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MASSACHUSETTS 285 "Votes for Women" kites, voiceless speeches (a series of plac- ards held up to view in a store window or other public place), distribution of literature in the baseball parks; a suffrage auto- mobile or a section in the parades on Labor Day, Columbus Day, etc. ; a pilgrimage to Worcester on the anniversary of the First National Woman's Rights Convention, led by Miss Florence Luscomb in old-fashioned costume, in Lucy Stone's carriage; the running of propaganda films in the moving pictures and the placing of 100,000 brightly painted tin Blue Birds in conspicu- ous places throughout the State, each bird bearing the words "Votes for Women, Nov. 2, 1919." There were speakers and debates at men's clubs, church organizations, labor unions, in factories, granges, at cattle shows and at conventions of all sorts. Large indoor meetings were held, addressed by distinguished visitors to the State, among them Philip Snowden and Mrs. Snowden, Senator Helen Ring Robinson of Colorado, U. S. Senators Clapp of Minnesota, Kenyon of Iowa and Thomas of Colorado. Mrs. Pankhurst and her daughter Sylvia spoke in Boston and Cambridge with great success. Louis D. Brandeis, afterwards Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court, came out for woman suffrage. In Boston, under the direction of Miss Mabel ('aid well Willard, innumerable street meetings were held for a before the vote, with mass meetings every Sunday in the Tremont Theater and on the historic Common. Press material was supplied to city and country papers. The papers as a whole grew more favorable as time went by but their editorial pages were much more friendly than the news nns, which frequently carried stories that werei unfair or wholly untrue. The Boston Snudii Herald printed regular suf- For some months before the vote and once the daily >n gave the suffragists a full page. The Boston American liein issue a special supplement, in charge of Mrs. Jennet U* A. S Jeffrey and Mrs. Leonard, and this example was followed by other papers in the State. As always, the Woman's Journal did much to hold together, encourage and stimulate the workers. rial committee distributed more than 100,000 copies of suf- eeches made in Con id more than 300,000 pieces of other literature within thr last few months before the election.