The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1918-01-10
THE RED CROSS
The Origin of This Humanitarian Organization and Its Broad
Field of Labor, in Two Parts: Part Two
I
By "Optimo''

By "optmo"
Last week portrayed, briefly the founding the
Cross the world This week with the
American Red Cross founder and its wide field of labor.
Clara Barton, whose fe-thread closely
the warp wool works. and whose
to-day bare heads reverenia gratitude
being 25th
North Oxford Massachusetts, OF sturdy stock she her
having valiant Mad Anthony" Wayne
in the Revolutionary War, and in the of 1912.
And while not life" of Barton. that
would be did proclaim her humanitarian
other than the founding the Red TO her
belongs the distinction of being the first publicly employed
in department having heen made confidential
tary Commissioner Patents Washington in 1854.
With the beginning of he Civil War; in 1861 Miss
how might her country
And seeing the need of womans help feeding and
caring soldiers consecrated herself
the of the although the
officials both military and CIVIL discouraged her effort she
succeeded finally, establishing herself their
confidence by her wonderful work under the distressing
for herself the of the Battle fed
Miss Bartons abo had with the end of the
Civil War; Many of the countrs brave and best lost their
lives apd their identity and the time Honored though
memory their bodies
from distracted relatives flooded the War Department. requesting
information their absent Miss Barton asked
received permission of President Lincoln reply officially
that she would do this
directed that all such correspondence be directed her. This
enterprise became officially known The Search for the Missing
Men,"
For period years prosecuted untlrng
search through the records burial places for the
One Dorance Atwer Union prisoner Andersonv had been
thoughtful enough records of the thousands who had died
that prison Q3 900 year and in him Miss Barton found
invaluable The bodies the having
only shallow trenches dsnterred them den
twenty thousand identified with
markers their that relatives and friends might know
where lay their dead.
this merely with the expen-
her physical abors the aid
the distressed lavish and Indifferent her comfort though she
mnstration of her private
facilitate the work the
country that
ton emburslng and remunerang Miss Barton In the sum OF 49,
900.
Later, she spent three years the PLATFORM gaining
that field envable emnence But,
of 1869 she the point exhaustion her
Europe for And the hand of
moving pawn Life
the founding of the American Red Cross For
Switzerland whittier her fame had
the called upon inquire
why the United had entered the Red To which
interrogation Miss Barton replied that the people of America like
herself, ignorant Of it.
AT their solicitation she began study the literature of the
society," the remainder her European The
she returned Switzerland and in Berne when
declared between France and Germany And although had
eained her health she with the European Red Cross
acquired knowledge practical workings
of this great organization.
with their work. present the bateheds of Hagenau
Metz, Strasburg, Beo Woerth In the hospitals
through the Siege Paris and the dreadful the
she the exalted work dong
and greatly she impressed with the that she pledged
herself the of Europe that she would devote her fe
introducing and this
the United States.
penazed her heavily twos strenuous years
she had spent the European battle fields 1877
she able forth her effort pledge
from President Hayes she could favorable his
Office James Garfield she appeal;
she with favorable But hindered
the fruition of her desire.
In President Arthur she found supporter
1884, he
had entered into the Treaty of Geneva.
the And
fitting than that Miss Clara Barton
presidency organization due 10
supreme eor This office she held capaby