The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1894-04-12
THE RELIEF CORPS.
Gleanings from National Headquar-
terS---NOteS from the Departments
NATIONAL GENERAL ORDERS.

NATIONAL GENERAL ORDERS.
| Kansas Convention Votes to Admit the Old
Soldiers to Honorary Membership-De-
partment Gleanings All Along the Line.
NATIONAL GENERAL ORDERS.
HEADQUARTERS WoMAN's RELIEF CORPS, !
AUXILIARY TO THE GAR, 7
SYRACUSE n. Y, March 15 1894.
General Orders No. 5.
l. In accordance with Decision No. "a of the
11th National Convention, IS promulgated In
General Orders, No. 3. retiring Department
Secretaries and Treasurers are requested to
send to the National Secretary as soon as posi-
BILE duplicate copies of their consolidated re-
rorts Forms Z and F.
II. Three election return blanks have been
sent to each Department. One to be sent to the
National Secretary; one to National lnstitut-
ing and Installing Officer, Edith Train, Fort
Dodge Iowa, and one to Puma l.. Cowles,
Secretary of National W.R.C. Home Board,
Geneva o. Let each retiring Department
President see that this is done.
Ill The figures in red ink on Secretarys and
Treasurer's report blanks must not be changed,
and no blanks must be used for these reports,
unless sent from these Headquarters
~ Each Department will please send two
copies of all its General Orders to these Head
quarters and it is recommended that Depart
ment Presidents exchange General Orders.
".
tional Convention 1.-The Rituals of our Order
are the property of the Corps; they cannot be
sold to Past Presidents or given away"
VI. By decision of same Convention "chil-
dren over two years of age cannot be admitted
to Corps meetings"
VII. The Journals of 18th National COnven-
ton are now being distributed to Corps. Where
they have been addressed to Past Presidents they
must be turned over to the acting President,
as they are the property of the Corps, and not
of individuals.
VIII. According to Decision No. 55 of 18th
National Convention. all contributions from
Corps and Departments for Memorial Day in
the South shall be sent through the regular
channels to the National Treasurer. she to re-
nit the same to the QuartermasterG General of
the Grand Army for distribution. As so many
of our brave boys are sleeping their last sleep
in Southern bural-grounds, let Corps as far as
possible contribute their mite toward the fund
for the purchase of flags and flowers with which
to decorate their graves. Department Pres-
dents in General Orders will please instruct
their Corps to con form strictly to this decision
in sending their contribu TONS
TX. In order to carry out Decisions No. 40
and so of 18th National Convention, recon-
mending the adoption of some form of patriotic
salute to the flag in our public schools, the fol-
lowing committee has been appointed to con-
slider the Decisions, and unite oil some one form
of salute, with instructions to present report to
18th National Convention: Julia S. Conklin,
Westfeld. Ind, Chairman Flo Jamison Miller,
Monticello. H.; Elizabeth S. Heron, Cincin-
natl, o.; Ellen NJ. Putnam, Buffalo, n. Y;
Calista r. Jones' Bradford. VT; Lou Stewart
Wadsworth, South Boston, Mass; Flora Preston
Hogbin, Sabetha, Kan.
x. In accordance with Decision No. 81 of
18th National Convention, requiring the ap-
pointing of committee to formulate some
p1afhnd IF insnaPtion the fnllnwin m mi taa
was appointed Oct %, 1898: Flo Jamison Mill
Ter, Monticello H.; Mary E. Bancroft, Colu M
bus, o.; Clara f. Nichols, Rock Valley, iowa; ;
Ella Powell, Washington, Kan, since removed
to Brooklyn, n. Y; Augusta A. Wales, Dor
chester, Mass.
This committee has entered upon its work,
and will report to 18th National Convention.
XII. All special appeals for help from Ma
tional or Department Headquarters must be
read TO the Corps and acted upon by them.
They must not be laid aside at the discretion of
the Corps President without action.
XII. desire to express my warm thanks to
the Corps throughout the different States who
have responded so generously to the call for aid
for the National Home and Army Nurse PEN
sion fund. The spirit of helpfuness evinced
by you in this work of love is but another
proof of your determination to exemplify that
principle of our Order, Whatsoever We would
that others should do unto you, do ye also unto
them"
XIII. As the Grand Army of the Republic
has chosen for its auxiliary an organization
whose membership is based upon personal 10y
atty, (which is one of the indispensable laws of
our country, regardless of the question of re-
lation to the soldier, it should be the purpose
of every Corps to see to it that such loyal women
as shall desire to join the ranks of the Woman's
Relief Corps for the purpose of rendering aid to
the veteran and his family shall have hearty
welcome, and an assurance of such fellowship
as a common purpose engenders.
XIV. In the midst of our many duties let US
not forget to lend a helping hand to the Sons
of Veterans whenever occasion presents itself /;
and by our interest in their work, stimulate
them TO exemplify patriotism in its highest
sense; assuring them that it is our purpose to
encourage them in maintaining the honor of
the Union, the ransom for which was paid by
their mothers prayers and tears as we'll as their
fathers valor.
XIV Since the Constitution of the National
Council of Women" provides that each organ
ization comprising that body shall have. in adj
dition to its President, (who by virtue of her
office becomes Vice President of the Council
one delegate, whose duty it shall be to represent
the interests of her association, it is hereby an-
nouuced that by the unanimous vote of the
National Council of the Woman's Relief Corps,
Mrs. Kate b. Sherwood has been elected dele
gate, TO represent the W.R.C. at the triennial
meeting of the National Council of Women :"
to be held in the month of May.
| XVI. Ia addition to the list of National
Special Aids as promulgated in General Orders,
! No. A, the appointment of Julia Mason Layton,
Washington, ID. c., is hereby announced. Also
correction of name of Sarah A. Wedge, which
| was printed in same order as Medge.
| By order OF SARAH G. MINK. National Presi-
| dent.
| SARAH E. PHILLIPS National Secretary.
While preparing this order for printing, the
| sad news came to these Headquarters of the
death, on the 11th Of March, of Mrs. Josephine
M. Kuhnhein, Department President of Ken
| lucky. In issuing her last General Order March
! she probably did not realize it would be hel
| last message to her sisters of the W.R.C. How
| forcibiy this sad event again reminds us tina,
In the midst Of life we are in DEATH" The
| National President extends to the family of oui
sister and co-worker, and the Department o.
Kentucky, W.R-C., the heartfelt sympathy o.
the entire organization.
THE SUN FLOWER STATE.
| Kansas Convention Votes to Admit Old Sol
| diers to Honorary Membership.