February 26, 1924
My dear Miss Addams:
Mrs. Clifford Barnes, our Regional chairman for the Japan campaign, has just been in to see me and says that Mr. Barnes has arranged for you to make an appeal to your radio audience for money for these buildings in Tokyo and Yokohama. You can tell them to send their checks in care of the Y.W.C.A. Chicago marked "For Japan." We think this will be easy for them to remember. People are going to be listening in throughout this Region. Last Sunday night Mr. Barnes made a very splendid announcement of your talk and one of our secretaries in this morning from Des Moines said she heard it out there.
I believe Mrs. [Randall] of the Sunday Evening Club will be waiting for you at the door. I shall be in Box S if you wish to come in and wait during the music or to see me about anything. The announcement enclosed has been sent out to our Associations and it is going into some of the newspapers outside the city. The collection taken that night will not be for Japan but rather for the usual expenses. Your appeal is to be directed especially to the radio audience as it will reach many parts of the country where we have no local Associations at all and will reach people with whom we would never come in contact. The plans for raising funds in Chicago are temporarily delayed on account of the coming finance campaign. We do, however, want people to become interested and to know that this appeal will come later. ↑I believe it is better not to mention Chicago.↓
Because some people are saying that America gave five million for relief work and asking why they should give any more, may I suggest that in some way you make clear that the period of relief as such has passed and that the money we sent for such has been spent and that the stricken area is now in the new period of active reconstruction. People's gifts will now go into a permanent building in Tokyo where there are one thousand girls who use the Association daily and who now have no roof over their heads.
With very best wishes to you and in deep appreciation for all that your talk is going to mean to our cause, I am
Very sincerely yours,
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