Constance MacCorkle to Jane Addams, March 20, 1915

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Ohio & West Virginia Field Committee of the National Board of the Young Women's Christian Associations of the United States of America
806 Mercantile Library Building
Cincinnati

March 20, 1915

Miss Jane Addams
Hull House
Chicago Illinois

My dear Miss Addams:

I am writing to you in the interest of the Federation of Industrial Clubs, a movement within the Young Women's Christian Association which belongs to the Association by virtue of membership and to the girls by virtue of self-government.

We have in the field of Ohio and West Virginia a seven federations with three Associations ready for federation this month. The total number of girls in these federations is 2285 in fifty-six clubs, composed of girls from a number of industries and mercantile establishments.

I am enclosing you a leaflet which will give you some idea of the objective of these clubs. We are eager to have the federations [cooperate] with great civic and national movements and especially are we desirous of their feeling the impact of the Woman's Peace Movement.

The Club Girls Council will be held at Summerland Beach, Buckeye Lake near Columbus, Ohio, July 2nd-10th. Our first Council was held last year and our registration was one hundred and fifty and it will be much larger this year. On Sunday, the Fourth of July, we are planning a Peace Pageant to be given by the girls, War and its attendants, Death and Brute-Force, followed by Desolation, Want, Hunger, Hatred, etc. Then Peace with her attendants, Love and Life followed by Home, Happiness, Health, etc. The details of the Pageant are being worked out with great interest and care. We will be glad to send you a copy of plans later. Could you make the address of this occasion on Peace and the Woman's Peace Movement? If you cannot come for the Fourth, would it be possible for you to come at any other date during the Council. Could you also talk, to our secretaries and volunteer workers who will be at the Council, on some theme which would be in accordance with plans for our daily study of Industrial History. One result we hope to effect at the Council is to get every Federation to join the Woman's Peace Movement. We feel that the Young Women in the industrial world should have some opportunity to come into this movement and to know its great leaders and we covet for our girls the privilege of hearing of this from its strongest exponent. If you can come to us please let me know the terms on which you can come.

Sincerely,

Constance MacCorkle [signed]

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