Bisbee daily review., 1918-05-21

are asking. The answer is that to be a Red Cross nurse is to have met the standards of enrolment, and to be subject to such calls of duty from the Red Cross as are specified in the en- rollment.
 The Red Cross nursing society is the reserve of the United States army and navy nurse corps, and supplies nurses as needed to the United States public health service. When Red Cross nurses are called on for service with the army and navy nurse corps, they receive the pay and maintenance pro- vided by law for these corps, and are entitled tc the same war risk insur- ance as officers and enlisted men. All nurses assigned to duty in military and naval hospitals automatically be- come members of the army and navy nurse corps, and after their assign ment to duty are no longer under the supervision and direction of the Red Cross. These nurses wear on the col lars of their uniforms the bronze let ters "U. s." indicating service undes the government. Those serving di- rectIy under the Red Cross wear the Red Cross insignia.
 The Red Cross nurse has become d symbolical figure to the world. Cour- age is her tradition. While countless thousands of men and women can on- ly follow the army and navy with thoughts of eagerness and yearning, by virtue of her knowledge and skill she becomes a member of the one group of women permitted to belong to the military. directly serving the colors, sharing the fortunes and some of the risks of war.
 Miss Alice Fitzgerald, R. N. the Edith Cavell memorial nurse from Massachusetts, after nineteen months of work in military hospitals in France, wrote to her sister nurses in the United States:
 "The wounds which you will be called upon to handle and dress are such as you have never imasined it possible for a human being to be a victim of and yet live. If the man is seriously crippled or disfigured it will be well to try not to think too much of his wife, CT his children, of his parents. who are anXiously wait ing for news of him over there If the wounded man is going to die, shall you be able to keep out of your mind the waiting mother or the wife to whom the postman's knock will mean the bearing of the sad news? ArI when these thoughts are with you most of your waking hours, and many of your sleeping ones, you begin to wonder how it will be possible to face another day of it.
 Fortunately, however, there is an- other side of the work which makes it possible to face each day There is the man who is getting better and who is happy in the near prospect of getting home; there is the man whom you did not expect to pull through. who, by miracle or care, is going to recover: there is the man whose brave deed is immediately rewarded by the formal presentation of a war medal and the whole world is glad with him and is cheered by the cpl scde; there is the man whose wife and baby have been allowed to come to see him. and every man in the ward smiles and longs to pet and quiet it when it cries.
 '1f you feel that you can answer the call and see it through to the best of your ability, and. in spite of all the hardships, you will find it the most satisfying work that you have ever done; and you will never regret hay ing undertaken it."
 Red Cross nurses slip off quietly to their foreign service, like the soldiers. Sometimes they go singly. sometimes in groups of hundred or more. Often the city is asleep. as our nurses. veri- table battalions of life. set sail for France, their clear eyes turned to- ward the war, their hands steady for the tasks that await them. They will know what to do when the stretchers