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614 HISTORY OF WOMAN SUFFRAGE National Association, as given by Mrs. Charles L. Tiffany, chair- man, and Mrs. Raymond Brown, general director in France, is in the chapter on the War Work of Organized Suffragists. A brief report of the Leslie Bureau of Education was made by Miss Young who said : "The Leslie Bureau was founded by Mrs. Catt in 1917, as administratrix of the fortune left to her to pro- mote the cause of suffrage by Mrs. Frank Leslie. Mrs. Catt cherished the view that if the public were thoroughly educated on the subject of suffrage it would be wholly in favor of it. She proposed to set aside a large part of the Leslie fund for use in channels of education. I was -appointed director of the bureau and departmentalized it under the following heads : News, Field Work, Features, Research. . . . The Woman Citizen was termed "an adventure in journalism." Miss Young -was editor-in-chief and business manager and Miss Mary Ogden White was associate editor. "The great body of testimony shows," she said, "that the service of the magazine has been at all times indispensable." Miss Esther G. Ogden, president of the National Woman Suf- frage Publishing Co., supplemented Mrs. Shuler's report of its dissolution, paid a tribute to its board of directors and said : "In reviewing the six years of the company's existence a few facts come to my mind which I think may interest you. We have printed and distributed over 50,000,000 pieces of literature. Be- sides supplying suffrage material to practically every State in the Union we have filled orders from Switzerland, France, Italy, Great Britain, Norway, Canada, Philippine Islands, Hawaiian Islands, Porto Rico, Argentina, China and Japan. Recently we have been asked to send a complete line of our publications to the new American Library in Rome, Italy, and nearly every day we receive requests for pamphlets from libraries all over the United States and from universities for their extension courses. My correspondence and association with suffragists over the coun- try through the Publishing Company will ever be among the hap- piest memories of my life." Almost every State president submitted a report of vigorous work either to secure the suffrage or where this had been done to organize and put into operation a League of Women Voters.