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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.

Conferences Morality Requests

Lecture on Segregated Vice and Human Trafficking, August 20, 1928 (summary) Also known as Luncheon talk to the Pan-Pacific Club, August 20, 1928 (summary)

Addams argued that vice would cease if the segregated districts in the Pacific were dissolved.

Conferences Human Trafficking Lectures Morality

Statement on Trial Marriages, July 28, 1928

Addams comments on companionate marriage and the marriage of Josephine Haldeman-Julius.

Family Morality Weddings

Does Prohibition Work?, March 23, 1928 (summary)

Addams defends Prohibition and argues that a lack of enforcement has made alcohol use more common and dangerous.

Lectures Morality Prohibition

Appreciation

Internationalism Journalism Morality Religion

Speech to the National Conference of Social Work, May 16, 1927 (excerpts)

Addams discusses changing moral standards and their impact on youth.

Internationalism Morality United States Youth

Ill-Gotten Gifts to Colleges, November 1900

Scudder critiques colleges that accept donations from unethical sources.

Crime Education Finances Morality

Citizens National Committee for Sacco and Vanzetti

Immigrants Morality Politics

Statement on the Countess of Cathcart, February 12, 1926

Addams offers support to Vera, Countess Cathcart, who was detained at Ellis Island as an undesirable alien.

Immigration Morality

Avery, Martha Moore (1851?-1929)

Lectures Morality Socialism United States

Statement in Defense of the Modern Girl, December 24, 1925 (excerpts)

Addams argues that modern girls are unconventional, not immoral.

Morality Women Youth

Statements on Youth, December 8, 1925 (excerpts)

Addams urges for communication between generations and asserts that World War I might be responsible for present conditions.

Lectures Morality Youth

Edward S. Grece to Jane Addams, July 5, 1927

Grece tells Addams that her speech failed to take into account Christian morality.

Crime Criticism Lectures Morality Peace Religion

Killian Kotty to Jane Addams, August 1, 1927

Kotty tells Addams that reformers are the cause of moral laxity and that bringing back saloons and red light districts will improve morality.

Crime Enforcement Criticism Morality Youth

Statement on Modern Women, January 19, 1925

Addams tells a reporter about her views on criticisms of modern women.

Morality Women's Rights Youth

My Creed -- A Message for the New Year, December 26, 1926

Arthur Burrage Farwell speaks on his ideals as he ages.

Love Morality Religion

Tolstoy, Prophet of Righteousness, September 10, 1928

Addams praises the works of Leo Tolstoy and shows how they relate to modern society.

Literature Morality Philosophy Social Purity

Interview with Baltimore Evening Sun, April 21, 1922

Addams discusses the impact of women's fashion, and jazz on morality.

Fashion Morality Music Quotes

Interview on Causes of Juvenile Delinquency, January 28, 1922

Addams argues that jazz music causes immoral dancing and leads to juvenile delinquency.

Juvenile Delinquency Morality Music Youth

Address Before the Nineteenth Century Club, October 14, 1907 (excerpts)

Addams argues that woman suffrage might impact the plight of fallen women who are preyed upon by men.

Crime Enforcement Lectures Morality Prostitution Woman Suffrage

Statement on Moral Conditions in Europe, September 30, 1921

Addams argues that Europe's moral slump is due to wartime problems.

Europe Food Shortages Morality World War I

Comment on Modern Girls and Materialism, ca. September 1921

An anecdote shared by Addams about judging by looks.

Humor Morality Women

Children's Social Attitudes and Character, February 16, 1928

Addams discusses her interactions with Hull-House's immigrant neighbors as part of a round table discussion at the Midwest Conference on Character Development. This transcript includes discussion after Addams's talk which does not appear in the published proceedings.

Children Conferences Education Film Hull-House Immigrants Morality Social Reform

Boston Speech, ca. April 30, 1921 (excerpts)

Addams speaks in Boston about the way to solve the problem of unmarried mothers and delinquent girls and urges the lifting of the Russian blockade.

Foreign Policy Ireland Japan Lectures Morality Soviet Union

Social Attitudes and Character, February 16, 1928

Addams discusses her interactions with Hull-House's immigrant neighbors as part of a round table discussion at the Midwest Conference on Character Development.

Education Hull-House Immigrants Morality

How Much Social Work Can a Community Afford: From the Ethical Point of View, May 26, 1926

Addams discusses the value of social work at a mass meeting held at the National Conference of Social Work in Cleveland.

Chicago Child Welfare Crime Ethics Morality Public Health Social Reform Social Work

Unwed Mothers-Modern Youth, March 24, 1927

Addams, as told to the Newspaper Enterprise Association, discusses the murder of unwed mother Rosa Stoble and argues for love and sympathy rather than punishment and stigma. This article was syndicated and published in many newspapers in March and April.

Child Welfare Crime Morality Sex Reform Women Youth