Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-08-17

Division headquarters IS IN receipt
OF the following telegram from National
headquarters. dated August !, 1918.
Surgeon General Gorga4 Of the nited
States armv has called upon the american
Red Cross to enroll, for military service at
home and abroad, a thousand nurses a
week for the ensuing eight weeks he
Red ross announced today that II had set
its organization machinery IN motion Tor
the purpose Of complying with the Sur
geon General request
The nurses for military service have
been enrolling through the Red ross
since the United States entered the war
M the rate Of about one Thousand month
During the recent spccai effort put
forth to obtain nurses, the enrolment
increased about threcfold In order 10
meet the most recent request OF the sur
geon General, that rate will not only
have TO be maintained, but increased
materially
THE SURGEON GENERAL. Call.
.Tn view OF the great need for a large
increase i'm the number OF nurses required
for service with the army al home and
abroad. call upon Your organization,
as the chief nursc-recrultng agency ot
the army. to employ every possible means
10 increase the enrolment OF nurses iof
immediate assignment to duty,
"Nith the contemplated increase IN
the army, both at home and over seas.
there must be a proportIonate increase
I'm the number of nurses IN the service
The army today Is growing faster than
the nurse corps Is increasing; ana, Is the
armies overseas enter theironttne trenches
in greater numbers, the greater viii he the
/ 10, FaTFF,= COY
Il. therefore urge upon the Amcrl-
can Red Cross through its agencies
to bring to the attention OF the trained
nurses of this country the necessity OF
immediate offer of service, and their
enrolment in the army nurse corps
Il hesitate to deal in concrete mum
bers. but | desire to emphasize the fact
that need today a very material increase
in the army nurse corps, and desire this
increase in the ratio OF At least thousand
a week for the next two months.
MISS DELANo's STATEMENT.
With reference to this emergency
call for nurses, Miss Jane \ Delano,
director of the Department OF Nursing
of the American Red Cross, made the
following statement
The eight thousand graduate nurses
called for by the army IN groups Of enc
thousand per week, arc IN addition to
more than twelve thousand nurses al
ready supplied by the American Red
Cross to the United States government
for active war service With complete
confidence in the answer which the fifty
thousand graduate nurses, not vet en-
rolled in the United States, will make to
this summons to care for our sick and
wounded. | have called upon the Red
Cross agencies and all training school
supeTntendents to carry the message
quickly to every graduate nurse remain
ing in their communities. We plan To
bring this call personally to each oi the
nurses not yet in war service and feel
that all who are physically able to render
this military service will enroll at once |
know the sterling character OF the AmcTi-
can trained nurse Over many years, |
have seen her sef-sacrificing conservation
to duty She is lntelllgently patriotic
She is proud to be chosen from millions
of women anxious to care for the sick,
as the representative of American woman
hood permitted to wear the army and
navy uniform III our military establish
ments.
There will be no need to draft nurses.
American nurses would not thus belle
the traditions of their profession In all
wars, they have been the prompt volun-
teers Of mercy and the spirit of Florence
Nightingale is still alive | would, how
ever urge upon each graduate nurse