The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-10
rt1E WONDERFUL ACHIEVEMENTS
OF THE WELFARE BUREAU
AND THREE SILENT, HARD
WORKING WOMEN.
"Charity begins at home.''

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WORKING WOMEN.
Charity begins at home
All honor to the Public Welfare Blu
reau, to Attorney Gertrude Rush, Mrs
n + P. Hamilton and Mrs. Harvey Brown
for the success and reality Of the Pro.
lection Home for women and girls
These women deserve and are entitled
to place in our esteem and affections
E for having inspired the welfare bureau
with the confidence in their integrity,
their sincerity of purpose and their high
ideals. This recognized necessity by
the welfare bureau means much to Des
Moines and the state of Iowa.
We can Iiken the characters of this
small group of women to "sweet herbs,
which give forth its finest fragrance
when pressed They have proven
what perseverance, and above all, de-
termined resolution can do in the face
Of difficulties, distractions and adverse
/ criticisms. We are their debtors in bet
s>ter things and it is the largest civic
i Improvement for colored Americans in
the state Of Iowa.
Careless alike Of praise or blame, this
| group of women with resolute, working
purpose, with a swave of gas now
and then flooding their trench, and stop
ping only long enough to adjust their
masks, have gone ..over the top with
Sthe Home. 2
Quietly, tenaciously, unselfshly and
effectively, have these women worked
with purpose, satisfied to await the
A results with patience, knowing that all
\ progress Of the kind was slow.
The battle Of life in most cases is
fought uphill and to win it without a
struggle, were perhaps to win it with
out honor. II there were no difficulties
there would be no success. IF there
I we're nothing to struggle for, there
would be nothing to achieve.
Attorney Gertrude Rush, with her
grim determination and business ca
pacity and ability, Mrs. J. P. Hamilton,
who has lived home, dreamed home and
now realized home, with her courage,
ambition and earnestness, and Mrs. Har-
vey Brown, with her active, sympathet-
ie sincere cooperation, can with us well
be proud of their useful citizenry.
Nor can yHn at qnv time lose SiC rhf OF
the Walfara. Rrrear Who have includea
Va co]orad Am.r;oa.,s, In this uNew,
Freedom }, and-seHnman;tv., ., & How far
nobler - no+i,ra- d 3 - nrotect the
feeble thar - onnreas them Sanitation.
sewer. 90 ana. naved ,atraats % hand in
I hand With, i: nrooresa and only thru
I the.recoon;t;o,, sof mr. civic and eeonom.
Il recon strpc+;n, 20 como the reli o;ons.s
moral and aancat;nn,al maturity and M.
! lift of colorad Amar;cana The man or
woman who. feels health;lv, strongly and
instly -, - s..a.4 :,,ta.as+a - brn,an-
ity is q cons+a,t han afao+or tn the hu-
nan race
No ono knows hettar than we the de-
seendants Of alaverv. 4 svstem that con.
/; founded and confused every nrinciple Of
Christianity and morality. that the road
of human walfara l;as alonu the old
i highway ~ staaafaa+ well DOING and
7 thew who ara Aha moat nrea;stent and
\ work in the .trnest sn;rit are nsnally the
/ most successful
What hann;ness then ,nust he theirs,
! the promoters; If this magnificent struc-
4 ture, when thew think of the aged
women in the home some of them ex-
slaves, and of tho r;rIs without homes
Z who need the u,;danca and nrotection
Of such q haven One hundred home
!. less .colored folLa r;veng warntr and
shelter anr;,,,, a. - 71n77 - ,nonv