Show THE PRESIDENTS PRESIDENT'S TRIBUTE TO 10 WOMEN VOl During the past two years Ho Hoover ver has appo n ed LJ 1 commISSI commissioners ners conterI conferences conter- conter and antt special committees I to deal with matters of national nation nation- i al interest and import and andI nell membership has nas ha includes included I u 06 women a women a genuine and gen gen- rous LOUS recognition of oi the abilities abilities abilities ies of women as joint partners in In the National business A jarge section of the great address address address ad ad- dress the President delivered on the occasion occasion of the Fiftieth anniversary of the Red Cross Cros was made up of an eloquent to the part women ha had played in and carrying carrying carrying carry carry- ing on that wonderful He said in this connection connection tion lATI 1 L u 1 I n us US HS USand i were sm and it grew v because it expressed express express- I ed d the humanity and the generosity generosity generosity gen gen- and the practical helpfulness helpfulness help help- natural to our people I And like lik so many of the benign benign be be- social agencies that bless lour our democracy it sprang from th the mind and the heart of a Ii woman Clara Barton was in her own oVll person and her own O life all that the Red Cross has since become She in turn gained much of her inspiration from another great woman woman woman-Flor- Flor Florence ence Nightingale The magnificent structure of today grew grev up around Miss Bartons Barton's passionate pity for forthe forthe forthe the sick and the distressed and her practical genius and energy energy energy en en- ergy in their relief She was wasI me lle ministering angel of the I and Hospitals of laVIl War Var When peace returned she still lived like nice a soldier with per her fIeld tend equipment al always i ways packed and ready to respond respond respond re- re reI I I spond instantly to the call cail of I The e Johnstown flood found I tier her ready and ald within an hour alter arter it was reported she was wason wason wason on her ner way to the stricken city She responded to a thousand thousand thousand thou thou- sand such calls but her service I Ion on the battlefield and her serf ser- ser f price e at Johnstown JohnstO ly Y captured the public and it it is these two things that have largely di directed directed directed di- di the development of the of the American Red RedI I j Cross A woman founded the Red Cross and a women has enlarged its usefulness Miss l Mabel enjoys a deserved national honor i for ier per er ej tireless and effective r work vork n Il the enlargement of it its ita I |