RD07844

February 16th, 1918.

Miss Alice Loraine Daley,
Madison, South Dakota.

My dear Miss Daley:--

I wonder if you have your letter,
yet, from Mrs. Pyle, telling you that your petitions
are on the way? For promptness and efficiency, I am
quite sure you can not beat this. Now, we expect you
to get them back to us in just as good time as we got
them to you. How about it? Seriously, I do hope
that we are going to be able to make a record in Lake
County that will be an example in all other counties.
You are trying an experiment down there, in getting the
circulating of the petition doene, in connection with
other work, which ought to betablish a precident, for
other counties. I am sorry that the literature did
not get to us from the printer in time to go with the
petition, but we will send it to you, tonight, and
I don't doubt that the workers who start on Monday will
have their supply in time. I

It occurs to me that the class in
Sociology may be composed of young men as well as
young women, in which case we may not get the best results
from the suffrage petition. If I were you, I would
watch it very closely and if they do not succeed, get
the women of the Civic League to take it over in connection
with their registration of women. A good deal of the
value of this petitioncomes from the propaganda work which
goes along with it. I hope Mrs. Rewman is going to be
down here in a few days and we can work out some thing
definite as to finance. In the mean time, will you go
carefully over you situation down there, make a list
of the people who ought to give $1,000, more or less,
and be ready for us. If Mrs. Rewman can not come to
you within the next two weeks, perhaps I can come down
myself for a week end and you and I can work on Saturday
and Sunday. You being a perfectly Catholic, I fancy,
will not mind working on Sunday and more than I, who am
an equally good Unitarian. Let me know how best we