============================================================ CITIES | POPULATION| WOMEN | PER CENT OF | | REGISTERED| POPULATION -----------------------+-----------+-----------+------------ Grand Rapids | 132,000 | 22,700 | 17.0 Saginaw | 65,000 | 8,509 | 13.0 Benton Harbor | 12,000 | 1,506 | 12.5 Traverse City | 12,000 | 1,388 | 11.6 Jackson | 50,000 | 5,388 | 10.8 Muskegon | 42,000 | 4,500 | 10.7 Bay City | 50,000 | 6,290 | 10.6 Port Huron | 25,000 | 2,706 | 10.1 Flint | 70,000 | 6,906 | 9.9 Kalamazoo | 50,166 | 4,308 | 8.6 Detroit | 986,699 | 65,040 | 6.5 Lansing | 55,000 | 3,000 | 6.3 Cadillac | 10,000 | 513 | 5.1 -----------------------+-----------+-----------+------------ Totals and average | 1,591,865 | 135,344 | 8.5 ============================================================ Even then, however, the Grand Rapids movement was spreading to other Michigan cities; some of the results of that influence may well be visible in the larger percentages shown by some of these cities. Since then, indeed, the movement has become state-wide; and the results already visible show notably the same facts and tendencies so strikingly exhibited in the case of Grand Rapids, where it began. MUNICIPAL VOTERS’ LEAGUE OF CHICAGO The most conspicuously successful effort to mobilize all the resources of a great city behind the general movement for honesty and efficiency in city government is undoubtedly the Municipal Voters’ League of Chicago. Its record of accomplishment is too long and too brilliant to permit any serious discouragement from the fact that immediately following the war there appeared to be a setback and reaction in Chicago’s local elections. For the time being there seems to be everywhere a recession in nearly all forms of social idealism. That is the inevitable result of the moral overstrain that accompanies war. Much work must be done over again, but, at the worst, it must be recognized that the tide of advance during the past quarter-century left marks which will not be forgotten; standards of social welfare and responsibility which, in the long run, will continue to stand as a minimum of progress.