The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1918-08-15
Eight Grady County Women List
Names for Service; Commit
tee in Charge has Five
More.
FIFTEEN is QUOTAg w
! M TX ASSIGNED LOCALLY
Volunteers for Reserve Conc
Slowly; Late Order Opens
Way for Negro Women
in Certain Branch.


Eight women have been reporte
to the state enrolment office read
for service in the United State
Student Nurse Reserve and at leas
five others are practically securc
toward making up the Grady count
quota of fifteen assigned by nationa
council of defnese, according to Mrs
Orin Ashton, chairman OF the VIC
mans committee of the council O
defense this morning at the be
ginning of the last day for raising
the state requirements. The county
student nurse drive will b. pushed
over the top in a few additiona
days allowed as a margin, Mrs. Ash
ton believes.
Enrolment for the student reserve
has been going on at the Red Cross
rooms for the last three weeks under
a recruiting committee that has been
on the job every morning since the
receipt of enrolment blanks which
came to the Chickasha office several
days late. Because of that delay ad-
Gitional time has been granted and
the campaign will be pushed more
than before until the mum.
Y Der is raised, the committee head
declared today.
OF the applicants W no have re-
ported to the enrolment committee
during the drive, two have been ne
groes whom the committee rejected
because no instructions with regard
to enrolling such had come to the
local committee Bulletins recently
issued by the national womans com
mittee of the defense council advises
that negro applicants should be ac'
cepted for service in hospitals of the
United Seates. "Colored women
should by all menas enroll in the
present drive for student nurses.
There are many training schools
where they will be given instruction
and many hospitals in the country
where they can serve" the national
committee announced in late in,
structions ii county enrolment Of
fices.
Because there arc no regular hos
pitfalls for colored soldiers in the
United States, .colored nurse volun
teers can be enrolled in only one
class. that being subject to assign
ment anywhere in this country. I'm
til special assignments are made for
negro soldiers wounded abroad, col
ored nurses must enroll to serve
anywhere they are needed.
The presnt campaign for nurses
is but the start Of general recruit.
ing movement that will last until
the end Of the war. Mrs. Ashton
stated today. After the county quota
has been raised unlimited numbers
of young women can be taken into
training in civilian hospitals all over
the state. At this time not an ac-
credited hospital in Oklahoma has
full force of student nurses, re-
perts to the state office show. At the
completion of the course in a civil
liam hspital the woman will be reg
istered as a trained nurse ready for
expert nursing in foreign service.
Women enrolled in this manner will
receive the same pay and considera-
ton on the port Of the government
as the nurses assigned to particular
training and will be subject to i'm
mediate call to service.
Only one graduate nurse here has
enrolled during the drive but five
more are in prospect, according to
Rev. A. S. Freese of the nurse en-
rollment committee Miss Bertha
Hughes of the Chickasha hospital has
volunteered fer expert nursing ana .
awaiting a call to foreign service.
Women and girls of the county
are not enrolling for the nursing
training as they should though I be-
lieve that we shall raise our quota
without delay" said Mrs. Ashton
this morning. "The country looks