Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-10-31
Join HANDS TO AID
SUFFERERS
C!ubWomen of Washington At
tend Luncheon Held as Re-
lief Fund Benefit.
RED CROSS IS PRAISED
FOR WORK IN EUROPE
Miss Mabel Boardman Dwells on
Spirit of Organization and Hor-
rors of Battlefield.

Spirit of Organization and Hor-
rors of Battlefield.
Closest sympathy and cooperation of
the 5000 clubwomen of the District in
the work being done by the American
Red Cross relieve the suffering
caused by the conflict of the nations in
Europe brought more than $50 dele
gates from all the federated clubs of
the District to d luncheon at the Jar
din de Danse yesterday afternoon.
Prominent clubwomen and other lead
ers in humanitarian work made speech
es depicting the miseries attendant
upon the war. the efficient work of re-
lief being done by the Red Cross,
plans for sending d Christmas ship to
the children of the belligerent nations
and their mothers, the part that wom-
en- hope to take in the establishment
OF higher civilization built on the
ruins of the conflict, and messages of
encouragement from the District nd
mlnistration, the Daughters of the
American Revolution and many others
Money Goes to Relief Fund.
Returns from the luncheon are To he
devoted to the Red Cross war relief
luhd. In introducing Miss Mabel T.
boardman. chairman of the executive
committee OF the Red Cross, Mrs. Ellis
Logan president of the District Fed
Grafton OF Women's Clubs, said the
iuncheon typified the program Of the
4
II expressed the sympathy that is
women's part" She said their slogan
IS 70 help forward every measure that
n ne neip, whether 1t Is d matter of
the heart. hand or brain"
Miss Boardman recalled that II ua.
ehactiy a half century ago, Just at the
close of the great American war. thai
the treaty of Geneva was drafted. The
conference OF nations realized, she
said, that they all needed a permanent
organization of volunteer assistanta to
AID IN works of mercy at time of war.
Inc love of country and the spirit of
cooperation among nations was given
tangible form in the organization of
Spirit of the Red Cross.
Illustrating the campaign of mercy,
che told of American Red Cross nurses
in France caring for the wounded Ger
mans, and quoted the Communication
recently given by the French war min
lister in Bordeaux, who said that he
hoped the nurses were giving equally
emcient care to the wounded French
soldiers in German territory. She told
of the Italian women while at war with
Austria going onto the battlefields and
bringing to their homes the wounded
Austrians. saying "All are brothers.
She told of the French woman who,
har y,
tons to be sure it went to the relief
of the English. chided, Suffering has
no country" Miss Boardman SAID that
this illustrated the spirit of the Red
Cross.
The Red Cross, she explained, has
1900 of the best surgeons in America
on it's rolls, and 5000 trained nurses
ready to be sent into the battlefeldS
on missions of mercy There are III
of these surgeons now caring for the
wounded, and eighteen more are going
to Servia in a couple of weeks.
Aid of o. S. Appreciated.
Miss Boardman quoted from a letter
she had received from the private Sec
rotary to Queen Mary of England, stat
ing that all the people of England
deeply appreciate the sympathetic aid
of the people of the United States ex-
pressed through the Red Cross. She
told heart -touching stories of how the
sympathetic work of the Red Cross and
the kindly deeds of foes outside the
battle lines had given the human touch
that healed the heart wound as well as
The battle wound. She showed the
spirit of the Red Cross to quiet the
lust for revenge and to try in all ways
to undo the work of mans innumanlty
TO man..
Miss Boardman deplored the fact that
the work of relief had been dissipated
among various agencies and not all
systematized under the Red Cross or
ganization. which would insure neu-
trality and comprehensive care
throughout all nations. Besides the
mental suffering that was the part
mostly of the women, separated,
gr1eving and anxious, for The men they
loved, and the physical suffering and
hardships of the men in the battle
fields. Miss Boardman emphasized the
moral affection, the degradation of
manhood, which leads 10 atrocities.
and these atrocities will last as long
as war, for war itself is an atrocity,"
she said. Thank God, that we women
OF the world are able to mitigate pain
and not cause it, to save life and not
destroy it,"
Describes Ravages of War.
Commissioner Fred L. Siddons. as
signed to the subject Peace" said.
How little meaning that tender word
seems to have today, when we contem.
plate those fair, fertile lands across
the sea converted into shambles." He
drew a vivid word picture of the raw
ages OF war Our part at this time"
ne said, lis the part symbolized by the
hed Cross. to minister in this sad fine
to those who suffer. Some of the hest
blood of all those countries now fight
ing flows in the veins of our own cit;-
zenship. If we need anything to slim
ulate our work of relief. it is that one
thought that they are all our brother:
VINO are falling on the continent-wide
battlefield. "A"e
The work of the Red Cross is fit
tlhgly largely in the hands of the
women. 1t is the hope of womanbood
of the world to rise up with eyes tear
less In the greatness of their majesty