The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-02-01
TALYS MAILED FIST" READY TO HIT
HARD BLOW IN BLOODY EUROPEAN ARENA
Continued From Page one.D
EVERY TRAINED
MAN AN OFFICER

EVERY TRAINED
MAN AN OFFICER
Every civilian who has had q
training qualifying him for a mill
itary command has been admitted
to the army as an officer with .
regular officers rank and pay.
Every civil engineer who could
be reached by patriotic appeal
has Joined the engineering corps.
The medical colleges have sent
$4,000 skilled doctors and sur
geons into the hospital corps.
WOMEN PREPARE FOR WAR
Eight thousand women have
volunteered as nurses. All Italian
women are intensely interested
In their country's leap into the
war.
The Countessa Spaletti Rasponi,
the president of the National Fed
Grafton of Italian Women, launch
ed noble appeal to her country
women.
while hoping" so the docu-
ment runs, that Italy may be
able to maintain her neutral at
titude In this terrible European
conflict, we nevertheless feel it
our duty to be ready for any
eventually and to utilize these
days of pause in order to concen-
trate our energies. Hence IL
would be useful IL we could esti-
mate at once on what contingent
OF active and serviceable feminine
forces the National Council can
count In order to put them ut the
disposition OF the government IL
the need should arise.
I'VE. therefore, appeal to our
members to inform us who among
them--and we count on their UNI
animous consent---are disposed.
should the need arise, to put their
hands to any work. even the most
humble, that may prove of service
10 the Motherland. I'm
der present conditions II would he
premature to approach the goy-
eminent or the authorities, but it
Is necessary that we should feel
ourselves united AND BE
READY"
CAREFUL PREPARATIONS
On the opposite page of this
printed appeal follows careful
list of questions to be filled up.
The women are asked TO state
whether they are married or sim
gle, whether they can leave their
town, how many hours day they
can devote to patriotic WORK,
what (if any, is their profession.
their habitual employment, and
what branches of public service
they feel themselves best fitted to
undertake.
"All these are carefully tabu-
lated and classified, and the can
didates need only underline the
branch In which they believe they
could be the most useful.
These include running trans,
cleaning the STREETS, the telegraph
and telephone service--the latter
already almost entirely run by
women-and also in the higher
branches the care of hospitals,
creches, dispensing medicine: In
short, all the various branches OF
public service"
MOTHERI.AND ASYLUMS
At the same time that the Ma
tional Federation put forward
this appeal the woman's paper,
Donna" published q proposal
put forward by Signora Ida Mag
liocchetti, urging the utility OF
opening what she has named AsiIf
della Patria tMotherland asy-
lums) for children In war time.
The offers that followed on
these two appeals could only be
counted by the thousands. Let
ters from quite poor women OF
the people, letters full OF ardent.
patriotic fire from younger girl
students, from mothers Of FAM
lilies. from noble danes. from old
aud young, poured I'm.
Everything that foresight could
foresee has been done as far as
means at command would allow
to fit the mighty host OF Itasy's
refitted army for q decisive Iab
into the arena of conflict when
public policy shall press the bur
ton.