The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1914-08-25
AMERICAN NURSES
AIDONBATTLE FIELD
One Hundred and Twenty of Red
Cross Will Exemplify Nobility of
= Our Nations Womanhood.
WILL UNDERGO EQUAL PERIL
Representative Bailey Suggests SIN
gletax to Restore Revenues Which
the War Causes to Be Total Loss.
By Congressman C. H. Tavenner.

By Congressman C. H. Tavenner.
Washington, August F125. -T The
nobility Of American womanhood
will be exemplifled in the present
European, struggle: y: Within the
next few days a ship will sail from
New York carrying 1z1 of the best
nurses in the United States. The
ship will fly the flag of the Red
Cross, and will bear to those dying
on European battlefields the bless
ed ministrations of American hos
pital service. +,
A higher. and nobler motive calls
these women to war than that which
actuates any soldier engaged in the
conflict To the soldier the appeal
of war is fundamentally selfish
the emotions of heroism, patriotism,
ambition for national or racial
supremacy, or the more sober de-
termination for the defense of home.
But the American nurses, who
will undergo equal peril with any
soldier Of Europe are drawn into
the battle lines by their desire to
serve suffering humanity.
These women are not nurses of
secondary or mediocre ability. They
are the best we have. The Red
Cross was smothered with applica-
tons for war service from nurses
holding the highest positions of re-
sponsibility in their profession. 1t
was to this type that the call for
service appealed most strongly.
Many of them are probably going
to certain death. There will be no
financial rewards for them and little
glory. They are not likely to be
mentioned in the dispatches or
decorated for valor. But Europe
will see them in the clash and ex-
citment of battle when men are
driven mad, coolly going about their
expert business, saving the wounded,
soothing the last moments of the sdy-
ing, taking messages for mothers
sand s.sweethearts;ss COMPRISING. the
lead America viii take + greater
pride in this little, band~than the
people OF Europe can in their most
e heroic cohorts.
Suggests Single Tax To Restore
Revenues.
If permanent additional revenue
measures are made necessary by the
war to substitute for the losses that
may be expected at the customs
houses for the next ten years, Rep
resentative Warren Worth Bailey
suggests that the increase be met by
a land tax. Mr.. Bailey, who is an
ardent Singletaxer believes that the
i golden opportunity for the of
Singletax is at hand, and
he advocates a distribution of tax
alton among the states according
to population.
'There is this much," said Mr..
Bailey, "about a land tax. It will
stay where it is put. 1t will not
hamper or discourage industry. It
will not tend to reduce wages or the
profit of manufacturing. On the
contrary, it will tend strongly to in
crease activity in every line Of hui
man activity and thus to advance
wages and to make. industry wore
attractive.
I'm my Judgment, indirect tax
alton is a cure and always makes
for extravaganza, for profligacy, for
corruption and for the diversion of
public funds for private gain. Were
federal revenues raised by the direct
methods prevailing we should have
the same vigilence in watching
public expenditures as we observe
in local affairs. Most people i'm
agine that Uncle Sam is rich in his
own right and that the treasury
from which he draws is bOttomless
The people, however, are the ones
who are paying the freight, and the
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