February 7th, 1922.
Dear Miss [Addams]:
With the completion of the five-power naval treaty the Washington Conference is coming to a close. Our General Committee on the Limitation of Armaments is coming to a close with it, as it was decided in the beginning that we should limit our activities to the life of the Conference. Some of our work will go forward, especially that of the Speakers Bureau under the chairmanship of Bishop McDowell. It seems most important that the thousand and more speakers that we had enlisted in the educational work of the General Committee should keep in action, especially until the treaties are confirmed by the Senate. But it is a pleasure to tell you that the necessary expense of keeping in touch with these speakers and of supplying them with up-to-date information is being borne by a generous member of the Committee.
When our Governing Board decided that we had really done all we could hope to do and that we should not incur further expense, especially in view of the great difficulty of raising funds at this time, we were faced with a deficit of about $3000. As Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, I sent out a personal letter to some of our supporters with the result, I am greatly pleased to report, that our deficit has been brought down to a little over $1000. Today I am sending this letter of information and explanation to all the members of the General Committee so that they will know precisely how matters stand. If you will be good enough to join the others in sending a check to our Treasurer, Mr. Otto T. Mallery, Cosmos Club, Washington, D.C., for such part of our deficit as you feel that you can meet, I am sure that the funds will quickly be forthcoming to give us a clean slate; and I know that every member of the Committee wants to see its brief, active and effective career ended with every dollar of expense and debt incurred paid in full.
Thanking you very much for whatever you can do in the matter, I am
Yours faithfully,
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