The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1917-12-22

Say you mothers, sisters, wives,
| sweethearts and miscellaneous but
loving and deeply concerned relatives
dncluding also the fathers, uncles,
big brothers and chums of our boys
in uniformly, what is it that troubles
you most of ALL and that keeps you
awake farthest into the night, when
you let your mind run on about your
absent loved one?
1t isn't so much how he fares when
he's strong and well and able to fend
for himself, is it? But it is how he
will fare when he's sick or injured
or wounded-and away from home,
isn't it?
That's the thought that makes you
turn again and again on your pillow
| and makes you keep up a painful
thinking on all you've heard of the
battlefields overseas of those that fall
while their comrades must hurry on
in that ceremony of going over the
| top; of the long-drawn tragedies in
that No Mans Land, the waiting for
| help - or death in sheltering she'll
| holes; of the agony and makeshift of
First Aid, the crowding and taking of
| turn, the scanty supplies and hasty
nursing in the still inadequately sup
piled or insufficiently equipped hos
pitals of the front, until the dawn Of
a new day and the necessity of get
ting back TO your own job mercifully
put an end to your imaginings.
Chance for Home Work
1t is natural-and it is warl-to
worry so. We wouldn't be quite hui
nan if we didn't, would we; we who
laye-or soon will have-boys "over
here?
But we needn't devote all our wor-
rying to what may happen to them
when they're sick or wounded over
here"
we have a few little matters that
need worrying over right here at
home. if we will but take an interest
n our boys in our sixteen big train
ing camps.
How are they provided for in case
of sickness or injury? What kind of
care do they get?
Here's something, folks, that we'd
just as well be giving little atten-
ton to right here and now; for the
word we get from our boys in camp
the ell-and-strong boys that see
what's happeing to their sick and in
iured mates; the SOS. calls the home
folks get from their boys in hospital,
or in a condition that should require
them to be in hospital, and the appeal
for nurses-and more nurses-to get
on the job right here at home that
comes straight from Miss Lillian l.
White. director of the bureau of nurs-
ing for the Pacific division of the Rec
Cross, all indicate that everything in
our training camps isn't as it should
be for the welfare of our sick anc
injured-yet
Boys Tell of Conditions
= Let's look into what the boys II
camp themselves say about their hos
, pital conditions ~ what reports pri
vately made to their home folks from
camps all over the country show anC
IN letters tndl nave COlut uiiCSI " A
Chronicle from public-spirited youns
sters that think something should b.
done to make those conditions better
l have before me letters, and ex
tracts from letters, from ten of tn
sixteen cantonments; and already on
of the cantonments not heard fron
complainingly has been abandone
because of conditions-apart from tn
! inadequate hospital provision - tina
made it a menace to the health OF tn
sound young men that passed the eX
u acting physical examination that pu
- them there.
So that if eleven of the sixteen can
tonments are not conserving as the
should the health of the sound me
' ouartered in them. it surely is not
the nature of treason, or lese maJest
n or even captious criticism, to call a.
n tention to that fact.
S Extracts Reproduced
a Here are some items of complain
d taken from soldier-boy letters, witt
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