The Woman's Journal has many field workers who do in connection with the regular suffrage work what Miss Foley has been doing for the Journal as an experiment. For the vitality of the movement every locality which holds suffrage meetings should have a Journal field worker for every occasion. A word in time saves an endless amount of converting.
=Our Hope Chest=
[Illustration: Thomas Wentworth Higginson For Many Years ContributingEditor]
Other causes, other propaganda papers, have their budgets, their war chests, their exchequers, their ways and means committees, their financial backers of wealth and prestige, but the Woman's Journal has had only what we may perhaps call our "Hope Chest." It was constructed purely out of the hope that, if the paper filled a need, if it was found worthy of the movement it represents, its finances would in some way take care of themselves. And it is a wonderful tribute to the believers in the cause for equal suffrage that this plan has worked for better or worse for more than forty years.
As the financial responsibilities of the paper have grown during the past six years, however, it has become apparent that we must not merely publish the paper each year and hope to pay our bills but that we must study the question of financing a growing paper with ever growing needs of expansion and consequent growing financial risks.
Accordingly, we decided that if we must "raise money" each year in some way or other, we must go about it in a well thought out way and not leave such an important matter to haphazard uncertainties. We have, therefore, formed a small Finance Department and have studied all of the ways of raising money that are known to us, trying of course to make out which ones are particularly adapted to our needs.
The result is that we have decided on the following course:
(1) To issue this survey of the Journal's work, and ask suffragists to consider the value of the paper purely on its merits and contribute to it and support it if they believe in what it is doing.
(2) To form a Central Finance Committee with a branch in each state in the Union.
(3) To ask able women and friendly organizations in various towns and cities throughout the country to give a ball, banquet, bazaar, festival or other benefit or entertainment with the express purpose of sharing the proceeds with the Woman's Journal.
Because of the vitality of the paper through the barren pioneer days, through the days of ridicule and up into these times of great numbers, splendid prestige and backing for the whole movement, we have faith that our hopes are not in vain.
[Illustration: Mrs. David Hunt A Generous Supporter of the Woman'sJournal]
One proof of our faith is that we find working in the Woman's Journal office year after year is in some ways like living in a fairy story. We never know what is going to happen next. The day after election—and defeat in New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and New Jersey—a woman came to the Journal office bearing a check for $1,000 in her hand and saying in substance, "Here is a small check to cheer Miss Blackwell and the Journal in the face of yesterday's defeats at the polls." She asked not to have her name used. Hers is an example of the way suffragists feel toward the Woman's Journal. To them it symbolizes the cause.
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I hereby give and bequeath to the Proprietors ofThe Woman's Journal,published in Boston, a corporation established under the laws ofMassachusetts,the sum of —— dollars.* * * * *
=Early Stockholders of the Woman's Journal=
NATHANIEL WHITEConcord, N.H.MRS. ARMENIA WHITEConcord, N.H.MRS. HARRIET M. PITMANSomereville, Mass.JULIA WARD HOWEBoston, Mass.SAMUEL E. SEWALLMelrose, Mass.E.D. DRAPERBoston, Mass.MRS. ANNA C. LODGEBoston, Mass.MRS. ELIZABETH B. CHACEValley Falls, R.I.MRS. LILLIE B. CHACEValley Falls, R.I.T.W. HIGGINSONNewport, R.I.SARAH W. GRIMKEHyde Park, Mass.MRS. ANGELINA G. WELDHyde Park, Mass.MRS. SUSIE CRANE VOGLHyde Park, Mass.MRS. MARY HEMINWAYBoston, Mass.WILLIAM B. STONEW. Brookfield, Mass.REBECCA BOWKERNo address.JOHN GAGEVineland, N.J.MRS. PORTIA GAGEVineland, N.J.ALFRED H. BATCHELOURBoston, Mass.CHARLOTTE A. JOYMendon, Mass.SAMUEL MAYBoston, Mass.ALFRED WYMANWorcester, Mass.CHARLES DWIGHTBoston, Mass.ISAAC AMESHacerhill, Mass.HENRY MAYOBoston, Mass.AUGUSTA DAGGETTBoston, Mass.GEORGE B. LORINESalem, Mass.CHARLES RICHARDSONAddress unknown.A.P. WARDWorcester, Mass.STEPHEN S. FOSTERWorcester, Mass.A.S. HASKELLChelsea, Mass.SARAH G. WILKINSONSalem, Mass.LUCY STONEBoston, Mass.CHARLES W. SLACKBoston, Mass.A.A. BURRAGEBoston, Mass.JOHN WHITEHEADNewark, N.J.OTIS CLAPPBoston, Mass.T.L. NELSONWorcester, Mass.PHILIP C. WHEELERBoston, Mass.HENRY CHAPINWorcester, Mass.E.S. CONVERSEBoston, Mass.MRS. CARRIE P. LACOSTEMaiden, Mass.LUCIUS W. PONDWorcester, Mass.GEORGE W. KEENELynn, Mass.EDWARD EARLEWorcester, Mass.SARAH SHAW RUSSELLBoston, Mass.ROWLAND CONNORBoston, Mass.E.D. WINSLOW _Boston, Mass.H.B. BLACKWELLNewark, N.J.CAROLINE M. SEVERANCEWest Newton, Mass.MRS. MARY MAYBoston, Mass.F.W.G. MAYDorcestoer, Mass.HARRISON BLISSWorcester, Mass.JOHN W. HUTCHINSONLynn, Mass.J.J. BELVILLEDayton, Ohio.WILLIAM CLATLINBoston, Mass.MERCY B. JACKSONBoston, Mass.WARREN McFRALANDWorcester, Mass.SARAH G. WELDHyde Park, Mass.LOUISA SEWALL CABOTBrookline, Mass.
=Stockholders of the Woman's Journal, 1916 Individuals=
JANE ADDAMSMARY WARE ALLENHELEN H. BENNETTEMMA L. BLACKWELLALICE STONE BLACKWELLHOWARD L. BLACKWELLVIRGINIA BRANNEREMILY E. DALANDM.A. EVANSH.E. FLANSBURGSUSANNA PHELPS GAGEFRANCIS J. GARRISONJENNY C. LAW HARDYHARRIET O. HAWKINSMARY E. HILTONMARY JOHNSTONMARTHA S. KIMBALLFLORENCE HOPE LUSCOMBMARY McWILLIAMS MARSHFLORENCE E.M. MASKREYCATHERINE M. McGINLEYMAUD WOOD PARKANNETTE W. PARMELEEAGNES E. RYANMARTHA SCHOFIELDPAULINE A. SHAWJUDITH W. SMITHHELEN D. STEARNSHENRY BAILEY STEVENSGRACE L. TAYLORJOHN FOGG TWOMBLYMABEL CALDWELL WILLARD
=Estates of=MRS. SUSAN LOOK AVERYJ.J. BELVILLEHARRISON BLISSMRS. REBECCA BOWKERA.A. BURRAGELOUISE SEWALL CABOTWILLIAM CLAFLINJOHN GAGEMRS. PORTIA GAGEJOHN W. HUTCHINSONMERCY B. JACKSONMRS. CARRIE P. LACOSTEGEORGE B. LORINOHENRY MAYOCHARLES RICHARDSONA.P. WARECLARA E. CLEMENT WATERSANGELINA GRIMKE WELDJOHN WHITEHEADMISS C.I. WILBYSARAH G. WILKINSONE.D. WINSLOW
=National, State and League Associations=
=The Journal Goes to 39 Foreign Countries=
Canal Zone ItalyCuba JapanHawaii JavaPhilippines KoreaCanada New ZealandAustralia NorwayAustria PersiaBermuda PolandBohemia RoumaniaChina RussiaDenmark ScotlandEngland AsiaFinland South AfricaFrance South AmericaGermany SwedenHolland SwitzerlandHungary WalesIceland Dutch East IndiesIndia West IndiesIreland
[Illustration: The Anti and the Snowball—Then and Now]
=The Corporation=
The Corporation
The Woman's journal is a corporation formed under the laws of Massachusetts. Its stockholders are interested in furthering the cause of equal suffrage through a paper owned and managed by suffragists. Its directors, its editor-in-chief, and its deputy treasurer receive no salary; its stockholders receive no dividends. Those who purchase stock do so for the sake of building up the paper to meet the needs of the movement.
Its Purpose
Its purpose is contained in the following description which appeared on the original title page: "A weekly newspaper devoted to the interests of woman—to her educational, industrial, legal, and political equality, and especially to her right of suffrage."
Annual Meeting
The annual meeting of the corporation is held on the second Monday in January to elect officers and transact such other business as may come before the meeting. The officers are a board of five directors, a president, a treasurer, and a clerk. The officers for 1916, elected at the last annual meeting are as follows:
President, Alice Stone Blackwell; Deputy Treasurer, Howard L.Blackwell; Clerk, Catherine Wilde; Directors, Maud Wood Park. EmmaLawrence Blackwell, Grace A. Johnson, Alice Stone Blackwell and AgnesE. Ryan.