February 8th
Dear Miss Addams,
This is a very belated acknowledgement of your letter in Mrs. Willebrandt's behalf. The President seems to have stopped as to that -- he was at one time prepared to do it.
I hear from everyone that you are making wonderful speeches for the child labor [page 2] amendment -- the revival of the fight against any such legislation plus the kind of states rights feeling which the Volstead Act has created in many has resulted in incredible opposition. Labor, the women and the churches seem prepared to keep steadily at it.
We missed you very much at the Cause and Cure Conference. On the whole, I think it was [page 3] useful and I was much impressed by the sound understanding which the missionary leaders and the W.C.T.U. showed of what some of the fundamental difficulties are.
This is the very uncomfortable kind of time when political rumors contradict each other so fast that there is no keeping up with them. I shall be glad when [page 4] it is over. I do not know whether the kind of [drive] for some one wh ↑(a political appointee)↓ for chief of the Bureau which was made in 1913 and again in 1921 will be repeated. I think I shall muster up sufficient courage to follow J. Lathrop's example but I feel sure that I could never have established the precedent.
Affectionately
Grace Abbott
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