Clara Barton: A Centenary Tribute to the World's Greatest Humanitarian / Founder of the American Red Cross Society, Author of the American Amendment to the International Red Cross Convention of Geneva, Founder of the National First Aid Association of America

by Charles Sumner Young

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Everything Clara Barton did was performed in a masterly and businesslike way. New York Examiner.

Clara Barton possessed rare executive ability.

Boston (Mass.) Journal.

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.

Dr. Henry W. Bellows.

Clara Barton’s herculean work was done with means that most men would scorn as too trivial to begin a work with.

Alice Hubbard—In The Fra.

Our methods are based upon strict business principles.

Clara Barton, President Red Cross.

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.

Red Cross Committee,

By Walter P. Phillips, Chairman.

Samuel L. Jarvis,

J. B. Hubbell,

House Document, No. 552, Vol. 49, 58th Congress.

In re Clara Barton’s business methods,—although the exigencies of the situation rendered the distribution one of great difficulty, it has been done so wisely, prudently and effectively, as not only to accomplish its purpose but to excite the admiration of all who are personally conversant with it. Red Cross Committee, in Official Communication to Congress, House Document, No. 552, Vol. 49, 58th Congress.

The Red Cross has set in motion the wheels of relief at a moment’s warning over the whole land. Clara Barton.

It has been my custom, as the head of the organization which has grown up around me, to reach a field of great disaster in the shortest possible time, regarding neither weather, night, nor Sunday.

Clara Barton.