Peace League Features Jane Addams

12 October 1930 | Cincinnati Enquirer

Peace League Has 1,000 Members Secretary Reports in Announcing Winter Plans—Season To Open with Luncheon Saturday

Membership of the Cincinnati Peace League has grown to nearly 1,000, Mrs. A. L. Stix, Corresponding Secretary, reported yesterday in supplementing an announcement by the Program Committee, of which Miss Ruth Jones is Chairman, of plans of the league for the coming season.

Miss Jane Addams, Chicago, world famous for the part she has played in the development of modern social service work; Dr. Bruno Roselli, noted political economist, and Senor Salvator De Madariaga, director of Spanish studies at Oxford University, England, will be among the Peace League’s “headliners” during the next few months . . .

Jessie Luther at the Grenfell Mission

Jessie Luther at the Grenfell Mission, an annotated edition of a travel journal that Luther wrote from 1906 to 1910, edited by Ronald Rompkey (2001)

"An early practitioner of occupational therapy, artist Jessie Luther challenged the dominant approach of the time of 'rest' as a general, curative treatment. A member of the Arts and Crafts Society in New England, Luther 'began her crafts career as director of the Labor Museum at Hull House, Chicago, at the invitation of the social reformer Jane Addams. In 1906, she was recruited by Dr. Wilfred Grenfell, the medical missionary, to teach weaving to women at St Anthony, a small community at the northern tip of Newfoundland.""