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MIss SARAH McGARVEY, PPESIDENT

MIss MARGARET PRESTON. 151' VICE-PRESIDENT pringtflu, Egg.

Mas. F. W. FLETCHER, 2ND VlCE-PRESIDENT
MR. C. L. WILLIAMSON. TREASURER

MISS NANCY LEWIS GREENE. SECREYARV
MRS. E L. HUTCHINSON.

MRS. DEsHA BRECKINRIDGE

July 12, 1916.
Dear Madam —

The Civic League is an organization which, with a limited
membership and with very limited funds, has done some rather large
pieces of work for this community. Some of these are:

The Compulsory School Law,

The Juvenile Court Law,

The Small School Board Law,

The Establishment of the Playground System,
The Model School,

Manual Training in the Public Schools,
The Out Door School for Anaemic Children,
Penny Lunches in the colored schools,
Band Concerts in the Parks,

School gardens,

Spring cleaning days.

The Civic League has for years tried to bring about social
and recreational use of the public school buildings to co—ordinate

with the summer playground work. The School Board at the solici—.

tation of the Civic League is now considering the employment of a
social director for the public schools. The success and per—
manence of an experiment in the Lincoln School is vital to the
further extension of the work to other schools in neighborhoods
where it may be self-sustaining.

Social work in Lincoln School has been carried on three
afternoons and evenings of each week of the school term since
February, 1918. This now includes classes in dress—making, com-
mercial arithmetic, swimming, dancing and gymnasium work, in which
not only the boys and girls, but the adults haVe taken part. It
is difficult to over-estimate the value of this work to a com-
munity having no other common meeting—ground. It has responded
well to the constant good influences of the supervisors.

In addition to this the children have been divided into
helpful clubs, such as the Blue-bird and Camp—fire Girls, and a

movement is now on foot to organize a Boy Scout troop. This wOrk

 

 has been done largely by four of the teachers who are paid at the
rate of $1.50 each for an afternoon and evening's supervision.
During this last year, we have not had enough money in the treas—
ury to pay these teachers what they have been getting and what we
had promised them, but notwithstanding this they have kept up the
work because of their interest in it, and because they felt that
the Civic League would eventually be in position to make up the
compensation to them, which after all is very meager in comparison

with the work they are doing. In the last three years and a half

this work has cost us over $1700, practically all contributed by

people outside of Lexington, but we feel that the time has now
arrived when this community recognizing the very great benefit
that has come from the work of the Lincoln School, and particu—
larly Of its social activities, should give this work the proper
Support.

Will you help to do this, not only for the good that it
is doing at Lincoln, but that we may formally establish in Lex—
ington the idea of the wider use of the school plant for adult
education and for health and recreational activities, hoping that
it will eventually be supported by public funds, just as other
movements started by the Civic League have been taken up and
supported.

No dues have been collected for the year 1916, and we
sincerely hope that you will send same in the enclosed envelope
($1.00 for regular dues, $5.00 for sustaining membership) and as
large an additional contribution for the particular social work
as you feel you can give. Make check to Mr. C. L. Williamson,
Treasurer Civic League.

Very cordially yours,

 

 Get Together Conferencé
AND

Prohibition National Convention.
Auditorium, St. Paul, July 48-21, 1916

Pass bearer to any part of Conference and Convention at any time.

WNW

Chairman Prohibition National Committee.

 

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ROPOSED PLANS
FOR NATIONAL
CAMPAIGN—l 91 6.

FIRST—

Completion of Fighting
Organizations and Strong
Tickets in Every State of
the Union.

SECOND—

Completion of Enrol
ment of Five Million Vote
to Vote Prohibition Ticket.

THIRD—

Holding One Hundred
Thousand Public Meetings.

FOURTH—

Probibition Papers in ‘

Over One Million Homes.

FIFTH—

Organization of ’I‘(n
Thousand “Five Million"
Clubs.

SIXTH—

Sow Nation Knee Deep
With Prohibition Litera-

ture.

SEVENTH—

Institution of Systema-
tic Plans for Uniform 0r-
ganization and Work ‘of
Nationwide Scope.

EIGHTH—

Million Dollar Campaign
Fund .

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Elect National Prohibi-
tion Ticket in 1916.

 

 

 

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Miss Laura Clay.
Lexingt ll, Karts.

My dear Miss Clayz~

tor Our Nation today faces one of the m0st serious
crises of its history,. a crisis calling for the united
co-Operation of all patriotic men in a great CetaTogether
to plan for the best interests of our Country and of its
people.

To this end, there has been called, and I write
to invite you to attend the big Get—Together Conference
of individuals of all.parties and beliefs and affilla«
tions to be held in the Auditorium, St. Paul) MinneSOta)
July 1%. 1916, to be immediately followed bY‘thE regular
Quadrennial Prohibition National Convention, July 19‘31
inclusive. We should be delighted to have You attend
both these gatherings.

The_first gathering, the Get»Together Conier—_
shoe, Will be an assemblage of Progressives, Prohibition—
istsJ Democrats, Republicans and Socialists. It Will
consist of hundreds who believe with us but who have nd
been a part of our organization up to this hour.

. We have for fOur years cherished dreams Of ‘
a great GeteTogether in American politics in thls; Pfle
year 1916J a getetogether of all those who belleVe 1n
progressive principles, the cause of humanity, and
National Prohibition of the liquor traffic, and oere
tainly the time is most opportune.

It was my privilege to attend the great
Progressive Convention a few weeks agoa and the National
Committee meeting recently here in Chicago. I saw a
party} which four years ago had polled four million .
votes and which this year bIOught together five thousand
shouting enthusiasts, commit suicide at four years of
age. Some of the brainlest, brawniest men of this or
any other age stood up in Convention and Committee meet—
ing and fought like lions for its perpetuation. But

*the mighty steam roller of Wall Street, Smoot, Penrose,

Barnes, Crane, and Cannon bore them down.

 

  

 

 

 

TI-IE PROHIBITION PARTYHAS, SINCE 1912, MADE IMPORTANT GAINS IN
THE FOLLOWING PARTICULARS:

First, it carried on some noted concentration fights in 1914, in such states as Arizona, Cali—
fornia, Oregon, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania, and elected its first congressman, Charles H.
Randall, and came near to the election of others, receiving in fourteen states almost twice as many
votes as it received for its presidential candidate in the entire Union in 1912. In 1915 the Prohibi-
tion party vote was increased in Massachusetts four hundred per cent.

Second, it inaugurated the Five Million Voters Enrollment Movement, which has resulted in
the enrollment of hundreds of thousands of voters. It suggested and inspired the organization
of the Flying Squadron of America, which covered the Union and enrolled two hundred thousand
voters.

Third, by its broad yet firm policy, it has attracted to itself and its principles more illustrious
men during the past two years than at any time in its previous history. William Shaw, General
Secretary of the World’s Christian Endeavor, was won to our movement at a State Convention
in Boston. John R. Mott signed the voters enrollment at the Prohibition party World’s Fair
Booth at the San Francisco Exposition. Fred B. Smith signed same at a great gathering in New
York. Judge Ben B. Lindsey, by invitation from National Headquarters, wrote a statement
calling upon the voters of America to enroll in the Five Million Movement. Amos Parker Wilder,
Ex—Consul General to China, said: ”I have been a Republican for ten years, but the time has
come to right about face,” and he signed the voters enrollment. Ex-Governor William Sulzer
became the prohibition gubernatorial candidate in New York, and increased the prohibition vote
five hundred per cent. Ex-Governor J. Frank Hanly, by invitation of Prohibitionists, broke from
his old moorings, and campaigned the whole of America in behalf of the Five Million Movement.
Ex-Governor Foss, of Massachusetts, by invitation of Prohibitionists, has entered the race for
Prohibition presidential candidate. Capt. Richmond Pearson Hobson announced at the great
prohibition gathering at Atlantic City, that he will this year support no party whose platform is
silent upon the prohibition question. These and numerous others have either directly or indi-
rectly joined us or put themselves‘so on record that it will be impossible for them and us to re-
main in different political camps.

Fourth, the Prohibition National Committee has raised twice as much money during the past
four years as in any similar length of time in its previous history.

Fifth, it has secured more subscriptions to papers during the past year than in any other year,
having secured_100,000 subscriptions to National Prohibition alone in the last ten months.

Sixth, it has given birth to the Women’s National Prohibition Federation the past year which
under the efficient leadership of Mrs. Florence Slown Hyde, has been instrumental in securing the
co-operation of various women‘s organizations, and of individual women nationally known such as
Mrs. Stella B. Irvine, ,Rev. Mecca Marie Varney, Miss Marie C. Brehm, Mrs. O. W. Dean and
others.

Seventh, it bids fair to have the greatest National Convention at St. Paul, July 18 to 21 in-
clusive, in its forty-six years of glorious record. People are making preparations to come from
every section by every manner and means of travel. Special trains are under headway, automo-
bile brigades have been announced, and one young man, Laurence P. McGahan, 1S walking ten
thousand miles all over America for the purpose of advertising the Convention.

The Christian Endeavorers had a convention in Boston twenty-one years ago of 56,000. The
Society of Elks had a convention in Portland, Oregon, five years ago of 56,000. Let us eclipse
past records and let us, in celebration of the mighty prohibition victories won in Russia, Canada,
Mexico, China, Africa, and the United States, turn our eyes to St. Paul and be a part of the great
gathering that will inaugurate the campaign of 1916.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

SAINT PAUL

THE CONVENTION CITY

SPECIAL INFORMATION FOR CONVENTION VISITORS

 

 

Principal Hotels

Aberdeen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . , . . i ..... Virginia and Dayton
Boardman ....................... Ninth and Wabasha
Frederic ............................. Fifth and Cedar
Foley ................................. 418 Jackson St.
Jewell .............................. 17 East Fifth St.
Kendall ......................... I48 East Fourth St.
Magee (Stag) ....................... Fourth and Robert
Maloney .......................... Eighth and Jackson
Merchants ......................... Third and Jackson
Ryan .............................. Sixth and Robert
Saint Paul ......................... Fifth and St. Peter
Sherman ........................... Fourth and Sibley

Things You Should See
Take any Northbound Our

State Capitol—Guides Free ,,,,,,,, (m Wabusm above mm
Federal Building and Post Oflice ...... Opposite Rice Park
City Hall. . . . . . . . .Fourth, Fifth, Wabasha and Cedar St.
U. S. Customs House .............. Opposite City Hall
Cathedral .......................... Summit and Selby
New Public Library. . . .. . .Facing Rice Park on Fourth
Y. M. C. A. ........................ Ninth and Cedar
Stock Yards .............. South St. Paul. Guides Free
Como Park ..................... Como-Harriet Car Line
Phalen Park .................. Payne Ave.-Phalen Line
Indian Mounds Park .................. Maria Ave. Line
Public Art Gallery and Museum ..... iii“; it‘ll 115115;? he: iii iii];
Wildwood ............. White Bear Lake, Summer Resort
Fort Snelling, U. S. Army Post. , . . . gag; £11K: fil:;§.,;,‘:,‘i
Zoological Garden and Public Baths ........ Harriet Island

Restaurants

Bennett 6 Feetham .................. 314 Lowry Annex
Blackstone Lunch ..................... 54 East Sixth St.
Childs, Co ............................ 388 Wabasha St.
Cron's ............................... 382 St. Peter St.
Eat Shop No. 1 ........................ 383 Robert St.
Eat Shop No. 3 .................... Sixth and Wabasha
Fadden’s Restaurant ................... 442 Wabasha St.
I deal Cafe ........................... 379 Wabasha St.
Magee Cafe ........................ Fourth and Robert
Mandarin Cafe ..................... 33 East Seventh St
New' York Cafe ................... 140 East Fourth St.
Regal Lunch ........................... 368 Robert St.
Rochaway Restaurant ................... 404 Jackson St.
Royal Lunch .......................... 34l Jackson St.
Royal Lunch ......................... 4l2 Wabasha St.
Spencer Branch ....... ’ ................. 107 E. Fifth St.
Terrett's Restaurant ................... 406 Wabasha St.
Troclge Cafeteria ..................... 100 East F ifth St.
W oman's W ark Exchange .............. Endicott Arcade

Amusements

Empress Theatre .................. Wabasha near Ninth
Metropolitan Theatre ............. East Sixth and Robert
Shubert Theatre ................ Wabasha and Exchange
Alhambra, Pictures ............... Seventh and Wabasha
Strand, Pictures .................... Sixth and St. Peter
Starland, Pictures ................. Wabasha and Eighth
Princess, Vaudeville and Pictures .......... East Seventh

_Majcstic. Pictures ................... Seventh and Cedar

Orpheum Theatre .............. _ ..... Fifth and St. Peter

 

 

The Saint Paul Association of Commerce, Fifth Floor, Merchants National Bank Building,
will take pleasure in furnishing detailed information on any subject about St. Paul, on

request.

Write us freely.

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

TWELFTI—I NATIONAL
PROHIBITION CONVENTION

 

 

 

TIIE AUDITORIUM
Seating Capacity Ten Thousand Pronounced by Caruso One of the Finest
Assembly Halls 1n the \Vorld

 

 

 

THE ARMORY THE MASONIC TEMPLE
For Overflow Meetings ' For Overflow Meetings

SAINT PAUL, MINNESOTA

The point to which the multitudes which have been captured
by the world wave of prohibition will gravitate, to ta_ke coun-
sel of war for the overthrow of John Barleycorn in 1916.

JULY I8~~2I, I9I6, INCLUSIVE

July I8, Big Get-Together Day, Grand Conference and Rally for Signers of the Five Million Voters Enrollment.
July I9--2I inclusive, dates of Convention proper. ‘

Some of the Noted Speakers who will address eiiher Rally or Convention:-

EX- GOVERNOR FOSS EX-GOVERNOR ST. JOHN DANIEL A. POLING CLARENCE'TRUE WILSON
EX-GOVERNOR WM. SULZER WM. P. F. FERGUSON WILLIAM SHAW
CHAS. SCANLON EUGENE W. CHAFIN '

ELLA A. BOOLE FRANCES SE. BEAUCHHAMP SAMUEL DICKIE ROBERT H. PATTQN AARON S. WATKINS
SUMNER W. €AYN J. WOERTENDYK W. G. CALDER WOOD F. W EMERSON
.E. TEXSYLOR OLIVER W. STEWART FINLEY C. HENDRICKSON ' _

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The Progressive party is dead. It committed suicide'by
a vote of its own organization, but the Progressives of this nation
are more alive than four years ago. They were then an untrained
mob; they are today a trained body of Speakers and organizers who,
if they get together in some other organization that champions pro—
gressive principles, will shake the nation.

I am writing to urge you to let nothing hinder your attend—
ing this great "Get—Together” conference ,and Convention. We are
not jealous of any name or of any particular leadership in this
03m9813n- We are jealous of a truly representative get—together
Of the Prcgressive men and women of all political affiliations who
will come together in such numbers as to guarantee a newer and great~
er leadership than has heretofore ever graced any organization in
the history of our land.

Come and be with us; join us in this endeavor. This, the
year 1916, is destined to be a year of victory for the triumph of
great reform principles. ‘

Hoping that you Will surely be present, I am,

Sincerely yours,

Chairman.

 

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CHmAGO.Illu Juhraé,

Laura Clay,
Lexington, Ky.

Dear Mie: Clay:—

In introducing myself may I say that I am the
recording secretary of the Illinois Equal Suffrage
Aezooiation and a director of the Chi,ago Political
equality League.

I cannot tell you how much I have enjoyed hear~

ing you speak.

T‘T‘PHT'

As you s e I am now interested in THE 1i_ionnu
SUPTRAGIST a magazine Which I hope in time Hill play
a Vital part in the awakening of women to the'r great
new Civic Responsibility.

May I ask a personal favor of you? Will you
kindly contribute an article for me on some phaee
of Suffrage and may I have one of your pictures.

Thanking you in aivance for your beautiful
spirit of oo-operation, I am

Yours Sine re W

 

 Contributing Editors THE WOMAN’ S JOURNAL Contributing Editors

Mary Johnston
Stephen S. Wise

Ben B. Lindsey
Caroline Bartlett Crane

Josephine Peabody Marks and SI lFFRAGE NE \X/ S Elli‘a 1:138:31; ‘
Mn )e m caring:

Zona Gale
Florence Kelley
Witter Bynner

Eliza Calvert Hall
585 Boylston Street, Boston, Massachusetts Reginald Wright Muffin“

Telephone: Back Bay 1717

Auislan! Editor Editor—in—Chief Managing Edi/or
Henry Builey Stevens Alice Stone Blackwell Agnes M. Ryan

July 25, 1916.

‘Miss Laura Clay

159 North Hill Street
Lexington, Kentucky

Dear Miss Clay:

This acknowleiges the dollar sent in
your letter of June 29 to Miss Blackwell for subscrip-
tion for Miss Mattie Tribble, R. F. D. #4, Richmond,
Kentucky.

Miss Blackwell will I know appreciate
your interesting comment on the Journal's new home.
I wonder if it will be possible for you to visit
us at our house warming after the Atlantic City Conven—
tion.

The mix up about the exact wording of the
Democratic olank came about from the fact that the
newspaper stories of the convention used both words. I
am quite sure the committee changed from one word to the
other after the plani was first released.

You will note that it appears in the cor-
rect form in the Journal for July 22.

Yours sincerely,

AER-H/VK ES .23“

‘1t is impossible to imagine llie sufiragc movement without the VVumun's Journal.”~-l\lrs. Currie Chapman (fun.

 

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First Vice-President MADISON ST. AND MICHIGAN AVE. MRS‘ GRACE WILBUR TROUT. Oak Park
, MRS. J. W. McGRAW. Glcncoe (Legislative)

MRS. HARRIETTE T. TREADWELL. (Finance)
Second Vice-President TELERHONE I
MRS. HELEN STEWART, (8. $2,525???” RANDOLPH 6362 MRS. ALBERT H. SCHWEIZER (Literature)
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MR5 u Ra. sec-9 , , . MRS. CHARLES E. NAGELY (Social)
. J Dé:?s\:;yLOEWENTHAL, --‘ - ‘ - , MRS. MARY BUSEY. Urban:
sts MARGARET B. DOBYNE. EXECUTIVE BOARD. MRS. STAT'I‘A HOLLOWAY McCLuNG. Monmoufl'l

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MRS. 1.012135,“ka LEUVEN OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS MRS. CARRIE A. BAHRENBURG, Belleville ,
MISS KATHARINE M. PORTER. Freeport
MRS. STELLA S. JANNOTTA (Press)

fihummmx .Oak Park, Ill.
July 27 , V1916 .

Auditor
MISS JENNIE F. W. JOHNSON.

Miss Laura Clay,
189 N. Mill St.,
Lexington, Ky.

My dear Miss Clay:

I was doing chautauqua work in Kentucky
and Tennessee during the month of July and every
where, even in towns Where there had been opposia
tion beforehand, there was a most kindly spirit
manifested after my lecture. A Judge in Middles
boro told me that if I could speak in every town
in the state, Kentucky would be the next state to
join the suffrage procession.‘

The women here are urging me to be state
president next year but I believe I can do more
good by speaking in the various states at the present
time. I think you and I realize that a suffrage
amendment at this time is impracticable until we have
secured the backing of more states. I believe that
if we would write as suffragists to the 1yceum and
chautauqua bureaus and the committeemen in charge of
programs in the various towns and ask that this great
question'be presented to their audiences we would
succeed in having suffrage speakers all over the
country. There is dignity in presenting this subject
under the auspices of men, as men like Bryan and
Champ Clark and others present their views in this
way. Thousands of men can be reached in no other

way.

I am still on the state board here and have
been busy ever since my return to Chicago raising money.
Was fortunate in being able to turn over $1600 in three
days and have enough promised to make it “2000. guring

my three years of administration We raise over 44,000
for the cause and women in every state can do the same

 

 thing.

A certain amount of Opposition is the price
we pay for progress but there is onward impetus in a
kick if those disciplined do not waste time kicking
back, but taking aflvantage of the onward impetus push

forward. ‘ , .
‘4A1 $4;./‘9‘“"L3

I have great faith dvaneed by you and your
sister of getting a bill thro gh Congress giving us
a right to vote for Senators and Representatives.
Some day we may be able te concentrate the‘work of our
National organization on such practical lines of work.

Give my kindest regards to Mrs. Bennett and
my love to both of youa

Cor ielly yours,

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