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Dear Miss Addams:
Although the immediate purpose of the enclosed leaflet was to engage the attention of the Genoa Conference, we have [given] it a much wider currency among a circle of acquaintances whose higher vision, wider experience and firmer grasp seem to place them more peculiarly in line with its purpose.
The most cherished aspiration of Mr. Mecartney's life is to work in concrete being the indispensables in the present world march toward universal brotherhood. I said "the present world march" but that march has been in continuous progress since the "morning stars sang together" and man first set his foot on earth to work out his salvation.
Emergence is ever the fiat of life, and perhaps never in history has there been, as in the last decade, such a putting off of the old and putting on of the new. It is becoming daily more apparent to thinking men that the destiny of this new world, scarce emerged from the storm and wreck of war, can be safely guided through the present uncertain and clouded peace only as the line of march is led step by step toward this millennial vision of world brotherhood.
It is just as apparent too that the qualities of head and heart so essential to purer wisdom, kindlier humanity, sane constructive ability and a safe political and economic development, inhere so abundantly in the sisters and daughters of the race that their voice in every decisive move, either national or international, will now be more tremendously determinative than ever before.
I am therefore asking you, if as I most ardently hope, our call for standard bearers shall appeal to you, to cooperate with us in so far as to suggest a list of thinking women to whom we may, in the name of peace on earth and good will toward men, send the appeal of the enclosed leaflet.
I am working with Mr. Mecartney, have known his life and work intimately since the play-days of our Pennsylvania boyhood and I know, perhaps better than any other, how thoroughly that life exemplifies the principles for which he has sacrificed so much.
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