NAWSA General Correspondence Hooper, Jessie [*Welcm see?] COPY. WISCONSIN WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION Mrs. Ben Hooper, Congressional Chairman January 20, 1917. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, 171 Madison Ave. New York City. My Dear Mrs. Catt: I have just returned last night from the State Convention. A new business woman's organization of five hundred, - two hundred and fifty members having been taken in, in the last two weeks, and the University Girls League, stormed the convention and carried a motion that we ask the Legislature for a referendum this year. Mrs. Victor Berger was the only member of the board who was anxious for a referendum ad she had charge of the program for convention which was held in Madison. She wet down there to arrange for the convention and encouraged those women who knew nothing about the situation, either in state of nation, to ask for a referendum. They came to the convention pledged to vote that way and nothing anyone could say made the slightest impression on their minds. I think I would be safe in saying that in the two organizations there is not half a dozen women who would have done any suffrage work to speak of. Miss Comstock who organized the Business Women's Club and who secured a large number of the members, was ill at the time this action was taken and was ill during the time of the convention. She is almost beside herself to think that they should have behaved themselves in such a manner. They have "knocked" down the whole Board and State Officers, and "rolled us over in the dirt". One needs a sense of humor at this time. Mrs. Youmans and I laughed until we almost cried over the absurdity of the whole affair. You see I could take it very philosophically for the reason that I had interviewed the Governor before the Conventionand had been told by him that he was against any suffrage measure and that he was telling me so that we might not waste our time down there. You see why we could laugh so heartily after it was all over. I have some very good news for you. I called upon Mr. Richard Lloyd Jones, Editor of the State Journal and asked him whether or not it was true that he had had an interview with President Wilson this fall and if the President had said to him that he had changed his opinion on the Federal Amendment since going to Atlantic City, and Mr. Jones said that he spent two and half days with the President in his private car and had talked over many matters and several times on suffrage. He said he had talked with him another time this fall and said that the President did say that he had changed his opinion on the Federal Amendment. He said that he did not feel justified in publishing the President's statement and that he did not feel so now as the President was talking to him as a man, not as an editor, but he said he was glad to give me the information that we might know better just where the President stands. page 2. -letter to Mrs. Catt from Mrs. Ben Hooper, Jan.20,1917. He said that he had also had an interview within a very short time, - I think he said within the last few days but am not sure as to that, - with Mr. Crane whom he says is closer to the President than any other man in the United Stateswith the exception of Mr. House. He said that Mr. Crane told him that the President would sign the Federal Amendment for Womans Suffrage and when Mr. Jones asked him if the President would ask for the Federal Amendment in his message to Congress, Mr. Crane said he was not authorized to state but that he expected something of that sort. You will see by this clipping that I am enclosing that I have resigned as Legislative Chairman. I am very happy over it because I will have more time to put on my congressional work in the State. Most devotedly, (signed) Jessie Jack Hooper Mrs. Ben Hooper JJH GF October 5, 1926 My dear Mrs. Catt: I was more glad than I can tell you to receive your letter of September 24th. I should have answered it before but soon after receiving it I proceeded to fall down stairs, break a rib and strain a ligament in one of my legs. I have been quite a little the worse for wear since then. I am getting better, hope I shall be alright in a short time. Fortunately I wrote a note to Mrs. Norris and forwarded your letter to her, the day I received it. I am so delighted that things are coming on so well and that there is to be another Conference. I think your program is a wonder and nothing but desperate illness will make me miss that conference. I will come to Washington at any time you say and do anything you want done, it makes no difference what it is. At what Hotel is the Conference to be held? I want to make a reservation. If someone is making your reservation and will include one for me, I shall be very much pleased as then I will probably be on the same floor and it might be more convenient for you to make use of me. When you let me know at what Hotel the Conference is to be held, please tell me whether or not I shall make my own reservation. The rest of my family are all well. My baby and my lord and master both join me in much love to you. Ben says your program is a marvel. Looking forward to seeing you in December and hoping that I may be able to relieve you of some of the routine work which will save your strength for the things worthwhile, I am, Yours devotedly, Mrs. Ben Hooper CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT 171 MADISON AVENUE NEW YORK October 14, 1926 My dear friend: You certainly are a breaker; - I hope you mend as easily as you break. I have heard that when people break ribs they are filled with mush and milk, and the mush swells up and holds the rib in place. When I see you I shall wonder if that has been your cure. I have not yet heard from Mrs. Norris, but hope to. The Conference will be held where it was before, - at the Hotel Washington. I have not yet secured the rates for the hotel, but these will be sent out in the printed material after the 25th. The main committee will meet then and I shall get to work immediately. I am moving into town on that date and will work hard from the moment on. Either make your own reservation when you get the rates, or tell me again, for I shall be sure to forget it. I am glad that you will be there. With love and best wishes, I am Yours most cordially, Carrie Chapman Catt Mrs. Ben Hooper 669 Algoma Boulevard Oshkosh, Wisconsin. April 27, 1926 Dear Mrs. Catt: Your letter was received shortly before I left for the League of Women Voters convention and as I expected to meet you there I did not reply. I can assure you the disappointment was very great when I found you were not to be there. The day before I went I was in Milwaukee and Lorna said she wished she were going to the convention, she wanted to see Mrs. Catt and Winnie Cunningham, so I suggested she come along with me for a few days. When we arrived and found out in a round about way that neither one of you were going to be there, we were almost in a frame of mind to turn round and go home. You could not have helped but feel flattered if you could have listened in at meeting at which you were to speak. They did not let the fact that you were not be there, get to the public, and there was a very large audience. When Mrs. Gellhorn made the announcement that you could not be there, there was an audible groan which came from the whole audience. The whole convention felt terribly cheated but of course there was no one there who would have been willing to have you take the chances of coming when you were not well. I cannot tell you how glad I am that you are still the chair- man of the continuing committee of the Causes and Cure of War, even ifo' the committee does not have the power to act. I have a feeling that before we get through with this the committee will have that power. It surely is a step forward to have all the organizations working along the same lines even though they are not doing anything like the amount of work they should be doing. I shall be very glad indeed to get a copy of the report. I had quite a nice little visit with Professor Shotwell in St. Louis. He gave me some very excellent ideas to bring out in speeches We gad a not and heavy session on the prohibition resolution. Some of the women were very angry at the way it went. I think there would have been less trouble if it had started anywhere but Pennsylvania and the majority resolution would have been quite satisfactory to the convention if there had been no minority report, but after the minority report was brought in it made it look as though the convention was side- stepping the issue. The trouble seemed to on the words "Volstead Act' It was announced by the Chair that if we put in that section it would compel us to take legislative action in support of the Volstead Act even though there might be some bill come up which would be more effective. I made a change in the section and asked Miss Sherwin if such a resolution would pledge us to legislative action, She said she thought it not. After the minority report had failed to carry I moved the substitution as you will find it written in the report. Then Miss Sherwin stated that my substitution was only a rewording and meant the same as the original, so of course it lost. If you can figure it out so the my substitution means a specific act, I would like to know about it. It seemed to me that the women who were supporting the minority report would be perfectly satisfied with the substitution; that the Press would not have an opportunity to make the criticism which they did make, and if we were endorsing the amendment we ought certainly to endorse the enforcement of it. I think it undoubtedly would have carried if Miss Sherwin had not stated it was not a change but a play on words. My one fear for the League of Women Voters is that we are getting too much red tape and growing too conservative, afraid to take action on the things we really approve of. I think outside of the Pennsylvania delegation, the Iowa delegation was the most indignant. They were almost ready to quit the convention. The President said she would have been perfectly satisfied with the substitution I suggested, but they were ashamed to go home with the resolution as it was passed. I expect you have seen Miss Morgan before this and she has told you that she has been attacked by Mrs. Stuart of Wisconsin. I think I have never known of anything more flagrant then this attacked and the sending of it to the Ward Department. I hope from the bottom of my heart that Miss Morgan will go right after it. I think the time has come when all those being attacked should go after it. She took some copies of the pamphlet sent out by the Wisconsin Manufacturers' Association, and said she would give one to you. This is the most horrible one I have seen yet. I am very much inclined to go before the next meeting of the Mfg. Association and call them on the pamphlet. I really think they should be sued, as the only thing these people who slander seem to understand, is dollars and cents, and if they had to pay a good round sum they would keep a civil tongue in their heads. I am so sorry that you and Miss Hay have has such a hard winter and most sincerely hope you won't try to stay in New York another winter. My family all join me in much love to you. Give my love to Miss Hay. Yours devotedly, Mrs. Ben Hooper JJH/ET July 5, 1926 Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, 171 Madison Avenue, New York City. My dear Mrs. Catt, I have meant to write you ever since I came back from the Speakers Conference of the "World Alliance for International Friendship Through the Churches". I am going to inclose to you a copy of the letter I sent to Miss Morgan in regard to the Conference. It was most Interesting and hopeful, the way it worked out. I felt the stopping of Raymond Robins talking against everything the rest were talking for, was a big step in advance. Miss Geruick, of the YWCA, was there and had quite a talk with me as she was so happy that you had consented to continue as chairman of the continuing committee. She said she had so many ultra-conservative women in her group and she did not think there was any other human being except yourself who could hold them in line, but anything you said would go with them. She also said she felt your strength should be preserved, that you should have the best possible secretary furnished to you; that we could not afford to let you use your vitality for anything which someone else could do. She also said she thought the ideal person for that position was Miss Schain. I quite agreed with her in every respect. I have just has a letter from Miss Morgan, saying she has offered Miss Schain to you but that you had not accepted. Now please do remember that the accepting of Miss Schain as a secretary in this work is not selfish on your part because we are all agreed, Miss Morgan included, that your ability, your brains and your wonderful judgement, are things we must have if we are to accomplish anything, and that it is to the best interests of the work that everything which is possible for anyone else to do should be removed from your shoulders, that you may have the strength to plan and arrange the work for the rest to do. When you accept a fine secretary you are only helping the work and the rest of us who are depending upon you to lead us. My [?] send their love to you. With much love, I am Yours devotedly, Mrs. Ben Hooper JJH/ET CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT 171 MADISON AVENUE NEW YORK July 21, 1926. Mrs. Ben Hooper, 669 Algoma Blvd., Oshkosh, Wisc. My dear Mrs. Hooper: I was very much interested in your account of the Speakers' Conference in Detroit and especially glad to get the platform which evolved from it. I think it might be worth something, as you say, to stop the condemnation of the Court and the League of Raymond Robins and his group, but I do not suppose they will abide by this platform. It is worth something, doubtless, but I find it a very wordy and evident evasion of the whole situation. Would it not do our souls good to find some group that dared to speak out the truth in some program worth while! Miss Gerwick is a splendid girl and I am very fond of her. She is terribly anxious to have what she believes are the more progressive organizations push her women into a little bolder and more active position, but I want to tell you I do not think there is anything more to be wrung out of the Committee in the Cause and Cure of War. After great care, meetings of the Committee were held for the purpose of getting recommendations for study and action on the part of all the organizations. I do not know whether that program has been sent you. It has been slightly changed by the criticism of organizations, but I think these changes have been mainly verbal. I enclose one now. It is, at least, bolder than the Speakers' Conference program and is as bold as these organizations will stand for. As a matter of fact, the discussion of arbitration, disarmament and security is the foundation everything and can be discussed for a long time to come in an educational way with profit to ourselves and with the effect of driving our own information nearer and nearer to action along this line. However, I do not think we are going to succeed in getting a very big program through this Committee. The Federation of Women's Club is hesitant to move. They put in Mrs. Rufus Dawes as their Chairman of International Relations. I do not know whether or not she has accepted. I do not know the woman, but I know the situation. No woman as near to politics as that woman is, would ever dare to take a stand on any subject involved in those politics and I know in advance that she will be timid and hesitant. This will not help the Federation to take a stronger stand. Mrs. Hooper, continued. Page 2 It was proposed by Miss Gerwick that the Regional Conferences be held on the Cause and Cure of War. The Federation and also the League voted "no" on this, but the smaller organizations voted "yes". Now the League has made a counter proposition that there shall be one more National Conference on the Cause and Cure of War in the hope that it may do as much good as the last one. I have written Mrs. Sherman, who is the Vice-Chairman of the Committee, that if we are unable to do this, I think the Committee should disband. At any rate, there is no prospect of making the Committee such a going concern as to have a paid secretary, a headquarters and all that sort of thing such as would be required if we were to take Miss Schain away from the League of Women Voters. She is a high priced young woman and there is no money with which to pay such a salary; besides, there is really no work for her to do. That combination of organizations and present that that program. I am more and more convinced that this is the only way we can get ahead. When we think of that, we call to mind all the many organizations already existing and it does not look easy. In the meantime, my dear friend, I am trying to get over all the bronchitis and pneumonia I had last winter, so as to be able to do something by next winter. Give my love to all the family and remember that the world is always richer to me because you are in it. Lovingly, Carrie Chapman Catt August 1, 1926 My dear Mrs. Catt: I was so very glad to get your letter of July 21st. I agree with you that the findings of the Speakers Conference of the World Alliance is weak, even weaker than the committee for the causes and cures of war, but it seemed very remarkable that they came out with as much as they did, after attending all the meetings. The combination seemed so utterly hopeless the first day. There were Quakers; there were ministers who were militarists; there was Raymond Robins with quite a group of supporters; and it just seemed chaos. I talked with Professor Shotwell the first night and we both agreed we did not see how they could possibly come to any agreement at all. He said he thought he had wasted his time in coming out there. Miss Gerwick was on the committee and she told me that the men went right over the table at each other at times. She thought at first it was going to be hopeless to get anything out of it. The thing I consider the most important, is, that Raymond Robins was a membersof that committee and helped form the program. Also Doctor Wm. I. Hull, who was an aggressive quaker, was a member of the committee. I told them quite plainly in the conference, that I did not think the churches had been doing their duty, and whether this conference was going to be of value or not would depend entirely on whether the churches would give proper cooperation; that I thought every church should devote a sermon period at least four times a year to a talk on permanent peace, and that where the ministers were not thoroughly informed on the situation, they should get outside speakers into their pulpits. I told them that the church had the ready made audiences and that those of us who are trying to get the message to the people, would give anything for the opportunities they have. I am inclosing the printed story of us Speakers Conference. I am sorry that we are not getting better co-op eration from the Federated clubs and also from the League of Women Voters, as I think the regional conferences would have reached many more people than a national conference. I quite agree with you that we are not going to get very far until we organize for the definite plan of what organizations. It is hard as those of us know, who worked for suffrage. There are many organizations in existence but I think the fact we have made a desperate effort to secure permanent peace without starting another organization, would put us on a splendid footing. Miss Schain and I were talking at the League of Women Voters convention about the situation, and she said she did not believe we were going to get very far without a regular crusade for peace. I feel exactly the same way she does about it. I am ready to help anything that will get public opinion started in the right direction, but I am quite thoroughly convinced that beace will have to be secured through intensive work, with the one object in view. Organizations are all so afraid of jeopardizing some other part of their work that they are absolutely cowardly in facing great issue in the world today. I am so glad you are taking care of yourself this summer, saving your strength do you may be able to guide the rest of us in the work to come. I had such a nice letter from Ruth Morgan in regard to giving Mis Schain to you for your work. She told me there was nothing she was not willing to do to help save your strength and ability for this work. She is a very splendid woman I think, and I feel sure Miss Schain would be more than glad to come to your assistance at any time that you needed her, as her admiration for you is unlimited. I had rather a knock-down and drag out attack of Flu last winter which did me up but I am beginning to get back where I feel more like myself and how to soon be ready to attack most anything. If you will make the plans, there are so many of us who will be only too glad to carry them out. Lorna and the children are here. Everyone is well and the whole family send much love to you. Please give my love to Miss Hay and, as the baby says: "I love you more than tongue can tell". Yours devotedly, ___________________________ Mrs. Ben Hooper JJH/ET 669 Algoma Blvd., Oshkosh, Wisconsin. October 10, 1992 Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, 171 Madison Avenue, New York City, N.Y. My dear Mrs. Catt: Your letter of September 30th reached me but a few days ago. The plans made for the disposition of the bequests is perfectly satisfactory to me. I imagine you have sailed e'er this and that this letter will not follow you but you will be much in my thoughts during the coming year and my one great wish is that you may keep your health and come back to us next summer where we will also gladly welcome you. Most sincerely yours, Jessie Jack Hooper _________________ Mrs. Ben Hooper. Per E.J. National Committee on the Cause and Cure of War 1010 Grand Central Terminal Building New York City 171 Madison Avenue, September 24, 1926. Mrs. Ben Hooper, 669 Algoma Blvd., Oshkosh, Wisc. My dear Mrs. Hooper: As I am now living in the country, I am not connected with a stenographer often; consequently, I do not get all done that I would like. I have been thinking of you for many weeks and wished to write you a letter, but it is only now, that I have an urgent favor to ask, that I am writing. It has taken some months, but at last a vote (and the unanimous) has been carried by the Committee on the Cause and Cure of War authorizing a second Conference on the Cause and Cure of War to be held in Washington December 5th-10th. I am really much pleased with the development that has lately taken place. It is clear that the organizations are going to work together on a common program. Just as soon as we eliminated the adherence of the United States to the League of Nations, from the controversy, the effort to get together was not difficult. The solution we are finding for the war question is, of course, arbitration, It is that which lies at the bottom of the League of Nations, the World Court and every other effort to bring war to an end. My personal view is that when we have succeed (if we do) in getting this country to enter bolder treaties than it has yet done, it will, in time, lose its prejudice and it will now then be difficult to go into the League. At present it is impossible. Our program for the next Conference is based upon the recommended program which you have already received, I think. Perhaps, however, you have not seen the printed ones, so I will enclose a copy. I believe it is a great step in advance and that people in the future, looking backward at this Conference, will find it a real milestone on the peace road. When we were planning the other Conference, I wrote to ask if you could do anything about raising money in Michigan and begged that you try to raise $500. You went to Mrs. Charles Norris and got the whole amount at once. I have not sent the list of contributors secured from each organization to the organization and have begged each one to write to those contributors and ask if they will repeat their contributions of a year ago. I have written such a letter to Mrs. Norris, but do not have her address. I remember that she lives in Milwaukee. I am enclosing that letter to her and will ask you to put the address on the envelope. If you can add something in a postscript to the letter to in a little letter of your own. I Page 2 shall be very glad indeed. I do not know how we shall come out in raising the money. When the votes were finally taken, the voice of place ranged all the way from New York to San Francisco and the choice of dates ran all the way from September to June. I finally wrote the Committee and said I could only attend the Conference and work for it if it were held not later than the first week in December as I was going away to a warm climate for the winter. I hope to do all the arranging for the Conference except to raise the money and invite the speakers. However, most of those who usually are helpful along these lines are in Europe, so I have been having the time of my life and doing things in my own way. I have advised a program, a copy of which I am sending you. Each section of that program has now been submitted to experts with the request that it be changed somewhat if it did not bring out the full meaning. I have received splendid nominations for speakers and suggestions, These nominations have not been put in the program yet. I have asked all the Chairmen who served at the last Conference to do so again and they are doing it. Miss Morgan, who is great on mobilizing speakers, will not be home until the 8th of October. I am hoping we may have a great deal of the money raised before she arrives so that I shall not have to ask her to do anything but help about the speakers, Now, my friend, what are you going to do to help with this Conference? I am sure you will answer that you will do anything wanted. The only difficulty I have is that I really cannot appoint anyone to anything except through the consent of the organizations. I must accept those that they are willing to have represent them. Nevertheless, I hope to find you a place of usefulness and that you will help us out as you did before. If you have anyone to suggest who is an expert upon the subjects to be presented, do let us hear from you. I am much disappointed about the Sunday meeting and the dinner. We are anxious to get good drawing cards for those affairs and as yet nothing appeals to me as quite big enough. Give my love to the baby and her babies and also the Lord and Master. Lovingly yours, Carrie Chapman Catt Nov. 21, 1929 My dear Mrs. Catt: I am home from my western trip, arrived about the 10th and then went to Detroit to speak to the New Century Club there. My trip was very successful. I spoke forty-eight times in thirty- five days, not only to women's clubs but to the student body of Morning Side College in Sioux City; to the University of Wyoming at Laramie; the University of Oregon at Eugene; the Normal School at Cheney near Spokane; the University of Arizona at Tucson; and before several High School student bodies. I had fine reaction everywhere and every one of my state charimen are most enthusiastic workers. I was paid a very high compliment in Los Angeles where I gave a short talk at the Friday Morning Club, speaking on the program with Bertrand Russell. The Dean of the Dept. of Philosophy of the University of Southern Calif., sat next to me at luncheon. He said Bertrand Russell gave a very fine talk but that he told him nothing he did not already know, but that my short talk was much more valuable because I had brought out points he had never thought of before. I spoke many times in California because that is the state that Hiram Johnson comes from. I spoke in four towns in the District where he lives; Marysville; Woodland; Calusa; and Chico, and had a most enthusiastic reception of my talks everywhere. I also spoke in San Francisco; Oakland; Los Angeles; Pasadena; Long Beach; Alhambra; Anaheim, County convention; Riverside; Bostonia, County conven- tion of San Diego County, and even spoke at the Needles as I went out of the state. I also had a compliment which pleased me very much at the Univ., of Arizona. The Dean of the University introduced me and after I had finished speaking he shook hands and said it was by far the most constructive speech they had ever had on International Relations. One of the Professors came up and thanked me for my talk; said he had heard many, many, speeches on peace but had never heard anything that was in the same class as I had given them that morning, as it was so clear cut and constructive. I think the work for getting resolutions passed for the World Court is well under way but I am sending out a letter at once calling to the attention of my chairmen the statements in your October 12th letter. I inclose a copy of what I am sending to them. I will be delighted to have a letter from you to send to the state publications of the Federation. Will be glad if I can have it very soon then they can perhaps get it into their December issues. I think that will be very valuable There are 75 listed. If you can send me that many I will be glad to send them out, if not send what you can and I will distribute them where I think they will do the most good. Yours devotedly, Mrs. Ben Hooper JJH/ET National Committee on the Cause and Cure of War "I doubt if war ever settled anything, it unsettles everything."--Napoleon I. [OFFICERS General Chairman--MRS. CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT, 1511 Grand Central Terminal Bldg., First Vice-Chairman--MISS RUTH MORGAN, 1015 Grand Central Terminal Bldg., New York City. Second Vice-Chairman-- MISS HENRIETTA ROELOFS, 600 Lexington Avenue, New York City, Third Vice-Chairman--MRS. EDGERTON PARSONS, 80 Maiden Lane, New York City. Recording Secretary--MRS. BEN HOOPER, 669 Algoma Boulevard, Oshkosh, Wisconsin Corresponding Secretary--MISS JOSEPHINE SCHAIN, Room 1511, Grand Central Terminal Bldg., New York City. Treasurer--MRS. EDGERTON PARSONS, 80 Maiden Lane, New York City. Finance Committee--MRS. WILLIAM D. SPORBORG, Chairman, Hawthorne Avenue, Port Chester, New York. Publicity Committee--MRS. GEORGE B. FORD, Chairman, 31 East 49th Street, New York City.] [MEMBERS American Association of University Women--DR. MARY E. WOOLLEY, President, South Hadley, Massachusetts. Council of Women for Home Missions--MRS. ORRIN R. JUDD, President, 105 east 22nd Street, New York City. Federation of Women's Boards of Foreign Missions of North America--MRS. F.I. JOHNSON, President, 150 Fifth Avenue, New York City. General Federation of Women's Clubs--MRS. JOHN F. SIPPEL President, 1734 N Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. National Board of the Young Womens Christian Associations-- MRS. ROBERT E. SPEER, President, 600 Lexington Avenue, New York City. National Council of Jewish Women--MRS. JOSEPH E. FRIEND, President, 1807 Palmer Avenue, New Orleans, Louisiana. National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs--MISS MARION H. McCLENCH, President, 200 East Washington Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan. National League of Women's Voters--MISS BELLE SHERWIN, President, 532 Seventeenth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. National Woman's Christian Temperance Union--MRS. ELLA A. BOOLE, President, 377 Parkside Avenue, Brooklyn, New York. National Women's Trade Union League--MISS ROSE SCHNEIDERMAN, President, 247 Lexington Avenue, New York City.] Headquarters 1511 Grand Central Terminal Bldg. New York City VANDERBILT 6806J December 20, 1929 Mrs. Ben Hooper, 669 Algoma Boulevard, Oshkosh, Wisconsin My dear Mrs. Hooper, I have before me your letter of November 21 and I congratulate you upon getting back from your trip. I wondered how you would come out with it. I thought it was a pretty big and heavy responsibility for a woman who carries her bread in her pocketbook. I congratulate you and I am rejoiced over all the good things that happened to you and the many compliments you received. I am sure you did very great good. You did not say that you heard in California of any conversion of Hiram Johnson, so I suppose he is still remaining recalcitrant. I am so glad the Federation got to work on those resolutions before anyone else did, because you will have something to present. We have arranged for the care of the resolutions in this way. We have appointed Miss Eastman and Miss Caukin to check up on the hearings to be given the women by the senators. I have written the senior senator in each state a letter asking for the hearing. When we do not get a response these girls will go to see them. The matter of the resolutions will now be transferred to Miss Schain -- I have been doing the correspondence concerning them up to this time. She will take the part of the work which looks to the mobilization of the delegates to go to the senators, which is a pretty difficult task. She is going to Washington early and will take care of them there. Rachel Ezekiel has been good enough to come up to New York and has been here several weeks, so that we have run off the necessary correspondence at a great rate. She is now returning to Washington. I am going down on the 8th. I think we shall be amply prepared to take care of everything, but if you can sit out with and some others the job of filling the envelopes, we shall be greatly appreciative. [*Fifth Conference on the Cause and Cure of War Washington D.C., Jan. 14-17 Incl., 1930.*] 142 Mrs. Hooper -2- 12/20/29 I hope that you will be at the hotel so that I may eat the droppings from your plate that are improper for a diabetic lady to have. Now we have another proposition, and you have had a letter about it in your mail. We are proposing to have a memorial to the Naval Conference in London. I proposed to all our members that we ought to do this in order to keep up with Japan. I was chided, and not too gently, for having made this proposal when we ought to do it "because it is the right thing to do". I knew that the Board of officers of the League of Women Voters were in session and so sent my letter, which went to all the Presidents and Chairmen of International Relations, direct to Miss Sherwin and Miss Morgan during that meeting. In consequence, the Board discussed it and were very much pleased with the idea. They propose getting a loose-leaf book and sending the leaves out to all their people so that they may sign the individual pages. We are at work upon the Memorial and we have promised to have it in the hands of those in the city by Monday. It will reach you and others a little later. You will have to have a correspondence with Mrs. Sippel as to how this is to be managed. I am writing her a special letter today and will enclose a copy of it. She is coming to the Conference, and we both need to keep her in as good humor as possible. Of course there is very little time for us to prepare a Memorial and so we are doing it by organizations and all the organizations are doing it alike. I put a vote as to whether we should do it in the name of American women or in the name of the Cause and Cure of War. I hope they will do it in the name of the Committee because I doubt if we can get enough done to warrant the claim that we are speaking for American women. I shall certainly get the Memorial to Sippel as to how you can best attend to it. I think she is feeling more tender towards you than she was, but we might as well ripen that tenderness into a real affection. I am glad that you are going to be down at Washington early, and I am glad you are going to stay at the Hotel Washington. I anticipate the pleasure of being with you very much. I am glad you have some grandchildren to play Christmas with. Please remember me to your family, and may your holidays be full of cheer. Affectionately yours, Carrie Chapman Catt Carrie Chapman Catt E CCC:rbe Dec. 10, 1929 My dear Mrs. Catt: I am hearing from some of my chairmen that the resolutions are coming in very well indeed. However, I am going to send out another letter urging that they call the attention of their clubs to the fact that we must have the resolutions all in Washington before January 16th. I believe I am going to have excellent results in my campaign for resolutions. I am inclosing the questionnaire you sent me. Not being the President of course I have no right to make a selection of a representative on the Nominating Committee. I know you say you will not stand for re-election, but you will just have to if the Conference is to continue. I am ready to come to Washington at any time you need me or that I can be of any service, after the first day of January. I have to be there from the 7th to the 10th to attend the General Federation Board meeting, but can come as early as the 2nd if there is anything for me to do. I have some very interesting and amusing things that I want to tell you when I see you. Please remember me most kindly to Miss Wilson. With much love and hoping you may have a delightful Christmas, I am Yours devotedly, Mrs. Ben Hooper JJH/ET December 12, 1929 Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, 120 Paine Avenue, New Rochelle, New York. Dear Mrs. Catt: Owing to the illness of a very dear Aunt, Mrs. Hooper has gone out to Iowa for a few days. In the meantime your communication of the 10th has come in. I am sure Mrs. Hooper would want me to acknowledge it for her, and I feel just as sure that you may depend upon her wishing to comply with one or the other of your suggestions. Just as soon as she returns, yours will be the first letter to be called to her attention and I know she will very promptly reply to it, in all probability the very first of the week. Most sincerely yours, Sec'y to Mrs. Hooper Dec. 16, 1929 Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, New Rochelle, New York. My dear Mrs. Catt: I have returned home from Iowa, where I left my Aunt much improved. Found your letter awaiting me. I do not need to tell you that I am ready and anxious to undertake anything which you think will be best. I agree with you that it will be most humiliating for American women to make no demonstration of support for the disarmament conference. You know the situation and how powerless I am to get the things done in the Federation that should be done, on account of the attitude of the General Federation President. I of course, have no power to speak for the Federation; what she will say to this letter I do not know. If you remember, she signed a resolution passed by the South-eastern Division of the Federation, endorsing a big Navy. I was afraid at the last Board Meeting that she would get the Board to go on record for a big Navy, but they endorsed my Report in which I asked that we leave that question to be settled by the Government. Whether she will do anything to cooperate in this I do not know. Personally I am yours to command. So long as the Federation is a member of the Conference on the Cause and Cure of War, or course I will be able to work through that. Yours devotedly, JJH/ET. Mrs. Ben Hooper CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT 120 PAINE AVENUE NEW ROCHELLE NEW YORK December 31, 1928 Mrs. Ben Hooper 669 Algoma Blvd., Oshkosh, Wisc. My dear Mrs. Hooper: Thank you a thousand times for sending me a Christmas remembrance. This Christmas was a hard one to go through. Another year it will not be quite so difficult and I am particularly grateful to everyone who remembered me in any way, for it all helped very much. I have not had a drink of the pineapple juice as yet, but we have had a wonderful desert made in which part of it was used. We have now discovered a real "swell" desert for company. I do not think it would be very good for you, but the rest of your family would like it. If you care to have the recipe, I shall extract it from the part of the family who knows how to create it. It consists of an angel cake which is split and spread with the concoction, which also fills the center. It can be made of the pineapple juice, thickened with gelatin and red cherries stirred into it to give it some color. Whipped cream is added and if one wishes to be very swell, some fresh grated pineapple can be put on the top. You could not make it from these directions, but if you think it would appeal to your family, I shall send you the recipe. Hoping, dear friend, to see you soon in Washington and with the information the our total number of resolutions is now 10,033 (which we are sending to Mr. Borah today), I shall await a further visit with you in the Capital City. Many, many thanks, dear friend. Lovingly, Carrie Chapman Catt Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, December 31, 1928 1015 Grand Central Terminal Bldg., New York City, Dear Mrs. Catt, I am enclosing the voting slip. I want to say in regard to the note at the end of your letter that you just must continue as chairman of the conference. It would be broken up with jealousies inside of a [?] anyone who had been president of one of the co-operative organizations were made chairman. The conference must arrange to put someone in as vice-chairman who has ability and who will be congenial to you to work with, and who will take part of the load off your shoulders. I am enclosing a copy of the letter I received from President Green of the American Federation of Labor, and also a copy of the resolutions passed by that organization. Yours devotedly, WESTERN UNION Received at LAWRENCE HOTEL ERIE PENN FR1 U 13 NEW ROCHELLE NY 834A SEP 25 1928 MRS BEN HOOPER LAWRENCE HOTEL ERIE PENN PLEASE WAIT OCT-STOP SICK IN BED MY SELF AND CANNOT ATTEND THURSDAY MEETING CARRIE CHATMAN CATT 905A October 1, 1928 My dear Mrs. Catt: I was frightfully sorry to hear that you were sick in bed, but not very much surprised after what you have gone through this fall. I do hope you are taking good care of yourself and that you are much better by this time. I guess it was just as well that I did not go on from Erie because I was pretty nearly all in myself. I had been speaking in Minnesota and went from there to Erie where I had a luncheon, an afternoon meeting for the Federated Club, and evening meeting comprising the Y. W. C. A and A. A. U. W., and from half past nine to ten o'clock I broadcast from the Erie Dispatch-Herald. I had quite a compliment on that. I asked the young man to hold up his hand within two minutes of when my time was up. He went outside to see how my voice was going over and he did not come back. I got sort of panicy for fear of running over my time. However, I was a fairly good guesser and stopped just before my time was up. He came in and apologized most profusely and said he got so interested in what I was saying that he forgot his promise, said he had learned so many things he never knew before. I had a most warm invitation from both the men in the station to come and broadcast any time I was in that part of the country. I was talking on the Multilateral Treaty. Do you want me to come to New York a day or two before the committee meeting or not? I will leave it to you. With much love and hoping you are heaps better, I am, Yours devotedly, __________________ Mrs. Ben Hooper JJH/ET District Vice Presidents Judge D. H. Flett, Racine Miss Marie Kohler, Sheboygan Prof. J. L. Gillin, Madison H. H. Jacobs, Milwaukee Miss Katherine R. Williams, Milwaukee Mrs. Ben Hooper, Oshkosh Judge Jas. H. Hill, Baraboo C. M. Hafenbrach, Port Edwards W. F. O. P. Reed, Chippewa Falls Harry D. Baker, St. Croix Falls Fred Brockhausen, Milwaukee Wisconsin Conference of Social Work Officers MRS. ISAAC P. WITTER, PRESIDENT, Wisconsin Rapids REV. M. F. McEvoy, VICE-PRESIDENT, Milwaukee MRS. L, M. ROSING, SECRETARY 85 Oneida St. Milwaukee MRS. A. H. WILKINSON. TREASURER, 85 Oneida St. Milwaukee MR. CHAS. FRIEND, CHAIRMAN OF FINANCE, Milwaukee AUBREY WILLIAMS, Executive Secretary MAIN OFFICE UNIVERSITY EXTENSION BUILDING, Madison, Wis. Directors Mrs. Marvin B. Rosenberry, Madison Judge Solon L. Perrin, Superior Dr. C. A. Harper, Madison Mrs. C. J. Otjen, Milwaukee Fr. J. F. Ryan, Janesville Miss Kate Medher, Racine Prof. E. B. Gordon, Madison Mrs. Joshua Hodgins, Marinette Edward D. Lynde, Milwaukee Dr. Elizabeth Woods, Madison Roy P. Wilcox, Eau Claire Dean Louis E. Reber, Madison Dr. Hoyt E. Dearholt, Milwaukee Mrs. Geo. A. Buchstaff, Oshkosh National Committee on the Cause and Cure of War "I doubt if war ever settled anything, it unsettles everything."--NAPOLEON 1. OFFICERS General Chairman--MRS. CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT, 171 Madison Avenue, New York City. Vice-Chairman at Large--MRS. JOHN D. SHERMAN, 1734 N Street, N. W., Washington, D.C. Secretary--MISS JOSEPHINE SCHAIN, Room 1010, Grand Central Terminal Bldg., New York City. Treasurer--MRS. EDGERTON PARSONS, 1155 Park Avenue, New York City. MEMBERS American Association of University Women--DR. MARY E. WOOLLEY, President, South Hadley, Massachusetts. Council of Women for Home Missions--MRS. JOHN FER- GUSON, President, 105 East Twenty-second Street. New York City. Federation of Woman's Boards of Foreign Missions of North America -- MRS. WM. EDGAR GEIL, President, Doylestown, Pennsylvania. Headquarters 1010 Grand Central Terminal Bldg. New York City VANDERBILT 7018 Executive Secretary MISS ELIZABETH MORRIS. MEMBERS General Federation of Women's Clubs -- MRS. JOHN D. SHERMAN President, 1734 N Street, N. W., Washington, D.C. MRS. JOHN F. SIPPEL, President. National Board of the Young Womens Christian Associa- tions--MRS. ROBERT E. SPEER, President, 600 Lexington Avenue, New York City. National Council of Jewish Women -- MRS. JOSEPH E. FRIEND, President, 1807 Palmer Avenue, New Orleans, Lousisiana. National League of Women Voters -- MISS BELLS SHER- WIN, President, 532 Seventeenth Street, N. W., Washing- ton, D. C. National Woman's Christian Temperance Union -- MRS. ELLA BOOLE, President, 377 Parkside Avenue, Brooklyn, New York. National Women's Trade Union League -- MISS ROSE SCHNEIDERMANN, President, 247 Lexington Avenue, New York City. October 6. 1928 Mrs. Ben Hooper 6699 Algoma Boulevard Oshkosh, Wisconsin My dear Mrs. Hooper: I have had a bad overthrow which came in the form of an abcess first in one ear and then in the other. If you over want to knock out an enemy, just give him an ear germ. I was in bed on the flat of my back for a whole week and now I am up but as weak as a kitten. I sent you a telegram in answer to yours suggesting that you come in October, because I could not get to this first meet- ing and I thought it was just as well to wait for the final one. I shall look forward to seeing you then and hope also that you will come out to the house and see how I look at home. I will write you about this later. This morning Miss Morris has been here reporting upon the committee meeting and also upon the campaign. I am a little disappointed in the number of resolutions that have come in. She tells me that some 10,000 sets of resolutions have been sent out to the various organizations but very few in proportion have been returned. I am suggesting that she write a letter to the Interna- tional Chairmen, but I am now saying it to you that it may be well, if you have not already done so, to write your state chairmen to send a spacial letter to every auxiliary in their states urging them to secure the passage of resolutions and to see that they are sent in. I had hoped that the Federation would make a great big showing. I have written to Senator Borah to learn whether, in his judgment, it is necessary for us to be ready with the resolutions on the first of December. He is out campaigning, here, there, and everywhere, and it may be some time before I get his answer. Fourth Conference on the Cause and Cure of War Washington D.C., Jan 14-18 Inc., 1929 Mrs. Hooper 10/9/28 Mrs. Laura Puffer Morgan writes me that the big-wigs are planning to let the Navy bill get in ahead of the treaty. The Council for the Prevention of War gets easily scared, but it may be true. Can you imagine anything more ridiculous than a government holding back a treaty to renounce war in order to pass a bill authoriz- ing more warships? I should say this was enough to make a pig laugh and yet I am not sure that some of our statesmen would not see it that way. One of the days when I was sick, it was reported to me that a Mrs. Warfield called and did not leave a very intelligible account of herself. She stated she was leaving New York in a few minutes. I could not at the moment thank who Mrs. Warfield could be but later I wondered if it was, by chance, our prima donna. If it was me, tell her she must forgive the silence of this house. Lovingly yours, CERRIECEHARPEINEJSUCEALL National Committee on the Cause and Cure of War "I doubt if war ever settled anything, it unsettles everything."--NAPOLEON 1. OFFICERS General Chairman--MRS. CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT, 171 Madison Avenue, New York City. Vice-Chairman at Large--MRS. JOHN D. SHERMAN, 1734 N Street, N. W., Washington, D.C. Secretary--MISS JOSEPHINE SCHAIN, Room 1010, Grand Central Terminal Bldg., New York City. Treasurer--MRS. EDGERTON PARSONS, 1155 Park Avenue, New York City. MEMBERS American Association of University Women--DR. MARY E. WOOLLEY, President, South Hadley, Massachusetts. Council of Women for Home Missions--MRS. JOHN FER- GUSON, President, 105 East Twenty-second Street. New York City. Federation of Woman's Boards of Foreign Missions of North America -- MRS. WM. EDGAR GEIL, President, Doylestown, Pennsylvania. Headquarters 1010 Grand Central Terminal Bldg. New York City VANDERBILT 7018 Executive Secretary MISS ELIZABETH MORRIS. MEMBERS General Federation of Women's Clubs -- MRS. JOHN D. SHERMAN President, 1734 N Street, N. W., Washington, D.C. MRS. JOHN F. SIPPEL, President. National Board of the Young Womens Christian Associa- tions--MRS. ROBERT E. SPEER, President, 600 Lexington Avenue, New York City. National Council of Jewish Women -- MRS. JOSEPH E. FRIEND, President, 1807 Palmer Avenue, New Orleans, Lousisiana. National League of Women Voters -- MISS BELLS SHER- WIN, President, 532 Seventeenth Street, N. W., Washing- ton, D. C. National Woman's Christian Temperance Union -- MRS. ELLA BOOLE, President, 377 Parkside Avenue, Brooklyn, New York. National Women's Trade Union League -- MISS ROSE SCHNEIDERMANN, President, 247 Lexington Avenue, New York City. August 9,1928. Mr dear Mrs. Hooper: Replaying first to that paragraph of your letter of July 28th referring to material desired, I set to you, on August 3rd, 500 sets of resolutions and, I hope, 50 copies of THE MULTILATERAL TREATY, which is the digest and analysis of the exchanges between the Powers (if these latter did not come, please forgive me and let me know im- mediately and I will send them). If they reached you, the resolutions are free; the TREATY sells for 5c per copy. The total postage bill was $1.34 I enclose a memorandum. THE RENUNCIATION OF WAR has not come from the press, I understand. There was some unforseen delay at al- most the last minute which has set back the publication. As we do not expect to buy any quantity, will you please order from the World Peace Foundation, 40 Mt.Vernon St., Boston, Copies are 30c each. We have not made any petitions; only the form given on the last page of the "Directions" is suggested to be used. I am making inquiry about the Rev. Fred Norwood, of the London Temple, but as yet have no information. As soon as any is ascertained, I will let you have it. We have had another inquiry concering him. Thank you, very much, for your letter to State Presidents and State Chairmen of International Relations. It is clear, concise, and should be very helpful. I am enclosing a carbon copy of one page of my letter to Mrs. Sherman in which I sent her a copy of a portion of my last to you. It will give you the present status of states in which the Federation seems to be more and less in bad standing in connection with the campaign for the treaty. Delaware and the states mentioned in the following paragraph of the letter to Mrs. Sherman are all states in which the General Federation is the convener. You may know that at Mrs. Sherman's request Mrs. Catt invited, in the case of the Federation, the State President and the State Chairman of International relations to act jointly as con- veners. I cannot do it to-night, but to-morrow I shall try to send you a brief resume situation in each state National Committee on the Cause and Cure of War August 9, 1928 My dear Ms. Hooper; Replying first to that paragraph of your letter of July 28th referring to material desired, I sent to you, on August 3rd, 500 sets of resolutions and, I hope, 50 copies of THE MULTILATERAL TREATY, which is the digest and analysis of the exchanges between the Powers (if these letter did not come, please forgive me and let me know immediately and I will send them). If they reached you, the resolutions are free; the TREATY sells for 5¢ per copy. The total postage bill was $1.34. I enclose a memorandum. THE RENUNCIATION OF WAR has not come from the press, I understand. there was some unforseen delay at almost the last minute which has set back the publication order from the World-Peace Foundation, 40 Mt. Vernon St., Boston. Copies are 30¢ each. We have not made any petitions; only the form given on the last page of the "Directions" is suggested to be used. I am making inquiry about the Rev. Fred Norwood, of the London Temple, but as yet have no information. As soon as any is ascertained, I will let you have it. We have had another inquiry concerning him. Thank you, very much, for your letter to State Presidents and State Chairmen of International Relations. It is clear, concise, and should be very helpful. I am enclosing a carbon copy of one page of my letter to Mrs. Sherman in which I sent her a copy of a portion of my last to you. It will give you the present status of states in which the Federation seems to be more or less in bad standing in connection with the campaign for the treaty. Delaware and the states mentioned in the following paragraph of the letter to Mrs. Sherman are all states in which the General Federation is the convener. You may know that at Mrs. Sherman's request Mrs. Catt invited, in the case of the Federation, the State President and the State Chairman of the International relations to act jointly as conveners. I cannot do it to-night, but to-morrow I shall try to send you a brief resume of the situation in each state. October 15, 1928 My dear Mrs. Oatt: I was delighted to find your letter awaiting me on my return from the convention of the State Federation of Women's Clubs at Wisconsin Rapids. I have been so very anxious ever since I received your telegram saying you were sick in bed. You have my heartfelt sympathy in your most painful illness. I have always maintained there was nothing worse that toothache except earache. The advantage of the tooth over the ear is that you can have the tooth pulled. I am sure you must be very weak indeed after such an ordeal as having both ears infected. You say you are a little disappointed in the number of resolutions that are coming in. I am inclined to think that are in many places holding them to be sent in by the person in charge of them. At the convention of the State Federation, I suggested they send all four copies to the chairman of International Relations and that she would see they got to their destination. It seemed to me it might be less confusing to the individual clubs if they sent them all direct to her. The League of Women Voters are the conveners in Wisconsin. The first meeting they are having will be on the 20th of this month. I am going to attend it but I have not waited for that to urge all the Federated clubs to get busy. I took to the convention before four and five hundred of the resolutions which Miss Morris had sent to me some time ago. We made the correction in the resolution. Where it said 'will meet' we struck it out and put 'met', and hwere it said 'to sign' we put 'and signed', which brought the resolution up to date. The women simply ate them up and were asking for more. One woman who is a past-president of the Federation, took six for different organizations to which she belongs. I have heard from the chairman of Minnesota that she had over five hundred out. I spoke in a small town Friday night on my way back from the convention and the not only passed the resolution at the meeting but assured me they would have every organization in the county, of both men and women, pass it. I them in order to save time to have type-written copies of the resolution made but to be sure to have four copies each of the resolution. The enthusiasm of there small town women is most refreshing. If I could only get to all the clubs to present it personally I could swam the United States Senate. I am going to send out letters to all the state chairmen immediately, urging that they again get in touch with their local organizations and urge them to pass the resolutions promptly. -2- Mrs. C. C. C. The woman who called you while you were ill, was my Lorna but whoever answered the phone told her you were sick in bed and could not answer the phone. She is giving a concert in New York on December 4th at Town Hall. That concert may decide whether she will be a PrimaDonna or not. I am looking forward with the greatest possible pleasure to seeing you and it will be grgreat joy to see your new home. With much love and hoping you are almost your old self again, it is quite too much to expect you could be up to par so soon, I am Yours devotedly, Mrs. Ben Hooper JJH/ET Dec. 9, 1928 My dear Mrs. Oatt: I received a circular letter signed by you and a number of others, asking if I would permit my name to go on a list of one thousand, objecting to the naval program. As chairman of International Relations of the General Federation I knew I must have some authority from the organization before I could give my name, so I sent copies of this communication by air-mail to Mrs. Sippel the day I received it, asking her to wire me whether I was authorized to sign such a letter. She wired back that I received no authorization from the General Federation to sign this communication. Before I received the telegram fromher I knew I would not get authority as I had received a letter stating that the Southeastern Council of the General Fede-ration had passed a resolution favoring it, which was signed by Mrs. Sippel with officials of the Southeastern Council. I will inclose a copy of the resolution as passed. I have had letters from several state chairmen who feel the passing of the Naval bill is a frightful thing at this time. I have never had an opportunity as yet to talk things out with the National Board, to find out just exactly what action they have taken in the past on these question. One thing I do know is, they are on record for the World Court and that I am at liberty to work for anything on which they have taken action which has not been rescinded. I got that information from Mrs. Sippel when I saw her in New York. I judge from what I see in the papers of your activities that you are much improved in health. I will arrive in Washington, I think, some-time on the 5th of January. That will give me a few days before the Board meetings of the General Federation. At that time I will be at the Mayflower as that is the hotel designated by the Federation for the members of the Board. However, I will come over to the Washington hotel for the Conference as I think I will find it much more convenient to be there in the house. Please remember me to Miss Wilson. with such love to yourself, I am Yours devotedly, Mrs. Ben Hooper JJH.ET July 31, 1928 Mrs. Carrie Chapman Oatt 171 Madison Avenue NEWY YORK CITY, N. Y. Dear Mrs. Catt: I just received the letter sent out to the Committee on the Cause and Cure of War, stating that you expect to call a meeting of the Committee on October 25th, and that you will have a preliminary meeting September 27th. I think it would be very inconvenient for me to come for both meetings. I will leave it entirely to you whether it is necessary or is of any particular importance for me to come for one or the other of the meetings. As you know, I am in this work to do everything that is possible for me to do, and if it were of any great importance my own con-venience is not to be considered. Please let me know just what you think about it. Yours devotedly, Mrs. Ben Hooper JJH/L National Commitee on the Cause and Cure of War "I doubt if war ever settled anything, it unsettles everything." - NAPOLEON 1. OFFICERS General Chariman-MRS. CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT, 171 Madison Avenue, New York City. Vice-Chairman at Large-MRS. JOHN D. SHERMAN, 1734 N Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. Secretary-MISS JOSEPHINE SCHAIN, Room 1010, Grand Central Terminal Bldg.,, New York City. Treasurer- MRS. EDGERTON PARSONS, 1155 Park Avenue, New York City. MEMBERS American Association of University Women-Dr. MARY E. WOLLEY, President, South Hadley, Massachusetts. Council of Women for Home Missions-MRS. JOHN FER-GUSON, President, 105 East Twenty-second Street, New York City. Federation of Woman's boards of Foreign Missions of North America - MRS. WM. EDGAR GEIL, President, Doylestown, Pennsylvania. Headquarters 1010 Grand Central Terminal Bldg. New York City MEMBERS General federation of Women's Clubs- Mrs. JOHN D. SHERMAN, President, 1734 N Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. National Board of the Young Womens Christion Associa-tions-MRS. ROBERT E. SPEER, President, 600 Lexington Avenue, New York City. National Council of Jewish Women-MRS. JOSEPH E. FRIEND, President, 1807 Palmer Avenue, New Orleans, Louisiana. National League of Women Voters-MISS BELLE SHER-WIN, President 532 Seventeenth Street, N. W., Washing-ton, D. C. National Woman's Christian Temperance Union-MRS. ELLA BOOLE, President, 377 Parkside Avenue, Brooklyn, New York. National Women's Trade Union League-MISS ROSE SCHNEIDERMANN, President, 247 Lexington Avenue, New York City. August 6, 1928. Mrs. Ben Hooper, 669 Algoma Blvd., Oshkosh, Wise. My dear Mrs. Hooper. It is probable that the meeting on September 27th will be a bigger one than that of October 25th. I can understand that you cannot come for both meetings, and I did not expect you would. Suppose you let it stand a little longer and I shall let you know which is the most important meeting for you to attend. We shall hope that te present hot weather will have passed and that we shall be seeking coats and furnaces by that time. Lovingly yours, Carrie Chapman Oatt CCC:HW. August 11, 1928 My dear Mrs. Oatt: I have received a letter from Mrs. Sippel in which she asks for any plans or suggestions I may have to present to the Executive Committee, which meets September 11-12-13, and that she should receive it by Sept. 8th. She says they have a definite outline of work for each department for the next two years and it is with the central thought of community life and there will be a connecting link which will hold the different departments of our work together. That the following rule was passed by the Executive Committee on June 6th, 1926. "That all programs of departments be submitted to the chairman of the department group in accordance with recommendations submitted by the group and approved by the Board, and that such programs be sent to the president for binal approval by the chairman of departments and that no program be given out until such action be taken. This would apply to auditions made to the program during the Biennial period". At the Executive Committee meeting June 1928 these words were addedde SUCH APPROVAL BY THE PRESIDENT SHALL BE SO STATED ON THE MATERIAL. Of course this has nothing to do with our work this fall for the multi-lateral treaty. I am most anxious to make for the Biennial period a constructive program for world peace and I want your advice and your ability to word a program which has real value in it so that it will get by the Executive Committee and give us an opportunity to do real constructive work. I am receiving letters from state presidents and chairmen of International Relations in different parts of the country, saying they are so glad I have been made chairmen for they believe something worthwhile will be done in this depart-ment. I believe I can get the cooperation of the women practically everywhere if I can send out the right kind of a program. I know it is a dirty trick to ask you to help me in its but it is so vitally important that it be so planned that we can make the very most of it, and here is no one in he world who can do it as you can. I want to send out a program of work and a program of study. You have had such a long and wonderful experience in making out programs that I know you can make one so much better than it is possible for me to do and you will be able to word it in such a way that it will not antagonize the scary ones. I know you will not object at all to letting me use your brains under my name in order to accomplish this piece of work. -2- Mrs. C. C. C. I read an article in the New York Times of July 29th, by Professor Shotwell, which seemed to me exceedingly good for the women to read. It was so sane and fairminded. What would you think of using it in a little pamphlet if the Federation is willing to finance such a piece of work? If the will finance some literature to go out under the name of the Federation, I want your suggestion of just what it should contain to be most effective. The influence will reach much further if we can send out something under the name of the General Federtion. I will hold myself in readiness to go to whichever one of te meetings of the committee on the Cause and Cure of War you may think best. If you will let me know as soon as possible which one I better attend I will take te matter up with some of the states between here and New York and see if they care to have me speak on the multilateral treaty either coming or going. Yours devotedly, Mrs. Ben Hooper JJH/ET National Committee on the Cause and Cure of War "I doubt if war ever settled anything, it unsettles everything."-NAPOLEON I. OFFICERS General Chairman-MRS. CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT, 171 Madison Avenue, New York City, Vice-Chairman at Large-MRS. JOHN D. SHERMAN, 1734 N Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. Secretary-MISS JOSEPHINE SCHAIN, Room 1010, Grand Central Terminal Bldg., New York City. Treasurer-MRS. EDGERTON PARSONS, 1155 Park Avenue, New York City. Members American Association of University Women-DR. MARY E-WOOLLEY, President, South Hadley, Massachusetts. Council of Women for Home Missions-MRS. JOHN. FER-GUSON, President, 105 East Twenty-second Street, New York City. Federation of Woman's Boards of Foreign Missions of North America - MRS. WM. EDGAR GEIL, President, Doylestown, Pennsylvania. Headquarters 1010 Grand Central Terminal Bldg. Newy York City VANDERBILT 7018 Executive Secretary MISS ELIZABETH MORRIS. Office of General Chairman 171 Madison Ave. New York MEMBERS General Federation of Women's Clubs - MRS. JOHN D. SHERMAN, President, 1734 N Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. National Board of the Young Womens Christian Associa-tions-MRS. ROBERT E. SPEER, President, 600 Lexington Avenue, New York City. National Council of Jewish Women - MRS. JOSEPH E. FRIEND, President, 1807 Palmer Avenue, New Orleans, Louisiana. National League of Women Voters - MISS BELLE SHER-WIN, President, 532 Seventeenth Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. National Woman's Christian Temperance Union - MRS. ELLA BOOLE, PResident, 377 Parkside Avenue, Brooklyn, New York. National Women's Trade Union League - MISS ROSE SCHNEIDERMANN, President, 247 Lexington Avenue, New York City. August 16, 1928. Mrs. Ben Hooper, 669 Algoma Blvd., Oshkosh, Wisconsin. My dear Mrs. Hooper: I am just this moment in receipt of your letter. First, let me say that I am going to issue a cal for the September meeting of the Comittee. More women have said they would come to that meeting than to the other one and I think it would be very important for you to be there. We ought really not to wait so long as te October meeting anyway. It will be necessary to have a second one then. This is onlyadvance information. The procedure concerning te Multilateral Treaty is moving forward with such rapidity that it fairly makes me dizzy. I think we cannot count on the necessity of a long campaign, be-cause it may go through without the need of much campaigning. On the other hand, I note that some opposition is beginning to arise - not only in this country, but elsewhere. This may develop into something and again it may not. I suspect it is only the usual mental behavior of all people when they approach the final action on the matter. I say its in order to prepare you for he remark that it may not prove advisable t spend money in literature for a thing that has already passed. The news-papers will give the public all the information it will require and I do not think special literature will be needed in that program. There lies beyond the treaty an enormous program which will need to be carefully studied and I believe the progress of that treaty makes it necessary to change the character of our program in January. Instead of studying that treaty and its probable effect, together with propaganda in its behalf, I think we will have to move on and study the questions that lie beyond. Therefore, I suggest that you do not make you program so com-pletely Multilateral Treaty as to have it appear the aim and Fourth Conference on the Cause and Cure of War Washington D. C., Jan. 14-18 Inc., 1929. Mrs. Ben Hooper, continued. Page 2 end, lest there should be something more. 1. I think you should recommend the reading of book bearing upon the problem around which the peace movement rallies at present and you might make suggestions from those in the Readers' Course together with any others you have in mind, making a short and/longer course and recommending these courses to your chairmen and to member of you department. 2. Recommend their cooperation with the effort to secure as may resolutions as possible and especially as many editorials as they can. Make clear what is being done with these resolutions and editorials. I do not know how to put into the program the thing which arises in my mind as the next step. I think it most important that we should all study and direct our attention to the next thing beyond the Multilateral Treaty. Of course there are the questions of Disarmament; the Monroe Doctrine - does work for peace or war; the Freedom of the Seas - can there be free seas until there are laws which regulate the action of different countries; Neutrality in the Event of War - what does it mean; Poison Gas. I had a call from a woman who is young and enthusiastic. She has been studying the question of poison gas and she called my attention to the fact that there is an enormous amount of propaganda in its behalf going on through the press. I had noticed these articles, but I had no kept clippings of them, so I concluded to keep watch. She wanted us to take it up and put in on our program and get everybody else to do so too. I have been watching the papers since then and I conclude that the Chemical Bureau, for reasons that I cannot quite understand, is conducting a well directed publicity campaign on behalf of poison gas. I have tried to think out why this should be so and I have about concluded that it may be done in order to have the public mind in such a state that when and if a war comes, it will not shock, but be considered the proper material with which to conduct a war. I am going to ask the Com-mittee to put the subject on our program. There is also the whole question of munitions. The other day a woman died in childbirth and took her baby along with her. Her husband became crazy and picked up a revolver, driving the doctor and nurse out of the house. A policeman came and he used it over his head before the policeman finally snatched it away from him. By this time some more policemen had gather in the house. In the meantime the weapon was put on a bureau. he man, who was really crazed by grief, tried to throw himself out of the window and when he was prevented from doing so, he picked up the revolver and began shooting it. Fortunately, no one was killed. he curious thing was that he was not arrested because it was found that he had a permit to carry and use a revolver. Therefore, I think the study of the manufacture of munitions, their distribution, etc., is something we ought to put on our program next winter. I do not know how to get at it, but perhaps we shall find someone who does. Mrs. Ben Hooper, continued. Page 3 Not all of these suggestions are suitable for the Federation. It is not yet ready to go that far and you should keep it on an educational plane for the present. Your plan should certainly be to spread that education, not in the sense of living peace, but in the direction of a definite understanding of what it means. I am afraid I have given you no help. You see, the Cause and Cure of War Committee has never, until this moment, been able to get the organization to the point where they would work for a program and they have only gone as far as te Multilateral Treaty. Lovingly yours, Carrie Chapman Catt August 24, 1928 Dear Mrs. Catt: I am sending to you a copy of the letter which I am sending out for the years work, providing it has the approval of the executive committee. Will you please read it over and see if you have any suggestions which you think should be incorporated in it? Will you also send me at once, a list of the books and pamphlets which you think would make the best course of reading on the three different courses of study that I have suggested? I think for the Federation women they should not be so very long and should be constructive rather than controversial as the rank and file will not take the time and thought to read a number of large volumes on these questions. I know you can make out a much better list than I can, therefore I am asking for your help. I must get this into Washington by the 8th of September. Yours lovingly, Mrs. Been Hooper JJH/ET National Committee on the Cause and Cure of War "I doubt if war ever settled anything, it unsettles everything."--NAPOLEON 1. OFFICERS General Chairman--MRS. CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT, 171 Madison Avenue, New York City. Vice-Chairman at Large--MRS. JOHN D. SHERMAN, 1734 N Street, N. W., Washington, D.C. Secretary--MISS JOSEPHINE SCHAIN, Room 1010, Grand Central Terminal Bldg., New York City. Treasurer--MRS. EDGERTON PARSONS, 1155 Park Avenue, New York City. MEMBERS American Association of University Women--DR. MARY E. WOOLLEY, President, South Hadley, Massachusetts. Council of Women for Home Missions--MRS. JOHN FER- GUSON, President, 105 East Twenty-second Street. New York City. Federation of Woman's Boards of Foreign Missions of North America -- MRS. WM. EDGAR GEIL, President, Doylestown, Pennsylvania. Headquarters 1010 Grand Central Terminal Bldg. New York City VANDERBILT 7018 Executive Secretary MISS ELIZABETH MORRIS. MEMBERS General Federation of Women's Clubs -- MRS. JOHN D. SHERMAN President, 1734 N Street, N. W., Washington, D.C. MRS. JOHN F. SIPPEL, President. National Board of the Young Womens Christian Associa- tions--MRS. ROBERT E. SPEER, President, 600 Lexington Avenue, New York City. National Council of Jewish Women -- MRS. JOSEPH E. FRIEND, President, 1807 Palmer Avenue, New Orleans, Lousisiana. National League of Women Voters -- MISS BELLS SHER- WIN, President, 532 Seventeenth Street, N. W., Washing- ton, D. C. National Woman's Christian Temperance Union -- MRS. ELLA BOOLE, President, 377 Parkside Avenue, Brooklyn, New York. National Women's Trade Union League -- MISS ROSE SCHNEIDERMANN, President, 247 Lexington Avenue, New York City. August 28, 1928. Mrs. Ben Hooper, 669 Algoma Blvd., Oshkosh, Wisconsin. My dear Mrs. Hooper: I believe the mail service has been mixing itself up with the Anti-prohibition League. We have had queer times about letters lately. Yesterday your special delivery letter arrived; the envelope was correctly addressed and yet it was written on the envelope that it had, by mistake, been sent to Gloversville, N.Y. If there is any delay in my reply, it is due to the mail service which went awry. I agree with you that your letter should be brief and that it should not be very controversial; nevertheless, you have some State Chairmen who are thoroughly up-to-date and I think you must aim as high as their conception, but do it simply enough so that those who know little will at least have some idea that there are others who know more than they. I think your letter might be greatly strengthened by leaving out all you have said about peace in general. I think, for instance, that you should frankly begin with such a statement as this: The General Federation of Women's Clubs in conjunction with eight other women's organizations have composed a National Committee on the Cause and Cure of War. The President of the General Federation and the Chairmen of International Relations have been the members actually sitting in this Committee. There have been three national conference on this subject. The aim has been to secure a common program which might be supported by all the women of the nation. That program has emerged in the form of the Multilateral Treaty just signed by fifteen nations in Paris. The General Federation has adopted this program as a definite piece of constructive work to do this fall. The treaty must be ratified by a two-thirds vote of the United States Senate. In order to make certain, not only that Page 2 the senators of each state will support the treaty when it comes before them, but that the public opinion of the whole nation may be brought to bear upon those senators whose states are not up-to- date on the question, it has been arranged that these organizations which are willing should hold a state conference for the purpose of passing resolutions and making plans for educational work con- cerning this treaty. When and if this treaty is ratified and it becomes an all-the-world- around compact as we hope, there are still many problems which may arouse nations to break their pledge and rush the world into another way. It is our duty to understand what those questions are and to place them out of the range of trouble making. To make ready for these future discussions, will you not take up a course of reading on some of the problems which are facing us. You might choose to specialize on Pacific Relations, Latin- AmericanRelations or European Relations. I would recommend that you read four books, if possible, during the coming year as follows: The Federation is the largest organization of women in the United States and it has branches in most other countries through which we may cooperate with women in other parts of the world. We might become a great power for securing friendly relations, etc., etc. I have taken part of the above from your letter and dictated the balance. I do not mean to substitute this for what you have said, but I do think it is more up-to-date and pointed. Tomorrow I am going into town to take lunch with Miss Morgan who has just returned from Europe. I am going to propose to Miss Morgan that we make an entirely new circular for our con- ferences. The other one seems thoroughly out of date and behind the times with all that has happened just now and it is something of the above that I feel we must say in it. If this does not seem to appeal to you, pray consider that you have never seen it. Lovingly, CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT 120 PAINE AVENUE NEW ROCHELLE NEW YORK Sept 8 My dear friend: Last Tuesday Aug 28, I came home from N. Y with the enclosed letter to you and a notaben to enclosed list of books. I was too tired to do it that night and the next day my dear Mollie, my partner for 23 years fell over on her bed where she was sitting and died without coming to consciousness. Of course I felt as if I had been run over by an automobile and I am only now returning to normality. I opened my brief case just now and was shocked to find this letter. Pray forgive me Lovingly, Carrie C Catt September 11, 1928 Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, 120 Paine Avenue, New Rochelle, New York. Dear Mrs. Catt: Your letter just came yesterday. I am shocked and grieved beyond words to hear of Miss. Hay's death. It seemed to me she was looking and seemed to be feeling very much better the last time I saw her, which was in San Antonio. years. When one has to die, I can think of no kinder way to go than as she did. I shall miss her very much when we come into the next conference. I was very glad indeed to get your letter suggestions. Through no fault of yours I arrived too late to be incorporated in the letter I had sent you, to be submitted to the executive board, as that had t be in by the 8th of Sept. I wish very much I might have had it but I believe it will be very use-ful notwithstanding. That was a general letter I planned to send out, not for the work of the multilateral treaty but for getting the women interested in reading after we get through with the work this fall. Those letters I must submit to the executive committee for their approval. The letters I am writing urging the women to work for the multilateral treaty I do not have to submit as they have already under-taken this piece of work and it is my job to get them to put it acress. I expect to send out another letter early next month to all the state chairmen, urging work for the treaty, and shall incorporate to your suggestions in that letter. Mrs. Sippel had some idea of trying to coordinate all of the departments in the General Federation. I wrote and asked her to please send me what her idea was so that in sending out my letters I could make my program dove-tail in with hers, but I have not received anything giving me the slightest notion of what she is planning. It is a perfectly impossible thing to make out a program for any length of time when conditions are changing as rapidly as they are in international re-lations, and yet they asked me just before i wrote you, to make out a program for two years and have it in the National Headquarters before the 8th of this month. I hadnever even had the names of but one of my vice chairmen and did not have her address. You see in may ways things are quite causal. -2- Mrs. C. C. C. I have been getting splendid letter from chairmen in the different states, so glad to hear from me and some of them saying that my enthusiasm put new life in their department and gave them courage to go on. I thinkI am getting remarkably good reaction from the states. It is very difficult to get to an executive committee what you want to do when you cannot talk with them and when they have no conception of carrying out stren-uous program. What I am hoping to do is to et the National Board in their January meeting, which comes just before the conference, to endorse the program of the conference. Then we will be able to go on and do better work. I will inclose to you copies of the letters I sent out on the ultilate-ral treaty. After the executive committee got through with my first letter, it was so causal that I inclosed with it "For Your Information". The other two letters have gone out since: one to the state chairmen from whom I had heard and the other from womeI had not heard. I have agreed to speak in Erie, Pa. on the 25th. I do not know just what the train service is from there, but I am sure I can get to New York by the evening of the 26th. Would it be possible for you to be in town early enough so we might have a little talk before the committee meeting at ten. and what is the most convenient Hotel to go to so as to be near the meeting place? Do you want me to say in New York at all after the meeting? I am speaking the 19th and 20th of this month at the convention of the State Federation in Minnesota, speaking to the convention on the 19th and on the 20th to talk at a round table luncheon to inspire the women to work on the multi-lateral treaty. It just occurred to me that I have sent copies of my letters to Miss Elizabeth Morris so will not burden you with them. Yours devotedly, JJH/ET Mrs. Ben Hooper November 20, 1927 Mrs. Carie Chapman Catt, 171 Madison Avenue, New York City. Dear Mrs. Catt: Your letter arrived just before the League of Women Voters State Convention was held in Oahkosh. I have not answered because I did not have a moment to write and then I knes you were on the other side of the Atlantic anyway. Your letter gave me the very greatest pleasure because of your feeling that we are really going to do something worthwhile this winter. I will be glad to contribute $100 for the conference. There is nothing that I am so willing to contribute to as the conference on the Causes and Cure of War. I will be in Washington, barring death and s sickness, and I can assure you I would have to be awfully sick i order to keep me away. As we are not to have a Mass Meeting this year I do not think I can be of any special service to you much before hand so have accepted an engagement to speak in Chicago the morning of the 14th, which will enable me to arrive in Washington the morning of the 15th. If for any reason you think I can be of service before that time let me know is soon as possible and I will cancel the Chicago engagement. As perhaps you remember, I told you when your consented to keep the chairmanship, there was nothing I would not do to help you, so I am at your command re-gardless of other engagements. Yours devotedly, Mrs. Ben Hooper JJH/ET December 13, 1927 Mrs. Carrie Chap Catt, 171 Madison Avenue, New York City. My dear Mrs. Catt: I wrote you a while ago that I would not arrive in Washington unless you specially needed me, until the morning of the 15th. I have since that decide that I would give up speaking for the nurses in Chicago as the Woman Citizen Board meeting is the 6th of January and I have never been able to attend a meeting as yet, so I am coming on to New York to attend that board meeting, will probably spend a little time with a friend in New York after the meeting, but I will be at liberty to go to Washington at any time I can be of service to you. Will you please send me a note telling me the Hotel which will be most convenient for me to stop at in New York, for attending the Board meeting. With much love and wishing you a very Merry Christmas, I am. Yours devotedly, Mrs. Ben Hooper Sept. 17, 1927 Mrs. C. C. Catt, 171 Madison Avenue, New York City. Dear Mrs. Catt: I have not heard from you directly for some time but I certainly have heard from you through the press. I have heard some very fine comments about your articles in the WOMAN CITIZEN. I quite envied you your trip to Honolulu. It must have been almost interesting conference. I am reading the suggested books as rapidly as my arms and shoulders will permit. It seems to me that publishers should have more sense than t make books so heavy tat you cannot hold them for any length of time. I thought when I had finished Moon's that my arms would get a rest but Adams Foreign Policy is just as bad. I wrote to one of the publishers and suggested that is they were going to get out any more editions that they put their book into two volumes in place of one. I had a very interesting time working on the Briand statement; very successful also. I will inclose a report of what I did as you may be interested in the reaction of the churches. I ran into a very amusing thing which I know you will enjoy. I presented the resolution at the state convention of the Lion's Club. Both the man's organization and the women's auxiliary passed it unanimously. I then presented itto the local organization of the Lion's. The man who had been president of the organization assured me they would be very delighted to pass it. I did not hear from them for a long time. Finally I happen-ed to meet the same gentleman and he said the Lion's were going to pass that resolution I had given the and that I would get it very soon. He said te delay had been caused because they had a good many members of the Amercan Legion in their organization and they were afraid there was some-thing behind it so they took it to three differntlawyers to find our it it was perfectlysafe. The opinions were -2- unanimous that there was nothing dangerous os it would be passed at the next meeting. I told him I had given the members of the Lion's Club credit for having enough intelligence to read themselves. He quite agreed with me that they sould be able to. I took the resolution to the secretary of the Kiwanis Club and he said he was sure they would be very delighted to pass it and wanted to know why I did not take it to the American Legion as he was sure they would want to pass it. I gave him a copy to present to the American Legion but they have not acted upon it as yet. The president or the American Legion is a per-sonal friend, He also assured me he knew the Legion would be delighted to pass it. He has been out of town for quite a time so I have not had an opportunity to ask him what he thinks about the American Legion. I sure am going to have some fun with him. Ths Kiwanis Club took their resolution to their Board; passed it at their meeting, handed it over to a com-mittee on public affair to send in to the president, and they decided they would not send it until they brought it up again because they did not think it will to do things in a hurry; that clubs are apt to vote like sheep - notwith-standing it had been before their Board and recommended for passage. I asked those gentlemen for a meting with the committee on public affairs t talk this matter over, and the chairman assured me they would be very glad to meetwith me and I old them I would meet with themrat their convenience but it has never yet been convenient. I most broke the heart of the chairman. He said they did not like to have this go through so quickl for fear it might be somthing they would be sorry for afterward and I said "You men are geting so you are afraid of your shadows". That got under his skin terribly. I really have been having quite an interesting summer. The Milwaukee Journal asked me for a statement on the political situation from a democratic view-point, so I gave it to them and they printed it. I find it has stirred up quite a little excitement among the men. I expect there are many of them who hate me, which does not at all hurt my feelings. Sept. 17, 1927 Mrs. C. C. Catt, 171 Madison Avenue, New York City. Dear Mrs. Catt: I have not heard from you directly for some time but I have certainly heard from you through the press. I have heard some very fine comments about your articles in the WOMAN'S CITIZEN -3- I will inclose the article and also an editorial from the Milwaukee Journal which was published a week or so later. I do hope that both you and Miss Hay are feeling fine this summer. I am so anxious to see you and hear something of your personal feelings about the conference in Honolulu. With much love to both of you, I am Yours devotedly, Mrs. Ben Hooper JJH/ET May 8, 1927 Dear Mrs. Catt: Your communication in regard to the Conference on the Cause and Cure of War is just received. I will get busy at once and will notify Miss Schain as soon as I have accomplished anything. I am going to Milwaukee tomorrow morning to stay with the children while the Docter and Lorna go to the National Medical convention in Washington. As I will be in Milwaukee for ten days at least, I will put in a good deal of time there on this work. A few days before I received your communication I talked to the Missionary societies in Fond du Lae and they were most anxious for something t do. I will have them get busy right away. I am speaking the 20th st Waueau to the wives or the Lions who are having their state convention there, which will give me another opportunity to broadcast some of this over the state. On the 25th of this month we have the Sixth District convention of the Federation which gives me another opportu-nity: also we are to have Mrs. Pennybacker as the speaker of the convention, she is going on to the National Council meeting from here an dI am sure will be very valuable down there. I hope every delegate who was at the Conference will do her duty as this is a marvelous opportunity. Could you send me one thousand of the slips giving the statement to the Associated Press, of M. Briand's proposal to the American people? It seems to me it would be very much cheaper if we could have this and your whole letter printed and sent out to any member who would undertake to do work on this, than for each individual to have it done herself. I plan to reach the churches all over the state and as many other organizations as possible. I feel it is very important, whether you are speaking to them or sending by mail, that each organization have in its hands both the letter and M. Briand's statement. I would be glad to pay for one thousand of them or if you think best I will have them printed here. -2- I was terribly disappointed not to attend the meeting of the Woman Citizen Copporation but as you know, we had motored down to Washington taking Mr. Hooper's Father, who is ninety-two, to make an argument in the Supreme Coat. After that was over he said he very much preferred coming directly home than going to New York. Mr. Hooper and I talked it over and decided that at his great age the extra trip might be just that much too much for him and that if it was and he broke, we would not be able to forgive ourselves so decided to come directly home. I made a very real sacrifice in coming home because I was most anxious to attend the meeting and especially anxious to see you. I do hope you are feeling fine after your winter in the south and west. I have finished Mr. Moon on Imperiliasm. I think it is a most wonderful book but I do not know whether my shoulders will every recover from holding it. I received an advertisement for it the other day and I am going to write to them that if they get out another addition to please make it i two volumes. Please give my love to Miss Hay and with much love for yourself, I am Yours devotedly, Mrs. Ben Hooper January 20, 1927 Dear Mrs. Catt: I ordered the book you suggested, "Man is War". and have read it. It depends quite a little on how much time you have to give to it, how quickly one can read itbook of that isze. You can read it very slowly so as to digest it, and read from twenty to twenty-five pages in half an hour. I read it in about nine days and I never read over an hour a day. In regard to the book itself: Personally I do not consider it a good book to put in the hands of people whom you want to get to do constructive work. I can just see Miss Sherwin sitting down and folding her hands and saying: "There is no use in trying to do anything". I think that would be the effect on many of our women who have not been suffrage workers and do not have the feeling as we do, that anything which must be done can be done. With me personally, he only gets my fighting blood up but I am absolutely sure that would not be the re-action on a large number of women who have not had experience in suffrage work. It is an interesting book but I quite disagree with the gentleman that because things have been done a certain way in the past that it is absolutely necessary that we go on everlastingly and eternally doing the same old thing. He even brings up in his book, the idea that dueling is the way questions of honor have always been settled, while we know that in most places in the world that is a thing of the past. I am much better but have not gotten back to hard work yet; I am still quite a little of a loafer. We have been having cold, disagreeable weather of late and I feel quite envious of you down in the sunny south. I am sure it is doing you worlds of good. Give my love to Miss Hay, and with much love to yourself, I am Yours devotedly, District Vice Presidents ________ Judge D. H. Flett, Racine Miss Marie Kohler, Sheboygan Prof. J. L. Gillin, Madison H. H. Jacobs, Milwaukee Miss Katherine R. Williams, Milwaukee Mr. Ben Hooper, Oshkosh Judge Jas. H. Hill, Baraboo M. Hafenbrach, Port Edwards Rev. F. O. P. Reed, Chippewa Falls Harry D. Baker, St. Croix Falls Fred Brockhausen, Milwaukee Wisconsin Conference of Social Work ________ OFFICERS MRS. ISAAC P. WITTER, PRESIDENT, Wisconsin Rapids REV. M. F. McEVOY, VICE-PRESIDENT, Milwaukee MRS. L. M. ROSING, SECRETARY 85 Oneida St. Milwaukee MRS. A.H. WILKINSON, TREASURER, 85 Oneida St. Milwaukee MR. CHAS. FRIEND, CHAIRMAN OF FINANCE, Milwaukee __________________________ AUBREY WILLIAMS, Executive Secretary MAIN OFFICE UNIVERSITY EXTENSION BUILDING, Madison, Wis. Direc[?] Mrs. Marvin B. Ros[?] Judge Solon L. Perr[?] Dr. C. A. Harper, [?] Mrs. C. J. Otjen, [?] Fr. J. F. Ryan, Ja[?] Miss Kate Medher, [?] Prof. E. B. Gordon, [?] Mrs. Joshua Hodgin[?] Edward D. Lynde, M[?] Dr. Elizabeth Woods[?] Roy P. Wilcox, Eau[?] Dean Louis E. Reber[?] Dr. Hoyt E. Dearho[?] Mrs. Geo. A. Buchsta[?] [*OK*] January 5, 1927 Dear Mrs. Catt: I was very glad ineeed to get your nice letter, telling me you were feeling quite yourself again. I knew you were frightfully tired when I saw you in Washington. It is a great relief to know that the pies did not kill you and Miss Hay. I really did not send them with that intention and felt they were reasonably safe because they were not made of lard, but crisco. You see I had some regard for your well being. Ben and Miss Treat still insist that they think you were jollying me when you said they were not too sour. I maintain you are a truthful person. I will be very glad indeed to join your committee and I have ordered the book "Man is War". I will let you know when it comes and I get well started in reading it, about how much time it requires to read and digest such a book. I am of the opinion that I could do it better than Miss Sherwin. I came home from Washington pretty tired and then I worked hard getting ready for Christmas; had a big Christmas party and altogether overdid so I have been in bed ever since, not because I am so ill but the Doctors orders. I was up a little while yesterday and expect to be around again as gedd as new before long. I can just imagine what a perfectly delightfully restful time you are having down in the sunshine and am really quite envious. Give my love to Miss Hay. Yours devotedly, (Ms. Ben Hooper) November 21, 1926 Dear Mrs. Catt: I expect to reach Washington the morning of the 30th. If for any reason you need me a day earlier, write me in care of: Mrs. Louis M. Warfield, 191 Prospect Ave., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and I will get to Washington the 29th. Yours devotedly, Mrs. Ben Hooper December 20, 1926 Dear Mrs. Catt: I am sure you are having a wonderful time in the warmth and sunshine. I struck frightfully cold weather on my way home from Washington but it has moderated somewhat now. We have quite heavy snow. I meant to copy the names represented by the different characters in "Revelry", from your [b]ook, but neglected to do it before leaving Washington. If it is not too much trouble would you send me the names as they are in the front of your book? I cannot quite make out who some of them are. The night before I left Washington, Minnie Cunningham, Miss Adele Clark and I had a most hilarious time talking over[olld] suffrage days. I wish you could have been with us for you would have laughed yourself sick over some of Miss Clark's experiences. She looks so gentle that it made it screamingly funny to hear the things she and Miss Houston did in the suffrage campaign. I sent a little package to you and Miss Hay the other day. I am not allowed to taste things that have sugar in, as you know, and after I had sent the package my husband and Miss Treat tasted some of it and assured me it was much too sour. I hope you will be able to find sugar in Arizona to rectify the trouble. With love to you and Miss Hay and wishing you both a very Merry Christmas, I am Yours devotedly, Mrs. Been Hooper xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxx Mrs. Azel A. Packard, Vice-Chairman 254 Union St., Springfield, Mass. Sept. 6, 1929 My dear Mrs. Catt: I wrote Miss Henrietta Roelofs asking her for a Resolution which the Conference on the Cause and Cure of War would like to have used by cooperating organizations which wish to pass resolutions. She was out of the city and the office said it would be called to her attention as soon as she returned. I have today received a letter from her in which she says she is calling to your attention the fact that I am asking for a resolution which will be uniform for the organizations comprising the Conference on the Cause and Cure of War. I wrote to Miss Roelofs thinking I might save you by asking her to attend it. Now she has turned it back to you. I am inclosing a copy of her letter and a copy of the two resolutions she sent me. I really do want a resolution that you consider proper for any or all of us to use, and I am in a frightful hurry for it for the reason that I sent out with my material, a letter stating that I was inclosing a resolution. When I found I had to wait for the resolution, the letters all having been mimeographed and in their envelopes waiting, I sent them along without the resolution, thinking I would get it in a few days. Now I am getting letters from my state chairmen stating that I neglected to inclose the resolution and they are very anxious to get it so they will be able to distribute it [to] their state conventions and the first meetings of clubs and so forth. I am sending you under separate cover, copies of the material I have sent out to all my state chairmen, and others. Mrs. Sporborg wrote me you were perfectly willing to have me use the Root material under the Federation name. I think the Federation is perfectly delighted that we are sending out something under our own name that is worth while. I have had a few most enthusiastic letters coming in within the last few days. California is asking for one thousand copies each of the World Court and the Pan American pamphlet. I do hope the intense heat has not used you up and that you are continuing to gain strength and vigor. - 2 - Mrs. C. C. Catt. I am leaving the afternoon of the 30th of this month, on a speaking trip to the Pacific coast and return; speaking on the World Court and on the responsibility of Club women in making a reality of the Multilateral Treaty. I am speaking in Sioux City; Council Bluffs, Iowa; Cheyenne; Laramie, Wyoming; Salt Lake City; Spokane; Portland and Eugene, Oregon; Marysville; Woodland; Calusa; Chico; San Francisco and Oakland, northern California, and Pasadena; Los Angeles and Riverside, southern California; also at Needles; Kingman and Tucson, Arizona; one stop in Texas; New Orleans and at the state convention in Baton Rouge. I am to speak at the state convention of the Minnesota Federation, in Minneapolis, on Sept. 25th and in Detroit, Michigan, on the 18th of November. Please remember me to Miss Wilson and with much love to your own dear self, I am Yours devotedly, Mrs. Ben Hooper JJH/ET National Committee on the Cause and Cure of War "I doubt if war ever settled anything, it unsettles everything."-NAPOLEON I. OFFICERS General Chairman-MRS. CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT, 171 Madison Avenue, New York City. Vice-Chairman at Large-MRS. JOHN D. SHERMAN, Estes Park, Colorado. Secretary-MISS JOSEPHINE SCHAIN, Room 1015, Grand Central Terminal Bldg., New York City. Treasurer-MRS. EDGERTON PARSONS, 80 Maiden Lane, New York City. MEMBERS American Association of University Women-DR. MARY E. WOOLLEY, President, South Hadley, Massachusetts. Council of Women for Home Missions-MRS. JOHN FERGUSON, President, 105 East Twenty-second Street, New York City. Federation of Woman's Boards of Foreign Missions of North America - MRS. WM. EDGAR GEIL, President, Doylestown, Pennsylvania. Headquarters 1015 Grand Central Terminal Bldg. New York City VANDERBILT 2574 Executive Secretary MISS ELIZABETH MORRIS. MEMBERS General Federation of Women's Clubs-MRS. JOHN F. SIPPEL, President, 1734 N Street, N W., Washington, D. C. National Board of the Young Womens Christian Associations-MRS. ROBERT E. SPEER, President, 600 Lexington Avenue, New York City. National Council of Jewish Women - MRS. JOSEPH E. FRIEND, President, 1807 Palmer Avenue, New Orleans, Louisiana. National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs-MISS LENA MADESIN PHILLIPS, 233 Broadway, New York City. National League of Women Voters - MISS BELLE SHERWIN, President, 532 Seventeenth Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. National Woman's Christian Temperance Union - MRS, ELLA BOOLE, President, 377 Parkside Avenue, Brooklyn, New York. National Women's Trade Union League - MISS ROSE SCHNEIDERMAN, President, 247 Lexington Avenue, New York City. September 6, 1929. Mrs. Ben Hooper, 669 Algoma Blvd., Oshkosh, Wisconsin. My dear Mrs. Hooper: I would like to have a nice talk with you this morning. As that is impossible, I will try to present the reason for my desire in the form of a letter. Yesterday the organizations met to hear the report of plan of organization and plan of procedure which had been worked out by a small committee. I have been the Chairman of the that Organizing Committee. We got on very well yesterday and the Organizing Committee is to continue for a couple of weeks longer in order to do some more preliminary work. The difficulty with the situation is as follows; - how to get the organizations to work together. All the organizations in the Cause and Cure of War Committee were represented except the Federation. I will again write Mrs. Sippel and tell her what happened. I shall write to the Cause and Cure of War Committee, which will include you, and tell more definitely what we did than I will take time to do now. We are going to attempt to get a very large National Committee of individuals and to have some committees, the chief one of which is to work with organizations and which is composed of a member from the chief organizations and I am a member of that. There will be some person who knows about each organization to carry on the work with that organization. We think this an excellent plan. The National Executive Committee will be composed of the officers of the main Committee, plus the Chairmen of the Sub-Committees, plus the officers of the Executive Committee who have not yet been elected. Fourth Conference on the Cause and Cure of War Washington D. C., Jan. 14-17 Inc., 1929. Mrs. Ben Hooper, continued. Page 2 I have contended that unless we could get a Central Committee, around which all the organizations would center, and keep off the business of interviewing senators on the subject of the World Court, that there was little use in organizing. We are trying to get Mrs. Maud Wood Park as our Chairman. She is in Europe and she is not yet persuaded, but I am hopeful. What I want to bring to your attention now is that in the discussion about Congressional work some members, who had been at Williamstown, said that one of the lecturers there had declared that we believed it would be a strong, hard fight, and that Senator LaFollette was out boldly against it and was very vigorous in his opposition. This fact may have appeared in Wisconsin papers, but at present these views have not been summed up so as to reach us in New York. Our idea is that in those states where senators are opposed a very strong, energetic effort must be made and this is what we think would probably be best. 1st Secure the names of as many distinguished persons as will favor the World Court. We are anxious to try, where it seems suitable, to get the Governor, the Mayors of the chief cities, the Presidents of Universities, the Presidents of large banks and of State institutions. I imagine that any of these will be difficult to get in Wisconsin if La Follette is boldly opposing it. When these names are obtained, they should be formed into a State World Court Committee. You could do there as we are doing nationally. Get an Organizing Committee and let it select the officers for the State Committee and get men and women who are outstandingly favorable to the Court, without being favorable to any thoroughly unpopular cause. This is difficult. If you could secure these officers before the names are solicited, it might help, provided you could find men and women who are of popular standing. This State Committee should do the following things. 1. It should arrange a hearing with Senator LaFollette and go to him with the evidence procurable to the effect that Wisconsin wants him to vote for the World Protocol. 2. We are anxious that in every state there should be at least one public State meeting and that it should be made as big as possible. We will ask all the states to bear the expenses of the meeting and secure speakers from within their own state. We want this meeting to be one of celebration of progress toward peace and it may well have three speakers; one to speak on the progress of the Kellogg Pact, the second on the progress of arbitration as a substitute for war (and we shall lead up to the South American Treaty, the third on the status of the World Court as it now is and why the Senate should speedily ratify it. Of course LaFollette will not change his attitude or vote for it, but he can be sufficiently drawn off to make his filibustering Mrs. Ben Hooper, continued . Page 3 and opposition a little less urgent. I am very anxious that two ideas should become prevalent through the press and in the minds of our own workers. 1. When a preliminary body has taken action upon a proposi-tion, as did the Senate in reference to the World Court, and a majority says "We apply for admission to the World Court with five reservations" and those who have authority come back and say, "We accept your reservations and in=vite you to enter", then that body is the most impolite, unethical, unfair, and ridiculous, if it says, "We have changed our minds and wish to add a few more reservations." This, we understand, is what Mr. LaFollette, Mr. Johnson, and some of the other irreconcilable desire. What they really oppose is the League of Nations, but that has little to do with the present situation. 2. We must persuade the public of the fact that the reserva-tions have been accepted. I think there is a great deal to be rot out of number 1. Now you cannot to all the work involved in this situation, but what you can do is to get an Organizing Committee which will meet some-where and find a method of procedure. The most eminent men and women on your list we will want to invite for the National Committee - perhaps all of them. The first thing your Organizing Committee should do is to name the people to be invited for your State Committee. When you do this, we would be very glad to have the names here. We shall begin sending out invitations next week for the National Committee. I am writing to you the very first official letter of the new Committee. I have been asked to be the Chairman of the Executive Committee. I have said that I will not, but that I will continue as Organizing Chairman until it is in running order. How does your other Senator stand? I have forgotten just now who he is, but if I remember alright, he runs with LaFollette. I hope you are well and able to get into the saddle and ride to victory. It will, at least, give you something to do without having to ask a big orgainzation's consent. Lovingly yours, Carrie Chapman Catt CC;HW. *insert picture* Mrs. Ben Hooper Wis. PROPERTY OF PROPERTY OFMPTLY TO PROMPTLY TO LESLIE WOMAN SUFFRAGE COMMISSION, 171 MADISON AVENUE NEW YORK "SUFFRAGE FIRST" WISCONSIN WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION STATE HEADQUARTERS 428 JEFFERSON ST., MILWAUKEE, WIS. OFFICERS: MRS. HENRY M. YOUMANS, WAUKESHA, PRESIDENT MRS. VICTOR BERGER, 980 FIRST ST., MILWAUKEE FIRST VICE PRESIDENT MRS. ISAAC WITTER, GRAND RAPIDS, SECOND VICE PRESIDENT MRS. E.S. JORDAN, KENOSHA THIRD VICE PRESIDENT MRS. A.J. ROGERS, 733 RACINE ST., MILWAUKEE RECORDING SECRETARY MRS. JAMES L. FOLEY, WAUWATOSA CORRESPONDING SECRETARY MISS E.E. ROBINSON, KENOSHA TREASURER MISS M.V. BROWN, MADISON FIRST AUDITOR MISS AMY COMSTOCK, MADISON SECOND AUDITOR REV. OLMPIA BROWN, RACINE HONORARY PRESIDENT **map 4,000,000 WOMEN MAY VOTE FOR PRESIDENT IN THE WHITE STATES AND ILLINOIS MAKE WISCONSIN WHITE MRS. BEN HOOPER CONGRESSIONAL CHAIRMAN COMMITTEES: MRS. BEN HOOPER, OSHKOSH LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE MISS HARRIET BAIN, KENOSHA FINANCE COMMITTEE MRS. A.S. QUACKENBUSH, PORTAGE EDUCATION COMMITTEE MISS ADA L. JAMES, RICHLAND CENTER LITERATURE COMMITTEE MRS. H. M. YOUMANS, WAUKESHA PRESS COMMITTEE MRS. B.C. GUDDEN, OSHKOSH GERMAN PRESS COMMITTEE MRS. JOSEPH JASTROW, MADISON MRS. ISSAC P. WITTER, GRAND RAPIDS ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE Jan 20 1917. Mrs Carrie Chapman Catt, 171 Madison Ave. New York City. My dear Mrs. Catt: I just returned last night from the State convention. A new business woman's organization of five hundred,- two hundred and fifty members having been taken in, in the last two weeks, and the University Girls League, stormed the conven- tion and carried a motion that we ask the Legis- lature for a referendum this year. Mrs Victor Berger as the only member of the board who was anxious for a referendum and she had charge of the program for convention which was held in Madison. She went down there to arrange for the convention and encouraged those women who know nothing about the situation, either in state or nation, to ask for a referendum. They came to the convention pledged to vote that way and nothing anyone could say made the slightest impression on their minds. I think I would be safe in saying, that in the two organizations there is not half a dozen women who have down any suffrage work to speak of Miss. Comstock who organized the Business Women's Club and who secured a large number of the members, was ill at the time this action was taken and was ill during the time of the convention. She is almost beside herself to think that they should have behaved themselves in such a manner. "SUFFRAGE FIRST" WISCONSIN WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION STATE HEADQUARTERS 428 JEFFERSON ST., MILWAUKEE, WIS. OFFICERS: MRS. HENRY M. YOUMANS, WAUKESHA, PRESIDENT MRS. VICTOR BERGER, 980 FIRST ST., MILWAUKEE FIRST VICE PRESIDENT MRS. ISAAC WITTER, GRAND RAPIDS, SECOND VICE PRESIDENT MRS. E.S. JORDAN, KENOSHA THIRD VICE PRESIDENT MRS. A.J. ROGERS, 733 RACINE ST., MILWAUKEE RECORDING SECRETARY MRS. JAMES L. FOLEY, WAUWATOSA CORRESPONDING SECRETARY MISS E.E. ROBINSON, KENOSHA TREASURER MISS M.V. BROWN, MADISON FIRST AUDITOR MISS AMY COMSTOCK, MADISON SECOND AUDITOR REV. OLMPIA BROWN, RACINE HONORARY PRESIDENT **map 4,000,000 WOMEN MAY VOTE FOR PRESIDENT IN THE WHITE STATES AND ILLINOIS MAKE WISCONSIN WHITE MRS. BEN HOOPER CONGRESSIONAL CHAIRMAN COMMITTEES: MRS. BEN HOOPER, OSHKOSH LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE MISS HARRIET BAIN, KENOSHA FINANCE COMMITTEE MRS. A.S. QUACKENBUSH, PORTAGE EDUCATION COMMITTEE MISS ADA L. JAMES, RICHLAND CENTER LITERATURE COMMITTEE MRS. H. M. YOUMANS, WAUKESHA PRESS COMMITTEE MRS. B.C. GUDDEN, OSHKOSH GERMAN PRESS COMMITTEE MRS. JOSEPH JASTROW, MADISON MRS. ISSAC P. WITTER, GRAND RAPIDS ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE Mrs. C.C.C. No. 2. They "knocked" down the whole Board and State Officers, and "rolled us over in the dirt". One needs a sense of humor at this time. Mrs Youmans and I laughted until we almost cried over the absurdity of the whole affair. You see I could take it very philosophically for the reason that I had interviewed the Governor before the Con- vention and had been told by him that he was against any suffrage measure and that he was telling me so that we might not waste our time down there. You see why we could laught so heartily after it was all over. I have some very good news for you. I called upon Mr. Richard Lloyd Jones, Editor of the State Journal and asked him whether or not it was true that he had had an interview with Presi- dent Wilson that he had changed his opinion on the Federal Amendment since going to Atlanta City, and Mr. Jones said that he spent two and a half days with the President in his private car and had talked over many matters and several times of suffrage. He said he had talked with him another time this fall and said that the President did say that he had changed his opinion on the Federal Amendment. He said that did not feel justified in publishing the President's statement and that he did not feel so now as the President was talking to him as a man, not as an edi- tor, but he said he was glad to give me the informa- tion that we might know better just where the Presi- dent stands. He said that he had also, had an interview "SUFFRAGE FIRST" WISCONSIN WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION STATE HEADQUARTERS 428 JEFFERSON ST., MILWAUKEE, WIS. OFFICERS: MRS. HENRY M. YOUMANS, WAUKESHA, PRESIDENT MRS. VICTOR BERGER, 980 FIRST ST., MILWAUKEE FIRST VICE PRESIDENT MRS. ISAAC WITTER, GRAND RAPIDS, SECOND VICE PRESIDENT MRS. E. S. JORDAN, KENOSHA THIRD VICE PRESIDENT MRS. A. J. ROGERS, 73 RACINE ST., MILWAUKEE RECORDING SECRETARY MRS. JAMES L. FOLEY, WAUWATOSA CORRESPONDING SECRETARY MISS E. E. ROBINSON, KENOSHA TREASURER MISS M. V. BROWN, MADISON FIRST AUDITOR MISS AMY COMSTOCK, MADISON SECOND AUDITOR REV. OLYMPIA BROWN RACINE HONORARY PRESIDENT *insert map* 4,000,000 WOMEN MAY VOTE FOR PRESIDENT IN THE WHITE STATES AND ILLINOIS MAKE WISCONSIN WHITE MRS. BEN HOOPER CONGRESSIONAL CHAIRMAN COMMITTEES; MRS. BEN HOOPER, OSHKOSH LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE MISS HARRIET BAIN, KENOSHA FINANCE COMMITTEE MRS. A. S. QUACKENBUSH, PORTAGE EDUCATION COMMITTEE MISS ADA L. JAMES, RICHLAND CENTER LITERATURE COMMITTEE MRS. H. M. YOUMANS, WAUKESHA PRESS COMMITTEE MRS. B. C. GUDDEN, OSHKOSH GERMAN PRESS COMMITTEE MRS. JOSEPH JASTROW, MADISON MRS. ISSAC P. WITTER, GRAND RAPIDS. ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE Mrs. C.C.C. No 3 Within a very short time, I think he said within the last few days but am not sure as to that,- with Mr. Crane whom he says is closer to the President than any other man in the United States with the ex-ception of Mr. House. He said that Mr Crane told him that the President would sign the Federal Amendment for Womans Suffrage and when Mr Jones asked him if the President would ask for the Federal Amendment in his message to Congress, Mr Crane said he was not authorized to state but that he expected something of that sort. You will see by this clipping that I am enclosing that I have resigned as Legislative Chairman. I am very happy over it because I will have more time to put on my congressional work in the State. Most devotedly *Signature* JJH GF. National Committee on the Cause and Cure of War ____________________________________________________ "I doubt if war ever settled anything, It unsettles everything." -- Napoleon I. ____________________________________________________ OFFICERS General Chairman---MRS. CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT, 171 Madison Avenue, New York City, Vice-Chairman at Large---MRS. JOHN D. SHERMAN, 1734 N Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. Secretary -- MISS JOSEPHINE SCHAIN, Room 1010, Grand Central Terminal Bldg., New York City. Treasurer -- MRS. EDGERTON PARSONS, 1155 Park Avenue, New York City. MEMBERS American Association of University Women--Dr. AURELIA HENRY REINHARDT, President, Mills College. Oakland, California. Council of Women for Home Missions--MRS. jJOHN FERGUSON President, 156 Fifth Avenue, New York City. Federation of Woman's Boards of Foreign Missions of North America-- MRS. E. H. SILVERTHORN, President, 156 Fifth Avenue, New York City. MEMBERS General Federation of Women's Clubs -- MRS. JOHN D. SHERMAN, President, 1734 N Street, N. W., Washington, D.C. National Board of the Young Womens Christian Associations -- MRS. ROBERT E. SPEER, President, 600 Lexington Avenue, New York City. Natonal Council of Jewish Women -- MRS. JOSEPH E. FRIEND, President, 1807 Palmer Avenue, New Orleans, Louisiana. Natonal League of Women Voters -- MISS BELLE SHERWIN, President, 532 Seventeenth Street, N. W., Washington, D.C. National Woman's Christian Temperance Union -- MRS. ELLA BOOLE, President, 377 Parkside Avenue, Brooklyn, New York. National Women's Trade Union League -- MISS ROSE SCHNEIDERMANN, President, 247 Lexington Avenue, New York City. My dear Mrs. Hooper: Altho I have the best stenographer I ever had sitting opposite me, I shall have to write you by hand or nor at all today. So here it is. Yesterday I sent Mrs. Boole a [resolute] in which I wrote and [and the others endorsed. I am going to get it typed in good form to send [????] the C & C organzation. Thr only copy I have now is the one enclosed [?????] such a tucked up machine that it is almost unreadable. The explanation at the top removes the material we usually put into whereas's I think the explanation helps. On Thursday the organizing committee of the World Court Committee meets and plans will be made for our sending this resolution to all the organizations. If you can get some preliminary copies made, do so. I am so glad that you are going on this wide spread tour. It is a service needed just now, but my dear child do take care of yourself and take along plenty of bread. We are preparing for the new committee a statement containing the Senate reservations, the new protocol and a big article by Raymond [Buelin?] How the Protocol meets the Senate reservations -- this is for reference only. I will bear you in mind and will send what news or material I find that will help you on the way. Now here is some helpful news. Sec'y Stinson who it seems is a famous maker of blunders, wrote the Secretariat that when the other signatories had ratified the protocol he would please to present it [??] National Committee on the Cause and Cure of War ____________________________________________________ "I doubt if war ever settled anything, It unsettles everything." -- Napoleon I. ____________________________________________________ OFFICERS General Chairman---MRS. CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT, 171 Madison Avenue, New York City. Vice-Chairman at Large---MRS. JOHN D. SHERMAN, 1734 N Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. Secretary -- MISS JOSEPHINE SCHAIN, Room 1010, Grand Central Terminal Bldg., New York City. Treasurer -- MRS. EDGERTON PARSONS, 1155 Park Avenue, New York City. MEMBERS American Association of University Women--Dr. AURELIA HENRY REINHARDT, President, Mills College. Oakland, California. Council of Women for Home Missions--MRS. JOHN FERGUSON, President, 156 Fifth Avenue, New York City. Federation of Woman's Boards of Foreign Missions of North America-- MRS. E. H. SILVERTHORN, President, 156 Fifth Avenue, New York City. MEMBERS General Federation of Women's Clubs -- MRS. JOHN D. SHERMAN, President, 1734 N Street, N. W., Washington, D.C. National Board of the Young Womens Christian Associations -- MRS. ROBERT E. SPEER, President, 600 Lexington Avenue, New York City. National Council of Jewish Women -- MRS. JOSEPH E. FRIEND, President, 1807 Palmer Avenue, New Orleans, Louisiana. National League of Women Voters -- MISS BELLE SHERWIN, President, 532 Seventeenth Street, N. W., Washington, D.C. National Woman's Christian Temperance Union -- MRS. ELLA BOOLE, President, 377 Parkside Avenue, Brooklyn, New York. National Women's Trade Union League -- MISS ROSE SCHNEIDERMANN, President, 247 Lexington Avenue, New York City. Headquarters 1010 Grand Central Terminal Bldg. New York City Senate with his endorsement. Now a lot of folks are saying, Well that will be months ahead -- there is no hurry. We are taking steps to find out what we can and to interview the president but I am sure he will not tell anyone when he will have the protocol to the Senate -- because he does not know. So I favor being ready. Wherever you go will you not ask what folks know about their Senators. Tell your women to send their resolutions to their Senators but I believe it would be the best plan if they were sent to an officer who would collect as many as possible form the Federation. Then when the Senators return home (if they do) between the special session and the Dec session let a representative from all the organization together (should showed?) take each her pile and go to see the Senators and have a talk with him. Let them know that we are in a hurry etc. If we believe that the protocol may come in early we must have the state meetings in November. If the organizations named each does most thoroughly it would be splendid. They never have done their best yet. I wrote you about a campaign in Wisconsin but you cannot manage that and be abroad too. Is there any one who can take hold? Call upon me for any help you need. I am awake now and at it. Lovingly and full apology for sending you such poor material Carrie Chapman Catt Transcribed and reviewed by contributors participating in the By The People project at crowd.loc.gov.