The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-10-10
Girls Who Have Completed
Eighth Grade School
Work to be Admitted
to the Service.
WISCONSIN FAILS ON CALL
Fifteen Thousand Nurses Have Volun-
teered from Wisconsin and Ten
Thousand More Needed to Make
Up Quota for the State.

Mrs. Dan o. Head, chairman of the
Woman y Committee of the County
Cornell of Defense, has received from
the state council new call for enlist
ment Of young women for the Student
Nurse S Reserve. Wisconsin failed to
raise the twenty FIVE thousand nurses
sought in the recent drive and new
call is being made. In order to make
it possible to meet the requirements of
the army and navy the qualifications
of the new student nurses are not to be
SO rigid as in the former call. w lie
heretofore it was necessary for recruits
to have had at least two years of high
school training or it's equivalent, here
after any girl between the ages of 10
and IS years, who has finished the
eighth grade, will be eligible.
The applicants, if accepted, wait en-
listment land will be sent to accredited
hospitals for training previous to their
going overseas in army service. They
have the privilege Of stating their pref
erence of hospitall ayat which they de-
sire to receive their training, but it is
urged that they also volunteer to go
to any institution to which the gov
eminent may find it necessary to
send them.
Mrs. Milicent Northway, superinten-
dent of the Kenosha Hospital, who had
charge of the recruiting work in the re-
cent drive for nurses in Kenosha, which
resulted in twenty-seven young women
being admitted to the service, has not
as yet sent call for the recruits under
the new standard. Many young women
offered themselves to the nurses reserve
on the former call who were not able
to meet the educational requirements.
Many of these young women were
greatly disappointed in not being able
to get under the patriotic call and the
new call for volunteers will undoubted-
" find many of these young women
again ready to serve. Nearly all of
the young women who enlisted for the
nurses reserve from Kenosha have been
notified of their acceptance and they are
now being called into service at various
army camps throughout the country.
The great need Of the army and navy
is for thoroughly trained nurses. The
matter was taken up at the recent meet
ing of the Wisconsin Graduate Nurses
Association in Milwaukee and this or
ganization is hopeful that a plan can
be worked out by which student nurses
may be employed in the state institu-
tions and thus release highly trained
nurses for army service. Efforts are
now being made to work out this
plan, but it may take some time to
complete the details and in the mean
time it is probable that new call for
student nurses will be made.
At the present time the nurses of
Kenosha are so completely taken up
with the fight against Spanish influenza
that it viii be difficult for them to or
ganize for the drive, but the nation Is
cause is certain to meet with every
possible cooperation in Kenosha and
the Woman IS Committee Of the County
Council Of Defense will at once work
out plans for the new call. It is prob
able that some formal announcement
Of the call for nurses will be made
within the next few days.