June 5, 1925
Dear Miss Addams: --
On my return to Chicago last Monday I found your kind note of the 28th ultimo with its interesting enclosure. I also noted a reference to outlawing war given in the press as made by Mme. Forchhammer.
Today finds me laid down at home with a sort of rheumatic great toe joint. I hope the doctor may be able to "outlaw" it soon.
I am very anxious to see you regarding the possibility of having the Mayor and Council approve a tag day for all [Centers] of Chicago. I understand in the past you have had some grounds of opposition which I would like to know and discuss with you. Certain it is it would be a great boon to many of the [Centers], including Abraham Lincoln Centre, to be brought under this widely distributed plan of contribution which, if not overdone, is to my mind one of the least burdensome and most effective methods of public subscription. I also have some very late news about Outlawry including specifically the conciliation meeting in New York last Tuesday between twenty-two mild and extreme pro-leaguers on the one hand and five Outlawrists on the other. I have just learned that I was appointed on a committee with ex-Justice Clarke, James G. McDonald and others to meet June 19 in New York and attempt to agree upon a program of conciliation with reference to the World Court.
I also hope Dr. Hamilton will be available for conference because I know that she and even you have not gone as thoroughly into the details and mechanism of Outlawry as I have the ambition you should do. By this I do no mean that you do not understand the Plan, but I find, again and again, that on a close-up interview where the difficulties and possible conflicts are discussed the best results can be obtained.
Sincerely yours,
Chairman.
P.S. Does the Bowen Country Club need money and should I therefore buy some tickets for the [Third] Annual Intercollegiate Forum which I have just received?
S. O. Levinson
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