Smyrna times., 1918-08-07
YOUNG WOMEN WANTED FOR
STUDENT NURSE RESERVE
SMYRNA WOMEN ACTIVE HELP
ING IN THE GREAT WORK
Letter From Earle ROthwelI, One of
Our Local Boys at Camp Han
cock, Shows Service Rendered

Our Local Boys at Camp Han
cock, Shows Service Rendered
The chairman of Smyrna Red
Cross, through a special committee
has given out, 81 sweaters, % he'll
NETS, and AZ pairs of socks to the
boys going from Smyrna into the
army and navy. Orders have been
received from Wilmington headquart-
ers that hereafter the knitted articles
will be given to the boys before
sailing for overseas. Kits will be
given by Mrs. Beers in Dover. The
Government is calling for 25,O0O
young women to join the United
States Student Nurse Reserve and
hold themselves in readiness to train
for service as nurses. The war is
creating an unprecedented demand
for trained nurses. Every young
woman who enrOlls is releasing a
nurse for service at the front and
swelling the home army which we
must rely on to act as our second
line of hospital defense. Smyrna
has started to do its part, Miss
KnOtts having taken steps to enroll.
Anyone willing to give themselves
to this work can get information, en-
rOllment cards and application blanks
from Miss Williams at the Library
Tuesday and Friday evenings OF from
Miss Eunice Anthony anytime. The
following letter from one of our own
boys, Earle Rothwell, at Camp Han
cock, is an appeal worth needing:
machine Gun Training Centre, ON.
Detachment, Camp Hancock, Ga,
August 4,1918.-Dear Miss Eunice:-
In reading the Smyrna Times, l read
that you are trying to get young wo-
men in the service as Red Cross
nurses. l hope that you will be sue
cessful in your efforts, as there is no
better service that a young woman
can render her country than as a
nurse. The work is clean and very
interesting. The Base Hospitals
where the nurses are located are al
ways situated in the best part of the
camp where it is cool and quiet.
The base hospital in Camp johnson,
Fla, (the camp l was in before COM
ing here) is located on the beautiful
St. Johns River the coolest and most
beautiful place in camp. A little
scheme that some soldiers have for
helping the Red Cross is this: they
have a box in which the sum of five
cents is deposited by anybody heard
using prOfane language. The fine
is small but it works both ways, it
helps them to be careful of their
speech and if they forget it helps
the Red Cross. can assure you
that the soldiers appreciate the work
done by the Red Cross and other or
ganizatiOns for their welfare. With
out these associations the camp life
would be a dull one. But as it is we
! have free places of amusement,
places for reading or studying, places
and material for writing home and if
we get sick we have the very best of
care. And l want you to know that
is fine thing to know that no mat
ter what happens we will be well
cared for by well trained nurses. So
l hope that Smyrna will do her all
not her bit. For the soldiers no
longer talk of doing their bit but
doing their all to overcome the un-
civilized Huns. For if we ever ex-
pect to overcome the Germans we
must do our all, which is not too
much. For no Kaiser that ever
lived will see the day that he can
overcome the iberty-loving Ameri-
cans. Hoping you the best of sue
cess in your great work, l am, your
friend, Earle ROthwell, U. S.
Q. NJ. c."