NATIONAL AMERICAN CONVENTION OF iqiS-IQIQ 567 no means expresses the varied duties which have fallen to her lot or the extent to which she has proved of service. To Mrs. Helen H. Gardener a new title, that of vice-chairman of the Congressional Committee, has been recently given by the National Board. . . . Her work can rarely be reported because of its confidential nature, hut this may truly be said, that whenever a miracle has appeared to happen in our behalf, if the facts could be told they would nearly always prove that Mrs. Gardener was the worker of wonders. . . . Other members of the Congressional Committee who have been in Washington for the whole or a part of the period covered by this rcpiirt are. in addition to its chairman, Miss Mabel Caldwell Wil- lard. chairman of the social activities; Mrs. George Bass and Mrs. Medill McCormick, representing respectively the organizations of Democratic and Republican women affiliated with the national party committees; Mrs. J. Borden Harriman, Mrs. C. W. McClure and Mrs. William L. McPherson. No report of the Washington head- quarters would be complete without mention of the help given in innumerable ways by our house manager, Mrs. Elizabeth W. Walker, whose patience, tact and good judgment have made comfortable liv- ing possible under the most trying circumstances. Members of the National Board who have been called on to
- are first and foremost our honorary president. Dr. Shaw;
Mrs. Katharine Dexter McCormick and Mrs. Horace C. Stilwell of Indiana. Upon Mrs. Catt, the national president, your committee has constantly depended for advice and direction. Our misfortune has been that we could not have her continually in Washington. To these a list of names was added of those who assisted dur- ing long or short periods. There was an account of the social >f the Washington headquarters. In January, February and March of 1918 Miss Willard, with the help of Mrs. Louis Brown- arrangecl a series of weekly teas on Wednesday afternoons. Among- the hostesses, the guests of honor and those serving at the table were some of the most prominent -women in Washing- "f the members of the Cabinet, Senators and Repre- Social affairs were finally given up as war relief >ed other interests. Under the direction of Mrs. nlo<w, daughter of Representative Sims (Tenn.) and wife of the Chief Commissioner for the District of Columbia, the lington Equal Franchise League established a Red Cross t headquarters where valuable work was done by suffra- cveral entertainments for the benefit of the Oversea Hos- ven at the house and over $I,OOO raided, the close of this report the convention ^,-vr a ri in t i; vote of
