Oklahoma Federation of Women's Clubs
Dear Miss Addams: --
The General Federation of Womens Clubs, as you doubtless know, has, among its various departments of work, a Peace Committee.
This Peace Committee has been made a subdivision of the Department of Education, because the women feel that one of the duties of organized <womanhood in> this country is to educate the people away from militarism and up to higher Peace ideals, particularly to inculcate in the youth of the land the great truth that questions between nations can be settled by courts of arbitration, just as differences between individuals can be settled by courts of justice. This committee is endeavoring to have the school children taught more of the achievements of the years of peace than of the conquests of war: to revere the heroes who have uplifted humanity and enriched and prolonged human life, rather than those whose mission was to destroy. [page 2]
To this end, we (the committee) have asked the womens clubs of the country (numbering over two million members) to cooperate with the schools in observing "Peace Day" at which time a suitable program shall be rendered.
Knowing your immortal love for the cause, and the service you have given it, we have ventured to ask your aid in the movement.
As Chairman for Oklahoma, I am now preparing a program for the schools to observe on Peace Day, and I am persuaded that something from your pen would carry weight, conviction and a majesty, that the words of no other woman could.
If you could give me an appropriate cutting from some of your writings, or would it be asking too much to ask for a special message? In either case I will have it neatly printed and distributed for the use of the schools on Peace Day, and this committee and the General Federation <will thank you> for your assistance in our labor of love.
<I am> asking further that you kindly send me any literature (with bill) giving a resume of the work done by the various Peace organizations which have met during [page 3] the past year.
I am in the work in earnest, and want to work but I want to work intelligently.
Please help me, my dear national Peace leader.
Yours, in the hope that the women may have a part in the movement for Universal Peace,
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