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A Christmas Message for 1923, December 25, 1923

Addams argues for peace and international understanding to help bring Europe out of the devastation of war.

ChinaDisarmamentEuropeFood ShortagesHolidaysPeaceRelief EffortsReligionWar

Mary Guthrie Kilbreth to Jane Addams, April 28, 1924

Kilbreth accuses Addams and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom of lying when they say that there is no pledge or vow taken by its members. She indicates that a pledge to refuse to aid war efforts is unpatriotic.

CriticismPatriotismPeace

John Campbell Gordon and Ishbel Maria Majoribanks Hamilton-Gordon to Jane Addams, December 25, 1924

The Aberdeens send Addams holiday wishes.

Holidays

Jane Addams to Harriet Cousens Andrews, ca. February 15, 1925

Addams tells Andrews that she provisionally agrees to appear at the 1928 Pan-Pacific Women's Conference. A portion of the letter was published in the Honolulu Advertiser.

ConferencesRequestsTravels

Elizabeth Hewes Tilton to the Detroit Free Press, April 21, 1925

Tilton asks the public to give prohibition more than five years before deeming it a failure.

GovernmentProhibitionUnited States

Vote of The National Council of The National Economic League on the Taxation Problem of the United States, 1926

The Council outlines responses to their survey on taxation.

EconomicsResearchTaxes

Jane Addams, et. al. to Calvin Coolidge, ca. January 15, 1926

Addams and seventy other prominent club women write President Coolidge asking for better enforcement of prohibition laws.

ProhibitionPublic OpinionWomen

Jane Addams to Madeline Zabriskie Doty, June 1926

Addams argues that each of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom national sections should be able to promote any of the objects of the organization.

Peace

Jane Addams to the Editor of the Boston Herald, June 4, 1926

Addams tells the Boston Herald that she is not a socialist, communist, or Bolshevik.

CommunismSocialism

Lawrence G. Brooks to the Editor of the Boston Herald, February 1, 1927

Brooks argues against allegations made against the Industrial Defense Association based on Lusk Commission research.

Anti-radicalismCriticismPraise

Invitation to a Demonstration of Dye Techniques, August 10, 1927

The Ladds host a demonstration of textile dying and Alabama plantation story telling in Bar Harbor.

CelebrationsPhilanthropy

Ellen Gates Starr to the Editor of the Springfield Republican, August 15, 1927

Starr urges the public to believe the experts who claim that evidence was misused against Sacco and Vanzetti.

Anti-radicalismCrime EnforcementUnited States

Rev. E. B. Young Supports Courts, August 22, 1927

Young argues to the editor that outsiders should not question the justice system.

Crime EnforcementCriticism

D. A. L. to Jane Addams, September 12, 1927

A writers criticizes Addams for intervening in the Sacco & Vanzetti court case.

Crime EnforcementCriticismPublic Opinion

Caroline Goodenough to the Editor of the Nation, October 7, 1927

Goodenough responds to a request for leaders by suggesting Addams as a potential president.

PoliticsPraise

Jane Addams and Valeria Hopkins Parker to Margaret Watts, August 20, 1928

Addams and Parker tell Watt that the reporting about Mildred Staley's discussion of morality was incorrectly reported in the news.

ConferencesMoralityRequests

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