The National tribune., 1910-09-29
Report Of thee Chief OF Staff.

Mrs. Ida Ei Palmer National Senior
Aid and Chbef of sStaff. is among the
very brightest and,Fnost energetic wo-
men in the Order.itand her voluminous
and exhaustive report of the work done
by her Aids Is an spitome of the work
OF the w. r. c. during the year. 1t
would be invidious TO try to, make
distinction in,seiecting one Department
from another or the report of one Aid
| from another. as all seem to have been
so busy thrueut the year. There were
evidently TO talents tied up in napkins
so far as tbei National Aids were con-
cerned. and Senior Aid ard Chief, of
Staff Ida +. Palmef is deservedly proud
of the work that her assistants have
done r:-
At the beginning of the year Mrs.
Palmer established Roll of Honor, in
| which to record the names OF all Aids
who would bring five or more mem
hers into the Order, and II is really
remarkable how many of these there
are recorded upon the Roll of Honor.
Iowa and Massachusetts have the 1arg-
est number. Colorado and Wyoming
and Illinois come next. There are just
96 of these National Aids who have
brought in five members each. You
can see for yourself what splendid
work this has been.
Widows Pensions.
The report of the Chairman of the
Committee on Increase of Widows
Pensions, Mrs Kate BrownIee Sher-
wood, takes rather q pessimistic view
of the situation She reports that all
her efforts to have even the time limit
of 1880 removed, so as to allow the
widows of soldiers married after that
date the benefit of the present law,
have come to naught. She then adds:
1t was manifested very early in the
session of the 61st Congress that no
| legislation on behalf of the soldier
classes would be enacted. The admin
| istration asked for decreased appropria-
| tons in internal affairs, and so far as
soldiers and sailors widows were con-
cerned this recommendation was rigid
| ly enforced.
I'VE had looked to the Senate to pass
the widows bill, as they had done in
the 60th Congress, but unanimous con-
| sent was denied them by opponents of
the measure. Senator Root, of New
York, gave notice that he would op-
pose the widows bill, on the grounds
that women who married soldiers after
| 1890 were of an unworthy class-that
they married for mercenary motives
Senator McCumber was Ill and in
| the hospital the latter part of the ses-
sion, and could not give US the benefit
of mis- experience in legislation; but
Senator VIM. Warner, on whom we
relied, gave me as his opinion that this
is generation that knew not Joseph
| This is the conclusion forced upon
us, and the Woman's Relief Corps must
| face the fact that never in our history
have we been called upon to take more
determined action on behalf of the
| brave men of 1876 than now" and
she asks that every member of the or
ganization do everything in their power
to secure such adequate pension legis-
lation in Congress as will house, clothe
and protect our veterans in their old
age and give adequate pensions TO their
surviving widows.
| FAMILY
A French sandwich made as follows
is little trouble. but it is delicious:
Stamp out thin slices of white bread
with cookie cutter Spread half with
cream cheese and cIrrant Jelly blended
to pink cream. ON top of this bread
a second ronnd Off bread lightly but
tered and spread with chopped pis-
tachio nuts.