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

LXVI

Clara Barton—loved and honored as perhaps no other woman of her day. Tacoma (Wash.) Ledger.

Switzerland is an armed neutrality in which one has faith.

Clara Barton.

The Red Cross was chosen out of compliment to the Swiss Republic; the Swiss colors being a white cross on a red ground. The badge chosen were those colors reversed. Clara Barton.

Romance is the poetry of literature. Madame Necker.

Romance is always young. Whittier.

Romance—the parent of golden dreams. Byron.

The Red Cross seems to have become the milder romance of war.

Clara Barton.