Evening star., 1935-05-22

Arrangements were also made for
the Hull House Women's Club to act
as a guard of honor while the body
lies In state at Hull House. from 3
am. to pm. today and tomorrow
from 8 am. TO IL am.
Two Fortresses of Fame.
Miss Addams erected two fortresses
Of fame-her ideals of humaneness. an
Intangible stronghold Of the spirit, and
Hull House. the tangible expression
Of that ideal.
The twain were born Of heart
filled with a desire to complete the
mobilization Of the human spirit" by
lettering the life of the world. de-
sire which swept aside all barriers
Of race and religion.
In her search for practical means
Of forwarding this ambition, Hull
House was her laboratory, and like
that building in Menlo Park, from
which the genius Of Edison sent out
devices to conquer darkness by phys
ical light, so Hull House became the
source Of social discoveries which
sent rays of spiritual light into the
darkest pits of civilization.
Miss AddamS was militant against
what she called the stupid atrocities
Of contemporary life, its arid waste,
its meaningless labor, its needless suf-
fering and its political corruption /"
Particularly was her influence felt in
the fight for abolition of the scourge
Of war.
She founded one movement for
world peace and was an active par
ticipant in nearly all others. Her
study and work In sociology left an
imprint in many lands. Her New
Ideals of Peace" became a textbook
Of international friendships.
Shared Nobel Prize.
She shared the 1881 Nobel peace
prize with DR.. Nicholas Murray But
Ter, president Of Columbia University.
Yet her pacifsm was not confined
to affairs between governments; it
called for tolerance and reason be-
tween physical and spiritual neighbors
in every human relationship. Racial
and religious antipathies, exploitation
Of labor, wholesale buying of votes by
small favors as mask to corruption
that diseased the whole body polite.
inequalities before the law because of
sex and the whole gamut OF suspicious
and fears engendered by age-old diN-
sions OF mankind comprised the host
against which this crusader raised her
banner. And she was proud Of her
pacificism.
Her advocacy Of peace reached its
zenith in 1915 when she called the
international Congress Of Women at
The Hague. An ending Of the World
War was its goal. In this the con-
gress failed. but out Of it grew the
Women's International League for
Peace and Freedom. Miss Addams,
who had presided at The Hague, be-
came the first international president
of the league.
Opened Hull House.
With Ellen Gates Starr, Miss
Addams opened Hull House on Sep
tember IA, 1889, at Halsted and Polk
streets, In the midst Of Chicago's
squalid west side. An old mansion
stood there 1t was once the home
stead Of Charles Hull, q wealthy
farmer and land owner. The great
Chicago fire of 1871 had crept close
to its brick walls, sweeping over nearby
pastures.
Immigrants of two score and more
nations. who had come to the capital
Of the West to seek work and freedom,
floundered In the Halsted street
neighborhood. Only three years before
the Haymsrket bomb and riot had
thrown Chicago into turmoil Every
immigrant was eyed with suspicion.
Enticing these people into Hull
House was the hardest task for the
young settlement workers. The racial
tides surged strong, one against the
others. But the hatreds were con-
quered and Hull House today fills q
city block. Six thousand men, women
ana children crowd into its activities