The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-08-06
The RELIEF CORPS.
Gleanings from National Headquar-
ters---Notes from Departments.
NATIONAL CONVENTION

FOURTEENTH NATIONAL CONVENTION
Will be Asked by the South Dakota Dele
CATION to Make Alice M. Picker, Vile OF
the Soldiers Benefactor, National Chap
lain, w.R.C.-Our Woman Patriots-Ameri-
| can National Anthem-Ohio Soldiers Or
phans.
NATIONAL CHAPLAIN.
There are many Relief Corps women, both In
and out of South Dakota, who favor the elec-
tion of Department Chaplain Alice NJ. Pickler
| Faulkton, s. d. to the Office of National Chap
| lain. Aside from the magnificent services Of
this excellent officer, who was Endorsed unani-
mously by Department Convention in June by
rising vote for the office of National Chaplain,
the fact remains that she is the honored WIFE
and intelligent and sympathetic companion OF
Comrade Picker, member of Congress, the
author of the Picker bill, which, through its
legal operations has done so much to bring
| about justice to the old soldier and his de-
pendents.
1t will be remembered that at the great
Triennial of the National Council of Women of
the United States, Comrade Picker was pub
! licly presented from the platform and thanked
for his magnificent service on behalf of woman,
! and his Endorsement of their work in their sew
| eral lines of endeavor.
Mrs. Picker is deeply interested in the work
of the National Council of Women, her expert
ence in tho West and her residence at the Ma
tional Capital having given her deep insight
into the patriotic needs of the time and OF the
| opportunities afforded the NOman's Relief
Corps through the National Council, in ex
| tending and popularizing the work Of teaching
! good citizenship in the schools.
| Certainly the Woman's Relief Corps can give
no better expression of their gratitude to Com.
rade Picker for all he has done on behalf of
| the Union soldier and of their confidence in
Mrs. Pickler and what is in her power to do than
| by her election to office made illustrious by
Annie Wittenmyer, Clara Barton, and other
women whom it has been their delight to honor.
OUR WOMEN PATRIOTS.
Mary G. Johnson, Department Senior Vice
President of Ohio, W.RC., Youngstown, o.,
furnishes to a local newspaper several columns
outlining the history and services of the Wom-
aus Relief Corps. in which she makes favorable
| mention of Todd Corps. of that place, one of the
charter Corps of Ohio. Summing up the glori-
Gus record of the W:R.C, she says:
The Woman's Relief Corps has been most
useful and glorions; its future is yet to be
grander, and but just begun. Its purposes are
| great and far reaching; its charity as compre-
heusve as the human race.
In not worry many years the last OF the vet
erans wrapped in the mantle OF a defenders
glory, will have been laid to final rest in his
low green tent. Then will the Woman's Relief
! Corps be left alone in the work now performed
| by both associations. They will be aided by
the sons and daughters of veterans, and as re-
suits have shown in the past, Will be the same
| faithful leaders as to-day.
"Then. even more than now, will their deeds
be of mighty moment the patriotism living and
nl.x-a nf
land will be an inspiration to them to form in
! line with rs even after the Grand Army has
| been mustered out and feel that the Woman's
Relief Corps will ever be the golden link of
charity which binds the fraternity Of the com.
rades with the loyalty of the communities in
which we live and 80 link themselves in a
trinity which expresses all that is glorious in
human endeavor or possible i'll great achieve
meats Of heart and mind. Work and not
words is the duty of the hour"
AMERICAN NATIONAL ANTHEM.
Bishop B. B. Usher. of Peoria, ILL.,, has writ
| ten new National Anthem, which has not yet
been set to music. He offers $25 to the musical
composer who will supply the tune by Sept. J.,
| 1896. This anthem was suggested by Ex-
Mayor Hewitt of New York. while both were
on an ocean voyage some two years ago and the
National hymns of America were sung at an
| evening entertainment on shipboard.
mitted to give the first stanza, which is as fol-
lows
Men of this mighty Nation, up. sing to the Lord
yonr praise
For Freedoms liberation in the Nations darkest
daysi
| Give greeting to our flag Of stars proudly here
| unflried;
The stripes OF white and crimson. that glorfy our
| world.
Bid Liberty, with blazing torch, shed forth her
beams Of light
And turn to-day all darkness that would minister
night.
Let every soul that treads upon this free Column
bian sod
Join grateful people should. in gratitude to
God.
| Columbia, my country, mighty and free
Best of all nations aud dearest TO me;
| will protect thee. never reject thee,
Die, If must my Columbia, for thee.
OHIO .. AND 9. o. HOME.
Essie v. Hathaway, teacher in the Ohio
Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home writes
entertainiDgy of the training received at that
institution. Extracts follow:
Their school life does not differ in the least
| from that Of other children, and, having access
to a splendid library they are well informed
and fond Of reading Every morning they
march to school to the drums regular beat.
never failing to salute the Nations flag they
pass the main building. From school they is.
| unfinished game on their immense playground
| of 10 acres.
AT the age of ID every child must choose a
trade. boy may be- a carpenter blacksmith,
plumber, tailor, florist, teegrapher, steno-
grapher. A girl may study domestic economy,
| which embraces sewing and cooking, steno-
graphy, tailoring, etc.
Physical training is a dominant feature in
| the education Of the children of this institu-
tion. wel-equipped gymnasium occupies
the second floor of one of the school buildings.
| The we'll developed muscles are shown to good
advantage in the athletic sports. A baseball
crowd at the Home can yell as loud, exhibit as
| much ardor and excitement as any crowd that
| ever witnessed Yale-Princeton game.
| Saturday afternoon the older boys drill on
while the famous little band, under a compe.
| tent leader. furnishes the music. Saturday
evening literary society, embracing the older
pupils, meets in the large Assembly Hall. Here
the important questions OF the day are handled
in a surprisingly able manner.
"Forceiul productions come forth at COM
mencement time, and the sweet girl graduate
| is just as sweet and just as winning in the
Orphans Home as anywhere.
1T is noticeable that every child has depth
| of patriotism not often seen. This is only nat
| ural, however, as only the child of sailor or
1 soldier eau enter the Home. and his mind has
been filled from early babyhood with tales of
his fathers brave deeds and devotion to his
| country.
If our country should need help, and they
1 1f 10 that To-,