The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-09-01
Call Out for $4,000
Aged From 81 to 10
With Chance for
Service Overseas
THE latest call for additional woman

l. power 10 rally TO war service has
come in the form of special appeal to
the wives of men serving with the colors
overseas. 1t is a call for nurses to serve
as hospital assistants in the United
States, and thereby relieve expert army
graduate nurses and student nurses OF
this work so they can give their services
nearer the battle line in France.
Any woman between q and 40 whose
husband is overseas, or any single woman
between IS and As, is eligible for admis-
sion into the corps of hospital assistants.
The Government wants at least 15,OOO
women of this class, and maybe many
more. Red tape, delays and other diff
culties which have discouraged women of
fering their services in the past are to be
eliminated. The army needs this add
ticnal woman power badly, and needs it
now.
Surgeon General Gorgas believes that
thousands of married women whose hus-
bands are overseas will be glad of the
opportunity to help the cause in this way.
Letters have come to the War Depart
ment in great numbers from young wives,
who ask what they can do, how they can
spend their time most profitably while
waiting for the Yanks and the Allies to
finish up the Prussian war machine. I'm
til now it has been difficult to give advice
in answering these letters, but the new
call provides an opportunity.
Demand on This Side Grows Fast.
The demand for hospital assistants on
this side is rapidly growing because so
many of our men are being sent back to
the United States from hospitals abroad.
The number of sick and wounded TO be
taken care of here is growing and bound
TO grow.
A large percentage of the cases IN this
country will be convalescents which do not
require the same expert skill the par.
of the nurses that is needed IN France.
The new corps of hospital assistants will
be able to help in a thousand and one
ways, will not be required to take special
advanced courses, and will 1ot be expected
to show more unusual qualities than the
average mother, wife or sister might
show in the private home of returned
soldier.
Red tape is to be cut in the creation of
this new corps. Take young married
woman of IS who lives somewhere up
State and whose husband has gone to the
war. She has perhaps tried to help in
various ways, has done much knitting and
some Red Cross work. But she has moth
ing to keep her really busy, and the time
between letters from her husband seems
Unfortunately long. Suppose she wants to
give her services as hospital assistant?
What does she do! How does she go
about itf
The first step is TO write q, letter ad-
dressed to Army School for Nursing,
Surgeon-G Generals Office, Washington, d.
C. The letter reads, perhaps, something
like this:
In response TO the Surgeon-Generars
appeal for hospital assistants, l wish to
volunteer. My name is Mrs. John X.
Jones' My husband is serving with the
eolors overseas. am 25."
There is no need whatever Of going into
further particulars in the first letter. The
name, age and information showing the
applicant is eligible are all that is re-
quired. Additional information at this
stage is waste of time.
Application Blanks Sent Out.
As soon as Mrs. Jones's letter reaches
the Army School for Nursing and is read
and catalogued reply will be sent to her,
accompanied by an application blank.
This blank must then be filled out and
returned. 1t calls for the general run Of
routine information: Name, address, birth
place, occupation, &c, and asks about
education, as it is desirable that appl-
cants shall have high school education
or the equivalent. Two other blanks re-
ferring to the state of the applicants