Until the second way shall be in operation long enough--say, two years--to have a chance to work out successfully, there is absolutely no question but that the needs of the situation must be met in the first way. But must it be done by begging--in humiliation undeserved--or will those who are able consider it a privilege, an opportunity, to take the burden from the backs that are bent and sore from carrying it? * * * * * In the Balance If this were the crucial moment in a campaign and you saw that votes for a suffrage amendment were in the balance, you would give of the best that you have, with all the fervency of your heart. But campaigns are not won in a day. They are won only by constant and untiring advance work. The Woman's Journal does a big share of this advance work. The Journal is always in campaign. The Journal needs your help now and it needs it given as freely as if a critical Election Day were only six weeks off. The campaigns of this year and the next few years are in the balance now. A privilege, an opportunity for furthering a great world movement, waits on those who are able. * * * * * =Taken Into Our Confidence= In the following pages our readers and the great body of suffragists are taken quite generally into our confidence. If they see any skeletons in the closets, we shall ask them to remember that we did not want the skeletons there. All persons who have ever tried to raise money for a worthy cause, all suffragists who have given balls and bazaars, all who have labored to make an audience pledge its last dollar for suffrage, all who have ever tried to run an impecunious newspaper, all who have ever tried to finance any kind of a movement for the betterment of mankind, will know that the figures given here are written in blood and should be read only by those of an understanding and sympathetic heart. 1908--1915 Cost Circulation 1909.................. $5,303 2,328 1910.................. 10,020 3,989 1911.................. 18,510 15,275 1912.................. 24,499 19,309 1913.................. 24,588 20,309 1914.................. 27,509 21,303 1915.................. 38,137 27,634 [Illustration: THE CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT Left to Right-First row Haxel McCormik, Franklin Grammar School Marie Spink, Western Reverse University, Ethel Costello, Cambridge Commercial College, Second row: Helen Hegarthy, Charlestown High, Eleanor Falvey, South Boston High, Edith Mosher, Comer's Commercial College, Agnes McCarthy, South Boston High, Mary Collins, St. Joseph's Academy Third row: Isabel McCormick, Boston University; Donna Cox, Belmont High, Ethel Johnson, Fisher Business College, Lucia Gilbert, Berlin High.] [Illustration: THE GENERAL STAFF