SAN ANTONIO, Texas. -- Jane Addams of Hull House, Chicago, leader in social service and suffrage, [image MISS JANE ADDAMS] is spending a vacation in the City of Mexico. The main object for her visit is to work out a plan for eliminating the slums which disfigure the City of Mexico and other large centers of population. She is being entertained by President Calles, who is interested in her work, and who is very anxious to effect this reform.
En route to the City of Mexico, Miss Addams stopped for a short visit in San Antonio, where she spoke to 300 leading club women, at a luncheon arranged in her honor. "Get rid of military ambition and substitute world peace through arbitration," was the plea of Miss Addams. World peace, she said, must come only through arbitration. This may come through a world court or through a league of nations, or it may be effected through legislative, executive or judiciary channels. But come, it must, she declared, and not through military preparations for war.
She sounded the warning that women of America must not become too impatient, that like all great movements world peace must have time. She spoke particularly of the progress of woman citizens in political affairs. Since their enfranchisement, she said, they have made themselves felt more than any other group of suddenly enfranchised citizens of the world.
The bourgeoisie of France, the middle class of England, and the working men of the United States, all were assimilated rather slowly into the body politic. But woman voters of America, more than any other others, have gone about seriously to educate themselves in the proper use of the ballot, and are particularly alert on protective, educational, and humanitarian measures, she said.
Miss Addams is not discouraged by the delay in the progress of the child labor and minimum wage reform, but forecast the ultimate ratification of both amendments.
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