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Anna Elizabeth Rude to Jane Addams, March 17, 1920

Rude asks Addams to testify for the Sheppard-Towner Maternity and Infancy Bill to be discussed at Congress.

Child Welfare Government Maternal Welfare Requests

Jane Addams to Paul Underwood Kellogg, March 23, 1920

Addams tells Kellogg that The Survey should be more forceful in its defense of Anita Whitney.

Free Speech Government Journalism

Jane Addams to Bainbridge Colby, April 13, 1920

Addams contacts Colby to ask the State Department to protest Finland's arrest of John Reed.

Finland Foreign Policy International Affairs Journalism

Jane Addams to Anna Elizabeth Rude, May 7, 1920

Addams tells Rude that she cannot attend the hearing on the Maternity bill, but promises a statement.

Maternal Welfare Requests

Jane Addams to William Edward Dodd, May 12, 1920

Addams thanks Dodd for a copy of Woodrow Wilson's speech.

Lectures Politics Requests

Jane Addams to Bainbridge Colby, May 18, 1920

Addams asks Colby to allow relief efforts to proceed in the Soviet Union.

Government Relief Efforts Requests Russia

Bainbridge Colby to Jane Addams, May 20, 1920

Colby tells Addams the State Department will allow relief workers to enter Russia, but it will have to be at their own risk.

Government Peace Relief Efforts Requests Russia

Jane Addams to Bainbridge Colby, May 26, 1920

Addams thanks Colby and asks to send him more information on relief efforts in the Soviet Union.

Government Relief Efforts

Jane Addams to William Fisher Byron, September 7, 1920

Addams asks Byron to telegraph Secretary of State Colby to help Irish prisoners in England.

Government Ireland Prisoners of War Requests

Jane Addams to Louie Bennett, ca. September 7, 1920

Addams promises to ask the United States State Department to intervene for Irish prisoners of war.

Government Ireland Prisoners of War

Statement on Blue Laws, November 29, 1920

Addams, Stedman and Mathes oppose the establishment of Eastern "blue laws" in the Midwest.

Morality

Testimony Before the Senate Committee on Banking and Currency, January 21, 1921

Addams asks the Senate to supply more funds to relief efforts in post-war Europe.

Government Relief Efforts

Warren Gamaliel Harding to Jane Addams, February 20, 1921

Harding makes a vague promise to Addams that his administration will pursue foreign policies of which the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom with approve.

Foreign Policy Government League of Nations Peace United States

Speech at the Washington Park Forum, March 20, 1921 (excerpts)

Addams argues for disarmament and claims the vast majority of taxes are used for war.

Disarmament Government Lectures Taxes

David Ignatius Walsh to Jane Addams, April 18, 1921

Walsh advises Addams that Emily Balch needs to apply for a passport in Vienna.

Government Peace Travels

Jane Addams to Anita McCormick Blaine, April 26, 1921

Addams sends Blaine lists of state politicians and asks her to lobby them.

Government Politics

Toynbee Hall Address, September 16, 1921 (excerpt)

Addams predicts that the United States will join the League of Nations eventually.

League of Nations Lectures

Jane Addams to Paul Underwood Kellogg, January 29, 1922

Addams sends Kellogg some corrections for Chapter Three of Peace and Bread in Time of War.

Government Writings

Speech to the Unitarian Church, February 11, 1922 (excerpts)

Addams urges her audience to support the United States entry to the League of Nations.

Europe Foreign Policy Lectures Relief Efforts United States

Speech to the Decatur City Club, February 15, 1922

Addams spoke on America's role in international relief efforts and about the work done at Hull House.

Europe Famine Lectures Relief Efforts United States

The United States in Relation to World Problems, February 26, 1922

Addams discusses America's role in international relief work.

Foreign Policy Lectures Relief Efforts United States

Speech to the North Carolina Social Service Conference, March 29, 1922 (summary)

Addams argues that the United States must take a leading role in world affairs.

Foreign Policy League of Nations Lectures Peace

Jane Addams to William Kent, July 6, 1922

Addams thanks Kent for the work he is doing on resource allotment in California.

Environment Government

Kingsway Hall Address, January 2, 1923

Addams addresses a peace meeting and argues that in order for Europe to recover economically, the peace treaty must be revised; she also argues that the United States should and will join the League of Nations.

Economy Europe League of Nations Lectures Peace United States

Statement to the London Press, January 3, 1923

Addams announces that she is meeting with world leaders to urge them to settle the reparations problem immediately.

Disarmament Peace Politics

Statement to the International News Service, January 5, 1923

Addams reports that she was not able to meet with government officials and that she will not intervene in reparations discussions.

Peace Politics War Debts

Jacob Gould Schurman to Jane Addams, June 1, 1923

Schurman invites Addams to dine at the American Embassy in Peking.

China Government Travels

Frederick Ferdinand Moore to Susan Ballard, August 6, 1923

Moore offers Ballard his assistance with arranging meetings for Addams with Japanese dignitaries.

Government Health Japan Meetings Peace

Frederick Ferdinand Moore to Mary Rozet Smith, August 13, 1923

Moore tells Smith that he has arranged a meeting for Addams with the Foreign Minister.

Health Japan Meetings Travels

Gifford Pinchot to Jane Addams, January 2, 1924

Pinchot tells Addams that he cannot pardon prisoners under Pennsylvania law and advises that the American Civil Liberties Union follow the procedures.

Anti-radicalism Civil liberties Government Prisons Requests

Jane Addams to Gifford Pinchot, January 9, 1924

Addams tells Pinchot that she will send his letter to the American Civil Liberties Union to answer his questions about clemency.

Civil liberties Crime Enforcement Prisons Requests

Jane Addams to Amy Woods, March 6, 1924

Addams tells Woods that she thinks local politicians should be invited to attend the International Congress of Women and questions the timing of the United States Section meeting.

Conferences Government Peace

The Modern Social Problem, March 24, 1924 (excerpts)

Addams discusses the ill effect of current immigration law before the Brooklyn Jewish Center.

Government Immigration Lectures

Jane Addams to James Alfred Moss, April 15, 1924

Addams tells Moss that she will not join the board of the United States Flag Association, but wishes him well.

Memberships Patriotism Requests

Samuel Colcord to Jane Addams, May 10, 1924

Colcord sends Addams his ideas on how to gather Republican support for the World Court.

Courts Internationalism Politics Requests

Jane Addams to Ada Lois James, June 11, 1924

Addams accepts James's invitation to join a group to support Robert La Follette's bid for president.

Memberships Politics

Florence Kelley to Jane Addams, September 27, 1924

Kelley asks Addams to write an article to help a push to ratify the Child Labor Amendment.

Child Labor Requests Writings

Jane Addams to Calvin Coolidge, April 15, 1924

Addams asks Coolidge to veto efforts to limit Japanese immigration to the United States.

Foreign Policy Immigration Peace Requests United States

Reminiscence on Theodore Roosevelt, May 1925 (fragment)

Addams discusses a meeting with Theodore Roosevelt in 1905 in which he advised women's clubs to agitate for labor reform.

Government Labor Requests Settlements

Comments on the Illinois Women's Eight Hour Bill, May 15, 1925

Addams discusses the impact of the proposed Illinois’ “Eight Hour Bill” on both men and women workers. She spoke at a meeting of the Joint Committee for the Women's Eight Hour Bill held at the Morrison Hotel.

Child Labor Lectures Legislation