My dear Miss Addams: --
I am [enclosing] that part of the prohibition report on Chicago which it is planned to use in the newspapers. It has been selected by us here as the part of the report which will interest the ordinary newspaper ready or not only in Chicago but in the 70 other places where the syndicate plans to publish it to give an idea of the situation in general and also to save the social workers who have contributed the material from any complication which might from publicity. It is a little longer than the syndicate wanted on the Chicago situation, but as soon as I have your authorization I shall try and make them take at least this much.
The Chicago chapter in the book we plan to make approximately four times as long as this and to put into it, the personal and human interest stories which so splendidly illustrates the Chicago material. Also we shall of course include more in regard to the situation before the passage of the amendment. This I think I can have ready for you within a few days.
Miss Lea Taylor wrote me that it was the sense of the social workers there that neither people nor localities should be identifiable in the report. I shall be exceedingly sorry if this is their final decision, because quite frankly the report will lose a great deal of force if it is separated from the important names which back it up. Every statement which Prof Taylor or his daughter or Mary McDowell and especially yourself make, [has] added force from the knowledge which the whole country has of the work you have done and what you stand for. An anonymous report will not be anything like so convincing. For this reason I hope it will be possible for you all to leave your names in the report. If you don't wish to do this and will wire me, I will of course take them all out. [Mr] Paul Kellogg has just suggested that perhaps even if those who make the report object to having their names used in the newspaper syndication of the material, [they] might not object to the use of their names in the book, because the newspapers and the book will reach a different audience. Indeed that is what they are planned to do.
I should like to say to those who have sent in this material and particularly to yourself that no such collection of interesting material has come from any other center, not only because it is clear and definite, but because of the very wonderful background of tolerance and understanding which it has. There are some individual reports comparable with individual reports from Chicago, but no group is so good, and as the harassed director of the study who is now considering 177 reports you can see what this means.
Martha Bensley Bruère.
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