The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1917-06-30
Western Watchman Bemoans,
Officials Recognition Of Red
Cross--CalIs Nurses ''Be-
starched Adventuresses"
DECLARES IT MONOPOLY
Says Two "Slsters" With 30 I'm.
dergraduates Would be More
Efficient Than One Hundred
Red Cross Nurses

TTlHE pope's Western Watotman,
I'LL Of St. Louis, seems to be asI
IN sore now at the Red Gross
IN. as It has bean at everything
else that keeps free fronj
papal and papist domination. Saysl
the woeful Wdtehman, 1--WE wouidI
like to know by what right the Red
Cross people arc given Q monopoly of
the nursing In the United States
Army" Comparing the Roman Cath
ole sisters" with Red Gross nurses.
the latter are called 'bestarched ad- !
venturesses." The reasonable sheetl
continues, 1.-TWO sisters with thirty
undergraduate nurses would be q
match for Q hundred Red Gross
nurses sans the Irritation. - WeI
haye the Y. N. G. A. to sectarianize
the army under the guise Of social
service, we have the Red Cross tale
ing over the medical branch Of the
service, and We have personal repre-
sentatives supplanting accredited con-
suls and ambassadors"
We can easily account for this In.
sane Jealousy which this papal organ
10 showing on one very simple theory.
Rome Is ever willing and anxious to
perform charitable acts, II the public
or some organization other than the
Roman Catholic will furnish the
funds with which to operate and allow
papal agents to disburse them. It ID
q known fact that the American Red
Cross will be equipped with the lar
gest fund ever placed at the disposal
OF such an organization In the his
tory Of this country, during tho pres-
ent war. This failure to land the
shekels Ia as disconcerting to Rome
and her papal politicians as It Is
necessary that they be placed at the
disposal Of the Red Cross In order
that the welfare Of bleeding human
ity In Europe may be safe-guarded
to the fullest extent.
Rome is ever ready and willing to
pat the administration on the back
when some particularly remunerative
| political plum is disbursed through
the hierarchy, but she Ia as intoiefant
: Of the recognition Of others a. she ID
eager for appointments for her ownl
hence the effort Of the "Watdhman'
to show It's readers how unwise the
administration has been In giving the
Red Cross, the most scientific and
I efficient organization known to history,
Q monopoly" on nursing United
States soldiers Not only that but this
3 organ Of popery directly and shame
fully insults the nurses Of the Red
Cross, noble women who are making
a enormous sacrifices and giving thu
country unstinted service In the In
terest Of humanity In q truly Chris
tian manner, when II refers to them
I. as "bestdTched Gdventuresses."
a Truly II seems to be the desire oi
: the Roman church to have America'i
o part in this war run by her hierarchy
z on purely sectarian lines. Though
i, the Watchman's utterances are not .
Q direct assault on the administration
e they at least show dissatisfaction thai
+ the sisters have been overlooked, ant
e In showing this dissatisfaction on'
' can easily discern an attempt to poin'
out lack of wisdom on the part Of th'
+ administration.
" The papist sheet Is keeping mp IL
" old pace Of ITO hell with the U. s
., government"