My dear Miss Addams:
Thank you very much for your letter of April 8th which came this morning and the nice things you said about the National Office. I was very much touched.
As soon as your blue envelopes come in we will get at them, addressing them and returning them immediately. We do have an addressograph machine in the office. A copy of the circular announcing the Fifth International of this month which has just come to the office and which we are addressing this morning. They will get their "Pax," no doubt, before your letter reaches them.
May I suggest that you send a personal letter to Mr. Albert Greenfield, Bankers Trust Building, Philadelphia Pa.? He is one of the richest men in Philadelphia and though his wife has given to the Pennsylvania Branch small sums they have never given us a large contribution. I happen to know from a conversation that I once had with Mr. Greenfield when I tried to get some money from him that he was not much interested in our National work, but was tremendously interested in you personally and what you had done. I think a personal letter signed by you and asking for a definite sum like a thousand or fifteen hundred dollars, might bring you that much. I think he is the type of person that would be flattered by a personal letter from you and would respond to it.
The F.O.R. and the rest of the organizations are meeting on the 24th and 25th. The program for those days is in the hands of a small committee with Bessie Kind of Pennsylvania as chairman. The evening meeting on Saturday the 24th will be given over to the discussion of Chemical War, lead by Alice Hamilton. Sunday night we are having [page 2] the meeting in the Play House with Professor Hull and Professor Shotwell discussing "Disarmament" -- a subject they have been working up together and we wanted you that evening to discuss the International phase of the W.I.L., the coming congress, and if you wish, to make an appeal for money at that time for the congress. I am wondering if Mr. Lovett is going to be here by any chance those days? Mrs. Hapgood was speaking to me about chairmen for that evening and I though if Mr. Lovett was going to be here it might be interesting to have him preside.
Monday evening Miss Balch [presents] her report on Haiti and Professor Moulton, Head of the Institute of Economics here, is going to speak on the general financial conditions in Europe and its relation to America. You will remember, he is the one who wrote "Germany's Capacity to Pay," "The French Debt Problem," etc.
I am hoping every day to have a tentative program of the Saturday and Sunday meetings from Mrs. Kind. Of our own program we expect to give Tuesday, both morning and afternoon sessions, to discussion of our future plans and policies, as people last year felt we gave much too little time to that. Anticipating this I sent out a questionnaire to all branches, a copy of which I enclose, asking for suggestions for the discussion that day and possible people to lead the discussion. These are coming in gradually and from them we shall make up the agenda for that day.
I was so interested to get a letter from Miss Marston in California, telling me that the California groups are sending two people -- one to go as a delegate to the International Congress, paying the way of one so that they will get a real "close-up" of the W.I.L. The one is to become a paid organizer and worker for the California group on her return.
Miss Hubbard of New York is very anxious to know what your plans are before and after the annual meeting. They would like to know in New York if you have any engagements in the vicinity. They apparently want you to speak.
Senator Shipstead has promise to [reintroduce] Res. #22 this year, which I hope he will do before the annual meeting comes off. He says he can do [nothing] [about] this spring but will do so in the fall.
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