Addams speaks on women's roles in peace and internationalism at a public meeting "Next Steps Toward World Peace," held in Geneva on the eve of the opening of the League of Nations General Assembly. It was opened by William Rappard and featured remarks by Addams, Hilda Clark, and Lucie Desjardins.
Addams discusses how the recent immigrant quota laws have created hardships for immigrants and the American economy, and have created false ideas about immigrants and social problems.
Writing four days after the Presidential Election in which Robert La Follette lost, Addams tells his wife that she has been thinking about them both and hopes to see them in Washington.
Addams tells La Follette that she knows the women La Follette is trying to reach and would prefer to talk to them directly about the campaign than to write them.
Addams talks with a Kansas City Star reporter about increased political participation, recreation in cities and her work as garbage collector in Chicago.
