THE PRESS AND THE INDIVIDUAL

THE PRESS

Clara Barton is to America what Florence Nightingale is to us. The American Civil War created her, and determined the whole course of her life. There is that which war, and nothing less, can do with a woman. It can make her, right away, what we may without irreverence call superwoman; and, having done that, it can set her to hard administrative work, to reform and organize great matters of national welfare; and it can keep her at that high level to the end of her days. Only, it must have her all to itself; she must give up everything that she was doing.

It was a wonderful life. She was inspired to save lives. Providence, very wisely, chose her for its purposes, not because she was an intellectual woman but because she was a pure flame of sympathy. Not peace, but war, made her what she was.

London (Eng.) Times,

January 27, 1916.

THE INDIVIDUAL

Among the countless thousands, in her lifetime, that Miss Barton numbered as her friends, the following have been culled; and Miss Barton had not only letters thanking her for her work from the following but also enjoyed their personal friendship:

Presidents of the United States

Vice-Presidents of the United States

Secretaries of the Interior

Secretaries of the Navy

Secretaries of the Treasury

Secretaries of State

Secretaries of War

Secretaries of Agriculture

Postmasters General

Chief Justices U. S. Supreme Court

The Army

General Officers U. S. Volunteers

The Navy

Sovereigns of Europe

Miscellaneous