287 FOURTH AVE., NEW YORK
March 21, 1925
Dear Miss Addams:
May we ask your advice, as a member of the Advisory Council or of the Executive Committee, in regard to the proposed educational campaign of our Committee?
The enclosed folder has been prepared as one of a series for wide distribution for purposes of information and education. It is planned to retain in each number of the series the general form and also the plank from our “Policy and Program” given in the box on the third page.
We wish your judgment on four questions:
1. Is the time ripe for starting this educational campaign? 2. Or should we wait until next fall or even longer? 3. In your opinion is there hope that, after a year or two of wide-spread education, Congress may be persuaded to put Japan under the quota law? 4. In seeking to reestablish friendly relations with Japan ought we to put on our campaign even though we may not secure any change in the law, or not try at all? 5. Or would it be better to carry out our plans in all but the Pacific Coast States?The foregoing questions have been raised by recent information from California that a frontal attack on the Immigration Law would bring into “battle array” all the anti-Japanese forces and arouse an antagonism that would set back rather than hasten the coming of the time when a revision of the law may be possible.
An expression of your opinion on these questions will be highly appreciated. We shall also be glad to receive from you any other helpful suggestions.
Very sincerely yours,
George W. Wickersham [signed]
Chairman
Sidney L. Gulick [signed]
Secretary
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