CALIFORNIA 47 the work of the College Equal Suffrage League of Northern California, which had been organized in 1909 for educational work among college women. When the suffrage amendment was submitted in February, 1911, the league decided to go actively into the campaign. The officers elected in May were as follows : Miss Charlotte Anita Whitney (Wellesley), president; Dr. Adelaide Brown (Smith), first vice-president; Miss Caroline Cook Jackson (Cornell), second; Miss Lillien J. Martin (Vassar), third; Miss Belle Judith Miller (California), record- ing secretary; Miss Genevieve Cook (California Woman's Hos- pital), corresponding secretary; Mrs. Genevieve Allen (Stan- ford), executive secretary; Dr. Anna Rude (Cooper Medical College), treasurer; Dr. Rachel L. Ash (California), delegate to Council. Directors: Miss Ethel Moore (Vassar); Mrs. Mabel Craft Deering (California) ; Miss Kate Ames (Stanford) ; Mrs. Carlotta Case Hall (Elmira) ; Miss Frances W. McLean (California) : Mrs. Thomas Haven (California) ; Dr. Kate Brousseau (University of Paris) ; Mrs. C. H. Howard (Cali- fornia). 1 Altogether $2,075 were sent to tne league from the East. Its total receipts were $11,030 in fixed sums and the personal dona- tions of its working members in telegrams, postage, car fare, expressage, use of automobiles, etc., amounted to thousands. At a meeting held in Oakland Miss Sylvia Pankhurst spoke to more than a thousand persons who had paid for their seats. Every legitimate method of campaigning was used, beginning with the printing of 900,000 leaflets. There were posters and all kinds of designs; city circularizing of the most thorough kind in many languages; pageants, plays, concerts and public social functions; the placarding of city bill boards over miles of coun- try; advertising of every possible kind; huge electric and other
- long weeks of automobile campaigning in the country and
tin- villages; special speakers for all sorts of organizations; a handsome float in the labor day parade; ^peaking at vaudeville vhows there was no cessation of these ciidit months' strenuous work. The campaigning in Sacramento was in charge of Mrs. 1 After the election was ov 'ague at a general request issued a pamphlet of 139 pages, edited by Louise Hern, k Wall, describing in detail its many activities during the campagn, every page of which is a record of marvelous work.
