The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1895-02-28
One heart, one hope, one destiny,
One flag from sea 10 sen.
PATRIOTIC NOTES.

a very fine paper was read by Louise Bsr
mum Robbins Patriotic Teaching as an
Element in School Government; in FORMING
the Character of American Citizens" which will
appear later.
Among the members of tho Order outside
Washington in attendance upon the Triennial
were Department President Sarah d. Winans
oil ONO, and Past Department Treasurer Har.
riette l.. Reed of Mas sachuse Members OF
associations belonging to the National Council
were provided with blue badge and seated to
the left of Council voting members; fraternal
delegates to the left
The Committee on Patriotic Teaching are
under many obligations to Capt. Wallace Foster,
not only for his patriotic loan collection but for
letter paying high tribute TO the Woman's Re-
lief Corps and the National Council of Women.
When tho work of "Organized Work in
| Patriotism was presented, Kate b. Sherwood
spoke for the Womans Relief Corps, conclud-
ing as follows:
ORGANIZED PATRIOTISM.
The Woman's Relief Corps is non-sectarian
and universal; it draws its membership from
every faith and every nationality and every
country; its prayer is the Lords Prayer; its
ode,
"My country tits of thee
Sweet land of liberty"
The Woman's Relief Corps was organized at
q time when there was grave question as 10
whether women could successfully carry on
National association of such magnitude and
extent. When the great achievements of the
loyal women of the were cited by those
anxious to confer the title Auxiliary to the
Grand Army of the Republic" upon women.
there were not wanting those who held that
while women were workers then. yet it was the
men who were the directors and dispensers.
To give absolute jurisd lotion to women to Or
ganize and manage and carry on National
association for the help of man, without man
at the head was to run the risk of failurs-per-
chance to bring disgrace upon the entire Grand
Army.
The Woman's Relief Corps is the theme on
every lip in every gathering of the Grand
Army of the Republic. If women could be
spoiled with prsise,-we all know they thrive
best under 1.-THE WOman's Relief Corps would
have gone to pieces long ago, for never in all
the history OF the world have women been so
extolled and revered and beloved of men.
Gen. Robert B. Boath, the Historian of the
Grand Army of the Republic, who, as Com
mander in Chief gave the first official report of
the Relief Corps to the National Encampment,
said that it was farther advanced in one year of
its organization than the Grand Army was in
three or four years.
Gen. John A. Logan, the COMMANDMENT Chief
who ordained Memorial Day, year later, at a |
public reception given by the Woman's Relief |
Corps to the Grand Army, expressed the senti- !
ments that all the distinguished soldiers and |
citizens reiterate to-day when he said:
when 1t is expected that men can accom- |
plish much without the assistance of the women |
q great mistake is made. Especially in what
ever tends to civilze and Christianize mankind, |
are always seen the hands of the women of |
the land. That which they have done for the !
Grand Army sufferers is much and we are sin
cerely, intensely grateful to them for their
services. Not soldier who is within the sound
OF my voice but remembers, if ever he was q
sufferer with a burning fever, il ever he was
Frustrated by an enemy's shot, if ever he was
on the couch of a hospital. that when the soft
hand of woman was felt on his parched brow,
it felt as if an angel of God had been sent to
his couch as a ministerng angel. Old Mother
Bickerdy ke, know her we'll. / have seen her
with my own eyes helping wounded soldiers
from the field when shot aud shell were raining
around her. Why gentlemen. their hands are
20 connected with the hand of divinity that
man without them would be barbarian. And
10 the Grand Army let me say, let the time
never come when you will contem plate the
of the Relief Corps from the Grand
Army. Man is cruel or, If not cruel, he il
rough but woman is gentle and as the poor
Did soldier goes tottering down the road of
life to meet death, nothing can cheer him on
IS can the ministratons of woman in charity.
10 does the widow of the soldier who has
zone before need tho consoling influence that