The Carlisle independent., 1917-06-14

 We brought with us a consciousness of the many mistakes made in the hun dred new activities which peace-lov. ing democracy must enter upon when 1t reluctantly passes to state of war.
 Did Great Deal of Work
 'sIn Washington we were met with a welcome which surprised even those of us who knew best the depth of feeling possible in this great people. We have not spent all our time in festivity or in interchange of compliments. however. Almost from the first day, we settled down to the grim business of war work. It was not for us to offer our opinion on the situation still less to suggest course of action for the United States to follow. We could. however, help by laying before the ad- ministration the fruit of our experience and many bitter truths about the price We had to pay for blunders of our own. has only just ended.
 I've felt, however, that the welcome We received was not matter between governments alone; 1t was (Did we not have repeated proof of this?) the spon- taneous offering of a great people from whom the government draws its power, It was not easy for us to make clear to the people how much we were moved and encouraged by their sym pathy and by their generosity.
 One of the great forces of the na- tion-the press of the United States came to our aid and their consideration and courteous assistance made it pos people by answering questions which they thought fit to put to us.
 There was one feature missing. The very size of the republic made it inn possible for us in person to thank all those who have been our hosts these last three weeks. Some of the sec tions of the Union it was quite impos- sible for us to visit. The states of the middle West and the Pacific slope should naturally have been visited by any foreign mission that realized fully the meaning of Americas immensity. We must go back to war in England and so we cannot do it.
 May the visit which is now coming to an end interpret for you the grati- tude of the country from which we have been sent. and may the cOmrade- ship which has been recently inaugu- rated lead to a better mutual under standing, perpetual as the peace for which we are going to fight together"
 What Nurses Aids Do.
 In the course of the next year prob ably hundreds of young women will start for Europe as nurses aids, kind of hospital assistants job which is not as pleasant as the mornings work of shopping and the afternoons work of sitting on the yeranda partaking of the savory tea with a slice of lemon in it, or per chance a modicum of cream.
 Experience in the European war has shown that young women who want to go to France as nurses aids should understand thoroughly what 1t is that they will have to do when they get there. There is a glamour about war for the young woman as there is 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.
 Names must not be used, but there were several young American women whose fathers hold big official posi- tions 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 a chance to get on home bound steamer to seek once more the routine of a girls everyday life in the ! land of the free where there were no hospital bandages to wash and no l floors to scrub.
 Most of Them Stick.
 It is to the credit of most of the American girls who went abroad, how ever, that they stuck to their jobs, 1 no matter how hard or uncongenial ! they were, and did their service for humanity Tn that devoted spirit which Americans like to call American. The | fact that most stayed and few re- turned, however, makes it none the less imperative perhaps that all who go in the future should know what they must do when they undertake their new work.
 The nurses assistant will wash and sterilize bandages in cases where the supplies have run short and 1t is necessary to reuse linen and gauge that better should be burned. She will scrub floors if need be and sht will do work which she knows that almost any maid-of -all-work would refuse to do in the piping days o1 peace in these United States of Amer ica.
 Trained nurses are used to the sick room. Many of them are accustomed to sights of horror. It is differen ,.,{tb tho volunteer nurSpS' assistant