Catt, Carrie Chapman General Correspondence Parkhurst, Marion

June 11, 1927.
Miss Marion Parkhust,
1808 Connecticut Avenue,
Washington, D. C.
My dear Marion Parkhurst:
I have written an open letter to the D.A.R. for
The Woman Citizen. It is now in the hands of 
the editor who is submitting it to a lawyer to
ascertain whether I have said anything libelous.

The aim of the article is to call them down for
their slanderous attacks upon other women's
organizations and the officers of those associations.
I have made a special attack upon that
Congressional Record Reprint which professed to
aim at the Maternity Act, but which really slandered 
many women. My hope is that the liberals in the
D.A.R. will stir a little motion within that body 
which will stop such procedure.

My difficulty in the matter is that I do not have
sufficient lists of the D.A.R. to whom to send copies
of The Woman Citizen. Everybody says you can get 
anything you want, so I am writing to ask whether you
desire the D.A.R. shown their duty sufficiently to
make an effort to get the lists of officers and member 
(as many as you can) for me. Our people do not seem
to be on the inside of that organization and, therefore,
I am relying on you to find a way to proceed.

I hope your ailments are better and not worse and that
you are now able to eat waffles in season.
Lovingly yours,


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