On July 2, 1917, Greece declares war on the Central Powers. With a system of alliances in place among multiple nations, one by one other countries joined The Great War, which today is known as World War I. Since Addams beliefs were completely against war and violence she certainly opposed the U.S. government to joining the war. “To her a government at war was a government seeking to harm its citizens: it not only required them to kill other human beings and to risk being killed but redirected tax dollars from social programs into military expenses and restricted citizens’ right to free speech” (Knight,189). President Woodrow Wilson announced the country’s position as neutral, but would later enter the war into what he considered, “heroic war.”
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Addams heard that Wilson’s idea of entering the war to mold world peace by helping our allies. She attempted to push people to create an “international organization to prevent further wars”, but the feedback she got was hostile. Addams gave a speech at Evanston, Illinois Church where, “an old colleague from Addams’s progressive reform days, Illinois Supreme Court Chief Justice Orrin Carter, stood up and criticized her for not supporting her government in a time of war” (Knight, 216). As a pacifist during the war Addams received lots of criticism, maybe because she was president of three different peace organizations and thought she could still make a difference, but the war was well underway and there wasn’t much she could …show more content…
Two Months later, Lathrop died, age seventy-four, after goiter surgery” (Knight, 258). Addams published a book entitled, The Excellent Becomes the Permanent, on March 1932, in memory of Kelley. Jane was still not feeling well as she “regularly suffered from weeks of bronchitis or the flu”, and her heart condition was worsening as “it had become weaker, and at the same time, her weight had increased” (Knight, 261). Since Hull House was slowly declining in popularity and did not provide good conditions for Jane’s health, she leaned on Mary Rozet Smith for comfort. “By 1933 the two movements that Jane Addams cared most about—the peace movement and the women’s movement—were struggling against a mood of despair, unable to overcome the historic forces aligned against them” (Knight, 263). The two organizations she put her life’s work into were slowly weakening but Addams always stressed the need to adopt new ideas. With more advancement of technology and ideas, Jane’s concepts were becoming less effective on the newer generation of people. In early 1934, Jane suffered another heart attack and remained ill under Mary’s care. On May 15, “She felt a sharp persistent pain in her abdomen. The surgeons found that her lower cavity was riddled with cancer… A few days after her surgery, on May 21, 1935, at age seventy-four, she died” (Knight,
Addams heard that Wilson’s idea of entering the war to mold world peace by helping our allies. She attempted to push people to create an “international organization to prevent further wars”, but the feedback she got was hostile. Addams gave a speech at Evanston, Illinois Church where, “an old colleague from Addams’s progressive reform days, Illinois Supreme Court Chief Justice Orrin Carter, stood up and criticized her for not supporting her government in a time of war” (Knight, 216). As a pacifist during the war Addams received lots of criticism, maybe because she was president of three different peace organizations and thought she could still make a difference, but the war was well underway and there wasn’t much she could …show more content…
Two Months later, Lathrop died, age seventy-four, after goiter surgery” (Knight, 258). Addams published a book entitled, The Excellent Becomes the Permanent, on March 1932, in memory of Kelley. Jane was still not feeling well as she “regularly suffered from weeks of bronchitis or the flu”, and her heart condition was worsening as “it had become weaker, and at the same time, her weight had increased” (Knight, 261). Since Hull House was slowly declining in popularity and did not provide good conditions for Jane’s health, she leaned on Mary Rozet Smith for comfort. “By 1933 the two movements that Jane Addams cared most about—the peace movement and the women’s movement—were struggling against a mood of despair, unable to overcome the historic forces aligned against them” (Knight, 263). The two organizations she put her life’s work into were slowly weakening but Addams always stressed the need to adopt new ideas. With more advancement of technology and ideas, Jane’s concepts were becoming less effective on the newer generation of people. In early 1934, Jane suffered another heart attack and remained ill under Mary’s care. On May 15, “She felt a sharp persistent pain in her abdomen. The surgeons found that her lower cavity was riddled with cancer… A few days after her surgery, on May 21, 1935, at age seventy-four, she died” (Knight,