Newport daily independent., 1918-04-23
RED GROSS NEEDS 30,0OO
 NURSES f0h WAR WORK
Four Thousand Month Must Be Sup. piled If America is to Do
 Her Share

More than 2,000 American Red Cross nurses have gone to Europe for active service since last Easter. quietly, as American soldiers have gone and are going: under orders of obedience. like the soldiers: and. like the soldiers again. for the duration of the war, in the face of danger and hardship, pre- pared for any sacrifice to protect the lives Of our fighting men,
 The tasks of these women, who have gone on the supreme adventure of their lives, are the very embodi- ment of tfe Easter message. And still there is call for more nurses. More over, many of them must be recruited from the Southwest
 Even though more than 1000 Red Cross nurses are on active duty in military and naval hospitals and in public health work at home and abroad, 1t is probable that 30,0O0 more will be needed for the American army alone. Five thousand are needed by June 1 of this year and 1000 more each month until the first of January The Surgeon-General of the United States is urging the American Red Cross to do its utmost to provide these nurses.
 Will Women Emulate Men?
 Washington headquarters of the Red Cross believes that women of the Southwest do not realize the vital need of America for their services. else the response would be much greater. Rod Cross headquarters recently made this announcement:
 Nurses, and more nurses, if America is to win the war, is the cry of the nation to her women today. There are at present about 1000 nurses in active service. And the first contingent of the American Army is scarcely in the heid Men are being called to the col ors by the hundreds of thousands. Whether they will be protected and cared for when sick or wounded de bends on whether American women are willing to make the same sacri- hces their brothers are making. Fall ing in this. they will have done incal. culable harm to the efficiency aud morals of our troops.
 Requirements For Applicants.
 Requirements for enrolment as Red Cross nurse are as follows:
 An applicant must be graduate of a school for nurses giving at least two years course of training in gen. eral hospital
 Registration: In states where regis tration is provided for by law. an ap- plicant, to be eligible for enrolment. must be registered.
 Age Limits: An applicant must be st least 21 years and not over 40 years of age.
 indorsement: An applicant must be a member of an organization affiliated with the Ame-I an Nurses Assooia. ton and indorsed by the Executive Committee, or by It least two officers of such organization. She must also be indorsed by the present supertn- tendent of the training school from which she was graduated or lhe one 1 under whom she trained. Her appli- 1 cation must be approved by the Local 1 Committee on Red Cross Nursing Serv- 1 ice, and before being forwarded to | Washington must be indorsed by at 1 least two members of the local com- mittee.
 Southwestern division Red Cross 1 officials believe there will be ready l response to the appeal for nurses once the women of the Southwest realize the imperative need for their services
 The course in home nursing offered by the American Red Cross is . deff nitely established chapter activity of importance equal to any Red Cross ac. tvity.