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...final meeting of Club before the recess, Jane Addams, writer and lecturer on social and political reform, will speak on "Disarmament". Miss Addams, founder of the Hull House Social Settlement in Chicago, is known as America's foremost woman social worker. She is at present chairman of the Women's Peace Party and of the International Committee of Women for Permanent Peace...
...Post began his public career in 1874, when he served as Assistant United States Attorney in New York. During the next two decades he was interested in the reform movements in New York City which centered around the candidacy of Henry George, the famous reformer, for Mayor of New York; during the nineties he became interested in the Single Tax movement and founded. "The Public", a Single Tax weekly, which he edited until 1913, when he was appointed Assistant Secretary of Labor by President Wilson...
When one studies any great reform, he will find that this is usually the track taken by the opposition to discredit and break up the movement. When arguments and fair play fail, the opposition usually resorts to personalities and underhanded methods...
...Osborne has for the last fifteen years been interested in a reform of prison conditions, especially in New York State. In 1913 he spent several days in Auburn Prison as a convict in order to study the life of a prisoner. The conclusions which he reached at that time he put into effect shortly afterwards when he became Warden of Sing Sing. His actions, however, brought him into conflict with certain elements in the political parties of the state and resulted in his resignation as head of the prison a few years ago. During the past few years...