Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-03
NURSES FEDERATION
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION MET
THIS MORNING.
Session at the George Washington Uni
~ersity-Mr. mcfarland
Makes Address.

TIE American Federation of Nurses. COM
posed of the American Society of Superin-
tendents of Training Schools for Nurses and
the Nurses Associated Alumnae of the
United States met this morning at the
George Washington University at 1880
o'clock The meeting was called TO order
by Miss c. X. Nevins. first vice president
of the American Society of Superintendents
of Training Schools for Nurses.
The Rev. Wallace Radcliffe, pastor OF
the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church,
then delivered the invocation, after which
Miss Nevins introduced Mr.. Henry b. f.
Macfarland. president of the board of Com
missioners of the District of Columbia, who
made the address of welcome. Mr.. Mac
farland said: DIR. Radcliffe and feel very
lonely. We are used to welcoming conven-
lions. but those conventions are invariably
composed of men. admit that L nave
passed the first Osler period and l always
bow to the superior sex. | realize the emer-
gency in making this address, as the young
man did who started to kiss his sweetheart
for the first time, and as she met IL, WILL
meet the emergency face to face.
I'VE have peculiar pleasure in welcoming
you 10 Washington, because you are women
and because you are doing some of the
noblest work in the world. You can truth
fully say that your profession is a calling,
calling of God. to use the good old phrase.
In the great army of those who save,
marching ever over against the great army
of those who kill, you have most honor
able place. You have won it in compare
lively short time by honest. intelligent,
high-minded, self-sacrificing effort. We
cannot give highest admiration to ma
terial achievement or to selfish aggrandize-
ment however splendid ii may seem. There
must be unselfshness in the success. altru-
ism, service of others; indeed. sacrifice and
denial of self to draw out our hearts hom-
age. Captains of industry, of science of
notifies Omap6 head hut
heart. And the best of them, after they
have won their kind of success. crave the
higher kind and try to do something to
win il. He saved others, himself he can
not save is the highest word, and your
sisters, who have given their lives In saw
ing the lives of Others have ennobled you
all. Hence we desire to serve you and to
honor your profession. For this reason as
well as TO protect the public. we are en-
deavoring to secure for the District of Co
lumbia new law which will give the train
ed nurse the status given her by the best
laws anywhere, and l am gratified to say
that believe there is hope of its enact
ment at the next session of Congress. We
know that the Commissioners will have
your sympathy and support in this effort.
We hope you will have a pleasant and
profitable time while in the city, and know
l represent the whole people when l wish
that your stay in the capital of the nation
may be most enjoyable"
Address of the President.
Miss Isabel McIsaac, the president of the
federation, then delivered an address, in
which she said that the meeting is of much
significance, as it is the first formal gather
Ing of the two important nursing societies
TO consider the purposes for which they are
banded together and to determine the pow
ers and responsibilities. She also spoke of
the way the federation had been formed
several years ago, and of the work that had
hap N lich adh Hri TO =
and of the fact that II united the great
body of graduated nurses known as the
Associate Alumnae of which at the present
meeting over one hundred delegates are in
attendance as Its representa- lives with the
older and smaller body-the superintendent
of the Training Schools for Nurses Miss
Mclsaac then spoke of the criticisms of the
profession, and said that while she had the
deepest possible affection and sympathy
she wanted to speak of the discomfort with
trained nurses in private households. which
Is wide and deep and constant, and that the
profession had hard work before 1t TO hold
the condolences of the public
Miss Neyins then read the paper of Miss
L. L. Dock, the secretary of the Interna-
tional Council of Nurses. upon .Interna-
tional Relationships" which treated of the
relationship existing between the various
bodies, and which was highly interesting
Miss Sophia F. Palmer of Rochester n. Y
the editor of the American Journal of
Nurses, and the president of the nurses
board of examiners of New York state
then read paper upon THE Effect of Reg
fstration Upon Training Schools" in which
she told of the laws of the different states
as to registration of nurses. After Miss
Palmer had concluded her remarks a gen
eral discussion followed. and the assembly
was addressed by Miss Snively OF Toronto.
Canada and several others at the con-
clusion of which Mrs. Hunter Robb of
Cleveland. Ohio, the former president of
the federation, read an interesting paper
upon The Afhliation of Schools for Educa-
rh.
Journed, and tonight the graduate nurses
OF the city of Washington will give a re-
ceptlon at the Shoreham Hotel at O'clock
TO the members of the federatio