Dear Jane Addams,
It some time since I have written you, but I guess you [realize] what a very busy life I am leading.
First, as to the 2 cables I sent you, one to explain that according to the statement you sent me as to money, the second payment in April meant that we had 500 Dollars ahead and so I could take 400 of that 500 to pay for a worker to carry on the Summer School [program]. I telegraphed you to this effect and suggested that the 400 Dollars which Miss Balch raised should go towards the Congress. Many thanks also for the 40 Dollars towards Ann Zubelin's salary. I shall write the Chicago branch a special letter of thanks. It will be most helpful for it means that I can get additional stenographic help in this rush period, which we badly need.
SUMMER SCHOOL: I was very sorry that Miss Blake was not willing to undertake the responsibility of the Summer School, but she really did discuss this matter with me before I left America and I have in my possession a letter of January 7th in which I wrote to her saying that I hoped she would do ↑this↓ when she arrived and also, if you will remember, I put a statement in the January "Pax," that Miss Blake was coming over for the purpose of helping us with the School. I think the difficulty is that Miss Blake is very tired out, which after all is natural after 50 years of teaching. It is evident that she wants no responsibility. She is willing to answer letters provided every little detail is talked out with me, but of course there is so much other work for me to do here that that is really not possible. I am sure the thing for me to do is to put the whole matter into Miss Thomas' hands, [organizing] a little committee around her, such as I [page 2] suggested, that is, Mademoiselle Rolland, Marguerite Gobat, Madame Duchêne, Miss Blake and myself, but giving Miss Thomas freedom to run the thing and also giving her the 400 dollars to engage whomever she chooses as a paid worker.
Miss Thomas has just put through a magnificent conference in Arles where she took her entire school besides 150 grown up people. The whole thing was a splendid success and I have every confidence that Miss Thomas will manage the Summer School for us in a most excellent fashion and with a very fine spirit.
As to the length of time for the Summer School. Of course this was not my idea. It really originated away back in America before I left, when the folks there discussed a training school for peace workers for six weeks.
I have a letter from Emily Balch as late as January 23rd, suggesting that the Summer School be run for 6 weeks, and the [illegible] dates be tentatively July 21st to September 1st. However, I do not think that we need worry about this, for we can have people coming for 2 weeks at a time, if the 6 weeks period is too long. Moreover, if I understand Emily Balch correctly, her idea was not that we should be lecturing the whole 6 weeks, but that people who came to Gland should be taking advantage of all the different courses and lectures that are being given here in Geneva. That is, the folks who only stay 2 weeks, for instance, will attend our lectures one week and Prof. Zimmern's the next week, while ↑another group will↓ take Prof. Zimmern's lectures the first week will ↑and↓ ours the second. In this way our groups ↑will↓ be split up and made somewhat smaller.
I imagine that everybody will want to hear you and so I suggest that if you are planning to be at Gland the last 3 weeks [of August] you should give practically the same lectures each of the 3 weeks, so that we can arrange to have as many of our people hear you as possible. I am wondering where you will want to stay during those three weeks. Perhaps it would be easier for you to be right in the School, if you and your friend, Miss Mary Smith, had a double room together. There is one in which I think you would ↑find↓ very comfortable, and as the house is situated right on the Lake with a balcony overlooking it, it is a beautiful spot to be in. Perhaps, however, for the last week you are ↑in Geneva↓ you would come and stay ↑at↓ the Maison. I am wondering if you do not feel that you could stay over during the first week of the Assembly. I am sure it will be intensely interesting with the discussions as to whether Germany is to be admitted to the League or not. If you can plan to do this and will let me know in time, I shall be able to get you a ticket of admission, so that you can attend at the sessions ↑of the League Assembly.↓
I think you could find the Maison comfortable, if you did not mind climbing the stairs to the top of our garden wall. We can either let you and Miss Smith have a double [page 3] room together or I could arrange two single rooms next each other. It would mean a great deal to me to have you here for a little while, just to observe the work and the things that happen and see for yourself the problems we have to face. I know how helpful your suggestions would be.
MONEY FOR DELEGATES TO CONGRESS: I do not yet know definitely how many delegates there will be from the various sections, but it looks as though we would have fully as many as at any of the previous congresses. However, All the sections are [clamoring] for money for travelling expenses and I have been roughly trying to estimate for you the folks whom you will probably want to have attend the Congress and who will not have money for the trip. I am enclosing a slip with a list of names.
The Wayfarers' Travel Agency has given me a rough estimate of what it would cost to take a group from Vienna to Dublin and back, going by special train and coming back separately, with a night at a hotel in Paris ↑on the way↓ and including ten days in Dublin. The cost of this, -- partly second-class (boats) -- and England and Ireland 3rd class -- would be about ninety Dollars ($90).
Of course the cost will be less for the folks who come from Italy, France and Belgium, but, on the other hand, we shall have greater expense with those from Poland, Ukraine, Bulgaria, etc. So that I reckon, if we take as an average 90 dollars and plan to pay for 20 delegates, it will cost 1800 dollars, or perhaps we had better say 2000 dollars.
That means that I fear we cannot get away with our Congress expenses under 4000 dollars, if we pay for as many delegates as this. But, as I told you, if the English and the Irish and other sections raise the amount they are pledged to do, I hope to be able to have 800 to 1000 dollars in hand for the Congress.
FRATERNAL DELEGATES: I cabled you the other day asking for permission to send out a letter of invitation to the Fraternal Delegates in your name. I have the old form letter that was used in previous years and I can modify that slightly. I fear these ought to have been gotten out earlier, but amidst all the details, some will get forgotten. I think it would be extremely helpful if we could ↑write↓ as many Fraternal Delegates as possible. We are cooperating in fine fashion with all the international [organization] here and only a little while ago I gave a tea, joining with Mlle Emily Gourd (Alliance Intern. for Women suffrage), Mme. Schreiber-Favre (Intern. Asscn. of University Women), Mme. Alf. Bertrand, (Union Chrétienne Mondiale de Jeunes Filles), to the women representatives at the League of Nations. Of course we ↑can↓ always get up bigger meetings and entertainments when we work this way together. Mme. D'Arcis, of the Union Mondiale de la Femme, has been extremely friendly and while she does not of course represent our point of view, I think it would be well to invite her and that she might be given the opportunity to speak perhaps at some of the outside meetings which the [page 4] Irish are anxious to have, not only in Dublin but also in some of the other cities. Or perhaps we could give the Fraternal Delegates a chance to speak for a few minutes at one of the evening sessions. However, you will know best about this.
ANGELA MORGAN: Thanks very much for the little poem by her, which I shall try to publish in the May "Pax" if I can squeeze it in. If not, it can go in a later issue.
You will see that I used your letter from the Polish member in the April "Pax."
re MARCELLE CAPY: I have written to Marcelle Capy and asked her to send you the information you desire, as I know very little about her personal life. She is, I believe only about 35 years old. She wrote "L'Amour Roi" a year after her husband's death. He was editor of a paper and she worked with him shoulder to shoulder during the War, standing out splendidly throughout against [warfare]. Her husband ended by going insane and then died very suddenly. It was all a terrific blow and it was ↑out of↓ this ↑suffering↓ that grew "L'Amour Roi" ↑grew↓ when last year her mother died. I think perhaps Marcelle loved her mother even more, if possible, than she loved her husband. It has been very difficult for her to stand up against these two blows and she has doubted this winter whether life was worth going on with. It has been my very great joy and privilege to be able, through letters and by a [weekend] I spent with her, to make her feel how very [worthwhile] her writing is and she is now deep in a second book. If our plans go through, we now expect to have a tour for Marcelle Capy during May. I am hoping that Mrs. White will arrive with her car on May 10th and then I am sending her and Marcelle Capy and probably Ann Zubelin around our Sections in Switzerland. We also hope to send Marcelle Capy to Milan, for Dr. Vassalini has begged me to come, as they are going through a very difficult and critical time and she, Dr. Vassalini, will undoubtedly lose her position as a teacher.
If we can make the auto trip to Milan, I shall go with Marcelle Capy and see what can be done for our Italian section. Of course if we have a meeting there, it will have to be in a private house.
ROGER BALDWIN: Thanks ever so much for talking to Roger. Of course it will mean a great deal to have him come over, and I am doing all I can to urge him to do so. I have been talking to him about uniting the liberal forces of the ↑whole↓ world instead of just being content to fight for freedom in America. He has taken very well to this idea and says he thinks the time has come to makea ↑the↓ fight for freedom of speech and civil liberty international. I have suggested to him that if he does this he should get his [organization] to pay his travel expenses (3rd class and steerage, for that is the only way he will come) and that he let me arrange meetings for him in all our national sections. What would you think of this idea? It seems to me that he might be very helpful to us [and also to his own civil liberties]. It would give him a chance to meet and talk with liberal [page 5] folks the world around, and give them a bit of encouragement, while it would cost us nothing if his expenses were paid by [illegible,] the Civil Liberties Bureau.
I am suggesting that such a trip might be arranged in the fall if his [organization] and ours could combine on such a project. Of course we badly need to have someone visit all our sections and encourage them, and I am inclined to think that Roger is as good a person as we [could] find. He is so very tactful.
re MISS TANO JODAI: Thanks for the letter of Miss Tano Jodai. We have already been carrying on quite a correspondence with her and have booked her both for the Dublin Congress and the Summer School. We are glad indeed to know that she will lecture for us ↑at the summer school.↓
Now about my own plans: I am trying to get as many details for the Congress worked out here as possible, and shall get out the May and June "Pax," but, if you think it is all right, I shall not attempt to get out the July issue, but instead use the money for the Dublin [program]. I think I could satisfy the American fund that our [program], which will go all over the world, will be as good as a paper for the month of July, and it would certainly help us out both in money and in time.
The August issue will of course be a summary of the Congress.
If I can get my work properly [organized], I hope to be leaving here the night of June 17th, reaching London for the Arbitration Pilgrimage Demonstration on the 19th, in Hyde Park. I shall stay in London until the 21st and then, if Madame [Ramondt] agrees to my budget which provided for 200 dollars for Miss Surles, I shall meet Miss Surles, who will arrive in London on the 21st, and go with her to Dublin and start in putting through the Congress work.
I am a little distressed that we have as yet no outside speakers, but I am forced to wait until I get the O.K. of the special committee of the Executive, as to who the outside speakers shall be. Also I am waiting for the suggestions from the National Sections as to speakers. However, I am enclosing a list of our own people who expect to attend and who will probably want to speak, and they are more than enough to fill any [program].
I suppose you have heard that Mahatma GHANDI is quite ill and that there is no possibility of his getting to England this summer as was expected. I wonder what you would think of my trying to secure Dr. Harry FOSDICK for an address. He will be back in Geneva some time this spring. His wife is now here as the children are at school in Geneva. If you do not think he would be a good drawing card, whom would you suggest? We should have one very prominent speaker in order to get the publicity that we need. [page 6]
This is a very long letter and I must close. Thanks very much for all your encouraging words. This is a difficult job and it means everything to know that you are back of me and appreciating the effort I am making.
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