Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-04
NEW JERSEY NURSES
WANT MILITARY RANK
Petition Congress Committee
to Report Favorably on
Pending Bill
WOULD IMPROVE WORK
Ready TO Furnish Many More for
Service With Army and
Navy
Atlantic CITY. April &

Atlantic City, April 4.
Two hundred Jersey nurses. each OF
whom expects ultimately to be called
to the colors." in the sixteenth annual
convention Of the state Nurses As
sociation petitioned the Military Com
mittee OF Congress TO report favorably
bill providing rank for the women
who carry the burden OF responsibility
in base hospitals abroad and canton
ment hospitals at home
The bill indorsed provides for nurses
corps with a major for it's head, a cap
tain in each base hospital and canton
ment and leutenants In the wards.
we haven't bit Of complaint about
the way cur sisters who have gone into
the service are being treated" exclaimed
one of the fair supporters Of the bill.
But the fact remains that with au-
thority to enforce orders infinitely better
work could be done for the boys and
that Is what every loyal nurse in the
country wants" New Jersey members
of Congress will be asked TO work Tor
the shoulder-strap legislation.
Ready to Furnish Many More
THE If 900 trained nurses Uncle Sam
has called into war service do nos rep
resent 30 per cent of the force our pro-
fession stands ready to furnish. Flor,
elCt NJ JOUlltblts NiiNA A'A'' -
cross nursing service in the Atlantic
division. reported to the convention
Three thousand American nurses al
ready are over there and 5000 more
are stationed in hospitals in camps ana
cantonments at home Up to TINS time
total of 10000 have enrolled with the
Red Cross. II rs expected that the
number of trained nurses across seas
will he increased to 5000 by June ana
that the total enrolment by January ]
of next year will reach 10000.
Applause greeted the announcement
Of Miss Helen Stephen, Of East Orange
that 4O5 New Jersey nurses have en-
rolled for war duty and that lS9 nave
baen called into active service, many
of them being in France or England
THE convention reioiced also over the re-
mort of Miss Arabella Creech. OF New
arls for the state Board of Examiners
of Nurses, now an all-feminine organi-
zation.
Miss wilhelmina Rchenstein. OF At
iantic city, welcomed the convention ana
Miss Mabel Graham, Of Jersey Cuy, re-
sponded. Miss Greatzinger, of Pompton
Lakes, reported for county nurses or
panizations in the first division. MISS
Helen carol Howes. president OF the
state League of Nursing Education,
showed that the profession is now rec
ognized in twenty-nine registered nos
pitfalls of New Jersey. Miss 5. Lillian
Clayton, of Philadelphia, president OF
the National League Of Nursing Educa-
ton, spoke upon present Problems or
the profession with relation to the war
Bylaws Are Amended
Amendments to the association bylaws
divide the state into six new districts,
as follows First, Essex, Somerset,
Union and Morris Counties; second,
Hudson. Bergen, Passaic and Sussex (;
third. Mercer, Hunterdon and Warren
fourth. Middlesex, Monmouth and Ocean
Nth. Camden. Burlington, Gloucester
and Salem: sixth, Atlantic, Cape May
and, Cumberland. Membership will be
/ limited to nurses residing and practic-
/ ing in New Jersey holding certificates OF
! New Jersey or those of States requiring
equal qualifications.
officers were elected as follows: Edith
/ J. l.. Clapp, Englewood, president; Eliza
beth Pierson, East orange, and Mrs.
Blanche NJ. Reddon. Trenton, vice presi-
dents; Mabel Graham. Jersey city, Sec
Lretary Jennie NJ. Shaw, Newark, treas
urer; Mary f.. Rockhll, Camden, trus-
/ tee.
Resolutions pledged the continued sup
port of the nurses of New Jersey to the
| United States Government and the cause
| of democracy in the world.