The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1917-06-09
NO ROMANCE N nj
HARp. uhPLEAsANr WORK 70
Thg LOT o. the NuRsGv
AID IN MooERh WARFARE.
ONLY the ABLE ARE WANTED
Hundreds o. Young Americas Women,
hswsvss. Probably VIII Seen -
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Nerves and Brave hsavtA
By EDWARD .. CLARK.

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washington.---In the course Of the
next year probably hundreds Of young
women will start for Europe 40
nurses aids. kind Of hospital assist
ants job which Is not as pleasant AZ
the mornings work Of shopping and
the afternoons work OF sitting on the
veranda partaking Of the savory tea
with slice of lemon In II, or per-
chance modlcum Of cream.
Experience In the European war
mas shown that young women who
want to 90 to France as nurses aids
should understand thoroughly what It
Is that they will have to do when they
yet there. There In glamour about
war for the young woman as there, IL
for the young man. Some American
young women have gone to Europe
only to return because they found the
work was not to their liking. 'J n
Names must not be used, but there
were several young American women
whose fathers hold big official posi-
lions and, with their families, high so
cial positions In these United States.
who went to Europe to undertake the
assistant nurses work and who soon
reached the point Of desiring nothing
better than chance to get on a home
bound steamer to seek once more the
routine Of girls everyday life In the
land of the free where there were no
hospital bandages to wash and no
floors to scrub.
Most Of Them Stick.
1t Is to the credit OF most OF the
American girls who went abroad, how
ever, that they stuck to their Jobs,
no matter how hard or uncongenlal
they were, and did their service for
humanity In that devoted spirit which
Americans like to call American. The
fact that most stayed and few re-
turned, however. makes 1t none the
less imperative perhaps that oil who
so In the future should know what
they must do when they undertake
their new work.
Perhaps when our fighting men 20
on the line, later many of them to
be brought back wounded. no Ameri.
can girl will feel like leaving her
service to come back to the life OF
country removed. 30 far as actual
fighting scenes are concerned, from
the line Of conflict. Perhaps the fact
that they are. working for American
soldiers will make them all steadfast
to duty.
Some one In q recent magazine arti.
Gle said that the average woman who
Il not trained nurse and who goes
to fighting country to aid the wound
ed has a picture before her eyes Of
sitting on the rim Of fire with the
head Of a fair-haired, biue-eyed.
wounded soldier In her lap, soldier
not too badly wounded to look I'M
speakable things into the eyes Of the
mlnistering ansel who gives him to
drink and wipes the dew Of battle
from his brow.
This Is all very well as Q picture.
but II does NOT belong to the school OF
the realist. The trained nurse who
goes abroad will have place hack Of
the fighting lines and there she will
have hard work to do. tender work,
It Is true, but no such work us that
visiOned by the ardent one who has
read some of the Civil war rOmances.
The nurses assistant will not even be
allowed to do nursing work when she
has progressed, after study and toll
through the lanes Of experience, up
to the point where she can be
trusted.
What the Assistant oses. y "a
The nurses assistant will wash
and sterilize ,bandages In cases where
the supplies have run short and II Is
necessary to reuse linen and gauxe
that better should be burned. She
will scrub floors II need be and she
will do work which she knows that
almost any maid-of-all-work would
refuse to do In the piping days of
peace In these United States Of Amer.
lea.
Trained nurses are used to the sick
room. Many of them are accustomed
to sights Of horror. II Is different
with the volunteer nurses assistant.
She never has seen q man who was
hit with anything harder than ten
mis- ball. She has no realizing sense
Of what q war hospital means. Little
wonder II Is perhaps that the nerves
of some Of the volunteer nurses aids
who went abroad In the early days of
the war gave way under the scenes
that came before them. The only
point Is that the medical service wants
the help of only those who are able
to give 1t. II does not feel that II
should be called upon while minister
ing to the wounded to minister also
to those who become hysterical at the
sight of the wounded.
II should not be thought for an In
slant that the desire is TO dissuade
young women from volunteering to
help the stricken of this great war.
The desire is only TO let them know
that there Is little romance to the
work and to give them nm understand