The National tribune., 1910-09-22
THE WOMAN'S RELIEF CORPS.
National President Jennie Iowa Berry
Renders Account of Her Steward
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National President Jennie Iowa Berry
Renders Account of Her Steward.
ship.
The 2Sth National Convention of the
Woman's Relief Corps opened its ses-
sions Wednesday Afternoon in Atlantic
City. The meeting was an open one
that all might hear the head of the
great Auxiliary to the G. A. r. read
her address. AS might have been ex-
pected by those who know the National
President Mrs. Jennie Iowa Berry, the
address WAS model of conciseness and
D library of facts concerning the wor:
Of the Woman's Relief Corps. 1t is Sc
good that il seems pity not 10 be able
10 give il ALL
In beginning the National President
Baid:
Whether in the shadows of the eter-
pal mountains or in the fringes of the
turf, our order ever preserves an indi-
Viduality of its own. Seriousness of
purpose runs, like Il cleaning, beautiful
Thread, thru its speech, its thought, its
work Even there is the intent to ac-
eomDliSh. Always there is the Iuieting
Responsibility of great cause.
The year Just past has, first of all,
been swift moving year. 1t has been
year filled with that which must in
suitably make up every year of life
Ind work-many victories, many Ge-
leafs. Happy is he who, by virtue of
his philosophy of life, rises from the
one as well as from the other, the
stronger.
- 1T has been a year of labor, in which
supreme and notwithstanding interest
has held me ever closer to our cause,
and as with the weel: the trust which
has been mine returns to you, I am
klad to say that il is growing Order
10
In the year no great calamity has
made demand upon our ever-ready
purse and service.
Our official circle remains happily
3nbroken"
Mrs. Berry referred to the fact that
yhe had had a long term of office-13
nonths--and had given II months ac-
1--WE, steady service to the Order. We
Snow that the National President
Eould have given 13 months of energy
tnd effort to the organization ne all
love had il not been that that unlucky
18th month brought disaster and suf-
lering to her from which, happily, she
recovered
OF the fraternal relations between
the w. r. c. and the G. A r. she de-
flares there has been preserved and
strengthened that spirit of perfect CO.
operation which is so essential to the
best work. Admiring its members be-
fond the men of any other class bear
ng In mind their service TO their coun-
Try In the testing times of peace as well
ls in the trying ones of war. bound to
them by many tie of blood and fra
.ernity, we have striven to manifest our
thought IN all ways afforded to US.
Everywhere from the comrades
there have come the assuring words,
the warm greeting, the expression of
loyalty to US as an Order and an Aux
Hilary, and perfect accord has at all
times existed between the administra-
tions of our two great Orders"
The National President then refers
to the special work for the G. A. r.
as follows:
''The call issued to our Corps in be-
half of the Southern Memorial Fund of
the G. A. r. met with eager, quick re-
sponse. The large sum of s1.510.15
went from our treasury to that fund,
thence upon its way to beautify the
graves of the heroes who lie in the
South.
The movement to pay dues of delin-
Quent Post members has rapidly grown.
Willing hands are engaged, and not
only are local Corps helping their Posts
along this line. but the recruiting fund
of come Departments has run into hun
dreds OF dollars. Exact results cannot
be reached; but il is enough to know
that many n veteran has thereby been
reclaimed for his Post and restored
again 10 its influence and comradeship.
Our relationship to the G. a. r. has
ever been one in which all sentiment
has been sustained by practical service,
and that this may again be demOnstrat-
ed i offer the two recommendations
which follow:
Recommendation Mol That 81 900
be appropriated from the General Fund
and presented to the q. a. Il. for its
vested fund.
"Recommendation No. 2. That CHI p
ter ii. Article ", Sec. /, be amended
by adding:
Amy member of the C. A. r. in
good standing in his Post may, upon
presenting An application made upon
regular blanks provided by the Corps
and signed by his Post Commander re-
cc:ve a visiting card, signed by the
President and attested by the Secre-
tary. which shall. for the time specified
on the card, entitlc him to admittance,
without the password, to all meetings
of the Corps 10 which his Post is aux
iliary.
THAT any changes in Rules and Reg
ulations and PjtUal made necessary by
the adoption Of this amendment be
made, and that forIHs Of application
blank and visiting card now in the
hands of the Committee on Rules and
Regulations be adopted
The National President refers to the
wards of tho X. +. c., the Army
Nurses, with loving tenderness, and
and calls attention TO the nearly s.. 900
sent the NEEDY ones as Christmas
present. She spoke >of the always
friendly relations with the Sons snG
Daughters of Veterans, and declared
that TO them future people must !oOk
for the perpetuation OF a line OF direct
descendants OF the men We delight TO
honor, and considers 1t fitting that the
Noman's Relief Corps shall give them
every recognition and encouragement,
and believes that both organizations
should be regarded az valuable allies
OF the growth of the w. r. c. in the