of said company to be held on April 26th, 1926, or any continuation or adjournment thereof, with full power to vote and act for me and in my name, place and stead, in the same manner, to the same extent and with the same effect that I might were I personally present thereat, giving to said full power of substitution and revocation. Dated at this day of April 1926. In the presence of July, 1928 35 OUR GUARANTORS - Concluded New York THE guarantors of the Woman's Journal are the women who are making the publication of this magazine possible. Why? - because they think the world needs intelligent, well-informed women. Hence this woman's magazine published to make women think and to tell others what they are thinking. This is the sixth and final page of Who's Who of Woman's Journal guarantors. MRS. HERBERT LEE PRATT is the only guarantor serving in public office. Elected by the New York Legislature to the State Board of Regents, she is the first woman to serve in this distinguished body. Mrs. Pratt is chairman of the Committee on Vocational and Extension Education under which are agricultural, trade, vocational and continuation schools, also schools for adult immigration education. The mother of five children, she has a keen interest in the problems of the working boy and girl. Mrs. Pratt has been a member of her local Board of Education, and a member of the Hughes Commission for the reorganization of the government of New York State. Mrs. Leach Mrs. Hooker MRS. HENRY P. DAVISON is identified with the Red Cross because of her husband's work as well as her own, and she is still a member of the Central Committee at Washington. As one of the executive committee of the United War Work Campaign she toured the country, appealing to women's organizations for contributions. She helped organize the first Yale Aviation Unit, the first Girl Radio Unit, and the Presbyterian Hospital Unit. The English scholarships she has established bring three students from Oxford and three from Cambridge to Yale, Harvard and Princeton. Her many interests include the Union Settlement, the Y.W.C.A. and the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors. It was her attendance at the peace conference in Paris with her husband, who was one of the American financial experts, that led MRS. THOMAS W. LAMONT to her keen interest in international affairs. She is on the executive board of the Foreign Policy Association and the League of Nations Non-Partisan Association. She is also on the board of the Poetry Society of America and a director of the New School for Social Research. She is a graduate of Smith College and an M.A. in philosophy from Columbia University. The war also gave MRS. CASPAR WHITNEY her first opportunity for public service. She was born in Nevada and passed her girlhood in California. After several years' study in France she married and came to New York. Both she and Mr. Whitney served on the Committee for Belgian Relief here and abroad. She was New York chairman for the National League for Women's Service. Since then she has been especially active in the League of Women Voters, in organizing citizenship schools, and she is now a regional director of the National League. MRS. ELON HUNTINGTON HOOKER is particularly interested in good citizenship. She is one of the Board of Governors of the Woman's National Republican Club, and a director in the Roosevelt Memorial Association. She was a founder of the Women's University Club and has helped establish several schools, among them the Marietta Johnson School of Organic Education. The beautiful alumnae house on the campus at Vassar College was a gift from ————— THE SCHILLING PRESS, INC. NEW YORK Mrs. Pratt Mrs. Albert her and her sister. Outdoor life is a hobby of hers. Beloved of suffragists is MRS. WILLIAM G. WILLCOX of Staten Island. Her mother, a Philadelphia Quaker, went with Lucretia Mott as a delegate to the famous World's Anti-Slavery Convention and so became closely associated with the Woman's Rights movement. It was natural, therefore, for her daughter to be an ardent suffragist. From 1895 until 1917, when New York State gave suffrage to women, Mrs. Willcox served as a suffrage official. She adds to her interest in woman's progress a lively interest in the advancement of the colored race. To MRS. FRANK A. VANDERLIP (Narcissa Cox) also must go much credit for winning suffrage. For several years she gave practically her entire time to the New York campaign - organizing, speaking and working. Since then she has been active in local Republican politics. Mrs. Vanderlip is keenly interested in international affairs, especially the League of Nations. Dating from an official trip with her husband to Japan in 1920, she has been particularly interested in Japan. She headed the recent drive for funds for rebuilding Tsuda College for Women. MRS. HENRY GOODARD LEACH, of an old Quaker family, began her public activities in the suffrage struggle in Philadelphia. The war deepened her interest in international affairs and she became New York chairman of the Committee on International Cooperation of the League of Women Voters. She is now president of the New York State League, director of Bryn Mawr College, and in addition is keenly interested in the work of her husband, who is editor of the Forum and president of the Scandinavian Foundation through which exchange scholarships between the United States and Scandinavia are promoted. Another generous supporter of woman suffrage was MRS. DEXTER P. RUMSEY, of Buffalo. Mrs. Rumsey was president of the Twentieth Century Club for several years and she is identified in the western part of the state with every movement for public welfare. The brilliantly successful business woman is represented by MRS. EDNA ALBERT, president of the Odo-ro-no Company. Mrs. Albert started her business career at nineteen with one hundred and fifty dollars borrowed from her grandfather. She says the business has taken so much hard work that she has not had time to do anything else worth while, but Mrs. Albert is greatly interested in what women are doing today with their new opportunities, and she is still a young woman. For years MRS. WENDELL T. BUSH has been president of the Bureau of Vocational Information for Women and was also president of the Consumers' League of New York. A Radcliffe graduate, she comes from Maine, where her father was captain and owner of the clipper ships engaged with trade with the Far East. MR. V. 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Cantilever Shoes MEN - WOMEN - CHILDREN When writing to the Cantilever Corporation, please mention the Woman's Journal [*WJ - WC.*] April 19, 1924 39 Heart to Heart 20,500 copies of this Woman Citizen have been printed Our Goal—40,000 Subscribers by Election Day 5,000 NEW READERS Three Months' Campaign IN the New Year's number of the magazine, the Woman Citizen launched a campaign to reach 40,000 subscribers before election day and asked for an Extension Fund of $25,000 with which to insure the success of campaign. The goal of 40,000 subscribers was set, as it is quite possible of attainment, and with that circulation the future of the Citizen would be reasonably secure. To reach that goal 25,000 new subscribers were needed and it was estimated that the Citizen could be brought to the attention of new readers and their subscriptions secured at an average cost of $1.00 each. The result of the drive for the first quarter of the year is indicated by the two thermometers on this page. The size of the issues since the first of the year has been steadily rising. Of this April 19th number 20,500 copies have been printed. The success of the drive thus far is due to you, the readers of the Woman Citizen. You alone are making it possible. You have been contributing both the money and the hard work. The campaign up to date has cost about $4,000 and nearly $5,000 is in sight and much of it has been paid to finance the work. To this fund over 400 women have already contributed and most of the money has come in contributions of $5 and $10 from Woman Citizen subscribers. In addition, a host of the other readers have added their contributions in the form of new subscriptions they have secured. The Spirit of Service The spirit which animates the giving both of money and work finds its impetus in the sentiment expressed by Mrs. L. M. Bradley, of Berkeley, California, who wrote: "It takes a finer quality of patriotism to live for your country than it does to die for it. I think the Woman Citizen is doing a wonderful work in teaching women how to live for their country." Citizen Contributions are making it possible for this spirit of service to reach a much larger number of women, without increasing the subscription price of the magazine. One reader wrote: "I have had to discontinue all my other magazine subscriptions. I have to count the pennies but I can't do without the Woman Citizen." The inspiration to turn sorrow into service "rather than draping it with crepe," to "open windows through which we may look on life"—these are what readers write us that they find in the Woman Citizen. THE SCHILLING PRESS, INC. NEW YORK EXTENSION FUND The First Milestone WE have just made our first milestone and we pause to congratulate you warmly. Now, all together, let us make the second quarter of the campaign an enthusiastic success. More contributions to the Extension Fund are essential if the campaign is to continue. As we write, a gift of $500 has come from Mrs. Henry Goddard Leach, of New York City. If the goal of $25,000 is to be reached we are going to need many more large contributions. Isn't there some woman in your town who would like to help put this woman's venture over and make it a big success? Won't you show the magazine to her and tell her what the Woman Citizen means in the life not only of women but of the country? It is a unique venture in which women are for the first time engaged—the publishing of a magazine of their own which is not the organ of any one association but which is devoted to the wide reach of woman's interests outside her domestic life. There is no publication like it in the entire magazine field and it has a very big future. We wish we could thank every Citizen Contributor personally. To every one we send the most cordial thanks and appreciation for their cooperation. Every dollar given will be used to gain a larger public. 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TRUTH IN ADVERTISING IMPLIES HONESTY IN MANUFACTURE December, 1929 Stepping Forward (Continued from page 8) Harriet Martineau visited this country, she found seven occupations open to women; now only about thirty occupations are not open to women. Now, subways, elevated trains and surface street cars discharge hundreds of thousands of girls and women into the business world. No business could proceed without women's help today. The women workers in offices and women workers in factories and miscellaneous industries brought new illustrations for old arguments and all suffragists knew that the bonds of ancient traditions could not much longer resist the pressure of this wholly new factor in the world's experience. The feminine army moved its battlefront forward and its appeals were broader and strong. From 1869 every Congress in Washington had listened to the pleas of women for Federal action, and most state legislatures had heard the plea for some form of state suffrage. By 1900 a limited of suffrage had been gained in twenty-five sates and full suffrage in four. From 1900 to 1910 there was a great earnestness in building up the forces, preparatory to the final struggle. Prejudice yielded slowly. One chairman of the Senatorial Suffrage Committee said after a hearing during this period: "There isn't a man in Christendom that can answer the argument of those women, but I'd rather see my wife dead in her coffin than going to vote." A very great many men were feeling much the same way. A grand push forward had to come next to destroy that feeling, and it came. The organization grew larger and larger. All along the line women made themselves as free as possible in order to give themselves without pay or reward; and how they worked, early and late, from Maine to California! The enemy doubled and trebled its forces, too. The rum ring, the railroad ring, the Manufacturers' Association, each with some financial interest to serve, flooded the ratification legislatures with lobbyists when the Federal Amendment went through, but the appointed time had come and 1920 saw the end of the suffrage struggle. The Woman's Journal all the way through was the organ, the patron, the guide, the staff, and the increasing faith upholder of the woman's cause. Nowhere in the records of history do I find so many and such mighty transformations as within the last sixty years. Nowhere do I find such fundamental changes in public opinion, customs, home and business life, and especially those that most intimately concern women. Looking backward, I see a long procession of women, the beginning lost in the obscurity of long ago, brave- souled women all marching onward. The numbers grow greater; the faces more cheerful; the mein confident as they approach the goal of a hundred years. How glorious the final victory! The sun is setting upon sixty years of the Journal's life. Its bound volumes tell the story of six decades of the baffling, battling, losing, winning struggle of women to escape from outgrown repressions. Outlined against that setting sun stands woman, emancipated. To be sure there are a few odd jobs before the aim is quite accomplished, but she is now able to make her own way. The sun is rising upon another sixty years. Its record will tell what women have done with their newly acquired liberty. December, 1929 9 The Why and Who of the Woman's Journal in 1870 By Its Editor of Many Years [*Alice Stone Blackwell*] "Newsies" Selling the Journal in a Suffrage Parade THE Woman's Journal was started chiefly to advocate woman suffrage. But at that time much remained to be achieved besides the ballot. Collegiate education for women was still unpopular. The earliest women's clubs had just been formed, and were the objects of ridicule and denunciation. The property laws for married women were grossly unjust, and they were subject to many legal disabilities. Women were at a great disadvantage if they wished to enter the learned professions, or to engage in new occupations. The woman's Journal covered the whole field of woman's rights. Most of the $10,000 raised to start the paper was secured by Lucy Stone's efforts. Her husband gave her the first $2,000, and then she went to others. Mrs. Mary A. Livermore was editing "The Agitator," in Chicago. She was induced to merge her paper in the new publication, and became its editor- in-chief. She had been an army nurse in the Civil War, and a leader in the great Sanitary Commission which raised supplies for the wounded. She was a woman of noble presence, and of extraordinary power and eloquence. For many years she was called "The Queen of the Platform," and deserved the title. One of her lectures, "What Shall We Do With Our Daughters?" she gave more than eight hundred times. She was also a woman of a big, warm and generous heart, who did innumerable kindnesses in private life. Her husband, a Universalist minister, was a learned man, and author of several books. She said it was he who converted her to woman suffrage, and that he encouraged and urged her to undertake public speaking, when she was afraid to attempt it. The assistant editors were Lucy Stone, Julia Ward Howe, Thomas Wentworth Higginson and William Lloyd Garrison. Mrs. Howe was already eminent and beloved. She was a leader in the woman's club movement and many other good things. Lucy Stone recalled on her deathbed the joy it gave her in 1868 when Mrs. Howe accepted the presidency of the New England Woman Suffrage Association, and brought to the aid of the cause her social and literary prestige, and her high and sweet spirituality. She said it was like "the shadow of a great rock in a weary land." The Men on the Staff COLONEL HIGGINSON had been an early worker in the anti-slavery, temperance, and woman's rights movements, when he was a Unitarian minister. When the Civil War broke out, he became the commander of one of the first colored regiments, was desperately wounded, recovered, and returned to the front. After the war, he did not reenter the ministry, but devoted himself chiefly to literature. He was a witty and scholarly writer, and contributed a weekly editorial to the Woman's Journal for years. The founder of Smith College said it was reading his essay, "Ought Women to Learn the Alphabet?" that decided her to leave her fortune to establish a woman's college. Mr. Garrison rendered great service to the cause of women as well as to that of the slaves. When the Anti-Slavery Society was split in twain over the question of allowing women to speak in public and to hold office in the association, he Lucy Stone backed the women to the limit. When the women delegates were barred from the World's Anti-Slavery Convention in London in 1840, he refused to take part, and sat in the gallery with the excluded women. Lucy Stone was the first woman in Massachusetts to take a college degree. She was "the morning star of the woman's rights movement." During the ten years from 1847 to 1857, she lectured for it all up and down the country, to immense audiences. She headed the call for the First National Woman's Rights Convention, held at Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1850; and it was reading the report of her speech there that converted Susan B. Anthony to woman suffrage. She was the first married woman to keep her own name. The Woman's Journal was incorporated, in 1870, by E. D. Draper, of Hopedale, Massachusetts, Henry B. Blackwell and Samuel E. Sewall. Mr. Draper had been a strong advocate of the Bloomer dress, and offered to give silk enough for a Bloomer to any woman among his friends who would promise to wear it. He gave the Woman's Journal the safe which stood in its office as long as it was published in Boston. Mr. Sewall was a distinguished lawyer. For thirty years, it was he who drew most of the bills for enlarging the property rights of married women in Massachusetts, and for relieving them of their various legal disabilities, and helped the women to argue for them before legislative committees. In his ninetieth year he climbed the long steps to the State House with six such measures, upon all of which (to the shame of that year's legislature) he was given "leave to withdraw." Mr. Blackwell in his youth had had a reward of $10,000 offered for his head at a big public meeting in Memphis, because of his active part in the rescue of a young slave girl. He made his first woman suffrage speech in 1853. During all his married life with Lucy Stone, he worked side by side with her, his business ability and practical resourcefulness backing her idealism and apostolic zeal; and he continued to work for her cause after she was gone. Sixteen years after her death, and shortly before his own, some one introduced him to a friend with the words, "This gentleman is the husband of Lucy Stone—or was the husband of Lucy Stone." "Is the husband of Lucy Stone," he said, with an accent of tenderness and pride. The Woman's Journal was able and brilliant from the start. But it had a hard struggle financially. At the end of two years, Mrs. Livermore, whose time was under increasing demand in the lecture field, resigned the editorship. The $10,000 raised to start the paper was all used up. It became necessary to have editors who would serve without pay. Mrs. Stone and Mr. Blackwell shouldered the burden of the editorship, and continued to carry it as long as they lived, with such help as I could give them later. In the first issue of the Woman's Journal, Julia Ward Howe said, in her Salutatory: "We implore our sisters, of whatever kind or degree, to make common cause with us, to lay down all partisan warfare, and organize a peaceful Grand Army of the Republic of Women. But we do not ask them to organize as against me, but against all that is pernicious to men and to women." I think I may truly say that this spirit animated the Woman's Journal throughout. Woman's Journal Guarantors CALIFORNIA Mrs. Chas. D. Blaney, Saratoga Mrs. John R. Haynes, Los Angeles Mrs. Milbank Johnson, Pasadena Mrs. Parker S. Maddux, San Francisco Mrs. M. C. Sloss, San Francisco Miss Frances Wills, Los Angeles COLORADO Mrs. Richard C. Campbell, Denver* CONNECTICUT Miss Mary Bulkley, Hartford Mrs. George H. Townsend, Greenwich Mrs. Howard B. 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Jones, St. Louis NEW JERSEY Mrs. George B. Case, Englewood Mrs. Carl Fisher, Englewood Mrs. Henry Lang, Montclair NEW YORK Mrs. Edna M. Albert, New York Mrs. Raymond Brown, New York Mrs. Wendell T. Bush, New York Mrs. Stephen Clark, New York Mrs. Henry P. Davison, New York Miss Louise Grace, Great Neck Mrs. A. Barton Hepburn, New York Mrs. E. Huntington Hooker, New York Mrs. Otto Kahn, New York Mrs. Thomas W. Lamont, New York Mrs. Henry Goddard Leach, New York Mr. V. Everit Macy, New York Mrs. Ellis L. Phillips, New York Mrs. Herbert L. Pratt, New York Miss Grace Van B. Roberts, New York Mrs. Dexter P. Rumsey, Buffalo Mrs. F. Louis Slade, New York Mrs. Frank A. Vanderlip, New York Mrs. W. E. Werner, Rochester Mrs. Caspar Whitney, New York Mrs. Wm. G. Willcox, Staten Island OHIO Mrs. Chester C. Bolton, Cleveland Mrs. Walter H. Merriam, Cleveland Mrs. Eilsabeth C. T. Miller, Cleveland Mrs. Robert Patterson, Dayton Miss Belle Sherwin, Cleveland PENNSYLVANIA Mrs. Francis B. Biddle, Germantown Miss Mary E. Converse, Rosemont Mrs. John W. Lawrence, Pittsburgh Mrs. George A. Piersol, Merion Miss Florence Sibley, Philadelphia RHODE ISLAND Mrs. George H. Crooker, Providence Mrs. Walter A. Peck, Providence Mrs. Theodore B. Pierce, Providence TEXAS Mrs. Waldine Kopperl, Galveston WISCONSIN Mrs. Ben Hooper, Oshkosh Mrs. Fanny O. Munger, Janesville Mrs. Chas. W. Norris, Milwaukee [[?]] June 7, 1929. Proud marchers in an early woman suffrage parade on their way down Fifth Avenue, New York Pictorial News Co. of their wages, the District of Columbia gave women the control of their property and wages, women were admitted to Michigan University at Ann Arbor, and Wyoming granted full suffrage to women. Like a Morning Star For many a year this Western Territory, the only suffrage state in the world, like a lone morning star, shed its glow upon a stubborn and prejudiced human race. In 1879 South Carolina gave control of property and the power to make a will, Tennessee gave the right to make a will, Iowa gave control of wages to married women, Utah granted full suffrage to women (Congress took away the privilege in 1883 and it was not restored until 1896, at the admission of Utah to statehood). In 1872, while Cornell University was admitting women, California, Montana and Utah were granting control of property to women, while Pennsylvania and Wisconsin were conceding in gingerly fashion the control of wages, and North Carolina was granting the right to make a will, the spotlight fell upon a figure, noble and austere, Susan B. Anthony, who was tried, pronounced guilty and fined for voting under the fourteenth amendment to the national Constitution by way of test. She refused to pay the fine, which was never collected, nor was she imprisoned for her defiance of the decision of the court. What the world said about it, pro and con, would fill a book. Here stood our country when the Journal made its entry into the woman movement. It told the news and there was much to tell. Every issue sent some woman after her sunbonnet and a spirited call upon her neighbor. From 1870 to 1880 speakers were not only telling about the property laws and the vote, but they emphasized the right of women to enter the professions, for just then the woman movement had centered around that point. The first woman doctor was Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, graduated in 1848 in Geneva, New York. The women at her boarding house refused to speak to her during her three years of study and on the streets drew aside their skirts if they chanced to meet her, lest they become contaminated by contact. In 1850 Antoinette Brown was graduated in theology at Oberlin, the first woman in the world to receive that privilege. In 1869 Mrs. Belle Mansfield was admitted to the bar in Iowa, the first woman lawyer in modern times. The number of women who had followed these pioneers were few and they were having a hard time. The greatest demand was for women doctors, but men doctors not infrequently organized boycotts against them. The popular view was that the proper place of all women was in the kitchen and the nursery. From 1880 to 1890 the forces turned to a new battleground, and that was the contention that women might vote at least in school elections. The movement spread from state to state, winning here and losing there, but, in the main, making steady gains. Ten states gave school suffrage during those ten years. Washington gave full suffrage, which was taken away by the Supreme Court. Full suffrage was granted by the legislature of Dakota (before division into North and South Dakota), but it was vetoed by the Governor. In 1890 the greatest victory yet achieved was the admission of Wyoming to statehood with equal suffrage in its constitution. It had originally been granted by precisely the same authority that was used in Utah, Washington and Dakota. In those territories it was lost through politics. From 1890 to 1900 a small step forward was taken by the entire feminine battlefront. Having largely been granted school suffrage, they proposed women members for school boards. "Ridiculous, incredible, disgusting," shouted the opposition. "On with the battle," answered the suffragists. The Journal stood fast, telling the news, inspiring the faithful, stirring up new campaigns. Armies of Women Workers Meanwhile, the unexpected was happening. Stenography, typewriting, telephoning, telegraphy, all called for women—armies of them. The first makers of the typewriter contend that the typewriter was the real emancipator of women. I can recall the time when, in many cities and towns, no women or girls went to work in business sections and any woman who chanced to appear was stared at with more or less insolence. When, in 1840, (Continued on page 35) Vol. XIV. No. 12 THE WOMAN'S JURNAL December, 1929 Courtesy of New York Public Library A view of the Common in Boston—about the year the Woman's Journal was started there Sixty Years of Stepping Forward by Carrie Chapman Catt WHEN Lucy Stone and her brave husband, Henry Blackwell, were making ready to issue the first copy of the Woman's Journal, just sixty years ago, they lived in a very different world from the one we know. Today the editor of the Journal pushes a button attached to her desk and in walks a spry young woman with a book and pencil to take stenographic notes of letters, messages, telegrams or editorials. Rows of clicking typewriters, in response to quick and skilled fingers, are transferring such notes into neat letters or manuscripts. The switchboard girl telephones the telegrams to the telegraph office and off they go in less time than it takes to tell the story. Should a dark day obscure the daylight in this intensely active office, a mere touch of a fingertip flashes on an electric light. When the busy bees desert the Journal hive at five o'clock, the tired editor may linger a bit longer and in the comforting silence she may joke with herself as she chuckles dingbats into a dictaphone ready for the operator in the morning. One imagines Lucy Stone and Henry Blackwell writing the wrappers with their own hands for the favored recipients of the Woman's Journal Number 1, January, 1870, and certainly neither foresaw that subscribers would one day get their magazine set up by linotypes, addressed and wrapped by machinery. All these miracles of this machine age were unknown and undreamt of then. In that year of 1870 the first working model of typewriter was quietly being put together. In 1876 at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, the telephone was exhibited and people privileged to use one ejaculated, "Why, I can hear through it!" "Very interesting," said multitude, "but of what use can it be?" The same people watched the writing on the first typewriter and made the same comment on its impracticability. Mark Twain saw its possible convenience to an author and was the first distinguished purchaser. It was some time before stenography was combined with typewriting, but when it was, no typewriterless and telephoneless business house could compete with one that was equipped with "modern improvements." Mr. Edison brought out his incandescent lamp in 1879, and candles, keroscene and even gas beat a quick retreat before its superior qualifications. Meanwhile the Journal was encouraging every step forward for women, spreading the news of all injustices and discriminations. A sketchy picture of the times, so far as women were concerned, may be drawn from legislative and other activities of that date. In 1869 Wyoming and Minnesota gave women power to make a will and to control their property and wages, Illinois gave women the control Not for publication AN INSIDE COMMENT ON THE IOWA ELECTION On the eve of the election in Iowa one of the most experienced campaigners in the country, Mrs. Alice Park of Palo Alto, Calif., who was helping in the state, wrote the following letter to the headquarters of the Iowa Equal Suffrage Association: "A general comment on the Iowa situation may interest you. I consider the chances good for success. Even in Dubuque I did not feel so alarmed as many there do. If we lose - - I shall say that one great reason was that Iowa didn't make enough use of the Woman's Journal last year and years before. Of course the editors are getting it and they read it too, but I have never been in any state that won where the suffragists didn't have the Journal on their tables or in their hands - - and quoted from the last issues - - I mean the leaders and chairmen and headquarters people. I consider it very serious to be without the ADVANCE work - - steady pioneer work of the Woman's Journal. Alice Park" Iowa has lost. But, to a large extent, what is true of Iowa was true of New York Massachusetts Pennsylvania New Jersey Ohio Missouri Nebraska South Dakota North Dakota Wisconsin Michigan Keep this letter. Within fifteen days you are going to hear about it from a constructive view-point. Agnes Ryan Woman's Journal Boston, Mass. "The Woman Who Makes Citizens" The Story of the Remarkable Work of a Remarkable Woman Written by Miss Alice Stone Blackwell for The Woman's Journal of March 31. "The Americanization of the Emigrant", says Miss Blackwell, "is a subject of lively discussion in these days. Many plans are urged, some wise, some foolish. In the meantime, a remarkable work along this line has been quietly carried on by one unassuming woman, Miss J. Maud Campbell of the Massachusetts Free Library Commission." Herself an adopted daughter of the United States, she became, some time after her arrival in this country, librarian of the Reid Memorial Library, the gift of Mr. Peter Reid to the foreign district of Passaic, New Jersey. Here, she had her first vision of the unlimited possibilities of the public library for awakening and directing the latent capabilities of the emigrant. She set about her work and extended its scope in a way that only a woman could do. Just how she did it, and the results accomplished, are vividly described by Miss Blackwell in her own inimitable way. Miss Blackwell has given us a full page story, illustrated by a picture of Miss Campbell. ell. Every point is an eloquent argument in itself, for the larger field of service for women. It is just the sort of an article you will wish to give your friends, or distribute among the people you wish to interest in suffrage. We can supply you immediately with any number at the regular Journal rates, given below. 3 cents each Yours sincerely, 10-100. . . . .2 1/2 each 100 or more. 2 cents " MS:S Circulation Manager On the front page of this March 31 issue, there is a corrected, up-to-date suffrage map, showing all the enormous gains that have been made within the last few months. THE WOMAN'S JOURNAL and SUFFRAGE NEWS December 15, 1915 585 Street, Boston, Massachusetts Can you think of better service for a Christmas dollar than to carry a suffrage message each week to a friend? The Woman's Journal will do that. Pass the word on to all women. Remember! You or our league has a 30% commission on all new subscriptions obtained. Agnes E Ryan MAKE THIS A SUFFRAGE CHRISTMAS Special Clubbing offers: Journal ($1) and Puck ($5) for 5$; Journal ($1) and Survey ($3) for $3.50, Journal ($1) and Public ($1) for $1.75. Boston Dec 15th 9- PM 19 15 Mass Back Bay Station Postal One cent 1 Jefferson 1 This side of card is for address Miss Rosamond Danielson, Putnam, Conn. The Woman's Journal From the Woman's Journal, June 1931 Announcement With this number, The Woman's Journal brings to a close sixty-one and a half years of continuous publication. Founded in 1870 by Lucy Stone and Henry B. Blackwell as an aid to securing for women equal rights - - to an education, to earn a living, to use her brain and talents in whatever way she chose, to own her wages, her inheritance, her children and herself, to a voice in government - - the Woman's Journal has seen most of these things accomplished in a greater or less degree. After the campaign for woman suffrage came to a triumphant conclusion, the Woman's Journal was set to another task - to stimulate women to take up their new responsibilities as citizens; to furnish them with simple, brief information about public affairs; to express the woman's viewpoint; above all, to further the woman's progress, the reason which had stimulated the fight for the vote. This program has been printed often in these editorial pages - proper care of all children, the elimination of illiteracy, the open door for women in every business and profession, better conditions for women wage earners, better law enforcement, more decency in government, world peace. These movements, about which most women care, and for which the great women's organizations are working, are so vital to the development of our civilization, that it seemed of the utmost importance to have a magazine devoted to them. Moreover, the entire world in which women live today is so changed that a magazine which deals with woman, not as housekeeper alone, but in all her new relationships, and furnishes stimulating, helpful guidance in her many new problems, seemed to fit her needs. During the fifty years of continuous campaigning for equal rights, the Woman's Journal was supported, often at great personal sacrifice, by the Blackwell family and many other devoted friends of the movement. In 1917 it was purchased by the Leslie Woman Suffrage Commission, moved from Boston to New York, and became an increasingly important factor in the final winning of suffrage. After the ratification of the suffrage amendment, for several years the magazine continued to be published by the Leslie Commission. But, as the Leslie Commission itself was soon going out of existence, its work accomplished, if the Journal was to continue some other means of supporting it had to be found. Letters to subscribers telling frankly of the situation brought an overwhelming expression of opinion testifying to their appreciation of the magazine, together with considerable sums of money. Since the Woman's Journal seemed to be so important and helpful to its readers, with the encouragement of the Leslie Commission and with the advice and help of magazine experts, a program of expansion and promotion was formulated by which it was hoped to make the magazine self-supporting. An extraordinary group of major stockholders, called guarantors, was organized, including the best known women in the United States. The Woman's Journal - An Announcement, cont. Under the new plan the Woman's Journal made much progress, both in advertising and circulation. In spite of the increased concentration of publications into great corporations with immense resources where huge sums of money could be expended in gaining circulation and securing advertising; in spite of the constant trend of advertising toward mass circulation, the Journal forged ahead. Then came the business slump from which the whole world suffers. To continue publication more capital is needed than we can find. The decision to suspend publication has not been easy to make. Quite apart from the value of the magazine to the woman movement, the Journal gains stand on solid ground. Circulation returns in December and January were close to the best in its history. Advertising in April was ahead of either April, 1929 or 1930, and the May Woman's Journal carried the largest amount of advertising it had ever published. But the gains are not sufficient. The sums needed are not large, as the magazine publishing business goes, but they are beyond our available resources. Some of our suffrage friends believe that the Woman's Journal has fulfilled its mission, that with the victory for the movement for equal rights, there is no longer need for a special woman's organization or woman's magazine, that women should simply take their places in the world of men. The Woman's Journal does not share this opinion. As long as women are still outside of the management of public affairs, of the political parties, of big business; as long as they still have their own programs of social betterment; above all, as long as they are still timid and hesitant about doing their share and accepting their responsibility, we believe a magazine like the Woman's Journal is still greatly needed, and we are sorrowful at having to say farewell. To all those who have stood loyally by the magazine as readers and subscribers, to those who have so generously contributed throughout the years to make publication of the Woman's Journal possible, to the directors who have given hours in consideration of the magazine's problems, we, who have been responsible for the magazine these past ten years, give our most grateful thanks. Gertrude Foster Brown, Managine Director Virginia Roderick, Editor WAYS OF COOPERATING WITH THE WOMAN'S JOURNAL Here, we shall be grateful if you will indicate ways in which you feel able to cooperate with the Circulation Department. 1. Mail the three introductory cards (enclosed) to three friends. For every one returned to us we will extend your own subscription one month. All you do is to write your own name on the blank line at the top of the correspondence side of the cards and address the cards to friends whom you believe would be interested in a magazine like the Journal. 2. Distribute sample copies of the Woman's Journal with a personal word or letter of endorsement to persons who are most likely to be interested. If so, how many copies can you use advantageously? 3. Distribute folders advertising the Woman's Journal among strategic groups. If so, how many? 4. Enclose Woman's Journal folders with a regular mailing of your own material to your constituency if you happen to be active in a league, club or other organization. If so, how many can you use? 5. If engaged in traveling from place to place, carry a supply of our folders to distribute at various meetings. If so, how many as a starter? Please fill out and return promptly to THE WOMAN'S JOURNAL 171 Madison Avenue New York City Your Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SEE OTHER SIDE Since the Woman's Journal is being placed more widely on newsstands the Editorial Department will appreciate your help in making the most attractive and helpful kind of woman's magazine. Won't you give us your suggestions below? Articles and Departments in the Journal which you like best: New or different types of material you would like to see, such as: Fiction (of special woman interest) Theatre - current attractions Movies, brief reviews Music Art notes Garden department Finance, brief helpful information A forum of woman's opinions Dress Interior decorating Cross word puzzles Contract bridge hands Or ______________________________ General comment or criticism The Woman's Journal The attached sheets in pencil, are in the handwriting of Mrs. Ida Porter Boyer, who assisted Miss Alice Stone Blackwell in the late 1920s in preparing the manuscript of the biography of Lucy Stone - "LUCY STONE - PIONEER OF WOMAN'S RIGHTS". Miss Blackwell had Mrs. Boyer copy off many letters, or quotations from letters, so that "the precious old manuscripts would not have to be re-handled". In many instances the originals of these copies will be found in the Blackwell boxes; however in the 1950s many letters that had been in Miss Blackwell's files in her home, were located in an autograph collector's shop in Boston. Some of these were returned to Mrs. Stantial for the Blackwell Archives. Some were only signatures which had been cut off for sale. These also are included in some of the files. But in all cases where the copies could be checked with the originals found, the copying was found to be accurate. Edna Lamprey Stantial Editor Mayn1961 [*date? (see inside)*] (Manuscript (one sheet) in handwriting of H.B.B.) (interlineations are made in pencil) It is proposed by Lucy Stone and Henry B. Blackwell of Newark, N.J. to establish a weekly paper to be issued in the City of New York at $2 per year and to be entitled "Universal Suffrage" - its leading object being to [effect the enfranchisement and political equality] secure the suffrage for a complete recognition of the industrial and social and legal of Women and Negroes, throughout the United States. Of this paper the said L.S. & H.B.B. will be the editors, publishers and proprietors. In order to meet the inevitable surplus of expenses over receipts in the inception of such an enterprise, but with the hope and expectation of making the journal eventually self-supporting, the publishers propose to give their personal services without remuneration meanwhile, provided that a fund of $20,000 can be subscribed and placed in the hands of the Ex. Com. of the National Equal Rights Association for their protection against actually incurred and pecuniary loss in said publication. It is proposed to commence the publication of the paper Jan 1, 1867 issuing each week thereafter 3000 copies - to use such exertion to extend the circulation of the paper as may be thought judicious by the publishers and editors aforesaid. At the close of every month, the balance between receipts and expenditures shall be struck and the Treasurer of the Equal Rights Association shall pay over to the owners of the paper the deficit, if any. And whenever for the space of one year the receipts of said paper shall equal the expenditures, the Ex. Com. of the Equal Rights Association shall be at liberty to employ any balance of the $20000 still remaining, to any of the general purposes of their said Association. In case of the withdrawal of one, or both publishers by death, illness, or other causes during the continuance of this agreement, they shall be at liberty to appoint successors in the management of the paper who shall become entitled to take their place under this [agreement] arrangement with the Equal Rights Association and to become parties to the pane and entitled to its benefits, provided that the name, objects and efforts of the paper continue unchanged thereby. The office of the paper in the City of New York is intended to be a center for the operations. (end of sheet of Mss.) THE WOMAN'S JOURNAL AND SUFFRAGE NEWS 585 Boylston Street, Boston, Massachusetts Telephone: Back Bay 4717 Contributing Editors Mary Johnston Stephen S. Wise Josephine Peabody Marks Zona Gale Florence Kelley Witter Bynner Contributing Editors Ben B. Lindsey Caroline Barlett Crane Ellis Meredith Mabel Craft Deering Eliza Calvert Hall Reginald Wright Kauffman Assistant Editor Henry Bailey Stevens Editor-in-Chief Alice Stone Blackwell Managing Editor Agnes E. Ryan 1920 noted that in 1920 the paper was called The Woman's Journal and Suffrage News 'It is impossible to imagine the suffrage movement without the Woman's Journal.'" - Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt. TO PERPETUATE THE WOMAN'S JOURNAL AND THE WOMAN CITIZEN THIS MICROFILM IS PRESENTED TO THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS IN LOVING MEMORY OF MRS. CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT GREAT LEADER OF WOMEN May 15, 1949. THE WOMAN'S JOURNAL FUND COMMITTEE 21 ASHMONT ST., MELROSE 76, MASS. MRS. MAUD WOOD PARK, Chairman MRS. EDNA LAMPREY STANTIAL, Secretary-Treasurer JUDGE FLORENCE E. ALLEN MRS. J. BORDEN HARRIMAN MRS. LEWIS JEROME JOHNSON MISS KATHARINE LUDINGTON MRS. MALCOM McBRIDE MRS. JAMES PAIGE MISS MARY GRAY PECK MISS FRANCES PERKINS MRS. GIFFORD PINCHOT MRS. F. LOUIS SLAFE MRS. HALSEY W. WILSON May 15, 1949. In 1943 Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt proposed that a group of women set for themselves the task of raising a fund to finance the microfilming of the complete file of THE WOMAN'S JOURNAL - WOMAN CITIZEN, to secure for future generations the historical record of the struggle for women's freedom and their use of that freedom through the first ten years of their enfranchisement. Started in 1870 by Lucy Stone, it was carried on after her death in 1893 by her husband and her daughter, Alice Stone Blackwell. In 1917 THE WOMAN'S JOURNAL merged with the WOMAN CITIZEN which continued the important news about women's progress. In the last years of its publication of the magazine again took the old name, THE WOMAN'S JOURNAL. In her letter of May 18, 1943, Mrs. Catt wrote: "We must do something right away about perpetuating THE WOMAN'S JOURNAL. I shall count on the members of the Board of the National American Woman Suffrage Association and our many friends to help me organize the committee. Those who realize that the movement for women's progress grew up in a century and won its victory will recognize the historical importance of this project and will want to have a part in it. If it is ever to be done it will have to be done pretty soon because the paper on which it is printed is rapidly falling to pieces. The statement I made in 1917* is just as true today. THE WOMAN'S JOURNAL is history - good history - and we must record it for all time." * In 1917 Mrs. Catt wrote: "There can be no over-estimating the value to the suffrage cause of THE WOMAN'S JOURNAL in its long and vivid career. It has gone before and it has followed after; it has pointed the way and closed the gaps; it has been history maker and history recorder for the suffrage cause. The suffrage success of today is not conceivable without THE WOMAN'S JOURNAL part in it. But it is easily conceivable that without THE WOMAN'S JOURNAL suffrage would be lagging behind its present record." And in 1936: "No words can express the gratitude I feel for the service Miss Blackwell and her dear mother and father gave to the woman suffrage movement through THE WOMAN'S JOURNAL. Without it women would still be unenfranchised." -2- The Committee was organized September 8, 1947, as Mrs. Catt had planned and a sufficient portion of the fund was raised in time for public announcement of the plan on September 14th, the ninetieth birthday of Alice Stone Blackwell. What a fine testimonial of appreciation and affection it was to have Miss Blackwell know during her lifetime that the historical record which her family did so much to secure had been perpetuated in honor of her dear friend and the great leader of women, Carrie Chapman Catt, for deposit in the Library of Congress Collection on the Woman's Rights Movement. Many of those who contributed to the fund worked along with Mrs. Catt and the Blackwells during the long period when the suffrage movement was unpopular; others are descendants of the men and women who gave us so much of themselves to the cause they held so dear; but all have enjoyed the fruits of their tireless labor. Appended is a list of the sponsors who made this microfilm possible. Maud Wood Park, Chairman Edna Lamprey Stantial Secretary-Treasurer. THE WOMAN'S JOURNAL FUND SPONSORS Abbott, Edith, Adadourian, Mrs. Honora A. Adams, A. Elizabeth Adams, Mildred Adamson, Mrs. Robert Algeo, Mrs. Sara M. Allen, Judge Florence E. Altenburg, Mrs. Mary M. Anderson, Mary Atwood, Mrs. Mary E. Baker, Mrs. Roland M. Baker, Mrs. Newton D. Balch, Miss Emily G. Barney, Dr. J. Sarah Barron, Judge Jennie Loitman Barrows, Miss Mary Bartelmez, Mrs. G. W. Barter, Mrs. F. T. Beardsley, Mrs. Helen M. Bedrosian, Mrs. Sahag Bennett, Mrs. Russell M. Bernstein, Mrs. Rebecca Thurman Bethell, Florence H. Blackwell, Alice Stone Blunt, Dr. Katharine Bowen, Mrs. Louise deKoven Breckinridge, Sophonisba P. Brooks, Mrs. Minerva Brown, Mr. and Mrs. LaRue Brown, mrs. Linnie M. Brown, Mrs. Raymond Bruce, Elizabeth B. Buffington, Miss Maude E. Burrows, Miss Edith Bush, Mrs. W. T. Bussey, Dr. Gertrude C. Bynner, Witter Cannon, Mrs. Henry W. Cantrill, Mrs. J. C. Card, Mrs. Walter L. Catt, Carrie Chapman, in memory of Chidley, Mrs. Frances Elder Child, Miss Ruth L. S. Childs, Mrs. Richard S. Clarke, Mrs. Prescott O. Collins, Mrs. Mary Love Colton, Miss Olive A. Cooper, Mrs. Rose Harris Cornell, Katharine Couch, Mrs. William P. Cromwell, Mrs. Otilia Dana, Henry W. L. Danielson, Rosamond Davis, Mrs. Ellery, Sr. Deane, Mrs. Claire C. Dock, Lavinia L. Drumheller, Margaret L. Duane, Patrick J. Dudley Mrs. Guilford duPont, Miss Aileen M. du Pont, Zara, in memory of Dwight, Mrs. William G. Earle, Louise S. Earle, Mabel L. Edwards, Mrs. Richard Eliot, Dr. Abigail A. Emerson, Mrs. Marian Richards Emerson, Mrs. L. Pierce Faulkner, Mrs. Harold U. Fearing, Mrs. George Richmond Ferry, Florence F. Fisk, Mrs. Brenton K. Fradkin, Mrs. L. H. Franklin, Mrs. Lucy Jenkins Freeman, Mrs. Anna Freeman, Rebecca French, Miss Ruth H. Gannett, Mrs. Mary T. L. Garrison, Miss Elizabeth Garrison, Miss Fanny Garrison, Mrs. Rhodes A. Garrison, Mrs. William Lloyd, Jr. Gellhorn, Mrs. George Goldstein, Fanny Grierson, Mrs. Margaret S. Griffiths, Henry H. Hallett, Miss Clara J. Hauser, Miss Elizabeth J. Henry, Mrs. Bertha A. Hersey, Miss Ada H. Hight, Mrs. Julia K. Hildreth, Mrs. Alice L. Hill, Mrs. E. E. Hines, Mrs. G. E. Hinsdale, Miss Mildred Hoffman, Bertha Stone Holcombe, Carolyn Crossett Hopkins, Mrs. R. J. Howard, Elaine G. Ingraham, Mrs. Edward Irwin, Mrs. Inez Haynes SPONSORS - 2 - Jacobs, Pattie Ruffner, in memory of James, Mrs. Louisa C. Jenkins, Mary F. A. Jennison, Mrs. Lilian O. Johnson, Miss Ethel M. Johnson, Mrs. Grace A. Jones, Effie McCollum, D.D. Jost, Nellie F. Keating, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Kennedy, Mrs. F. Lowell Kent, Mrs. William Kenyon, Judge Dorothy Kimball, Miss Martha S. Klahr, Emma Kohn, Mrs. Harry E. LaDame, Miss Mary Lawther, Miss Anna B. Lee, Miss Mary Lennox, Mrs. Ida L. Leonard, Miss Bessie N. Leonard, Mrs. Gertrude Halladay Lewis, Mrs. Alfred G. Lewis Mrs. Grant K.L. Littmann, Minna Logan, Mrs. Edith Manning Loines, Hilda Loines, Mary H., in memory of Lovejoy, Dr. Esther Pohl Ludington, Miss Katharine Macy, Gertrude M. Maher, Miss Amy G. Mallory, Mrs. Minnie Taylor Matthews, Annabel McBride, Mrs, Malcolm L. McCormick, Mrs. Stanley McCulloch, Miss Rhoda E. Meredith, Ellis Merk, Mrs. Lois Bannister Metcalf, Miss A. B. P. Miles, Mrs. Rockwood Miller, Mrs. Jeanne C. Mills, Lydia T. Mott, Lucretia, in memory of National American Woman Suffrage Ass'n. Executive Board 1947-1949: Mrs. F. Louis Slade Mrs. Raymond Brown Mrs. Stanley McCormick Mrs. John Henry Thompson Mrs. Guilford Dudley Mrs. Maud Wood Park Mrs. Halsey W. Wilson Miss Mary Gray Peck Mrs. Mabel Russell Mrs. J. C. Cantrill Mrs. Richard Edwards Directors, cont. Mrs. George Gellhorn Mrs. Alfred G. Lewis Miss Esther G. Ogden Mrs. George A Piersol Mrs. Thomas B. Wells Miss Anna Lord Strauss Noble, Dr. N. S. Notestein, Mrs. Ada Comstock O'Connor, Lillian M. Ogden, Miss Esther G. Olmstead, Mrs. Margaret T. Overacker, Miss Louise Page, Edna R. Paige, Mrs. James Park, Mrs. Maud Wood Parsons, Mrs. Edgerton Peck, Miss Mary Gray Peckham, Mrs. Mary Chace, in memory of Peckham, Miss Mary W. Peckham, Miss Anna H. Perkins, Frances Picker, Mrs. James Piersol, Mrs. George A. Piper, Miss Elizabeth Bridge Powell, Mrs. Robert S. Priest, Miss Alice L. Proctor, Mrs. Mortimer R. Rafton, Mrs. Harold R. Reines, Bernard Richards, Mrs. J. Dudley, in memory of Robinson, Mary P. Roderick, Miss Virginia Roelofs, Henrietta, in memory of Romer, Mrs. Ruth H. Roosevelt, Mrs. Eleanor Rotch, Mrs. Helen G. Russell, Mrs. Mabel Schubert, Mrs. Helen M. Sherwin, Miss Belle Slade, Mrs. F. Louis Slocomb, Mrs. Florence Seaver Smith, Alice B. Smith, Mrs. F. Morton Smith, Mrs. Gertrude Cochrane Soffel, Judge Sara M. Stallings, Mrs. John C. Stanley, Miss Louise Stantial, Mr. and Mrs. Guy W. Stebbins, Mrs. Roderick Stolton, Edna Straus, Miss Dorothy Strauss, Miss Anna Lord Sweet, Mrs. Emma B. Sponsors -3 Swett, Maud Swiggett, Dr. and Mrs. Glen L. Talbot, Ellen B. Thayer, Mrs. Maynard F. Thompson, Mrs. John Henry Tisdel, Mrs. William L. Titus, Dr. Emily N. Tobien, Mrs. Ama Todd, Jane H. Torossian, Mrs. Aram Upton, Harriet Taylor, in memory of Van Alstine, M. Bertha Webster, Mrs. Ann Weil, Gertrude Wells, Mrs. Thomas B. White, Miss Grace G. White, Mrs. Benjamin B. W. Whittier, Florence E. Willetts, Lila K. Williams, Charl Ormond Wilson, Mrs. Halsey W. Winslow, Mrs. Andrew N. Winston, Edward M. Woman's International League for Peace and Freedom Woods, Miss Amy Wright, Alice Morgan Young, Annie McIver Remiujlm Raud Arnlockal Grade A Gray Green The Woman's Journal 1870 - first appeared Merged with the Agitator of Chigaco, Mrs. Mary A. Livermore, Publisher. She became the first editor of the W.J. When Mrs. Livermore wished for more money for her work she resigned and the editing was taken over by Lucy Stone and Henry B. Blackwell In 1881 upon graduation from Boston University, Alice Stone Blackwell became a Junior Editor, and had charge of the jokes and exchanges. In 1893 after the death of her mother she and her father, Henry B.Blackwell, continues as editors. She assumed full responsibility in 1909 after his death. In 1917 the Leslie Women Suffrag Commission purchases the Journal from Miss Blackwell and named it the Woman Citizen. Statement used when raising the fund for microfilms for Radcliffe College and for the Library of Congress. Like the Woman's Journal, it (The Woman Citizen) appeared weekly, and contained much more than suffrage news. It recorded the work of women in wider fields, fore example, their manifold enterprises in support of the U.S.Government during World War I. After suffrage was won the Woman Citizen continued for more than ten years, as a monthly, to provide a record of women's activities as voters. (Lois B. Merk statement) Publishing office moved to Blackwell estate at 45 Boutwell St. Dorchester, see letters of Agnes E. Ryan, Mging Editor Transcribed and reviewed by contributors participating in the By The People project at crowd.loc.gov.