The National tribune., 1908-05-14
ELIZABETH ReBBfSs BERRY.
A Newspaper Wonahh who Knows How
to Write, and n Power Tor Good In the
WOman's Relief Corps.

The Woman's Relief Corps will some
day learn, perhaps, that its publicity
bureau is its most valuable adjunct
In other words, the Press Correspond
ent cannot be too'icarefully chosen. II
should be a newspaperD woman always
1t is folly to seleet1 for shat important
office woman who has not had large
practical experiente, aifd having found
| a good one, what Is thefsense of chang
ing her? A goodnPress Correspondent
is harder to secure than good Treas
urer. Almost anyijwoman can learn to
keep books; mighty few can learn to
write them, especially in one short year.
The Press Correspondent of National,
Department or Corps has in her hands
the welfare of the Order, and the SUI
preme right to give it's innermost Sc
Icrets away. Usually these officers do
not know piece of news when they
meet 1t in the street. That is why the
Woman's Relief Corps Is not the power
that 1t should be, according to the work
| that 1t does. The world finds out but
little about what the Corps are doing,
| because no one knows how to get the
| right kind of news into public print.
Among the National Press Corre-
spondents who stand out strongly from
all the rest is Elizabeth Robbins Berry.
AS tho little boy put it, while she was
In ofnse she seen her duty and done
it" to the Queens taste She could
write up chicken-pie supper for the
Corps so that the woman who had CIV
en- dinner of 20 covers, with floral
decorations of orchids and gardenias," )"
would read the chicken pie doin's before
she lead her own
Elizabeth has a new vocation now,
mayhap not exactly new, but at any
rate she has settled down in Washing
ton as editor of the Republic. brand
new patriotic magazine, which is de-
voted entirely TO historic and patriotic
bodies and their interests. OF course,
there are other things in the magazine,
and it is fresh and bright from first
page to last. Mrs. Berry is making a
whole lot of friends in Washington both
for herself and her magazine She Is
devoted to the Womans Relief Corps,
and as National Press Correspondent
did magnificent work. Tho she is a
regular baked-bean Yankee, she is a
good deal of mixer" and makes
friends on all sides.
Mrs. Berry is also Drill Master of the
Isabel Worrell-Ball Flag Association
and is winning new laurels.
A Splendid Example.
The Department of the Potomac, Wo-
mans Relief Corps, as is not well
known, had for its first Corps, o. p
Morton, made up exclusively of colored
women, and bearing the talismanic mo
/" in the Department In 1t are many
OF the public school teachers, doctors,
lawyers and trained nurses of the city,
and the Department Treasurer of last
year, Mrs. Annie E. Cromwell, is a col
lege graduate and !inguist. The De-
partment Secretary this year is Mrs
Julia Mason Layton, who really needs
no introduction TO National Conven-
ton, because her eloquence in that
body is well known. Mrs Layton, who,
by the way, has about as much Indian
blood as anything else, IS the Wife of
Prof. John t. Eayton,i who is at the,
head of the musical department of the
colored public schools of tie District
Mrs. Layton has Been Senior Vice Pres
ident of the Department and Depart
ment Secretary many times. She could
do the work of the Department with
her eyes shatn" Mrs. Layton, has been
either Secretary or Assistant Secretary
of every Department Convention in the