Blackwell Family Alice Stone Blackwell General Correspondence AMMiss Alice Stone Blackwell 3 Monadnock Street Upham's Corner Boston, Mass. - Dear Miss Blackwell, I beg to apologize for this belated acknowledgement of your favour of the 14th. December and your postal card with the Season's greetings, which I sincerely appreciate. I am not just as present in a position to comply with your request regarding the Socialist poets of Spanish America. Truly speaking, I do not believe there is yet what one might term socialist poetry among us, although here and there the "Ideal" passes through many of the poems which, yet, are not openly socialistic. Knowing now as I do that you are interested in this, I shall not fail in sending you any poems that I might find written along this particular lines. Incidentally, do you know Dicenta's poem on the brick-layer? I do not happen to have any copy of it at hand, but if you care to, I think I could procure one for you. I see that I have been betrayed by Mr. Walsh; yet, in all candour I must say that I am not quite sure whether is Betancourt the true name and Ivanovitch the, well, the fake one or vice versa. At all events, I let my friends call me by the second, so that it never might remind me of my most faithful creditors . . . Speaking again of Socialism and socialistic poetry, have you a copy of "Anarkos" by Guillermo Valencia. This poem is, I believe, very well written, although the ending is by all means platitudinous. With belated but yet very sincere wishes for your happiness in this new year, I remain, Very faithfully yours, America Futura '19AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR INTERNATIONAL CONCILIATION EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER, CHAIRMAN GEORGE BLUMENTHAL ALEA B. JOHNSON GANO DUNN WILLIAM B. MCKINLEY ROBERT A. FRANKS DWIGHT W. MORROW JOSEPH P.GRACE STEPHEN HENRY OLEN HENRY S. HASKELL, SECRETARY INTERAMERICAN DIVISION PETER H. GOLDSMITH DIRECTOR 407 WEST 117TH STREET NEW YORK CABLE: PADION, NEW YORK AUGUST 11, 1924 Miss Alice Stone Blackwell Chilmark Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts My dear Madam; In reply to your letter of August 8, may I suggest that you apply to the consul-general of Ecuador, Mr. Gustavo H. de Icasa, 17 Battery Place, New York, for information regarding the principal newspapers of Ecuador. Very truly yours, [?]Peter GoldsmithAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF TEACHERS OF SPANISH NEW ENGLAND CHAPTER 15 Beacon Street, Boston November 28, 1930. Miss Alice Stone Blackwell 3 Monadnock Street Dorchester, Mass. My dear Miss Blackwell: On December 26 and 27 the fourteenth annual reunion of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish will take place here in Boston. It would give the New England Chapter, of which I am president, great pleasure if you would be its guest at all or at any of the meetings you may choose during the two days. If you wish to come to the dinner, and desire to stay in town Friday night, we would be very glad to make arrangements for a room for you at the Copley Plaza Hotel. You are not to think of the expenses; friends are meeting all that, because we consider it an honor to have you with us I am sending you a program. Will you please let me know whether you will come to everything during the two days, or if you will honor any of the special meetings, luncheons, or dinner. I wish I could send you the program of speakers, but Dr. Henry Grattan Doyle of George Washington University, the national president, makes the program, and he has not yet sent it to us. However, I think the meetings will be very interesting. I shall see that you are brought in town and taken home again. With best wishes and compliments. Yours very cordially, Marie A. Solaul President, N.E. Chapter, A.A.T.S November 14, 1930 My dear Miss Blackwell, The Executive Board of the Boston Branch of the American Association of University Women will be very happy if they may have the honor of including your name in their list of honorary vice-chairmen for the Semi- Centennial Convention of the National A.A.U.W to be held in Boston, April 8-11, 1931. May I hear from you soon whether we may use your name on this list of friends of the Boston Branch? Very truly yours, Carita Hunter Lovejoy Corresponding Secretary Miss Alice Stone Blackwell 3 Monadnock Street Dorchester, Mass.C H LOVEJOY Aug April 20, 1938. Dear Boston Branch Member; Would you like to include your name in the book of autographs, which the Boston Branch of the A.A.U.W is compiling to present to Miss Woolley? There is still time, although the committee has been working for a year and a half on this project. Enclosed you will find a small white slip for your signature, which will be mounted into the book. It has been the hope of the Branch that everyone who signs her name will pay two dollars for the privilege of doing so, and thus help to complete the Mary E. Woolley International Fellowship Fund. If you have not already contributed to the Fund, we hope that you will do so now. If you have contributed, we would appreciate any additional gift in order to bring the total which is now $25,000 to $30,000 by June, so that the fellowship may be awarded next year. Just make out your check to the Mary E. Woolley Fellowship Fund, and mail it with your signature slip to Mrs. B. Alden Thresher, 188 Collins Road, Waban, Massachusetts. Will you join in this tribute to Miss Woolley? Very cordially yours, Irene K. Thresher (Mrs. B Alden Thresher) Chairman, International Fellowship Boston Branch, A.A.U.W.Dear A. A. U. W. Member - Your board needs your advice. We are in the throes of changing the by-laws, and this is a good time to suggest any changes you think would be helpful. I attended a meeting of the Urban Branch Presidents in Philadelphia a week or so ago where San Francisco, Detroit, St. Louis, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Washington, Baltimore, and Boston all exchanged ideas. All over the country $2. of our dues goes to Washington headquarters and pays for your journal and their other work, 10 cents goes to the Mass- achusetts organization, so of our $3. dues we have 90 cents left to work with here in Boston. Out dues are $2. less than the lowest of the branches with whom I talked. Most of them have headquarters of some sort and an executive secretary. Would you personally like to see that happen in Boston?_____________ Since most of the young graduates are in business, very few of them can come to our meetings. We hope to plan evening meetings for them. We have now very few young members. Such a headquarters would probably appeal to them more than to you. Do you think from that angle that it would be worth while?____________ Would you be willing to pay $5. dues, with the hope that it would mean a centrally located room to drop in for socialibility, for committee and group meetings?____________________ In any case out regular program meetings would probably have to be held elsewhere as such a club room would not be large enough. Would you prefer to have us give you the best program we can with the present dues? ______________ The Board and By-Laws Committee will be influenced completely by your answers in the recommendation they will make and these will be voted upon at the annual meeting on May 11th. In New York their $5. dues are supplemented by sustaining and patron members who pay $10. and $25. respectively. Would you be willing to contribute $10._________, $25. _________ , if this experiment should be tried? Other branches are planning various helpful community or educational projects. Have you any suggestions for us? ___________________________________________________________________________ Have you enough interest and time to give some of it to building up the A.A.U.W. in Boston? ________________________________________________ In what way could you help? (a) as a leader of a study group _________ (b) with clerical work _________ (c) with helping on the hospitality committee ________ (d) helping on the membership committee ________ or (e) __________________________________________. Can you suggest new members? _____________________________ _____________________________ Please fill out these answers and the following now and mail this letter to Mrs. B. Alden Thresher, 188 Collins Road, Waban. It will help us very much. Helen F. Warren Smith for the Executive Board We need your help in planning our program for the next year. Underscore the following subjects in which you are interested. Modern Art - Play - Literature Current Events Travel - Music French Conversation Legislature and Taxes Comsumer Buying Problems Child Psychology Problems of Family Relationships Personal or Family Budgeting Note below other subjects in which you are interested. Do you prefer study groups, Discussion groups, lectures? What type social events do you most enjoy? Bridge Luncheon or Supper Discussions Lecture Teas Underscore the times most convenient for meetings. Morning - Afternoon - Evening Monday - Tuesday - Wednesday - Thursday - Friday - Saturday Name __________________________ College _______________ Degree ______ Year ______ Adress ________________________________ Vocation or Avocation _____________________Wooley Fund. Miss Wooley Fund CommitteeAmerican Association of University Women Boston Branch This note goes to the member of the Boston Branch from whom we have not heard anything in answer to our other appeals concerning the "Blue Bird" deficit. We are within $170 of our goal, and it would be such a relief to the treasury not to have this hanging on through the summer. A very small contribution from every member will make it unnecessary to make any further demands upon you. The party which had been planned at the home of Mrs. Henry I. Harriman for June the third has been given up, since it is the opinion of the committee, than an individual appeal would be more acceptable at this busy season. Won't you co-operate with us? Sincerely yours, Irene K. Thresher for the Committee. Please make checks payable to the Boston Branch, A.A.U.W. and send to Mrs. B. Alden Thresher, 188 Collins Road, Waban, Mass. May 31, 1932.University Women Telephones Chelsea 8914-2 Cable Address "Sangatrol" Org American Birth Control League, Inc. 104 Fifth Avenue New York City February 4, 1926 3 Monadnock St. Dorchester, Mass. Dear Miss Blackwell: In recognition of your interest in the League and the aid you have given it, you were, at the annual meeting on January 12th elected to active membership in the League for the current year. According to the constitution the "active members" of the League are its voting members, and we hope that you may find it possible to attend the next annual meeting of the League on the third Tuesday of January, at which the directors are elected the general policy determined. Sincerely yours, Eleanor Dwight Jones (Mrs.. F. Robertson Jones) Acting President. [*President Margaret Sanger Vice-Presidents Mrs. Lewis L. Delafield Mrs. Juliet Barrett Rublee Treasurer Executive Secretary Mrs. Frances B. Ackermann Mrs. Robert S. Huse Assistant Treasurer Mr. J Noah H. Slee Chairman, Executive Committee Mrs. F. Robertson Jones Directors Mrs. Zachariah Belcher Mrs. Richard Billings Mrs. Dexter Blagden Mrs. George H. Day, Sr. Rev. William H. Garth Stuart Mudd, M.D. Mrs. Annie G. 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Philadelphia Civil Liberties Committee, 1301 Morris Bldg., Philadelphia, Pa. Detroit Civil Liberties Committee, 113 Oak St., Detroit, Mich. OFFICERS Chairman HARRY F. WARD, New York Vice-Chairmen DUNCAN McDONALD, Illinois JEANNETTE RANKIN, Montana Treasurer HELEN PHELPS STOKES Director ROGER N. BALDWIN Associate Director ALBERT DeSILVER Counsel WALTER NELLIES Field Secretary LUCILLE B. MILNER Washington Correspondent HENRY R. MUSSEY Attorneys and correspondents in leading cities March 28, 1922. Miss Alice Stone Blackwell, 3 Monadnock St., Boston 25, Mass. Dear Miss Blackwell: Thank you for yours of the 27th. I enclose a statement in the case of Magon which we have recently made up and which will give you further information, although I think practically all of it is covered in the New York Call story to which Mr. Weinberger referred you. I shall be delighted to see Dr. Dole and will give him all the information we have for his missionary work. In regard to Magon's physical condition, I would get the exact statement of what it is from him. He is allowed to cover that in a letter. I should then make inquiry of the prison physician on the precise point he raises. The correspondence might look interesting and will probably speak for itself. There is no way of getting behind the two statements. With regards, Sincerely yours, Roger Baldwin RNB/IE P.S. Sometimes the prison authorities allow an outside physician to come in and make an examination. NATIONAL COMMITTEE JANE ADDAMS, Chicago, Ill. HERBERT S. BIGELOW, Cincinnati, O. SOPHONISBA P. BRECKINRIDGE, Chicago, Ill. ROBERT M. BUCK, Chicago, Ill. JOSEPH D. CANNON, New York City PARLEY P. CHRISTENSEN, Salt Lake City, Utah JOHN S. CODMAN, Boston, Mass. LINCOLN COLCORD, Washington, D.C. JAMES H. DILLARD, Charlottesville, Va. JAMES A. DUNCAN, Seattle, Wash. CRYSTAL EASTMAN, New York City JOHN LOVEJOY ELLIOTT, New York City EDMUND C. EVANS, Philadelphia, Pa. EDWARD W. 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J. MUSTE, Katonah, N.Y. SCOTT NEARING, New York City JULIA S. O'CONNOR, Boston, Mass. Wm. H. PICKENS, New York City JOHN NEVIN SAYRE, New York City ROSE SCHNEIDERMAN, New York City VIDA D. SCUDDER, Wellesley, Mass. SEYMOUR STEDMAN, Chicago, Ill. HELEN PHELPS STOKES, New York City NORMAN M. THOMAS, New York City Edw. D. TITTMANN, El Paso, Texas Wm. S. U'REN, Portland, Ore. OSWALD GARRISON VILLARD, New York City B. CHARNEY VLADECK, New York City L. HOLLINGSWORTH WOOD, New York City GEORGE P. WEST, San Francisco, Cal. BISHOP CHARLES D. WILLIAMS, Detroit, Mich. [*Roger Baldwin*] THE JOINT COMMITTEE ON MATERIALS FOR RESEARCH of the AMERICAN COUNCIL OF LEARNED SOCIETIES AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL ROBERT C. BINKLEY, Chairman Western Reserve University STUART A. RICE Central Statistical Board ARTHUR H. QUINN University of Pennsylvania NORMAN S. B. GRAS Harvard University Western Reserve University Cleveland, Ohio February 21, 1940 LAURENCE VAIL COLEMAN American Association of Museums H. M. LYDENBERG New York Public Library GEORGE HERZOG Columbia University ADELINE BARRY, Executive Secretary Western Reserve University Miss Alice Stone Blackwell 1010 Massachusetts Ave. Cambridge, Massachusetts My dear Miss Blackwell: I am writing to thank you for your very encouraging letter and for the copy of your book. Your inclusion of both English and Spanish text is particularly effective. I regret that you are no longer able to translate, but I assure you that the work that you have done will serve as a model and inspiration to others. If you should happen to know anyone who might be willing to do some volunteer translating either of prose or poetry, I should be very glad to be put in touch with any one of them. Very sincerely yours, Robert C Binkley Robert C. Binkley Chairman[*Rob't C. Brickley] Executive Committee. Chairman-Mayor W. S. BULLOCK. Secretary- W. J. STEBBINS, Prin. High School. Treasurer- J. C. MERCHANT, Member of Board of Education. Ex-Mayor W. W. PEARCE. CHARLES WHITNEY, Pres. Security Savings Bank. PERRY. L. PERSONS, City Attorney. F. W. BUCK, Chairman City Republican Committee. F. T. FOWLER, Editor of Sun. F. M. WEST, Editor of Gazette. DR. G. K. MAGARIAN, Organizer in the Field. Pro-Armenia Committees American Friends of Armenia W. J. Stebbins, Secretary Waukegan, ILL. Waukegan, ILL, Feb. 27, 1906 Miss O. S. Blackwell Dear Madam- I would inform you that some of the best and prominent citizens of Kenosha, Wis. have become sympathizers and workers for the Armenian emancipation and already organized a committee in said city. I wish you write to them a [?] ting letter, on their becoming good workers into this most humane cause. Respectfully G.K MagarianChairman Honorary Chairman [*Judea*] Executive Secretary HENRY J. CADBURY RUFUS M. JONES CLARENCE E. PICKETT American Friends Service Committee Twenty South Twelfth Street Philadelphia 7, Pennsylvania Telephone, RITTENHOUSE 6-9372 August 27, 1947 Alice Stone Blackwell 101 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge 38, Mass. Dear Friend: You have no idea how delighted we were to receive your very generous check for $200.00 for our relief in India. This gift will be used immediately and we are especially grateful because it has come at a time when our Committee feels a real urgency about helping India at this particular time. All of us here feel that our Committee is qualified to render a service to India, and that India needs this encouragement. It is indeed heartening to know that you are among those who share our concern for bringing help and hope to India as she embarks on a new destiny. Sincerely yours, [*Hannah D. Beiter P.] Hannah D. Beiter Assistant to Hugh W. Moore Enc. HDB/dp Receipt #67678 [*Judea*] March, 1948 American Friends Service Committee Program in I N D I A Progress Report We reprint a report issued on the first of March by the Deputy Section Leader of out Delhi-Punjab Section. As you know, we have mobilized a group of volunteers, in addition to our regular workers, to meet the crisis needs in both the Punjab and the Kashmir. All out work was coordinated with the over-all relief schemes of the United Council for Relief and Welfare to which organization the summary outlined below was submitted. In accordance with an established Quaker principle, the Friends Service Unit has attempted to aid all communities in India and Pakistan, using the extent of the need as our only criterion for deciding whom to help. Because we are a very small group, and most our members are Europeans, we have tried to select work for which foreigners who do not speak the language may have some special contribution to offer. We have sought jobs where being a neutral outsiders is an asset and not a handicap. Briefly, our work in the area under consideration during the past few months is as follows: A. East Punjab 1. Kurukshetra: (a) During the months of November and December, one Unit Member lived in Kurukshetra and organized a wool and cloth distribution programme among the women. This proved to be very popular, as the women were most of them expert knitters and were familiar with sewing. They welcomed the opportunity to help themselves by making garments. During this period, 1,481 pounds of wool and 1,250 needles were distributed to about 7,000 women. At the end of December, our worker had to leave to attend to her personal affairs, and this work was carried on by a volunteer from the National Christian Council. (b) In December, another Unit Member acted as leader for a group of ten volunteers from the Bengal Red Cross. These boys, most of them students, helped to organize the large cloth distribution programme by taking an accurate inventory of the supplies and arranging them properly in the godowns. The Bengal volunteers had to return to their classes early in January, but the Unit member has remained at Kurukshetra. He has recently been acting as Transport Officer and has helped to organize a bus service for the camp welfare workers. 2. Jullundur: One Unit Member has been in Jullundur since November, helping to organize a home for destitute women and children and receiving abducted women. 2. Delhi: (a) Searching Service: One Member has assisted the Red Cross in organizing centres in the Delhi camps to assist in locating missing persons. There are now four such centres in operation, staffed largely with student volunteers.-2- (b) Medical Assistant: Another Member has been helping in the dispensary at Kingsway camp daily. 4. Gurgaon: Another Unit Member, a trained Midwife, is just starting a project in the District of Gurgaon, where she hopes to encourage several thousand Meos to remain at their homes, and not run away to Pakistan. Gandhi was very much interested in this District, and suggested that we cooperate with the Central Relief Committee's efforts in this regard. We are happy to report that we have arranged to carry on this work with the guidance and cooperation of that body. We hope to assist in restoring a feeling of security and harmony in this area by helping to re-open government dispensaries and schools and assisting these people in other ways so that they feel they are quite safe and well protected in India and need not leave the country because they are Muslims. B. West Punjab 1. Khanewal: Toward the end of December, the Unit sent a team of five members, two of whom are trained nurses, to Pakistan. The government authorities in Lahore requested this team to go to Khanewal, about 35 miles from Multan, where many thousands of refugees had recently arrived from India. Since their arrival, the team has helped to open a 70-bed hospital; organized a milk distribution programme, feeding all children under three; assisted in camp organization and sanitation; helped to organize and keep in repair the transport for the camps. The situation is much improved, but the refugees are still in need of help. This team hopes that soon they will be able to secure replacements to handle the work they are doing so that they can go on to other areas which may have greater need for their services. 2. One Unit Member has been asked by the christian Relief Committee to act as their link with the field, and tour the whole area frequently to report where the greatest need lies. We hope that he will be able to do this, as it seems to be very much needed. 3. Searching Service: We had hoped to be able to organize a service to correspond and cooperate with the Searching Service in India, but unfortunately the member assigned this work fell ill, and we had no one available to replace him. We expect to start this important work as soon as possible. C. States: 1. Kashmir and Jammu: The Unit has been concerned with the welfare of non-Muslim refugees in the Alibeg camp, Mirpur District, and hoped to be able to arrange for their evacuation to Jammu. However, this does not seem practical at the moment. We have, therefore, sent a team of six people, including one doctor and two nurses, to Alibeg to bring relief to those who are stranded there. (The two nurses on this team are National Christian Council volunteers.) We have also sent two members to Jammu to assist the refugees there. These women are particularly concerned with the women refugees, and are assisting in the rescue and rehabilitation of abducted women and children. 2. Bahawalpur: The Unit was requested by Gandhiji to send on Member to accompany his personal representative to this state to arrange for the evacuation of the -3- non-Muslims who visited to come to India. Those negotiations are continuing and we are pleased to report that the Nawab is most helpful and seems to have a genuine concern for the welfare of all his people. 3. Patiala: A Unit Member is at the moment in this state with Dr. Sushila Nayyar, making plans with the Maharaja for the rescue of abducted Muslim women. It is hoped that the Muslim State of Bahawalpur and the Sikh State of Patiala will lead the way and set and example for others to follow, in making thorough and well-executed plans for the return of abducted women and the evacuation of refugees. D. Administration. One Unit Member is in Delhi, working full time on administration, and another spends part of his time in Delhi on this work and part touring our various projects and making plans for new work. At the present time, we have a total of 18 Unit Members, working in East and West Punjab and Kashmir. The rest of the Friends Service Unit Members, ten English, American, New Zealand and Indian workers are carrying on our programme in Bengal. DISPOSITION OF PERSONNEL When we last issued a detailed list of the location of our members, great interest was expressed in this information. Our difficulty is that the scene changes so rapidly and the information becomes quickly out of date. We are, however, giving you below a list of the disposition of our regular members and special Punjab volunteers as of February 18, 1948, and believe it will be found interesting in spite of the time lag. Mervin Palmer Administration Calcutta Russell Curtis Finance Officer Calcutta Verna Curtis Village Handloom Centres Calcutta Barbara Pittenger Secretary Calcutta Roger Cartwright Pipha Raghabpur Project Bengal Sally Cartwright Pipha Reghabpur Project Bengal Gordon Muirhead Indian Red Cross Delhi Leslie Cross Administration Delhi Kathleen Cross Information Centre (Refugee Camp) Delhi Stuart Wright Pakistan Team Leader Khanawal, W. Punjab Peg Wright Administration Delhi Charles Freeman Transport (Refugee Camp) Kurukshetra E. Punjab-4- Dr. Robert Pittenger Medical work Jhelum, Kashmir Norman Fenn Transport, Refugee Exchange Jhelum, Kashmir Dorothy Schlick Nurse (Refugee Hospital) Khanewal, W. Punjab Kenneth Aldous Refugee Exchange Jhelum, Kashmir Francis Starr Transport, Refugee Exchange Khanewal, W. Punjab Margaret Jones Hospital and Relief Khanewal, W. Punjab Agnes McClean Refugee Exchange Jammu, Kashmir Evangeline Ingram Reconciliation and Relief Gurgaon, E. Punjab Fulque Agnew Information Service Lahore, W. Punjab (Rfugee Camp) Bob Alter Refugee Exchange Jhelum, Kashmir Frank Bahadur Hospital and Relief Khanewal, W. Punjab Jean Simpson Nurse (Refugee Camp) Khanewal, W. Punjab Swarn Sarin Women's Welfare (Refugee Camp) Jullundur, E. Punjab Doris Chetsingh Medical Work (Refugee Camp) Kingsway Camp, Delhi Florence Large Repatriated (ill-health) England American Friends Service Committee 20 South 12th Street Philadelphia 7, Penna. American League TO ABOLISH CAPITAL PUNISHMENT (Incorporated Under the Laws of the State of New York) 112 EAST 19TH STREET NEW YORK OBJECT: to abolish capital punishment in every state in the Union, in the District of Columbia, and in the American Territories and Dependencies January 30, 1930 Miss Alice Stone Blackwell 3 Monadnock Street Upham's Corner Boston, Mass. My dear Miss Blackwell: It means a great deal to us to have you as a member of our Committee of One Hundred and Fifty for 1930. We believe that if we can hold our friends together in every part of the country, and raise the necessary funds, that we will be able to make a great impression on the Legislatures of this year and next. The Committee of One Hundred and Fifty is undertaking to raise $15,000 for this year's work. Do you care to make a contribution to this fund? Would it be possible for you to get a group of friends together who would raise one hundred dollars for the year's work? We will keep you in touch with the outcome of this year's Legislatures, and hope to hear from you again. Sincerely yours, Roger William Riis TREASURER SECRETARY, FINANCE COMMITTEE RWR/EDS [*Telephone Algonquin 5198 Officers CLARENCE DARROW, Ill., President DR. GEORGE W. KIRCHWEY, N. Y., Honorary President. WARDEN LEWIS E. LAWES, N. Y., Honorary President. DR. FREDERICK L. HOFFMAN, Mass., Vice-President RUTH HALE, N. Y. Vice-President VIVIAN PIERCE, N. Y., Executive Secretary ROGER WILLIAM RIIS, N. Y. Treasurer MRS. HELEN HARTLET JENKINS, N. Y. Chairman Finance Committee ALBERT HIRST, N. Y. Chairman Speakers Committee Board of Directors WARDEN LEWIS E. LAWES, N. Y. Chairman RAYMOND T. BYE, University of Pennsylvania CLARENCE DARROW, Ill. KATHERINE BEMENT DAVIS, N. Y. DR. BERNARD GLUECK, N. Y. DR. HASTINGS H. HART, N. Y. Russell Sage Foundation RUTH HALE, N. Y. ARTHUR GARFIELD HAYS, N. Y. ALBERT HIRST, N. Y. MRS. JESSIE D. HODDER, Mass. FREDERICK L. HOFFMAN, Mass. MRS. HELEN HARTLEY JENKINS, N. Y. DR. GEORGE W. KIRCHWEY, N. Y. ADOLPH LEWISOHN, N. Y. M. NEWBORG, N. Y. MRS. KATHLEEN NORRIS, Cal. VIVIAN PIERCE, N. Y. ROGER WILLIAN RIIS, N. Y. DR. LOUIS N. ROBINSON, Pa. DORIS STEVENS, N. Y. SAMUEL UNTERMEYER, N. Y. DR. MIRIAM VAN WATER, Cal. FRANK P. WALSH, N. Y. National Advisory Committee JANE ADDAMS, Illinois DR. HERMAN M. ADLER, Ill. ROGER BALDWIN, New York JOHN D. BARRY, California HON. M. PLIN BEEBE, S. D. DR. FRANZ BOAS Columbia University ANNA HEMPSTED BRANCH, Conn. SENATOR ROYAL S. 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JUDGE JAMES HOGE RICKS, Va. ELLEN B. SCRIPPS, Cal. MAYNARD SHIPLEY, Cal. R. B. SIMMS, Ariz. DR. AMOS O. SQUIRE, N. Y. DR. NORMAN M. THOMAS, N. Y. RIDGELY TORRENCE, N. Y. OSWALD GARRISON VILLARD, N. Y. AUGUST VOLLMER, Cal. LILLIAN D. WALD, N. Y. WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE, Kansas*]AMERICAN LEAUGE FOR INDIA'S FREEDOM organized to express American support of Indian independence through non-violence 112 EAST 19th STREET New York CITY ALGONQUIN 4-8838 March 15, 1937 To our Friends: You have not had a bulletin for some time because Mr. Gregg, who has edited it in the past, has been too much occupied with other duties, and Mr. Santesson has very kindly prepared material for us, which appears in the enclosed. We hope to get these bulletins to you more often in the future. The office will be very glad to answer any inquiries which friends of India may have and to furnish special articles on request. We are in constant touch with the Indian National Congress and some of its leaders. Those of you who are interested to help continue this news service are requested to send in contributions. It costs only a little, but the help of every friend of India is needed. Sincerely yours, John Haynes Holmes Chairman. P.S. Your last contribution was $4.00 , paid in 1936 JHH/EM Ecns.3 Miss Alice Stone Blackwell Boston Mass. [*National Committee [JABEZ T. SUNDERLAND,] Honorary Chairman JOHN HAYNES HOLMES Chairman JOHN HOWLAND LATHROP FRANK MURPHY STEPHEN S. WISE Vice-Chairman ELEANOR METZEL Secretary DEVERE ALLEN ROGER BALDWIN ALICE STONE BLACKWELL ROY E. BURT EDMUND B. CHAFFEE H. W. L. DANA DOROTHY. DETZER W. E. B. DUBOIS CHARLES A. ELLWOOD WALDO FRANK FREDERICK B. FISHER WILLIAM FLOYD ELIZABETH GILMAN A. C. GODDARD SIDNEY E. GOLDSTEIN RICHARD B. GREGG GORDON B. HALSTEAD FRANCIS HENSON JESSE H. HOLMES FANNIE HURST EDWARD L. ISREAL PAUL JONES PAUL U. KELLOGG LEON ROSSER LAND OWEN R. LOVEJOY ROBERT MORSS LOVETT WALTER LUDWIG JULIAN W. MACK J. B. MATTHEWS HERBERT A. MILLER FRED ATKINS MOORE LOUIS I. NEWMAN RAY NEWTON REINHOLD NIEBUHR GEORGE L. PAINE WILLIAM PICKENS CHARLES EDWARD RUSSELL JOHN NEVIN SAYRE ABBA HILLEL SILVER UPTON SINCLAIR SIDNEY B. SNOW WILLIAM B. SPOFFORD ALVA W. TAYLOR WILBUR K. THOMAS CHANNING H. TOBIAS OSWALD GARRISON VILLARD ROBERT WHITAKER ELIOT WHITE HOWARD Y. WILLIAMS*] [*Executive Committee DEVERE ALLEN ROGER BALDWIN JOHN HAYNES HOLMES LEON ROSSER LAND JOHN HOWLAND LATHROP WALTER LUDWIG J. B. MATTHEWS Indian Advisors SUDHINDRA BOSE SYUD HOSSAIN DHAN [GOPAL MUKERJI] [HARIDAS T. MUZUMDAR]*] American League for India's Freedom Date ___ 118 East 19th Street New York City I enclose $ , my dues for 1937 Remarks _________________________________ _________________________________ Signed ________________________ Address _______________________AMERICAN LEAGE FOR INDIA'S FREEDOM 112 East 19th Street New York City BULLETIN FOR MARCH, 1937 Edited by H. Stefan Santesson, Editor of Indo-Asia Information Service JAWAHARLAL WEHRU SPEAKS ON SPAIN We quote the following paragraphs from the Presidential Address of Mr. Nehru at the 50th session of the Indian National Congress, at the village of Faizpur in December, 1936: "In Spain today our battles are being fought and we watch this struggle not merely with the sympathy of friendly outsiders, but with the painful anxiety of those who are themselves involved in it. We have seen our hopes wither and a blank despair has sometimes seized us at this tragic destruction of Spain's manhood and womanhood. But in the darkest moments the flame that symbolizes the hope of Spanish freedom has burnt brightly and proclaimed to the worlds its eventual triumph. So many have died, men and women, boys and girls, that the Spanish Republic may live and freedom might endure. We see in Spain, as so often elsewhere, the tragic destruction of the walls of the citadel of freedom. How often they have been lost and then retaken, how often destroyed and rebuilt. "I wish, and many of you will wish with me, that we could give some effective assistance to our comrades in Spain, something more than sympathy, however deeply felt. The call for help has come to us from those sorely stricken people and we cannot remain silent to that appeal. And yet I do not know what we can do in our helplessness when we are struggling ourselves against an imperialism that binds and crushes. "So I would like to stress before you, as I did before, this organic connection between world events, this action and interaction between one and the other. Thus we shall understand a little this complicated picture of the world today, a unity in spite of its amazing diversity and conflicts. In Europe, as in the Far East, there is continuous trouble, and everywhere there is ferment. The Arab struggle against British imperialism in Palestine is as much a part of this great world conflict as India's struggle for freedom. more AMERICAN LEAGUE FOR INDIA'S FREEDOM BULLETIN FOR MARCH, 1937 "In the world today...two great forces strive for mastery - those who labor for democratic and social freedom and those who wish to crush this freedom under imperialism and fascism. In this struggle Britain, though certainly not the mass of the British people, inevitably joins the ranks of reaction. And the struggle today is fiercest and clearest in Spain, and on the outcome of that depends war or peace in the world in the near future, fascist domination or the scorching of fascism and imperialis." HEALTH IN BRITISH INDIA The Public Health Commissioner to the Government of India has recently issued a report for 1934. The news bulletin of the All-India Congress Committee, commenting on the judgment arrived at in this report that 1934 was a "moderately healthy year" quotes a few facts from the said document: "Of a total of 6,900,000 deaths, or 24.9 per mille, in British India, nearly 200,000 were from cholera; 84,000 from small-pox; 80,000 from plague; 4,000,000 from fevers; 300,000 from dysentery and diarrhea; 500,000 from respiratory diseases..." Apart from the deaths caused by malaria, "there is very considerable evidence to show that, at least, 100,000,000 individuals suffer yearly from malaria in British India alone, and that is probably a moderate estimate." EDUCATION IN BRITISH INDIA A retrenchment of Rupees 20,000,000 has been effected in the educational budgets since 1928-29. The expenditure is thus brought down from 28 1/2 to 26 1/2 crores rupees. The number of primary schools for boys in British India has, during the period under review (1928-29 - 1934-35) come down from 171,386 to 166,588. The percentage of scholars in the population has decreased from 7.49 to 7.19. WOMEN IN BRITISH INDIA Mrs. Kamaladevi Chattopadhhyaya, Member of the National Executive of All India Congress Socialist Party, was recently refused passport to travel out of India. Still later, when she was a candidate in the elections, the District Magistrate of Bangalore prohibited her from addressing public meetings in the city and suburbs for a period of six months. LITERATURE IN BRITISH INDIA Security of Rupees 1,000 was demanded by the local government of Delhi, and, consequently, the monthly magazine "Bharatiya Sahitya" (Indian Literature), the organ of All India Literary Academy, could not be started. The object of the scheduled magazine was the collecting in one place and in the Hindustani languages of the best of provincial literatures. COMMUNAL AMITY IN BRITISH INDIA Commentators on Hindu-Moslim Communal "Discord" may be interested in this item: The Calcutta Mussalman, an influential weekly, carried the following notice some months ago: "On account of the Hindu festival Durga Puja the office of the Mussalman will remain closed for a few days. There will therefore by no issuance of the paper on the 30th instant." -2- moreAmerican League FOR INDIA'S FREEDOM BULLETIN FOR MARCH, 1937 FINANCE-POLITICS IN BRITISH INDIA "The cok" of London, carried the following in its issue of Jan. 27, 1937: "Important factor in the reactions of all parties towards the Constitution and particularly of the National Liberals, preominently the party of the knighted Indian businessmen, is the possibility of using the Constitution to alter the pound-rupee exchange rate which now adversely affects Indian native industry and equally benefits English exporters to India. The opposition to the Constitution is not likely to be confined to the Congress party alone when it is found, as is likely, that the selfgoverning machinery provides no effective method of altering the exchange rate." CIVIL LIBERTIES IN BRITISH INDIA Dr. Robindranath Togore, President of the Indian Civil Liberties Union, has issued a press statement which rends in part: "Two recent cases of alleged suicide amongs the Detenus in Bengal have brought the deplorably condition of those Detenus into painful prominence again. For many years Bengal has endured the agony of seeing thousands of her sons and daughters confined and crushed in detention camps without even the semblance of a trial. Their lives have been ruined, their families have been broken up, and the shadow of unending suffering has lain heavily over the province and over India. finding these conditions unendurable, some Detenus have tried for some relaxation of them in order to earn their livelihood, but this relaxation was denied to them and after due notice to the authorities, they have committed a technical breach of the detention order, resulting in their arrest and conviction. "Neither the people nor the Government dare ignore the implications of these tragic happenings, and I trust therefore that the Government will take steps to have an impartial inquiry. Police and departmental inquiries and reports cannot be accented as substitutes for an impartial inquiry. The fate of large number of our young men and women is bound up with this system of detention which crushes the body and kills the spirit." Dr. Ram Monohar Lahin, Secretary of the Foreign Department, All Indian Congress Committee, writes: "We had, according to our usual practice, dospatched to you our newsletter No. 8 on Thursday, 25th September, but we understand that it was seized or held back in the post office under orders from the Government. On the following day, 26th September, a police search of our office took place and all copies of old and new numbers of our newsletters were seized. Some papers and circulars, also those relating to the Civil Liberties Union, were removed. "The search warrant was issued by the district magistrate of Allahbad under a section of the Indian Press Emergency Powers Act which authorities the police to search and seize any documents which appear to be un-authorized news-sheets." Government naturally paid no attention to the fact that tho Congress has been issuing various bulletins for the past ten years - and that the present newsletter is a year old. (The release in question, No. 8, finally arrived in this country in the beginning of December.) STRIKES Workers of several mills in ahmadabad have gone on strike in protest to a unilateral cut in wages. Mahatma Gandhi has expressed approval of their actions, and acted as arbitrator. -3- more American League FOR INDIA'S FREEDOM BULLETIN FOR MARCH, 1973 STRIKES (Cont.) Twenty-seven workers in the Bhojudih workshop, Bengal-Nahpur Ry., were demoted under the plea of surplus hands - but were told to do the same work as before. They refused, and were dismissed. A further thousand workers were dismissed in the sympathy strike that resulted as a gesture of unity with the dismissed workers, and also in protest against the newly started 12 hour shift in place of the former eight hours. Twenty thousand workers had struck by the end of January. THE NATIONAL CONGRESS AND INDIA'S PEASANTRY Jawaharial Nehru, speaking at the Faizpu Congress, declared: "India is essentially a land of the peasants. In recognition of this fact, and to bring the Congress nearer to the peasant masses, we are meeting here today at the village of Faizpur and not, as of old, in some great city. The Lucknow Congress laid stress on this land problem and called on the Provincial Committees to frame agrarian programmes. This work is still incomplete for the vastness and intricacy of it has demanded full investigation. But the urgency of the problem calls for immediate solution. Demands for radical reforms in the rent and revenue and tho abolition of feudal levies have been made from most of the provinces. The crushing burden of debt on the agricultural classes has led to a wide-spread cry for a moratorium and a substantial liquidation of debt. In tho Punjab Karza (Debt) Committees have frown up to protest the peasantry. All these and many other demands are insistently made and vast gatherings of peasants testify to their inability to carry their present burdens. Yet it is highly doubtful if this problem can be solved piecemeal and without changing completely the land system. That land system cannot endure and an obvious step is to remove the intermediaries between the cultivator and the State. Cooperative or collective farming rust follow. "The reform of the land system is tied up with the development of industry, both large-scale and cottage, in order to give work to our scores of millions of unemployed, and raise the pitiful standards of our people. That again is connected with so many other things -- education, housing, roads and transport, sanitation, medical relief, social services, etc. Industry cannot expand properly because of the economic and financial policy of the Government which, in the name of Imperial Preferences, encouraging British manufactures in India, and works for the profit of Big Finance in the City of London. The currency ratio continues in spite of persistent Indian protest: gold has been pouring out of India continuously now for five years at a prodigious rate, though all India vehemently opposes this outflow. And the new Act tells us that we may do nothing which the Viceroy or the Governor might consider as an unfair discrimination against British trade or commercial interests. The old order may yield place to the new but British interests are safe and secure. "And so one problem runs into another and all together form that vast complex that is India today. Are we going to save this by potty tinkoring and patchwork with all manner of vested interests obstructing us and preventing advance? Only a great planned system for the whole land and dealing with all these various national activities, coordination them, making each serve the larger whole and the interests of the mass of our people, only such a planned system with vision and courage to back it can find a solution. But planned systems do not flourish under the shadow of monopolies and vested interests and imperialist exploitation. They require the air and soil of political and social freedom." -4- OFFICE OF THE AMERICAN PEACE SOCIETY ROBERT TREAT PAINE, PRESIDENT. BENJAMIN F. TRUEBLOOD, SECRETARY. THOMAS H. RUSSELL, TREASURER. 31 BEACON STREET, BOSTON, May 22 1906 My dear Miss Blackwell: Seeing the difficulty you have found in getting to the meetings of our Board of Directors, at our Annual Meeting the other day we placed your name on our list of vice presidents. I hope it may be agreeable to you to serve the Society in this capacity. Yours very friendly Benjamin F. Trueblood The Unitarian Fellowship for Social Justice TO PROVIDE FELLOWSHIP FOR UNITED ACTION AGAINST ALL FORMS OF SOCIAL INJUSTICE AND TO ENABLE OUR MEMBERS TO SUSTAIN ONE ANOTHER IN THE APPLICATION OF RELIGIOUS IDEALS TO THE NEEDS OF THE PRESENT DAY ANNUAL DUES ONE DOLLAR 540 North Main Street, Randolph,Mass. December 15,1937 [*PRESIDENT GEORGE L THOMPSON DIGHTON, MASS. VICE-PRESIDENTS LON R. CALL VIVIAN T. POMEROY EVERETT M. BAKER FRANK S. GREDLER ADVISORY COUNCIL EX-PRESIDENTS JOHN HAYNES HOLMES ALSON H. ROBINSON HENRY G. IVES WILLIAM W. LOCKE ROBERT W. JONES*] [*TREASURER WILLIAM L. MCKINNEY BRIDGEWATER, MASS. RECORDING SECRETARY MISS MARY L. ALLEN 2 THOMAS PARK CAMBRIDGE, MASS. CORRESPONDING SECRETARY JOHN H. TAYLOR WESTWOOD, MASS. EUROPEAN REPRESENTATIVE EDWARD H. JAMES BOX 292 GENEVA, SWITZERLAND*] Mrs. Alice Stone Blackwell Cambridge ,Mass. My dear Mrs. Blackwell: I have never had the pleasure of meeting you personally although for many years I have read with interest your letters and articles in the press written in the interests of various good causes. Just as present I am interested I the organizing of a society for Social Progress. As you read this no doubt that your first reaction will be ,"We have enough organizations now." But may I call your attention to articles 10 of our "Statement of Purpose" which I inclose. We are starting splendedly with officers representing a wide section of our country. I would like to have you in our membership the conditions being names at the end of the statement. Further, I am writing to ask if you would be willing to serve on our committee of International Relations of which Rev. Charles H.Pennoyer,D.D. of Rutland Vermont is chairman. I think that your experience and advice would be of great help to us. I was president of the Unitarian Fellowship for Social Justice for amny years and refer you to any Unitarian minister. Yours in the common cause, George L. ThompsonUnitarian Fellowship to be attended toThe American Union for Social Progress. Statement of Purpose. The American Union for Social Progress is a Union of persons having the Social Vision organized: 1. To promote the social betterment of society. 2. To conserve and safeguard social values already attained. 3. To preserve our political and religious liberties. 4. To keep alive the ideals of democracy. 5. To study social problems and make surveys of social conditions. 6. To formulate plans, outline campaigns of action, encourage the extension of popular privileges, and to lead in the struggle for human rights. 7. To provide opportunity for the expression of opinion and needful publicity. 8. To assist in the spread of knowledge and the extension of opportunities of education. 9. To cooperate with individuals and agencies already at work in the interests of social progress in this and other countries. 10. To unite and coordinate all forces working for the ends indicated. To further the ends above stated we invite all persons regardless of race, color, religious faith, political affiliations, social philosophy , or economic conditions, who are willing to work for, help sustain, and cooperate with this Union to become members. By this Union we hope to present a united front against all forms of injustice, tyranny and oppression, and to promote the common welfare of humanity. To become a member send your name and address to Mr. Hardin C. Waters, General Secretary, 3 Pine Avenue, Takoma Park, Md., D.C. There are no dues. Voluntary contributions are welcomed. Duward Howes Merie Armitage Editor Publication Director AMERICAN WOMEN The official Who's Who among the Women of the Nation Published by Richard Blank Publishing Co. 527 West Seventh Street Los Angeles, California August 31, 1934 Miss Alice Stone Blackwell 3 Monadnock Street Boston, Massachuettes Dear Miss Blackwell: Your name has been suggested to us as one to whom an admittance questionnaire for AMERICAN WOMEN should be sent. The inclusion of your biography will add to the prestige of our forthcoming volume, and we hope to have the pleasure of receiving your completed questionnaire at an early date. You will find the enclosures, although brief, quite self-explanatory. Very truly yours, AMERICAN WOMEN [*Durward Howes*] Durward Howes Editor DH/mq Encl. AMERICAN WOMEN THE position held by women in every phase of contemporary American life is unique in the world. She has entered every department of civic life and charitable work, education, government, commerce and industry, art, drama, music, literature, the professions, recreations, and other occupations which a century ago were the exclusive province of men. In many cases she has made unusual advancements in many special lines, and has been accepted in practically every field of endeavor as the equal, and in cases the superior, of the male. The need for a permanent record of these women and their achievements is obvious. Serving that purpose, "American Women", the official WHO's WHO among the women of the nation is being compiled. The names of many women of achievement are familiar to everyone; we list below only a few examples: Grace Abbott Helen Willis Moody Jane Addams Ruth Bryan Owen Cecilia Beaux Frances Perkins Mrs. Edward Bok Mary Pickford Willa Cather Rosa Ponselle Carrie Chapman Catt Nina Wilcox Putnam Edna Woolman Chase Mary Roberts Rinehart Katharine Cornell Nellie Tayloe Ross Jane Cowl Florence Rena Sabin Amelia Earhart Ernestine Schumann-Heink Helen Keller Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney Anne Lindbergh Mabel Walker Willebrandt Alice Roosevelt Longworth Mary E. Woolley There are, in addition to the small group listed above hundreds of other distinguished women. The annual publication of "American Women" will enable these women to enjoy the prestige and receive the national recognition due them. 1935 EDITION of AMERICAN WOMEN Who are eligible? Women who have attained distinction in governmental affairs, as well as civic leaders, professional women, business leaders, educators, artists, writers, scientists, leaders in charitable organizations, etc., are eligible to have their biographies recorder in "American Women." There is no cost involved It will be impossible for anyone to purchase a listing in this book. No one will be obligated or urged to purchase the completed volume. Various local and national organizations and prominent citizens throughout the United States will be asked to recommend eligible women. Each community will exercise great care to make certain that its district is properly represented. Admission questionnaires will be sent on recommendation only. A double listing system will be used in "American Women." One listing will be according to states and cities, and will contain only the names of the individuals. The second listing will include the biographies listed alphabetically. There will be NO pictures. "American Women" will be published annually. The first edition will be ready in the spring of 1935. [*Durward Howes Editor*] [*Merle Armitage Publication Director*] AMERICAN WOMEN The official Who's Who among the Women of the Nation Published by Richard Blank Publishing Co. 527 West Seventh Street Los Angeles, California ADMITTANCE QUESTIONAIRE NOTE: Please read questionnaire through before answering. If you prefer NOT to answer certain questions, please indicate by drawing a line through the questions. Please use a typewriter or print. Full name _______________________________ Birthdate _____________________________ Surname Frist Middle Month Day Year (This may be omitted if desired) Present home _____________________________________ Birthplace __________________ Street and No. City State Married ________________ Date __________ Maiden Name __________________________ (If more than once, give names and dates) Husband's name ____________________ Husband's occupation ____________________ Children: Name _____ Birthdate _____ Name _____ Birthdate _____ " ______ " ______ " ______ " ______ Schools attended ________________________________________________________________ College or universities attended _ Degree or Diploma _ Year Graduated ________ " " " _ " " _ " " ________ " " " _ " " _ " " ________ Social security ___________________ Professional sororities _______________________ Honor sororities _____________________________ Honor societies __________________ Honorary degrees ___________________________ National officer, past or present, of any of above _______________________________ Organization Office Date Scholarships or fellowships held (indicate if honorary) _________________________ Are you engaged in business or do you have a professional affiliation? _________ If so give details _________________________________________________________________ Name of firm or affiliation Street City State Official capacity _________________________________________________________________ Officer, director, or trustee of other business, professional or educational institutions. ___________________________________________________________________________________ Name Title City ___________________________________________________________________________________ Name Title City ___________________________________________________________________________________ Name Title City Previous business or professional affiliation _____________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ Public offices (Include elective and appointive and state which) _ Date _________ ____________________________________________ Date _________ (OVER)Religion ________________ Political party ____________________ Member following organizations (Include fraternal, civic, church, charitable, service clubs, local and national organizations): _____ Office held _____ Dates _____ _____ Office held _____ Dates _____ _____ Office held _____ Dates _____ _____ Office held _____ Dates _____ _____ Office held _____ Dates _____ _____ Office held _____ Dates _____ _____ Office held _____ Dates _____ Hobbies __________________________________________________________________________ Favorite recreation or sport ______________________________________________________ Author of: ________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Other information that should appear in biography (include honors received in art, literature, music, sport, etc.) ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ I am giving you this information with the distinct understanding that there is NO cost to me and further that I am under no obligation to purchase a book Date _____ Signed _____ Mail to Editor, AMERICAN WOMEN, Richard Blank Publishing Co.-527 West Seventh Street, Los Angeles, California Form 20 8-11-34 [*Durward Howes Editor*] [*Merie Armitage Publications Director*] AMERICAN WOMEN The official Who's Who among the Women of the Nation Published by Richard Blank Publishing Co. 527 West Seventh Street Los Angeles, California SUBSCRIPTION BLANK It is impossible for anyone to purchase a listing in "American Women." There is no obligation, either direct or implied, to purchase a copy of the book. The first edition of "American Women" will be limited in accordance with the advanced demand. For those who wish to subscribe in advance, the price will be $10.00 postage prepaid, which is the established pre-publication price. The book will sell regularly, after publication, at $12.50. Richard Blank Publishing Company 527 West Seventh Street Los Angeles, California I wish to place an advance order for "American Women" at the pre-publication price of $10.00, postage prepaid. (1) Please send C.O.D. (2) Enclosing check. Name ___________ Street and Number ______________ City and State ___________ Make checks payable to Richard Blank Publishing Co. Form 21 8-11-34AMERICAN WOMEN Among the interesting and important facts a tabulation of the biographies will reveal are: The number of college graduates. The number of professional women, attorneys, doctors. The number of educators. The number of women prominently identified in government service. The number elected or appointed to public office. The number of women actively engaged in club work. The number of women doing social service work. The number of women engaged in business. The number of women identified with art, literature, and music. The number of women who are married. Hobbies. Favorite recreation or sport. Distribution of Volume The 1935 edition of "American Women" will be available to: Public Libraries. Newspapers (for reference). Book Stores (for public sale). Colleges and Universities. Alumni Associations. National Sororities. Clubs. Individuals whose names appear in the book. Others interested in having a complete and authoritative record of the leaders among the women of America.EDITOR And PUBLISHER The Richard Blank Publishing Company, recognizing the important place women now occupy in all of the affairs of our nation and acknowledging the far greater part they are destined to take, have engaged themselves in the task of publishing "American Women," a dignified and authoritative record of those adjudged qualified for national recognition. Determined to give the volume prestige, and in recognition of his recent success as Editor of "America's Young Men," the official Who's Who among the young men of the nation, the publishers have secured the services of Durward Howes as Editor of "American Women." Mr. Howes, a successful merchant and a civic leader, is a former national President of the United States Junior Chamber of Commerce. They have also retained as Publication Director, Merle Armitage, who served in the same capacity for "America's Young Men." Mr. Armitage is a nationally known impresario and business manager of many of the world's greatest celebrities, and is himself the author of eight successful books. This book will be a handsome volume suitable for the finest libraries but so bound that it will withstand the constant handling it will receive as a reference book. In its physical aspect "American Women" will be six by nine inches in size, beautifully bound. There will be no pictures. It will be set in eight point modern Roman type, very readable, two columns to a page, cross indexed for ready reference, printed on a high grade book paper. Form 24 8-11-34Telephones Boston, 447 Back Bay Stoughton, 18 Three hundred and fifty-five Commonwealth Avenue My dear Miss Blackwell: I enjoyed the clipping on Birth Control from Seattle and liked being remembered by you, then, as well as at Easter. I hope you will forgive me for not answering your letter about the Girls Camp, I did not feel like helpingon that project, and meant to write and explain. I am sorry. Mr. Ames and I read with real pleasure your translations from the Spanish poets in the Bulletin of the Women's Auxiliary Committee of this? Pan American? Congress. They are beautifully rendered, it seems to us, and we feel a personal interest [after having been introduced to the works of Spanish moderns, through you, in hunting among the shops in "Rio" for their books. "I am proud to know you." Sincerely yours Blanche Ames]Mrs. Oakes Ames