In Red Cross relief work through Clara Barton, under her slogan “People’s Help for National Needs,” the uniform policy was _not to sell_, but _to distribute_. In Cuba when “Teddy the Rough Rider,” with money in his pocket and a gunny sack over his shoulders, in behalf of his soldiers ill and in distress, appeared at the door of her tent _to buy_, Clara Barton said: “Colonel, we have nothing to sell. What do your boys need? We have food and clothing to give away.” Recently commenting on that policy, an editorial writer says: “That its members should know neither friend nor foe, but serve all alike in fields of war and in camps of sickness, was the essence and spirit of the Red Cross which Clara Barton founded.”
In the troublesome times preceding and following the outbreak of the Spanish-American War, I learned to know how valuable the services of Clara Barton have been to her country.—WILLIAM R. DAY, Associate Justice, U. S. Supreme Court; the Secretary of State under President McKinley. ]
Everything Clara Barton did was performed in a masterly and businesslike way. _New York Examiner._
Clara Barton possessed rare executive ability.
Clara Barton—her strong and capable hands—her clear and logical brain—her systematic methods. Boston (Mass.) _Globe_.
Is it not the finest kind of glory that when the American Red Cross is seen the name of Clara Barton comes to the mind like a benediction. New York (N. Y.) _Sun_.
The world lost in Clara Barton a great lawyer when it gained a whole-souled philanthropist. ELLEN SPENCER MUSSEY, Attorney for American Red Cross.
Had Clara Barton belonged to the other sex, she would have been a merchant prince, a great general, or a trusted political leader.
Clara Barton’s herculean work was done with means that most men would scorn as too trivial to begin a work with.
Our methods are based upon strict business principles.
No donor to, nor recipient of, Red Cross relief ever criticised Clara Barton’s bookkeeping. CORRA BACON-FOSTER, Author.
After each event a financial statement has been prepared showing in full detail both receipts and expenditures. Every donation of money sent to the field and every one of the supplies, so far as could be identified, has had individual acknowledgment.