Kellogg describes the events at the National Conference of Charities and Corrections, particularly with regard to peace.

Addams and others ask Wilson to ensure that free speech and democratic values are not lost during the war.

Addams calls Wilson's attention to a congressional bill on espionage which she believes threatens the freedoms of US citizens.

The article discusses Bertrand Russell's ouster from Trinity College at Cambridge because of his defense of a conscientious objector.

Addams avows that there is no "blacklist" for speakers at Hull House, denying a rumor that radical thinkers were not welcome.

Jesse Ashley's article describing a strike in Massachusetts.

The author sympathizes with the McNamara brothers, who bombed the Los Angeles Times building in California in October 1910, because they were insane but criticizes the Chicago newspapers for responding with bigotry against the Irish community.

Bliss discusses anarchism and socialism in American politics and reacts to Addams' article on the Averbuch Incident.

Starr offers support in the face of press criticisms that Hull-House is too liberal in its support for freedom of thought and speech.