Addams talks with New York Times reporter Edward Marshall about World War I and the efforts of the International Council of Women to start peace negotiations.
Addams argues the point that women need the right to vote in all national affairs to force the issue of peace, and to help prevent future wars from happening.
Addams details the many reasons why it is important that women be given the right to vote, and of how the suffrage movement is not just found in Western nations, but globally.
Bok's questions for a series of interviews with Jane Addams and other prominent women are intended to find an explanation for women's "unrest" and the factors that have led to their discontent.
Houghton Mifflin Company sends Addams a copy of The Precipice by Mrs. E. W. Peattie and hope that Addams' words of approval will help the book sell more copies.
