The National tribune., 1884-10-16

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| Mrs. II. 8. Beadle, Cambridge, Mass.
On Testimonial to the Past National President
| MR.. Emma S. Hampton, Detroit, Mich; Mrs Cora
Day Young, Toledo, o.; Mrs. Lizzie Anderson, To-
| peka, KAN; Mrs. Alkaline =. Kent. Portsmouth, n
| The compilation of the National Ritual has been
| entrusted to the Past National President, Mrs. e.
| Florence Barker, Maiden, Mass.
| GOOD AND WELFARE CARDS.
| V. Good and welfare cards. embracing series OF
| questions and responses, be used a suitable
closing for a Corps, now ready and will be issued
with all future supplies. Department Presidents
| will notify all Corps not yet supplied to secure
copies of the same, that the work may be uniform
| i'll every Corps. A membership card has been pre-
pared whose purchase Is optional with the Corps,
! but which members may find it pleasant to be in
possession of in visiting other Corps.
BADGES AND ELECTROTYPEs.
VI The new badges will be issued with all future
| supplies. Corps desiring to substitute the same
will make requistiOn through the Departments.
A uniform price of fifty cents each will be charged
| by Departments. Officers badges will be owned
/ by the Corps; members may purchase their own.
| The badges of Corps, Department and National
officers will be distinguished 10y color of the ribbon.
The badge will consist of the Maltese cross, with
the GA X. center piece, suspended from bar pin.
Past officers badges will be distinguished as fol
lows: From the pin of Past National officers will
be suspended a red Geneva cross; suspended from
the pin of Past Department officer, silver shield
with the letters f., &. and r. and from the pin of
Past Corps officers the same shield in bronze.
VII. EIecrotypeS for the of subordinate
Corps may be secured by Departments on applica-
Will W 1itstiphai
CREDENTIALS AND REVISED BLANKS.
VIII. The failure of Delegates to appear with
proper credentials in National and Department
Conventions having caused unnecessary and tedi-
which may be secured by Departments for distri-
button upon application the National Treasurer
Revised blanks of Secretary and Treasurer as
ordered by the National Convention, and revised
application for charter Will be issued with future
supplies. Each Department President is hereby
called upon to furnish National Headquarters with
quarterly as they may be made. Each department
should provide printed roster for distribution at
Department Convention. Relief Corps in States
and Territories where no Department has been
formed, permanent provisional will forward
per capita OF six cents quarter direct to the Ma
tional Treasurer, upon receipt of blanks. Depart
ments will forward a per capita of two cents for
every member i'll the Department The attention
of Department officers is called to the importance
OF Keeping for convenient reference, copies of all
official letters sent out.
DECISIONS AND OPINIONS.
TX. Decisions and opinions of the Commander
in-Chief and Judge Acknowledgement of the Grand
Army of the Republic, complied by Gen. james II.
Carnahan, Judge Acknowledgement, 1SS2-SS, and
adopted and approved Ivy the National Encamp
ment July, 1888, will stand recognized authority
in the Womaus Relief Corps so far its decisions
are applicable to questions arising in the Corps.
DEPARTMENT RECOMMENDATIONS
x. Departments in arrears will call attention Of
all subordinate Corps to Sec. g. Article ~, Chapter
V, Rules and Regulations, and the necessity of
prompt discharge of all dues in order that the De-
partments may remit promptly to the National
Treasurer to the end that the National organiza-
ton shall not be retarded crippled in its work of
extending the Order. 1t is recommended that each
Department prepare n price-list 10 send out with
applications, requesting each Corps forming, wher
ever possible, To send the amount due supplies
requisite with charter fees. The National Presi-
dent is also satisfied that if the charter is closed
promptly at the date of Institution of the Corps,
that much confusion and misunderstanding will be
avoided, and that Corps starting out squaTely,
with Supplies paid for in advance will do much
he a A hnOl will a Hah
ing over them.
II. Quarterly and Inspectors blanks for use in
Departments will be issued by the National Treas
nrer, Mrs. Lizabeth A. Turner No. IA Temple
Place Boston, in such quantities will be named
on reqnisiton from the Department. Also all sup
plies In bulk for the Use OF Departments In equip
ment of subordinate Corps. Corps formed and in
need of supplies will make all acquisitions through
Department Treasurers.
XII Attention of Departments is called to the
fact that by resolution of the National Convention
departments may allow such salary to Departm. mt
Secretary as the Department Convention or Board
of Directors may fix, which salary Is usually per-
centage of the per capita received. Also that each
Department may elect one honorary member an
nualIy from the GA X. Also. that each Depart
ment may establish relief fund for the help of
army nurses, widows, orphans such general
purposes as may not come under the local work of
the Relief Corps.
ON RESERVATIONS.
XIII. The National President earnestly recon-
mends that Presidents, Secretaries and Treasurer5
of Corps, or those actively dschargng the duties
Corps upon accepting similar executive offices, De-
partment National. The President believes this
to be promotve of general good in the Order, it
brings new workers to the front and gives officers
promoted the time for undivided attention to the
duties of their respective offices. 1t should be the
exception, not the rule where a Corps member
holds two offices, and the President hopes that in
time ali Corps officers promoted to Department
offices, will see the propriety of resigning subor
dinate Office when she accepts one of a higher
grade; though, by unanimous request from her
Corps she may continue to serve i'll both.
JOINT ENTERTAINMENTS.
XIV. Joint entertainments of Posts and Corps
for the creation of relief fund, apart from the
tlngent funds of each organization, consecrated to
charity and apportioned according to the demands
upon each, is most earnestly recommended,
greater enthusiasm and sympathy are engendered
where the two organizations work side by side A
joint Campfire at least once month, when agree
able to the Post will be found a source of great
pleasure and incentive to greater work. Let
sick dsheartened old soldier, or the helpless
widows and orphans of soldiers, pass unaided of
support and sympathy where Relief Corps exists.
Let no Post be without its Grand Army hall, fur
nshed and fitted with the patriotic enblems of the
Order; its altar properly draped; its Bible in
place. and a flag provided under which the COM
rades may repair to the joyous Reunion. assem-
bic around the bvouac of the dead. Work for the
Grand Army includes all these
XIV. Corps Presidents will impress upon every
member of a Corps the importance of familiariz-
ing herself with the Rules and Regulations and of
giving strict attention to the unwren work of the
Order; OF the committing OF the Ritual by officers
of the Corps, and of systematic discharge of all
duties in hand. The direction of a second reading
of all orders from authority before the Corps and
oil filing all official papers with the Secretary, is
the imperative duty of every Corps President She
should also impress upon members that i'll giving
proper attention to and obedience of all orders,
rules and regulations they honor both the Order
and themselves.
ANNUAL INSPECTIONS.
XVI. Department inspections will be made so
they are wei over before the annual elections in
Decen beer of Corps officers and it is recommended
that this be done before the cold weather sets in
that attendance may be full and for the convenience
and pleasure of Assistant Inspectors and Corps
membership. Department Presidents will appoint |
such Assistant Inspectors as may be necessary TO
aid the Department Inspector, and save expense to
the Corps. In Departments where Corps widely |
apart Inspector may be appointed within the |
Corps, and il Is recommended that the Senior Vice
President Corps Chaplain be instructed to |
in this capacity. Department. Inspectors will
report for instruction Mrs. Sarah &. Nichols, |
Nationa! Inspector Auburn, n. Y. Each Depart
mcnt Inspector will receive and consolidate the |
returns of Assistant Inspectors, forwarding one to
the Department President and one to the National |
Inspector Assistant inspectors will report to De- |
par.ment Inspectors IL is the duty of the Depart
mcni President To see that the work iii her Depart
ment is properly and promptly performed.
ADMONITIoN To WORK.
XVII. The National President earnestly admon- |
ishes the few isolated Corps which engaged in |
Improbable discussion and stre-begetting dissen-
sons over the admission to membership in the |
Corps of all loyal women to remember that in |
America the majority rule must be respected and |
obeyed. The National Convention, the supreme |
will of the Order, ended the discussion, fully and
declared for the admission of all loyal women by n |
of IS % ID N the proportion OF IL tn