Spencer offers Addams advice about the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom's United States Section and warns about aligning the group with radical and militant movements.
Spencer tells Addams that she won't be able to attend the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom's United States Section meeting in New Orleans and details her plans for the meeting and suggestions to take on the chairmanship.
Karsten tells Balch that Addams hopes that she will not resign from the American Committee of Five of the International Committee of Women for Permanent Peace, and provides news of the peace movement.
Addams encourages Post to go abroad as an alternate delegate of the Committee of Five and tells her about the difficulties she and others have been having securing passports.
Mead writes Addams about the hoped-for resolution of the disagreement of the New York branch of the Woman's Peace Party and about resignations from the Minimum Program Committee in protest of Louis Lochner's presence.
Mead has put together a program for a conference that Addams will hopefully be able to attend. The committee has also failed to financial aid to an international organization, so Mead believes the American committee needs to meet.
Addams updates MacMillan on her own health, and asks if she would be able to notify her if the International Committee meeting could be postponed until May on account of her illness.
Addams, Kellogg, and Wald argue the many reasons why World War One is destroying society, and detail how it is robbing a generation of its people and future. They also argue that the global community has the power to stop this war and prevent other wars.
Addams discusses how older women can contribute to society in beneficial ways by providing examples. The article was published in the Ladies' Home Journal.
Hitchcock writes Addams for advice on how to encourage women to shop earlier for a certain season so that clothing factories would not have so much pressure on them later in the season.
