Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial. (Wilmington, Del.) 1878-1928, 1918-06-10
NEED OF NURSES
POINTED OUT At
QUEEN MEETING
Dclawareans Urged to DO Their
Share in Drive for
$4,000.
OUR DUTY is PLAIN

! A well attended and enthusiastic meet
F, ing was that at the Queen Theatre last
evening, inauguratng the drive for tram
ed nurses for war service, 25,WO being
: the quota called for by the government Tor
work here and abroad this year.
large delegation from the Delaware
| Hospital graduates, active and training
school force, occupied the dozen rows OF
| partcrre seats nearest the stage, marching
IN Just before the beginning OF the pro-
gram. and a delegation from the other
local hospitals occupied chairs on the
stage itself where ALSO the speakers Of the
evening, former Governor Charles X
| Miller, Henry +. Scott, Gen. Charles
Bird. Mayor Lawson, Rev. Harold Clase,
! William T. White and others we're seated;
while Mrs Joseph Bancroft, Mrs. Charles
! r. Miller and other ladies prominent IN
| Red Cross work were In the proscenium
! boxes
| The stage was decorated with national
and Red Cross flags and Il. :. Bahcoek
presided at the organ.
Henry +. Scott opened the meeting;
| an invocation was offered by Rev. Harold
| Clasc. and the audience renamed stand
ing TO sing the "Star-Spanged Banner,
led by William i White, and Ex-Governor
! Miller was introduced as chairman by Mr..
J Scott and made an Introductory address.
| ALI. MUST HEIP.
| Concerning the criticism occasionally
| heard of the number Of activities that are
| being presented. one after another by
| people who say they ARE getting tired OF
| being asked % give money and time and
| labor" he said "thls is no time Ia he
! getting tired the boys on the fighting
! line are not tired and don't intend 90
| quit so long MS there ~ anything left Ia
| fight for and any Of them loft 20 do the
| fighting II we at home fail them, their
| fighting will fail and if that fails, then
| all the free institutions and the demo
cratic benefits Of our country will fall
! Not a home in this city will he safe unless
| their lines hold We on the home front
| have only begun TO give OF our money and
effort: and what We have gwen and do
| give is little enough compared with the
! sacrifices Of the peoples of the devastated
nations, who have been bereft Of families,
| friends and worldly goods Norcd hlooded
| American is going TO complain Of too
many or too frequent calls 10 help the
| cause along
He alluded TO the proud record Of Della
ware in the Liberty Loan and Red cross
| drives. and to tn 25,000 nurses now
| wanted and said that he felt sure that IN
! this effort. also. Delaware would do her
share and keep her place in the van,
wHAr WOMEN ARE DOING.
The Battle Hymn Of the Republic was
| next sung. and Miss NJ II du Bose. head
! nurse Of the Naval Hospital at BROOKLYN,
! y \ was introduced. as one Of the
original 23 who formed the nucleus Of the
1 service when IL was organized, IN 1908
| The arrival Of the : fleet At San
| Francisco, after It's woodworking tour,
was the first practical application, in the
| speaker experience and the place where
! she tell in love with Jack for his
| wholesomeness, honesty, boyishness and
utter humanness.
Miss du Bose described the innovation
in the Navy Hospital Service, formerly
| attended only by Hospital Corps orderlies,
| when the women nurses took hold, the
difficulties met with in breaking in the
| attendants to modern methods, and in
carving out the work at the Annapolis,
| Portsmouth, Chesles and San Francisco
wards. and in the Philippines, where work
outside Of the naval service had 10 be
organized especially in checking infant
mortality, which at one place was 65
Der cent Miss du Bose cited her own
unaided efforts as encouragement to
nurses 10 try to start things, even II alone.
More recently, IN connection with the
centralized work of war times, the speaker
praised highly the efficiency of the hospi-
tails of New York City as shown by the
quality of the q rises, sent out from their
training schools,
Miss du Bose is a thorough uph0lder of
the navy, and expressed her pride IN its
preparedness, IN the achievements OF the
Marines, and in the success OF the New
York base hospital work, which started
with 700 beds, now has 200 and will
soon have 1900.
AS instances Of devotion among the
nurses of the service, she described the
case for eight months of an isolated
tubercular sufferer in the Philippines,
and the recent volunteering OF four among
Is nurses for work among lepers
She closed with an appeal 10 graduate
nurses in private life and III situations
which could be filled by those less qualified
TO come forward and thus relieve Others
for active duties.
MUSICAL TREAT.
The audience which had listened
tenselv TO the speaker, relaxed for an
interude of music, and had a splendid
treat IN the "Ritorno NlncitOr' aria from
Aida. as sung by Nine. Francesca
Peralta, the opera singer better known
here under her professional name,
PHYLLIS Darlington whose well-trained
soprano voice filled the house with its
melody In response to encores, Some
where in France" and '"The Years at
the Spring" were rendered
DR. G. G. Wolcott, of the Naval Reserve
| Corps, was next on the program and at
once put the house in good humor by his
easy method Of address and the straight
forwardness Of his appeal for patriotic
service on the part Of nurses, pupils in the
hospital training schools and citizens
generally
There is no room in these United
States for anybody except Americans, =
was one OF his remarks that evoked ringing
applause; and his allusion to some women
who took up nursing as a vocation and
married a doctor, as an avocatlon, was
appreciated by the white-robed sister
hood.
He said that while he would appreciate
tour of duty abroad, he was perfectly
content with the opportunities afforded by
the service on this side.
A novel point that he made was in
urging on his hearers their duty TO econ
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