The National tribune., 1909-09-23
SPANISH WAR AUXILIARY.
Mrs. Ida VI. Galloway President Gen.
erai-AIrs. Peaier and Miss Roth Also


| The Spanish War Auxiliary, in Ma
tional Convention at Takoma, Wash,
elected three Washington, d. c., wo-
men to fill the three highest positions
Mrs. Ida NJ. Galloway for President
| General, Miss Tilly Mae Roth for Treas
| urer-General and Mrs. Ruth NJ. G..
| Pealcr ecretary-General.
Mrs. Galloway was serving her second
term as Senior Vice President-G General
alley. Mrs. Galloway is probably the first
loyal woman" to be elected TO the
| highest duties of the new patriotic or
ganiZation. She was never in any way
affiliated with any relief or charitable
| organization for the Spanish War sol
diers during the War with Spain and
| had no relatives in the war. Since the
close of the war, however, Mrs. Gallo
way has been indefatigable in her la
bors for the Spanish War Veterans, be-
! ing one of the early members of the
Edith K. Roosevelt Auxiliary, Of this
city, which was named after the wife
of President Roosevelt. The Edith *.
Roosevelt Auxiliary surrendered its
charter about a year ago, and Mrs.
Galloway became member of the
Dewey Auxiliary. She is also President
of the Womans Auxiliary of the Ma
tional Electrical Association and a
member Of Phil Sheridan Relief
Corps, OF Washington, d. c. Mrs Gal
loway has been long noted for her work
n Catholic Church circles, having been
one of the right-hand supporters of the
late Father Stafford in his splendid
work for the uplifting of the human
family. Altho young in organization
work, Mrs. Galloway is credited with
being a good business woman, having
been the assistant of her husband, Mr.
John r. Galloway. in his electrical work
in this city for many years. f." ..ra
Mrs. Ruth NJ. G. Pealer, who will he
the Secretary General, is one of the
beSt-known women in the country She
has been affiliated with various patriotic
organizations, and is a member of the
Daughters of the American Revolution,
with a long line of Revolutionary an
cestors back of her. Since the incep-
ton of that organ Zation in 1902 she
has filled various National offices in the
Daughters of the American Revolution,
and is a thoroly painstaking and accu-
rate business woman. Mrs. Peal@r is
the wife of a veteran of the war Os the
rebellion, is earnestly interested in pa
triOtic work, and will bring to her new
duties an ardent spirit and IL sure un-
deTstanding of what she is undertake
ing. She is now Genealogist of the
Daughters Of the American Revolution
and President of the Woman's Ma
tional Press Association. Mrs Pealer
was an active member of the Re-
lief Society of the Daughters of
the American Revolution during the
Spanish War, and the end of the war
found her health very much impaired
from her arduous duties, in which She
had given all her strength and energy
thruout those hot Summer months. Mrs
Pealer never undertakes anything that
she does not carry thru in the same
energetic way. She is Past President
of the Mary A. Babcock Auxiliary, No.
/, the first Auxiliary to the Spanish War
Veterans to be organized.
Miss Tilly Mae Roth, the new Treas
urer-General, is native of Pennsylva-
MIA. She is the daughter of Louis II.
Roth, veteran of the war of the re-
belliOn, and has practical business quail
ifications for the office which has come
to her. Miss Roth has never belonged
to any other organization other than
the Spanish War Auxiliary, but from
the time that she became a charter
member of the Edith X. Roosevelt Aux
iliary tnow disbanded) she has inter
ested herself in all the workings of the
organization, having often filled the DO
sition of Auxiliary Treasurer and brings
to her new office a trained knowledge
that will be extremely valuable to her
superior officers.
The reports of the National officers
of the Spanish War Auxiliary do not
show that growth or that cor..radeship
of feeling that will superinduce growth
in all patriotic organizations the COM
bined membership must pull together
or the organization must retrograde
Sound business methods, a disposition
to mete out exact justice to each and
every member and heart filled with
patriotic fervor and interest in the
Young veterans, is absolutely necessary
as qualification for membership in
the Spanish War Auxiliary or any other
patriotic organization. With the Span
sh War Auxiliary, as with the infancy
of all organizations. there is a period of
teething, of whooping cough, of
measles and other infantile diseases, |
when the child seems to lose rather
than gain ins strength, and sometimes
the matter is so strenuous that it looks
as if it might not live The Spanish
War Auxiliary is passing thru the cru
cial period. 1t is going to get thru all
right, but it is going to take long pull, |
a strong pull and pull all together. 1t !
is founded on the right principles, and |
if right prevails the organization will |
grow in numbers and prosper financial |
ly, but it's officers have got to forget |
personal differences, all selfish interests
and labor for love of the cause only If |
is accomplished.