The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1918-08-10
Young Women of Marion County


Our splendid young men are risking
their lives for our country. Your call
to service is just as definite as theirs
Have you considered how your ex-
cuses will sound when they come
home and tell you of sickness and
suffering and death and the cruel
need for more nurses
If you doubt this urgent need, read
what Surgeon General w. G. Gorgas
of the u. S. army, says:
"A want every young women In the
country, every woman between nlne-
teen and thirty-fve, to read carefully
what have to say, and give it earnest
attention. 1t is a message which every
girl ought TO welcome because it tells
Of an opportunity to help the nation.
The army and the country face a
shortage of nurses.
aThe army alone will require some
thing like twenty-five thousand nurses
by the first of next January. We have
secured about thirteen thousand of
this number; we need twelve thousand
more. We have got to have them or
the army will run short-and this
would be an outcome incredible and
intolerable to the American people.
"Only graduate nurses who have
been through the full course of train
ing are available for this high service.
These nurses have to be taken out of
the hospitals and from care of the
sick at home. This means that when
we recruit our full quota for the army,
their places in the civil communities
must be filled. Hence this call for
student nurses to fill the vacancies,
prepare for professional service, and
meanwhile to make it possible for our
hospitals, both civil and military, to
carry on, and for the American peo-
| pie to hold the health standards OF
the country as high as they have ever
ben held in times of peace.
IF / were young woman and
wanted to do my country the greatest
service in my power, | should go at
Ionce to the nearest recruiting station
of the Woman's Committee of the
Council of National Defense and en-
1 roll in the United States Student
/ Nurse Reserve. This enrolment would
/ at once make me candidate for the
army nursing school or for. one of the
civilian training schools for nurses
I cannot conceive of a more valuable
service, more womanly service.
can give every girl who enrolls in TIT
reserve my personal assurance tina
she is making herself count, and
should be ashamed of any women VIII
4 did not long with her heart and sou
to make herself count in the defeat o
Germany"
Mrs. r. L. Anderson or Mrs. Will
lam Hooker will be glad to furnis
desired information, application forms
etc.
Miss Kathleen Leitner will leav
to-day or tomorrow for visit to rela
tives at. ANTHONY.
Lieut.. Norton. p. Davis after
pleasant visit with his family, left fc
Camp Hancock, Augusta, Ca. toda.
Mrs. w. II. Cook, after a pleasaI
visit with Mr.. and Mrs. j. V. Tarve
) has returned to her home at Fort Nj
Coy.
!, Miss Irene Tompkins returne
Thursday from a delightful visit wit
: her cousin, Miss Eunice Odell in Mi
anopy.
u Mr.. and Mrs. G. S. Scott leave t
> day for visit to their son, CAPITA
!, Scott, who is in camp near Chat
e nooga.
i. Miss Cecil Hadsock, after sever
days delightful visit at the home
l. Mr.. and Mrs. Grantham, has return
d to her home in York
: Mr.. and Mrs. David Gamble ]
: turned Thursday from Sanford whe
- !. they have been the guests of tn
= daughter, Mrs. Roland March for
8 fortnight.
v We are pleased to note that Hors
= and Fred Jones, the two promisi
~ SONS OF MT. anu MIS-. L. oOiiNc1 "
have been I'll with fever and tonsill
are improving.
- Miss Wynona Wetherbee return
- today from Gainesville, where she
. been taking a special course at
! summer normal school in primary
. fourth grade work.
4 Il ~
There certainly was some action
the picture. 1.-THE Kaiser's Shade
at the Temple last night. 1t is ont
: those pictures which is doing so m
9 good in arousIng our people aga
: the villainies of the Huns and the
= tenn of espionage and intrigue Y
: which they endeavored to permt
= our government and social life.
. Pathe News gave some good sketc
=: too. Tonight. there will be the Al
official war pictures, which are
~? best yet, taken right on the lines