The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1918-08-07

NEEDED FOR
NURSES RESERVE
rs, 900 AMERICAN GIRLS AND WO-
MEN ARE IN URGENT NEED
FOR HOSPITAL WORK.

The nation is in need of a great
number of nurses to take the place
of those trained nurses in this coun-
try who have gone overseas for duty
over there and the following COM
munication has been handed in to us
for publications:
as it seems, it will be the proper thing
for a good number Of our girls and
women who can do so, to volunteer for
this work. Any woman between the
ages of 19 and 35 who desire to make
application to enter this service and
take the training for the United
States Student Nurse Reserve, should
apply to Mrs. Jessie Wilder, recruit
ing officer. or to Miss Edna Bliss, her
assistant.
The registration will be open until
August Is, at which time it is hoped
that enough women will have come
forward in the country to fill the quota
of $4,000 nurses which are needed.
July 10, 1918.
To the Young Women of America:
Across the sea from France, with
every closing day Of the heroic strug-
gle of our fighting men there comes
more imperative call to the women
of America to assume their full share
of responsibility in winning this world
war for the right of men, women and
nations to live their own lives and de-
termine their own fortunes.
These exists now an extreme need
for at least $4,000 women of charac-
ter, intelligence, and education to fill
the gaps in our hospital stats caused
by the calling Of many thousands of
skilled nurses to the fighting front.
There is only one way to fill these
gaps: BY keeping our hospital train
ing schools supplied with students,
who are not only preparing for SER
vice abroad and at home at the end
of their course and at the same time
are equipping themselves to earn their
living in enc of the noblest of pro-
lfessions, but from the very outset of
their course are serving their country
as well as learning.
The surgeon general of the United
States army, the surgeon general Of
the u. S. Public Health service, the
American Red Cross, the General
Medical board and the Woman's COM
mittee of the Council of National De-
fense therefore unite in an earnest
appeal for $4,000 young women be-
be called the United States Student
Nurse Reserve. The enrolment will
begin on July 29. 1918. Those who
Register in this volunteer body will
engage to hold themselves in readi-
ness until April /, 1919, to be assigned
to training schools in civilian hospitals
or to the army nursing school and be-
gin their course of study and active
student nursing.
The service which we are asking
calls for the best that the womanhood
of America can offer in courage, de-
votion and resourcefulness. We can
not go forward to victory oversee if
the wives and families of our fighters
are not sustained in health and
strength, if we cannot protect our
workers against the hazards of war
industries, if we cannot defeat acci-
dent and disease, our enemies at home.
Upon the health Of the American peo-
pie will depend the spirit of their
forces in the field.
Acting on the urgency of the need
the undersigned have asked the state
divisions of the woman's committee
of the Council Of National Defense,
through their local units, to enroll the
$4,000 women NEEDED. We ask the
women of America to support US in
our further effort not to lower Ameri-
can hospital standards, and to give
us the practical assurance of their
support by going to the nearest re-
cruiting station established by the
woman's committee on or after July
20 and enrolling in the United States
Student Nurse Reserve.
Anna Howard Shaw,
II. u.
Gil of National Defense.
w. G. Gorgas,
Surgeon General, United States Army.