The National tribune., 1894-05-10
THE RELIEF CORPS,
Gleanings from National Headquar-
terS---NOteS from the Departments
A PRACTICAL MOVE,

| n
| Inaugurated by Past National President
| Charity Rusk Craig to Give the National
| Relief Corps Home Permanent support
| National Memorial Day Orders-Depart.
| ment Notes.
Past National President Charity Rusk Craig
woman of practical sense and ready resources
has inaugurated a movement to put the Na'
tionsl Relief Corps Home on solid footing and
| give it an assured and steady income.
Something must be done. and done at once ia
make the Home the full success it should be-
The property is fine, the buildings fully equip
| ped, and the management should be lifted above
| the necessity of making special appeals fol-
support. regular. ample income would accrue
under the proposed plan, and should the appor-
tionment prove more than is needed for the
Home as the membership of the Order in-
creases, National Convention could readily
| change.
| We ask for this plan the careful attention OF
| all Corps and Corps workers, particularly those
| who are delegates to State or National Con-
ventions and whose influence bears upon the
| veal of the Order.
| The rejection of pension claims under the
new Army Nurse law, of those who could not
| meet all the requirements imposed upon them,
| has thrown from 80 to rs Army Nurses, out
| side the Home, upon the Board for regular re-
mittances. These could be helped, as they
| should be, and the Home work go smoothly on
under the Charity Rusk Craig plan.
The Home has only fairly started. The
building and repairing are over, and every
thing on firm basis. With the help there is
an average of 40 persons in the Home and ap-
pications pending. Very soon all the build
ings will fill up
The National Home must be made a perma-
nent institution. There will always be States
having no homes and making no provision for
the classes covered by the National. And
even Pennsylvania and Michigan and other
States having homes have their overplus. The
Home is monument to National Relief Corps
forethought and philanthropy, and must have
the sheltering arms of love, backed by good
substantial money of the Republic around it.
Following are the Charity Rusk Craig reso-
lutions passed by Viroqua Corps and presented
to and adopted by the Wisconsin Convention
W.RC. Let other Corps and Departments
ratify.
Whereas as an organization on the Woman's
Relief Corps has established the National Re-
lief Corps Home at Madison, o., with beautiful
buildings and grounds, and beautifully fur
nished by the Relief Corps of the different
Departments, and with accommodations for a
large number of inmates;
And whereas, We now pay for the support of
the National Home one-half the National per
capita tax, amounting to four cents per mem.
Der, each year, the whole being about 81, 384.69
for the year ended June 30, 1893;
And whereas, We have this year needed all
our income from the National tax for the sup
port of such inmates as we now have, and
cannot help those Nurses whom we have before
helped from the same fund: Therefore, be it
Resolved, That the Department of Wisconsin
petition the National Convention, W.R.C., to
adopt some plan whereby the income of the
National Home may be- increased; and would
suggest the following plan for adoption by De-
partments:
That five cents per member be paid into the
Department Treasurers hands, in the usual
way, the first quarter of the Corps year, name
ly, January February, and March; four cents
per member to be sent with the quarterly per
capita tax to National Treasurer for the Home
fund one cent per member to remain in De-
partment Treasury for Department use in
Homes, or relief.
That Departments shall decide if this shall
be additional dues paid in that quarter, or
tax levied upon each member or voted by
Corps from dues already collected
This method would almost double the income
of the Home, and free Corps from calls for that
purpose for years. The burden upon the indi-
vdual member would not be felt, besides
making an addition of some Importance to
Department funds for relief
HELP THE NURSES.
The call is still open for contributions in aid
of Army Nurses outside the Home. Send re-
mittances to your Department Treasurer. or
direct to Armila A. Cheney, National Treas
urer, Detroit. Mich. Here are more sample
letters from Army Nurses:
Words cannot express my gratitude to you
and the kind sisters OF the National Woman's
Relief Corps for their many kind regards to me.
l have not got my pension yet. l am now in
my 61st year, aud am we'll nigh broken down."
Many thanks for the check you were so
IN nd hay cic h oil inf
and am not able TO be out yet. l was in hopes
they would give me pension before this; but
ali my papers were burned when our house was
burned. / do not know as | can get the neces-
sary proofs; but one thing / know, did my
best in the time of our country's trouble, with
out pay, and shall have my reward"
II want to thank you for the money, for it
came very acceptably, l can assure you, for
had come to think that you had forgotten me.
l have tried to get pension, and have given
them every proof that they have asked for, but
still they say l cannot get it. / am very sorry,
for my health is poor, and it would have helped
me to a great many comforts that need, and
am not able to get"
MEMORIAL DAY.
HEADQUARTERS WoMAN's RELIEF CORPS
AUXILIARY TO THE G. r.,
SYRACUSE, N. Y, April 16, 1894. J
General Orders. No. 6.
That day of all the year most hallowed, Me-
mortal Day, comes to us this year Of 1894 with
peculiar significance, as this year and this
month of May marks the third decade that
has passed since that terrible battle month of
that awful battle year of 1864 Let US all unite
with the Grand Army in the observance of the
sacred day; and by our devotion to its inter-
ests, prove we realize the value of the priceless
inheritance bequeathed rs by those who to day
sleep beneath the sod or lie buried in the Deep
Let it be ours to fashion the garlands of
beauty for their graves and to prepare a me-
mortal for those martyred hosts, from whose
Dameless sepulchers the incense of their sacri-
fees has gone up to the God of battles, who has
promoted them to higher ranks and has given
them new name.
Let US enlist our children in the service,
thereby teaching love and reverence for the flag
and loyalty to the country, which has been
preserved at the cost of the lives of those for |
whom Memorial Day was inaugurated.
Department Presidents in Memorial Orders |
will please call the attention of Corps to De- |
cisions 80 of 18th National Convention, which |
provides that all contributions for Memorial
Day in the South shall be sent through the regu-
lar channels to the National Treasurer, she to |
remit the same to the Quartermaster-G General of |
the Grand Army for distribution.
Department Chapans will forward Memorial |
Day reports through their Department Presi-
dents to Harriet j. Dodge, National Chaplain,
Hartford, Conn, not later than June 90
By order of SARAH c. MINK, National Presi- |
dent.
SARAH E. Phillips National Secretary.
ALL ALONG THE LINE.