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asked to go - anywhere and everywhere to make a speech. You went over to the outskirts of the city. I learned all about the geography of New York, Brooklyn and New Jersey by going to make speeches to little groups - in a Lutheran church one time; one little trade union group; (the trade unions were not so hot about it). I made several speeches to foreign born societies. There was always an Italian-American society, a Polish-American and others. I would be sent to speak to them. I made a great many speeches to ladies auxiliaries of lodges and churches. I made almost any kind of a speech.

Of course, whatever professional organization you belonged to, you were supposed to rise up and make a speech at one of their meetings about woman suffrage. Of course I belonged to the local organization of social workers. It not once a month or so. Those of us who were in the suffrage movement would get up and make a speech, whether it was on the program or not. We wouldn't make it long. We'd make it short, make it pleasant, and just remind them of woman suffrage.

Then, of course, it came to the point where they were, I suppose, getting close to it. They began to organize street meetings. That was a test I must say; it was awfully difficult. The younger people like me who had nothing to