Anna Garlin Spencer to Jane Addams, July 21, 1927

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THE AMERICAN SOCIAL HYGIENE ASSOCIATION

The Arlington
Chautauqua, N.Y.

July 21, 1927.

Jane Addams,
Hull House,
South [Halsted] Street,
Chicago, Illinois.

Dear Jane Addams:

Your letter of June 8th has waited too long for answer but you will see from the enclosed circular that I have had much to do.

I send a little contribution for the International. I think that difficulties result from the way in which collections are made for the International, the National and Local branches. I have advised in New York, one $10. per year subscription from as many people as we can secure; $5. to be sent from our New York office directly to Miss Detzer for each member for International maintenance, $2.50 for our National office expenses and $2.50 to be retained for local expenses where there is a local society. I think twenty-eight such members have been secured in New York. I am advising that all our campaign meetings stress that point of an ultimate support of the Geneva office, the Washington office, and where the case demands, the local office. The present plan makes the same people receive appeals for money in two or three installments and they get confused. Believing, as you know I do, in stressing national and international members of the W.I.L. rather than increasing the number of local peace organizations, I am anxious to see a better business plan adopted. You, my dear friend, should not have this financial burden resting upon your shoulders. I am, however, sending my little subscription to you because the National office has been criticized for lack of business exactness and some people have sent checks and have not received proper response. I have written Miss Detzer, in response to a letter from her, that I attach no blame to her but I am convinced that the National office of the W.I.L. should not depend for its office management upon a person so largely in the field as is Miss Detzer. I am sorry to trouble your secretary with the forwarding of this small check but I shall send no more contributions direct to the Washington office until its business is placed upon a little firmer ground.

↑Yours with love↓

Anna Garlin Spencer. [signed] [page 2]

↑P.S.↓ I hope the summer is finding you rested and better. I am quite sure that by this time you will be in a more comfortable place than Chicago. I shall be in Chicago, if nothing happens to prevent, in November and hope I may see you there.

Yours with constant love

A. G. S. [initialed]

Check enclosed