The National tribune., 1902-10-09

longer. anyhow, the Home remains in the
hands of the Woman's Relief Corps
Notwithstanding this, the Chairman Of
the Home Board recommends that no fur
ther application for admission to the Home
be considered. She also recommends that
all the Departments having inmates in the
Home take them away as speedily as pos
sible.
In addition to this recommendation, Mrs.
Emma Stark Hampton. in her report. re-
marks rs follows:
Last year the Convention indorsed the
action of Board wherein applicants seek
ing admission make legal transfer Of
moneys, incomes and property In my
judgment another step should be taken.
Women at the Home are there becausel
they are homeless. or their relatives. II
they have any. either cannot or will nod
look after or provide for them in their ow1
homes. To be relieved of the burden thed
get them INTO our institution and the WI
mans Relief Corps provides ROYALTY "a
them. They may remain for wears: wbs
they die these relatives come and tn
away, or send for, all their belongings: an
money or valuable they have at hand an
any property or money in bank to the
credit is secured by them at once Til
is great wrong to the thousands of har
working women who pay their full sharo
TO support this beautiful Home and who
have not themselves n dollar in the bank,
perhaps, or an extra dollar in the world
"Apropos to this is cited a case An
lnmate-a sister OF soldier and lady
in every way-suddenly died Her re-
latives. well-to-do and prominent where
they live. came on and took all her eff
feets, including a fine wardrobe, iewelry.
and about $50 found in her purse. Her
brother paid all burial expense. When
next at the Home my eye CHANGED to see in
an Ohio paper an administrator had been
appointed over her estate. At once came
the thousht-if there is an administrator
there IS something to administrate. 1 at
once teiephoned to and conferred with our
lawyer. Inquiry found she had bequeathed
by Will large interests in real estate good
ly sums to various relatives, etc
Each year of wide and varied expert
ence proves to my mind more and more
that the widespread charity O. of the
present day is all wrong in principle and
the Keynote of the only true charity is to
AID IN placing men and women in a posi-
ton to hOnorably maintain themselves by
their own effort while they may. What
housewife here today is not suffering for
helpers in her home? Yet every woman
here is working hard to create or maintain
some kind of charity. The vast number
of women harbored in American charitable
institutions and able to earn living
wholly or in part. would, If willing, solve
this vexed question of household help and,
hguratively speaking. empty our instit,r-
tons. Is there not a neglected line of senti-
ment and education? Are American wo-
men working on the wide lines of charity?
Is charity the distribution of our savings,
or In paying women to be self-supporting
and thus helpful citizens? In this wide
world the really helpless are few by COM
parison. For such it is a pleasure and a
duty to provide.
Again. why should the hard-earned
dollars of Relief Corps women provide for
stranger when she has kith and kin able
to support her? Why should Relief Corps
women provide for any one who is at al
self-supporting? Why should Relief Corps
women provide for a woman who had a
brother in the war, and claim support from
him any more than from any one or more
brothers she may have, not in the army"
Just what action the National Conven-
ton will take on this severe arraignment
Of the Home as it has been previously
managed. cannot be stated, but it is quite
evident that some change must be made.