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

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WORKING WOMEN.
Charity begins at home
All honor to the Public Welfare Blu
| ,eau. to Attorney Gertrude Rush, Mrs.
J. 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
for having inspired the welfare bureau
with the confidence in their integrity,
.heir sincerity Of purpose and their high
IDEALS This recognized necessity by
the welfare bureau means much to Des
Mones and the state of Iowa.
We can iken the characters of this
4 small group Of women to 8 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, Instructions and adverse
| criticisms We are their debtors in bet
>ter things and it is the largest civic
improvement for colored Americans in
| the state Of Iowa.
Careless alike Of praise or blame, this
group Of women with resolute, working
/ purpose, with stWave of gas now
and then flooding their trench, and stop
ping only long enough to adjust their
masks, have gone over the top with
1.-THE Home.
Quietly, tenaciously, unselfshly and
Aefectiyely, have these women worked
With purpose, satisfied to await the
results with patience, knowing that all
progress sii 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. If there were no difficulties
there would be no success. If there
|. 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-
yey Brown, with her active, sympathet-
ic sincere cooperation, can with us well
! be proud of their useful citizenry.
Nor can we at any time lose sight Of
N the Welfare Bureau, who have included
we colored Americans in this New
Freedom' and . Humanity How far
nobler in nations it is to protect the
feeble than to oppress them. Sanitation,
sewerage and paved streets go hand in
hand with race progress and only thru
thesrecognitionf of our civic and econom-
/ ie reconstruction, can come the religious,
moral and educational maturity and up
! lift Of colored Americans. The man or
woman who feels healthily, strongly and
Justly on the great interests Of human
lty is a constant benefactor to the hui
man race.
No one knows better than we, the de-
seendants Of slavery, q system that con-
founded and confused every principle Of
Christianity and morality, that the road
human welfare lies along the old
highway Of steadfast well doing, and
they who are the most persistent and
work in the truest spirit are usually the
most successful.
What happiness then must be theirs,
] The promoters Of this magnificent struc-
ture, when they think of the aged
women in the home, some of them ex-
Aayes, and Of the girls without homes
VINO need the guidance and protection
q such haven. One hundred home
. less 5colored folks given warmth and
shelter during the year 1917, and many
were turned away for the former home
vas inadequate. The home is always
] open to those who seek and desire its
i protection and these worthy women
s.and ready to oconyince those who come
S7.nat real motherly care and interest
follow them..- 5
ne writer's attention was called by
"hlte woman who had employed o.
coiored woman by the name Of Mrs.
oafy for eleven years as laundress. Her
Employer said that Mrs. Cary was i'll
ana that sheslived in the most wretched
Aoyei imaginable and that it was dan
4 seious for her to be left alone as the
a1s, which were the size of cats, would
saino upon her bed and gnaw her fin
s sers and that she was too i'll to fight
.nem Off She said, my husband will
pay Tor her keep in the home, for j.
h.omised Mrs. Cary that I would never
IL i her die in the poor house. She fur
sasr ~ stated that she had never heard the
~ lady utter a word Of complaint
i. Us Gary lived at s. 3. 18th and Mar
SIs: and was later removed to the
rculosis farm. This Of course is
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