Evening star., 1940-07-07

and help you correct unfortunate
mannerisms. BY forgetting yourself,
too, you learn to secure the CO.
operation of others for what is real
ly worthwhile and for the COM
mon good.
"Once you have really put what
you have to say beyond your own
self-consciousness, all that you have
accumulated from past experience,
schooling and reading has way
Of functioning for YOU"
We discovered that she has learn
ed to type adequately in spare
moments. in order not to be de-
pendent on others for this service.
This director Of the speakers
unit, who we had last seen circling
In a waltz at the Chevy Chase Club,
was wearing in her Office the yellow
Red Cross uniform of staff assist
ants.
Organized Bureau.
She also is entitled to wear the
pink uniform of the Nurses Aide
Corps of the Red Cross with it's
hospital apron and nurses can
which indicate that its members
go into all of the city hospitals
where there are free wards and
clinics to assist in first aid emerg-
ency work.
Previously Miss Stapleton was in
charge of the Red Cross Informa-
ton Bureau and served its Public
Relations Bureau under Earl Nash
who asked her to take her present
assignment just before the war
relief fund drive.
She started the Speakers Bureau
absolutely. from scratch on almost
every possible front with prac-
tically everything needing to be
done at once, for we had to get
going Immediately and to organize
as we went" Now she can proudly
point to a well-setup procedure.
There are alphabetical files of
volunteer speakers, assembled by
volunteer workers, with carefully
checked records of their success
in enlisting workers and funds.
The first step in the program OF
enlightening the public on what
It's dollars do for stricken humanity.
Miss Stapleton said, was to try to
reach every possible cross section
OF it in the District"
To the press, the radio, the repre-
sentatives of foreign powers here in
Washington. and to such leaders of
club organizations as Mrs. Ernest
Humphrey Daniel. president of the
District Of Columbia General Fed
Grafton of Women's Clubs. Miss
Stapleton feels too much praise can
not be given for their 100 per cent
cooperation.
ut was they" she said. "who
made possible the success of the Red
Cross war relief fund drive in this
area, and as the District of Colum-
bia is the hub of Red Cross activity,
set pattern for its campaigns for
this cause elsewhere.
Has Travelled Widely.
MISS Stapleton is the daughter of
Mrs. Daniel C. Stapleton of this
city and of her late husband who
was mining engineer especially
famed for his work in South
America, particularly in Ecuador.
She has made her home at 1917
Massachusetts, avenue since early
with frequent trips
abroad with her mother for lam
guage study and travel. She speaks
French easily and is conversant with
Spanish. Both of these accomplish
ments are valuable in translating
letters that come across her desk
from these countries.
A collector Of dolls and bells all
over the world, she has them
charmingly displayed in what was
once her playroorn atop of the Mas
hachusetts avenue home. She has
lectured on both collections before
many clubs and organizations.
Like her mother, she is an active
member Of the Christ Child Society