Miss Jane Addams, welfare worker and advocate of world peace, declared in an address at Lindenwood College last night that the United States must sooner or later enter both the League of Nations and the World Court.
She outlined her conclusions from a recent tour abroad and declared that in foreign countries a feeling of resentment towards this country is evident because it attempts to remain aloof from world problems and movements which lead towards world peace.
She observed a general irritation against the United States in the Orient, because of the exclusion act, and in Calcutta, she said, she was heckled by an audience which felt that she as an American could not be in sympathy with them.
"But the nations are gradually being drawn more closely together, not only by the League of Nations but by many little things," Miss Addams said. "For instance, the Interparliamentary Union has eliminated poison phosphorus on matches and the Interpostal Union has established a uniform mailing system. These things are small in themselves but are powerful influences toward establishing a basis for permanent international understanding."
Miss Addams explained the history of the League of Nations and the World Court, and on request described her work in connection with Hull House in Chicago, which she founded. Hull House with its mixed population is a miniature League of Nations, she said.
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